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17. Health and Diseases

If we fall ill or if we have an accident, we go to the Health Centre, Policlinic, Hospital or to see a Private Doctor.

A doctor may ask you to strip to the waist before he/she examines your chest and throat. They check our blood pressure, feel the pulse or put our blood or urine through lab-tests. Sometimes they may X-ray our lungs or bones.

We must go through many types of vaccination during our lives.
Dentists may check our teeth and sometimes pull out one of them or drill and fill them.
Doctors usually prescribe some medicines to us - pills, antibiotics, gargles, or sleeping pills. They may also tell us to go on a diet.    

There are various types of physicians who treat various diseases and disorders. They are e.g., GP (general practitioners), surgeons, dentists etc.
Each person should undergo a regular check-up at least once a year. However, we usually go to see our doctor when we do not feel well or have an elevated temperature. There are various types of medical treatment for our different types of troubles.
We can suffer from various illnesses beginning with common childhood diseases, e.g. otitis, measles, chicken-pox.

We also suffer from common infections such as cold, flu, indigestion, etc. In such cases we usually stay in bed, drink herbal teas, take pills, drops or vitamins and after a week or two we feel well again.
However, the situation may sometimes be more serious and needs a special treatment in the hospital, e.g. heart attack, breaking an arm or leg, snake bite, pneumonia, etc.

There are still diseases which can't be cured, such as cancer or AIDS.
It is true that prevention is better than a cure. We should try to live a healthy way of life, which means we should have a good proportion of work to leisure time. We should practise sports, at least swim or go for walks, we should eat healthy food with lots of vitamins, we should not smoke or drink too much alcohol.  

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