Really? A lot of our hospitals in Ontario make use of a tablet on a stick that can very quickly connect with a live translator on camera in their language. I am

Really? A lot of our hospitals in Ontario make use of a tablet on a stick that can very quickly connect with a live translator on camera in their language. I am surprised Vancouver would be using Google translate and not an option like this. I've used it and it works fairly decently. Obviously it's still slower than speaking their language, but even having a translator in person still incurs such a delay. The only real benefit I found to in person is that it's a bit more personal feeling and you don't have as many issues with the patient not hearing what they said on the tablet and vice-versa. I found the language barriers are not a huge deal with options like this. I've also worked for a 911 call center taking ambulance calls and it's much harder to manage language barriers there as it can be hard to tell someone who speaks none of your language that you're getting a translation service on the line.