Vocabulary blog - Health

Welcome back to another vocabulary session!
Today, we’ll look at vocabulary related to health. Let’s check them out!

Health

• hospitalise (v.)

- to send somebody to the hospital (e.g. He was hospitalised for a car accident.)

• outpatient (n.)

- a patient who comes to receive treatment but does not stay in a hospital (e.g. The outpatient clinic is on the first floor.)

• physician (n.)

- a general doctor who doesn’t do surgery (e.g. You should consult a physician about your symptoms.) 

• medication (n.)

- drugs taken to treat illness (e.g. I feel better after taking medication.)

• prescription (n.)

- a formal list of medicines that a doctor orders you to take (e.g. The doctor gave me a prescription for painkillers.)

• addicted (adj.)

- unable to stop taking drugs (e.g. He became addicted to drugs and needed urgent treatment.)

• casualty (n.)

- a person who is killed or injured (e.g. A lot of car accident casualties have been recorded this holiday season.)

• pharmacist (n.)

- a person whose job is to prepare, give, or sell medicine (e.g. Please wait for your medicine from the pharmacist.)

• allergic (adj.)

- reacting in a negative way to something (e.g. I am allergic to all kinds of flowers.)

• burnout  (n.)

- being extremely tired or ill (e.g. One of my senior colleagues suffers job burnout as he works too hard.)