Topic: Hospital

Staying in hospital can be a stressful experience, and stress can have a negative effect on
your health, and on your recovery from illness or injury. Because of this, the staff who work at
hospitals try their best to help you relax, by telling you what is going to happen while you’re
there.
The hospital will probably need some information from you, so you will probably have to FILL IN
a form, but they will probably let you SETTLE IN first. Someone will show you to your bed, and
you’ll have a chance to put your things in your locker and phone anyone that you need to.
Of course, the people you will see the most will be the doctors and nurses who will LOOK AFTER
you, but there are many other people who work at the hospital too. For example, there will
probably be someone who COMES ROUND with newspapers and snacks.
If you are going to have an operation, another person you’ll meet will be the anaesthetist.
This is the person who gives you special drugs to make you unconscious before and during the
operation, and who makes sure that there are no problems when you COME ROUND again after it.
However, despite all of their hard work taking care of you and reassuring you, the person
you’ll probably be happiest to see is the taxi driver who takes you home again!