Breaking down language barriers - Temple University Health System - Philadelphia

“The doctor was confused.He was trying to determine whether or not the 90-year-old Cuban woman sitting in front of him in the examination room at Northeastern Hospital, a satellite hospital of the Temple University Health System, was demented. She had, for the most part, come across as mostly coherent. Until he asked her how she felt.

“I feel like a coconut,” she told him in Spanish.Now he wasnt so sure. But Jessica Ruiz Lebron, a Spanish translator at the hospital, was there to explain to the doctor that the patient was using a Cuban idiom to describe her condition.”

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