The answer must be as nuanced as the problem. We should assume nothing but respect a patient’s decision to know only so much
The interpreter gets to me first, with a face grown pale with concern. In a quaking voice, she whispers, “Doctor, the children are asking me not to translate the word ‘cancer’ every time you say it.” Her expression leads me to wryly conclude her newcomer status. After all, doesn’t every clinic encounter that problem?
The well-groomed, elderly patient is seated in a wheelchair. Her forearm is plastered, a result of her latest fall when she tried to get the bathroom in a hurry. Her rehabilitation has been hampered by a diagnosis of cognitive impairment, leading her doctors to back off. Then, she complains of abdominal pain and is unexpectedly diagnosed with widespread cancer.
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