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Under his guidance, a series of medical phrase books for Haitian Creole, Cantonese and Spanish were produced and sent free to hospitals throughout the country. The demand continues to be so great that Federman and Associate Dean for Alumni Programs and Special Projects Nora N. Nercessian plan to publish them on the web to keep...
...goal is to make medical care accessible to people who do not speak the same language as the doctor,” Federman says...
Literal translations in medicine are not the only kind that Federman plans to discuss. He says he will speak on the value of translational research—that is, taking advances in the basic sciences and using them to improve medical care...
...Federman graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1949, after concentrating in social relations, a mix of psychology, social anthropology and sociology. After taking a class in physiology, he decided to go into endocrinology. His early interests in human interactions stayed with him through his medical work...
...hope to represent the morality of medicine and the personal side of it,” Federman says...