The Government points to a doctor who reflected in the medical history of a patient the "language barrier": "Always answer in Majorcan"

"History interfered by language barrier (always answer in Majorcan)"

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The General Director of Children, Youth and Family of the Balearic Government has aired on social networks the clinical history of a relative of hers to denounce alleged linguistic discrimination by an endocrinologist who did not complete the woman's examination because he did not understand Majorcan.

"In addition to a lack of respect for our language, putting in the medical report that the anamnesis is incomplete due to a language barrier, and making a diagnosis of it, is

", Marta Carrió has denounced on Twitter, and questions the private hospital network

, where the incident occurred.

According to the

, and always according to Carrió's account, the doctor

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The patient's family, about 70 years old, will process "the relevant complaints to the hospital's patient care service and to the Government's Office of Linguistic Rights."

For its part, the hospital explained to

that the annotation is "a note for internal use that should never have appeared written in the report."

According to the health center,

after spending years in the Balearic Islands.

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