Quote Originally Posted by Blade Wielder View Post
Since English is the lanague used most often in America, it makes sense that its doctors should speak it.

What if a doctor wants to practice in a mostly Spanish-speaking area, though? Should he or she be allowed to skip on learning English in that instance?
This area is mostly spanish, but everything being documented is in English so ABSOLUTELY NOT! If they want to speak spanish, then they should go to a Spanish speaking country to practice medicine. I also feel hospitals should not have to bear the expense of translators, patients who are not responsible enough to learn the language should have to pay cash for the translation service. If you can't speak then language then you should have no legal standing to file medical malpractice since the patient history is the most important part of making a diagnosis (85% of the diagnosis in fact). I especially feel this way because everyone coming to this hospital is either on medicaid or government subsidized insurance that taxpayers are being raped on. They won't even take United Health Insurance or other private decent insurance because they can't blatantly over bill them.