Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Pocket-sized aid designed to facilitate practitioners, who do not speak or
understand any spanish, elicit all the necessary medical information from an
exclusively Spanish-speaking patient. Previous edition: c1992. Softcover.
Product Details
- Paperback: 102 pages
- Publisher: Medmaster; 1 edition (January 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0940780453
- ISBN-13: 978-0940780453
- Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
- Average Customer Review:
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customer reviews)
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Anyone who needs a quick reference for medical spanish will find this book an
asset.
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I borrowed this book from a friend on the job and now I'm going to purchase my
own copy. The index is very helpful but the disease topics are not as easy to
spot in the text as they could be. A little more highlighting or bold type would
be helpful to me.
Also, for my use, I would like to see a format where the phonetic pronounciation
is directly below the spanish word itself instead of the whole phonetic phrase
to the right of the whole spanish phrase. I found myself starting with the
spanish phrase, then looking to the right column to search for the word I wasn't
familiar with, only to find that if I stayed with the phonetic phrase it was
taking me longer to say a word I was already familiar with but didn't recognize
in it's phonetic form. This meant I was doing a lot of darting back and forth
across the page comparing and trying to find out where I was. It made for a
painfully slow patient interview, but I felt I was obtaining accurate
information
Perhaps, with a little practice I'll get better at it. I must apololgize to the
editorial staff for wanting to cut up the book and re-arrange it to my liking
but I think the book is a very valuable and useful tool and I would reccomend it
to anyone. You truly do not have to know a "lick" of spanish to use this book
and conduct a meaningful interview.
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As a physician with little or no usable Spanish I can tell you this little book
is simply indispensable for any health professional who treats Hispanic
patients. The author has cleverly phrased all questions so that they require
only a "yes" or "no" response from the patient; moreover, she provides very
accurate phonetic pronunciation guides for every single phrase, thus allowing
health professionals without a word of Spanish to effectively obtain all the
information they need from patients who haven't a word of English. Although the
author is not a physician she must have worked closely with someone who was
(probably the publisher, who is well known for his extensive line of medical
handbooks) because her interviewing outline is both thoughtlful and
comprehensive. What more can I say?
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