National Origin Discrimination

A surgical specialist at a clin" rel="nofollow">inic in" rel="nofollow">in your network has had a complain" rel="nofollow">int lodged again" rel="nofollow">inst him. A patient has alleged that the specialist discrimin" rel="nofollow">inated again" rel="nofollow">inst her because she is an immigrant from Uzbekistan. The patient says that although she was in" rel="nofollow">initially able to make an appoin" rel="nofollow">intment, when she showed up for her first visit and requested a professional Uzbek language in" rel="nofollow">interpreter she was told that the specialist would not be able to treat her after all, because arrangin" rel="nofollow">ing for an in" rel="nofollow">interpreter was just “too expensive.” The patient believes that this is illegal denial of a “reasonable accommodation” under federal civil rights law, and is askin" rel="nofollow">ing Imperial Unlimited to fix the problem or she will file a federal complain" rel="nofollow">int. Your task is to fin" rel="nofollow">ind out whether this was legally an act of discrimin" rel="nofollow">ination, what the rights of the patient are in" rel="nofollow">in this case, and what obligations Imperial United has to remedy it. Submit a policy memo to your boss based on the in" rel="nofollow">instructions