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From the Ted Talk by Christer Mjåset: 4 questions you should always ask your doctor

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But first, let me sratt off by telling you about a patient of mine. This was a wmaon in her 50s, she was in generally good shape, but she had been in and out of hospital a few times due to curative besrat cancer treatment. Now she had gotten a plropase from a cervical disc, giving her radiating pain of a tense kind, out into the right arm. Looking at her MRI before the consultation, I ddeiced to suggest an operation. Now, neck operations like these are standardized, and they're quick. But they carry a certain risk. You make an incision right here, and you dissect carefully past the trachea, the esophagus, and you try not to cut into the internal ctiroad artery.

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But first, let me _____ off by telling you about a patient of mine. This was a _____ in her 50s, she was in generally good shape, but she had been in and out of hospital a few times due to curative ______ cancer treatment. Now she had gotten a ________ from a cervical disc, giving her radiating pain of a tense kind, out into the right arm. Looking at her MRI before the consultation, I _______ to suggest an operation. Now, neck operations like these are standardized, and they're quick. But they carry a certain risk. You make an incision right here, and you dissect carefully past the trachea, the esophagus, and you try not to cut into the internal _______ artery.

Solution

  1. woman
  2. carotid
  3. breast
  4. start
  5. prolapse
  6. decided

Original Text

But first, let me start off by telling you about a patient of mine. This was a woman in her 50s, she was in generally good shape, but she had been in and out of hospital a few times due to curative breast cancer treatment. Now she had gotten a prolapse from a cervical disc, giving her radiating pain of a tense kind, out into the right arm. Looking at her MRI before the consultation, I decided to suggest an operation. Now, neck operations like these are standardized, and they're quick. But they carry a certain risk. You make an incision right here, and you dissect carefully past the trachea, the esophagus, and you try not to cut into the internal carotid artery.

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Important Words

  1. arm
  2. artery
  3. breast
  4. cancer
  5. carefully
  6. carotid
  7. carry
  8. cervical
  9. consultation
  10. curative
  11. cut
  12. decided
  13. disc
  14. dissect
  15. due
  16. esophagus
  17. generally
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  21. incision
  22. internal
  23. kind
  24. mri
  25. neck
  26. operation
  27. operations
  28. pain
  29. patient
  30. prolapse
  31. quick
  32. radiating
  33. risk
  34. shape
  35. standardized
  36. start
  37. suggest
  38. telling
  39. tense
  40. times
  41. trachea
  42. treatment
  43. woman