CHECKING that PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS TELEPHONE! | Egads, man! The physician should have immediately ceased the interview and sent for a professional medical interpreter. The medical communication problem is the usual, the prejudices (personal and cultural) of the family-member interpreter who claims and acts as if he "knows the patient better" than the patient knows himself.
CHECKING that PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS TELEPHONE! | Egads, man! The physician should have immediately ceased the interview and sent for a professional medical interpreter. The medical communication problem is the usual, the prejudices (personal and cultural) of the family-member interpreter who claims and acts as if he "knows the patient better" than the patient knows himself.