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Telemedicine is now a "thing," it is not that difficult to find a medical professional in another country who is fluent in English as well as the target languag
by pseingatl 5y ago
Telemedicine is now a "thing," it is not that difficult to find a medical professional in another country who is fluent in English as well as the target language. Just as X-Rays are now commonly sent overseas to be read, you can set up a Zoom call with a medical colleague who is bilingual.
On the other hand, if you are complaining about the quality of Google Translate, that is another matter. Deepl.com's translations are better, but they support fewer languages. Google Translate works on the amount of source material available in the foreign language and what kind of source material. Mandarin can be quite good. Legal Arabic isn't that bad either, after a United Nations project to translate all Iraqi laws into English. There's not that much Burmese; Thai translations are uniformly horrible and as for Mizo? Forget it.
- 1986 5y agoAs with anything in US healthcare, it's never that simple, e.g. Telehealth providers outside of the US can't bill Medicare (https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/doctors-outside-us-cannot-bill-medicare-for-telehealth-court-confirms https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/doctors-outside-us-cann...) which covers about 1/5 of the population.