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After the successful publication of Medical English and Radiological English
by Springer I considered a top priority to keep on writing medical English
books by specialties that could become useful tools for health care professionals
and medical students all over the world.
Like its predecessors, Primary Care English is not written by English
teachers and aimed at English students, but it is written by doctors and
aimed at doctors.
In this book, some of the chapters, and their methodological approaches
to the learning of medical English of both Medical and Radiological
English, have been adapted to Primary Care. Being a radiologist myself, I
would not have dared co-write a book on Primary Care English without
the valuable partnership of Dr. García Gimeno and Prof. Jones and their
contributors.
Dr. García Gimeno has done an excellent work, on the one hand, adapting
to Primary Care some of the chapters of its predecessors, Medical
English and Radiological English, and on the other hand, designing and
writing new chapters, some of them based on The Oxford Textbook of Primary
Medical Care, edited by Roger Jones. Dr. García Gimeno’s commitment
to the project since its inception has been the driving force behind
the book.
The next book of the series, Cardiovascular English, will be published in
the first trimester of 2008. We are currently working on two fascinating
book projects, English for Biomedical Scientists and Surgical English, and
hopefully will write more books aimed at health care professionals in the
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