Saturday was a joint conference combining two groups: Registry of Interpreters (particularly those who are interested in medical interpreting), and Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses (AMPHL). This was really neat because it was informative about issues such as being an effective team with the deaf professional and the interpreter making their way through school or a career.
Jaime and I were on a panel of four people. Each of us shared an awkward situation from experience and we had an open discussion on how to resolve them, how to avoid it in the future, etc. All of us, including the audience, were engaged in it enough that we took up a whole hour.
We had a nice banquet at the end of conference. Jaime--clinical psychologist; on his left is a medical student, her interpreter, Robert and Stephanie (good friends of ours who came to perform in a comedy show later on), a pre-med student, an R.N. and then me (another R.N.) behind the camera. Most everyone in the room signed, which was neat because in no other situation in the world can we talk about body parts not working properly in sign language. :)
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