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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I’m in healthcare and you are twisting what you do to be the norm. It’s not. Whatever you do interacting with these less common languages is not what the majority of us healthcare workers do. The most common non-English speaking group is Spanish.

In fact, if you take a poll of English only speaking healthcare workers, what language they wish they knew, an overwhelming majority if not 100% would say Spanish.[/quote]

PP here.  So where do you live?  California? Florida? Arizona? Texas? I work in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. in a large hospital. What I encounter _IS_ the norm where I live.  A plurality of the entirely-non-English speaking patients do speak Spanish, true.  But Spanish-only is not so far ahead of Language #2 and Language #3 and #4 that I'm going to devote much energy into conversational Spanish.

Amharic, I forgot that one.  My patients today spoke Amharic, Cantonese or Vietnamese.  No Central Americans today, no need for Spanish.

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I used to work in Rockville and Silver Spring in an urgent care.  Rockville we would need a spanish translator maybe once a day.  Silver Spring numerous times everyday to say the least.  In fact, the ancillary staff who worked there, most spoke Spanish (company was looking for staff who was fluent in Spanish) because too much time was lost with phone translation.  Spanish everyday, all the time.

I’m sure you already know that Silver Spring has a very high concentration of Spanish speaking people.  [/quote]

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