Challenges Of Interpreting Between Hmong Patients & Western Medicine: An Interpreter's Perspective - Softcover

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Maiv Txiab Vam Xeeb Yaj has been interpreting for more than twenty years. After graduating from a community college, she worked as a receptionist and interpreted at a health clinic for many Hmong patients in the past who did not know much English when they came to see their primary physicians. She also worked as a part-time Hmong interpreter for a mental health clinic with many Hmong clients who had been affected with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from the Vietnam War. Now, she is currently working as an over-the-phone Hmong interpreter for a company for doctors, nurses, social workers, and many other professional staffs who work with Hmong patients.