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Ms Geffner sounds like a very unhappy soul.

I know many fine upstanding Americans, respected in their communities, who do not, for various reasons, have actual "jobs", as in "occupations through which money is earned".

Ms Geffner clearly does not know these persons. That is her loss.

"...those who want to teach English to those working in the medical profession had best be familar with that work environment..." Exactly. That, of course, can be said about any profession - but the medical, nursing and allied professions are among the few where a life itself could be affected by a ...

As an addendum to Melodie's excellent post, I need to point out something very important of which you are seemingly unaware. The ESL teacher who is also a medical professional would know - as the "lay" one likely would not - that our migrant radiographer (with an overseas qualification and less-than...

Hello Canadian ex-physio! You seem to be in a somewhat similar situation to myself, a Kiwi/Pom soon-to-be-ex-radiographer. On my part, the desire to do CELTA is more to give myself a foundation of language teaching theory and practice, rather than the idea that the actual qualification is going to b...

Kate, you are making far too many assumptions here. You assume that teaching about the language used informally in health systems for, say, diagnostic tests indicates that we are teaching fellow professionals how to diagnose. You assume that my statement about the necessity for making overseas healt...

I will never forget, many years ago when I was working in Austria, one of the doctors telling me that as a student, when he did an elective in the East End of London, a patient came into the consulting room and announced "Doctor, I've got a bun in the oven!" Aware that she had been waiting for some ...

I don't know if either of you are still reading this ... I've been teaching English to elderly Chinese ladies for some time. Some of them are illiterate in their own language; most of them were sponsored to New Zealand by their children or grandchildren who wanted free childcare. I have found that t...

Hi all I am a medical professional myself - a radiographer - and interested in teaching English to Health Professionals once I get my CELTA ( planned for next year). I currently teach English to elderly Chinese ladies here in New Zealand, on a voluntary basis for a couple of hours a week. I'd be int...