Medical issues through idiomatic perspective

Abstract

Medical issues are complex and multifarious. My concern is the way medical professionals discuss health issues with patients. My research is focused on the domain of successful “patient-medical professional” communication. I assume that repeated usage of national standardized communicative formulae, idioms mainly, have a direct impact on a general well-being of a patient. With the example of language idiom representations and omnibus survey I concentrate on the most stable human society ways of expression, which should be taken into consideration by medical professionals. With the help of the on-line electronic linguistic corpuses of Russian and Chinese I identify tendencies common to Russian and Chinese patients. The research results have been processed into a database, marked with the Rospatent Certificate (№ 2013620397, dated 03/13/2013). © 2014, Canadian Center of Science and Education. All rights reserved.