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jerryfriedman hat am 16.09.2024 um 16:35 geschrieben:
> [alt.language.latin deleted]
> 
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 6:19:10 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> ..
> 
>> IOne of the reasons I listen to MDR Sachsen’s
>> „Hausarztsprechstunde“
>> https://www.mdr.de/sachsenradio/programm/ratgeber/hausarztsprechstunde100.html
>>
>> is for the non-jargon vocabulary. (It’s a radio programme aimed at the
>> general
>> public.) Like, of course I know that a pneumothorax is a Pneumothorax,
>> but
>> what’s equivalent to “collapsed lung” when speaking to non-medical
>> patients?
> 
> Do you practice in a German-speaking country?  Or in an English-
> speaking country where you see so many German-speaking
> patients that you need to know such things?

I don't know what is Aidan's profession, but medical practitioners are
not the only people who may need to know the equivalent to a medical
expression in another language. There are also those strange beasts
called translators. I am one of them.