When providing medical services to a LEP (Low English Proficiency) patient, medical practitioners need to understand that experiences are perceived based upon his/her culture. Therefore, understanding culture is important as healthcare itself.

In this episode Berthine Crèvecoeur West, M.A., CoreCHI™, discuss which are the most common cultural perspectives for LEP patients when it comes to understanding illness.

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"People from different cultures not only speak different languages, but what is possibly more important, inhabit different sensory world. Experience, therefore, cannot be counted on as stable point of reference because it occurs in a setting that has been molded differently in each culture” - Edward T. Hall

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