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conductores permanentes

English translation: full-time chauffeurs/chauffer service

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Spanish term or phrase:conductores permanentes
English translation:full-time chauffeurs/chauffer service
Entered by: Cinnamon Nolan

00:12 Apr 14, 2012
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care / Judicialization of the right to health
Spanish term or phrase: conductores permanentes
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.
Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 11:14
full-time chauffeurs
Explanation:
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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How to become a chauffeur
Author Editor, 09.01.2012, 23:28

http://www.thechauffeur.com/how-to-be-a-chauffeur/
... two types of chauffeur work available in the UK and ...
The first option is to become a self-employed driver offering executive/luxury services to corporate and private clients ...
Secondly, ... becoming an employed chauffeur with one of the thousands of operators currently running in the UK.

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Are fringe benefits being cut?
http://tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/business-studies/C454/P90
Watching this BBC news video is ... at the range of perks which are being withdrawn by some employers during the recession and need to make cut-backs - topical in the light both of the new Prime Minister’s move to reduce the costs of chauffer-driven cars for ministers...

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Cinnamon Nolan
Spain
Local time: 20:14
Grading comment
Thanks, Cinnamon!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3personal drivers
Yvonne Gallagher
3 +2permanent chauffeurs
Charles Davis
4full-time chauffeurs
Cinnamon Nolan
4chaperone
Julie Thurston


  

Answers


16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
permanent chauffeurs


Explanation:
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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Note added at 16 mins (2012-04-14 00:29:33 GMT)
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Sorry: "makes it clearer". My typing is getting increasingly inaccurate; it's rather alarming.

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 20:14
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 136

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Richard Hill
51 mins
  -> Thanks, Rich :)
agree  liz askew: or drivers. "permanent" definitely.
1 day 17 hrs
  -> Thanks, Liz :)
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
full-time chauffeurs


Explanation:
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.


We Make Having A Full-Time Chauffeur A Luxury You Can't ...
www.idriveyourcar.com/services/full-time-chauffeur
A full-time chauffeur is no longer exclusively for the rich. Call iDriveYourCar today to find out about our great rates on driver & chauffeur services.
How to become a chauffeur
Author Editor, 09.01.2012, 23:28

http://www.thechauffeur.com/how-to-be-a-chauffeur/
... two types of chauffeur work available in the UK and ...
The first option is to become a self-employed driver offering executive/luxury services to corporate and private clients ...
Secondly, ... becoming an employed chauffeur with one of the thousands of operators currently running in the UK.

Chauffeur Services London Airport Transfers, Limo Service London
www.communicoruk.com/ - United Kingdom
Looking for a chauffeur & limo services in london? Communicoruk.com is a London based private transport company providing ...

Are fringe benefits being cut?
http://tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/business-studies/C454/P90
Watching this BBC news video is ... at the range of perks which are being withdrawn by some employers during the recession and need to make cut-backs - topical in the light both of the new Prime Minister’s move to reduce the costs of chauffer-driven cars for ministers...



Cinnamon Nolan
Spain
Local time: 20:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 27
Grading comment
Thanks, Cinnamon!
Notes to answerer
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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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
chaperone


Explanation:
could be another way

Julie Thurston
Local time: 12:14
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
personal drivers


Explanation:
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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Note added at 1 hr (2012-04-14 01:26:20 GMT)
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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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Note added at 1 day14 hrs (2012-04-15 15:01:59 GMT)
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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!

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 19:14
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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