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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I think that in the main the translators are to translate for patients.
I have worked with a vast number of Doctors in the past and most of them had good english, Ok they may not have understood the idioms and sometimes it was necessary to enlighten them when an older person explained they had 'not had a road through them in over a week'...or what a patient meant when they said they felt 'all mazy'.
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The thing is Margaret this is the only country in the world that translators are provided in any walk of life, cashy made the point earlier in the thread, we have become the doormat of the world, every sod wipes their feet on good old UK