Please help me. its almost 3am and imma fail my class if I dont turn this in. 30 points!! Healthcare professionals use a lot of medical terms, abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols to communicate with each other. How important is it for a healthcare professional to communicate with a patient in a language that a layperson would understand? What has been your experience with healthcare professionals? Do you think they dedicate enough time and efforts to explain the disease, diagnosis, treatment, and so on to patients? What can they do to make the patient comfortable? Many patients speak a language other than English. What do you think are the challenges for healthcare professionals in communicating with such patients? What tools and techniques do you think healthcare professionals should use to help non-English-speaking patients understand their treatments and diagnoses? If English isn’t your first language, how would you want healthcare professionals to treat and communicate with you?

GOOD LUCK. BAE

Explanation:

It is extremely important. There are various medical terms that doctors have learned plenty of times, but to a patient it may be the very first time they have ever heard of it.

In the healthcare industry I have seen through my own eyes how long it can take for a doctor to tend to a patient. Patients often spend 30+ minutes just to see a doctor to get a simple prescription. Such as a case for an asthma patient who simply wants to refill a prescription but needs doc authorization. Wait times are often too long, and doctors seem to rush through when there is high traffic.

Doctors will usually sympathize with patients by reflecting a certain mood. Happy for good news, sad and serious tone when there is a more serious problem.

If a doctor an simply not speak to a patient, it creates many problems. For one, they cannot relay any info to the patient. 2, a translator may not know the direct translation because they may not have as much knowledge as a doctor about medical terms that the doctor may have studied more in depth.  

a1 = unhealthy

a2= healthy

a3= healthy