People who help us

Doctors and Nurses

What is a doctor?

What do they do?

• Can you think of anything else?

What is a nurse?

What do they do?

• Can you think of anything else?

Doctors sometimes visit you at your house & they bring a special Doctors

bag with them.

• What is in a doctors bag?

How do they use their equipment?

• Stethoscope

To listen to your heart, lungs or chest

• Tongue spatula to look in your mouth

• Ear scope to look in your ears

• Thermometer to take your temperature

• Blood pressure machine to check your heartbeat

Where do doctors and nurses work?

• Hospitals

• Doctors surgery

• They sometimes visit your house

How do you get to hospital if you are very poorly?

• A paramedic drives you in an ambulance.

Sometimes they even fly you in a helicopter!