Complete the sentences with the words or phrases below and write them
in your exercise book.

patients ■ cough ■ the chemist’s ■ diseases ■ hospital ■ a sore
throat ■ to take care of ■ to keep ■ a headache ■ to prescribe
■ flu

I am a family doctor. A lot of ... visit me. When I see my patients, first
of all I listen to their problems and then I examine them. Some patients
just have a ... , a ... or ... . I ... them some- medicine to buy at ... . Others
have serious heart or stomach ... .pr ...v. If .Lean’t help them myself I send
them to ... . The problem is that people don’t ... themselves. It really isn’t
so d iffic u lt to ... f it You need to do sports, eat healthy food, take regular
walks and visit a doctor twice a year.