Drove my paternal granma to General Hospital of BP for her regular 3-monthly check-up on her hypertension... An old lady sat beside us at the waiting room and started to boast to us on her wealth and health consciousness! As she's from Ipoh (staying in BP now as her daughter lives here), she couldn't understand or speak in Hokkien... But my granma could only understand and speak Hokkien, and understand some Mandarin... That lady spoke in Mandarin to us... Eventually, Granma got bored and chose to watch TV! So i ended up talking to the lady! :-/ I was so unwilling to talk to her, thanks to her attitude! I wished i were deaf for that moment... Hope we won't see her again in future :P
heard the GP explaining to a Malay patient with numb fingers about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome... that patient was an old lady... i bet she couldn't understand everything :P hmm... i've to master the correct way of explaining medical stuffs to my patients in layman's terms... don't want to end up like this GP :P
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