MEDICAL ENGLISH Listening Activity 8 |
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Examining a patient - Task 2 These drawings show a doctor testing a patient's reflexes. Predict the order in which the reflexes were tested by numbering them. Now listen to the extract and check your predictions. |
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Second reflex tested 2.) _____
Third reflex tested 3.) _____
Fourth reflex tested 4.) _____
Fifth reflex tested 5.) _____
2 b
3 e
4 a
5 c
DOCTOR: Would you like to lie down here on the couch, on your back?
PATIENT: OK.
DOCTOR: I'm going to test your reflexes by tapping you with this little hammer. It won't hurt you. Let me hold your right arm. Let it go quite relaxed. Try not to lighten up. There. Now the other arm. Just let me have your wrist. Let it go quite floppy. That's right. I'm going to tap your elbow. Fine. Now the left one. OK?
PATIENT: Fine.
DOCTOR: I'll just give you a little tap here on the wrist. Now the other one. Now let your legs go completely relaxed. I'll hold them up with my hand. There. I'm just going to turn your leg out to the side for a moment. Just relax. That's it. Now the other one. Fine.