According to Al-Khathami, Kojan, Aljumah, Alqahtani, & Alrwaili (2010) study, the transmission of information from and to patients is greatly impaired due to language barriers. It can cause patient to show less trust, comfort, and increased doubt in health care providers including nurses. The utilization of interpreters is found to be one of the solutions to close the gap in communication between health care providers and their patients. However, they found that this service is underutilized as evidenced by your example of the physician and the Hispanic patient. It was also found that patients are very concerned about language barriers during the delivery of their care. Language barriers lead to miscommunication and compromise the patient-provider
