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DISCHARGING PATIENTS
VOCABULARY

Exercise 1. Relate the vocabulary with the correct image.

Discharge
The movements of a person or thing.
Procedures
The medical equipment and tools that a hospital uses.
RX To release a patient from custody or care

Transportation The point at which a person enters hospital as a patient.


The cause or causes of a disease.
Diagnosis Act or conduct of diagnosis, treatment, or operation.
The treatment of physical or mental illnesses.
Complications
It is when a disease get worsen.
DME
It means
Meds A prescription for medicine or a medical appliance.

Admission

Therapies

Aids

F/U apts.

Doyouknowanyotherwordsreferentto
Discharge Patients?

SPEAKING.

Exercise 2. Answer the next question and share with a partner.


1. What are the most common recommendations for discharge patients?
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WRITING

Exercise 3. Look the next Hospital Discharge Summary Form and


complete with a partner. You can use real or false information, and then
share the information with your classmates.

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