Medic

Assesment

Do you feel better?

What is the symbol for your religion?

Slowly and carefully tell me the name of your religion.

Show me your identification.

Do you have an identity card?

How old are you?

What country were you born in?

Slowly tell me your nationality.

Slowly tell me your family name.

Do you smoke tobacco?

Do you feel worse?

Show me.

Do it again.

Less.

More.

Yes.

Write your answer here.

Press my hand twice for no.

Press my hand once for yes.

Relax.

No.

You must stay here.

Slowly tell me your given name.

Move all of your toes.

Point to it.

Are you married?

Push against me.

You will feel better soon.

Move all of your fingers.

Does this hurt?

Show me where it hurts worst.

Show me where.

Do you hurt anywhere?

Say your name out loud.

Can you breathe?

Lie still.

Keep your head very still.

Do exactly what we ask.

We will try to not hurt you further.

We must examine you carefully.

Let us help you.

We will take care of you.

Do you have any children?

Open your eyes.

You have been injured.

You are ill.

This will help protect you.

Brief medicine interview

Are you bleeding from your rectum?

Has there been any blood in your stool?

Would your diarrhea today fill this?

Have you had any diarrhea?

Are you infected with the HIV virus?

Is there any black color in your vomit?

How many times have you had diarrhea today?

Have your stools been black?

Do you have worms?

Do you have malaria?

Do you have tuberculosis?

Do you know what I mean by the term AIDS?

Do you have AIDS?

You need a blood test for the HIV virus?

Is there any blood in your vomit?

Do you feel sick?

Do you know what I mean by the term HIV?

How many days have you had the nausea?

Did the nausea start today?

Do you feel nauseated?

Is the sickness here?

How many days have you felt sick?

Did you begin to feel sick today?

Have you been vomiting?

Brief pain interview

Does anything make the pain better?

Are you in pain?

10 is the worst possible pain and 1 is no pain at all.

Is the pain here?

Does anything make the pain worse?

Did the pain start today?

How many days have you had the pain?

Describe the pain on a scale from 1 to 10.

Where is your pain?

Cardiology

Chew this and swallow it.

Do you have any chest pain or tightness?

Do you have chest pain over your entire chest?

Do you have pain from your chest into your arm?

Have you had this type of chest pain before?

Do you feel light headed with the chest pain?

Do you feel nauseated with the chest pain?

This will go under your tongue.

This heart pill may give you a headache.

Do you sweat with the chest pain?

Caregiver

Can I do anything to help you?

Come with me.

I am going to lift you.

I am going to put a needle in your arm to give you medication.

I am sorry I hurt you.

I must adjust the tube in your chest.

I must change your dressings.

I must cut your hair.

I must give you a shave.

I must give you a suppository into your rectum.

I must give you an injection with a needle.

I must make your bed.

I will help you dress.

I will help you undress.

Put the gown on.

Put your arms around my shoulders.

This will help you feel better.

Would you like more?

I must wash your hair.

Dow commands

Computer please stop.

Computer please show settings.

Computer please switch to french.

Computer please switch to german.

Computer please switch to spanish.

Computer please switch to english.

Exam commands

Push here.

Look at my finger as it moves.

Look down.

Look straight.

Turn around.

Lie on your back.

Look right.

Look up.

Open.

Open your hand.

Open your mouth.

Look left.

Sit down.

Sit up.

Squeeze here.

Stand on the scale.

Stand up.

Take a deep breath in and out.

You need an x-ray of your chest.

Touch your finger to your nose like this.

Turn on to this side.

Walk like this.

Walk towards me.

Lie on your abdomen.

Close your mouth.

Touch my finger with this finger.

Lie down.

Hold your breath.

Hold this under your tongue.

Cough some phlegm into this cup.

Cough.

Close your hand.

Breathe normally.

Bend your leg.

Bend your arm.

Lie flat.

Foley

I am going to insert a tube into your bladder to drain urine.

Have you urinated today?

Does your bladder feel full?

Do you have problems starting to urinate?

Do you have an urge to urinate but are unable to pass urine?

Do not touch this tube.

This tube will empty the urine from your bladder.

You need a tube in your bladder.

Urinate into this container.

Do you have any pain with urination?

This tube will feel uncomfortable in you.

Introduction

Move your head like this for no.

We will try to contact someone from your group.

Good bye.

Try to answer my questions with yes or no.

Move your head like this for yes.

Do you want a cigarette?

We cannot give you anything to eat or drink.

If you need surgery your stomach must be empty.

We will give you food and drink as soon as it is safe to do so.

Are you thirsty?

Are you hungry?

Thank you.

Do you need to defecate?

Do you know where you are?

I understand.

I do not understand.

Please.

You are welcome.

Thank you for talking with me.

I will talk with you again.

Do you need to urinate?

Customary greeting.

This machine only works from my language to yours.

There is no one available who speaks this language.

This machine cannot translate your words for me.

I do not understand your language.

We are here to help you.

Do you understand this language?

Let us use this machine to talk together.

Neuro

How many days have you have the numbness or tingling?

Do you have numbness or tingling?

Do you feel weak?

Did the weakness start today?

How many days have you had the weakness?

Where do you feel the numbness or tingling?

Did the numbness or tingling start today?

Obstetrics and gynecology

How many babies do you have?

The baby is coming.

We will take good care of the baby.

The baby looks healthy.

It is a girl.

It is a boy.

The baby is here.

We must get your baby out.

The baby is stuck.

Do you use pills for birth control?

Do you have an iud?

Are you pregnant?

We will protect your privacy as much as we can.

Have you had missed periods of menstruation recently?

Push now as hard as you can.

How many months have you been pregnant?

Have you been raped?

Do not push yet.

Push now.

Opthamology

Do you wear contact lenses?

Keep your head still.

I am going to blow a puff of air into your eye.

I am going to put some drops into your eye.

While I am looking into your eyes continue to focus on that object.

Look straight ahead and focus on an object.

Hold very still while I remove the foreign body in your eye.

How many fingers do you see right now?

Do you have any pain in your eyes?

Do you wear corrective glasses?

Is your vision clear in both eyes?

Do you see my fingers?

Are they clear?

Which eye has a new problem?

I am going to be looking into your eyes with this.

Post-op and prognosis

Return in one week so we can be sure you get better.

We will send you to another place.

You need more care.

You will return to your unit when you are better.

I will be back soon.

Return tomorrow so we can be sure you get better.

You will be fine.

I will check back later to see how you are doing.

You are seriously ill.

Everything will be done to get you fixed up again.

You are only slightly wounded.

You will soon be up again.

Your condition is serious but you will get better.

We will arrange for your transport back to your country.

You are seriously hurt.

You will need time to heal.

It will probably take a long time for you to get better.

The surgery was successful.

We were able to fix you.

We had to remove this.

We tried but we could not save this.

You were hurt very badly.

You will get better if you let us take care of you.

Surgery instructions

You must remain in bed.

You must stay in this room.

Do not eat or drink anything after midnight tonight.

Do not eat or drink until the surgery.

Do not move at all.

You must not smoke.

We have to cut your hair off here.

You may get up to go to the toilet.

Take this medicine.

Surgical consent

If we do not operate you may die.

If we do not operate you may lose this.

The operation is dangerous but it is the only way to help you.

Do you understand that you need this surgery?

We need to repair this.

We need to remove this.

We will operate very carefully.

You are badly hurt.

This medicine will make you sleep.

We will begin the operation as soon as we can.

May we operate on you?

We want your permission before we operate on you.

We need to take you to surgery.

Trauma

We need to give you blood.

We need to give you fluid.

I have to put a small needle in you here.

This will help you.

We will give you medicine to stop the pain.

We need to take you to the operating room to put you back together.

You need a metal plate and screws to help the healing of your bone.

Do not get the cast wet.

You may take the splint off to clean yourself.

You need a splint to help the injury heal.

I need to put a tube into your throat.

We have to restrain you for your safety.

The splint must be replaced after you have cleaned yourself.

This tube will help you breathe better.

This tube may feel uncomfortable.

I need to put a tube through your nose to your stomach.

You need to swallow while I put this tube in your nose.

Drink this while I gently place the tube into your nose.

This tube will drain your stomach.

I have to put a small tube into your neck to give you fluid.

I need to put a tube in your chest.

This needle will release the air from your chest.

I need to cut your skin.

The bone here is not broken.

You have been burned by a chemical.

We need to wash the chemicals from your skin.

You will need to be completely washed.

This will help your burns.

Is this from a vehicle crash?

This will help avoid infection.

Are you having trouble breathing?

Do your lungs hurt?

Did you inhale any smoke or very hot air?

Turn over this way.

Move this like this.

Does it hurt when I do this?

Point to all the parts of your body that hurt.

Do not remove the cast.

Did you lose consciousness after this happened?

Which joint hurts the most?

Is this from a rock?

Is this from a knife?

Were you shot?

Is this injury from a landmine?

Have you eaten food in the past six hours?

Do you have any bad reactions to any medicine.

We have to remove your clothes.

Help us take care of you.

We are all working to help you.

Did you lose more than this much blood?

You need a cast to help the bone heal.

Do you have pain in this muscle i'm touching?

Do you have pain in any other muscle?

Where is the muscle pain?

Is this muscle cramping?

Have you ever had any broken bones?

The bone here is broken.

I will examine the xray and tell you what I see.

You need an xray of your bone.

Do you have pain in any other joint?

Do this.

Do you have pain in this joint i'm touching?

What bones have you broken?

User ground rules

Do what I ask.

Is this it?

I will get an interpreter.

Hold up the number of fingers.

Get up.

Do you mean no.

Do not get excited.

Describe it with gestures.

Be quiet.

Do you mean yes.