Language

[LissacFrance]

I live in France but changed doctors recently as we`d moved house. New doctor quite a distance away as no doctors available in our town. New doctor is German but speaks both French and English. After several visits and examinations I decided it was time to correct some of his English as I had been told too many times to "Stop breathing" instead of "Hold your breath" and asked if he really wanted his patients to die in his surgery.

We have found him to be thorough and consultations fly by even if they take 20 minutes or more. There are benefits of having rural doctors who have spare time to chat.

[sassy59]

Sounds like you’re being well cared for which is great.xxx

[garshe]

Bit concerning the phrases he uses🙈 .Good Luck xxSheila

[Morrison10]

great to have Gp who actually visits and discussed condition. I’m in Midlands UK, and although born with rare condition PCD that includes bronchiectasis haven’t seen or spoken to GP for several years. I’m lucky that my respiratory consultant at big QE HOspital gives telephone guidance about which antibiotic to take etc. Hope your new GP continues to be helpful.

[Reading4everyone in reply to Morrison10]

Hi Morrison, I also see a very good respiratory consultant at QEH in Brum. When I was visiting my daughter in France when I was due a telephone appointment she actually agreed to phone me in France. Now that is what I call excellent care. Best wishes Marlybee.

[Izb1]

Sounds like you are being well looked after there LissacFrance. I find the german people to be very thorough in most everything they do but had to laugh at this "stop breathing" glad you got it sorted x

[Alberta56]

😊😊😊

[Lupien]

Well, I can say that language barrier can be a real problem, but I hope you managed to motivate him to improve his language skills. Nowadays, it's not that hard to do, especially with various platforms on the internet. Personally, I've decided to learn spanish with lingopie not so long ago, and everything is going smoothly.

[LissacFrance in reply to Lupien]

I would love to have the time to relearn Spanish. I`m asjamed to say that despite having friends in Spain of over 30 years, we always speak in English. Their English is much better than my Spanish. Hope to visit Spain next year as we`ve not seen them for over 3 years.

Good luck with your language program, I`ll get back to proofreading a very complicated patent.

[LissacFrance]

Would love to have the time, but clients keep sending me work. Just received an e-mail for editing a document "Robotic spine surgery system". I`ll stay with English for time being. Learning new tricks at 70+ is not easy. If I want to learn a bit more it will be taking better photographs, and remembering what I learned 50 years ago. Have a good day and thanks for the link, Chris.