Product Review

A mini-phrasebook and an audio compact disc are handsomely packaged in a set that is designed to help non-Spanish-speaking medical personnel communicate with Hispanics who have little or no English but need medical help. The phrasebook presents English and Spanish words and phrases categorized according to different medically-related subjects. Body parts, names of diseases, types of injury, and surgical procedures are just a few of the subjects in which English phrases are matched with their Spanish equivalents. The compact disc closely follows the written text and offers guidance in pronunciation and listening comprehension. Here is an ideal aid for doctors, nurses, paramedics, hospital and clinic receptionists and administrators, and others who speak no Spanish but frequently deal with Spanish-speaking patients.