The document provides information about healthcare options in Manitoba, Canada. It discusses five main options: calling Health Links for advice, going to a walk-in clinic, seeing a family doctor by appointment, driving to an emergency room, or calling an ambulance. It also includes case studies asking which option someone should choose given their symptoms. The document aims to help newcomers to Canada understand their healthcare choices and communicate their health needs.

1. Your Healthcare Options
in Manitoba

2. Workshop Objectives
1. You should be able to explain the 5 health
care options available to you in Manitoba
2. You should be able to express your health
symptoms.

3. Our Agenda
1. Introductions
2. Review health care options
3. Case studies
4. Health symptoms
5. Listening
6. Practise making a doctor’s appointment

4. • What is your name?
• What is your country of origin?
Introductions

5. Have you ever been sick and
didn’t know what to do about it?
What happened?

7. Call Health Links
1. A free service provided by the province of Manitoba.
2. You can speak to a nurse about your health concern on the phone.
3. The nurse will give you advice about what to do.
4. The service is available 24 hours a day. Everyday!

8. When should I call Health Links?
1. Call when your situation is not life threatening .
2. Call when going to a walk-in clinic or calling the doctor is not an option.
For example, in the middle of the night.

9. Go to Walk-in Clinic
• You can speak to an experienced
nurse or doctor about minor issues
such as cuts, bruises and burns.
• An appointment is usually not
necessary.

10. You should visit a walk-in clinic when…
1.Your problem is not
an emergency.
2.You can’t wait to
see your doctor, but
you need care now
3.You don’t have a
family doctor

11. 1. When your health concern is not an emergency
2. When you can wait for an appointment
See Family Doctor
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12. Drive to Emergency Room
The emergency room of your local hospital
is open to you 24 hours a day, seven days a
week.

13. Call an Ambulance (911)
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14. Drive to ER or call 911?
• Is the condition life-threatening?
• Could the person’s condition become
worse on the way to the hospital?
• What is the weather like?

15. Case Studies
Of the 4 options available to them, what do you think
they should do?
• Call 911?
• Call their doctor?
• Call health links?
• Go to the walk-in-clinic?
• Drive to the closest emergency room?

16. Roger and his wife are new to
Manitoba. Their grandson,
Thomas, is visiting them for
the weekend. Thomas has a
mild stomachache. It is
Saturday night.
Case Study 1
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17. Sharmila is new to
Manitoba. She has not
been feeling well lately.
She has been feeling tired.
She has a medical card
and a family doctor.
Case Study 2
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18. This is Rosa with her ten year
old daughter Lupita. Rosa is
five months pregnant. One
day she awoke with sharp
stomach pains.
Case Study 3
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19. Su Jie and her husband
have hired a man to paint
the interior of their house.
He has fallen. He is awake,
but seems to have a lot of
lower back pain.
Case Study 4

20. Natalia and her husband
have been living in
Manitoba for 6 months.
They suspect their 2 year
old daughter has
swallowed poison.
Case Study 5
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21. Adrigo awakes at 3:00 AM
to get some water. Along
the way he walks into a
door. He suffers a small cut
to his forehead and feels a
little dizzy.
Case Study 6

22. Listen to a Conversation

23. Script
• Dorian: Hello Fer, how are you today?
• Fer: I’m ok, but I have a headache.
• Dorian: Have you taken anything for it?
• Fer: No, I have not.
• Dorian: How long have you had it?
• Fer: For about 2 days. I think it’s getting worse. What
do you think I should do?
• Dorian: I think you should call health links. They
might be able to give you some good advice.

24. Questions
1. How many people are speaking?
2. What is Fer’s complaint?
3. For how long has he had this
condition?
4. What advice does Dorian give him?

26. What’s the problem?
I have a stomache ache.

27. How can I help you?
I have a sore throat.

28. How can I help you?
I have a rash.
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29. How can I help you?
I have a headache.
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30. How can I help you?
My hand is swollen.
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31. How can I help you?
I have a fever.

32. How can I help you?
I feel nauseous.
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33. How can I help you?
I have been sneezing a lot!
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34. How can I help you?
I feel fatigued.
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35. How can I help you?
I have a runny nose.

37. Listen
• What’s the patient’s condition?
• How long have the patient had this
condition?
• When is the appointment?

38. Receptionist: Doctor Minal’s office. How may I help you?
Patient: I would like to make an appointment to see Doctor Minal please.
Receptionist: Sure, may I have your name please?
Patient: Yes, my name is Roger Bannister.
Receptionist: Roger, have you been to the clinic before?
Patient: Yes, I have.
Receptionist: what is the nature of your visit?
Patient: I have had a headache for four days.
Receptionist: Uh, let me see............We have two openings this week. We have
Wednesday at 9:30 am or Friday at 3:00 pm. Which would you
prefer, Wednesday at 9:30 am or Friday at 3:00 pm?
Patient: Uh, I think I’d prefer Wednesday at 9:30 am.
Receptionist: Ok Roger, I have you in to see Doctor Minal this Wednesday at
9:30 am. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Dorian: No, that’s about it. Thank you very much.
Receptionist: You’re welcome. See you soon!

39. Talking to a Receptionist
Receptionist: Doctor Minal’s office. How may I help you?
Patient:
Receptionist: Ok, May I have your name please?
Patient:
Receptionist: Dorian, have you been to the clinic before?
Patient:
Receptionist: We have two openings this week. We have _________ at
_______________ or ___________ at ___________. Which would you
prefer, ______________ at _____________?
Patient: Uh, I think I’d prefer __________________at _____________.
Receptionist: Ok Dorian, I have you in to see Doctor Minal this
Wednesday at 9:30 am. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Dorian:
Receptionist: You’re welcome. See you soon!

40. What did you learn today?
• Five Health care Options available to
you in Manitoba
• 10 ways to express your health
symptoms
• How to make a doctor’s appointment
with a receptionist

41. Follow-up Task
Choose a topic and send me an email.
• Write a dialogue where you make a doctor’s
appointment
• Write about health care options in your birth country
• Write a few sentences about what you learned in
this class

42. Thank you...
See you next week!