Should doctors be required to provide non-English speaking patients with translators?
89 percent of those responding to this question in a Wall Street Journal poll of its online readership said NO. The poll was conducted in conjunction with page 1 story in the newspaper Jan. 9th about the growing burdens doctors face in providing translation services for their non-English speaking patients as mandated under Executive Order 13166 (For Ill Immigrants, Doctors Orders Get Lost in Translation, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 9, 2003). Minneapolis Transit Officials Say Adding Somali Costs Too Much Minneapolis transit officials voted against adding the Somali language to the new light rail ticket vending machines ordered for the citys Hiawatha Avenue line linking downtown and the world-famous Mall of America in the city suburbs. But at the same time, the metropolitan transit authority ordered its staff to comb the agencys budget in an effort to come up with the $116,000 that would be necessary to make the change. If they succeed in finding the money, Somali would be added to Spanish
