Joanna Rios - McGraw-Hill Education Complete Medical Spanish, Third Edition: Practical Medical Spanish for Quick and Confident Communication (NTC FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

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Joanna RosIn dedication to my mother Dolores Torres Villate, R.N., who always encouraged me to pursue my dreams. I will always love you.
Jos Fernndez TorresIn dedication to my adoring grandmothers, my sage grandfather, my loving and supportive parents, and my inimitable Ta Yola. Los quiero mucho.
Tamara Anah Ros

We would like to acknowledge Silvia Yola Ruanova; Dolores Torres Villate, R.N.; Emilio Fernndez Torres, M.S.; and Luvy Bravo de Nuanes, Ph.D., for their help with vocabulary and expressions as used in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America.

Special thanks go to Milagros Martnez Bello, M.D., for her assistance with medical terms and proofreading the dialogues for accuracy. Thanks also to all of the students in the medical field who have taken our courses over the years and have been an ongoing source of information.

This book is an illustrated medical Spanish text-workbook specifically geared to healthcare professionals, in particular, Physicians, Physicians Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses (including NPs, LVNs, LPNs, MAs), medical assistants, lab technicians, and ancillary medical staff. The book is composed of fifteen chapters or lessons. Each chapter introduces grammar concepts (often referred to as structures, which somehow sounds less threatening), vocabulary, and dialogues that attempt to follow the order in which your patient visit takes place. For example, you will learn to greet a patient, take vital signs, interview him or her, find out the chief complaint, review the medical history, give a physical exam, and then recommend prescription or follow-up instructions.

Vocabulary and dialogues for various lab tests are also included. Many significant cultural aspects are also interspersed throughout each chapter, culminating with the last lesson that focuses on Cultural competency and Cross-cultural communication. Each chapter follows a logical progression and introduces vocabulary by means of pictures that are generally related to a single topic. The initial vocabulary section of each chapter is followed by related exercises, dialogues, and/or crossword puzzles. Grammar concepts are explained in a simple, clear, and concise manner. Although grammar, per se, is not stressed, it is reinforced by constant repetitionthe very manner in which we learned our native tongue as children.

The purpose of the illustrations and the suggested method of instruction is to encourage you to avoid translating from Spanish to English and vice versa. Instead, you are encouraged to relate the image or concept directly with the appropriate Spanish word, thus eliminating an entire and irrelevant translation step. The dialogues are based on vocabulary that has already been presented, so you are familiarized with nearly all the words and phrases that will be encountered in each dialogue. Obviously, the purpose of this book is to teach you to communicate with your Spanish-speaking patients in order to form strong clinicianpatient rapport. You will be learning a standardized universal Spanish that also includes many words and expressions that take on different meanings in different countries and regions. Your Latino patients will come from a variety of countries, education levels, socioeconomic backgrounds, and origins (whether urban or rural).