2. Vocabulary
•Placebo - substance patients take to feel
better as they believe to be treated by
medicine
•Homeopathy - treatment using natural
substance
•Side-effect - reaction caused by drugs,
other than the main effect
3. •Remedy - something to make you better
when you are ill, cure
•The best remedy for stress is letting
go.
•Treatment - something you try to do to
cure illness or injury
•Does your health insurance cover this
kind of treatment?
4. •Access - right, opportunity to use or see
something
•Patients have access to their own
records.
•Potentially - possibly
•Rule out - to decide that something will
not happen or someone is not suitable
•Tried and tested - used many times
before and proved to be successful
5. •Acupuncture - a way of treating pain or
illness by putting thin needles into
different parts of body
•Acupuncture doesn’t cause any pain for
the needles are thin.
•Antibiotic - a medicine that cures
infections by destroying harmful bacteria
•Hypnosis - a mental state like sleep
which can be easily influenced by other
people
6. •Massage - applying pressure onto the
muscles
•Painkiller - a drug that reduces pain
•Physiotherapy - treatment for injury in
which you practice moving parts of your
body
•Surgery - a procedure where a doctor cut
open a part of body to remove or treat an
illness
•Vaccination - substance is put into the
system to prevent or treat diseases
7. •Health insurance - medical care is paid
by an insurance company
•Free of charge - costing nothing
•Check-up - a general medical
examination to see if you are healthy
•Entitled to - to have the right to
•Discuss something openly - to talk about
something in a direct & open way
8. •Constantly - all the time or often
•Publicly - openly, with people as witness
•I’d like to see homeopaths debating
publicly with their critics
•Reasonably - in a fair way, showing
judgment
•Thoroughly - very carefully
9. •Consideration - thinking about
something very carefully
•Scientific basis - showing true existence
according to science
•Symptom - physical reaction to show
that you have an illness
•Worthless - without any merit, value