Practical Spanish for Healthcare & Elsewhere
Listen to an interview with a comadrona from Guatemala in Spanish. She tells us about the care that comadronas provide around childbirth. Listen for the Spanish word used for childbirth and delivery.
I interviewed Ester while studying at the San Pedro Spanish School with my niece. To hear more about our experience in San Pedro, check out the podcast: Podcasts from Guatemala.
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Today’s podcast is another patient interview in Spanish. I interviewed Letty while studying at the San Pedro Spanish School. We’ve heard from Letty before when she told us about her experience having Chikungunya. In this interview, she tells us about her unfortunate fate of also suffering from Zika. Both Chikungunya and Zika are viruses transmitted by the same mosquito, and both have been common in parts of Guatemala. In the premium lessons, I am joined by Javier Mendez, my teacher at the San Pedro Spanish School. Together we review the vocabulary, key phrases, and grammar used during the interview. You can subscribe to the premium podcast at docmolly.com/subscribe/
This podcast reviews some of the grammar points covered during an interview I did for the Medical Spanish Podcast. I interviewed folk healer, Francisco Chavajay, while studying at the San Pedro Spanish School in Guatemala. The clinical dialogues and interviews presented in the Medical Spanish Podcast provide an effective method of learning key grammatical concepts used in everyday Spanish conversation. In this free grammar podcast, we go over a sampling of the grammar points covered in my interview with don Francisco.
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This is the final part of a folk medicine interview in Spanish with don Francisco, un curandero de huesos, a folk healer of bones. I interviewed him while studying at the San Pedro Spanish School in Guatemala. In this part of the interview, he tells us about how he sometimes uses medicinal plants, hierbas, to heal injuries.
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This is the fourth part of a folk medicine interview in Spanish, with Francisco Chavajay, un curandero de huesos, a folk healer of bones. I interviewed don Francisco while studying at the San Pedro Spanish School in Guatemala. In this part of the interview, he tells us how he faced the ultimate test when he healed a man who had broken his leg in a motor vehicle accident.
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This is the third part of a folk medicine interview with Francisco Chavajay, un curandero de huesos, a folk healer of bones. I interviewed him while studying at the San Pedro Spanish School in Guatemala. In this part of the interview, he tells us about the first time he healed a dislocation and how the little bone he found on the shore of Lago Atitlán lets him know when someone is coming in need of help.
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