Crammer's Corner

摘要

One of the challenges for doctors coming in to general practice is that they find that patients do not always mean what the doctor thinks they have said. As a bit of light-hearted, end-of-year relief, I will try to provide some help for the bewildered by giving some examples of commonly used phrases with two alternative, apparently contradictory, translations for each phrase. I will go on to give some advice about how you might judge which of the two translations applies to your patient.