Can anyone tell me how to write the times in this sentence, please? I used to just write, for example, "9 o'clock," but I'm second guessing myself now and especially in this sentence the way the 3 o'clock is stuck in there. Does one use colons, or is that redundant? For example, 3:00 o'clock.

"The intracuticular 5-0 PDS was divided at approximately 6 o’clock and unraveled to approximately 3 and 9 o’clock."

Estella

"The intracuticular 5-0 PDS was divided at approximately 6:00 o’clock and unraveled to approximately 3:00 o'clock and 9:00 o’clock."

To me the meaning is clear when typing "3:00 o'clock" instead of leaving off the zeros and second o'clock.

Aspire

As for straight time:
Per the BOS:

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hours and minutes
For on-the-hour expressions, it is preferable not to add the colon and 00.

8:15 a.m. -- not 8:15 o'clock

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As for the surface location and how to transcribe:
Per Diehl's Medical Transcription Do's and Don'ts:

quote:

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Although unrelated to the time of day, the location of lesions, injections, and incision sites on round anatomic surfaces, such as the breast or the eye, are often expressed by referring to the face of a clock.

DO use the expression o'clock to refer to points on a circular surface, and use figures with o'clock.

The sclera was incised at about the 3 o'clock area.

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[ 03-12-2003: Message edited by: Gaile Stevens, RHIT ]

[ 03-12-2003: Message edited by: Gaile Stevens, RHIT ]

Thank-you both *very much* for your replies to my questions. I really appreciate you taking the time to help a stranger. :-)

I think, Gaile, that I ought to look into that second book that you referenced, as nothing I have had the answer. What is the first reference you gave - BOS? I assume it is a standard work about which I, not being thoroughly trained, know nothing.

Estella