Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

In this post, we will discuss about how to use the future tense in the past tense. Often we are in a condition to express our ideas of future times in the past times. For example, read this sentence. We could not have gotten the independence without a hard freedom struggle. In this sentence, independence achievement was a future dream in the past, understood. We can also use Might Have instead of Could Have, both will give the same meaning. In the example sentence above, the action already has finished, so it is a completed action. In normal sense, completed actions are revealed in the past tense or past perfect tense. So in the past perfect tense sense, we can use could have, might have, would have, should have, must have, need have, ought to have etc., to express future in the past tense expressions. Future in the Past Tense 1. We should have married.  2. The past lovers would not have met if the train reached exactly announced time. 3. You must not have left your colle...

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...