Complete Medical Spanish : A Practical Course for Quick and Confident Communication

Complete Medical Spanish : A Practical Course for Quick and Confident Communication

By Joanna Rios, Jose Fernandez,

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2004-08-01
Sales Rank: 87608
ISBN / ASIN: 007143979X
EAN: 9780071439794
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill
Average Rating: 4.5

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.

Review:

excellent review

I have studied and read this book as well as taken the course taught by the author. I have found this method of learning medical Spanish to be highly effective. I immediately was able to connect and communicate more effectively with my patients that speak Spanish only. I recommend this book to any medical professional that wishes to communicate more clearly with their Spanish speaking patients. All it takes is a little effort!!!

Review:

Solid medical dictionary

This is a solid medical dictionary that even has sections about folk and herbal remedies and cultural recommendations for folks from various backgrounds in the Spanish-speaking world. I highly recommend it, espcially as a companion to other online, disc-based or live Spanish instruction. The sections are well organized by medical discipline or symptoms and covers terms the medical or helping professional is most likely to run across.

Review:

Perfect!

This book is exactly what I hoped for!

If you are a fairly intelligent, motivated learner who wants to start with the basics, progress quickly to the conversational level, and get a good grasp of grammar while learning medical words and phrases, this is the book for you.

I am now almost halfway through the book, and I have learned grammar, vocabulary, all the body parts I could ever need, and even slang words!

Another thing I like is that terms used in different parts of the Spanish-speaking world are discussed, so you will know which word to use, depending where you are (or where your patient is from).

Each chapter is broken down into sections. Each section starts with some vocabulary (and an accompanying picture). Then there might be a grammatical discussion or a discussion of how to talk about taking pills. Then there are some exercises (this is the only thing I think there could be more of, but you can always make up your own sentences for practice).

What this book is not: It is not a list of medical phrases that you have to memorize. That has been my experience with every other medical Spanish book... if that is what you are looking for, you are better off with a CD. However, I doubt you will really become conversational after memorizing a bunch of phrases.

It also is not great about helping you with pronounciation. However, you probably know 100 other people who speak Spanish, so just ask one of them to go through your vocabulary with you!

Bottom line: a perfect book for nurses, NP's, PA's, MD's who want to communicate better with their patients.

Review:

Disappointing

Thought this book included the CDs. . .it appears you can't get the complete set anywhere, even from the publisher. Sorry, but reading pronunciations in a book just doesn't cut it.

Review:

Great

This book is great. I had some basic knowledge in Spanish, but forget it since high school. This book made it easy to catch back on, and explains Spanish for a new learner. Not only does it go into common medical dialogues, with descriptive, or yes/no answers, but also teaches basic verbs, nouns, and conjugations of the verbs. The pictures dont have Spanish/English captions, only Spanish, but there is a guide in the back. This book will teach you everything you need, and then some. If you are looking for a book, this is the one.

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