What is the correct way of asking "how someone is doing" in case of an accident?
I've always felt that asking "are you alright?" even when someone just fell down 8 meters or got stabbed to be pretty ironic. Of course that person is not alright, that's obvious. Yet, I've never found a better way of asking "how someone is doing", and although it seems the problem is finding the right formulation, I think the problem rather is: what do you want to know? So, instead of asking if someone is alright, what should you say/ask if someone is in pain or other situation where you'd normally ask that question?
I've always felt that asking
"are you alright?"
even when someone just fell down 8 meters or got stabbed to be pretty ironic. Of course that person is not alright, that's obvious.
Yet, I've never found a better way of asking "how someone is doing", and although it seems the problem is finding the right formulation, I think the problem rather is: what do you want to know?
So, instead of asking if someone is alright, what should you say/ask if someone is in pain or other situation where you'd normally ask that question?
