Send us a text Medical interpreter and educator Yuliya Speroff traces her path from a book-filled childhood in Siberia to high-stakes conversations in Seattle hospitals. She explains how medical interpreting in the U.S. often falls to interpreters juggling work for many different fields, how vicarious trauma can affect medical interpreters, and what it means to convey emotion faithfully—without theatrics. Along the way: a rare moment of acknowledgment that stayed with her, the car...
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Send us a text Medical interpreter and educator Yuliya Speroff traces her path from a book-filled childhood in Siberia to high-stakes conversations in Seattle hospitals. She explains how medical interpreting in the U.S. often falls to interpreters juggling work for many different fields, how vicarious trauma can affect medical interpreters, and what it means to convey emotion faithfully—without theatrics. Along the way: a rare moment of acknowledgment that stayed with her, the car...
Provider Pulse Ep. 19: From Phnom Penh to Harborview - The Journey of Jeniffer Huong
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Provider Pulse Ep. 19: From Phnom Penh to Harborview - The Journey of Jeniffer Huong
Send us a text In this moving episode of the Provider Pulse Series of the EthnoMed podcast, we hear the extraordinary life story of Jeniffer Huong — one of Harborview’s original Cultural Care Mediators in the Community House Calls Program, which now serves patients in eight different languages. Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jeniffer’s early years were shaped by discipline, education, and family aspiration—until the Khmer Rouge forced her family from their home in 1975. She survived years of d...
The EthnoMed Podcast
Send us a text Medical interpreter and educator Yuliya Speroff traces her path from a book-filled childhood in Siberia to high-stakes conversations in Seattle hospitals. She explains how medical interpreting in the U.S. often falls to interpreters juggling work for many different fields, how vicarious trauma can affect medical interpreters, and what it means to convey emotion faithfully—without theatrics. Along the way: a rare moment of acknowledgment that stayed with her, the car...
