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Have you ever sought medical attention only to be told that your visit is limited to an arbitrary number of concerns, aka “complaints”? What gives? My initial reaction upon hearing of this two-complaint phenomenon was diagnostic: how do you know that complaints three and four aren’t going to shed light on complaints one and two? After all, many diseases affect multiple organ systems. One of the classic ones which every medical student learns of is Reiter’s Syndrome, or reacti