Necesitatea conştientizării lingvistice şi culturale în clinici şi instituţii medicale
The need for language and cultural awareness in clinical and public health care facilities

Summary/Abstract: In this study the author focuses on the cultural and linguistic barriers encountered by both physicians and patients in the medical process. In order to properly diagnose and treat multi-ethnic individuals, doctors must either have a powerful cross-cultural experience and certain linguistic skills, or benefit from the services provided by trained medical interpreters or by state-of-the-art-technologies that are meant to facilitate intercultural communication. The paper also underlines the dangers of using ad-hoc interpreters, who might put at risk the lives of many people as well as the carriers of health care practitioners.

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