Ethics Talk: Responding to Language Barriers in Health Care - An Interview with Dr. Donald A. Barr

Mar 2017

Ethics Talk: Responding to Language Barriers in Health Care - An Interview with Dr. Donald A. Barr

Description

This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Zujaja Tauqeer, a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, interviewed Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD, about caring for patients with limited English language and health literacy schools. Dr. Barr is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.

Culturally-conscious care/Language barriers

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