Guest guest Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 In a message dated 5/7/2003 3:13:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, mgrant@... writes: > I have a question for the group that a friend asked me. She has the new > AAMT BOS and couldn't find the answer, so I agreed to send it in. If you > have the sentence, " Miss Doe is a 24 year old status post hysterectomy, " is > it 24 year old or 24-year-old. I know someone out there knows for sure. > Thanks, Margaret > > > Margaret, It's on page 18 in the new BOS. Use the hyphens because the word " patient " is implied following 24-year-old. Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 I have a question for the group that a friend asked me. She has the new AAMT BOS and couldn't find the answer, so I agreed to send it in. If you have the sentence, " Miss Doe is a 24 year old status post hysterectomy, " is it 24 year old or 24-year-old. I know someone out there knows for sure. Thanks, Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 > I have a question for the group that a friend asked me. She has the > new AAMT BOS and couldn't find the answer, so I agreed to send it > in. If you have the sentence, " Miss Doe is a 24 year old status post > hysterectomy, " is it 24 year old or 24-year-old. I know someone out > there knows for sure. Thanks, Margaret It's in the latest BOS under " Ages " as adjuctival phrases and it states to use hyphens in that case, because " patient, " " female, " " woman, " etc., is implied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 Margaret, it's my understanding it wouldn't be hyphenated because it doesn't say 24-year-old female, or woman or whatever (it's not modifying anything). Technically it would be better to say " Miss Doe is 24 years old, status post hysterectomy. " OR " Miss Doe is a 24 year old, status post hysterectomy. " Make sense? Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Hyphenation question I have a question for the group that a friend asked me. She has the new AAMT BOS and couldn't find the answer, so I agreed to send it in. If you have the sentence, " Miss Doe is a 24 year old status post hysterectomy, " is it 24 year old or 24-year-old. I know someone out there knows for sure. Thanks, Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 Margaret, include the hyphens. It's a compound adjective modifying a noun. The noun happens to be a predicate complement that is understood rather than stated. The sentence as dictated is doctor-speak and is missing the word " patient " in the predicate. What makes it a predicate complement is that it is in the predicate, it means the same thing as the subject of the sentence, and it complements (completes) the description of the subject. Thus, it would be treated as though he or she had dictated, " Miss Doe is a 24-year-old status post hysterectomy patient. " I've always been suspicious that the surgeons think of me as " the thyroidectomy " or " the hysterectomy " or " the cervical polyp " or " the geriatric mastitis case " rather than as a person, and doctor-speak dictation does nothing to reassure me. At 03:10 PM 5/7/2003, Margaret Grant wrote: >I have a question for the group that a friend asked me. She has the new >AAMT BOS and couldn't find the answer, so I agreed to send it in. If you >have the sentence, " Miss Doe is a 24 year old status post hysterectomy, " >is it 24 year old or 24-year-old. I know someone out there knows for >sure. Thanks, Margaret > > Valeria Truitt Coordinator and Lead Instructor Medical Office Administration Craven Community College New Bern, North Carolina 28562 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 Margaret, a hyphen is used because the noun is implied in these cases. Tell your friend to look under " ages " in the new BOS on page 18. It says: Use a hyphen in a phrase in which the noun following the phrase is implied, or in a phrase that is serving as a noun. Alternatively, edit to a form that does not require hyphens. The patient, a 33-year-old, was pregnant for the fifth time. (The word patient or woman is implied following 33-year-old.) or The patient, 33 years old, was pregnant for the fifth time. Rennie ----- Original Message ----- I have a question for the group that a friend asked me. She has the new AAMT BOS and couldn't find the answer, so I agreed to send it in. If you have the sentence, " Miss Doe is a 24 year old status post hysterectomy, " is it 24 year old or 24-year-old. I know someone out there knows for sure. Thanks, Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 A neat trick that someone told me is if year ends with and S (years) then you do NOT hyphen. if it does NOT have and S then you DO use the hyphen. This has helped my out allot. 24-year-old 24 years of age. Lysa Hyphenation question I have a question for the group that a friend asked me. She has the new AAMT BOS and couldn't find the answer, so I agreed to send it in. If you have the sentence, " Miss Doe is a 24 year old status post hysterectomy, " is it 24 year old or 24-year-old. I know someone out there knows for sure. Thanks, Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 Hey Margaret! It's 24-year-old. If they dictated The patient was 24 years old, there would be no hyphens. The difference is the S on years and the fact that in your sentence 24-year-old is an adjective phrase. HTH! Sylvia Roller M-TEC Student - Session 4-5 gentlsong@... AIM: Jntlsong >I have a question for the group that a friend asked me. She has the >new AAMT BOS and couldn't find the answer, so I agreed to send it >in. If you have the sentence, " Miss Doe is a 24 year old status >post hysterectomy, " is it 24 year old or 24-year-old. I know >someone out there knows for sure. Thanks, Margaret > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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