PROPUESTA PARA EL USO PERTINENTE DEL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL EN MEDICINA

Abstract

Medicine requires the development of specific skills for professional practice (teaching, scientific research and/or assistance). Among them, and within communication skills, the relevant use of the Spanish language is often overshadowed by technical language. Given 1its progressive diachronic deterioration and whatever the medical exercise to be carried out, this paper: (a) proposes a feasible staged repairing sequence of the “language weaknesses”, (b) intends to use said sequence to provide valuable tools for professionals to interact with people of different cultural levels without impairing communication, and (c) makes complementary reflections on its eventual implementation. The first stage seeks to avoid: barbarisms, anglicisms and solecisms (queismo and dequeismo, inappropriate use of the adverbs “where” and “when”, incorrect association of tenses of the subjunctive mode with the conditional tense of the indicative mode, wrong employment of the verbs haber and hallar, dissonant use of fillers and expletives, use of redundancies and frequent confusion between initials and acronyms). The second stage focuses on knowing the true
meaning of unknown words and even those supposedly known, as well as their respective etymologies, and the last stage ventures into synonyms, antonyms, paronyms, homonyms and eponyms.