Medical discourse studies communicative activities related to the topic of life and health of people, and deserves special attention from the point of view of anthropocentric and functional linguistic approaches, since the analysis of various types of linguistic interactions covers both professional communication between specialists and the interaction of a specialist and a patient, while the latter is at the same time the main object and subject of medical care. In this article, the problem of researching professional discourse is closely related to the process of multilevel research of English for specific purposes within the framework of the cognitivelinguistic approach.