(…) In the past 20 years, interpreters have grown in value in the Nashville area, especially in the health care community. To meet the language needs of the influx of immigrants into the area, health care providers have had to ratchet up their interpretation services.
Lori Catanzaro, senior lecturer in Spanish at Vanderbilt University, sees the need for bilingual health care in Nashville. In the fall she’ll start teaching a weekly Spanish class for health care professionals.
The intermediate Spanish class is not a licensing class for interpreters but aims at improving interactions between health care workers and their Spanish-speaking patients. It will incorporate cultural lessons as well as language. More.
See: The Tennessean
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I think it's a noble, good idea that will hopefully improve the quality of the healthcare for Spanish-speaking patients. In the medical profession, it's extremely important to understand correctly what the patient is saying in order to be able to provide the adequate care and treatment.
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in hospitals, and many other clinics, for years. It is absolutey essential.
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I think it's a noble, good idea that will hopefully improve the quality of the healthcare for Spanish-speaking patients. In the medical profession, it's extremely important to understand correctly what the patient is saying in order to be able to provide the adequate care and treatment.
In the US there have been medical linterpreters in hospitals, and many other clinics, for years. It is absolutey essential.
As Lilian says, there are interpreters for a huge amount of foreign languages, the most common being: Romanian, Spanish, Russian, Ukranian, Hindi, French, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.), Latvian, Tagalog, and many others.
Just in Washington state (where I reside), one of the 50 states of the USA, there are hundreds of them in the different languages.
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I've been asked to do some medical interpreting, but only for very simple things like immunizations for little kids. I thought it was a very rewarding experience, but I just don't have the knowledge or experience for it.
There is a large Bosnian/Croat population in my area and we desperately need more interpreters and translators to help these folks out.
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