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Introduction
This lecture introduces how to communicate (in English) with those involved in delivering and receiving care. The content will be structured according to how English terminologies deal with patients:
taking a history, examining a patient, investigation, diagnosis and treatment.
Sakit (Indonesia)
English
Sickness Illness
Sore
Pain Trouble Disease
Sakit kepala
Blue baby
Blue = biru Baby = bayi A newborn infant whose unoxygenated blood is shunted to the arterial side of the heart (patent foramen ovale)
Common cold
Common Cold
= biasa = dingin
Abortion
Abort = menggagalkan (gagal, gugur) Abortion = in strictly medical language, means the interruption of a pregnancy (pengguguran kandungan).
Angina pectoris
A chest pain resulting from temporary difficulty in the coronary arteries (insuffisient oxygen supply to hearth muscle).
Syndrome
A group of symptoms and signs which, when considered together, is characteristic of certain disease or disorder.
Fishbeins illustrated Medical and Health Encyclopedia, 1978. Stuttman Co. Inc. USA.
Summary
Communication skills (in English) play a major role to improve the outcome of care and patient satisfaction
Refertence
Fishbein, 1978. Fishbeins illustrated Medical and Health Encyclopedia, Stuttman Co. Inc., USA.