Usual Mistakes Made by Cardiologists when Speaking and Writing In English

Abstract

In this section, we try to share with you what we have found to be some of the great hurdles in cardiologic English. Many things certainly can go wrong when one is asked to give a lecture in English or whenever one is supposed to communicate in cardiologic English. This is by no means an exhaustive account; it is just a way of passing on what we have learnt from our own experience in the fascinating world of cardiologic English. When preparing and actually delivering a presentation in English at an international cardiologic conference, a series of basic issues should be taken into account. We have grouped them into four danger zones, in the hope that their classification will make them become less of a problem. The categories are the following:

1. Misnomers and false friends

2. Common grammatical mistakes

3. Common spelling mistakes

4. Common pronunciation mistakes.