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

by Rajkovic, Ana M.

• ISBN13: 9780292751460
• ISBN10: 029275146X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: UNIV OF TEXAS PRESS

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Nouns	1	(19)
La Clinica de la medicina de la familia	19	(1)
The Family Practice Clinic
Adjectives	20	(14)
La sala de emergencia: El trauma	32	(2)
The Emergency Room: Trauma
The Verb ``To Be''	34	(14)
La Cirujia: El abdomen agudo	46	(2)
Surgery: The Acute Abdomen
The Present	48	(16)
La charla	62	(2)
The Chat
The Verb ``To Have''	64	(15)
La mujer embarazada	76	(3)
The Pregnant Woman
Time and Counting	79	(13)
La Clinica de planeo familiar	90	(2)
The Family Planning Clinic
The Imperative	92	(14)
Inflamacion pelvica e infeccion urinaria	103	(3)
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and Urinary Tract Infection
The Plural	106	(19)
La depresion	123	(2)
Depression
The Preterit	125	(15)
El nino con asma	137	(3)
The Child with Asthma
The Verb ``To Give''	140	(16)
El paciente con angina	152	(4)
The Patient with Angina
The Future	156	(12)
Sacar sangre y la puncion lumbar	166	(2)
The Venipuncture and the Spinal Tap
Reflexive Verbs	168	(13)
El paciente con falta de aire	178	(3)
The Patient with Shortness of Breath
Epilogue	181	(2)
Answer Key	183	(64)
Appendix
A. The Adult History	221	(10)
B. The Pediatric History	231	(4)
C. The Physical Exam	235	(4)
D. Specialized Vocabulary	239	(4)
E. Pain	243	(2)
F. The Family	245	(1)
G. The Calendar	246	(1)
H. Conjugation Tables	247