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| There was a tragic case where a German doctor killed someone in UK because their language skills weren’t up to scratch.
Welcoming doctors to help out when necessary is good, but having language standards is also good... | |
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Our GP is French, and works across the border, in French speaking Romandie- we do understand each other very well
- sometimes we even speak in English, for fun- and I teach her son and his friends.
But yes, I agree. Even C1 is too low- and then of course there is the ability to understand dialect, and older people who do speak very 'local'- words, expressions, accents.