# "I just assumed that it would translate": examining MT risk awareness among healthcare staff with abbreviations as a use case

**Published:** October 5, 2026
**Author:** Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe, F\'elix do Carmo, Constantin Or\u{a}san
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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In the UK, public healthcare staff report turning to machine translation (MT) - predominantly Google Translate (GT) - to communicate with patients across language barriers. Though intended to support their duty of care, potentially uninformed reliance on MT in such contexts…

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