Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h8CF1b714674; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:01:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:01:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3F61D7D2.DED772A8@tenet.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: james phillips <jphilip@tenet.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4108] Re: home/remedies/cultural/beliefs X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) Status: O Content-Length: 1278 Lines: 28 Some of these words and expressions were collected from relatives in Guanajuato. They vary from person to person. This is the page I receive most criticism and comments from. jp Martha Burton Santibáñez wrote: > For me, "El Consultorio" brought back a lot of good memories of my first > post-college job, working at family planning clinics outside of LA. It also > reminds me of my mother-in-law, who still lives in Gro., Mexico and uses > quite a bit of indigenous health practices. :-) > > My one suggestion is that some of the definitions could be more complete, so > that their counterpart in English might be better appreciated. For example, > "té de manzanilla" is really chammomile tea. And "ventosa" is the practice > of cupping. I've also heard "chipote" used to describe a knot (from a blow) > on someone's head. > > But otherwise, this is definitely the sort of (Mexican) Spanish one hears in > medical contexts. Btw - another term I heard all the time in the clinics > was "el aparato", which referred to the I.U.D. If you're doing family > planning with Mexican patients and you don't have this term, you're going to > have a lot of hard work ahead of you. lol! > > Martha Burton Santibanez > National Marrow Donor Program > Office of Patient Advocacy
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