Synopses & Reviews
Medical Spanish Made Incredibly Easy! 3e provides conversational health-care-related Spanish words and phrases to help health care professionals communicate easily with Spanish-speaking patients, one of the fastest-growing patient populations. This guide features questions and instructions that cover health problems, history, and lifestyle for all body systems, plus medications, procedures, and nutrition. The book also includes a dictionary of key terms, a picture dictionary of common objects, basic rules of Spanish pronunciation and grammar, clear body-system illustrations with callouts in both languages, indexes in English and Spanish, and hundreds of accompanying audio files with correct pronunciations of medical terms in both English and Spanish. Useful in any clinical setting (including MD and NP offices; subacute, acute, and long-term-care facilities; school and community clinics; and the workplace), the book includes everything clinicians need to put Spanish-speaking patients at ease, aid diagnosis and treatment, and improve compliance.
Synopsis
Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this guide will help health care professionals in all clinical settings communicate easily with Spanish-speaking patients. It presents Spanish words, phrases, questions, and instructions that cover signs and symptoms, history-taking, assessment of all body systems, mental health, diagnostic tests, disorders, medications, procedures, surgery, nutrition and diet therapy, medical equipment, and alternative and complementary therapies. Features include a picture dictionary, clear body-system illustrations with labels in both languages, rules of Spanish pronunciation and grammar, and indexes in English and Spanish.
A companion Website offers audio files with correct pronunciations for hundreds of medical terms in English and Spanish, downloadable to a computer or MP3 player.
Synopsis
Written in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, this updated and expanded Second Edition helps make learning to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients easy and fun. This handy guide covers examination and testing of all body systems, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. Words and phrases associated with medication, procedures, and nutrition are also included. Appendices include bilingual patient-teaching aids, a quick reference guide to key medical terms, and a picture dictionary of common objects. Indexes appear in both English and Spanish, and basic rules of Spanish pronunciation and grammar are covered.
Synopsis
Thoroughly updated for its third edition, this guide helps health care professionals in all clinical settings communicate easily with Spanish-speaking patients. It presents Spanish words, phrases, questions, and instructions that cover signs and symptoms, history-taking, assessment of all body systems, and more.
Synopsis
Written in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, this updated and expanded Second Edition helps make learning to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients easy and fun. This handy guide covers examination and testing of all body systems, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. Words and phrases associated with medication, procedures, and nutrition are also included. Appendices include bilingual patient-teaching aids, a quick reference guide to key medical terms, and a picture dictionary of common objects. Indexes appear in both English and Spanish, and basic rules of Spanish pronunciation and grammar are covered.
Synopsis
This package contains the following products:
- 9780781789417 Springhouse Medical Spanish Made Incredibly Easy!
- 9780781779517 McElroy Spanish-English English-Spanish Pocket Medical Dictionary
Table of Contents
Contributors and consultants Foreword 1: The basics
2: Everyday words and phrases
3: Signs and symptoms
4: Examining the cardiovascular system
5: Examining the respiratory system
6: Examining the nervous system
7: Examining the GI system
8: Examining the genitourinary and reproductive systems
9: Examining the musculoskeletal system
10: Examining the immune and endocrine systems
11: Examining the skin, hair, and nails
12: Examining the eyes, nose, ears, and throat
13: Mental health
14: Diagnostic tests
15: Major disorders
16: Medications
17: Procedures
18: Surgery
19: Managing pain
20: Nutrition and diet therapy
21: Medical equipment and supplies
Appendices and index