Pratica di Shadowing: How to Present a Patient: Inpatient Bedside Teaching Rounds (Group 12) - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Jonathan, this is Dr. Jones and our internal medicine service team.
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Hi.
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Hi Jonathan.
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We're going to be, I'm going to be presenting your case to them.
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Is that alright if I do that in the presence of your girlfriend and co-worker here?
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Yes, this way.
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Thanks Jonathan.
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So this is the first UMC visit for Jonathan, who is a 24-year-old African-American
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with a history of sickle cell disease who presented to the emergency department with a two-day history of bilateral knee pain.
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He's ectomorphic and is in moderate distress.
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The pain began Tuesday at approximately 4 a.m while he was working a night shift at Walmart.
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He had difficulty sleeping because of the pain that night, that night and the pain gradually continued to increase due to a severity of 8 out of 10 today.
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The pain was exacerbated with walking and standing and was not significantly relieved with Percocet,
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which he received from another physician that we aren't sure who it was.
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Jonathan has never experienced knee pain to this extent before, but he did say that he's had a few episodes in the distant past of knee pain.
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He reports some chills and a mild shortness of breath, but he denied fever, nausea,
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vomiting, cough, chest pain, abdominal pain, or recent trauma to the knees.
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He has no other known medical illness and isn't on any chronic medication for sickle cell disease either.
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In the ED, he was given an IV bolus and received two doses of morphine at 6 mg and 8 mg doses.
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For past medical history, he was diagnosed with sickle cell disease at age six
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and has had six to eight previous hospitalizations for that.
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He has a history of lower extremity ulcers as well, but he has never had a pneumococcal vaccine which is interesting.
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His social history includes, he lives with his mother and four siblings.
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He works at Walmart as a stalker but denies any IV drug use or tobacco use.
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He does consume alcohol occasionally, and last time was this last weekend.
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He has two siblings that also have sickle cell disease.
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In the review of systems, it was negative except for lower extremity ulcers and intermittent left hand pain.
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In his vitals, he had a temperature of 36.3 degrees Celsius, heart rate of 96, a respiratory rate of 16,
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blood pressure of 108 over 70, and his O2 saturation was 89% on room air.
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For Hent, he's normocephalic, atraumatic, perle, and extraocular movements are intact.
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With lungs, they're clear to auscultation and percussion with no wheezes, rails, or bronchi.
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CV, his S1, S2 were normal.
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He is tachycardic with a soft flow murmur heard at the base.
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There was no S4, but he does have decreased pedal pulses.
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For abdominal exam, bowel sounds are normal the spleen tip was not palpable.
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GU, he didn't have any urethral discharge either.
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For skin, he had a silver scaly rash on the flexor surface of the right elbow,
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and there are non-healing bilateral ulcers of one centimeter diameter on both medial malleoli.
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For musculoskeletal, he has mild swelling of the right knee and small effusion.
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There's no erythema, and it's not tender to palpation, but there was pain on full extension his left knee didn't have any significant swelling or tenderness.
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He did have full range of motion bilaterally with his knees.
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Now in the lab work we have a CBC, BMP and liver function test pending.
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And so in conclusion or in summary, Jonathan, he's a 24-year-old African-American man with a history of sickle cell disease and hypoxia.
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He presented the emergency department with bilateral knee pain and minor right knee effusion.
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On the differential diagnosis, we have vaso-occlusive disease, periarticular infarct, septic arthritis, and gout.
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Vaso-occlusive disease is most likely due to the afebrile presentation of the patient.
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And the pending CBC results will likely rule out septic arthritis due to a gram-negative Neisseria, Staph, or Salmonella.
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Potential plans of treatment include knee pain.
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Well, for knee pain, we would consider NSAID treatment with morphine for breakthrough pain.
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For sickle cell disease, we should monitor closely for acute chest syndrome, splenic sequestration, and aplastic crisis,
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and consult a hemonch for a sickle cell referral after he is released from the hospital.
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And then we should also obtain a chest X-ray to rule out new infiltrates and consider oxygen therapy
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if he becomes symptomatic in his lungs again.
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All right, any questions?
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Would I also recommend adding two liters of oxygen via nasal cannula?
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I think that'd be a great idea.
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And great job, Bryce, you really were very thorough.
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Thank you for letting us present in front of you.
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That was really great.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Per chi è questo video?

Questo video è perfetto per gli studenti di inglese a livello intermedio o avanzato che vogliono migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la capacità di parlare in contesti professionali, come la medicina. Ideale per chi cerca di imparare l'inglese con i video, poiché combina vocaboli specifici con una struttura verbale chiara e pratica. È anche ottimo per chi usa la tecnica del "shadow speech" (ripetizione immediata), grazie alla lingua parlata naturale e al flusso logico della presentazione.

Parole e espressioni da rubare

  • Vaso-occlusive disease: Malattia vaso-occlusiva, termine specifico per la falciforme.
  • Breakthrough pain: Dolore che supera il trattamento di base, utile in contesti medici.
  • Afebrile presentation: Presentazione senza febbre, espressione chiave per descrivere sintomi.
  • Full range of motion: Ampiezza di movimento completa, usata nella valutazione muscolare.

Queste espressioni non solo arricchiscono il vocabolario, ma mostrano come strutturare una descrizione clinica in inglese con precisione.

Come migliorare la pronuncia: consigli pratici

Per imitare la pronuncia del speaker, concentra ti sul ritmo e sulla sillabazione delle parole lunghe, come "osteomyelitis" o "sequestration". Usa la tecnica del "shadowing": ascolta una frase, pausa e ripetila immediatamente, cercando di corrispondere al tono e alla velocità. Un shadowing site può aiutarti a esercitarti in modo strutturato. Presta attenzione alle consonanti finali, come in "pain" o "test", spesso soft in inglese ma importanti per la chiarezza. Inoltre, la pronuncia di "sickle cell disease" richiede una "s" sibilante e una "c" dolce: ripetila finché non suona naturale. Con questi esercizi, migliorerai non solo la pronuncia ma anche la fluidità nel parlare.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.