Erschienen in:
26.10.2021 | Healing Arts
Breaking the Language Barrier
verfasst von:
Sean Hernandez, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2022
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Excerpt
One of the joys of being a bilingual physician is the palpable relief when speaking to Spanish speaking patients in their native language. The air thins, shoulders relax, and smiles are drawn. The entire environment changes and a relationship starts. Most of the time, it helps patients feel more at ease and we can have a fruitful patient-doctor interaction, but sometimes it becomes much more. …