HCMC staffer’s switch from interpreter to physician assistant bridges gap with Somali patients

Eighty-year-old Mohamed Abdi suffered a fall outside of his Minneapolis home last week and ended up at Hennepin County Medical Center for severe pain from his neck down to his legs and knees.

“As I was walking, I just lost control,” Mohamed said in Somali. “The walker that I had in my hands ended up hitting me in the head.”

Mohamed relayed his condition in his native language to Muhiyadin Aden, an emergency department physician assistant. And in turn, Muhiyadin was able to inform him that imaging showed no severe damage to his head…

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