Practical Spanish in Eyecare [Paperback]

Brian Chou (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0750672854 | ISBN-13: 978-0750672856 | Publication Date: March 15, 2001 | Edition: 1

Reduce your dependency on a Spanish translator! This user-friendly clinical reference helps you formulate questions, instructions, and explanations in Spanish. Organized by how you interact with a patient, the book follows a logical order-from the polite greeting, to taking a case history, to visual testing and treatment. Included are translated explanations, from cataract and dry eye to glasses and using eye drops.

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This clinical reference will help you formulate questions, instructions, and explanations in Spanish. Organized by how a practitioner interacts with a patient, the book follows a logical order--from the polite greeting, to taking a case history, to visual testing and treatment. Translated explanations are included, from cataract and dry eye to contact lenses and refractive surgery. An easy to use glossary and its pocket sized format make it the ideal reference for every eye doctor's office.

About the Author

OD, Private Practice, Carmel Mountain Vision Care, San Diego

Product Details

• Paperback: 159 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1 edition (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750672854
• ISBN-13: 978-0750672856
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,566,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent pocket guide, August 10, 2001

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This review is from: Practical Spanish in Eyecare (Paperback)

This book goes step-by-step with phrases for each part of the eye exam. I use it almost every day since my patient base is mostly Hispanic. Haven't come across any other book like it for eyecare.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good list of Spanish phrases for the eye examination, November 20, 2007

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Brian Allen "neotropical birding" (Manistee, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical Spanish in Eyecare (Paperback)

The is a good little booklet (about 4x6")with about 150 pages of phrases commonly in use during the eye examination. It easily fits into a pocket and can be consulted before or during an examination for the phrase you may need. The sections are organized sequentially as the procedures done during the eye examination in the order salutations, history taking, visual acuity, binocularity testing, refraction etc. This makes it a bit easier to look up a phrase as you need it during the course of the exam.

I find the book useful and yet hope for two improvements. One would be to have tabs for each section to make for quick and easy access to the sections. I have only had a bit of spanish studies and can do fairly well but still found patients staring at me without comprehension after I read a phrase from the book undoubtably due to my poor pronunciation. An accompaning CD with the spoken phrases from the book would be helpful.

This book is still an excellent value and I would recommend it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Spanish exam guide book, September 23, 2007

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A. Campbell "Eye doc" (Phila, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical Spanish in Eyecare (Paperback)

I was basically looking for a book that had basic Spanish terms to get through an exam (i.e. up, down, left right). This book is small enough to fit in your pocket and has phrases & sentences to ask basic questions without the patient having to respond except with a yes or no response! Broken down into dialoges to follow each any aspect of exam (visual fields, slit lamp, tonometry, ocular disease findings, spectacle recommendations). I can now recommend progressives, CLs or anything else without a blank look from the patient! Now my Hispanic population recommend me to their friends & family!