Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

conductores permanentes

English translation:

full-time chauffeurs/chauffer service

Added to glossary by Cinnamon Nolan
Apr 14, 2012 00:12
12 yrs ago
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Spanish term

conductores permanentes

Spanish to English Medical Medical: Health Care Judicialization of the right to health
The text is about patients who take claims for non-approved therapies to court to force the health system to pay for them. It's a growing practice in Latin America, used most often for cancer chemotherapy. In this case, the country is Colombia.

Frente a la priorización de los jueces, no hay priorización explicita. Los jueces son en esencia autónomos, lo que ha dado pie a algunos abusos: tutelas que ordenan pagar por equinoterapias, implantes peneales, ascensores, **conductores permanentes**, etc.
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Apr 18, 2012 01:19: Cinnamon Nolan Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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full-time chauffeurs

The idea of "full-time" is essential if you are thinking about the individuals who drive the judges around.

Permanent chauffer service
Permanent chauffer-driven cars
These are other possibilities, especially if the idea is always being able to have someone drive you around, but not necessisarily the same driver each time.


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Note from asker:
Thanks, Cinnamon. In this case, it's actually the patients who are appealing to the court to get payment approved for the benefits. But even so, your point is well taken and I think it conveys the idea nicely.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, Cinnamon!"
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permanent chauffeurs

Or "drivers", if you prefer, but perhaps "chauffeurs" makes it clearly. That is, people to drive you around all the time, on the grounds that you can't drive yourself. Given the context, this is what it suggests to me.

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Sorry: "makes it clearer". My typing is getting increasingly inaccurate; it's rather alarming.
Peer comment(s):

agree Richard Hill
51 mins
Thanks, Rich :)
agree liz askew : or drivers. "permanent" definitely.
1 day 17 hrs
Thanks, Liz :)
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11 hrs

chaperone

could be another way
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personal drivers

I think "personal" better than "permanent" and I don't think the peaked cap image of "chauffeur" is needed here. Otherwise I agree with Charles' reading of this given the context.

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these would be similar to "personal assistants" for the infirm except the role here is to act as driver



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in terms of the "permanent" point, well, I really think it sounds clunky in English. It is increasingluy common for (infirm/disabled) people to have personal assistants and/or drivers on a part-time or full-time basis and the positions are usually contracted so perhaps "full-time" would get the idea across, provided you know it's full-time position of course!
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis : I think this is a good idea, though I'm not sure about sacrificing "permanent"; I feel the ongoing nature of it is an important element. "Chauffeurs" don't have to wear peaked caps!
11 mins
thanks Charles:-) No, you're right, they don't, but I'm afraid that's the image conjured up in my mind, and I'm sure for others, of the hoi polloi/celebrities/limos/Rolls/weddings!
agree James A. Walsh
8 hrs
many thanks James:-)
neutral liz askew : In think "permanentes" has a different meaning, rather than "personal".
1 day 16 hrs
Not saying "parmanentes"=personal but that's what the role/position is of this individual imo.
agree GUR CAKE
2 days 1 hr
many thanks! Knew there had to be Dublin connection with a moniker like that:-)
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