Medical Spanish Made Incredibly Easy! This guide will help health care professionals in all clinical settings communicate easily with Spanish-speaking patients. Free Ebook and PDF
Medical Spanish Made Incredibly Easy!
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.
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
–Spanish translations of common health-care words and phrases used when caring for patients; covers all body systems as well as general signs and symptoms, history and physical, lifestyle and family relationships, diagnostic tests, major disorders, medications, procedures, surgery, nutrition and diet therapy, medical equipment and supplies, and complementary and alternative therapies
–Clear body-system illustrations with anatomy labeled in English and Spanish
–Picture dictionary with labels in two languages
–For each body system: questions for exploring health problems, medical history, family history, employment, and lifestyle
–For each major disorder: description of the disorder, simple pathophysiology, complications, diagnostic tests, and treatments
–Patient-teaching aids in English and Spanish, including testing blood glucose, using an oral inhaler, proper hand washing, using a condom, and injecting insulin
–In the margins: bilingual cartoons that provide more vocabulary and extra linguistic help with assessment questions, patient teaching phrases, and much more
–Basic rules of Spanish pronunciation and grammar
–Summary of key terms and points at the beginning of each chapter
–End-of-chapter self-quizzes (with answer keys) to test what the reader has learned
–Two indexes: English and Spanish
–Logos include:
- Pump up your pronunciation : gives pronunciation tips
- Joy’s grammar guide : tips on correct Spanish grammar
- La cultura : discusses cultural elements that affect health care.
- La clinica: provides phrases relevant to pediatric, pregnant, and older patients.
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