Vivek Govardhanam is a 3rd-year resident physician at the University of Toronto. He is interested in policy leadership, language advocacy, and health systems innovation.
International clinical fellows have been the unsung heroes throughout the pandemic. Yet, we still haven’t been able to guarantee some of the basic workplace provisions for them that their Canadian colleagues take for granted.
In a multicultural city like Toronto, it only makes ethical and financial sense to provide language-sensitive care in hospitals. Without it, culturally sensitive communication is incomplete.