Le nouveau docteur
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Le nouveau docteur

Reading time
3 min
Total words
863
Unique words
300
Avg frequency
#218

Story

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Marie has had a headache for three weeks. It is not a big pain, just a small pain that does not go away. In the morning, the pain is there. In the evening, the pain is still there. Marie thinks it is nothing, but her mother tells her to go and see a doctor.

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The family doctor has left. There is a new doctor on the street. He has a simple name, Doctor Lambert. Marie does not know him. She is a little afraid, but she takes her car and goes to his place.

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The room is small. There are two seats and a door. An old person is waiting. Marie takes the other seat. She waits. An hour goes by. Finally, the door of the other room opens.

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"Madame Marie? Please come in." The doctor is young. He has a kind look. He does not have the face of a man who is scary. Marie enters the office and takes a seat near him.

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"Hello, sir. I have had a headache for three weeks. It is maybe nothing."

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The doctor does not say straight away that it is nothing. He takes his time. He asks simple things. "Do you sleep well at night? Do you drink water during the day? Do you have a lot of work at the moment?"

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Marie thinks for a moment. She does not sleep very well. She does not drink much water. And work, yes, there is too much work. She tells the doctor all of this. He listens. He does not say a word.

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"Madame, I think your headache comes from there. Not from a big problem. From your life. You do not sleep, you do not drink water, you have too much work. Your head is saying no."

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Marie likes that idea, but she also likes to be sure. "Are you sure, doctor? It is nothing more?"

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"Come back in two weeks. Drink water. Sleep more. If the pain is still there, we will look for something else. All right?"

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Marie comes out of the office. In the car, she thinks about the doctor. He took his time. He listened to her. He did not make her afraid. Maybe that is what a good doctor is. Not a man who knows everything, but a man who likes to know.

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In the evening, Marie drinks two glasses of water and goes to bed. Her head still hurts a little, but less. She thinks that in two weeks, she will come back to say thank you to the new doctor.

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Words in this story

114 words
#Word
1lethe (masculine singular)
2jeI
4una, an (masculine)
7lathe (feminine singular)
8deof, from
9etand
10dansin, inside
11quethat, which, what
12pasnot (in ne...pas negation)
13ouiyes
14êtreto be
14ilhe, it (masculine)
15avoirto have
16faireto do, to make
17pouvoirto be able to, can
19direto say, to tell
19enin, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun)
20allerto go
21çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)
21venirto come
29dessome, of the (plural indefinite and partitive article; also contraction of de + les)
31maisbut
34elleshe, her, it (feminine)
36bienwell, good, very
37siif; so (intensifier); yes (contradicting a negative statement)
41nonno, not
44toutall, every, quite, everything
45plusmore; no more (in negation ne...plus)
51moime, I (stressed tonic first-person pronoun)
59suron, on top of, about, over (preposition); also 'sure, certain' as the adjective sûr/sûre
61sehimself, herself, itself, themselves (reflexive pronoun)
76riennothing, not anything
82sonhis, her, its (masculine singular possessive)
90bongood, right, okay (adjective and interjection)
92mercithank you, thanks
93justejust, only, right, fair, correct
94trèsvery
100voirto see
101mêmesame, even, self
104maintenantnow
107deuxtwo
113peulittle, few, not much
115quelquesome, a few, a little
118encorestill, again, more, yet
123accordagreement, ok
124falloirto be necessary, must, to need
127peut-êtremaybe, perhaps
129foistime, occasion
137troptoo, too much, too many
139parlerto speak, to talk