Device Addresses Healthcare Language Barrier

Zothecula writes "With over 170 languages spoken in the US alone, medical personnel attending an emergency or working in a busy hospital are no doubt often faced with communication problems when trying to dispense treatment. The Phrazer offers a possible solution to this problem. It is billed as the world's first multilingual communication system, where patients provide medical background information, symptoms or complaints with the help of a virtual onscreen doctor speaking in their own native tongue. This information is then summarized into a medical record compatible with all major EMR systems." All that for only 12 to 18 thousand dollars.

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Re:Make English an Official Language?

[perpetual pessimist]

Do you really think it's going to be good for our standing in the world if it gets around that our arrogant need to self aggrandize just cost one of their citizens' lives?

Fuck our "standing in the world". I don't give a damn what others think of my country, and I'm pretty sure they don't care what I think of theirs.

Re:Call me an asshole...

[painehope]

OK, you are an asshole. You are also a racist, unrealistic, nationalist scumbag, but you do know how to do a good self assessment. ; )

Adopting English as the official language of the US, a proposal which I have advocated, will not accomplish what you want which is obviously to "send them all back where they belong." Are you too timid to state your true thoughts?

I love this. You made my fucking morning...biting wit and the aim of a retard winding up his wiffle-ball bat! I'm not racist, I'm racialist (meaning I care about the benefit of my race before any others, but don't blindly hate anyone). I'm unrealistic, but I believe there is a certain quote about all progress being made by irrational or unrealistic (IIRC it's irrational, but in this case they're almost synonymous) men. And if you heard how much I criticize government in general and my own country and government in particular, you'd know better than to call me a nationalist. I will own up to being an asshole, and proud of it. I've been voted Asshole Of The Year for 3 years running, actually! My assholery knows no bounds...

But if you're going to call me all that, will you at least own up to being a "fuzzy bleeding heart fuck"?

And I am not too timid to state anything I feel. Personally, "send them all back where they belong" would leave me, my father, and a bunch of other Native Americans here, and everyone else somewhere else, depending on how you slice it (since I'm not quite pureblooded anything - though I am predominantly German, Irish, and Cherokee-Choctaw). Not to mention the fact that even if you considered White America as that dominant race (completely ignoring a wealth of history, like the fact that (a) the Spanish had a governor's mansion in CA before Plymouth Rock was ever found or (b) that most of my ancestors came over here as indentured servants [little better than slaves]), you have to define what that is (which is a major bone of contention amongst many people - just ask the wops, kikes, krauts, and other people with more-or-less white skin). Plus, if you send back all the wogs and - shit! I'm running out of racist terms to call people, I'm just not that good at being a xenophobic white supremacist. Fuck it - if you sent back all the people that weren't White Americans, I'd lose a lot of friends and colleagues. But Africa can have the niggers - that's one point where me and every single white supremacist agree. Ship those motherfuckers back ASAP - I'll bring the marshmallows and we can all sing campfire songs while we watch those useless motherfuckers struggling to pilot a ship (as nothing in the 5-8 generations of collecting welfare has prepared them to do anything even remotely resembling work) before the entire fleet crashes about 2 miles off shore and the entire nation collectively feels it's taxes lowered by a few billion each year.

Life seems a lot simpler when you're just casting stones, doesn't it? It's easy for you to point fingers when all I'm really saying is that stupidity has consequences. Hell, the French would laugh themselves silly if you went over there, got in a car wreck or whatever, and then tried to explain that you're allergic to a particular painkiller or antibiotic. Then they'd go back to planting trees so my German ancestors can march in the shade the next time they get pissed off and decide to take over most of Europe.