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Watch a video about three patients describing symptoms to the doctor, then answer the
following questions.

1. What is the name of the disease?
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2. What do you know about that specific disease? Discuss with your friends.

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3. What are the symptoms experienced by the first patient?
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4. What treatment did the first patient have to recover from the disease?
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5. What are the symptoms experienced by the second patient?
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6. What treatment did the second patient have to recover from the disease?
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7. What are the symptoms experienced by the third patient?
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8. What treatment did the third patient have to recover from the disease?

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Watch another video about a doctor investigating his patient’s symptoms. Then, fill in the
blank statements with the words you hear.
1. The patient came to the hospital because she often feels _______________________.
2. The patient’s friends said that maybe the patient has an _______________________.

3. After having the blood test, the patient starts to feel _______________________.
4. The patient says that she has trouble with _______________________ infections.
5. The GP (General Practitioner) has given _______________________ but it did not work.
6. Sometimes the patient feels a bit _______________________ for no reasons.
7. The patient recently changed the diet into _______________________ diet.

8. The patient has lost _______________________ kilograms for the past one week.
9. The patient has not had blood test to check the _______________________ level.
10. The doctor asks the patient if there is any _______________________ disease in her family.
11. The doctor would ask the nurse to do a urine dip to check for _______________________ in the patient’s
urine.
12. The patient never thinks that she would have a _______________________ disease.

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