[00:02.46]Module 10 SEEING A DOCTOR
[00:06.57]UNIT 2 How can I help you, Mrs Nell?
[00:11.51]1 Listen and read. Then say.
[00:16.15]The Royal Flying Doctor Service
[00:18.93]of Australia the (RFDS),
[00:22.02]provides medical services for people
[00:24.82]in remote areas of Australia.
[00:28.16]The RFDS operates 24 hours a day.
[00:34.03]It may take an RFDS doctor about ninety minutes
[00:38.42]to reach a patient.
[00:40.49]When the patient is very sick,
[00:42.65]the RFDS plane flies him or her to a hospital.
[00:48.30]RFDS doctors talk to people every day,
[00:52.62]on a special radio or on the telephone.
[00:56.40]Many of the patients have an RFDS medical box.
[01:01.96]The medicine in this box is numbered.
[01:05.48]The doctor can listen to the patient,
[01:08.62]and then say which medicine to use.
[01:12.36]This is what a dialogue between a patient
[01:15.32]and an RFDS doctor might sound like:
[01:19.03]Hello. Hello,doctor.This is Mrs Nell.
[01:22.98]How can I help you,Mrs Nell?
[01:25.23]I have a bad cough,doctor.
[01:27.40]Oh, it sounds terrible.
[01:29.69]How long have you had it?
[01:31.17]About a week.
[01:33.55]Do you have a fever or a headache?
[01:36.27]No. All right.Look in the medicine box.
[01:40.55]Take Number 5 four times a day.
[01:43.49]Okay.Thank you.Good bye.
[01:50.26]4 Pronunciation Listen and say.
[01:55.17]How can I help you?
[01:57.30]I have an awful cough, doctor.
[02:02.39]Oh, it sounds bad.
[02:04.72]How long have you had it? About a week.
[02:08.67]Do you have a fever or a headache?
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