Przychodnia
Polish healthcare has its own vocabulary, and you will need it on a day you feel too rough to learn anything.
przychodnia
noun · feminine
- EN
- clinic, GP surgery
- RU
- поликлиника
Zapisałem się do przychodni na jutro.
I've booked in at the clinic for tomorrow.
The neighbourhood clinic, not a hospital — that is a szpital. From przychodzić, the place you come to.
skierowanie
noun · neuter
- EN
- referral
- RU
- направление
Bez skierowania nie przyjmą cię do specjalisty.
Without a referral a specialist won't see you.
The document that unlocks a specialist on the public system. Getting one is most of what a first appointment is for.
recepta
noun · feminine
- EN
- prescription
- RU
- рецепт
Dostałem receptę na antybiotyk.
I got a prescription for an antibiotic.
Russian рецепт covers both the prescription and the cooking recipe. Polish splits them: recepta is medical only, and a cooking recipe is a przepis — which is also the word for a regulation.
badanie
noun · neuter
- EN
- test, examination
- RU
- обследование, анализ
Muszę zrobić badania krwi.
I need to get blood tests done.
Usually plural for a set of tests: badania. Also research in the academic sense, from badać, to investigate.
zwolnienie
noun · neuter
- EN
- sick note; dismissal
- RU
- больничный; увольнение
Lekarz dał mi zwolnienie na tydzień.
The doctor signed me off for a week.
Two meanings and they are far apart: a sick note, and being let go from a job. Context has always resolved it and the ambiguity is still funny.
ubezpieczenie
noun · neuter
- EN
- insurance
- RU
- страховка
Sprawdź, czy masz aktualne ubezpieczenie.
Check whether your insurance is current.
From bezpieczny, safe. Ubezpieczenie zdrowotne is health cover, and whether you have it is the first thing any receptionist asks.
kolejka
noun · feminine
- EN
- queue; a round of drinks
- RU
- очередь
Kolejka do lekarza jest na trzy miesiące.
The wait to see the doctor is three months.
A queue you stand in and a waiting list you join. Also a round of drinks and a narrow-gauge railway — a diminutive of kolej doing four jobs.
dolegliwość
noun · feminine
- EN
- complaint, ailment
- RU
- недомогание, жалоба (мед.)
Jakie ma pan dolegliwości?
What are your symptoms?
The word a doctor will actually open with. From dolegać — co panu dolega? is the same question put as a verb.
apteka
noun · feminine
- EN
- pharmacy
- RU
- аптека
Apteka całodobowa jest przy dworcu.
The 24-hour pharmacy is by the station.
Same word as аптека, and a rare free one. Apteka dyżurna is the one on duty out of hours.
na czczo
phrase · adverb
- EN
- on an empty stomach, fasting
- RU
- натощак
Badanie krwi trzeba zrobić na czczo.
The blood test has to be done fasting.
A frozen phrase with an obsolete form of czczy, empty. You will meet it printed on a lab slip and nowhere else.
Drill these ten · earlier morning · later morning
Drill these ten