#Assignment 6: Listen to ESL Podcast 466 again and post your note in your blog

ESL Podcast 466 – Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner
This is an article about doctors.What vocabularies might the doctors use to describe
the sickness.There are lots of new vocabularies for me. It really worth learning.

The content(article) :

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



Word bank

1. be cut out to be...
-->be created to do something that is good match to you.

2.bedside manner
-->How a doctor/nurse treat/communicate with their patients.

3.callous
-->Without considering other people's feeling. careless.

4.taking a turn for the worse
-->be getting worse especially in someone's health.

5.blurt it out
-->Say something without thinking about how other people will react.

6.diagnosis
-->the doctor's conclusion about what the problem with your health.

7.prognosis
-->The doctor's opinion about how your health will change in the future.

8.soften
-->make it easier to accept.

9.reassure
-->make them feel less worry/feel better.

10.don't seem to faze him
-->you're surprised that someone else was not affected by something or
didn't have a strong reaction to something.

11.hysterics
-->when you have uncontroled emotions when you can't stop crying
because the emotion is so strong in you.

12.compassionate with
-->to be caring, kind, nice to someone.

13.against your nature
-->it's something you can't do because it's not part of your personality it's
not part of your character.


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