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Your doctor has requested that you have an ultrasound of your abdomen. You will need to fast for 6 hours prior to your appointment time shown above. Please call the radio log department if you have any questions.[/quote]

I'm going to bump this back up to the top, so others can see it.

If this is for something official (i.e., for a hospital or clinic), it might be best to use a professional translation service, though.

Redwolf

Redwolf wrote:I'm going to bump this back up to the top, so others can see it.

If this is for something official (i.e., for a hospital or clinic), it might be best to use a professional translation service, though.

Redwolf

Hi, my thought exactly ,as this is so very important ,I'd go for a professional translation also. Good luck
Christy
PS you can if you wish let us see what you get before going ahead.

all sounds very dodgy to me
philips is a dutch firm
why would they assume that someone from ireland cannot speak english.
dutch people normally assume that irish and english are the same.
i used to spend hours explaining the difference, when i first came to live here.
now i just say
yeah ye germans can't tell the difference can ye?

Haigh a Caffler,

Philips is a Dutch firm, yes, but if is the manufacturer of medical equipment, CT and MRI scanners. Might be the sales rep in Irland trying to help out.

Sassy

Sassy Lassie wrote:Haigh a Caffler,

Philips is a Dutch firm, yes, but if is the manufacturer of medical equipment, CT and MRI scanners. Might be the sales rep in Irland trying to help out.

Sassy

by getting more people into his machines.....

that way they'll wear out quicker...

That doesn't exactly sound like a notice you would put on a machine. Sounds like a doctor communicating with a patient... in that case, a doctor should always use a translator approved by someone, or he's facing serious liability issues.
And I'm sure the Phillips company has plenty of translators for their material. However, I rarely see any commercial material in Irish. And by rarely I mean I don't remember seeing any, ever.

Guillo1 wrote:That doesn't exactly sound like a notice you would put on a machine. Sounds like a doctor communicating with a patient... in that case, a doctor should always use a translator approved by someone, or he's facing serious liability issues.
And I'm sure the Phillips company has plenty of translators for their material. However, I rarely see any commercial material in Irish. And by rarely I mean I don't remember seeing any, ever.

This thread is kind of old, so I'm going to go ahead and lock it to keep it from being resurrected again.

Guillo's right, though, in that this kind of info usually comes from your doctor, not from a machine manufacturer. This looks like the kind of thing my doctor's office keeps printed out on its letterhead and on-hand to hand to the patient when a particular test is ordered.

Redwolf