What's the best language to learn for a doctor?

If you are a doctor, or want to become a doctor, what is the best foreign language to learn?

A useful chart from Sciencewatch can help:

Below is a listing of the top 20 countries which, as of the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science Indicators, attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals of Clinical Medicine over the 10-year + 4-month period (1998-April 30, 2008). 

Ranked by Citations
Rank	Field	Papers	Citations	Citations Per Paper
1	USA	679,178	10,598,007	15.6
2	ENGLAND	161,257	2,223,465	13.79
3	GERMANY	166,413	1,869,962	11.24
4	JAPAN	159,194	1,493,009	9.38
5	CANADA	82,590	1,266,659	15.34
6	FRANCE	106,792	1,230,025	11.52
7	ITALY	93,577	1,184,239	12.66
8	NETHERLANDS	62,400	987,238	15.82
9	AUSTRALIA	56,527	710,752	12.57
10	SWEDEN	44,507	670,057	15.06
SOURCE: Essential Science Indicators from the August 1, 2008 update covering a 10-year + 4-month period, 1998-April 30, 2008.

Read the full article here: http://archive.sciencewatch.com/dr/cou/2008/08aug20CLI/

So German, Japanese, French, Italian, Dutch, and then Swedish look like it, then.

Would you have guessed it?

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