Spanish for Health Care Professionals with Audiocassettes

Updated with a new verb list, more vocabulary, more key phrases, and expanded exercise sections, this book-and-cassettes program offers English- speaking doctors, nurses, and medical assistants some basic Spanish vocabulary to help them deal with Hispanic patients who speak little or no English. The book starts with pronunciation tips and offers advice on listening comprehension with special focus on words and phrases that are likely to be used in a medical setting. True-to-life dialogues recreate situations involving pregnancy, broken bones, pediatric care, heart and lung diseases, geriatric care, communicable diseases, drug problems, medical treatment of crime victims, and more. The two 90-minute cassettes recreate the book's dialogues in order to give healthcare personnel some opportunity to practice their speaking skill and improve their listening comprehension in Spanish.