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A significant portion of the Salt Lake City area's population is native Spanish speakers—when they are injured or face difficulty with the U.S. healthcare system, many don't know where to turn. Associate attorney McKay Corbett and the entire team at Younker Hyde Macfarlane are here to help. We are a bilingual law firm advocating for the marginalized so they can have their voices heard and achieve justice.
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A lot of times,
Hispanics come here to this country,
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and they hear lots of good stuff
about the United States
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and our healthcare system, for example,
and then something happens to them,
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and it damages them.
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And they're left,
especially when they don't speak English,
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they don't really know
where to go and what to do.
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It's really nice to be able to help
those people when they call in
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and just to give them
a little bit of information
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and tell them,
"Hey, hopefully we can help you.
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There are a few things
that we can maybe do for you
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to help you get out of this situation."
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I grew up here in Utah, but I grew up
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in what you could call
a mixed-race family.
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My dad is from here,
and then my mom is Hispanic,
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she's from El Salvador.
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What I like is we're the underdogs.
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It's us against the big guys.
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That can It's really daunting for people
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who want to go up
against something like that.
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We help that community
by talking with them
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and explaining to them
what the system is like
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and how we can help them navigate that,
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especially if they've been injured
and damaged or wronged in any way.
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It seems to be that a lot of times,
not always, anyone can get injured,
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anyone can be damaged because
of negligence, because of mistakes.
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But it seems to be a lot of times
those people that are most marginalized
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that suffer the most
of those consequences.
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The thing that I like the most
is being able to help those people,
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and I do believe that we do that.
