Day 43: The King of the Mushroom Pickers
On the Monday morning ward round in the internal medicine department of the hospital in Chojnice, Hubert (A), a first-year resident, briefs his head of department, Dr Jerzy Lis (B), on a patient he admitted over the weekend.
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- 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 ordynatorze, w czw贸rce le偶y nasz grzybiarz, przyj臋ty w sobot臋 w nocy po spo偶yciu sosu grzybowego.
Dr Lis, in room four we've got our mushroom picker, admitted on Saturday night after consuming a mushroom sauce.
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B
Niech zgadn臋: p贸艂 wieku w lesie, muchomora od kani odr贸偶ni po ciemku. Po ilu godzinach objawy?
Let me guess: half a century in the woods, and he can tell a death cap from a parasol mushroom in the dark. How many hours before the symptoms?
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A
Po dziesi臋ciu, wi臋c w臋giel, p艂yny i sylibinina, a w zwi膮zku z podejrzeniem zatrucia muchomorem sromotnikowym telefon do toksykolog贸w w Gda艅sku.
Ten, so charcoal, fluids and silibinin, and, given the suspected death cap poisoning, a call to the toxicologists in Gda艅sk.
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B
Ksi膮偶kowo. Wypada艂oby panu pogratulowa膰. A jak si臋 dzi艣 czuje nasz znawca?
By the book. I really ought to congratulate you. And how's our expert feeling today?
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A
Rewelacyjnie, i w艂a艣nie to mnie niepokoi. Chce si臋 wypisa膰 na 偶膮danie, bo kanie same si臋 nie zbior膮.
Brilliant, and that's exactly what worries me. He wants to discharge himself against advice, because the parasols won't pick themselves.
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B
Klasyczna faza pozornej poprawy: jelita si臋 uspokoi艂y, a w膮troba dopiero zaczyna si臋 odzywa膰. ALT?
The classic phase of apparent recovery: his gut has settled down, and his liver is only just starting to make itself heard. ALT?
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A
Przy przyj臋ciu w normie, dzi艣 czterysta dwadzie艣cia. Nale偶a艂oby go obserwowa膰 przynajmniej do czwartku.
Normal on admission, four hundred and twenty today. We ought to keep him under observation until Thursday at least.
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B
Zatrzymujemy go, cho膰by mia艂 pan usi膮艣膰 mu na walizce. A widzia艂 kto艣 te grzyby?
We're keeping him, even if you have to sit on his suitcase. And has anyone actually seen these mushrooms?
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A
呕ona, i tu robi si臋 ciekawie: wyda艂o si臋, 偶e kanie nie by艂y z lasu, tylko z koszyka na poboczu pod Brusami. Sanepid ju偶 szuka sprzedawcy.
His wife has, and this is where it gets interesting: it's come out that the parasols weren't from the woods but from a basket by the roadside outside Brusy. The health inspectors are already looking for the seller.
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B
Czyli kr贸l grzybiarzy zbiera kanie na poboczu, za got贸wk臋. Nie wypada mu tego wypomina膰: o w膮trobie prosz臋 m贸wi膰 otwarcie, o koszyku ani s艂owa.
So the king of the mushroom pickers picks his parasols by the roadside, for cash. It wouldn't be right to rub it in: be frank with him about his liver, and not a word about the basket.
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