Conversation between Doctor and Patient

Conversations between Doctor and Patient - Sample Dialogues

She experienced intermittent pain, which seemed to come and go throughout the day.

Intermittent fasting has become a popular diet trend.

He extended his arms to reach the book on the top shelf.

The city plans to extend the road to reduce traffic congestion.

The theme of love is recurrent throughout his novels.

The patient was in acute pain and needed immediate attention.

The economic crisis has become more acute.

In your own words, please briefly summarize the article.

여러분의 언어로 교재를 간단히 요약해 주세요.

What part of the reading resonated with you most?

이번 교재에서 가장 공감하는 내용은 무엇인가요?

How do you usually describe your body aches when visiting a doctor?

병원에서 보통 어떻게 몸이 아픈 걸 설명하시나요?

Can you share an experience where a specific type of pain significantly impacted your daily life?

특정 유형의 통증이 일상 생활에 크게 영향을 미친 경험을 공유해주실 수 있나요?

How do you differentiate between a dull ache and a sharp pain?

둔한 통증과 날카로운 통증을 어떻게 구분하시나요?

[Role play] Discuss your back pain with your healthcare provider, your tutor, specifying where it hurts the most.

[역할극] 허리 통증이 있는 상황입니다. 여러분의 진료를 담당하는 의사(튜터)에게 구체적인 상황과 통증 부위 대해서 설명해보세요.

[Role play] Explain to your healthcare provider, your tutor, about your headache, including where it feels the worst.

[역할극] 두통이 있는 상황입니다. 여러분의 진료를 담당하는 의사(튜터)에게 구체적인 상황과 통증 부위 대해서 설명해보세요.

[Role play] Tell your healthcare provider, your tutor, about your stomach ache, focusing on where the pain is located.

[역할극] 복통이 있는 상황입니다. 여러분의 진료를 담당하는 의사(튜터)에게 배가 아픈 위치에 대해서 설명해보세요.

If you have a question or questions that you'd like to discuss during your class, please write them down.

궁금한 점이 있거나 수업 중에 얘기해 보고 싶은 질문이 있으면 적어주세요.

Body Aches

Expressing Medical Concerns (3)

실전처럼 직접 말해보세요!

<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Maybe it’s old age, or maybe you’re just young and spry but have spent one too many days in an office, staring at a computer, at small pixels making up numbers. Whatever the cause, if you find yourself needing to visit a medical professional for body aches, Ringle’s got your back. <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Describing Back Pain<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I feel some discomfort in the small of my back, it comes and goes, though.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- If you feel <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">intermittent [1]<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> pain, you might describe it as “coming and going.” <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Standing seems to hurt my lower back.” <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I experience a sharp pain in my back when I try to <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">extend [2]<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> my arms.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- When describing the nature of pain, make sure to include whether it’s sharp or dull. <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">More explanation is included at the end of this passage. <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Describing Headaches<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I’m having a dull ache centered around my right temple.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- Being able to locate the area in pain when having a headache can help your doctor give a diagnosis. <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I noticed my headaches seem to start in the evenings.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- Providing time context for the onset of headaches can be helpful for your clinician! <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I’ve been having intense migraines set off by bright light.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- Migraines are a type of headache that are more extreme and <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">recurrent [3]<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> in nature. <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Describing Stomach Pain<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I’m feeling sharp pains in the upper right quadrant; it gets worse when I bend down or move.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- The stomach can be divided into four quadrants– although the language of “quadrants” for describing the nature of stomach pain is more often heard among medical professionals, it can be helpful to isolate an area of pain, if you’re able to. <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It feels like my whole abdomen is hurting, I can’t quite pinpoint the location of the pain.” <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Articulating Pain<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The following note on dull and sharp pain is repeated throughout much of the series; its relevance cannot be understated. <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Dull pain vs. Sharp pain”<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- Dull pain tends to describe pain that is generalized over a larger area and over a longer period of time. The pain is generally uncomfortable but more bearable, especially as compared to sharp pain. Sharp pain is typically <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">acute [4]<span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> but intense. <span style="12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Many terms that may be used by medical professionals don’t necessarily reflect the way the average person speaks. Our goal for this series is to give foundational expressions that are understood by the layperson while allowing for communicating with medical professionals in the English language. We’d love to get your feedback, both good and bad, on our series.

<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">나이 탓일 수도 있고 혹은 젊고 활기차도 사무실에서 날마다 컴퓨터 앞에 앉아 작은 픽셀로 이루어진 숫자를 들여다본 탓일 수도 있습니다. 원인이 무엇이든 여러 통증으로 인해 의사를 만나야 한다면 링글이 도와드리겠습니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">허리 통증 설명하기<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“허리가 불편한데 통증은 있다가 사라지다 합니다.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- 간헐적으로 통증을 느낀다면 "(통증이) 오다가다한다"고 설명할 수 있습니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“서 있으면 허리가 아픈 것 같습니다.” <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“팔을 뻗으려고 할 때 허리에 심한 통증이 느껴집니다.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- 통증의 성격을 설명할 때는 갑작스럽고 심한 통증인지 둔하게 지속되는 통증인지 정확히 말하세요. 더 자세한 설명은 이 교재 뒤쪽에 있습니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">두통 설명하기<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“오른쪽 관자놀이를 중심으로 지속적인 통증이 있습니다.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- 두통이 있을 때 통증이 있는 부위를 지목할 수 있으면 의사가 진단을 내리는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“주로 저녁에 두통이 시작됩니다.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- 두통이 시작되는 시간적 상황을 알려주면 의사에게 도움이 될 수 있습니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“밝은 빛을 쬐면 극심한 편두통이 시작되는 증세를 겪고 있습니다.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- 편두통은 더 심하고 반복적으로 나타나는 두통의 일종입니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">복통 설명하기<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“오른쪽 윗배에 날카로운 통증이 느껴지고 몸을 구부리거나 움직이면 통증이 더 심해집니다.”<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- 복부는 사분면으로 나눌 수 있습니다. 복통을 설명할 때 '사분면'이라는 표현은 의료 전문가들 사이에서 자주 사용되지만, 가능하다면 통증이 있는 부위를 구체적으로 지목하는 것이 도움이 될 것입니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“배가 전체적으로 아픈 것 같아서 통증의 위치를 정확히 짚을 수 없습니다.” <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">통증을 자세히 표현하기<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">둔하거나 날카로운 통증에 대한 아래의 설명은 이 시리즈 대부분에 걸쳐 반복되며, 그 관련성은 아주 중요합니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“둔한 통증 대 날카로운 통증”<span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- 둔한 통증은 대개 더 넓은 부위에 더 오랜 기간에 걸쳐 일어나는 통증을 말합니다. 이런 통증은 불편하기는 하지만 특히 날카로운 통증과 비교해볼 때 견딜 만한 정도입니다. 날카로운 통증은 일반적으로 갑자기 나타나고 강도가 심합니다. <span style="12pt; font-family: Nanum Myeongjo, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">의료 전문가가 사용하는 많은 용어는 일반인들이 쓰는 방식과 반드시 일치하지 않을 수도 있습니다. 이 시리즈의 목표는 의료 전문가와 영어로 소통하면서도 일반인이 이해할 수 있는 기본적인 표현을 제공하는 것입니다. 이 시리즈에 대한 여러분의 피드백(좋은 점 나쁜 점 상관없이)을 부탁드립니다.