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Our Health System Is Failing Patients with Limited English
Better communication could help reduce inequities, but our medical infrastructure isn’t designed to take that into account
Benjamin Allar, M.D., is a research fellow at the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.
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