Exactly. That's the conversation that should've happened. But English was the patient's second or third language, learned late in life, and he was never partic

Exactly. That's the conversation that should've happened. But English was the patient's second or third language, learned late in life, and he was never particularly fluent in it. Enough that they didn't feel like calling a translator, but not enough to really communicate as well as should've happened. Waiting for him to come up with words didn't fit with modern medicine's idea of the doctor seeing another patient as promptly as possible, so instead, he's dead.