Sydney Shelby ’25 is pursuing a double major in biology and public health with a minor in philosophy, and was a 2023-24 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are ...

The health care industry is a critical sector that helps save people’s lives. Sometimes, medical professionals and patients have communication barriers that can hinder that process. However, the great ...

A health professional and a patient discuss the patient’s issues. (SDI Productions / Getty) Adriana sat quietly looking at the floor with her young son, Pablo, beside her. She looked tired. The two ...

When it comes to communicating with a healthcare provider, sometimes the medical terminology can sound like another language. But for many whose primary language is not English, that information ...

The question of why to translate, as it relates to user safety information for medical devices, is answered easily initially: because it is required. Most major healthcare markets have strictly ...

Do you speak a second language fluently? Sort of fluently? Or maybe you partially remember high school Spanish? Well, show up with the right friend at the wrong hospital and you too can be a medical ...

At Fred Hutch Cancer Center, we believe that equal access to health care is very important. One way that we can help people get care is by having free interpreters for our patients if English isn’t ...

Roxana Del Barco is the Medical Interpretation Coordinator at University of Maryland Medical Center and the Maryland State Chapter Chair of the International Medical Interpreters Association. She has ...

Last spring, Lourdes Cerna, a fifty-eight-year-old medical interpreter, received a phone call from a hospital in Texas. In Cerna’s home, in Los Angeles, the audio crackled to life; on the other end of ...