Thursday, January 09, 2003
Please Vote in This Online WSJ Poll
The Wall Street Journal has an article today on translation issues in medical offices ("For Ill Immigrants, Doctors' Orders Get Lost in Translation," Jan 9, 2003) which hints at the expense of Clinton Executive Order 13166.
Proof that there is no pleasing some people may be found in this complaint from a Bosnian woman regarding the accents of her interpreters:
Hataija Pehlic, a Bosnian woman of 50, suffers from depression. At St. Luke's Hospital in 2000, she was served by a succession of phone interpreters on a squawk box for two hours a day during a month of psychotherapy.
They spoke a common language, "but I felt really bad," Ms. Pehlic says through one of Ms. Brown's interpreters. "They had different accents" -- accents, that is, of Serbians and Croatians, the enemies who had killed her son and driven her husband to suicide during the Balkan bloodshed of the 1990s.
The Journal is conducting a poll:
"Should doctors be required to provide non-English-speaking patients with translators?"
You can vote here.
|posted by Jim on 5:31 PM|
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