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.
- Features questions and instructions that cover health problems, history, and lifestyle for all body systems, plus medications, procedures, and nutrition.
- 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.
- Includes everything clinicians need to put Spanish-speaking patients at ease, aid diagnosis and treatment, and improve compliance.
- Features questions and instructions that cover health problems, history, and lifestyle for all body systems, plus medications, procedures, and nutrition.
- 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.
- Includes everything clinicians need to put Spanish-speaking patients at ease, aid diagnosis and treatment, and improve compliance.
