Day 17: Pain in the Region of Hań
In the doctors' room of the orthopaedic ward at the hospital in Zakopane, Filip (A), a first-year medical student from Warsaw on his summer placement, asks Wojtek (B), a sixth-year student from Nowy Targ, to look at the notes he has just taken from an elderly highland shepherd.
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
Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.
Keys: E hide English · ← → previous / next day · point at a word to see its meaning
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A
Wojtek, ratuj. Zbierałem wywiad od bacy spod okna i zrozumiałem tylko „hej” i „owce”.
Wojtek, help. I've been taking a history from the old shepherd by the window, and all I understood was 'hey' and 'sheep'.
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B
Pokaż: „ból w okolicy hań”? Stary, hań to nie okolica anatomiczna, tylko „tam, daleko”.
Show me: 'pain in the region of hań'? Mate, hań isn't an anatomical region, it means 'over there, far away'.
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A
Ale pokazywał na kolano! A potem w kółko pytał: „Kany mój juhas?”, więc wpisałem splątanie.
But he was pointing at his knee! And then he kept asking 'Kany mój juhas?', so I put down confusion.
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B
„Kany” to „gdzie”, a juhas pomaga bacy. Pacjent jest zorientowany auto- i allopsychicznie, ino martwi się o owce.
'Kany' means 'where', and a juhas is the head shepherd's helper. The patient is fully oriented to person, place and time; he's just worried about his sheep.
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A
Pięknie. Ordynator czyta historie choroby jak kryminały, a ja mu napisałem komedię góralską.
Great. The head of the ward reads case notes like crime novels, and I've written him a highland comedy.
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B
Spokojnie, dyktuję po lekarsku: „Pacjent lat siedemdziesiąt osiem, przyjęty w związku z urazem kolana doznanym w trakcie pościgu za zbiegłą owcą”.
Relax, I'll dictate it in doctor-speak: 'Patient aged seventy-eight, admitted in connection with a knee injury sustained in the course of pursuing an escaped sheep.'
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A
Brzmi jak policyjny protokół, ale lepsze to niż moje splątanie. A co z okolicą hań?
It sounds like a police report, but it beats my 'confusion'. And what about the region of hań?
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B
Zostaw, to cheba najtrafniejsza diagnoza na oddziale: bacę bardziej niż kolano boli to, co zostawił hań, na holi.
Leave it, it's probably the most accurate diagnosis on the ward: what hurts the old shepherd more than his knee is what he left over there, up on the mountain pasture.
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A
I co, mam mu przepisać owce trzy razy dziennie po posiłku?
So what, am I supposed to prescribe him sheep three times a day after meals?
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B
Owiec nie, ale po obchodzie zadzwonimy do juhasa. Jak baca usłyszy, że owce całe, kolano też szybciej się wygoi.
Not sheep, but after the ward round we'll ring the juhas. Once the old man hears his sheep are safe, his knee will heal faster too.
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