DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, May 16, 2016
-- what to do if no interpreter shows up
What happens if a hospital calls for an interpreter,
but the patient must be operated on ASAP, and if
the doctor waits, it may be too late? It happened
to a deaf woman, that needed an interpreter during
child birth, but the operation must proceed or
the baby would die. At the risk of a lawsuit,
the doctor went on with the operation. The baby
was saved and the mother was happy. A nurse
saw it all, and came up with flash cards designed
by his wife. A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/emergency-flash-cards/
-- Wendy's becoming deaf-friendly
Wendy's is angry with the minimum wage law. As a result,
this hamburger chain will lay off human workers, and
replace it with self-service kiosks in their restaurants.
Does this make easier for deaf patrons to order their
food instead of hassling with the human workers?
We shall see.
-- selling carpets
Two deaf women make carpets that are being sold to customers
in Japan and Asia. This is interesting because these
women - Saba and Sanaa (last names not known) live in
a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey. A private agency has
been helping these women with these sales. At this
point it is not known if they are in business for
themselves or if the private agency is pocketing
the profits?
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- deaf comic book
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
05/15/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
