At the hospital I attend my consultant is Russian, she's very good, knows her stuff and her English is very good but sometimes she doesn't have the right word.
One thing that has been rammed home to me is that with my cancer, is if I feel any irritation in a key area such as under the arms, neck and groin I should tell her immediately. Well under my left arm I had some irritation so of course told her.
Immediately she got one of her junior doctors to pull the curtains around the bed and she checked the key spots.
Then she stood up and said in a loud voice, 'No no there is nothing to worry about, the only thing wrong with your armpit, is that its got nappy rash.'
Silence fell in the ward as everyone heard and one of the other patients muttered ' Thats pretty impressive, disgusting, but impressive'
Everyone fell about laughing, me, the other patients, the nurses and the junior doctors with her, poor woman didn't get it.
In case your wondering, it was a heat rash