LESSON 7

LESSON 7

MEDICINE 1

A.    READ THE TEXT BELOW

                    WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT DRUGS

   A medicine is a substance which can cure or prevent disease, replace vital substance that the body lacks and suppress or relieve symptoms.
    All drugs possess a potential benefit and a potential risk. Drugs for minor complaints generally have obvious benefit and negligible risk; otherwise, most of us would prefer to put up with the complaint. For more serious diseases more powerful drugs are required and the risk of adverse reaction is usually higher, but well worth taking. With dangerous diseases like cancer, the benefit x risk ratio becomes a major consideration. Often unwanted side effects, such as loss of hair, have to be accepted to gain benefits.
    Adverse reaction to drugs takes many forms. Some happen to every one; some affect only certain people, such as those with liver disease. Xerostomia (dryness of the mouth), drowsiness, skin rash, ithchiness are minor reaction. Anaphatic shock is a major reaction that may occasionally be fatal.

Taken from:English For Nurse, By:  Abu Nawas,dkk (2009,14)




WORD LIST

Substance            : type of solid liquid
To extract            : remove or obtain a substance
Plant                : living things in the ground to grow
To use            : take a particular amount of a liquid
Heart failure            : not operating heart
Drug                : medicine
To inject            : put something into somebody
Nurse                : a person whose job is to take care ill
To cause            : person/thing that makes something happens
Intense            : very strong
Language            : system of communication
To master            : learn or understand something completely
Well                : in a good
To heal            : making something health again
To depend            : rely on somebody/something
To increase            : making something greater in amount

B.    EXERCISES

     EXERCISE 1
Answer these questions below based on the text!

1.    What is medicine?
2.    Mention some minor reaction that may be produced by drugs!
3.    Which of the two names do you know better
4.    Does a nurse have the right to prescribe drugs? Why?


     EXERCISE 2

Comprehension check
Read the text below and write T (true) or F (false) next to each of the statements.

1.    A medicine is a substance which can reduce vital substance that the body lack.
2.    All drugs only possess a potential benefit.
3.    For more serious diseases the risk of adverse reaction is usually higher.
4.    Adverse reaction to drugs that just happen to ceratin people is called major reaction.