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		<title>Doctor! Quick, give me some Number Four!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 04:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An enterprising NTU medical student has decided that his medical Taiwanese was so lacking that he has put together a book to help himself and others like him talk to patients in the language.
A Formosa Television piece on Chu Chú-hông highlights the difference between medical vocabulary in Mandarin and Taiwanese:
醫用台語，很多不能直接翻譯，除了氧氣是酸素之外，海洛因叫做四號仔，疝氣呢，要用形容的就是墜腸，而電腦斷層，就形容儀器的模樣，鑽山洞。
The examples given include &#8220;oxygen&#8221;, which [...]]]></description>
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