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Expanded in this edition with more words, phrases, and helpful exercises, this program also features two brand-new sections. One of them is directed at health care receptionists, and the other deals with health insurance forms. This bookis designed to help doctors, nurses, and medical assistants communicate in Spanish with Latino patients and their families who have little or no command of English. Every Spanish word in the book is followed by its phonetic pronunciation. The book also provides easy-to-follow tips on understanding colloquial spoken Spanish. Author William Harvey concentrates on words and phrases likely to be used in a medical setting. True-to-life dialogues dramatize situations pertaining to pregnancy, broken bones, pediatric care, heart and lung diseases, pharmacy prescriptions, drug problems, medical treatment of accident and crime victims, and much more.
Read Online Spanish for Health Care Professionals William C Harvey MS Books
"I'm a first year nursing student, and I bought this book to try and learn Spanish while I'm in school. I absolutely love this book! I've learned so much by just practicing a little at a time every week. It helps if you know some Spanish, but you don't need to. It has great pronunciation help too."
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Spanish for Health Care Professionals William C Harvey MS Books Reviews :
Spanish for Health Care Professionals William C Harvey MS Books Reviews
- Pros Easy to read; interesting enough. Very good section on how to convey bad new to hispanic or Spanish patients.
Cons (1) In the first half of the book, several of the nouns were not accompanied by the definite or indefinite article so I ended up having to look them up in my dictionary. Same problem with the mini-dictionary at the back of book. Yes, some nouns are obviously masculine or feminine but others aren't.
(2) Might have been helpful if the authors had included alternative names based on location of patients. For example, bedpan may be "la chata" in some regions of the world but some patients know is as "la bacinilla". Other similar books will give two alternatives (where applicable) and specify "Sp" for Spain and "LAm" for Latin America.
(3) There were a few errors that seemed silly and should have been picked up by an editor. For example, page 113 says tongue depressor is "la pisa-lengua" while pg 140 says "la pisalengua". Since when are authentic Spanish nouns hyphenated? And if it were a true word, a combined word ("pisa" and lengua") would be masculine with an "s" at the end; i.e., el pisalenguas (even for singular noun). My gigantic dictionary and internet search states the correct word is "el bajalenguas" or el depresor". - Excellent book for someone in the health care field. My wife is a nurse who has to give patients instructions in Spanish everyday. This book comes in very handy for her. She loves it.
- Excellent. For the past 15 years I have bought 2-3 copies per year to give to students on our medical missions to Ecuador or the Dominican Republic. And they have used it, and given me good reviews! This has a very good balance of what's needed on such trips. It's a large-format paperback though, and I wish the newer editions had remained the smaller size of the older ones for traveling purposes.
- I probably didn't spend enough time reading this, which is why I gave four stars. I was committed to re-learning Spanish (my high school class has long left my mind). The book was easy to understand and relate to one another. For me, it was difficult for me to apply what I was learning. I ended up deciding to take a class. If you have the discipline then you will enjoy this book!
- I was recommended this book from my college Spanish teacher. I already knew basic conversational Spanish but not really anything that could help me. Since I started working in the healthcare field, I noticed we've been having a lot of Spanish speakers who cannot speak English. Thanks to this book, I've managed to help my coworkers with their own questions and make the process a lot smoother for everyone.
- Very helpful. It's great to have the pronunciation spelled out.
- I'm a first year nursing student, and I bought this book to try and learn Spanish while I'm in school. I absolutely love this book! I've learned so much by just practicing a little at a time every week. It helps if you know some Spanish, but you don't need to. It has great pronunciation help too.
- I have bought this book twice and completed it twice. It is a workbook, with great exercises, and the anwers in the back. I have used my medical Spanish in Peru over the past 6 years, and review this book before every trip.
