Yep its a language problem that a lot of you must have suffered from and i just
had to pass this one onI live in the UK in an area called "the Black country" because the soil is black from the amount of coal in the area. Now we have a very special local dialect.
If yow con spake it then as soon as yow opens yer gob every bugger knows wear yowm frum. its know as
"The Black country Gob" Or BCG for short
Ok you get the idea
The other friday Stan , my husband (aged 82) had to go and see the COPD specialist at our local hospital. No problem except we had to see a new doctor.
This turned out to be a young oriental gentleman who was trying to make sure he had covered all things he had been taught. All tests where done and then came the part when he asked hubby if he smoked, Stan admitted yes he did and then the Doctor asked him if he had considered stopping smokeing or at least cutting it down ( stan now smokes about 10 a day )
It was at this point that I with the BCG took over as i informed the Doctor that my husband had actually cut down on smoking and no longer smoked after 6.
The doctor stopped writing and looked up, "you say he no longer smokes after what?"
I repeated that Stan no longer smoked after six.
Oh! and how many has that reduced the amount in one day then ? he asked in a sarcastic manner.
"Oh about five". I replied.
There just happend to be a young nurse in the room to act as goffer who was starting to smirk. The doctor looked at Stan with a look of total amazement.
You are telling me your 82 year old husband who is suffering from COPD no longer smokes after six and that he has six five times a day ?????
The nurse was trying hard to not make a sound. Somewhere there had been a slight mix up in the translation of the dialect.
With a dead pan face i told the doctor that my husband did not in fact smoke after six in the evening. It was then that the three bars came up in his brain cell and he realised i did not say after SEX but after SIX.
please could someone high up give the oriental doctors a lesson in local dialect before they are let loose on us. I bet that young nurse will have a few drinks with that one.
just had to share, but why is it allways us? poor Stan.
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LOL, LOL, giggle, giggle, I can just imagine how hard it must hv been for her not to just laugh out loud..
15289As a nursing student, I was caring for a woman that had delivered a baby 2 days before. When the doctor came in the room he assessed the drainage on the woman's peri pad. He said "It's serous." The nurse wrote it down and they left the room. I saw the look of fear and horror on the patient's face and knew what had happened. I explained that the doctor said "serous", which is normal drainage 2 days post partum, not "serious." She was greatly relieved.
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by dgarner
22 Nov 2009
I love it! Docs a lot of the time don't realize they're speaking "Medical-ese" which is truly a foreign language to most patients.
401Oh, I must agree with marjialexa! You shouldn't have clarified!
But, as we say here in the "Deep South":
Why, bah-less yore heart, ya'll jes about made me dyah laughin'! Keep these stories acomin'!
Blessins',
Diane
PS-- I'm also a nurse, and, sometimes we have to make up an excuse to get out of the room before we LOL! :-D
1312This is just too funny! You have a way with telling stories! Thanks for the laugh!
17126Hee hee. I face that all the time with my East TN accent...especially if I am on the phone trying to get some sort of service issue or customer service issue resolved!! Am sure you made the nuses' day!
35675Hee hee hee hee!!! Ah, you shouldn't have clarified it, Stan would have gotten a medal!! Go, Stan!! Hee hee hee, hugs, Marji
33451that was funny. It made me laugh. I am sure that nurse is still smiling.
33871This is so precious - I'm laughing my head off over here in Australia. I mean to say we have some pretty hard "ockerisms" that most people don't understand. On the other hand if he was in New Zealand - there would be no trouble understanding his dialect!!!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing this great story. I can just picture that nurse!!!
Love and blessings Chris
P.S. You've started my day off with a laugh and I've still got a smile on my face.
234501OH I know the feeling, being french and living in England, I have to excuse my french all the time.
I am going to print your story and show it to my Birmy husband !!
8073Can I tell you something, I enjoyed this so, ha,ha. It really shows how things can go wrong when people do not understand, and gets mixed up with languages.
Good on you for sharing this with us all.
Hugs and God bless
Marietta
15907Thanks eggieannie yows made me laf.
The poor young Doctor probably had no idea where he was signing up for one of his 6 month stints. Also it is possible that he speaks another dilect from the UK as he was born in one of the many oriental communities within the UK. Tara kiddo (as in good bye and not Tara the name)
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