CONVERSATION PARTNER 8 – Shayan, Meeting 3
Today Shayan and I met in the lounge at the CIES, where there was a great bustle of activity. Through this I have discovered that I have a hard time maintaining a conversation when there are distracting noises, even though I prefer to study in the presence of white noise and conversation. Since this was bothering me so much, I asked him if he wanted to go the Circle K lounge instead where we sat outside. Mostly we talked about division of labor in the Afghan medical system as well as how the medical field is organized in his country, particularly with regard to examinations. He described to me a variety of medical procedures which he has done, and knowing a good amount about anatomy and medicine myself, Shayan was able to try out some medical and anatomical words in English, some of which I was able to help him find or refine in pronunciation, some of it new, which he taught to me, particularly about vascular surgery. He also described how his own brothers had been some of his strongest mentors while he was doing his rotations.
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