When less medicine is better: a doctor on deprescribing
A doctor explains how taking many medicines can harm older patients and why he reduces them; students follow the case and role-play a review.
C2Adults55 minInterview
About this lesson
A C2 listening lesson (interview). Dialogues and stories to listen to, with transcripts, speed control and ready-made questions.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Listening
- Type
- Interview
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 55 minutes
- Topic
- Health & medicine
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Listening (read aloud), True / False, Multiple choice, Gap-fill, Reading text
- Key words
- prescription, polypharmacy, side effect, dizziness, withdrawal effects, cascade, to deprescribe
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Follow an expert interview on a medical topic, including examples and cause-and-effect chains
- Understand idiomatic phrases used to explain risks and benefits
- Discuss priorities and trade-offs in healthcare