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4. How are the people who stay in the hospital for one or more days
called?
5. What are wards?
6. Who usually refers outpatients to a clinic?
7. What is a referral letter?
8. What ways are the outpatients admitted in a hospital?
Introduction to a hospital
Welcome to the Royal Infirmary
South Entrance
Car Parks (visitors & staff)
The Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health
2
Gynaecology (Emergency)
3
Maternity (Emergency)
4
Neonatology (Emergency)
Outpatient Departments
All Wards
Day Surgery Unit & Endoscopy
X-ray Department
Combined Assessment
Jordi Pons is a fourth-year medical student from Barcelona. He
has come to Britain on an elective attachment to the Royal Infirmary,
Edinburgh. Dr. Barron is introducing him to the hospital.
Dr.Barron: The Royal Infirmary is the name of the university
hospital for Edinburgh University. It is a general hospital, dealing with
all types of patients and illnesses, except paediatrics. We have a spe-
cialist hospital for that in another part of Edinburgh, the Hospital for
Sick Children. You can see some of the departments in our hospital on
the sign. Of course, there many others, for example the Intensive Care
Unit (ICU), and the Surgical High Dependency Unit (HDU).
Jordi: What does ‘outpatient’ mean?
Dr.Barron: Outpatients are the people who come to hospital to at-
tend a clinic or to have tests or treatment and then return home on the
same day. Inpatients stay in the hospital for one or more days. The
rooms where they stay are called wards. If a patient’s treatment re-