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Medical Voices is built for every healthcare worker who has ever crossed a border with their stethoscope and their dreams. We believe healthcare workers belong anywhere in the world, in any language. We make the language of medicine learnable, dignified, and free — so no Med Nomad ever feels like a stranger in the place they came to heal.
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Medical Voices Podcast
Who are you?
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🤰 At the maternity unit: which word is Midwife Santos asking about when saying “Would you like the baby placed straight on your chest after the birth?”
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Did you know that the Medical Voices website has a glossary to search episodes with the terms you are interested in >> medicalvoices.health/en/glossary (as well as all the episodes and PDF transcripts). Check it out!
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📞 "The first appointment is in nine days." What would you say?
New Everyday Consultation, level B1: For healthcare staff who answer the phone, and for anyone who'll be a patient in an English-speaking country.
▶ Watch or listen: https://youtu.be/USGK7W4GgXA
📄 Free transcript and practice sheet: medicalvoices.health/en/everyday-consultations/1
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📝 Maternity vocabulary — quick check 👇
Fill in the blank. Midwife Santos says: “Under ___, which is just our notes word for pain relief, I'm writing: pool if available, gas and air.”
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Medical Voices Podcast
All episodes are available on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/medical-voices/id679…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/033YAHG1FnFicvjx944SxG
Castbox: castbox.fm/channel/id7341322
Etc.
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📝 Describing pain: Fill in the blank: "Some days it's just a dull ___, and other days it's quite sharp."
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🩺 50 minutes. 7 doctor–patient conversations. Just listening.
Put it on during your commute, your break or while you cook. Each chapter opens with a short card: who is speaking, where they are, and three words to listen for.
1 · First Visit to the GP
2 · At the Pharmacy Counter
3 · Back at the GP
4 · The Medication Review
5 · Checking Vital Signs
6 · Describing Pain
7 · Abdominal Pain
Want the words too? Every chapter links to its full lesson, with vocabulary, a quiz and a free transcript.
Which chapter are you starting with? 👇
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🤰 New episode: When the Birth Plan Changes
Mrs. Harris is 34 weeks pregnant and has brought two pages of wishes to her appointment. Then she asks the question every midwife hears: “What if none of it goes the way I want?”
In Episode 24, you'll hear how Midwife Santos puts every wish into words without promising the day, and how he talks about changing the plan if he has to.
👩⚕️ Useful for midwives, nurses and doctors working in English, and for anyone getting ready to talk through their own birth plan.
📚 Labour · Pain relief / analgesia · Epidural · Gas and air / Entonox · Water birth · Contractions · Cervical dilatation · Skin-to-skin · Breastfeeding intention · Postnatal ward
▶ Watch: https://youtu.be/piZXGHTPwXk
Which of these words would you have to look up in your own language? 👇
#MedicalEnglish #MidwiferyEnglish #NursingEnglish #LearnEnglish #MedicalVoices
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🗣 What Mr. Blake says, and what Dr. Khan writes:
“My stomach hurts” → abdominal pain
“I feel sick” → nausea
“I’ve been going more often, and it’s looser” → a change in bowel habit
“It comes and goes, like cramping” → colicky pain
Which of these would you have guessed wrong? 👇
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