“…In some cases, interpreters filter out messages when confronted with messages reflecting negative judgements of one of the participants (Seale et al, 2013). When acting as patient empowerers, healthcare interpreters elaborate on comments to improve understanding of medical procedures (Hsieh, 2013), whilst patient advocacy involves activities seeking the patient's best interests, such as specifying their needs and preferences (Krystallidou et al, 2017), supervising their level of health literacy (Espinoza Suarez et al 2020), or providing emotional support (Lara-Otero et al, 2019). In addition, interpreters serve as representatives for the public service (Parrilla Gómez, 2019) and may collaborate with clinicians by assisting them in historytaking (Davitti, 2019), attempting to (re)direct the patient's responses towards the session's goal (Mirza et al, 2017) or exploring ambiguous answers (Baraldi and Gavioli, 2018).…”