![editorial board member Pediatric Ethicscope: the Journal of Pediatric Bioethics and Pediatric Ethics Physician discusses diagnosis with patient's parents.](https://pediatricethicscope.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/4.-Proano-Medical-translation.jpg)
A lack of empathy while standing in as a translator for another physician’s patient and family raised the following question: can one be culturally insensitive to one’s own culture? The following narrative explores the divide between medical and patient/family worldviews.