The phrase "present complaint" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in medical or legal contexts to refer to a specific issue or problem that is currently affecting someone. Example: "The patient's present complaint is severe abdominal pain and nausea."
Of course, there is no merit in the present complaint.
The Yees candidly admitted that "in fact, the Hall decision was used [as] a guide in drafting the present Complaint". 2 Tr.
In his book "Our Present Complaint," the Harvard historian Charles Rosenberg argues that, ever since the nineteenth century, when cholera pandemics swept the globe and germ theory came of age, medicine has increasingly put its faith in the measurable — temperature and blood-pressure readings, X-rays, microscopy, laboratory analyses, and so forth.
Complaint intensity acts as time-dependent confounder because children with more severe complaints are more likely to receive more aggressive treatment, and present complaint level may predict future complaint intensity.
Within the six selected facilities, inclusion criteria were 1) first consultation for the present complaint (not a follow-up visit), 2) absence of severe disease, and 3) main complain not trauma related.
Information regarding the patients name, age, sex, occupation, personal habits and present complaints was gathered.
Present and previous somatic and psychiatric diseases and degree of present complaints were registered with special focus on GI symptoms.
Level of distress did not match presenting complaint.
Nasal obstruction is a common presenting complaint, with many possible etiologies.
I take her history and her presenting complaint doesn't sound terrifying.
For each presenting complaint, mean patient satisfaction was highest during the Emergency Department Expert Charting System phase.
