Professional ethics Good evening (if you are on my side of the pond). Good morning/afternoon to the rest of the world (LOL, I'm sorry if I'm overcomplicating things... it's just that I don't want to miss any chance to practice my English. I know it may not seem like a big deal, but without wanting to sound exaggerated, it's a step closer to achieving my goals. If any sentence sounds bad/stilted, or if you would never ever use it, please tell me what you would say instead!. Thank you in advance. - As is mentioned/as mentioned (which is correct?) in an article I read today, people rarely think of translators as having to deal with ethical issues. That may be due to the lack of knowledge about the profession that is still so pervasive today, even though the work of translators is so present in the lives of everyone. The most infamous case of unethical proceeding that I know of took place in the medical translation field. It can’t be completely chalked up to a translation blunder -the medical staff had a lot to do with how things turned out- had a lot to do , but it serves to illustrate how devastating a bad translation can (can I use come here -> come to be? would that change the meaning of the sentence in any way?) be: In Spanish, it is common to use the word “intoxicado” to refer to food poisoning, in English, though, “intoxicated” refers to the state following the intake of drugs, which is what Willie Rodriguez, the patient involved in this incident, ended up being treated for after a bilingual staff member who acted as the go-between suggested so. Naturally, he wasn’t prepared for the job, and the unwillingness on part of the hospital to provide him with a profesional interpreter led to Willie’s death. The point is that Willie wasn’t neither suffering from food poisoning nor intoxicated: He was suffering from an intracerebral hemorrhage. That being said, knowing when to turn down an assignment is all part of being profesional. Failing to do so, despite being well aware that you can’t measure up to the standard required, would be nothing short of irresponsible.