Observed arrival · 2026-11-10
BedsideLingo: clinical phrases for the bedside
An offline iOS app for practising short clinical phrases in patients’ languages and playing them aloud at the bedside.
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- Clinicians practising patient-language phrases
- Worth noticing
- The site cautions against using the app instead of a qualified medical interpreter for consent, diagnoses, difficult news, and other high-stakes conversations.
Field notes
The practice loop uses short reviews, with phrases selected by the learner and brought back before they are forgotten. Users can search or browse by specialty, then play a phrase aloud; the homepage says the app works offline and requires no account. It identifies English, Canadian French, and Egyptian Arabic as clinician-reviewed, while saying the other language versions remain in native-speaker review.
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