Medical vocabulary knowledge among hospital patients
1962; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1097/00006199-196201120-00123
ISSN1538-9847
AutoresJulian Samora, Lyle Saunders, Richard F. Larson,
Tópico(s)Medical and Biological Sciences
ResumoI'll tell you something, a good one on me. When my first child was born the doctor-like I told you I think it would be nice if they would reduce the language to where a person with hardly no education could understand these people; but me, so frank myself that I tell them, Look, let's knock this thing down and let's speak English to me because I don't know what the devil you're talking about. And they always have; the doctors I've went to and those that seen my children have always been very nice about it. In other words, they knock it down to where it is just plain English to me. But this doctor kept coming in every day and asking, Have you voided? So I'd say, No. So in comes the nurse with some paraphernalia that was scary. So I said, What the devil are you going to do? And she said, I'm going to catheterize you, you haven't voided. Well of course I knew what catheterization was. I said, You are going to play hell. I've peed every day since I've been here. I said, Is that what he said? And she said, Of course, Rusty, didn't you know? And I said, Well, of course why didn't he just ask me if I'd peed? I'd have told him.
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