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From the Ted Talk by Mitchell Katz: What the US health care system assumes about you

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Health care in the United States assumes that you have a working tpolenhee and an accurate addsers. The proliferation of inexpensive cell phones has actually helped quite a lot. But still, my patients run out of minutes, and their phones get disconnected.

Low-income people often have to move around a lot by necessity. I remember reviewing a carht of a woman with an aaromlnitby on her mammogram. That chart auosdulsisy documents that three letters were sent to her home, asking her to please come in for follow-up. Of course, if the address isn't accurate, it doesn't much matter how many letters you send to that same address.

Open Cloze


Health care in the United States assumes that you have a working _________ and an accurate _______. The proliferation of inexpensive cell phones has actually helped quite a lot. But still, my patients run out of minutes, and their phones get disconnected.

Low-income people often have to move around a lot by necessity. I remember reviewing a _____ of a woman with an ___________ on her mammogram. That chart ___________ documents that three letters were sent to her home, asking her to please come in for follow-up. Of course, if the address isn't accurate, it doesn't much matter how many letters you send to that same address.

Solution


  1. assiduously
  2. chart
  3. address
  4. telephone
  5. abnormality

Original Text


Health care in the United States assumes that you have a working telephone and an accurate address. The proliferation of inexpensive cell phones has actually helped quite a lot. But still, my patients run out of minutes, and their phones get disconnected.

Low-income people often have to move around a lot by necessity. I remember reviewing a chart of a woman with an abnormality on her mammogram. That chart assiduously documents that three letters were sent to her home, asking her to please come in for follow-up. Of course, if the address isn't accurate, it doesn't much matter how many letters you send to that same address.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. abnormality
  2. accurate
  3. address
  4. assiduously
  5. assumes
  6. care
  7. cell
  8. chart
  9. disconnected
  10. documents
  11. health
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  14. inexpensive
  15. letters
  16. lot
  17. mammogram
  18. matter
  19. minutes
  20. move
  21. necessity
  22. patients
  23. people
  24. phones
  25. proliferation
  26. remember
  27. reviewing
  28. run
  29. send
  30. states
  31. telephone
  32. united
  33. woman
  34. working