Theme: Access and Equity

When language is the barrier to getting the information that matters from the family: It is the doctor that needs the interpreter, to understand the family and communicate with them fully.

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When language is the barrier to getting the information that matters from the family: It is the doctor that needs the interpreter, to understand the family and communicate with them fully.

A pediatric palliative care doctor describes how the language barrier can make parents feel unseen, unheard, and misunderstood. It’s hard enough for English-speaking people to navigate the system. She reframes how she thinks about language disparities. “the onus is on me to understand them, not them me.”