Healthcare > Miscellaneous Medical History
Understanding patients
(1/1)
Lutonman:
That is a general problem MartinR. When out company was formed out of Southern, South Eastern and Scottish Gas we were dealing with a lot of different dialects. Over time it got much better to understand the Guys from Scotland.
MartinR:
I've just read an amusing anecdote in the current issue of The Blackcountyman. Edith Cotterill was born in Tipton (incidentally, just down the hill from where I started school), during a Zeppelin raid in 1917. After qualifying as a nurse she was working in Margate Hospital when WWII broke out. At some point a minesweeper was attacked and the injured sailors taken to the hospital. Apparently no-one except for Edith could understand their dialect, they all hailed from the Black Country! Goodness knows how the locals would have managed with broad Geordies of Scots.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
Go to full version