Doctors are taking language classes - St. Louis, Missouri

“Communication with patients who don’t speak English becomes a priority.

A doctor at St. Louis Children’s Hospital was visiting a Spanish-speaking woman who had just had a baby, and he tried to tell her that her infant had jaundice.

As he searched for the Spanish word for yellow, which is amarillo, something close to “animal,” came out, and that was all the woman needed to hear to think she had given birth to an animal.”

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