Perspective
Aug. 31, 2016
AB 1726: A need that is plaguing the AAPI community
AAPIs are America's fastest growing racial group. The group often faces the model minority myth — the idea that AAPIs are well-educated, wealthy and self-sufficient. But AAPIs are not monolithic. By Charles H. Jung
Charles H. Jung
Partner
Nassiri & Jung LLP
Charles is President of the Bar Association of San Francisco
When TR, a 66-year-old Cambodian refugee living in Orange County, had a heart attack, one of his children called 911. At the hospital, with only his children to interpret for him, the doctors attempted to convey his need for immediate heart surgery. But because of their limited Khmer language capacity, the translation was imperfect (they didn't know the term for heart). TR was put under, and the doctors performed open heart surg...
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