Transcript

Box 1, Dr. Rianne: I have trouble keeping my patients compliant with their maintenance medication.
Box 1, B: Well…
Box 2, B: … I like to empower my patients! They’ll be more compliant if they feel like it was their idea all along!
Box 3, Dr. Rianne: Golly, what do we do about your hypertension?
Box 3, Golly: Uuh… take some pills?
Box 4, Dr. Rianne: Wow! Great idea! I wish I thought of that! You rock!
Box 4, Golly: Are you really a doctor?

Vocabulary

Compliant (adj.) /kəmˈplɑɪ.ənt/ (Formal) willing to do what other people want you to do. (Verb form: to comply with sth)
Maintenance (n.) /ˈmeɪn.tɪ.nəns/ the work that is done to keep something in good condition
Medication (n.) /ˌmedɪˈkeɪʃən/ medicine that is used to treat an illness
To empower (v.) /ɪmˈpaʊər/ to give someone the confidence, skills, freedom, etc to do something
Hypertension (n.) /ˌhaɪ.pəˈten.ʃən/ a medical condition in which your blood pressure is extremely high
Sb/sth rocks (idiom) used to show that you like or approve of someone or something a lot

Here, Dr. Rianne’s friend suggests a strategy so that her patients take more regularly their medicine: make them believe that taking the medicine was their idea. So, she tries it with Golly. However, the way she does it makes Golly think that she is not really a doctor if she couldn’t have even though of that to treat him.

Notice the last sentences said by Dr. Rianne: “Wow! Great idea! I wish I thought of that! You rock!” All these expressions can be used to praise someone.