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March 2008

Cover Feature: A different kind of competency

Growing immigrant population spurs new regulations, education programs


A different kind of competencyJuan Lopez, a Hispanic man with limited English proficiency, is admitted to your hospital with severe abdominal pain. You think he needs surgery, but he insists that the pain is the result of a hex, and requests treatment from a witch doctor. How do you respond?

 

 

 

 

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