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Volume 6: Issue 2
Colwell v. United States Department of Health and Human Services: Feds Order Physicians and Health Care Providers to Provide Free Language Translation Services to Limited English Proficient Patients
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For 2,400 years, society has been confident that properly trained, competent, and compassionate physicians will not abuse such power. Not so, says the federal government. The patient-physician relationship came under attack by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) when it adopted a language policy controlling the manner in which physicians must communicate with their limited English proficient (LEP) patients. Physicians are fighting back....