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PATIENTS GET THE MESSAGE
Patients recover more …… from surgery when tapes with hypnotic suggestions
are …… to them on the operating table, doctors at St. Thomas’s Hospital,
London, have found. While under anaesthetic, they were told:” You will not feel
sick. You will not have any …….”. Those given such suggestions had ……
complications than others after surgery and left …… sooner.
The experiment was …… at St. Thomas’s after doctors found …… could
sometimes recall things said during operations. In a study at another hospital
many patients who were told during the operation that they should touch their
ears at a later interview with a doctor did so. The experiment at St. Thomas’s
was …… on 19 women …… had consented to it and were played a 12-minute
recording repeated six …… . Most of the tape gave details of the normal
procedures following the surgery and how to cope …… them. It said, for
example: “ How quickly you …… from your operation depends entirely on you
– the …… you relax, the …… comfortable you will be.”
This was followed by two minutes of direct convincing the …… that she
would feel well after the surgery. Then came a minute of third-person
suggestions, for example: ”The operation seems to be …… very well and the
patient is …….”
A control group of patients was played blank …… . Patients who received
the suggestions were …… from hospital 1.3 days earlier on average. If this
could be achieved as a routine, the health …… could save millions of pounds a
year.
Look up the words in caps in a dictionary and suggest meanings for them as you
can see in the example: The Robinsons have recently COME INTO a lot of
money. (inherited)
a) Everything TURNS ON point 7b in the contract.
b) I GATHER FROM our neighbors there’s going to be a power cut.
c) He intends to pay the bill himself, but I won’t HEAR OF it.
d) Frank is always DIGGING AT his wife in public.
e) Two of my aunts are DESCENDING ON us next weekend.
f) I can’t understand why you did that! What CAME OVER you?
g) John keeps FALLING FOR every pretty girl he meets.
h) I just hate the idea of RUNNING INTO debt.
i) Do you think we can BANK ON his support?
j) I can really DO WITHOUT sarcastic comments from you.
k) I wouldn’t TOUCH ON this subject if I were you.
l) It’s time we SAW ABOUT this fence.
m) We’re late and we really have to STEP ON IT.
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