{"id":267,"date":"2007-01-10T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/01\/10\/dr-ricaurtes-office-caters-to-spanish-speaking-latinas\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:35:02","slug":"dr-ricaurtes-office-caters-to-spanish-speaking-latinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/dr-ricaurtes-office-caters-to-spanish-speaking-latinas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ricaurte’s Office Caters to Spanish Speaking Latinas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dr_ricaurte\"<\/a>There are numerous health care issues for the Latino community that some health care providers don\u2019t know much about, let alone acknowledge.\u00a0 Before an examination a simple handshake from the doctor might make a huge difference to an immigrant Latino\/a in their overall health care experience. When using translators, it is recommended that the patient is seated directly in front of the doctor with the person translating to the side as to create a \u201ctriangle\u201d so that the non-verbal gestures are also understood.\u00a0 These are some of the little things that may make a difference to Latinos while receiving health care.\u00a0 But who better to understand Latino patients than Latino doctors, nurses, and receptionists.\u00a0 It is a perspective that Dr. Eduardo Luis Ricuarte\u2019s private practice is able to understand and cater to.\u00a0 For 20 years he\u2019s been in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in Oct. of 2004 he started his private practice in Bettendorf, Iowa close to the area where he grew up.\u00a0 This \u201cconsumer driven\u201d practice has now become a place where any Spanish-speaking patient can be tended to by Latinos from the moment they call the office.\u00a0 This is especially important to an area of medicine where a lot of personal questions may be asked.\u201cSometimes they tell her stuff that they don\u2019t even tell me,\u201d Dr. Ricuarte explains as he is quick to give credit to nurse, Lisa Stout and receptionist, Josie Lindsey \u2013 who are both Latinas and bilingual \u2013 for being able to create a sense of comfort from the moment they step into the office.\u201cIt isn\u2019t just me, it\u2019s the nurse and the receptionist, because they\u2019ll call the office, then there will be a pause and \u2018you speak Spanish\u2019 then right away the receptionist is bilingual and so from the beginning they just feel comfortable, not just with me.\u201dDr. Ricuarte is happy that his staff can tend to patients in their language but admits that \u201cit was not by design,\u201d it just now happens to be that way.One thing was for sure early in his life, he recalls deciding to become a doctor when he was in the third or fourth grade.\u00a0 His father was a doctor in Ecuador and when Dr. Eduardo Ricuarte was only 5 years old, the family moved to the United States where his father eventually became the town doctor for Erie, Ill.\u201cWe don\u2019t have town doctors now.\u00a0 This was back in the 60s before malpractice issues and so forth, and I just saw how appreciative people were of my dad and I thought, \u2018this is what I want to do,\u2019\u201d he said.He moved around the Quad Cities and Galesburg, Ill. went to Alleman High School in Rock Island but eventually his 12 years of medical schooling took him from Iowa City, Iowa to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico to Chicago to Omaha, Neb. where he finished his residency.\u00a0 After practicing in other states an opportunity arose to come back to the Quad Cities and he took it.Today he still sees that sort of appreciation patients had for his father as a town doctor in the 60s in many of his Latino patients.\u201cThe Hispanic population here is very nice, very humble, very compliant.\u00a0 They are very easy to take care of.\u00a0 Most of them just by nature they are very appreciative,\u201d he adds that sometimes when he is telling them of certain options in procedures to choose from they might just respond with \u201cwhatever you think\u201d.But the doctor does the patient wants, since Obstetrics is one of the more consumer-driven practices there is.\u00a0 He will even deliver babies at whichever hospital in Iowa the patient prefers.\u00a0 That gratitude is seen on pictures of many of the mothers and their babies he\u2019s delivered that completely cover two bulletin boards on the way to his office.<\/p>\n

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