Lesson video

Hello everyone, welcome back to another lesson with me, Miss Sidenius.

Today, we're going to be learning about one of my favourite topics, people who help us, and we're going to be specifically looking at doctors.

So to start off with, we're going to be learning about doctors and how doctors treat different patients with their different problems. Then we're going to have a go at treating our own patient and writing our own prescription for a patient as well.

We'll find out a little bit more about that later on.

In this lesson, you're going to need three things, some paper, a pen or a pencil and a teddy or a toy.

So pause the video here, make sure you've got those three things and come back when you're ready.

Great job everyone.

Star words, star words, star words.

My turn, patient, patient.

A patient is somebody who comes to be treated by a doctor when they're not feeling well.

Medicine, medicine.

Medicine is a liquid or sometimes a pill that helps you to make you feel better when you're not feeling well.

And the last star word is prescription, prescription.

A doctor will write you a prescription for some medicine to tell you how and when to take your medicine.

Now, I'm sure that many of you have been to see a doctor before, either in a doctor's surgery or maybe even in a hospital.

Have you ever been to see a doctor? Tell your screen? Wow, lots of you are saying yes.

And why did you go to the doctor, can you remember? I can hear so many different reasons for going to the doctor.

I can hear some of you saying that you had a cold or a cough.

Some of you saying that you had a poorly tummy, or some of you saying that you hurt your arm or your leg, and you had to go to the doctor for some help.

I wonder if you can remember when you were at the doctor, how did they find out what was wrong with you? What did they do? Did they have any special equipment that they use? They do, that's right.

The first picture that you can see on the screen is called a stethoscope, stethoscope.

Doctors use a stethoscope by putting two little bits in their ears and then listening to your organs inside your body.

So they hold up the pad to your heart or your lungs or other organs to make sure that they are all working as they should be.

The next picture that you can see on the screen is a thermometer, thermometer.

A thermometer is something that can either go in your mouth, in your ear, on your forehead.

And it checks your temperature to see whether you are too hot or too cold.

Show me you feeling really hot, can you show your screen? Sometimes when we get flu or a fever, we feel very, very hot when we're not well.

Now the last picture that you can see on the screen, just underneath me, is called an otoscope, otoscope.

An otoscope goes in your ear to check and see if everything is okay and make sure that you don't have any infection in your ear.

Okay, let's have a quick test.

Can you point to the stethoscope? Remember that's the one the doctor wears and listens to your heart or your lungs with, and can you point to the otoscope, otoscope? That's right, the otoscope is underneath me.

And that's the one where you look inside your ear and see if you've got any infections.

Now who can point to the thermometer for me? So fast, the thermometer is the one in the middle.

And what does it check? It checks how hot or how cold you are, well done.

Some of you might even have a thermometer at home.

Depending on what's wrong with you, your Doctor may also give you some treatment to make you feel better.

Looking at the pictures on the screen, can you think of any treatment that a doctor may give you? That's right, if you have broken a bone or you've really injured yourself, a doctor might give you a bandage to help it heal, or they might give you some medicine.

They might give you some tablets or some liquid medicine.

Now it's very important that you only ever take medicine that has been prescribed to you by a doctor.

So a doctor has to write a note to say, it's okay for you to take your medicine.

If you do need to take any medicine from your doctor, you should always ask a parent or carer to help give you the right amount of medicine.

So now that we know how a doctor helps people to feel better, it's our turn to have a go at being a doctor.

So get your teddy or your toy, I've got mine here, and you're going to treat your teddy because they're not feeling very well.

My teddy is called Tim, but Tim's really hurt himself.

Tim, what's the matter? My arm is really sore, I fell over on my scooter and I really hurt it.

Oh Tim, let me have a look.

He said, that's really painful when I touch his arm.

Oh yes, oh dear, I think we're going to need an x-ray to see if Tim's arm is broken.

An x-ray is a machine that can show your bones inside your body.

So I'm going to send Tim for his x-ray.

Okay Tim, I can see from your x-ray that you've broken your arm.

You've been very, very brave coming into the doctor with your broken arm.

I'm going to need to wrap a bandage around it, is that okay? Tim says, yes, that's okay.

Right, I've got some bandage here.

Now I'm going to be very careful so that I don't hurt your arm while I'm wrapping the bandage around it, okay.

So I'm going to wrap it around like this.

If you don't have a bandage, you can always use some toilet paper.

Wrap the bandage around really neatly and carefully.

Like that.

There we go, Tim has his bandage on.

Now you have to keep the bandage on for six weeks.

That's a very long time, can you do that for me, Tim? Good job.

Now I'm going to write a prescription for Tim as well, because I'm going to give him some painkillers, some tablets so that when his arm is really hurting, he can take some tablets to make him feel better.

So I'm going to write my prescription on here.

I'm going to write Tim, Tim.

And I've got a capital letter because it's a name.

Then I'm going to write medicine.

Med-i-cine, medicine.

And I'm going to write two tablets.

So two, and then I going to draw a picture of a tablet, two tablets, and I have to sign my name at the bottom to say that the doctor is giving the medicine.

Miss Sidenius.

There we go, I've written my prescription.

So Tim, if your arm ever really hurts, then you can take two tablets to make it feel better, you can take them in the morning, but no more than two a day.

Take your prescription to the pharmacy and you can pick up your tablets.

Team, I'm having so much fun playing doctors.

I'm going to go and treat some more patients.

I think you should have a go as well.

See you next time, bye.