VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

Bring something from work / find a picture that we can use to discuss medicine

Vocabulary

diplomat – sb who deals with government communication / relationships

he videos his father every day – makes a video

he always shows me the videos

vlog – video diary
eg. he’s making a vlog about his father’s life

comes to find me every day

“the customer is always right”

housemate / roommate / flatmate

so annoying / ridiculous – fei chang fan

male patient < > female patient
eg. i have both male and female patients

get training – pei xun
eg. what do they train you in?

prognosis – the expected outcome for a patient
eg. what’s the prognosis?

medicine – drugs
eg. she needs to take medicine

indefinitely
eg. she will need to take this medicine indefinitely.
we can only give them an indefinite time
we can’t give them a definite time

at set times / at particular times / based on a schedule 

specific – te ding – “speh si fick”
eg. she needs to take it at a specific time

Grammar

she will told me – she will tell me

Pronunciation

daughter – “dor ter”

edema – “ah dee ma”