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She Thinks We Were at War with China in the ’60s

Nurse on phone with patient: You speak Korean? Is that like Mandarin Chinese or Cantonese? So it’s called Korean? It’s not Chinese?

–New York Presbyterian Hospital

  • Posted on December 18, 2007
  • Hospitals, Language Barrier, Nurses
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