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Resumen: Interpreters live in a dichotomous world. On one end, yhey are struggling to be viewed as professionals by health care providers and institutions. On the opposite end, the communities they serve often perceive them as medical providers. In this article, we aim to help interpreters come to terms with both the responsibilities and the ambiguities associated with the interpreting profession by exploring key concepts such as impartiality and transparency as well as transference and countertransference in the triadic encounter.

Resumen: Healthcare interpreting is an emerging profession undergoing rapid growth and change. This paper identifies some of the key phases in the professionalization of an occupation and applies them to healthcare interpreting, with particular emphasis on the establishment of professional associations, the creations ef ethical codes of conduct, improving training programs, and early efforts toward certification. The California Healthcare Interpreters Association (CHIA) California Standards for Healthcare Interpreters; Ethicals Principles, Protocols, and Guidelines on Roles and Intervention will be used as a case study to examine how the development of a formal ethics code can contribute to the strengthening of professional organizations and to the profession itself.

Resumen: Healthcare during the end of life is the most relevant, most talked about subject in clinical Medicine today. A 'death-defying' combination of the use of the hospital for final care, life-sustaining technological advances and the legal oversight of the medical decision-making process creates an assortment of end of life management problems and issues - be they medical legal, be they related to the patient or the family structure. A staggering 70 percent of Americans die in hospitals today (Ref.8). Hospitals, physicians and nurses, joined Hospice in a combined effort called Palliative Medicine. A new medical specialty been created which is presently increasing the number of physician training positions to meet the demands of a different patient population whose needs must be met once a curative or health enhancing effect can not be obtained. Landmark cases have received worlwide attention. New medical definitions and new judicial pronouncements have concurrently introduced new terminology and required documents that medical translators and interpreters must be conversant with.

Resumen: Many chemical terms and conceptsare encoutered by translators working in the biomedical field. Not all these terms are always crystal-clear. Because the author believes that a good understanding of the text to be translated is always helpful, the purpose of this presentation is to elucidate some of the basic as well as more obscure cencepts and potentially troublesome terminology. The discussion will center on selected topics from the fields of optical isomerism, drug chirality, drug characterization, pharmacokinetics, modified-release dosage forms, solution concentration, emulsions and others. The presentation should be of interest to collegues translating into and out of English.