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I take care of a large contingent of refugees that grows day by day in whatever spare time I have in a refugee clinic. I think that conversing in Pashto on a general level still comes very easy to me... but as I was discussing with a farsi speaking Iranian colleague of mine, the language of science causes us to automatically convert into English reflexively. This is primarily because there are words that are well defined, like circumflex coronary artery or septum, in English, that do take a few extra seconds of thinking to translate fully into Pashto if you speak English on the job 24/7.
I am sure this has been done here before, but I think it would be helpful to work with you guys to collect the various anatomical references/review refined health questions/and translate the review of systems into a thread, bit by bit, week by week in a logical way.
Due to the rampant illiteracy, Pashto varies from village to village. For example one elderly man from Behsud told me that his "Doodaay" hurt. I was fortunate to have met an individual a few years earlier with the same complaint and learnt that word then... otherwise it would not have been in my vocabulary
I prefer to keep infiltrator words, like pay-pray (urdo for lungs) out of this, because the refugees either incorporate Dari, or rely on classical, on the ground, Pashto (for example She She for lungs, which is what I have always known it as).
So, let me start simply, we physicians ask a litany of questions called the review of systems. Please expand, alter, modify as you see fit.
"usual state of health": noor kalaa rogh-jaur yey?
"fever": thabba khau darbanday ramathaa neshwaa?
"chills:" ? (how would I say this without simply asking the equivalent of "do you feel cold"?)
"weaknesss": kamzaurthyaa
"sweats": khwaalaah
"heat or cold intolerance":
"exposure to radiation/chemicals:"
"Bleeding tendency": weena darna pa asanaa
Anatomical:
The organs/sites of the the head of fairly easy, except:
temple/pleural:
nostril/pleural:
jaw:
the crown of the head:
the occiput (back):
I am sure this has been done here before, but I think it would be helpful to work with you guys to collect the various anatomical references/review refined health questions/and translate the review of systems into a thread, bit by bit, week by week in a logical way.
Due to the rampant illiteracy, Pashto varies from village to village. For example one elderly man from Behsud told me that his "Doodaay" hurt. I was fortunate to have met an individual a few years earlier with the same complaint and learnt that word then... otherwise it would not have been in my vocabulary
I prefer to keep infiltrator words, like pay-pray (urdo for lungs) out of this, because the refugees either incorporate Dari, or rely on classical, on the ground, Pashto (for example She She for lungs, which is what I have always known it as).
So, let me start simply, we physicians ask a litany of questions called the review of systems. Please expand, alter, modify as you see fit.
"usual state of health": noor kalaa rogh-jaur yey?
"fever": thabba khau darbanday ramathaa neshwaa?
"chills:" ? (how would I say this without simply asking the equivalent of "do you feel cold"?)
"weaknesss": kamzaurthyaa
"sweats": khwaalaah
"heat or cold intolerance":
"exposure to radiation/chemicals:"
"Bleeding tendency": weena darna pa asanaa
Anatomical:
The organs/sites of the the head of fairly easy, except:
temple/pleural:
nostril/pleural:
jaw:
the crown of the head:
the occiput (back):
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