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ries, comfort patients, explain medical
procedures as they happen, relay
advice from doctors and physical ther-
f Sinai Hospital had it's own
apists, assist in births, help make
city government, Susanna
funeral arrangements, help admit or
Berger would be mayor for life.
discharge patients and do social work.
Officially, she is the hospi-
"Whoever calls me and
tal's language interpretation pro-
needs me, I go," Berger simply
Susan na
gram coordinator, but put into
said.
Berger
with
context, her job is less formal
She will get a schedule of
Guenn adi appointments a week in
than it sounds.
Char ov.
She calls her job "walking the
advance and she has eight vol-
halls," and she knows everyone
unteers she can call in when she
who works the sterile hallways of
expects life to get hectic. But
Sinai. Hugs and smiles from grateful
"unplanned events happen all the
staff members greet her wherever she
time."
goes.
During a slow day last week,
According to statistics, about 2,000
Berger's pager went off summoning
Russian-speaking patients come to
her to the emergency room. A 39-
Sinai every year. Between in-patients
year-old-man, visiting his father recov-
and out-patients, scheduled and walk-
ering from triple-bypass surgery, had
ins, Berger may see as many as 18
passed out. The mother, who had
patients a day, for a hundred different
begun treatment for high blood pres-
reasons.
sure, was there when it happened. No
Most of her work is translating for
one spoke English. -
Russian-speakers, but she can also get
"The patient worried about the
by in Yiddish, Hungarian and
son, the son was worried about the
Ukrainian.
father, and both worried about the
For the last five years she has been
mother," Berger said.
on hand to help take medical histo-
Susanna spent the next day \Vith

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