Day 122: Priced per Patient
At a family doctor's practice in Pu艂tusk, Kalina (A), an analyst at a Warsaw private equity fund who is still registered with the doctor she has seen since childhood, comes to him (B) about her blood pressure.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Polish word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Polish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
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A
Panie doktorze, trzeci pomiar w tym tygodniu i znowu sto czterdzie艣ci na dziewi臋膰dziesi膮t. Odk膮d domykamy transakcj臋, 艣pi臋 po cztery godziny.
Doctor, that's the third reading this week, and it's a hundred and forty over ninety again. Ever since we started closing this deal, I've been getting four hours' sleep a night.
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B
Rozumiem pani膮 lepiej, ni偶 pani my艣li. Sprzedaj臋 swoj膮 przychodni臋 du偶ej sieci i po podpisaniu listu intencyjnego sam mierz臋 sobie ci艣nienie.
I understand you better than you think. I'm selling my practice to a big chain, and since signing the letter of intent I've been taking my own blood pressure.
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A
Pan sprzedaje przychodni臋? Kt贸rej sieci, je艣li wolno spyta膰? M贸j fundusz od roku skupuje przychodnie na Mazowszu.
You're selling the practice? To which chain, if I may ask? My fund has been buying up practices across Mazovia for a year now.
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B
Nazwy nie zdradz臋. Powiem tylko, 偶e w ramach due diligence policzyli moje dwa tysi膮ce czterysta deklaracji, z pani w艂膮cznie.
I won't give away the name. I'll just say that as part of the due diligence they counted my two thousand four hundred patient registrations, yours included.
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A
Dwa tysi膮ce czterysta? Panie doktorze, chyba siedzimy po dw贸ch stronach tej samej transakcji: w moim arkuszu jest pan pozycj膮 czternast膮.
Two thousand four hundred? Doctor, I think we're on opposite sides of the same deal: in my spreadsheet you're line fourteen.
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B
No prosz臋, a ja pani wypisuj臋 skierowania od podstaw贸wki. By艂bym pani膮 wcze艣niej zapyta艂, gdybym wiedzia艂. To jak, dobre mam warunki?
Well, well, and I've been writing you referrals since primary school. I'd have asked you sooner if I'd known. So, are my terms any good?
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A
Nie mog臋 panu doradza膰, to podr臋cznikowy konflikt interes贸w. Ale jako pacjentka mog臋 co艣 powiedzie膰, je艣li zapyta pan pacjentk臋.
I can't advise you, it's a textbook conflict of interest. But as a patient I can say something, if you ask the patient.
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B
Wobec tego pytam pacjentk臋: co pani zrobi, je艣li po sprzeda偶y b臋dzie tu przyjmowa艂 co tydzie艅 kto艣 inny?
In that case, I'm asking the patient: what will you do if, after the sale, somebody different is seeing patients here every week?
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A
Przenios臋 deklaracj臋 tam, gdzie pan b臋dzie przyjmowa艂, i po艂owa poczekalni te偶. A od tego, ilu nas zostanie, zale偶y druga transza ceny.
I'll move my registration to wherever you're seeing patients, and so will half the waiting room. And the second tranche of the price depends on how many of us stay.
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B
Czyli beze mnie te deklaracje to makulatura. Jutro dzwoni臋 do sieci: ca艂a cena przy podpisaniu umowy albo zostaj臋 na swoim.
So without me, those registrations are waste paper. I'm ringing the chain tomorrow: the whole price on signing, or I stay on my own.
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A
Tylko prosz臋 nie m贸wi膰, sk膮d pan to wie. I niech mi pan jeszcze raz zmierzy ci艣nienie, bo w艂a艣nie podbi艂am cen臋 pozycji czternastej.
Just please don't tell them how you know. And take my blood pressure again, because I've just pushed up the price of line fourteen.
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