Babel, Justice, and Democracy: Reflections on a Shortage of Interpreters at a Public Hospital

Hastings Center Report 31 (2):31-36 (2001)
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When a doctor sees a patient, answers to a few questions can be crucial. So what to do when no one at the hospital speaks the patient's language? Doctors can often devise creative, makeshift ways of communicating with their patients, but the problem calls ultimately for a creative organizational response.

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