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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:38:07 -0500, "Michael Yared" <myared@erols.com>
wrote:

>As I mentioned in the deaf-l@siu.edu listserv, doctors are not required to
>hire sign language interpreters if they can communicate. Most interpreters
>are not that good at medical sign language. beside, you need to write down
>and your doctors should write down all those medical terminologists so you
>can research it yourself. 

I have keen memory, and I can remember every words the doctor say. The
interpreter usually spells out the word if they don't know the word,
or they ask the doctor how to spell it out, so, I don't have problem
with that. Also, the hospital gives me a lengthy, clear instructional
note whenever I leave the hospital.

>Kaiser Health have their own interpreters - if
>you're willingto ait that long for an appointment and go to different
>doctors each time.
>Doctors are highly educated professional. Do you mean those from India,
>Pakistan, China, who cannot write good English? Tough. they need to pass the
>foreign doctor tests offered by the AMA.
>
>If you insist on it, find a sign language interpreting agency like SLA, get
>the name of the interpreters and give them to the business manager of the
>doctor's office and tell them about IRS Form 8826 (Disabled Access Credit).
>I tis people like you who don't give or tell "those ignorant idiots who
>don't know deaf culture" because we don't tell them where to get the
>interpreters.
>
>Adios
>Mike YAred

The tax credit is spelled out in the link mentioned in my previous
post in this thread:

http://www.nad.org/infocenter/infotogo/legal/ada3qa.html
http://www.nad.org/infocenter/infotogo/legal/doctors.html

I fax these memos to doctor after they refuse my request.

Even if I told them about the tax credit, still some doctors don't
care.....