Junior doctors learn sign language
Junior doctors in Northern Ireland are being trained in sign language so they can communicate with their deaf patients.
A specialist course, which also includes training in deaf awareness, is being offered during medical training at Queen's University in Belfast. It is thought one in seven people a doctor encounters during his or her career will be deaf or have hearing problems.
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Comments
I am a 15 year old girl with a cochlear Implant.I think it is a great thing that the junior doctors are learning how to sign to able communicate with the hard-hearing or deaf patients.I have had to go into hospital for a few operations(not linked to cochlear implant)but because i had to take my cochlear implant off,i could not hear anything, but after coing round from the operation(in recovery room)i didn't know what was going on, because i could not hear and the nurses and doctors were unable not communicate with me because they didn't know how to sign.So therefore i was panicking because i did not know what was going on.So in general i think it is a fab idea that junior doctors are learning sign language.
Carly
Posted by: Carly | March 14, 2006 06:44 PM