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A note from a non-English-speaking nurse in China sent an unfortunate accidental message

Just about the worst place to encounter a language barrier is in a hospital, where you need to communicate your problem clearly and to understand the advice being given to you. When one international student in China took ill, a nurse used their ingenuity to tell the patient that they should have nil-by-mouth from 10 o’clock the night before their surgery. This is how they did it:

It’s mildly alarming, but presumably got the message across to the unfortunate student. It was shared by Redditor WaspDog, who wrote:

“An international student hospitalised in China and the nurse who couldn’t speak English, informed him about his surgery with this note.”

Reddit users have passed their verdict on the threatening missive.
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One Redditor summed it up perfectly.
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Source: Reddit
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