PharmCountry » spanish http://pharmcountry.net Curse you, Eli Whitney! Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:27:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://pharmcountry.net/2007/04/20/se-habla-espanol/ http://pharmcountry.net/2007/04/20/se-habla-espanol/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:00:52 +0000 Andrew http://pharmcountry.blogpharm.com/2007/04/20/se-habla-espanol/ Ok, well, I’m not anywhere near fluent in Spanish, but I know the basics. “Hi, how are you?” “Take one tablet every day,” etc.

Today, I had a patient come in that spoke very little (and very broken) English. I greeted him, first in English, then in Spanish when I saw that he didn’t understand me. I got his name and d.o.b., then went to the computer to see if he was in the system, and of course he wasn’t.

So, I put a pen and profile form (in Spanish) in front of him. Did he start writing? No; he handed me his ID card. Well, I just copied down his name and address, asked him his phone number and other pertinent info. When I got to drug allergies, though, we hit a snag:

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