"endorse" as medicalese for '(patient) report (symptom)'

[Mark Mandel]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> Might it be "endorse" replacing "present", as in "the patient
> presented a headache"?  (I am wondering what kind of ESL substitution
> might have arisen.)

I think the usual construction there is intransitive: "The patient
presented with a headache." Asking my sister.

Mark Mandel

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