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Lesson 4
Topic: THE HOSPITAL TEAM
Grammar: Passive Voice
Vocabulary
ancillary
– helping, providing a service to those carrying on the
main business; subordinate
allied
– person who gives help or support
payroll
– list of persons to be paid and the amounts due to
each; total amount of wages, salaries, etc to be paid
to them responsi
bility
– being legally or morally liable for carrying out of a
duty, for the care of smth or sb, in a position where
one may be blamed for loss, failure, etc
sole domain – a field of activity, restricted to one person, company
paramedic – a special trained person responding to emergencies
and giving first aid
1. Read and translate the text
.
In a busy general hospital there may be several thousand staff on
the payroll. Although they are a team that works closely together,
team members don’t have equal status, but function within a compli-
cated system of ranks and grades. The medical hierarchy is well
known for its strict divisions and class structure, though things are
changing – it is now much less rigid than in the past, and the authority
to make decision is being distributed more widely. Nurses’ responsi-
bilities are expanding into what was once the sole domain of doctors,
and paramedics are now doing things that were once done only by
nurses.
In Britain, doc-
tors, also known as
medical practitioners,
must be qualified:
have a university de-
gree in medicine.
They must also be
registered – included