Use of English language in hospitals

[Lilith7]

You would think that a reasonable grasp of English/ & or interpreters available at all times would be needed for anyone wanting to work in medicine here; the awful possibility of not having that should be blindingly obvious.

The use of interpreters is already common in patient to health professional environments. The issue being dealt with in this instance is inter-staff communications, as I have tried to illustrate.

The biggest problem in this discussion is that the all too active keyboard warriors are conflating patient interactions with the professionals' communications among the medical staff which are concise and precise by necessity in an environment that is often under extreme time constrains with a necessity for accuracy and full transmission of patient details than can at times change quickly. As you can imagine, the need for interpreters for communications between health workers is not a workable scenario, hence the need to restrict such communications to a common language.

If they can manage to have interpreters for staff/patient communication then surely it can't be much more difficult to provide adequate means of communication between medical staff who speak different languages, whatever that might be. And really if they balk at possible cost, then they might want to consider the cost of possible consequences, & not neccessarily just  the  financial cost.