Thanks to someone (Miss Senior), I am able to optimise my surgical skills on this difficult case of ingrown toenail.
Miss Senior described on this fella's toe as 'fairly chronic' .........Which brought to my attention that isn't chronic means chronic? If you want to describe the toe as less chronic , she can use the word 'mild' instead.
Sad thing is that Ms Senior continued her conservative regime for the last 6 months till the patient got totally disheartened with the treatment.
In addition, patient's pain suffering could have been shortened if Miss Senior offered the surgical option.
Wait, she did offer the option but never bother to describe the way on how is it done.
It only took me 40mins to complete the minor surgery. Patient came in 3 days later for a re-dress on his post operative site and never felt soo much better.
Patient announced that" at last, i'm pain free....... but not for the last 6 months." Note that after surgery, the pain was so minimal for him that he hasn't taken any panadols at all.
my friend got the 'nail' preserved for showcase
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Well actually the pathological definition of chronic is a condition that has lasted 6 weeks or longer. In itself, the word is already an adjective as you have noted. It should be used in the case of "a chronic disease" or " a chronic swelling" most Australians tend to use the word "chronic" when they mean "severe". Just like they use "hypo" to describe someone who is overly active, when in fact it should be "hyper" ! Hypo is actually the opposite of hyper and means low energy. I think this country is in for a bad future if they don't change their attitude towards learning English. It seems they think since everything is taught in English, they don'tneed to teach the correct grammar and spelling. When in fact only a few kids read nowadays so they reach teenhood without knowing grammar, punctuation and even comprehension.
rachel:
I totally agree with you. Ppl here can't speak/write proper English, many of them can't even spell or use the correct words. Reminds of of the sharp vs rough incident. Feel like strangling the stupid patient. Hmph. The sad thing is it's not just the language that's going downhill. If you look at the maths & science they teach in school it's getting from bad to worse too. That's why migrant kids aways top the class. ;p
Know what girls, the locals are good in their talking only. There's a fellow colleague of mine who always criticised on my 'accent'. When it comes to writing\spelling, he always 'beg' me for help. Hmph.
Can't spell 'accomodative'-shame on him!
Another note is i hate the students who write short forms on the clinical notes. If it's a approved or universal short forms, that's fine by me. I was getting so annoyed that I told off a student that 'better write something I can read or else I am not gonna sign it."
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