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Google Translate and other online translation apps, devices, and related technology are readily available. They are used frequently for numerous translations. However, use of and reliance on online translation technology is truly a fraught exercise. While capable of translating individual words or simple commands accurately, Google Translate and its compatriot technologies cannot accurately translate paragraphs, […]
In November 2018, a federal judge in Wisconsin dismissed an Americans with Disabilities Act discrimination case against Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. The court decided that even if the hospital had discriminated against the deaf mother of two infant patients, as she claimed, she could recover no money damages because she had no evidence to satisfy […]
Bromberg & Associates is a proud sponsor of this year’s 7th Annual Packzi Run hosted by Tour de Troit on March 2nd! The 7th Annual Packzi Run featured a 5K tour around the city of Hamtramck, soon followed by paczki, beer & polka available for all participants at the finish line. All local businesses were encouraged […]
Two women filed a federal lawsuit in February 2019 against the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency. The women, Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez, were stopped last spring near the US/Canada border by a CBP agent who asked for their identification because he heard them speaking Spanish. The border agent, identified in the lawsuit […]
On May 25, 2018, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws were officially implemented to ensure that any company, which digitally collects personal data from European Union (EU) citizen-consumers were expected to be in complete compliance with the regulations established within GDPR guidelines. In order to be in full accordance with this new regulation, companies must […]
Language has myriad twists and turns – accent, dialects, regionalisms, slang, racial and ethnic distinctions. We all speak the same language differently because of our very differences. Such differences often manifest themselves in ways that surprise many but in reality, should come as no surprise at all. However, surprise or not, intra-language differences, unless understood […]
In the age of electronic media, you may have used a client document portal at one time or another. Document portals are designed to eliminate the need to email sensitive or confidential documents, which often poses security issues as well as risk of incompatibility with the receiver’s software. They also provide a quicker and more […]
Teachable moments occur often, at odd times, and indeed at inconvenient times. For some Duke University Medical Center professors, their teachable moment is proving to be highly inconvenient, to say the least and most troubling. According to The Washington Post, the teachable moment came in an email, sent by faculty on January 26, 2019: “Something […]
Communication is much more than simply speaking the same language. To facilitate understanding with the person to whom you are speaking, there must also be an awareness and appreciation of where that person is coming from, literally. An awareness of that person’s culture, which extends to traditions, language, and beliefs, is vitally important when attempting […]
The Americans with Disabilities Act’s threshold requirement for effective communications between deaf patient and healthcare provider continues to generate much misunderstanding, disagreement, and eventually litigation. Effective communication, the courts have decided, depends upon what happens case by case. But in the end, the key question is whether the patient can participate meaningfully concerning his healthcare, […]
