Patient education and counseling
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To investigate how empathic communication is expressed in interpreter-mediated consultations (IMCs) and the interpreter's effect on it. ⋯ Doctors and interpreters require skills to detect patient cues, assess them correctly, render them completely and in an appropriate manner (interpreters) and display communicative behaviours that take into account the intricacies of interpreter-mediated clinical communication and facilitate each other's communicative goals.