I once had an encounter at work with an elderly foreign woman at the hospital. As I was introducing myself to an emergency department patient to bring them to radiology, this elderly woman nonchalantly walks into the patient’s room. I assume she is a friend of the patient, but I quickly learn that the patient has no idea who this elderly woman is and is asking her to leave. All the while, the elderly woman is speaking to us indiscernibly due to her heavy accent. So I excuse myself from the patient to show the woman the way out. It was very difficult to understand her because of her accent, but I was able to figure out that the woman was looking for her daughter and was told she was in that patient’s room number. Clearly misinformed, I walk
