Genuine question. My East end londoner 90 year old father in law is pretty deaf. Can't hear at all in one ear, just about can hear a bit in the other with an aid. He struggles badly within the NHS because of staff from overseas, cannot understand accents at all, nothing much than from the South of England where he has lived all his life..
He's asked to speak to a British doctor twice when he started to get in ill health about 10 years ago, some of it seriously. It was really frowned upon, had a frosty reception, nobody helped anyway and now whenever he has an appointment, one of us has to go with him because he just didn't have a clue what was going on, which is poor. Being able to understand something as important as medical issues is a must, no?
Is he racist? Because he was made to feel so.