When a patient was wheeled into our emergency room, I was the nurse on duty. “On a scale of zero to ten,” I asked her, “with zero representing no pain and ten representing excruciating pain, what would you say your pain level is now?”
She shook her head. “Oh, I don’t know. I’m not good with math.”
Vocabulary Help
- excruciating – excruciante
- I’m not good with math – Não sou boa de matemática
- level – nível
- nurse – enfermeira
- on duty – de serviço
- pain – dor
- shake (shake, shook, shaken) – balançar
- wheeled – conduzido em cadeira de rodas