Lesson 7 Emergency call - Enquiring about a problem

　　【Situation 場景】

　　在下面的對話中，一位外科接待員接到一個年輕人打來的電話，想請她轉接給醫(yī)生。

　　接待員簡單地描述了電話中那個年輕人所描述的情況，最后，接待員把電話轉給了醫(yī)生。

　　請注意，醫(yī)生在接電話之前最好了解清楚病人的大體情況，接待員應該先了解病人在電話中所闡述的情況。

　　【Dialogue 對話】

　　Nurse: Doctor-I've got an emergency call for you. Can you take it? It sounds very urgent.

　　Doctor: Yes, of course. What is it about？

　　Nurse: It's a young man, by the sound of his voice, a neighbour of mr Lindley who's a patient of ours. Lives on Forsyth Crescent, near the Cutty Sark pub.

　　Doctor: Oh, yes- I remember. He came in last week or the week before, didn't he？ Chronic emphysema, life long smoker. Not long given up. Can't work anymore.

　　Nurse: Yes- that's him. I've got his notes here.

　　Doctor: What's wrong with him? Why an emergency now? What's up?

　　Nures: Apparently, the young man went round to call on mr. Lindley and found him practically paralysed in his chair. Shall I put him through?

　　Doctor: Yes, put him on……

　　【Vocabulary 詞匯】

　　doctor 醫(yī)生

　　emergency 急診

　　patient 病人

　　chronic 慢性的

　　emphysema 氣腫；肺氣腫

　　notes 病歷本

　　paralysed 癱瘓的（英國英語）

　　doctor 醫(yī)生

　　emergency 急診

　　patient 病人

　　chronic 慢性的

　　emphysema 氣腫；肺氣腫

　　notes 病歷本

　　urgent 緊急的

　　voice 聲音

　　neighbour 鄰居

　　life-long 終生的

　　anymore （與not連用＝not…… anymore）不再

　　apparently 明顯地

　　practically 實際地