Smoking Cessation and Surgical Eligibility Requirements

Smoking Cessation and Surgical Eligibility

Key to Stop Smoking or We May Not Operate on You

• 1) Hospital managers state that smokers take longer to recover, experience more complications, and have longer, more expensive hospital stays.
• 2) By reducing the number of patients.
• 3) True. Those who do not quit may not be treated.
• 4) True. If they need surgery, they must undergo therapy for three months to break the habit.
• 5) True. Smokers, however, argue that they are being discriminated against.
• 6) True. Health authorities in Suffolk restricted obese patients from having operations until they attempted to lose weight.
• 7) Careful, -less, -free, -ing
• 8) Opportunity
• 9) Succeed
• 10) Guidelines

11) Medicine is a complicated subject about which I know very little. / Medicine is a complicated subject I know very little about. / I know very little about medicine, which is a complicated subject.
12) He said he would pay for the operation.
13) If I were a smoker... I would...
14) Heavy smoking can make treatment ineffective.

Maximizing Potential in Children

Key to Maximizing Parents

• 1) Because parents enroll them in many extracurricular activities where they spend a lot of time.
• 2) No, they do not. Because they also need love and affection plus some innate ability.
• 3) False: This will all make your children do better in school! Well, it might or it might not.
• 4) True: Certain enjoyable activities are very difficult to pick up as an adult, and these are worth learning when young.
• 5) True: It is pointless to push children where they do not want to go.
• 6) True: Mozarts are born, not made.
• 7) Automaton(s)
• 8) Accomplished
• 9) Disgusting, awful, boring, unpleasant.
• 10) Acceptance.

11) Those trees grew / have grown so high that they block the view.
12) Since / As / Because I was determined to develop my natural talent for music, I started to take lessons at an academy.
13) If Mary had shown real passion for ballet, she would happily have gone along with it.
14) How long did Mozart take to compose his last opera? / How long did it take him/Mozart to compose his last opera?