Using of phrasal verbs in everyday speech of medical professionals

USING OF PHRASAL VERBS IN EVERYDAY SPEECH OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS


Bikbova E.R.
Kazan State Medical University
Kazan, Russia


Abstract. Let me introduce myself. I’m Elvina Bikbova and I want to present you my scientific research on the topic “Using of phrasal verbs in everyday speech of medical professionals”. In our work, using of phrasal verbs are described in detail. We investigated the use of phrasal verbs in the daily life of medical workers, conduct a questionnaire and select the most frequently used phrasal verbs with their meanings in the daily life of medical professionals.
Keywords: phrasal verbs, medical professionals, using, everyday life.

I choose this topic because in my opinion phrasal verbs help structure speech, make it more concise and informative, also they have many meanings, which makes them easier to use in the daily life of medical professionals.

Phrasal verbs have their own special uses in the medical workplace. As you might have already realized, medicine is more emotional and dramatic than many other professions. Because of this, there’s a lot of nuance in how words should be used in different situations. So, our purpose includes nuances of using phrasal verbs in medical speech.
The aim of this work is to consider the features of the use and understanding of phrasal verbs in the medical context.
Before performing the work, I set myself the following tasks:
• What is the purpose of using phrasal verbs in everyday life of medical professionals?
• Find out how often and which phrasal verbs medical professionals use in everyday speech
In my work I use such methods as:
• Survey of medical professionals;
• Study of the literature about phrasal verbs and their use;
• Сreating charts based on survey results.
It is important to note that excessive use of phraseological units is dangerous for the loss of mutual understanding, confidence, cordiality and closeness of the doctor and the patient in a difficult, stressful, often extreme situation. This is logical. Listening to the doctor's spoken language, rich in "specific" words, not every patient can understand the essence of the question, the spoken word, the doctor's thoughts.
In a conversation with patients, it is desirable to speak in simple language: kindly, avoid scientific expressions loaded with incomprehensible words. Such expressions can strengthen the patient's confidence that he is suffering from severe organic diseases, strengthen his neurosis, obsession, obsessions and, presumably, psychogenic, somatic suffering, thus pushing him to a special psychophysical state of "disability".
Individual phraseological expressions that are more or less euphonious, do not cut the ear, do not cause significant moral damage to those who communicate in a close circle of friends, in an atmosphere of fun conversation, jokes, humor. At the same time, in the hospital sphere of communication between a doctor and patients, a doctor and students, these words do not enrich speech, but impoverish, clog it, make it cynical. The conversation of a doctor, full of professional phraseology, can lead to very undesirable consequences.
The use of phraseological units in any case does not exclude the possession of a competent medical language, but rather, on the contrary, without being a Clinician, it is almost impossible to use professionalism correctly. Doctors should always remember the double meaning of the word, its striking and healing power. These expressions are expenses of the profession and often a protective reaction against emotional overload. After all, a medical professional has to deal with the pain and grief of people every day.
In the first image you can see a diagram of the use of phrasal verbs in the daily life of medical professionals. According to the survey, 78% of medical professionals often use phrasal verbs in everyday life, 15% rarely use them and 7% do not use them.
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In the second picture we can see that the most common phrasal verbs are used by medical professionals over the age of 50. We can also observe that with a decrease in the age of medical professionals, the use of phrasal verbs in everyday life decreases.
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Let’s talk about the most frequently used phrasal verbs with their meanings in the daily life of medical professionals.
“Set up” means to arrange something or physically put something together.
To set up a round is to arrange a schedule that determines which doctor or nurse will visit the patients on certain days.
A medical procedure that has to be done only under specific physical conditions is set up. Surgeries are set up when surgical tools are arranged in a room, all participants sanitize their hands and put on gloves, and the patient is put to sleep with sedative medicine. In a less complex example, you could also say that a blood pressure measurement is “set up,” because you need to have the patient roll up his or her sleeve, and then you need to strap on the blood pressure arm cuff, fill it with air, release the air, and watch the meter.
“Point out” can be used to draw attention to information, as in “I’d like to point out that the patient took this medicine before, and it didn’t help.” This phrase can also be used to point attention to something physical, as in “let me point out the fracture on the rib, here in the x-ray.”
When it’s used to draw attention to a piece of information, “point out” has a forceful connotation. Use of the phrase suggests authority, and may even suggest that you’re annoyed that no one has seemed to notice the piece of information you are now mentioning.
Because of this, in medicine “point out” is often used by people in management. Lead doctors or head nurses will point out information to lower-ranking medical staff.
In hospital and clinical contexts, “go on” is a gentle way of asking someone to continue with what they’re saying. “Go on” is especially useful when you want to encourage a patient to give you more information about their situation.
“Go on” can also work with medical co-workers who are distraught. You can use this phrase as a reassuring way to tell your co-workers that you know they’re upset, but you still need a little more information in order to help their patient.
“Go on” can also be used in a narrative sense—it’s a common phrase in descriptions of medical events and timelines of patient treatment. In its past tense form “went on,” this phrase is used in medical reporting and in spoken explanations of past treatments.
The phrasal verb “carry out” suggests the completion of a task that is either difficult or takes time. In medical settings, this often refers to a serious medical procedure.
“Carry out” also refers to planned treatments that take time.
“Carry out” is also often used in medicine to describe the routine habitual duties of medical professionals.
At the end of my report I would like to draw conclusions about the work done:

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  Phrasal verbs have a special place in speech of medical professionals, because medicine is more emotional and dramatic than many other professions;
  
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  Phrasal verbs often used in everyday life of medical professionals;
  
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  Phrasal verbs are most often used by people of Mature age.