NEW YORK — Many doctors-in-training with shaky Spanish skills are willing to discuss medical care with their patients in Spanish — but that may change after they are tested for fluency, a new study suggests.

"Residents are working hard and are possibly less likely to take the extra time to get a professional interpreter," said Dr. Casey Lion, the new study's lead author and a pediatrician at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Lion told Reuters Health she believes doctors may forego getting an interpreter because they want to build a rapport with their patient.
"That's the thing people don't want to give up. They don't want to have to speak through somebody else," she added.
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