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was there anything in particular you were worried it might be

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A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

A gentle way of eliciting a patient's underlying concerns or fears about their symptoms.

Before we go on, was there anything in particular you were worried it might be?

Similar: did you have any thoughts about what it might be

Topic: Clinical consultation in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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