ArticleJournal of patient experience2020
Language and Cultural Discordance: Barriers to Improved Patient Care and Understanding.
Article in Journal of patient experience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Cancer Screening and Prevention in MENA and Mediterranean Populations: A Multi-Level Analysis of Barriers, Knowledge Gaps, and Interventions Across Indigenous and Diaspora Communities.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Empowering Self-Management of Chronic Low Back Pain Among Spanish and Cantonese Speakers in the United States.Cureus · 2025Article
- The impact of language discordance on genetic counselors' ability to establish a working alliance with patients.Journal of genetic counseling · 2025Article
- Doctor Attributes That Patients Desire during Consultation: The Perspectives of Doctors and Patients in Primary Health Care in Botswana.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- How Palliative Care Clinicians Can Effectively Collaborate with Medical Interpreters to Improve Care for Patients Preferring a Language Other Than English.Palliative medicine reportsArticle
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Abstract
Providing optimal health care to patients whose first language is not English remains a major challenge. Medical students, residents, and attendings receive limited cultural competency training, but these short sporadic training courses are not nearly enough to give physicians the proper resources or preparation to understand all their patients' beliefs. Medical interpreters can fill this gap and strengthen health care for these already marginalized communities. It is important to reconceptualize medical interpreters as true collaborators in medicine who can provide valuable insights that extend beyond language interpretation at the bedside. Physicians would benefit from the insights of these professionals who can function as both language and cultural interpreters who know these patient communities well. Improved communication between physicians and interpreters would not violate traditional physician-patient boundaries but would instead strengthen this relationship to provide the best possible care.
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