hello Michelle how's everything today everything is okay Lindsay all right all right everything's
okay good to hear good to hear what are we getting into on all her's English today well today we're
going to talk about uh the doctor actually um have you been to any doctors recently yes
for sure I was at the uh dermatologist recently and different doctors I I was supposed to have
a dentist appointment the other day but I missed it so that's not good yeah what about you are you
do you go to the doctors a lot yes I do I do go to the doctors a lot um but yeah recently I had
a physical that's always important to do get make sure everything is in check um but yeah guys today
we are going to be talking about doctors and names for doctors gosh this episode could be really
really long but I chose a few yeah I mean there are so many special Specialties specializations
right um I personally love the show the good doctor after I like to watch that it's really
it's really a cool show about a a doctor who has autism and he but he's a surgeon he's an amazingly
talented surgeon and he practices in Silicon Valley area you should check it out Michelle
if you haven't seen the show yeah I haven't ever seen it but I have heard good things so yeah okay
good to know um so Lindsay what is another episode we've done about the doctors okay episode 1795 is
called an apple a day English idioms using doctor we do insert the term doctor or the medicine
medical world into our language a lot to connect Michelle don't we yes and it's important to know
the words for specific kinds of doctors right because you never know right we wish everybody
good health but you got to check in right so today we are going to focus on the specific uh suffix
um used frequently with doctors so you can get used to pronunciation and use um do you ever not
know what a specific doctor is like if somebody throws out a different word for a doctor sorry
um do you ever you're like what kind of doctor is that I feel like some of them I don't know yeah I
mean it can be really interesting to learn them and you feel really smart when you know them yes
it's true that's true it's true like even within dental work because I was having this conversation
with my dad there's the dentist and then there's also the periodontist who works on your gums
and then there's also like if you're getting crowns or fake teeth there's a prosthetist I
think or something like that prosthodontist right orthodontist if you're a kid and you're getting
braces like all these things it's crazy Michelle it's crazy yeah yeah yeah so um definitely and
Lindsay do we want to remind our listeners of anything I think we do especially the fact
that guys this show is on YouTube we have a whole Channel called all ears English and this episode
will be on there so if you prefer to consume this podcast on YouTube seeing our faces seeing our
Expressions we both have very expressive faces so you can check out our Channel yeah yes please do
um so let's get into it I mean Lindsay do you have a favorite doctor like is there a doctor
that you really connect with I'm just thinking about what kind of doctor is it most because most
of the time like when you're going to a doctor it's kind of annoying or something that you don't
maybe and maybe someone more along the lines of an optometrist or an ophthalmologist because you know
like there's not a whole thing where they have to take your blood pressure and your weight and all
those things are just annoying you know yeah I have a favorite doctor well I loved my OBS which
is um the ones that deal with your pregnancy um that deliver your baby like I love them they were
so great but my favorite favorite doctor of all time is my cardiologist I have just like a very
minor heart condition that I got checked out I mean knock on wood Miner but like it's just
um like I go once a year usually and this doctor I found him in the city and he has the best man
bedside manner of any doctor I've ever met in my entire life and I have had some doctors who
are the exact opposite I have one right now who I am not so pleased with anyway um so but this
one he's just amazing this bedside manner is so important I mean what do you think makes a
good doctor Lindsay well yeah I think these days doctors oh it's a hard conversation right doctors
um they do need the soft skills right to talk I mean I was just having a lot of conversations on
the phone with my aunt's doctor um and I liked her a lot like I liked that she told me when
she was gonna call again you know I'm gonna call you tomorrow call you tomorrow with an update um
that's important you know those skills matter so soft skills and hard skills what was your question
again what do you think makes a good doctor oh soft skills and hard skills but it's a lot to ask
right because you know if you think about it there are other professions where that don't deal with
people as much like if you're an advanced coder software engineer you don't necessarily have to
have those soft skills although you usually should but the thing with doctors is that it's human
facing all the time so must be hard don't you think yeah yeah it's probably pretty exhausting
and also the Health Care System you know they sometimes have to go too quickly through patients
so sometimes maybe they want to you know have a better bedside manner or have more relationships
with their patients but it just the the system doesn't really allow for it so it's tough you
know we have to understand both perspectives but um I do love my cardiologist so anyway
um so let's go through some vocabulary so this suffix I mean we've we were talking a little bit
about dentist optometrists and things like that but today we're going to focus on ones with that
ogist okay so and this is the key piece today for the episode guys this is what you're going to come
away with is understanding in English when we're talking about any kind of specialist it's always
going to be b o g or g i s t right Michelle most of the time most of the time no no time but a lot
this is a very common one like you know like um yeah like orthodontist you know that's t-i-s-t so
um you know there are there are certain Specialties that don't follow this
um but we're just gonna focus on the ones that do today okay um so I thought that could be a
common theme so the first one is cardiologists hey my cardiologist love you um so that is the
heart doctor right cardio right think of cardio uh exercise and then you can remember that that's
a cardiologist a dark doctor of the heart yeah so important to keep ourselves moving keep our
cardio in shape that's it's always interesting to see where what other words guys can we expand
out to and by the way I'm sure that that we have listeners who are these exact Professionals in all
of these disciplines I know we have a cardiologist more than one many cardiologists in our listener
base dermatologist urologist gyneco we have them we have them all and so we're talking to you guys
and for our listeners who may have just moved to the states or or the UK and you need to book these
doctor appointments right yes this is important so you said it uh you mentioned that you recently
went to this doctor what is it dermatologist and the reason I went is that in Colorado the skin
cancer rates are very high because the sun is so strong and we're so close to the Sun here we're
at 5 000 feet right we're a mile high so um now that I'm getting a little older I have to go get a
skin check every year so exciting Michelle these good fun things we get to do when we get older
I've been meaning to go to the dermatologist for a very long time yeah but yeah I need to get one
of those checks too but yeah dermatologist guys because Derma is like skin right so it's like a
doctor of the skin exactly and then the next one is urologist right this doctor deals with
the bladder issues urinary issues other things neurologists yeah um and then gynecologist yeah
uh with the reproductive organs uh female female reproductive organs
um so this uh this one is like sometimes people call them like the gyno right they'll abbreviate
it yeah it's kind of funny if you think about why do native speakers only abbreviate that one
why don't we like abbreviate the Derma did you go to the Derma or the right right you need to go to
the cardiologist I mean you don't say this cardio yeah you don't like I'm trying to think if there's
another one where you do that but yeah that's what the guy I know right do you ever say that
yeah sure of course yeah but I never abbreviate any others maybe it's because people feel awkward
talking about that topic I bet that's why yeah yeah probably that's probably true so and another
one with that same suffix and here we go another one is ophthalmologist so what is this Lindsay
so this is a doctor of the eyes but there are two kinds of doctors of the eyes so there's an
ophthalmologist and I think an ophthalmologist usually does more heavy surgeries and that kind
of thing there's also an optometrist as my dad was actually an optometrist where he kind of did the
initial screenings the Family Medicine the yearly checkups and then most surgeries he would refer
someone to an ophthalmologist in the hospital if he had to operate yeah yeah okay yeah and then
um then there's the last one we'll do is neurologist so this is of the nervous system
right yes also you know nowadays we're coming into a whole generation that's having you know
dementia issues so that is who a person would go to to be screened for dementia would be a
neurologist okay so those guys and girls are going to be very busy in the next 10 or 15 years sadly
in the states in the world honestly Michelle I think we're about to come into a huge epidemic
of dementia yeah it's happening good times good times that's the good news today yeah now that
everyone's depressed um right right so so guys let's talk about I mean there are so many more we
couldn't do all of them today but I guess to focus on that pronunciation it's the ah that gets the
stress right cardiologists dermatologist urologist gynecologist ophthalmologist neurologist so I love
it so useful that you point that out Michelle because I think for our listeners guys it's also
listening right it's listening it's hearing that word when your general practitioner is telling
you you need to see this kind of doctor you want to make sure you understand what they're saying
right so yeah right that's right you want to know and so just knowing that word stress that'll help
you that pattern ah oh I love it that's so useful okay very cool okay Michelle yeah so
let's go ahead and do some practice shall we all right yes all right let's do a role play
all right I think I need new glasses I'm gonna make an appointment with my ophthalmologist okay
uh you know what this is not a role play this is just some examples I just realized okay then the
role play comes later all right all right the next the next one is my friend has a rash on her hand
so I'm going to drive her to the dermatologist that would be a strange conversation yes exactly
we're just saying our issues at each other we're kind of speaking at each other rather than to
each other oh my gosh um and the next one she went to the neurologist and everything was fine
all right it takes months to get an appointment with that guy in a colleges so call Early uh-huh
or she went to a urologist again ologist and he gave her some meds she feels better now
uh cardiologist came to give a lecture on heart health nice yeah okay any tips to
remember each one Michelle I mean it comes back to the body right thinking about core
roots of the words yes yes yes exactly Derma skin uh neuro like nervous system
um urologist urinary cardio cardio right Cardiology cardio yeah exactly I mean you
really can't just put it together now that you guys know the ologist or August or just um you'll
get it you got it so good what's next Michelle role play all right let's do it now comes the
role play here we are friends and we're talking about our doctors all right can you make it at 11
no sorry I have a gynecologist appointment what about one oh no I have a neurologist appointment
so many doctors that's okay we will do another day just not Thursday because my husband has a
urologist appointment that I had to drive him to do you ever find a new ophthalmologist nah
but I'm gonna ask around my my cardiologist always has good recommendations that's good
okay gotta head to the dermatologist see you later oh gosh Michelle is this what things
are going to look like in 20 years we'll have conversations like these probably that's what
happens right so oh man I love it so we'll just we'll go through these real quick right so you
said no sorry I have a gynecologist appointment right so reproductive issues only women go to the
gynecologist right it's there's no yeah it's just mostly for women yes yeah but the yeah and then I
have a neurologist appointment and then I said you said it's just not Thursday because my husband has
a urologist appointment right yes okay and then I said did you ever find a new ophthalmologist
and then I said nah I'm gonna ask around my cardiologist always has good recommendations
and then I thought that's good gotta head to the dermatologist see you later you know I think we've
done some episodes in the past I don't think we had them highlighted here but I think we have
talked I don't know which episodes but guys come back to allersenglish.com and type in you know
American Medical system because we do have we you know there is a lot to say Michelle about
our medical system you know about how things run and kind of the challenges that we have right now
as a society uh episode 1359 Health in America drug prices insurance companies and demonizing
wealth is one um there's a lot of good stuff to dig into our content guys to learn more so
interesting yeah it's a huge huge huge huge topic so definitely listen really interesting what's
the takeaway Michelle okay guys well we we today we wanted to focus on some of the main doctors
um that you know are Specialists and we talked about the specific suffix so this
was not only a vocabulary episode but also just kind of dissecting the words a little bit
um and the suffixes that go along with them as well as the pronunciation so we taught you a key
pattern so that you know how to pronounce these words yep it's all about the patterns guys right
that's how we can learn 30 words while learning one yeah right exactly this is how we learn in a
smart way we look for patterns love it right this is an efficient way to learn so this is
fun Lindsay and I hope you don't have to go to any more doctors same time thank you thank you
um so I hope you have a great day and guys wishing you lots of good
health sounds good Michelle talk to you soon bye [Music] thank you