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Sharon Blank

Sharon Blank

Aug 17, 2026

4:46
So can you point to any words that are particularly troublesome in this environment?
4:52
Um, there, there's plenty, and that is why, again, we do not even just use trained linguists.
4:59
We use pharmacists to certify these translations.
5:03
And I'm sure everyone is familiar with, you know, the idea and the growing thought behind, "Oh, well, we can just put it in Google and let Google translate it." But again, you know, are you-- would you take that kind of solution for a medication you were going to perhaps give your child and just assume that it's correct? You know, I always like, Karen, to use the example to just kind of help personalize it for everybody, which is, you know, if I were traveling in, let's say, Japan, and I were to take ill, and I end up, you know, getting a prescription and handed a pill bottle and go back to my hotel with this prescription written in a character language that I totally don't understand, and that's what these people are facing every day here in the US- They're not-- it means nothing to them, and that's pretty scary.
10:05
And so tell us a little bit about how the sort of FDA, how regulators are looking at this question of translation and the information that goes around the prescription drugs.
10:18
Okay.
10:19
So, um, right now it's being handled state by state.
10:24
So there is not a current federal mandate out there right now, um, ensuring that everyone does have access, and it is required that they provide access at the pharmacy for the, uh, translated dosing instructions.

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