A resource for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, hospital technicians, physical therapists, and medical administrators with little or no Spanish-language experience. This book covers more than 3,000 general and medical terms, processes for interviewing patients, conducting exams, and writing prescriptions in Spanish, verbs in the present, future, past, conditional, command, and subjunctive forms, and cultural differences between Latino and Anglo-American cultures and how they impact healthcare decisions.

Includes index.

Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction xiii -- 1 -- 1.1 Greetings 2 -- 1.2 The alphabet 4 -- 1.3 Nouns: gender and number 8 -- 1.4 Parts of the body 15 -- 1.5 "What is this?" 18 -- 1.6 "Where is . . . ?" 20 -- 1.7 "What do you need?" 21 -- 1.8 Chief complaint 23 -- 2 -- 2.1 Numbers 28 -- 2.2 Vital signs 29 -- 2.3 Question words, relative pronouns, -- prepositions, and other words 31 -- 2.4 Internal organs 33 -- 2.5 Cognates 38 -- 2.6 Giving instructions 42 -- 3 -- 3.1 Conjugation 45 -- 3.2 Common -ar verbs 51 -- 3.3 "Necesitar" 55 -- 3.4 "Estar" 58 -- 3.5 More numbers 62 -- 3.6 Common symptoms 62 -- 3.7 Qualifying and quantifying pain 69 -- v -- Contents -- 4 -- 4.1 Household items 73 -- 4.2 "Ser" 74 -- 4.3 Telling time 75 -- 4.4 Adjectives 78 -- 4.5 "Hay" 83 -- 4.6 Conjugation of -er verbs 84 -- 4.7 Conjugation of -ir verbs 88 -- 4.8 Pediatrics | La pediatría 92 -- 4.9 Expressing destination and future actions 94 -- 4.10 Emergency room | La sala de emergencias 99 -- 4.11 "Ser" v. "estar" 102 -- 5 -- 5.1 The family | La familia 105 -- 5.2 More verb tenses 109 -- 5.3 Illnesses | Enfermedades 111 -- 5.4 Types of food | Tipos de comidas 120 -- 5.5 Diet | La dieta 125 -- 5.6 Indirect object pronouns 126 -- 5.7 Irregular -er and -ir verbs 129 -- 6 -- 6.1 Irregular verbs in the present tense 134 -- 6.2 Days of the week | Los días de la semana 144 -- 6.3 Months of the year | Los meses del año 148 -- 6.4 Authority figures and home remedies 150 -- 6.5 The imperative mood or command form 151 -- 6.6 A physical exam | Un examen físico 157 -- 6.7 A neurological exam | Un examen -- neurológico 159 -- 7 -- 7.1 Key power verbs 162 -- 7.2 Prescription and diet instructions 165 -- 7.3 Pap smear | El examen de papanicolau 171 -- 7.4 Beware of direct translations 174 -- 7.5 Giving directions | Las instrucciones y -- direcciones 175 -- 7.6 Present progressive tense 177 -- vi Contents -- 7.7 Blood test | Muestra-análisis de sangre 181 -- 7.8 Urine test | La muestra de la orina 182 -- 7.9 Sputum test | La muestra de esputo 184 -- 7.10 Skin tests | Pruebas de la piel 184 -- 7.11 Taking X rays | Las radiografías 186 -- 7.12 Results and diagnosis | Resultados y -- diagnósticos 186 -- 8 -- 8.1 Possessive adjectives 189 -- 8.2 "Se impersonal" 193 -- 8.3 Demonstrative adjectives 196 -- 8.4 The preterit tense 197 -- 8.5 Irregular verbs in the preterit 204 -- 8.6 Well-baby visit 208 -- 8.7 Emergency room visit: ear infection | La sala -- de emergencia: una infección del oído 209 -- 8.8 Emergency room visit: an asthma attack | La sala -- de emergencia: un ataque de asma 211 -- 9 -- 9.1 Reflexive verbs 215 -- 9.2 Direct object pronouns 221 -- 9.3 To have, one should/must | Tener que/ -- necesitar, es necesario/hay que 224 -- 9.4 Abdominal pain | Dolor abdominal 226 -- 9.5 A trip to the dentist's office | Una visita -- al dentista 228 -- 9.6 An appointment with the ophthalmologist | -- Una cita con el oftalmólogo 230 -- 9.7 Dermatology | La dermatología 232 -- 9.8 The pharmacy | La farmacia 233 -- 10 -- 10.1 "Preguntar" y "pedir" 236 -- 10.2 "Conocer" y "saber" 237 -- 10.3 Pronombres prosesivos | Possessive -- pronouns 239 -- 10.4 Otro tiempo de futuro | Another future tense -- form 242 -- Contents vii -- 10.5 Presente y pasado progressivo | The present -- and past progressive tenses 243 -- 10.6 The use of acabar de . . . 245 -- 10.7 Enfermedades venéreas, Enfermedades -- tra(n)smitidas sexualmente | Sexually -- transmitted diseases (STDs or STIs) 246 -- 10.8 Tiempo del presente y pasado perfecto | -- The present and past perfect tenses 248 -- 10.9 "Por" v. "para" 251 -- 10.10 La forma de tú en el mandato | The tú form -- of the command 254 -- 11 -- 11.1 El tiempo condicional | The conditional -- tense 258 -- 11.2 Un niño que necesita bajar de peso | A child -- who needs to lose weight 262 -- 11.3 El tiempo imperfecto | The imperfect tense 264 -- 11.4 Instrucciones prenatales | Prenatal -- instructions 270 -- 11.5 Pronombres de complemento directo | -- Direct object pronouns 271 -- 11.6 Pronombres de complemento indirecto | -- Indirect object pronouns 272 -- 11.7 Pronombres de complementos directo e -- indirecto usados juntos | Using direct and -- indirect object pronouns together 274 -- 11.8 El parto | The delivery 278 -- 12 -- 12.1 El subjunctivo | The subjunctive mood 283 -- 12.2 Una visita posparto | A postpartum visit 290 -- 12.3 El imperfecto del subjunctivo | The imperfect -- subjunctive 291 -- 12.4 Un paciente con alta presión | A patient with -- high blood pressure 298 -- 12.5 El condicional y el imperfecto del subjunctivo -- con la clùsula "si" | The conditional and the -- imperfect subjunctive in "si" clauses 299 -- viii Contents -- 13 -- 13.1 El perfecto del subjuntivo | The present -- perfect subjunctive 303 -- 13.2 El pluscuamperfecto del subjunctivo | -- The pluperfect subjunctive 305 -- 13.3 La primera visita de un paciente con -- diabetes | The first visit of a patient with -- diabetes 309 -- 13.4 How the heck does one use the pluperfect? 311 -- 13.5 Instrucciones para tomar la píldora -- anticonceptiva | Instructions for taking birth -- control pills 314 -- 13.6 A review of all verb tenses covered 316 -- 14 -- 14.1 Víctima de una violación | A rape victim 320 -- 14.2 Víctima de un accidente de carro en -- Urgencias | Victim of a car accident -- in the ER 322 -- 14.3 Terapia ocupacional | Occupational -- therapy 324 -- 14.4 Una quemadura | A burn 327 -- 14.5 Un paciente recuperando el conocimiento | -- Patient regaining consciousness 328 -- 14.6 Autoexamen (Autoexploración) mensual de los -- senos | Monthly breast self-examination 329 -- 14.7 Monólogo de neonatología | Monologue on -- neonatology 330 -- 14.8 Infarto de miocardio o trombosis -- cerebrovascular | Myocardial infarction or -- cerebrovascular thrombosis 332 -- 14.9 Patrón de crecimiento y desarrollo | Pattern for -- growth and development 334 -- 14.10 Enfermería | Nursing 337 -- 14.11 Psiquiatría y psicología | Psychiatry and -- psychology 340 -- Contents ix -- 15 -- 15.1 Cultural competency/cross-cultural -- communication 349 -- 15.2 Herbal remedies 366 -- 15.3 Medicines | Medicinas 367 -- 15.4 Illnesses and symptoms (by body part) 368 -- APPENDIX A -- Verb Tables 375 -- APPENDIX B -- Dialogues and Monologues: -- English Translations 379 -- APPENDIX C -- Answer Key 419 -- English-Spanish Glossary 435 -- Spanish-English Glossary 453 -- Index 471.