Product Description: The Medical Spanish Dictionary pocket is an indispensable reference guide for communication with Spanish-speaking patients.
* 2nd edition, completely updated. **Accurate translations for an extensive list of health-related terms. **Bilingual dictionary contains medical terminology specific to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba and other countries. **Thumb register for rapid access to topic sections.
Product Description: Break the language barrier between healthcare professionals and Spanish-speaking patients
This pocket-sized book contains virtually all health-related terms likely to occur in a conversation between a health worker and a Spanish-speaking patient, including common colloquialisms and slang terms not found in similar dictionaries. The Third Edition contains over 20,000 entries and 5,000 new terms have been added.
Product Description: With the rapid growth of the Spanish-speaking people worldwide, this comprehensive communicator has become an indispensable resource for healthcare students and professionals everywhere. The Third Edition has been designed to give easier and faster access to over 20,000 comprehensive medical terms, technology-related medical terms, and medical abbreviations, plus definitions, translations, tips on pronunciation, signs and symptoms of common disorders, practical phrases used in daily communication with patients, and much more. The content has been fully updated by adding new phrases ranging across the specialties of cardiology, immunology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, and neonatology - all fields noted for their new technical and procedural developments. You'll also find these features and highlights - A NEW Anatomy Atlas features both English and Spanish labels. / A-Z lets you locate any term quickly. / Consent, Authorization, and Release forms to obtain easier communication with patients when research projects or procedures are done. / Valuable Appendices include additional phrases focusing on HIV, AIDS, neonatology, and bioterrorism. Updated design and organization improves overall readability and ease-of-use. / Verb tables / And many more beneficial items The CD-ROM version contains the entire text and all the features of the print version. With this book/CD-ROM bundle, you'll have easy access to both formats - one to carry with you and one for your computer
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. "Doody's Core Titles™ 2009."
Product Description: 'The most useful medical Spanish book ever written ...It's a gift from heaven' - Online reader review of the prior edition, "Medical Spanish, Fourth Edition", Gail L. Bongiovanni, MD. With no prior knowledge of Spanish, and this book at your fingertips, you can confidently conduct patient medical history interviews, perform physical examinations, and give medical instructions to Spanish-speaking patients. Carefully constructed to elicit one-word, "yes or no" answers, "Medical Spanish" empowers you to obtain, and give, the information you need, without struggling to understand an unfamiliar language or risking errors due to miscommunication.Now in its fourth edition, this valuable resource helps you simplify the process of communication with the following features: easy-to-use "Yes" or "No" question and answer format; clear pronunciation, grammar, and spelling guidance; a new chapter on physical and sexual abuse and rape; expanded coverage of patient privacy, informed consent, and HIPPA confidentiality; expanded and updated coverage of breast feeding, birth control, and HIV; and, common terms and verbs.This guide gives you questions and full vocabularies for talking with patients about: complete medical history; full physical examination; social and occupational information; insurance and economic information; urinary tract; endocrine system; hematologic system; musculoskeletal system; nervous system; gastrointestinal system; convulsions and headaches; laboratory examination; AIDS and HIV; prescription instructions; past use of medicines; common side effects; storage of medicine; instructions for the diabetic; pregnancy and delivery history; birth; contraception of all types; physical and sexual abuse and rape; poisoning and intoxicants; geriatric evaluation; psychiatric evaluation; high-tech tests; and much more.
Designed for use either as a stand-alone guide or as a built-in part of the series' audio packages, McGraw-Hill: Complete Medical Spanish offers health care professionals an enjoyable way to quickly acquire the skills and confidence they need to communicate with their Spanish-speaking patients. Each chapter focuses on a specific set of key terms and phrases and includes dozens of illustrations to help enhance understanding. Unlike other guides that make no distinction between levels of difficulty, this book introduces essential grammar concepts in a progressive manner.
Product Description: Speedy Spanish for Medical Personnel is a pocket-size Spanish language reference for the medical professional. A unique index system gives fingertip access to all the phrases needed to bridge the English-Spanish communication gap in medical care. Comes with a clear vinyl cover.
Product Description: You can't treat your patients if you can't communicate effectively with them. This textbook will make you proficient in medical Spanish and enhance your clinical interviews with Spanish-speaking patients. It reviews basic Spanish grammar and sentence structure, then addresses each aspect of the medical interview, teaching you to build upon these basic skills and learn to apply them in a clinical context. This is THE medical Spanish book for medical students, residents, and physicians!
Focused on unique vocabulary, context, and needs of a physician conducting a clinical interview with Spanish-speaking patient
Accessible to all levels of students and practitioners who need basic Spanish skills in a clinical context
Organized to follow the natural progression of the physician-patient encounter, as taught in US medical schools
Provides ease of use and relevant, effective content critical for physicians to understand and effectively communicate with non-US patients
Designed to fit comfortably into a pocket, Medical Spanish Made Incredibly Quick! is the perfect point-of-care reference and communication tool for health care professionals who work with Spanish-speaking patients. It covers the basics of pronunciation and provides translations for hundreds of medical terms and questions, organized logically into sections on assessment, procedures, medications, teaching, and nutrition. Questions are phrased in yes-or-no format to elicit the most useful information from patients. The book includes visual communication tools such as a picture dictionary and see-and-point pictures. The wipeable page surface allows users to write notes and remove them easily.
