Deconstructing WOULD: The Ultimate Grammar & Syntax Blueprint for Medical Transcriptionists
The introduction begins by explaining the origins of Precision in Clinical Documentation, the reason for the use of Auxiliary Verbs. Like many words we use in our day to day life, the word ‘would’ seems like a very mundane word to occur in a sentence but is actually quite powerful as a structural word. Most writers use it in the conditional tense or in the hypothetical future tense ('what if'), but it has a much greater application in the real world. To the uninitiated, the word "would" may just appear to be a softer, gentler version of "will. But for anyone who comes to grips with this “auxiliary verb,” it becomes a time-travelling machine, a sign of strong will and a symbol of linguistic determination. These grammatical nuances are particularly important for any medical transcription jobs. For health documentation, there is no such thing as being "too precise": syntactical accuracy is the basis of an authentic clinical record. A wrongly recorded auxil...