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Foreign Student Hospitalized In China Gets Note From Nurse Who Doesn’t Speak English, And The Comments Crack Us Up
Language mix-ups and misunderstandings can make for hilarious travel anecdotes - but not when they happen at a hospital. An international student was hospitalized in China and fell under the care of a nurse that didn't speak English. Understanding the importance of getting the proper medical information across to her patient, she used some creativity to write him a detailed note that used some pretty frighting graphics.
Reddit user under the username of WaspDog, uploaded the note and internet users went wild. To her credit if you know the context her message is clear: the patient has surgery tomorrow and tonight they can't have food or water after 10 pm. But of course, that didn't stop people from coming up with their own hilarious interpretations. Scroll down below to see what people came up with and don't forget to upvote your favs!
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Julie Butterworth 6 years ago (edited)
Ah, they speak my language. Easy! RN Speak: NBM post 2200hrs for OT tomorrow @ 0800hrs. Translated: So basically, no eating or drinking from 10pm for operating theatres tomorrow morning.
John Kamau 6 years ago
Your slaughter will be at 8:00 a.m. You might wanna skip the 10 p.m. meal and drinks, altogether.
Paula Sue 6 years ago
Actually, considering that the nurse spoke no English, she writes it damned well! Even spelled "tomorrow" right! And her little graphics are perfectly drawn. I'd strongly consider urging her to move to the USA. Some of the nurses we have here could use some writing and art lessons so that patients could understand them!
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Leonard Guillory III 6 years ago
All I could discern from this note was that he was to get killed at 8 in the morning!
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Renee C Radclyffe 6 years ago
Replying to #4 comment. Pretty creative to come up with that!! Funny!!!
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Renee C Radclyffe 6 years ago
I see you all have a sick sense of humor!!!!
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Brenda Pereira 6 years ago
I think this entire thing is a hoax. If the nurse couldn't speak English, she sure wouldn't have been able to write and spell it correctly! That's a hoax.
Viorica Boldor 6 years ago
This is so funny!You made my day!I speek several languages and my favorite kind of joke is this kind of "translation"!
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Major Houlihan Bear 6 years ago
Fantastic! Ahaha. Surgery translates to "open knife/ knife open" in colloquial - just fyi :) the graphic translation occured because western medicine and cutting into living things is/was still a new form of treatment. Buddhism did not believe in cutting into living beings. It treated more through meditation massages and by application of medicine on the surface of the body -
Patrick McKemie 6 years ago
Meet me at 10 PM in New Orleans for Ice Cream and Bacon and we will do some Nitric Oxide and some plumbing so tomorrow at 8 AM we can become blood brothers! That was too easy. Next puzzle please!
Jackie Butts 6 years ago
Everyone is making fun of the note, but I think the nurse did a fantastic job of communicating with a patient who does not speak her language. I would hope I would get a nurse as capable if I am ever in a hospital overseas.
8 D 6 years ago
It happens. Not everyone speaks English and you can't count on some random hospital in some random community in a country where English isn't the first language to have someone who speaks English. But the bloody knife drawing is still funny. Poor nurse. Big props for the creativity.
Major Houlihan Bear 6 years ago
Fantastic! Ahaha. Surgery translates to "open knife/ knife open" in colloquial - just fyi :) the graphic translation occured because western medicine and cutting into living things is/was still a new form of treatment. Buddhism did not believe in cutting into living beings. It treated more through meditation massages and by application of medicine on the surface of the body -
Patrick McKemie 6 years ago
Meet me at 10 PM in New Orleans for Ice Cream and Bacon and we will do some Nitric Oxide and some plumbing so tomorrow at 8 AM we can become blood brothers! That was too easy. Next puzzle please!
Jackie Butts 6 years ago
Everyone is making fun of the note, but I think the nurse did a fantastic job of communicating with a patient who does not speak her language. I would hope I would get a nurse as capable if I am ever in a hospital overseas.
8 D 6 years ago
It happens. Not everyone speaks English and you can't count on some random hospital in some random community in a country where English isn't the first language to have someone who speaks English. But the bloody knife drawing is still funny. Poor nurse. Big props for the creativity.
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