This convenient pocket guide is designed to help the entire veterinary team — veterinarians, veterinary technicians, assistants, and office staff — communicate more effectively with Spanish-speaking clients. It provides key Spanish grammar and pronunciation guidelines so users can formulate explanations, instructions, and questions in Spanish.
Key Features
- Organized by how a practitioner interacts with a patient, following a logical order from the initial greeting, to taking the patient's history, positioning the patient for an examination, and then performing any kind of procedure.
- Details key vocabulary and phrases for front office exchanges between clients and staff.
- Terminology covers a variety of topics that are essential to effective communication in the veterinary office, related to both procedures and administration.
- Includes several different ways to ask the same question so users will be able to select the expressions that they like best and find easiest to remember.
Contents - Instructions to the User
- 1. Grammar
- 2. The Waiting Room
- 3. Patient History
- 4. Anesthesia
- 5. Bone and Joint Disorders
- 6. Cancer
- 7. Dentistry
- 8. Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
- 9. Equine
- 10. Euthanasia
- 11. Exotic Pets
- Birds
- Ferrets
- Guinea Pigs
- Rabbits
- 12. Internal Medicine
- 13. Large Animal
- 14. Neurologic Disorders
- 15. Ophthalmology
- 16. Pharmacology
- 17. Preventive Health
- 18. Radiology
- 19. Referring the Client to Another Veterinarian
- 20. Reporting Results to the Client
- 21. Skin and Ear Disorders
- 22. Surgery
- 23. Instructions for Home Care
- 24. Patient Information Form
- Appendix
- Index
Book Details
- Paperback: 640 pages
- Publisher: Mosby; 1 edition (©2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0323025633
- ISBN-13: 978-0323025638
- Product Dimensions: 4.6 x 0.9 x 7.6 inches
- List Price: $38.95