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The Healthcare Interpreter: A Textbook for Advanced Medical Interpreting
Reiss-Koncar, Suzanna

ISBN 13:

9781733249157

ISBN 10:

173324915X

Category:

Dictionaries / Terminology

Edition:

Publisher:

Cross-Cultural Communications

2022

Format:

Paperback

Status:

Active

Imprint:

Culture & Language Press

Pages:

378

Weight:

2.37

Retail Price:

80.00

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Synopsis:
Develop your skills as a medical interpreter. This textbook will challenge and inform practitioners. It includes complex role plays that address many medical specialties; exercises related to ethics, skills and decision-making; graphics with medical terminology lists; and a Spanish-English medical terminology glossary. The author, Suzanna Reiss-Koncar, is a certified healthcare interpreter (CHI) and worked as a hospital staff interpreter in San Francisco for more than a decade. The book is designed both for self-study and for teaching interpreters of any language pair. Each role play includes a version in Spanish and English as well as an English- only version for interpreters of other language pairs. Above all, here is a book with a heart. Interpreters who face hard decisions will value the guidance and illumination offered by a veteran in the field who writes with passion and compassion. Content The book is composed of eleven chapters and four appendices. Each chapter addresses a specific medical specialty or service. Chapter topics Anesthesia Pediatric endocrinology HIV/AIDS Obstetrics Adult endocrinology Neurology Urology Gynecology Rheumatology Pharmacology and referrals Genetics counseling This book was previously issued by Culture & Language Press under the title "Healthcare Interpreting with Heart and Mind."