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known type of hospital is the general hospital, which deals with a
wide range of diseases and injures.
A patient may have care that involves many of the departments in
a general hospital, for example Accident and Emergency, Administra-
tion and Records, Radiology, Surgery, Post-operative Physiotherapy,
as well as follow-ups in Outpatients or at a GP’s surgery.
Big general hospitals may have up to fifty specialist departments.
Department names are not consistent from hospital to hospital – the
Children’s Unit in one hospital might be called Paediatrics in another,
for example.
Common hospital department names include Casualty (accident
and emergency), Coronary (heart), Dermatology (skin), Gastro-
enterology (stomach), Genito-urinary (sexual diseases), Gynaecology
(women’s health), Haematology (blood), Nephrology (renal / kid-
neys), Neurology (nervous system), Obstetrics (childbirth), Ophthal-
mology (eye disorders), Rheumatology (muscles and joints), Urology
(urinary tract).
1. Read the text and answer the following questions:
1. Does the Royal Infirmary deal with paediatrics?
2. What are the departments of the university hospital?
3. What does ‘outpatient’ mean?