View Poll Results: Should practicing US physicians be required to speak fluent English?
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Yes
45 81.82% -
No
6 10.91% -
Well, my legs are too long and I straddle the fence.
0 0% -
Expecting people to speak English in an English speaking country is wrong.
3 5.45% -
My English isn't fluent enough to understand and vote in this poll.
1 1.82%
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02-11-2010, 02:16 PM #20
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Thanked: 267Yes the doctors should be able to speak English. English is the most comprehensive language on the globe. Why you may ask? Because English is a language that encompasses all the languages. When the English language needs a word it will steal it if necessary to be exact and concise.
The idea that one should just go out and find a doctor that has the necessary English skills is all well and fine if one has the financial means to do so. What often happens is that the poor and the uneducated get the short end of the stick and end up with doctors that are just not up to a higher standard that most of us demand from our doctors. I live in a community where the unemployment rate has historically been the 20's and that is before the economic climate that we are in now and I can tell you that we end up with some real losers here.
Later,
Richard