So I'm meeting my new psychiatrist in just over an hour, and his Swedish isn't very good, I know from having heard his voice on the phone. I know that doesn't mean he won't understand ME, but I have to understand him as well My psychologist will be there as well fortunately, and she's told me to ask him to speak slower and articulate more if I don't understand him but that just seems... I dunno, rude I suppose.
Have any of you met someone in an official environment that doesn't speak your language very well? I'm really not looking forward to spilling my guts to a person when I might not understand the questions he asks me

And in case somebody does ask, a psychiatrist is a m.d. and a psychologist is a therapist.

Just be sure the pharmacy can read his handwriting!

2the9s said:

I know, my last shrink had the worst handwriting EVER, the pharmacy people had to ask me what it said. I should have come up with something lucrative when sold


He was ok though, he must've taken a Swedish course this summer

Hebrew is not my first language so if i'm hiring a lawyer who doesn't speak clearly, I warn them about it and then on the next infraction I fire them on the spot.

I've skillfully avoided learning any language properly.

You are lucky your doc talks to you .. mine doesnt.

hello..

bye bye

thats as much I get

irresistibleb1tch said:

Here we always have free interpreters for any patient who doesn't speak Swedish.

doctormcmeekle said:

Not to mention get a degree

REDFEATHERS said:

I know honey Next summer when I come to visit we can follow her home after work and put firecrackers in her letterbox

Teacher said:

hell yes. She is such a snotty bitch, I really wanna bitch slap her..

REDFEATHERS said:

I'll hold her and you slap... with nylon stockings over our heads

This pisses me off. I've been for two psychiatric evaluations in my life, and both times the psychiatrist was an Asian man who could hardly speak any English. And the second time the man who asks health questions and takes blood pressure and whatever was from Africa. I couldn't understand anything he asked.

This used to frustrate me a lot. Now that I've been working "in the field" for a few years, though, and have been exposed more consistently to people who speak my language as a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc language, I've grown a lot more tolerant.

It would be uniquely hard, though, to have that language barrier with a mental health provider. I would just be worried that the doc was misunderstanding me because of my use of slang, etc. Then again my use of slang confuses MOST people so this situation wouldn't be THAT different

Health Care systems never cease to amaze me....

It is important that he actually does understand the context of what you say, apart from the

words. ....

If you aren't happy with him ask for someone else...You have rights.....

Though I'm sure I don,t need to mention all this...so I'll shut up

Teacher said:

This...I gotta see...

endorphin74 said:

It was like when I had come home from hospital with my ruptured spleen, and I got fluid in my lung... went to the local healthcare and a southamerican male doctor proceeded to ask me questions. I told him my spleen had been ruptured 2 weeks ago, and that it was still inside in a bag to heal it. Then he concentrated on asking me 10 questions about my period They drained 2½ pints out of my left lung in the ER later

TheMadMonkey said:

Wanna help? You have to bring your own stocking though

Teacher said:

I'm puzzled here. What does your period have to do with your ruptured spleen? I don't get the connection at all.

Good luck to you, I hope everything works out with the doctor.

psychodelicide said:

THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID! I told him about how many whatever I used up yesterday, I can't breathe!!!

Teacher said:

I like to think of myself as a Doctor of Life

doctormcmeekle said:

You mean in TAKING life?

Teacher said:

Teacher said:

They say `A great doctor learns from his mistakes.`

(When I say `they` I mean `me` in front of the Medical Board.)

doctormcmeekle said:

Next time I wanna accidentally die I'll call ya