7 Advanced English Phrases For Doctors, Nurses & Hospital Visits

hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's

first and number one English Fluency

Guide and in this video we will be

talking about seven advanced phrases

plus a few bonus ones that you can use

when you're either making an appointment

or actually at a hospital so when you're

speaking with a doctor and you want to

sound native as well as to be able to

understand the doctor these are some

great phrases that will help you there

are many great expressions you can use

when you're at the hospital to describe

maybe how you feel or a problem you

might be having so what we're going to

do is focus on just phrasal verbs in

this video and so these are things like

pick up and put down where we're

expressing a more complicated idea in a

very simple easy way with two or more

words first here's how to make an

appointment like a native speaker when

you're calling somebody up and it

doesn't matter if it's an appointment

for a hospital visit or you're going to

meet a person it could be a dentist or a

hairdresser anybody else whenever you're

making an appointment for someone like

at a restaurant a great native way to do

this is to say put me down for something

something so put me down for seven

o'clock or put me down at seven o'clock

the other way you can say this also is

to pencil me in for something so to

pencil in the phrasal verb to pencil in

just means to literally write my name

down and it doesn't actually mean pencil

but it just means like to write my name

down for a particular time so when

you're when you're calling somebody oh

I'd like to make an appointment for this

oh can you put me down for seven o'clock

on tuesday the tent or can you pencil me

in on Tuesday the temp either one of

these is fine next when you're actually

leading with the doctor and you don't

really know what the problem is it's

kind of easy if you know okay I was in a

car accident and I hurt my shoulder you

can describe that but in the situations

where you don't really know what the

problem is you're just not really

feeling very well here are two phrasal

verbs you can use the first one is I

think I'm coming down with something the

phrasal verb to come down with if you

think about moving down like I'm

physically moving down like I'm holding

something so I'm coming down with

something like this sickness that I'm

holding that's a part of me right now

it's weighing me down

so it's coming it's kind of pushing me

down and I think I'm coming down with

something so whether you're at the

hospital or you're describing just to

your friends I think I'm coming down

with something maybe I have a cold or a

sickness or something you could also be

feeling a bit run down I'm feeling a bit

run down and this is maybe just talking

about you feeling a little bit tired in

general just like the battery on your

mobile phone it's just running down so

to run meaning that night not only just

running with your physical legs but the

the energy or something is decreasing so

there's an operation happening in the

phone that's using up the energy but I

it's running down so on I'm feeling a

bit run down right now so whenever

you're talking about something we're not

not only that you feel sick but maybe

you're just kind of feeling tired you

have a feeling a bit run down at work so

this means you're really busy and maybe

you're having trouble you know just like

with energy in general next two more

phrasal verbs that are used when you're

typically talking about a blockage of

some point maybe you have like if you

think about the arteries in your like

around your body where all the blood is

flowing if you have a blockage of that

these things get backed up just like

your toilet if you get too much stuff

down in the toilet you have to get the

plunger in there to try to unpack up the

toilet so the toilet you could say it's

backed up or it's blocked up or it's

stopped up so maybe if my my nose as an

example the phrasal verb we use for this

one is my nose is stuffed up you can say

you have a stuffy nose so right now I

may be sniffing a lot and like it's hard

to breathe because I my nose is stuffed

up so if you go to the doctor into you

and you'd say like i like i have a

problem with my nose the more specific

one to say I like I have stuff in my

nose and I'm feeling kind of cold or

congested so congested would be the

longer term the more advanced term for

that but in a casual conversation away

the same thing that a native child would

use its speaking English is my nose is

stuffed up my nose is stuffed up next

you can talk about something acting up

or flaring up acting up or flaring up a

flare if you think about fire maybe you

some some gasoline in it and it goes up

it becomes a much larger fire this is

something that's flaring up or something

that's acting up kind of like maybe

maybe I have bad knees like I personally

have needs that are not very good i just

played you know sports for a long time

and now now i am paying the price for

that but if I go outside and it's maybe

starting to rain my knees can feel that

so as they are my knees are acting up or

I might the pain in my knee is flaring

up so it just means something that's

increasing which is the more advanced

way of expressing this but if we want to

say it in a casual conversation way to

act up or to flare up next when the

doctor is speaking with you that person

might use these next couple of ones that

will just cover and these are just a few

bonus phrasal verbs I thought you might

like to know in this lesson the first

one is to point something out so the

doctor might point out or he might say

oh could you point out where the problem

is so I say oh like I feel maybe some

pain up here in my shoulder or it feels

some pain in my stomach so he say please

tell me where the pain is if he's saying

please tell me where the pain is or if

he says or she says please point out

where the problem area is please point

it out next the doctor will typically

talk about for a shorter term thing or

maybe if it's just a small cut maybe you

have a few stitches or something that's

not a very difficult problem so it's a

slight injury he might fix you up so the

doctor says oh okay I see you you've cut

your arm here we can put two or three

stitches in there and we can fix you up

in no time we can fix you up in no time

so to fix you up just means to repair

you so he's trying to fix something but

the casual conversation a way that a

doctor might use this is to fix someone

up to fix someone up and finally the

last of these bonus ones that a doctor

might use is to carry something out as

an example with the fix-up example that

was more of a quick thing a slight

injury but if you have something maybe

cancer or you have a heart problem

something that really requires intensive

surgery they have to open you up this is

a procedure that a doctor would carry

out so this is typically something that

takes more more time it could be a more

difficult problem that will

ask longer and so we're going to carry

out the treatment over a particular

period of time so we might carry out the

treatment for cancer or something over a

particular length of time like ten

months or a year or something like that

to carry something out to carry

something out well that's it for this

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