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Usually your staff comes from the local population which gives you staff members who speak the languages you would need.
There are relatively few native French speakers in Vancouver..
Why is Google translate still so bad? I remember that when it was introduced many years ago it was horribly bad but it's badness was a hope that things will improve quickly. And after so many years and so much data available to google it's still that bad.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting that Google translate is good enough for medical translation; we should still be employing people for this job.
This article says they used Google Translate for "Taiwanese to English, English to Taiwanese", but Google Translate doesn't list 'Taiwanese' as a language. It does list 'Chinese (Traditional)' and I guess that's what they were using.
Why is Google translate still so bad? I remember that when it was introduced many years ago it was horribly bad but it's badness was a hope that things will improve quickly. And after so many years and so much data available to google it's still that bad.
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You can buy oxy on the street. Super expensive. $1/mg.
And 50/50 odds it's actually an unknown dosage of fentanyl.
the actual probability depends on your location,
but in general:
the kids are FUCKED
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Yep, absolutely. My doctor of 10+ years recently retired, leaving me in search of a new doc. I've been managing my pain for 15+ years just fine with 10mg Hydrocodone. In 15 years I only once asked to increase the dose, and it was only from two pills per day to three to help me get through the afternoon/evening better. A minuscule dose. After doing "new patient" appointments (which by the way were like $200 to $300 ea…
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all legitimate pills have been bought, sold, and removed from the open market, monthes in advanced, years ago..
the safest thing you can buy to treat pain on the internet is tramadol, or, believe it or not, is...
black tar heroin.
everything else is Fent.
Why is Google translate still so bad? I remember that when it was introduced many years ago it was horribly bad but it's badness was a hope that things will improve quickly. And after so many years and so much data available to google it's still that bad.
Why are translation services the issue here? Why isn’t the issue: non-English speakers allowed to practice medicine on people without being able to talk to them. I’m seriously fed up with this nonsense. If I’m moving to a country, I’m learning the damned language. Reply to me if you want to talk to someone who endured 5 years of university education delivered incoherently by non-English speakers. I wasted lots of mon…
Isn't the article about patients who don't speak English, not doctors?
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My SO had to seek medical attention in rural southern France (we were visiting Carcassone) - she initially sought care at the local emerg where there was not a translator available, she speaks high-school french but most of the conversation was carried out through miming and charades. A few days later, as instructed, she followed up with a local clinic where she prepared a written version of her condition and brought…
> I think it's reasonable to rely on tools like Google Translate, it sucks but full language coverage isn't reasonable. Far better than what was possible before, when as a tourist you maybe had a phrasebook or something similar. This is part of the risk of travel into an area where you don't know the language. Also if you are going to permanently move to such a place, it's incumbent on you to become functionally flue…
Of course nobody owes anybody anything. I do think that in countries with nationalized health care, at the very least having a call center to help out with language difficulties around this feels like almost a no brainer though.
There are doctors with specialized dictionaries and the like as well, of course.
And... yeah honestly, Google Translate (or my favorite solution of "go to wikipedia page and find the linked article in local language") can help a lot.
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It has become an absolute joke. I have had 6 surgeries for Crohns, a back surgery due to wear and tear from high level athletics, and am a long term sufferer of an aggressive leukaemia. Despite using opioids responsibly for over a decade, I am regarded as nothing more than a drug seeking pest the very few times I have actively sought pain relief during in-patient hospital stays. Prior to being dropped entirely from m…
Yep, absolutely. My doctor of 10+ years recently retired, leaving me in search of a new doc. I've been managing my pain for 15+ years just fine with 10mg Hydrocodone. In 15 years I only once asked to increase the dose, and it was only from two pills per day to three to help me get through the afternoon/evening better. A minuscule dose. After doing "new patient" appointments (which by the way were like $200 to $300 ea…