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Asking about Health in English with Patients and How to Respond
In English, the most common way to ask about health is by using the question 'How are you?'. Naturally, the simple response you'll receive from the other person will be 'I'm Fine, Thank you'.
However, depending on the situation and different cases, people may use various English questions and responses to inquire about health. Below, Mytour will list for you some examples of questions and answers in English to ask about health.
Sample questions to inquire about health in English:
- How are you?/ How are you today?: Are you feeling well? / How are you feeling today?
- How do you do?: Are you well?
- How do you doing?: Are you still keeping well?
- Any news?: Any updates? Asking if everything's still okay.
- What's news?: What's new? or How are things going?
- What's the news?: Any new updates?
- Still alive?: Still in good health? Literally, Still alive?
- Still alive and kicking?: Still doing well?
- Are you well?: Are you still well?
- Are you feeling all right today?: Are you feeling well today?
- Are you better now?: Is your health improving?
- How have you been lately?: How's your health been lately?
- How are you going?: Are you still well?
- How are you getting on? / How are you getting along? : Are you managing okay?
- How's life?: How's things been going lately?
- Are you OK? / Alright?/ Are you alright? : Still good?
- What's wrong with you?/ What's matter with you?: What's going on? What's wrong? This question is used in case the other person shows signs of poor health.
Sample answers to health inquiry questions in English:
- Well, thanks: I'm doing well, thank you.
- Pretty well, thanks: Doing pretty good, thanks.
- Fine, thanks / Good, thanks: I'm fine, thank you.
- OK, thanks: Doing okay, thanks.
- Still alive: Still hanging in there.
- So so: Just okay.
- Not bad / Not so bad: Not too shabby / Not bad.
- Not too bad: Not too bad.
- Everything as usual: Same old, same old.
- Much the same as usual: Pretty much the same as always.
- Not good: Not feeling great.
- I'm feeling good now. Thanks for asking: I'm feeling good, thanks a lot.
In addition, if you have the opportunity to travel abroad, you also need to prepare yourself with knowledge about tourism. First of all, let's refer to common English questions and answers when traveling here.
