A Letter To The Patient’s GP Please, Angela
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A Letter To The Patient’s GP Please, Angela
One of the tracks on the Amateur Transplants’ debut album, Fitness to Practice, is a dictation for a typist descibing a patient who seems to have everything wrong with her. Dr Adam Kay’s choice of wording is deliberately unhelpful to the poor typist at the other end. Enjoy!
GO Home .
Originally posted 2010-11-09 10:52:45.
lol great
Who has all that wrong with them?
This shows how tough transcription job is
@legendofthelol Sadly not. I applied for Medicine and was left on the reserve list in case someone dropped out / dead. No one did and I’ve since changed my aspirations to just work in healthcare as opposed to on the front line. I have huge respect for those who do successfully pursue Medicine, enjoy it and become excellent doctors. I have had the great pleasure of meeting some such people.
Buttonmushroom. Are you a Dr too ?
Brilliant
Love this – hilarious!
ha ha, his voice gets increasingly “camp” throughout lol x
@thebuttonmushroom it’s for comedy
geez this patient should just be put out her misery.
both spellings are acceptable
It is very funny (:
I know. Not sure all the rest of the punctuation is wholly accurate either but it’s more there for comedy I guess.
They put a comma and then started a new sentence….
I know that. Suman is an anaesthetist and Adam a gynaecologist. I’ve been in touch with both of them. I’m just saying that this whole scenario is fictional … unless of course Adam really has had a patient with all these problems, in which case I don’t envy him!
hes not a fictional doctor, both Adam Kay and Suman Biswas are real doctors in the Royal Bromton Hospital in London UK
In the UK Latin is not a requirement for studying Medicine anymore, though I believe it used to be. I however have just spent the last three years studying both Latin and Greek full time and can appreciate the roots of most medical terminology. I really recommend Donald M. Ayers’ book “Bioscientific Terminology: Words from Latin and Greek Stems” to any medic or classicist!
It’s no big deal, I’m from Poland and I study in Polish, the pronounciation is somehow different, and we don’t read the Greek “CH” as a “K” but rather as “H”, therefore spelling becomes evident.
BTW. I don’t know how about England (and other countries) but we took Latin during our studies (with elements of Greek), so we cut up every word into parts: Dys (impaired) dia (two) docho (from ductus -> way) kinesis (motion) -> impaired ability to move a limb in one way and another rapidly (:
Another case of copying the lyrics from the official source. That’s how the doctor spells it in the song, but I know it has the “ch” instead. Perhaps it wouldn’t have fitted so well in the song if he’d spelled it correctly, or perhaps our fictional doctor didn’t know how to spell it himself. Either way, I’m impressed by anyone who can spell long words out loud without reading them off something. My mind goes blank when asked how to spell something!
Actually it spells “dysdiadoCHOkinesis” and not “dysdiadoKOkinesis”.
i love it. poor woman just needs to be taken out and put down.
That’s really clever and well done.
Indeed =D
Haha, that’s also what I thought. But this video made me laugh so much, I think it should be overlooked.
I’m no doctor (though I do pretend to be one down in a ‘lesser privileged’ area of town where they don’t know any better) but it seems to me that this woman has more than the normal amount of conditions compared to the average patient….
It's so cute how they play in front of the fans when he wouldn't even joke with Angela hahaha.
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What's the text speak for please, "pls?" How many milliseconds would it take to type it? Good manners aren't formal, they're elementary.
It's so cute how they play in front of the fans when he wouldn't even joke with Angela hahaha.
I love this song, haha mainly because my name is Angela. :p
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The letter in "The Scarlett Letter" is scarlet……hints why your friend that it was funny and pathetic! I hope I helped~!
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fai un po’ di selezione please
I got a letter this morning and it read this song is badass
You mean archaic, not ancient, right? Archaic would still be understood and maybe even used in literary contexts whereas ancient is just etymology.
OK, I spent forever looking for this and couldn't find an exact word. i think the problem is that in japanese you don't have just one word for "please," instead it's often tacked onto the end of the verb signifying what you want them to do. ie "ikanaidekudasai" please don't leave me, etc.
i would just say onegaiitashimasu お願い致します which is very polite.
ook thats dope =)
write the letter now. haha I'm sure she'll be very happy
Oh yes, that sounds great.
Ay sí, eso suena bien,
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Angela is an Italian name, in Italy it's a very common name.
"angelo" is the Italian for "angel", "angela" is the feminine for "angelo".
Seriously – what’s with having only a letter based complaints service tesco? No phone line or email in this day and age?!
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