Patients may forget to disclose the most amazing things, like a past medical history of a Whipple’s procedure, or a previous cancer diagnosis, or diabetes, or bipolar disorder.

Patients may reveal the most amazing things, like a pillar of society admitting to their youthful dabbling with cocaine, or a septuagenarian, engaged and enjoying her grandchildren, who confides that she is still grieving the loss of a pregnancy in her 20s.

A patient may present with the most trivial complaint, like wanting you to squeeze a single, tiny pimple on their face.

Or a patient may present with a trivial complaint of a sore, bruised finger and a history of a suitcase falling on it from the top of the closet.