Clinics

1. A clinic is an organized medical service offering diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive treatment to ambulatory patients, Often in Europe and occasionally in the United States the term covers the entire teaching centre, including the hospital and the ambulatory-patient facilities. The medical care offered by a clinic may or may not be connected with a hospital. The term “clinic” may be used to designate all the activities of a general clinic or only a particular division of the work, e.g., the psychiatric clinic, neurology clinic, or surgery clinic. The entire activity when connected with hospital is called the outpatient department, and the specific subdivisions are referred to as clinics.

2. The first clinic in the English-speaking world, the London Dispensary, was founded in 1696 as a central means of dispensing medicines to the sick poor whom the physicians were treating in the patients’ homes. The New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston dispensaries, founded in 1771, 1786, and 1796, respectively, had the same objective. Later, for the sake of convenience, physicians began to treat their free patients at the dispensary. The number of such clinics did not increase rapidly and as late as 1890 only 132 were operating in the United States.

3. During the late 1800s the modern concept of a hospital began to take shape. During this period some of the hospitals connected with medical schools inaugurated outpatient departments for the purpose of teaching and charity. The advantages of providing ambulatory care close to the facilities of a hospital became apparent, and such hospital clinics multiplied rapidly.

4. The organization of a hospital clinic in general follows that of the inpatient facilities. Hospital clinics are primary concerned with acute diseases, and the physicians in the clinics are usually the same physicians who treat inpatients in the hospital.

ЗАДАНИЕ №27 (выберите один вариант ответа)

Определите, является ли утверждение:

The physicians of the London Dispensary were treating their patients in the clinic.

ВАРИАНТЫ ОТВЕТОВ:

A истинным B ложным C нет информации

ЗАДАНИЕ №28 (выберите один вариант ответа)

Определите, является ли утверждение:

The first clinic in the English-speaking countries was founded in the XVIII ^th century.

ВАРИАНТЫ ОТВЕТОВ:

A истинным B ложным C нет информации

ЗАДАНИЕ №29 (выберите один вариант ответа)

Определите, является ли утверждение:

Practically all clinics charge a small registration fee if the patient is able to pay.

ВАРИАНТЫ ОТВЕТОВ:

A истинным B ложным C нет информации

ЗАДАНИЕ №30 (выберите один вариант ответа)

Определите, является ли утверждение:

The physicians in the clinics and in the hospital are usually the same specialists.

ВАРИАНТЫ ОТВЕТОВ:

A истинным B ложным C нет информации

ЗАДАНИЕ №31 (выберите один вариант ответа)

Укажите, какой части текста (1, 2, 3, 4) соответствует следующая информация:

The first American clinics were established in the XVIII^th century.

ВАРИАНТЫ ОТВЕТОВ:

A 1 B 2

C 3 D 4

ЗАДАНИЕ №32 (выберите один вариант ответа)

Укажите, какой части текста (1, 2, 3, 4) соответствует следующая информация:

The number of hospital clinics grew rapidly because of the convenience of providing ambulatory care close to the facilities of a hospital.

ВАРИАНТЫ ОТВЕТОВ:

A 1 B 2

C 3 D 4

ЗАДАНИЕ №33 (выберите один вариант ответа)

Ответьте на вопрос:

What does the term “clinic” mean?

ВАРИАНТЫ ОТВЕТОВ:

A It is a class of medical institutions in which patients are examined and discussed.

B It denotes a specific subdivision of a hospital for treating outpatients.

C It means a group meeting devoted to the acquiring of specific skills or knowledge.

D It is a facility for diagnosis and the treatment of inpatients.

ЗАДАНИЕ №34 (выберите один вариант ответа)

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