language failure

[tsukikage]

Why doesn't a major hospital have any interpretation staff for languages as common as Chinese?

[EDIT: Dude, Caribou low-fat banana nut bread is NASTY. It's so disgustingly sweet... I can't believe I ate half of that before throwing it out.]

Comments

[akibare.livejournal.com]

They don't? That is surprising.

Ours has various, including Viet, which alas doesn't stop certain nativist types complaining ("but they're foreigners!!1!!!") which is its own peeve.

From what I can tell (recently I'm getting familiar with the hospital intake) if they don't have your language they'll at least TRY to get someone over the phone. I imagine that's at least as frustrating as your average overseas tech support call, but at least they're trying. I know they do have local Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese (the major non-English languages around here) but, dunno about others.

Me, I speak English, which is good... but they still screw up my name every time :)

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

This is a fictitious hospital, though.

[akibare.livejournal.com]

Ah. Okay. :)

[carve037.livejournal.com]

Was this Mandarin Chinese or another one? If it were say, Wu or Min Nan Chinese, it would be pretty understandable.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

This is something that did come to mind, but they didn't even get that far.

[carve037.livejournal.com]

Also, the banana bread's made with Splenda, so that's probably what you're tasting.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

><; That's probably it. Really, I guess it's my own fault for assuming something low-fat wouldn't have "make-up flavoring" in it.