Alternatives Unit 12

Vocabulary •Placebo - substance patients take to feel

better as they believe to be treated by medicine

•Homeopathy - treatment using natural substance

•Side-effect - reaction caused by drugs, other than the main effect

•Remedy - something to make you better when you are ill, cure

•The best remedy for stress is letting go.

•Treatment - something you try to do to cure illness or injury

•Does your health insurance cover this kind of treatment?

•Access - right, opportunity to use or see something

•Patients have access to their own records.

•Potentially - possibly

•Rule out - to decide that something will not happen or someone is not suitable

•Tried and tested - used many times before and proved to be successful

•Acupuncture - a way of treating pain or illness by putting thin needles into different parts of body

•Acupuncture doesn’t cause any pain for the needles are thin.

•Antibiotic - a medicine that cures infections by destroying harmful bacteria

•Hypnosis - a mental state like sleep which can be easily influenced by other people

•Massage - applying pressure onto the muscles

•Painkiller - a drug that reduces pain

•Physiotherapy - treatment for injury in which you practice moving parts of your body

•Surgery - a procedure where a doctor cut open a part of body to remove or treat an illness

•Vaccination - substance is put into the system to prevent or treat diseases

•Health insurance - medical care is paid by an insurance company

•Free of charge - costing nothing

•Check-up - a general medical examination to see if you are healthy

•Entitled to - to have the right to

•Discuss something openly - to talk about something in a direct & open way

•Constantly - all the time or often

•Publicly - openly, with people as witness

•I’d like to see homeopaths debating publicly with their critics

•Reasonably - in a fair way, showing judgment

•Thoroughly - very carefully

•Consideration - thinking about something very carefully

•Scientific basis - showing true existence according to science

•Symptom - physical reaction to show that you have an illness

•Worthless - without any merit, value