If we could have easily used the Internet and English communication in 1980's, The HIV disaster would have been avoidable in Japan as not a few medical people read CNN now.
>>116 No I don't think so. That occurred because of the MHLW's misleading. Before the initial mtg., the MHLW's policy was supposed to ban the use of non-heated blood products, and for this purpose, several authorities were gathered. However, at the second mtg. one week after, the policy had completely changed and the expectable miserable result occurred.
The officers in charge, Matsumura and Gunji, failed to choose the members of mtg, especially the personality of Gunji is not suitable to tough negotiation. The fault should be attributed to the tactical failure of the MHLW, I guess.
Some sensible pediatricians never gave their patients non-heated blood products, their patients, not to mention the result, were not infected with the HIV virus.
>>116 If Japanese pediatricians usually had seen CNN with Internet, they would not have given their patients non-heated blood products. The nations where the victims of HIV are numerous are Japan and France among the advanced countries. That could be because they are out of the area speaking English.
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Japanese medical students can learn medical technology in their own language in their medical school though Philipino students can't do it. However, Once they begin to work internationally, Philipino doctors take advantage in this area. Japanese medical doctors gets their positions to transrate English medical journals.
Well, if you're a medical student, you should buy medical books in English. It will help you to read medical journals in future.
What matters is that many Japanese doctors can read books in English, but cannot speakvery well. If you go abroad for some kind of conference, you will find many Japanese doctors having trouble with answering questions. Doctors in other asian countries have very strong accent in English, but they speak their opinions fluently.
Japanese doctors are hard-workers and they are very good researchers. But they have disadvantages in their English so I think they are not deserving what they should deserve.
Many of you have learned medical English, I guess. I wish there were medical English converstation program.
I love making silly remarks, but I have to be serious sometimes.
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Anyway, when I went to the international congress and spoke my research, I felt many speakers from other countries could not speak Enlgish. However, The difference is that they do not worry for mistaking their English. I think the people in Japan feel to speak perfect English. But this is not so important. The point is that you have and speak your opinion to oher person.
>>142 > There are some threads on the English board in which some volunteers > answer the questions that are posted by the other about translation from > Japanese to English or from English to Japanese, the usage of words and > phrases. However, the problems of medical English are hard to solve in > the threads because of its specificity. So, it would be useful that we permit > such Q&A, I guess. There are many doctors who are good at that in this > thread.
>>143 Does the above make sense? Okay, you mean that English is only a tool of internatinal communication? I agree to the opinion, but there are many expression which might cause misunderstanding between speakers and listeners. If doctors in such kinds of trouble can get some advice, it will be useful, won't it? Do you think so?
The board about hospitals and MD's is very boring now. There are no interensting topics. It's more interesting to participate the English board and to translate sentences.