Medical Terminology Interpreter Case Study

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In some cases I think a medical terminology interpreter would be beneficial. In my own experience I have had doctors that would not even utilize medical terms to make it easier for me to understand, but more often than not specifically in a hospital setting physicians tend to use medical terms and I am left using google to figure out what they explained to me. If a facility were. To offer an. Interpreter, that person should absolutely be regulated and mandated just as doctors and nurses are not only to protect the patient, but to also protect the interpreter. On the contrary it may be just as if not more beneficial if the provider were required to explain it to the patient as it may cut down on the patient making awful decisions regarding

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