口語式短文：醫生的類型

Types of doctors ：

•  When we are sick, we usually have to see a doctor. Because various parts of our body may be affected, we may need to see different types of doctors.

• 我們生病的時候，常常得去看醫生。因為身體的各個部分都可能受到感染，我們可能要看不同科別的醫生。

•  The common cold is the most common disease I fall ill with. This kind of illness can be taken care of by quite a few types of doctors. We can go to a doctor's clinic or hospital to see a family medicine doctor, a pediatrician, or an ENT (ear, nose, and throat) doctor.

• 我最常生的病是感冒，這種病很多科別的醫生都能看，我們可以去診所或醫院找家庭醫學科、小兒科或耳鼻喉科的醫生看診。

•  Sometimes I have a stomach upset and feel like vomiting. Mom and Dad will take me to see a gastrointestinal doctor.

• 我有時候肚子不舒服而且想吐，爸媽這時會帶我去看腸胃科醫生。

•  When I have a toothache, I will go to the dentist to see if I have any cavities.

• 當我牙痛的時候，就要去牙醫師那兒檢查看看是不是有蛀牙的情形。

•  My maternal eldest uncle is an ophthalmologist, which means he is an eye doctor. We regularly go to his clinic to have an eyesight examination by him.

• 大舅舅是眼科醫生，我們會定期去他開的診所讓他幫我們做視力檢查。

•  My aunt, the wife of my maternal eldest uncle, is a doctor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Because my Mom has recently experienced a pain in her right arm from the shoulder to the elbow, my aunt has bought a lot of therapeutic patches for Mom to apply on her right arm to alleviate the pain.

• 大舅媽是復健科醫生。因為我媽的右手臂最近會感覺痛，所以大舅媽幫我媽買了很多藥用貼布讓她貼在右臂上以減輕疼痛。

•  My maternal youngest uncle lives in Taipei. He is a psychiatrist. Dad says that people living in metropolitan Taipei have heavy pressure. Many of them need to swallow pills prescribed by psychiatrists to alleviate their pressure.

• 小舅舅住台北，他是精神科醫生。爸爸說在台北大都會討生活的人們壓力很大，很多人要靠精神科醫生開的藥來減輕壓力。

•  Dad says that if someone wants to be a medical doctor in Taiwan, he or she needs first to study in medicine for seven years, of which the last two years will be spent as an intern.

• 爸爸說在台灣當醫生要先念醫學系七年，其中最後兩年是當實習醫生。

•  After graduating from medical school, his or her next several years will be spent as a resident doctor in a teaching hospital. Only after passing the medical specialist examination will a resident doctor become an attending doctor.

• 醫學院畢業後要先去教學醫院當好幾年住院醫生，等到通過專科醫師考試後，才能成為主治醫師。

發表時間：2009/09/01 著作人：周國華老師