California is suffering from a growing shortage of doctors and nurses that is getting worse every day. Analysts believe that, without a serious investment to train or import tens of thousands of health workers who speak Spanish, the quality of medical care offered to Latinos will suffer, and affect society in general, since Latinos are a plural majority in the state. The lack of bilingual staff has become a crisis now that California’s Latinos are being hit harder than any other group by the coronavirus pandemic. To shed light on the benefits of pursuing a fast career in healthcare, Jessica Bedolla speaks with a veteran medical assistant in this story, which was partially funded by Futuro Health.
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