Manual for Relatively Painless Medical Spanish: A Self-Teaching Course [Paperback]

Ana Malinow Rajkovic (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 029275146X | ISBN-13: 978-0292751460 | Publication Date: January 15, 1992 | Edition: 1

Spanish-speaking patients are no rarity in United States hospitals and clinics, as many English-speaking health care providers have discovered. To help these providers better communicate with the patients they serve, Ana Malinow Rajkovic has prepared the Manual for (Relatively) Painless Medical Spanish, a lively and innovative self-teaching guide to the grammar, pronunciation, and medical vocabulary of Spanish. Presented in a systematic and highly entertaining fashion, twelve lessons cover some of the most commonly encountered situations. These include the family clinic, the emergency room, appendicitis, the social chat, pregnancy, family planning, pelvic inflammatory disease and urinary tract infection, depression, children with asthma, patients with angina, explaining a venipuncture and a spinal tap, and patients with shortness of breath. Each lesson closes with a bilingual interview that includes vocabulary and grammar introduced in that lesson. A guide to the medical history and physical examination appears in English and Spanish in the appendix. Excellent in the classroom or for independent learning, the Manual will enable health care providers better to understand and supply the needs of Spanish-speaking patients. Ana Malinow Rajkovic is a pediatrician in Cleveland, Ohio. She has taught medical Spanish at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine and at San Francisco General Hospital.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1 edition (January 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 029275146X
• ISBN-13: 978-0292751460
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional workbook for medical Spanish, February 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Manual for Relatively Painless Medical Spanish: A Self-Teaching Course (Paperback)

This book was the single most useful tool I used in order to prepare for clinical rotations in a hospital where 60-75% of patients were primarily Spanish-speaking. I went from being hopeless ("que?") to functionally conversant in a couple of months. The time investment is minimal, about 4-5 hours per week, in order to complete this workbook in 8 weeks. I am recommending it to other medical students and medical residents who wish to acquire language as a tool in their practice with Spanish-speaking patients.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!!, February 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Manual for Relatively Painless Medical Spanish: A Self-Teaching Course (Paperback)

This book actually teaches you all of the things you really do need to know to work with spanish-speaking patients. It is a workbook in which the exercises form the bulk of the text although every now and then she will add some short, information-filled paragraphs. It is this teaching technique that makes this manual so successful. This is not to say that you don't have to work at it but as she claims she makes it relatively painless and even fun. I highly recommend this book to anyone who works with spanish-speaking patients in a medical setting but who are not themselves, spanish speaking.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent resource for medical vocabulary!, July 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Manual for Relatively Painless Medical Spanish: A Self-Teaching Course (Paperback)

As a language teacher, I am using the book as a tool to learn medical terms to use with patients on a missions trip. I have found it easy to use and extremely practical. It is also humorous which encourages you to keep plugging on. There are some small grammatical errors, but nothing which detracts from the usefulness of the book.