If you are a doctor dealing with immigrant or visiting patients, you may run into situations when you have to be able to access a patient's previous medical record, but what do you do when the record is in a language that you can read, or even worse what do you do if the patient doesn't speak your language? The answer is simple. There are professionals who dedicate their lives to the field of medical interpreting. Theses people not only have above average, fluency in both the source and target languages in which they specialize, they usually have a solid background in medical terminology.