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Originally Posted by Dragonpaco
the russian speaking people here are a huge problem too. nobody at the police station, ems or fire department speaks russian so when we get those calls, we're pretty much fucked
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I had to register a guy tonight who spoke two languages; russian and horrible spanish. It was... interesting. We have some fancy language hotline with two receivers that is wonderful in theory. Plug in the phone into a special outlet, give the patient one receiver and use the other receiver, patch into the language line and get a translator for various languages. Again, beautiful in theory, but it seems to be limited to Spanish, French, Creole, and Portuguese.
And I hate to stereotype, but fuck, does every Russian who comes into the ER have to have a broken nose and be piss ass drunk? It's all the same shit, just a bunch of drunks getting into a fight at the bars, getting fucked up, then coming into the ER and blaming it on "the blacks". It must be a russian script that they all follow.