When I interact with patients, I am eager to tell them everything they need to know about their health condition, what I am planning to do, what they need to do, and so on. While this is a wonderful thing, when I am dealing with patients with limited health literacy and English fluency, I need to work with a medical interpreter (MI) to communicate with the patient. In communicating with the MI, it is important to follow the two-sentence rule. Watch the micro lecture to find out about more the two-sentence rule.
VJ Periyakoil, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine. Tweet to us: @palliator
