Hi all.
I need an interpreter for a visit to ARRIXACA hospital at the end of May. I went yesterday for an appointment to have a steroid injection in my hip. The doctor wouldn’t do it because I didn’t have an interpreter. He wouldn’t even use google translate. The trainee doctor who was with him could speak a fair bit of English but he wouldn’t let her translate.
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 5:39pm
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Hi Tinkerbell, contact this lady on Facebook. Well recommended interpreter.
Good luck.
Gaxx
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 6:37pm
Gaxx wrote on Thu Mar 23, 2023 5:39pm:
Hi Tinkerbell, contact this lady on Facebook. Well recommended interpreter.
Good luck.
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Gaxx
Thank you. I will try her.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:07pm
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The doctor would be very unwise to use English. If what he said to you in what is to him a foreign language could be an incorrect version of what he says in Spanish, leaving him open to legal action.
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 2:12pm
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PeterC wrote on Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:07pm:
The doctor would be very unwise to use English. If what he said to you in what is to him a foreign language could be an incorrect version of what he says in Spanish, leaving him open to legal action.
The reason translators are required is so many have sued the health service for being given incorrect advice. Even doctors who speak English are loathe to do so because of this compensation culture.
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:31pm
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The doctor was to right. I was with a surgeon yesterday in Los Arcos hospital. With a translator as always. The doctor was great teased ne in English that the procedure was going to make one side of my face younger than the other and stuff like that BUT when outlining the procedure and the necessity of me signing the necessary indemnity he did do through the translator. good luck with your treatmsnt
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