A new language in the Intensive Care Unit
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Culture, Diversity, Language, Narrative medicine, Medical humanitiesAbstract
India is a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual nation. A chance encounter with a new language in the ICU led to a realisation of the language and the unique culture of a people who are on the margins of Indian society, but may have well been India's first internationalists.
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