A sixteen year old female patient about the age of 16 came in and said " wha da dily yo?, how iz ya doin' taday? ah'm doin' okay, just havin' some pain in muh ma ****** jaw, muh ma ****** mom bust me da other day fo' nahh reason, now ah cant open muh ma ****** mouth... you know das right!"
I said slow down, please repeat that one more time, she did, this time her sentence was even more extensive with a "ya heerd" at the end, i sure did hear her, but i was having such a hard time comprehending the explanation of her problems.....
She is one of the first teenagers i've seen so far, now i'm kind of afraid, do all teenagers talk like that? What can i do to better understand them? She was getting angry at me because of my lack of ability to understand her? Please help??
2007-03-25 04:46:02 · 8 answers · asked by DesiGirl 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
i'm a dental student, just so there's no misunderstanding
2007-03-25 05:47:47 · update #1
Since you are a doctor yo shouldnt have a problem hiring a teenage intern. Have the intern in another room, and a voice recorder. When the teeny boppers talk, record the mess and nod your head in synchronicity with their facial expressions. Then say " yo that surely sucks... lemme see if I can get ya in fricckin shape again." Then go to the next room, have intern listen to the tape and unleash treatment after yo hae deciphered teeny boppers ailment.
2007-03-25 05:39:18 · answer #1 · answered by Kaliyug Ka Plato 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can always try to rephrase the part of the explanation you did think you understood and start from there and do it in parts. Usually the patients are better in correcting you. Whenever you meet someone hard to understand -sometimes even an aphasic or dysarthric patient - you can use this method.
In your example it would be something like:" So, did I understand correctly: your jaw hurts ? can you show me where? how long has it hurt? tell me what happened? oh, you were hit? from what angle? how hard? could you open your mouth after that? right away? later? and so on to clarify the details.
You could also apply the Very good piece of advice our surgery attending gave us: Never think:what shall I do, always think: what is the problem? because, if you know what is the problem, you know what to do.
If you ask the patient to repeat the mumbling, terrible sentence, it will not get any more understandable -but the patient will be offended and angry because you are actually implying she can't communicate. If you"humble" yourself by trying to rephrase and start by giving the option you might not have understood correctly, you will get further. And you are not in an image contest, you don't have to prove to the patient you are right -and she is wrong- that is totally beside the point.
And then a comment:often young colleagues think they should have understood when the patient says a sentence like: I feel dizzy. When hearing that sentence it takes me at least 5 minutes, often much more , to find out what the patient actually means -and I ususally have to help him/her with suggestions like: do you mean you felt everything went spinning..and so on. So, if after hearing what the patient said, you feel you did not understand at all, you are probably right-even if you understood the words as such.Then just throw yourself in the situation and start asking clarifying questions -and listen -you will get there eventually-but it is a learning process for the doctor!
Be of good cheer -it is possibleto learn to understand even teenagers!
2007-03-25 15:55:35 · answer #2 · answered by marya 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not all teenagers talk like that. Don't say 'how do I better understand them' because that sounds like a foreign species of animal that talks in a weird dialect. Just listen very,very closely and try to figure out what she said. She said that 'How are you today? I'm okay, but my jaw hurts because my mom bust on me for no reason the other day and now I can't open my mouth, you know that's right!"
2007-03-25 12:28:14 · answer #3 · answered by Blackbird 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good afternoon, how are you? I'm feeling fine, apart from a pain in my jaw, caused by my mother who hit me for no reason. Consequently, I cannot open my mouth."
this what it means....i know it hard to understand it when the person mouth it close shut....i hope this helps you a whole lot...
2007-03-25 13:02:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like this teen must have back talked to her mother, and she must have lost her patience with the way her daughter was talking.
Probably busted her in the mouth and told her to grow up and talk like a proper young lady,,,, not some street crack whore.
2007-03-25 12:12:01 · answer #5 · answered by Tom M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means "Good afternoon, how are you? I'm feeling fine, apart from a pain in my jaw, caused by my mother who hit me for no reason. Consequently, I cannot open my mouth."
2007-03-25 12:20:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
LMAO!
Sho, hun, all them kids is like that!
But, don't you worry none!
Jus' whup their silly a$$e$ for them ifn they give yo lip, y'heer?
Ain't no call for a sistah to be givin' lip to to a laidy, nah!
Yo jus' tell her "Yo mama ain't not dun nuffin to whut I'se gonna do ifn yo give me mo lip; so, shut the f--k up, y'hear?"
An', jus' so's yo git the body language right, watch a few movies of Queen Latifah and the sistahs and yo home free!
Cheers!
ST
2007-03-25 12:11:01 · answer #7 · answered by In Memory of Simon Templar 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
WoW! Your memory is like an elephant. Who was the real patient here?
2007-03-25 11:53:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋