🚀 go-pugleaf

Good luck in court.  You don't have a "slam dunk" case.

from Title III...
"(a) General. A public accommodation shall take those steps that may be
necessary to ensure that no individual with a disability is excluded, denied
services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals
because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the public
accommodation can demonstrate that taking those steps would fundamentally
alter the nature of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages,
or accommodations being offered or would result in an undue burden, i.e.,
significant difficulty or expense."

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A physician's office could argue that hiring and paying for your interpreter
is an undue burden -- and likely could make a case that alternative and
effective means of communication are possible.  I'm sympathetic to your
disability -- but your obvious goal of wanting to punish somebody with a
lawyer makes me want to puke.   You just want somebody else to pay for your
trouble.






"Michael Campbell" <mjcampbell@erols.com.remove> wrote in message
news:3ca2776a.3668044@news.rcn.com...
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:04:00 -0600, "fpharryc" <fpharryc@telocity.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Right, go ahead, sue, sue him, sue everybody. Sue for your right, sue for
> >more cash, sue for higher satisfaction, sue for your future.
>
> I'm not suing for big money. Its just that I'm not going to spend alot
> of money bringing my interpreter to every doctor I visit. I have
> medical bills to pay also.  Doctors can receive tax credit for
> providing disability access aids and services so why don't they take
> advantage of this if they do really care for their patients?
>
> http://www.nad.org/infocenter/infotogo/legal/doctors.html
>
> http://www.nad.org/infocenter/infotogo/legal/ada3qa.html
>
> >Mind you, doctors have enough crap already, just like you do. This
country
> >need help.
>
> Is just because they refuse to abide by the ADA law? Yes, and you are
> right, this country needs help... we need stricter ADA law so that
> these doctors WILL be enforced to abide by it. Too many deaf people
> are suffering from lack of reasonable accommodations, and I'm sure
> many of them are not willing to see their doctors often because of
> this. This happens to me too. I've tried paper writing but I feel this
> is not effective enough for me. It is time consuming and cumbersome to
> write notes. And some doctors are not patient with writing note. So,
> less note, poor medical care.
>
> With interpreter, I can communicate freely and effectively. I feel I
> get better medical care this way.
>
> >"Michael Campbell" <mjcampbell@erols.com.remove> wrote in message
> >news:3ca132f8.623105@news.rcn.com...
> >>
> >> It seems many doctors in the Northern Virginia area, especially in the
> >> whole USA, are violating ADA laws by refusing requests for sign
> >> language interpreter. All they think of is money, not patients and
> >> their needs. I ran into four of of them already, and I'm looking for
> >> an attorney. Do you know of a good lawyer that specializes in ADA in
> >> the Northern Virginia area?
> >>
> >
> >
>