Spanish for Health Care Professionals

Updated with a new verb list, more vocabulary, more key phrases, and expanded exercise sections, this book with cassettes offers English-speaking doctors, nurses, and medical assistants some basic Spanish vocabulary to help them deal with Hispanic patients who speak little or no English. The book starts with pronunciation tips and offers advice on listening comprehension with special focus on words and phrases that are likely to be used in a medical setting. True-to-life dialogues recreate situations involving pregnancy, broken bones, pediatric care, heart and lung diseases, geriatric care, communicable diseases, drug problems, medical treatment of crime victims, and more. The cassettes recreate the book's dialogues, thus giving healthcare personnel opportunity to practice their own speaking and improve listening comprehension in Spanish.