Communication without Barriers Medical Telephone Interpreters: a Solution for Limited English Proficiency Healthcare Adam Hoffman, smithsonian.com journalist, in his article “Millions of Americans Are Getting Lost in Translation During Hospital Visits” discusses about a young girl's story in Massachusetts that is just one example of a growing problem across the national health care system in USA and how it has
Interpreter Inaccurate Language Interpretation and Its Clinical Significance in the Medical Encounters of Spanish-speaking Latinos The November 2015 issue of Medical Care—the Official Journal of the Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association—included a research report titled "Inaccurate Language Interpretation and Its Clinical Significance in the Medical Encounters of Spanish-speaking Latinos." Its focus is the quality of care received by limited
