Assignment 6:ESL Podcast 466 – Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner

What a wonderful wedsite that ESL is.
Althout I already have the habit to listen Studio Classroom every.
I won't absorb as much as other who takes notes while listening.

The article below is my first trying of taking notes.

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Monday - April 06, 2009
ESL Podcast 466 – Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner
Tags: Health/Medicine
Audio Index:
Slow dialogue: 1:30
Explanations: 3:12
Fast dialogue: 14:35

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

*cut out: to be created to do st. / have talent to do st.

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

*bedside manner: refers to the way that a doctor or nurse talks to people how they give
medical advice or information / how doctors treat their patients

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.

*callous: not thinking about the feelings of someone else / without considering another
person's feelings

*taking a turn for the worse: to be getting worse / become sicker / more ill

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.

*blurted it out: to say st. without thinking about it first

*diagnosis: the doctor's conclusion about the problem

*prognosis: the doctor's opions how the future will be for someone's problem

*comfort: to do or say st. to make the person feel better

*reassure: to let someone be less worry about st.

Cho: I feel sorry for the patient.

*feel sorry for: to understand someone's difficulties

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.

*didn’t seem to faze: someone wasn't affcted by st.

*hysterics: someone has uncontrol emotion

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

*compassionate: to be kind to someone

Joy: Don’t worry. It’s against your nature to be anything but considerate.

*against someon's nature : not a part of someone's personality

*anything but considerate: to emphasize the second word is not true


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
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