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open up an airway and get him on a ventilator immediately. He’s OK.
He’s in ICU, but not on the critical list any more. That was the same
day a woman came in complaining of terrible pain in her feet. I was
the S/N on duty and I categorized her as a non-emergency. She sat
waiting for four hours before finally seeing the SHO. You’ll never
guess what the problem was. Her shoes were too tight!
The best thing about A&E work is the people you work with.
Everyone pulls together, we’re all equal, and everyone shares the
same sense of humour, which is essential. Sometimes you’ve got to
see the funny side or give up all hope for human beings. Last week,
for example, an ambulance brought a man in who was unable to open
his eyes. Being short- sighted, he had reached for his eye drops and
didn’t see that he had picked up a tube of superglue instead. Poor
man! We bathed his eyes for an hour and very slowly separated his
eyelids. He was able to laugh about it with the A&E staff afterwards,
but in the future he won’t be keeping his medicines in his desk drawer.
Fx – fracture – перелом
SHO – Senior House Officer – врач, закончивший полный курс
подготовки и работающий в стационаре.
S/N – Staff Nurse – квалифицированная опытная медсестра, рабо-
тающая в стационаре
CVA – cerebrovascular accident (stroke) – удар, инсульт
ICU – Intensive Care Unit – палата интенсивной терапии
to pop up – высвечивать на экране
triage – установление очереди медицинской помощи
b) Change direct speech into indirect one.
1. Heidi said, “My work in A&E is stressful and upsetting. But I
wouldn’t change it for anything”.
2. She explained, “ Triage means sorting”.
3. She told,” The day before yesterday a man had cut his hand
off with a chainsaw”.
4. She said,” When the ambulance brought the patient in, he
was haemorrhaging badly”.
5. She maintained, “You’ll never guess what the problem was’.
6. She explained, “Patient’s shoes were too tight!”