Triage Spanish Basic Conversation for Health Professionals

This textbook and its 90 minute text-based cassette tape for oral practice & review is the result of Stern's fifteen years of teaching basic Spanish conversation to doctors, nurses, EMTs, health care administrators, public health specialists, social workers, medical secretaries & receptionists at a major U.S. medical school. TRIAGE SPANISH stresses the essentials of Spanish as spoken in the United States by Latinos & immigrants. The twenty units, divided into three sections (beginning, intermediate & advanced structures), are designed to enable health professionals to communicate in a simple, direct way with their Latino patients/clients to obtain information & give directions & advice. Easily recognizable vocabulary & cognates are stressed. Language structures are kept to a minimum & are taught through their practical applications in the health care setting. A bilingual version of a typical intake (Atchley) form is included. Themes include: personal history, pregnancy & childcare, nutrition, emergency care, AIDS, addictions, cancer, etc. To order TRIAGE SPANISH, contact SPAN-TEXT BOOKS. P.O. Box 35412, Fayetteville, NC 28303-0412.Stern, Irwin is the author of 'Triage Spanish Basic Conversation for Health Professionals' with ISBN 9780963892607 and ISBN 0963892606.