Patient-doctor conversation?
Hello,
In a doctor-patient conversation, what exactly does a sentence like this sound like: “Tell me, Mr. Meyer, since when have you had these symptoms?”
In this sentence “Tell me, sounds natural or a bit colloquial (I am not a native speaker)
Thank you in advance!
“Please describe your complaints in detail” or “Since when do you have these complaints” sounds more formal, but due to the large number of patients, possibly existing time pressure and a long practice with patients of any couleur, which can also discolour, the perfect set-up and the formulation sometimes comes back. Basically, this is not important because everyone knows what is meant and very different topics are important.
Both. Absolutely normal. It may also sound interlocutory. The last thing people want at the doctor is to get the feeling of being treated from above.
But at the current lack of doctors, every second doctor will say in a rural area: you have problems since when?
It is a normal flea that asks the recipient to say something about it. In another context, however, it does not become a call, but rather a kind of indignation statement: “Do they say, tick them properly?”.
In this context, the entry with “Sagen Sie mal, Herr Meyer, …” sounds a bit casual, so as if the question that comes now would not be as important as:
But this perhaps somewhat casual formulation is not unusual and also not to be objected. It only sounds a little strange when it comes to a serious health problem that may be of great importance when the complaints have occurred for the first time.
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Otherwise you can hear this entry in the following situations:
Better than the medical plural “How are we today?”
or MFA, where each second sentence begins with “you may”.
I don’t care about such things.
Well, these “you can…” formulations of practical workers, who are also very nice to me on the counter, but still better than to be frech geduzt (or herd) in the advertisements of some discounters. You seem like in kindergarten.
What do you mean with “you can”? Could you please call a specific example? Thank you.
You can take a seat in the waiting room
You can go to the lab