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● Requesting descriptions
What………….like? ( the doctor ask the patient to describe the headaches)
What are the headaches like?

Dull pain (đau âm ỉ ) throbbing pain (đau từng cơn)
Sharp pain (đau nhói) stabbing pain (đau nhói, như bị dao đâm)
Colicky pain (đau quặn) constant pain (đau dai dẳng)
Knife-like pain(đau như bị dao đâm) tearing (splitting) pain (đau như xé)
Bursting pain (đau như xé) excruciating pain (đau dữ dội)

● Describe the taste
● Describe the stomach pain.
● Describe the appetite
● Describe the child’s breathing.
● Describe your first pregnancy ( use “was”)
● Describe your baby’s cough
● Describe the hand cut.
● Describe the pain in the chest.

● GIVING ADVICE
HAD BETTER
We’d better have a good look at you.
● It would be advisable for you to stay in bed
● It would be advisable for you to lose a little weight
● It would be advisable for him to take more exercise
● It would be advisable for her to discontinue taking those tablets
● It would be wise for you to stop smoking
● It would be wise for them to run the tests again
● It would be wise for you to stop drinking so much

● REQUESTING GENERAL INFORMATION

What about…………?
What about your job?
● Tell me about your drinking habits. (……………..alcohol?)
● Tell me about your smoking habits (……………….tobacco?)
● Tell me what your wife thinks about it(……..your wife’s feeling on the matter?)
● Did you or did you not follow my advice? (……that advice I gave you?)
● Described any changes you’ve noticed as a result of taking that medicine I prescribe
(………… those green and black capsules I gave you?)
● I want information about the patient’s glycosuria (………..his glycosuria?)

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