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#97004 - 05/01/08 09:22 AM just checking my followups/follow up!
Sharon33 Sharon33 Junior Member Registered: 12/29/05 Posts: 33	Doing an IME and I want it to be perfect. Am I using the followups and follow up correctly? She did return to the area for routine followups with Dr. XXX. The patient reports that by October of 2006, her care and medical follow up was terminated.
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#97006 - 05/01/08 09:33 AM Re: just checking my followups/follow up! [Re: Sharon33]
Donna2 Donna2 Member Registered: 12/31/69 Posts: 6151 Loc: Sunny FL	Routine followup is correct. Medical follow up is incorrect. Should be medical followup. See below for examples. Followup appointments. Patient will follow up. Clinic followup in 6 weeks. Look at it this way: You would say patient followedup. You would say patient followed up. That's one way to assess the word when you're not sure. Follow up is the verb form (an action). Followup is the noun or adjective, depending on how it's used. Edited by Donna2 (05/01/08 09:33 AM) _________________________ Donna
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#97008 - 05/01/08 09:36 AM Thank you! [Re: Donna2]
Sharon33 Sharon33 Junior Member Registered: 12/29/05 Posts: 33	nm
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#97016 - 05/01/08 11:35 AM Re: Thank you! [Re: Sharon33]
HyperSloth HyperSloth New Member Registered: 01/29/08 Posts: 22 Loc: Missouri, USA	This brings up a pet peeve of mine for the doctors group I do almost all my work for. They insist on always using the "follow up" regardless of it being a verb or noun/adjective. They even have it that way in their categories, ie "Comprehensive Follow Up" is the category for annual physical etc. Sorry, small rant. :P
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#97020 - 05/01/08 12:02 PM Re: Thank you! [Re: HyperSloth]
meri meri Member Registered: 09/08/01 Posts: 8780 Loc: Murrieta, California	It has been brought to my attention that the new BOS says that "followup" is now acceptable no matter how it is used in a sentence. Not for this MT.
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#97027 - 05/01/08 12:27 PM Re: Thank you! [Re: meri]
14tonks 14tonks Member Registered: 10/25/01 Posts: 5913 Loc: Only 3rd world country in US	Quote: the new BOS says that "followup" is now acceptable no matter how it is used in a sentence OMG. I'm so old-fashioned that the dropped hyphen still bothers me, although at least there are a few dictionaries now that cross-reference that variant. However, bastardized noun/adjective form is now the new verb form as well? I don't think so.
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#97030 - 05/01/08 01:09 PM Re: Thank you! [Re: meri]
FarAwayDeb FarAwayDeb Member Registered: 03/15/02 Posts: 2759 Loc: just south of Rochester, NY	Originally Posted By: meri It has been brought to my attention that the new BOS says that "followup" is now acceptable no matter how it is used in a sentence. Good heavens. Somebody please tell me this is a mistake. That doesn't even make sense. Hopefully they mean "followup" instead of "follow-up" but NOT "followup" instead of "follow up" ? Next thing you know, we'll be dropping "apostrophe s" because too many people can't learn how/when to use it! _________________________ Good grammar ain't easy.
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#97032 - 05/01/08 01:37 PM Re: Thank you! [Re: FarAwayDeb]
meri meri Member Registered: 09/08/01 Posts: 8780 Loc: Murrieta, California	I haven't read it myself, but I was told that it says it can be used as "followup" for all three ways. Yeah, let's just change things up because so many MTs just couldn't seem to get one of the easiest things in MT right. Again, though, I have not seen this myself.
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#97045 - 05/01/08 02:41 PM Re: Thank you! [Re: FarAwayDeb]
14tonks 14tonks Member Registered: 10/25/01 Posts: 5913 Loc: Only 3rd world country in US	Quote: Next thing you know, we'll be dropping "apostrophe s" because too many people can't learn how/when to use it! They already did that with eponyms. So now instead of just misplacing the apostrophe, people misspell the ones ending in s.
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#97106 - 05/02/08 10:42 AM Re: Thank you! [Re: 14tonks]
mpau mpau New Member Registered: 06/25/07 Posts: 16 Loc: boondocks, usa	I have always done it this way (old school?) follow-up appointment return for followup may follow up with PCP
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