medical

1. A: Is there a medication you can prescribe to help me with my
problem?
B: There are various choices of blood pressure medication that
we can try.
A: What is available?
B: We could start with
Hydrochlorothiazide, which is a
diuretic.
A: Are there many side effects?
B: There really are not many side effects. You need to drink a lot
of water when you take this pill.
A: Is that the only medication I need to take?
B: It might be, but for a while I also want you to take an
ACE inhibitor, Lisinopril.
A: What are the side effects of that drug?
B: You may have a little bit of a dry cough, but you will feel
much better.

2. HCTZ

3. Dosage Forms:
Hydrochlorothiazide
(tablet): 25 mg, 50 mg
Hydrochlorothiazide
(Microzide) (capsule): 12.5
mg
Conversation Questions: Drugs
and Medicine .
Do most people in your country Do you think there are any legal
prefer traditional medicine, drugs that should be illegal?
modern medicine, or a combination What about illegal ones that
of the two? should be legal?
Do you think that teas and What type of treatment would you
natural herbs can be just as recommend to a person who has the
effective or more effective for flu?
treating certain illness than
modern medicine?
Do you have to pay for medicine Do you feel uncomfortable using
in your country? What about other medicine from a foreign country?
types of heath care?
Should doctors be allowed to Do you consider alcohol a drug?
prescribe a lethal dose of Do you drink?

4. medicine to patients who want to
end their lives?
Should doctors be allowed to Do you think men are more likely
prescribe marijuana? If so, to to use illegal drugs than women?
whom and for what reasons? Why or why not? What about legal
ones?
Have you heard any stories of Why do you think so many famous
faith healers? If so, tell about people use drugs?
one.
What should happen to a person What would you recommend to treat
who is caught using illegal a hangover?
drugs? What about selling them?
Can a person become addicted to Why do you think it takes so long
prescription drugs? Which ones? for certain prescription drugs to
Are there any illegal drugs that become available in the US?
a person can't become addicted
to?
Relief of a hangover can be obtained by: taking over-the-counter-pain-relievers; drinking plenty of
water; eating soup and foods that contain fructose; resting.

5. Medical bills in the USA are known to be quite high, but one patient
got the shock of his life when he received a bill for over $44
million. New Yorker Alex Rodriguez, 28, visited the Bronx-Lebanon
Hospital after suffering a bout of pneumonia. All he did was see some
doctors and get a prescription for drugs to treat his condition. The
total cost of his treatment was under $300. When the bill arrived on
his doorstep for $44,776,587, Rodriguez said he almost had an asthma
attack. He immediately thought the bill was real and panicked.
Thoughts went through his mind of how he was going to find the
millions when he was unemployed. He thought the bill was related to
three weeks he spent in hospital 9 months earlier.
It turned out that Mr Rodriguez was not the only patient to be billed
tens of millions of dollars for coughs and colds. A computer error in
the accounts department of the company that processes the invoices
has sent dozens more people the heart-stopping bills. The company
admitted that someone put the 8-digit invoice number in the box for
the billed amount. Mr Rodriguez told journalists from “The Daily
News” that he was angry the company’s mistake caused him so much
worry and anguish. He said: “I think they should have somebody look
over the bills before they send them out…I understand manpower may
be down, but to send out a lot of bills with numbers that big -
someone could have had a heart attack.”
Common symptoms of
pneumonia include:

6. •
Cough, often
producing phlem or
mucus
•
Fever
•
Shortness of breath
•
Chest wall pain that
is often made worse
by coughing or
breathing in
•
Feeling very tired or
weak

7. •
Fast breathing
•
Loss of appetite,
nausea and/or
diarrhea.
managing pneumonia
•
Get plenty of rest.
•
Drink plenty of clear
liquids to avoid
dehydration.

8. •
Do not try to stop
your cough unless it
is causing your to
lose sleep or feel
worse. A cough is one
way your body gets
rid of the infection.
•
Consider taking
acetaminophen (such
as Tylenol) or
aspirin if approved

9. by your physician to
help reduce your
fever and make you
more comfortable.
•
Sleep with your head
elevated to ease
breathing.