On one of my trips to a German hospital, I'd been taken from casualty to the ward and was in a lot of pain. Was late, very late. A really lovely lady doctor checked me out on the ward, gave me pain medication, told me to ask the nurse to call her if I needed anything and that she was on duty all night, all in faultless English. After a few hours, the pain came back, really badly, so I asked the night nurse to call the doc. Only problem was the nurse spoke no English, I spoke very little German and in doing my best, managed to ask for the ladies doctor (gynaecologist), not lady doctor. Nurse's face was a picture. But I didn't know what I'd said, just that I'd got it very wrong...