IV/Rej 11-30-2006 - levo

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hahahahaha!!! YeaH! I hear you gemstone!!! I'm latin too

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I guess he just want to see jew/white/blonde patients huh!! nice dream

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gemstone:

sorry. nothing wrong with spanish patients.

The problem is we don't understand Spanish. And I don't expect that I should be familiar with Spanish. That is not part of my dream. At the same time, the spanish speaking patients act in a way that you have to speak or at least understand spanish. If you don't speak spanish, such encounter is very awkward.

I would like to remind everybody who spend their precious time to read my post that this country is English country. I don't mind that in the future this country changes to spanish country or not. but the encounter I mentioned above is not I wanted. I want medical training, not a lauguage lecture.

As of Medicaid patients, I don't think I have any problem with them. I believe the problem is from themselves. If you encounter a fake patient, I mean the illness is fake one, ... Do you feel good. I think the reality is much worse than that.

Just like ganja_doc wants to go to Duke, why duke students not come to these programs
to learn spanish and be friends with medicaid patients. Why there are many designated underserved hospitals? Why nobody talks about discrimination and racism/classicm in these important situation?

be realistic is what I learnt in this country.

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the problem is not spanish patients or patients of any particular ethnic group.

the problem is patients that do not speak english, even though they have lived here for decades and expect you the physician to learn their language.

I worked in a NYC public health clinic where you can get screening Chest Xrays for TB and almost every chinese that came in would say in perfect english "i don't speak english"!!!!!!!
after they sit and wait 4 hours and relize no translator is comming, they miraculously can speak english.

If i lived in a spanish speaking country, i would be expected to learn the language, so why do they feel it's ok not to learn english and never do. if communities stopped providing translators to long time people who have lived in the country for a specified period of time this problem wouldn't happen.