Say It in Spanish: A Guide for Health Care Professionals (Book with Audiocassette) [With Cassette]

This book was an immediate help to be able to begin the vitals and check in process. It is not a know all/do all, but it does help a lot.

As a telephone advice nurse, I wanted a resource to help me with medical vocabulary plus Spanish grammar and conversation. This book delivers on both. It is well-organized into chapters that cover various areas of health care, so you can pick and choose quickly what you need to know. Chapters include everything from A - admitting a patient, to Z - well X, for x-ray. There are several illustrations of the body with the Spanish names of parts dissected as specifically as "eyelash," "tibia," and "fibula." (A similar publication, "An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers; Communication and Culture" has illustrations, too, but they are less-descript.) There are chapters on numbers, time of day, food and meals, common expressions, and family-relationship names (eg. aunt, father-in-law). English pronunciation accompanies every word, phrase and sentence. For the more-adventurous, there are grammatical chapters that cover nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, but thankfully they're not as complex as to discuss "past imperfect," "present subjectives" and the like. There is an informative section on culture, and finally an English-to-Spanish word index. It accomplishes the objectives that I required.