You could say that Georgina Hankerson's career was prescribed by her doctor. "I went to my appointment, and she said, 'You're bilingual. Have you ever thought about doing interpreting?' I said, 'Is ...

Spanish-speaking families often experience significant challenges in receiving quality medical care for a loved one with Down syndrome (DS). The investigators collected data from Spanish-speaking ...

Nearly half of U.S. physicians say language and cultural barriers are at least minor obstacles to providing high-quality patient care, according to a study released by the Center for Studying Health ...

In the best of times, visits to a physician can be daunting if the medical provider and the patient speak different languages. A pandemic, and all of the fears it generates, makes the visit even more ...

Many health care workers in the Tri-Cities — from doctors and nurses to those behind a clinic’s front counter — speak more than one language, industry officials and educators say. And they are ...

Dallas College has an online Medical Spanish Interpreter course, introduced in the Fall semester of 2024. The course has ...

Inessa Dorofeeva leads a full day compliance training session. Alfredo Lorente left Puerto Rico in 1988, and after graduating from Macalester College vowed not to use his Spanish to find work — he ...

Perhaps there's a way we can get automation to help us eliminate some of the rote things we are asked to do that have little to nothing to do with the art and science of practicing medicine. As we ...

October 20, 2015 - For patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), errors in medical interpretation are common--especially when the interpreter is a family member or other untrained person, ...