Korean is my mother tongue. I find not a lot of Korean nurses or nurse practitioners at hospitals in Bay Area. For example, there are no Korean physicians or NP around my area, so my parents used to drive 25 minutes to see a Korean doctor. The doctor, however, is now moved to another state. My parents have to have an interpreter when they see their current nurse practitioner. Another situation was when my grandmother was hospitalized at Alta Bates in Oakland; there were no Korean doctors available. Although Alta Bates had the phone translator system, it was useless because my grandmother had a hard time hearing other people. In the end, it was me who went to the hospital or talked to the doctor and nurses on the phone. I realized that there