Followup vs follow up

Hi,

Which one of the following is correct:
1) The patient was lost to follow-up (noun). Slang.
Better English is eg The patient could not be followed up.

2) The patient was lost to follow up (verb) Incorect.'

Clive

Dear Clive,

Thank you for the quick answer. In fact, I am from a medical transcription background, where I work as a quality controller. We are to transcribe what is dictated without changing the actual structure of the sentence having been dictated, but we may correct the grammar. A doctor dictates it so. My question is, if we do not change the structure, whether the noun form or ver

Hi again.
Thank you for the quick answer. In fact, I am from a medical transcription background, where I work as a quality controller. We are to transcribe what is dictated without changing the actual structure of the sentence having been dictated, but we may correct the grammar. A doctor dictates it so. My question is, if we do not change the structure, whe

Yeah, you are right. It is a form of jargon. In fact, doctor do dictate the sentence a lot. Again, you are right that the medical dictionary there shows it as hyphenated, but for some reason, almost all transcription services and clients prefer the one-word form. No idea why it is so.

One more question. We hear only a daily basis sentences starting with "there" in the following form: