Assignment6:ESL Podcast 466

Day/Date: 2009/04/16
Title: ESL Podcast 466–Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner
http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=6743057#
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The dialogue is native and doen't feel boring.
Although those explainationas are short, I can't not catch every word briefly.
I can't not bear each word and write down quickly.
Therefore, I have to listen to once ore twice times to finish it.
Hope oneday I can handle it without listening repetitively.
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TEXT:

Cho: I’m not sure I’m cut out to be a doctor.

Joy: I think you’ll be great. I’ve seen you with patients and you have a great bedside manner – not like Gregory.

Cho: Why? What’s wrong with his bedside manner?

Joy: I’ve seen him with patients and he can be really callous. For instance, I was in the room last week when he was telling one of his patients that she was taking a turn for the worse.

Cho: What did he say?

Joy: He just blurted it out. He told her the diagnosis, and he didn’t even try to soften the news when she asked about her prognosis. He did absolutely nothing to try to comfort or reassure her.

Cho: I feel sorry for the patient.

Joy: That’s the point. Gregory didn’t, and it didn’t seem to faze him that the patient was very upset and close to hysterics.

Cho: That’s terrible. I’ll try to remember to be more compassionate with my patients.

Joy: Don’t worry. It’s against your nature to be anything but considerate.
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
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Definition:
1. Be cut out:
to be creative to do sth…. sth. that is good match for you

2. Patients:
people who are receiving medical care or attention from a doctor or a nurse
If you are sick, you go to see a doctor. You are a patient

3. Beside manner:
the way that a doctor or a nurse talks to a people how they give medical advice or instructions or other information
how doctor treat their patients how they communicate with their patients because that such important part of medicine

4. Callous:
without considering another person’s feeling

5. Take a turn for the worse:
be getting worse it’s opposite of getting better

6. Blurt it out:
say sth. without thinking about it first and about how it will sound to the other person

7. Diagnosis:
the doctors conclusion what the medical problem is

8. Soften:
make it nicer… to make it easier to accept (soften the blow=punch=hit)

9. Prognosis:
is the doctor opinion how your health will change in the future… what the doctor thinks is what is wrong with you

10. Comfort:
to do or say sth. that will make the person feel better, more comfortable

11. Reassure:
make them feel better about sth. …is similar to comfort

12. Feel sorry for:
to understand the person’s difficulties…to empathize with someone

13. Faze someone:
is a phrase that means you are surprised because someone else wasn’t affected by sth.

14. Hysterics:
have an uncontrolled emotion when you can’t stop crying

15. Compassionate:
to be caring, to be kind, to be nice to somebody

16. Against your nature:
you can’t do because isn’t part of your personality, character and who you are

17. Anything but considerate:
to be nice, to be nature, to be aware of other people’s feeling