Are you satisfied with your care?

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Here's a patient and a doctor having a conversation.

Doctor : Are you satisfied with your care?
Patient : Yes, I think I've been treated well enough.

About what the doctor said, does it sound natural to say 'your care'?

Doctors are those who provide medical service and care,
and I've always thought it might sound better for them to say to patients,
"Are you satisfied with MY care?"

Then, the patients happy with the treatment would say,
"Yes, I'm satisfied with YOUR care."

I've just watched a film, 'Hero 6' in which a robot made to treat people shows up,
and he always says, 'Are you satisfied with your care?'.

I couldn't help but wonder if it's his unique way of saying to make it sound more interesting or it's very common for doctors to say 'Are you satisfied with your care?', not 'Are you satisfied with my care?'

If you're a doctor, would you say 'Are you satisfied with your care?'
rather than 'Are you satisfied with my care?'

I hope I expressed clear enough what I've been wondering about.
Could any of you please help me figure that out?
Thanks.

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@SMickey,

This is not really a grammar issue but a useage issue. My take on this is the following:

A doctor is the lead person in a practice that consists of a team (staff). So the statement he might be making is a general question about the quality of their work and your total experience:
"Are you happy with the care you are receiving from the whole staff (not just my care)."

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@SMickey,

SMickey wrote:

Here's a patient and a doctor having a conversation.

Doctor : Are you satisfied with your care?
Patient : Yes, I think I've been treated well enough.

About what the doctor said, does it sound natural to say 'your care'?

yes. the doctor's comment sounds natural.

the patient is the one who received care, not the doctor.

(the patient's response sounds a bit off, like they didn't really think they'd received very good care)

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@Ragman,

I see. So 'your care' is the care you've received from the staff, not 'my care' which, I thought, was the care I'm giving you as a doctor.

Got it. Thanks.

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@ehBeth,

Okay, now that I've realized that it's quite natural to say like that,
I'll practice that expression with no hesitation.

What the patient said, "I've been treated well enough.' is frankly
what I made up. I expected it to sound natural, but it didn't
as you said it's 'a bit off', which I think means 'a bit weird or strange'.

I surely need to study English harder.
Thank you ehBeth for correcting my mistake.
Have a happy Sunday!

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@SMickey,

"I've been treated well enough" sounds like the patient thinks the care he received is just sufficient, not necessarily very good or excellent. It's almost as if the patient were a little disappointed. Usually, I think, a response to the doctor's question would have more praise for the quality of the care (unless the care sucked, that is).

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@FBM,

Really? I intended to express my satisfaction using 'well' and 'enough',
and from what you said I could sense that those words weren't good enough.
Once again I realize that language is more about imitation rather than creation.
Thank you FBM.
BTW, It's hard to survive in summer here in Korea, huh? I hate summer.

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@SMickey,

It's definitely 99% intuition, and that comes from extensive exposure to comprehensible input. ^^ The summer's not bad yet, but I'm not looking forward to next month...whew...

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@SMickey,

SMickey wrote:

Really? I intended to express my satisfaction using 'well' and 'enough',
and from what you said I could sense that those words weren't good enough.

Once again I realize that language is more about imitation rather than creation.

Creating new phrases is not easy. English already has a lot of idioms that came into use over decades/hundreds of years of use. You need to be proficient with English as it is commonly used before trying to modify it.

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'well enough' implies the care could have been better

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