Patients Who Speak Same Language as Their Doctor Live Longer, Study Suggests

Patients who speak same language as their doctor live longer, study suggests

Patients who talk with their doctors in the same language they use at home generally tend to live longer, suggests a recent study by researchers at the University of Ottawa and the University of Manitoba.

Doctor-patient common tongue associated with better long-term survival: uOttawa study

haring a common tongue is a key feature for improved long-term health for Francophone and diverse linguistic communities according to researchers from the University of Ottawa and the University of Manitoba. The retrospective study published in the journal AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology studied a total of 50,375 respondents over 15 years to find both Francophone and Allophone patients had significantly lower risk of all-cause mortality i…