<p>Hello all. Are doctors of certain races expected to be able to speak his/her ethnic language fluently? For instance, I am Korean and if I became a doctor, would I be assigned all of the Korean patients and would I have a hard time getting a hospital to accept me in if I am not able to speak Korean fluently?</p>
<p>Hah – by that logic, I’d get assigned all of Attila’s descendants. A dangerous lot, they are.</p>
<p>Probably Not. Just because you are a certain ethnicity doesn’t mean that you know that language.</p>
<p>my gaelic is horrible;</p>
<p>Seems to me it’d be quite racist to expect everyone who “looked Korean” to be able to speak Korean at such a level that they could conduct medical practice. No one expects Barack Obama to run his campaign in American English and Swahili, for example.</p>
<p>So don’t worry about it. 
If you can practice in English and Korean, that’s great.</p>
<p>haha alright thank you</p>
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Oh, I do. Swahili or bust, that’s my motto.</p>