Good Health in English

Every single word is translated into English

Have you ever come back from the doctors or hospital with absolutely no idea what was the matter with you? A combination of medical jargon and somebody speaking in a strong foreign accent leaving you completely clueless as to the state of your health. And that’s just the British National Health Service!

Well, worry ye not should you fall ill in Finestrat, just round the corner from Benidorm’s Poniente beach. The health authorities there believe that language shouldn’t be an obstacle to good communications between doctor and patient and so have introduced a translation scheme to help non-Spanish patients.

Every single word is translated into English, the language nearly everyone understands here, so that patients know exactly what is going on from a bout of male pattern baldness to a bit of a chesty cough!

You never know, this brilliant idea might just catch on in Britain one day????

13 February 2006 Stephen White.