Courtenay of Tennessee would like to know something about seeing a doctor in Germany. I've already told you that you are usually first made an appointment with the doctor. The coordinated by the receptionist. This is usually a woman, in the doctor's office on the phone accepts the dates and enters. She has other duties, most of whom are office work. Then you take in the waiting room and wait until you get to the series.

The doctor or nurse will then call into the waiting room and either the name or say "Next one, please." The doctor has an index card on which the patient's history is. So for example, how old he is, how much he weighs, how big he is, what diseases he had been when he last was at the doctor or what medications were prescribed to him.

Then the doctor asks the patient what ails him. The patient can then describe to him as of tummy aches. Or that he has a sore throat. He can tell you that he has been a few days fever, cough or runny nose. Or if he is injured he can explain how it all happened - when he fell off the bike, for example, and broke a leg or something similar.

The doctor represents more questions. He asks how long the pain already. He asked if the pain only sometimes or always because there are. He asks if there are such similar problems in the family, if you have any inherited disease. And if there are medications that can not tolerate or against which one is allergic. He tried to pull out the symptoms a diagnosis. That means He sets up the various pains and trying to figure out what the cause.

The doctor has several ways to evaluate the patient. First, he will often ask the patient to free himself. "! Invite you to get free" means in this case: Take off the clothes. But usually only at the site, prepare the pain, so for example the T-shirt off, so the doctor can listen to the lungs or the abdominal scan. Often he will then use the machine to examine the patients. He may, for example, work with an ultrasonic device. This happens for example in pregnant women. He wears only a cool gel on to the appropriate location and then moves to an ultrasonic head about it. On a monitor, it looks in the stomach. If you have broken a leg, then you have to break the X-ray to see exactly what is broken. With an X-ray machine can reproduce bone.

If the doctor has correctly recognized the symptoms, he can make a diagnosis. He can then tell the patient what disease he is suffering, or have any cause for the pain.

Normally you get a prescription from a doctor then. In this paper data are available for a pharmacist. There you will get the medicine the doctor ordered. Often you get prescribed antibiotics when you have a lung infection. Who has broken a leg on the other hand, probably gets a cast, so the fraction sedated so he can heal again. Some patients are also admitted to the hospital, there to be further treated or operated on, if they are seriously ill.

You can go to the doctor but also, when you're not sick. Soon I will go there to renew my vaccination. I have a yellow binder that I got when I was born. In it are all the vaccinations that I have received so far. Vaccinations are usually injections. So for example you get an injection, so that in future no one can get measles, rubella or chickenpox.

You can also go to a check-up. Then the doctor makes a variety of tests. It can take one for example on a home trainer. An exercise bike is a bike with us, which is in the home and attached stable. We can therefore not really go, but occur only in the pedals. During this test, you are attached to a machine that measures such as the heart beats strongly. The doctor can also measure the blood pressure or blood sample and examine it in the lab. So you know whether you're healthy.

Today, fittingly, the song "Pain Free" by Max Passion.

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