Marc M. Beuttler, MA, Kara N. Goldman, MD, and Jamie A. Grifo, MD, PhD
Respect for informed, autonomous decision making demands that useful, if anxiety-provoking, information about age-related decline in fertility not be withheld from women.
An explanation of the difficulties created by language barriers in the medical encounter between patients and health care professionals. Interpreters, while necessary, may also affect the patient physician relationship.
There are medical, legal, and ethical reasons for supporting language access for less proficient speakers of English who enter the US health system. Article describes policy and regulations that attempt to redress inadequacies in the system.