McGraw Hill's Complete Medical Spanish, Premium Fourth Edition

by Joanna Rios, José Fernández Torres, Tamara Ríos

Overview

Build Your Competence and Confidence to Communicate Effectively with Your Spanish-speaking Patients

McGraw Hill’s Complete Medical Spanish goes far beyond a phrasebook or dictionary. This time-tested resource provides you with the skills and confidence to interact with Spanish-speaking patients and their families, and deliver the high quality of care they deserve. Through sample dialogs, numerous exercises, and more than 200 illustrations, this program will help you:

• Master a Spanish vocabulary of more than 3,000 key terms
• Confidently interview patients, take histories, conduct physical exams, prescribe medication, and give follow-up instructions in Spanish
• Become culturally competent and more aware of major differences between Latino and Anglo-American cultures and how they impact healthcare decisions.

New to this edition: Sections on musculoskeletal exam, physical therapy, speech therapy, mental health, women’s health, children’s behavioral problems, pandemics • Questionnaires for GAD7, OASIS •Assessments for OASIS, CAGE• MoCA Test

This bestselling guide is supported by bonus content in McGraw Hill’s Language Lab app:

• Audio recordings of 40 dialogs and monologs to help improve your pronunciation and fluency
• 2,000 flashcards to help memorize key vocabulary
  Ideal for: physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses (including NPs, LVNs, LPNs, MAs), hospital technicians, physical therapists, and medical administrators with little or no Spanish-language experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260467901
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/26/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	237,731
File size:	54 MB
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About the Author

Joanna Ríos, José Fernández Torres, and Tamara Ríos have been teaching medical Spanish for more than 30 years. Their workshops are accredited by the American Medical Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Association of Family Physicians, and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

1

1.1 Greetings 2

1.2 The alphabet 4

1.3 Nouns: gender and number 8

1.4 Parts of the body 15

1.5 "What is this?" 18

1.6 "Where is …?" 20

1.7 "What do you need?" 21

1.8 Chief complaint 23

2

2.1 Numbers 28

2.2 Vital signs 29

2.3 Question words, relative pronouns, prepositions, and other words 31

2.4 Internal organs 33

2.5 Cognates 38

2.6 Giving instructions 42

3

3.1 Conjugation 45

3.2 Common -ar verbs 51

3.3 "Necesitar" 55

3.4 "Estar" 58

3.5 More numbers 62

3.6 Common symptoms 62

3.7 Qualifying and quantifying pain 69

4

4.1 Hospital and rehabilitation facility items 73

4.2 "Ser" 74

4.3 Telling time 75

4.4 Adjectives 78

4.5 "Hay" 83

4.6 Conjugation of -er verbs 84

4.7 Conjugation of -ir verbs 88

4.8 Pediatrics | La pediatría 92

4.9 Expressing destination and future actions 94

4.10 Emergency room | La sala de emergencia 99

4.11 "Ser" v. "estar" 102

5

5.1 The family | La familia 105

5.2 More verb tenses 109

5.3 Illnesses | Enfermedades 111

5.4 Types of food | Tipos de comidas 120

5.5 Diet | La dieta 125

5.6 Indirect object pronouns 126

5.7 Irregular -er and -ir verbs 129

6

6.1 Irregular verbs in the present tense 134

6.2 Days of the week | Los días de la semana 144

6.3 Months of the year | Los meses del año 148

6.4 Authority figures and home remedies 150

6.5 The imperative mood or command form 151

6.6 A physical exam | Un examen físico 157

6.7 A neurological exam | Un examen neurológico 159

7

7.1 Key Power Verbs/Power Punch Verbs 162

7.2 Prescription and diet instructions 165

7.3 Pap smear | El examen de Papanicolau (citología) 171

7.4 Beware of direct translations 174

7.5 Giving directions | Las instrucciones y direcciones 175

7.6 Present progressive tense 177

7.7 Blood test | Muestra - análisis de sangre 181

7.8 Urine test | La muestra de la orina 182

7.9 Sputum test | La muestra de esputo 184

7.10 Skin tests | Pruebas de la piel 184

7.11 Taking X rays | Las radiografías 186

7.12 Results and diagnosis | Resultados y diagnósticos 186

8

8.1 Possessive adjectives 189

8.2 "Se impersonal" 193

8.3 Demonstrative adjectives 196

8.4 The preterit tense 197

8.5 Irregular verbs in the preterit 204

8.6 Well-baby visit 208

8.7 Emergency room visit: ear infection | La sala de emergencia: una infección del oído 209

8.8 Emergency room visit: an asthma attack | La sala de emergencia: un ataque de asma 211

9

9.1 Reflexive verbs 215

9.2 Direct object pronouns 221

9.3 Tener que/necesitar, es necesario/hay que | To have to, one should/must 224

9.4 Abdominal pain | Dolor abdominal 226

9.5 A trip to the dentist's office | Una visita al dentista 228

9.6 An appointment with the ophthalmologist | Una cita con el oftalmólogo 230

9.7 Dermatology | La dermatología 232

9.8 The pharmacy | La farmacia 233

10

10.1 "Preguntar" y "pedir" 236

10.2 "Conocer" y "saber" 237

10.3 Pronombres Posesivos | Possessive pronouns 239

10.4 Otro tiempo del futuro | Another future tense form 242

10.5 Presente y pasado progresivo | The present and past progressive tenses 243

10.6 The use of acabar de … 245

10.7 Enfermedades venéreas/Enfermedades tra(n)smitidas sexualmente | Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs or STIs) 246

10.8 Tiempos del presente y pasado perfecto | The present and past perfect tenses 248

10.9 "Por" v. "para" 251

10.10 La forma de tu en el mandato | The tú form of the command 254

11

11.1 El tiempo condicional | The conditional tense 258

11.2 Un niño que necesita bajar de peso | A child who needs to lose weight 262

11.3 El tiempo imperfecto | The imperfect tense 264

11.4 Instrucciones prenatales | Prenatal instructions 270

11.5 Pronombres de complemento directo | Direct object pronouns 271

11.6 Pronombres de complemento indirecto | Indirect object pronouns 272

11.7 Pronombres de complemento directo e indirecto usados juntos | Using direct and indirect object pronouns together 274

11.8 El parto | The delivery 278

12

12.1 El subjuntivo | The subjunctive mood 283

12.2 Una vislta posparto | A postpartum visit 290

12.3 El imperfecto del subjuntivo | The imperfect subjunctive 291

12.4 Un paciente con alta presión | A patient with high blood pressure 298

12.5 El condicional y el im perfecto del subjuntivo con la cláusula "si" 299

13

13.1 El perfecto del subjuntivo | The present perfect subjunctive 303

13.2 El pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo | The pluperfect subjunctive or the past perfect subjunctive 305

13.3 La primera visita de un paciente con diabetes | The first visit of a patient with diabetes 309

13.4 How the heck does one use the pluperfect? 311

13.5 Instrucciones para tomar la píldora anticonceptiva | Instructions for taking birth control pills 314

13.6 A review of all verb tenses covered 316

14

14.1 Victima de una violación | A rape victim 320

14.2 Víctima de un accidente de carro en Urgencias | Victim of a car accident in the ER 322

14.3 Visita musculoesquelética/Visita de medicina del deporte | Musculoskeletal visit/Sports medicine visit 324

14.4 Terapia ocupacional | Occupational therapy 327

14.5 Terapia del habla | Speech therapy 329

14.6 Terapia física | Physical therapy 332

14.7 Salud mental | Mental health 335

14.8 Una quemadura | A burn 336

14.9 Un paciente recuperando el conocimiento | Patient regaining consciousness 337

14.10 Autoexamen (Autoexploración) mensual de los senos | Monthly breast self-examination 338

14.11 Salud de la mujer | Women's health 339

14.12 Monologo de neonatología | Monologue on neonatology 341

14.13 Infarto de miocardio o trombosis cerebrovascular | Myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular thrombosis 343

14.14 Patrón de crecimiento y desarrollo | Pattern for growth and development 345

14.15 Enfermería | Nursing 348

14.16 (P)siquiatría y (p)sicología | Psychiatry and psychology 351

14.17 Problemas de comportamiento en los niños | Behavioral problems with children 358

14.18 Pandemics viruses, including COVID-19 | Los virus pandémicos, incluyendo COVID-19 361

15

15.1 Cultural competency/cross-cultural communication 365

15.2 Herbal remedies 383

15.3 Medicines | Medicinas 384

15.4 Illnesses and symptoms (by body system) 384

Appendix A Useful Documents and Forms 391

A1 Advance Directives and Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders 391

A2 Questions About DNR Code Status 392

A3 Questions for Determining Geriatric Depression Scale 393

A4 Communication with Advanced Disease Patients (Palliative Care) 394

A5 Primary Care Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Screening 396

A6 Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) 396

A7 Mini Mental Status Examination MMSE (Examen Mental Breve) 398

A8 Questionnaire for Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) 399

A9 Questions for Alcohol Abuse (CAGE) 401

A10 Questionnaire for Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7) 402

A11 Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA Test) 403

A12 Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) 405

Appendix B Verb Tables 409

Appendix C Dialogues and Monologues: English Translations 421

Appendix D Answer Key 453

English-Spanish Glossary 469

Spanish-English Glossary 489

Index 507