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Updates on official English and related issues

Thursday, July 04, 2002
 
Wouldn't English Classes Be Cheaper?

From "Non-English speakers struggle with health care system": "A more sophisticated pilot project at Gouverneur Hospital in New York uses trained medical interpreters for simultaneous interpretation of Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Fukinese, a Chinese dialect. Doctors and patients wear headsets and the conversation is transmitted over a wireless network to an interpreter in another room."

Is all this translation taped so Gouverneur Hospital can defend itself in a malpractice suit?

|posted by Jim on 3:27 AM| Link
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