Where are you located anyway Steve and are you local or laowai? Within hospital or interpretation career?

@Peter99, etc., I am workig at a hospital and doing management in the northern part of Kunming. I am Chinese and ever worked abroad for a couple years. I saw the Chinese oversea have no any worries on communication while seeing doctors because those hospitals provide professional interpreters, and medical interpretation is a formal job over there. But in China, few hospitals would hire and pay interpreters even more and more international patients come in.

Fortunately, we already found a coupe Chinese doctors who would be volunteering interpreters to help the foreign patients, but they still need training on English speaking.

We have to start with a Non-profit organization or group, all the members are volunteers. But if we can see any possibilties to develop business,we may reconsider our mode of service.

@yankeeoo, yeah, good idea, but it seems the old post can not be edited.