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hello everyone my name is Andrew Cassie
and you are listening to cue lips this
is real talk
by cubes the series where we teach you
the English expressions you need to know
for real-world situations today we're
going to teach you about how to pick up
and buy medicine at a drugstore or when
visiting the pharmacy you can get the
study guide for this episode on our
website cue lips calm and it's really
the best way to study with us here today
in the study guides you'll get a
transcript detailed vocabulary
explanations and definitions real-life
examples a comprehension quiz and more
so visit cue lips calm to give it a
download and helping me today with this
episode is my co-host Cassie Cassie
hello hello how's it going
I'm doing pretty well Cassie how about
you yep just living my life it's Friday
today though yes it's amazing
TGIF thank God it's Friday some people
say fry a fry yay ah like celebration
yes hey fry yay yeah anyway Cassie let's
get into today's lesson we are going to
teach all of our listeners phrases and
expressions that they need when visiting
a drugstore to pick up medication
okay now the focus is not necessarily on
how to ask for medication but how to
understand and interpret the
instructions that you receive from the
pharmacists okay so you know how when
you buy medicine at the drugstore the
pharmacist will tell you some
instructions how to take the medicine so
that you don't die
right it's very important or get sicker
than you already are so what we'll do
here today everyone is we are going to
listen to some example conversations
between a customer and a pharmacist at
the drugstore and after we listen to
each example conversation then Cassie
and I will go back through that
conversation and talk about some of the
important English that was used to make
that conversation successful sound good
sounds great all right so let's start by
listening to the first example
conversation hello I'm here to pick up
my prescription I'm mark Flint ah yes
mr. Flint here's your prescription you
should take these pills twice a day once
in the morning and once in the evening
until they're all gone will they make me
feel drowsy only at night to help you
sleep make sure to avoid taking pills on
an empty stomach okay I'll make sure to
eat beforehand thank you okay so in this
first conversation the customer mark
asks the pharmacist for his prescription
his medicine the pharmacist gave him the
medicine and the instructions on how to
take it and then when she was giving the
instructions on his prescription the
pharmacist he often uses like a certain
pattern to introduce how to use that
medicine for example a certain time
period or how many times a day so in
this dialogue the pharmacist says he
should take some pills twice a day in
the morning and in the evening and
Cassie let's listen to that part of the
conversation another couple of times you
should take these pills twice a day once
in the morning and once in the evening
until they're all gone you should take
these pills twice a day once in the
morning and once in the evening until
they're all gone
this information could be substituted
for any different time period Andrew can
you give some examples yeah so maybe a
pharmacist would say something like you
should take a spoonful of medicine every
eight hours we should take 10
milliliters of this medicine every eight
hours if this was like a cough syrup or
a liquid medicine mm-hmm or maybe
they'll say something like you should
take the tablets once a day for six days
really just telling you the amount and
how frequently you need to consume a
medicine right yes and then another
thing that was mentioned were words
related to side effects of said medicine
right the pharmacist mentioned that his
medication might cause him to feel
drowsy tired drowsy sleepy right yeah
and there are unfortunately many
different side effects that can come
from taking medicine right you could be
Taurasi you could get a headache
nauseous nauseous you could have a dry
mouth or the opposite you could start
sweating there are lots of different
side effects and actually all you need
to do to know about all the side effects
of medicine guys is watch American
daytime TV and you'll see commercials
for medicine and they tell you all the
side effects with those commercials are
the best it's always a shock for me as a
Canadian because I think it's illegal to
advertise medicine on Canadian TV but
it's not in America so when I watch
American TV and see American TV
commercials I'm always shocked because
maybe our listeners don't know but they
have to legally list all of the side
effects that may occur with that
medication in the commercial but many
medications have many possible side
effects
so at the end of the commercial you get
somebody speaking very very quickly to
try and list all of the different side
effects yes but they have to do it with
a smile like they're happy about it so
they're saying with a big smile they say
things like this medication could cause
rashes severe seizures death it's really
ridiculous actually right yeah but
that's maybe a topic for a different
episode let's get back to the content at
hand here the final thing that we should
mention maybe from this example
conversation was the pharmacists who
said that you should avoid taking the
pills on an empty stomach this is
something that you are very likely to
hear the pharmacists tell you don't take
your pills on an empty stomach
and taking something on an empty stomach
means having an empty stomach right not
eating first let's listen to that part
of the conversation another couple of
times make sure to avoid taking pills on
an empty stomach make sure to avoid
taking pills on an empty stomach yes you
should always take your pills during or
directly after eating a meal mmhmm yeah
usually of course there might be some
medicine where you want to take it on an
empty stomach but that's true they'll
often tell you don't take it on an empty
stomach all right Cassie why don't we
listen to another example conversation
again between a customer and a
pharmacist hello have you got anything
for a sore throat yeah of course
these pills should help you can take up
to two at a time every eight hours until
the pain goes away do I need to eat
something before I take them it's not
necessary but make sure to avoid eating
spicy food and dairy products until your
symptoms subside
it doesn't clear up after a few days
then you should go see a doctor alright
so in this conversation that we just
heard a customer went to the drugstore
to buy some medicine for a sore throat
and the pharmacist recommended some
pills that would help make the pain go
away and we heard some interesting
vocabulary in this conversation the
pharmacist said that the patient should
keep taking the pills until the symptoms
subside let's listen to that part of the
conversation another couple of times
make sure to avoid eating spicy food and
dairy products until your symptoms
subsides make sure to avoid eating spicy
food and dairy products until your
symptoms subside what does this mean
Kassie until the symptoms subside
subside means kind of disappear go away
so she should keep taking the medicine
until all of her symptoms disappear
right so it's probably like this in
every language but there's jargon that's
used when you talk to a doctor or a
healthcare provider they use you know
some words that are kind of only used to
talk about the body and and medicine and
subside is used in other contexts of
English as well but it's really
frequently used when talking about
symptoms mm-hmm
we call it a collocation it's a word
that is always kind of partnered with
this word symptoms is the word subside
I think another interesting phrase in
this example was the last sentence if it
doesn't clear up after a few days you
should go see a doctor it doesn't clear
up after a few days and you should go
see a doctor
it doesn't clear up after a few days
then you should go see a doctor
clear up is just another way to say
subside alright we especially use clear
up to talk about skin issues can be used
to talk about other medical issues as
well but if you have a rash or acne or
any kind of skin issue if that goes away
then we say it cleared up mm-hmm if
you're sore throat symptoms also subside
and go away then they also clear up so I
think what we'll do now is talk about
some other key vocabulary that you're
probably going to need to know to have a
successful trip to the pharmacy and back
the first one that I wanted to highlight
here cassie is dose do se dose what is a
dose dose is the amount of a certain
medication that you're taking right so
for example like a dose of Tylenol right
so it could also refer to the strength
of the medicine all right so maybe you
have a prescription medicine that has
for example five milligrams of strength
that would be a five milligram dose or
you could have ten milligrams that would
be a ten milligram dose so it refers to
the quantity and the strength of the
medicine now this one is really really
important when just talking about
medicine in general it is antibiotics
antibiotics yeah literally anti
bacterial so fighting off bacteria in
the body right so if you have some sort
of bacterial attack or infection then
the doctor will probably prescribe
antibiotics to help clear up that
bacterial problem that you have alrights
another kind of medicine is an itch
cream and it's cream yeah this comes in
handy in the summertime when you might
come across a bunch of mosquitoes or
poison ivy rights or maybe if you have a
spider bites or or you in who knows it
could be maybe you have a skin problem
like a rash or something then an itch
cream will help you soothe the itching
sensation all right so soothe means calm
and subside and of course an itch it's
just that annoying feeling that you get
on your skin all right yeah it's scratch
it you need to scratch it yes
scratch an itch actually this is
something that I hear native speakers
confused sometimes sometimes they'll say
oh I need to each this I need to itch
this but it's really scratch it scratch
an itch even native speakers get this
confused sometimes the next word that I
wanted to talk about is
anti-inflammatory anti-inflammatory what
is an anti-inflammatory what kind of
medicine is this so anti the prefix is
the same as in antibiotics it's like get
rid of - okay
and then inflammatory means when your
skin swells up and gets really red
usually due to infection so an
anti-inflammatory medicine would help
reduce the swelling and puffiness in
your body mm-hmm yeah word geeks will
notice that that word inflammatory has
flam in the middle which is like flame
right so you can imagine some part of
your body flaming up then becoming
really irritated and painful and so an
anti-inflammatory medicine will
helped reduce that kind of inflammation
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well everyone that brings us to the end
of today's Real Talk episode thank you
for listening we hope that you learned a
lot here with us today
just to recap we learned about some
situational English expressions that you
can use next time you have to buy
medicine at a pharmacy and understand
what the pharmacist tells you understand
the pharmacists instructions check out
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