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Advocate - but not defender or attorney

Spanish translation: representante-acompañante

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English term or phrase:	Advocate - but not defender or attorney
Spanish translation:	representante-acompañante
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14:21 Apr 16, 2005

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Medical: Health Care

English term or phrase: Advocate - but not defender or attorney

It is a trusted person who a patient undergoing treatment at a hospital asks to accompany him/her to treatments, lab tests, doctor's consults to help ensure there are no confusions and that questions are answered appropriately

bhowen KudoZ activity Questions: 91 (none open) Answers: 113
Local time: 11:52

representante-acompañante

Explanation:
Puede ser según contexto.

Selected response from:

Xenia Wong
Local time: 10:52

Grading comment

Thank you. I used "acompañante de confianza" in this case.
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Summary of answers provided

2 +5

representante-acompañante

Xenia Wong

5 +1

consejero/respaldante

Walter Landesman

promotora

felizfeliz

asistente personal

Flavio Posse

defensor del paciente

Maria

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2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

advocate - but not defender or attorney

representante-acompañante

Explanation:
Puede ser según contexto.

Xenia Wong
Local time: 10:52
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 233

Grading comment

Thank you. I used "acompañante de confianza" in this case.

25 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

advocate - but not defender or attorney consejero/respaldante

Explanation:
bioethics

Walter Landesman
Uruguay
Local time: 12:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 184
1 corroborated select project
in this pair and field

36 mins confidence:

advocate - but not defender or attorney asistente personal

Explanation:
.

Flavio Posse
United States
Local time: 08:52
Native speaker of:

Spanish

3 hrs confidence:

advocate - but not defender or attorney defensor del paciente

Explanation:
Esta es otra opción, dado que "ombudsman" (who is not a defender or attorney) is often translated as "defensor del pueblo".

Hope it helps.

Maria
Local time: 10:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 11

1 day13 hrs confidence:

advocate - but not defender or attorney promotora

Explanation:
Promotoras

The role of the Hospital de la Familia and Femap neither starts nor ends at its doors. The organizations' use of citizen volunteers (called "promotoras") was one of the first in North America and looks especially at reproductive issues, says Martínez. Under the promotora system, one paid hospital social worker works with 8 volunteer coordinators. In turn, these coordinators have many volunteer promotoras working with them that go door to door in their communities talking about issues like family planning and reproductive health.

Martínez said that the program is a strong one because even if the social worker leaves, the coordinators and promotoras hardly ever give up their work. Indeed, some of them have been with the outreach program for so long that the hospital is now beginning to attract a second generation of volunteers.

Reference: http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/apr02/feat4.html

felizfeliz
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English

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