{"id":3094,"date":"2016-04-18T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:43:47","slug":"phrasal-verbs-in-medical-english-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/phrasal-verbs-in-medical-english-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal Verbs in Medical English, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPhrasal verbs have their own special uses in the medical workplace. I had an interesting discussion about this recently, while tutoring an Italian doctor who\u2019s preparing for a residency in the UK. She wanted to know more about the use of phrasal verbs in the English workplace. So I assigned her the Magoosh TOEFL Blog\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/phrasal-verbs-for-business-english-video-lesson-and-comic-strip\/\">business English phrasal verbs video lesson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After she watched the lesson, my student made an interesting request: she asked if I could tell her specifically how the four phrasal verbs from the lesson (<em>go on<\/em>, <em>carry out<\/em>, <em>set up<\/em>, and <em>point out<\/em>) could be used in hospital settings. I\u2019ve decided to fulfill her request right here on the blog\u2014I\u2019m aware that many medical professionals come to Magoosh for TOEFL prep. This phrasal verb study can help you medical Magooshers prepare not only for the test, but also for your future hospital work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\n\u201cGo on\u201d in medical English<\/h2>\n<p>In hospital and clinical contexts, \u201cgo on\u201d is a gentle way of asking someone to continue with what they\u2019re saying. \u201cGo on\u201d is especially useful when you want to encourage a patient to give you more information about their situation. Often patients may have trouble describing their symptoms. They may feel very tired, pained or afraid as they struggle to explain an illness or injury. Telling the patient to \u201cgo on\u201d in a soothing but firm voice can help a patient to give you all the info you need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo on\u201d can also work with medical co-workers who are distraught. Treating the sick and injured carries its own emotional burdens. You can use this phrase as a reassuring way to tell your co-workers that you know they\u2019re upset, but you still need a little more information in order to help their patient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo on\u201d can also be used in a <em>narrative<\/em> sense\u2014it\u2019s a common phrase in descriptions of medical events and timelines of patient treatment. In its past tense form \u201cwent on,\u201d this phrase is used in medical reporting and in spoken explanations of past treatments. You could say, for instance, that a patient complained of aches and pains, and that you <em>went on<\/em> to take the patient\u2019s temperature, and then later <em>went on<\/em> to prescribe fever medicine to the patient (or perhaps <em>went on<\/em> to admit the patient into the hospital).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cCarry out\u201d in medical English<\/h2>\n<p>The phrasal verb \u201ccarry out\u201d suggests the completion of a task that is either difficult or takes time. In medical settings, this often refers to a serious medical procedure. You can talk about surgeons carrying out an operation such as an appendectomy or the removal of a brain tumor. Biopsies and medical lab tests are carried out too, as they involve intense scientific analysis of specimens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carry out&#8221; also refers to planned treatments that take time. In this case, either a medical professional or a patient might carry out the treatments; it depends on the type of treatment. A doctor might carry out a series of electroconvulsive treatments (ECT) on a patient suffering from neurological problems. Because patients themselves don\u2019t actively participate in ECT (and are usually not even conscious during ECT), only the doctor would carry ECT out.<\/p>\n<p>However, many longer treatments require active participation from both patients and medical professionals. If a nurse is helping a patient with long-term physical therapy, you could say that either the nurse or patient are carrying out the physical therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarry out\u201d is also often used in medicine to describe the routine habitual duties of medical professionals. When someone says that a doctor or nurse is \u201ccarrying out rounds,\u201d it means they are walking around to speak to each of their patients. And a pharmacist could be said to carry out prescriptions for the day, since filling prescriptions for patients involves repeated actions\u2014reading the doctor\u2019s order, filling bottles and bags with medicine, and giving the medicine to the patients.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\nThe difference between medical English and other business English<\/h2>\n<p>As you might have already realized, medicine is more emotional and dramatic than many other professions. Because of this, there\u2019s a lot of <em>nuance<\/em> (small and important details) in how words should be used in different situations. In my next post on this subject, we\u2019ll look at ways to carefully use the remaining two words from my original business English video lesson. Stay tuned for \u201cset up\u201d and \u201cpoint out\u201d as they are used in healthcare!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phrasal verbs have their own special uses in the medical workplace. 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