Can anyone suggest a formal way to write "This brings us to the second question: ..."?

I read that one should never use "us" or "we" in academic writing.

@ColleenVpartedways I'm just not sure how to translate this into Russian. If by "patient presents with" we mean "the patient has visited this doctor for the first time with this complaint", I would translate it in a certain way. If it means "the patient visited the doctor with this complaint, but this may be a second or a third visit", I would translate it differently.

@CowperKettle It's more like "the patient shows/has these symptoms". It doesn't really have to do with the visit at all if I understand it correctly. A patient can be under care and present with new symptoms.

Maybe the problem is that a "medical examination" is not the same thing as a visit to the doctor.

A patient can be in the hospital and have medical staff examining them. A nurse might write in their record that a patient complained of nausea and when reviewing the case someone might say "The patient presents with nausea". It seems to me mostly like a way to use passive voice to make it less personal, but I have no medical experience.

@ColleenVpartedways Thank you! So I was wrong in translating this as "The patient during the primary visit to the doctor has the following complaints/symptoms". Live and learn.

It's sometimes quite hard to translate specialized phrases.

@snailcar Yes, I know, I know! Ugh. Hahah. Y'know? It just looks weird because the meaning is so particular, so confined. From a syntax standpoint, what I was driving at was perhaps that it's not just a Russia analyst but a Russia [something] analyst which would make the relationship much less direct. But again, I understand that the simplest explanation is preferable, and what I'm saying is needlessly complicating things.

Re the semantics vs. syntax thing – while I agree in principle, it's semantics that's driving the syntax. That's why you say "oh but here that's not the salient interpretation, so it's analyzed like this instead", even thought grammatically either works.

@CowperKettle It's still not clear what you mean by "the primary visit to the doctor". (It's even worse than "the first visit" because now I literally don't know what you mean, not just what you're aiming at.)

If the English text said initially presented with X, Y, and Z, that's a completely different matter from the presented thing.

Hm, I wonder if English speakers do this sorta transition I did there if it did.. well, that's something else, not entirely mixing the real and unreal conditionals, but still. I'm probably just what usage manuals disparagingly label as "not careful".

Or, what was that, slovenly? Slipshod? Hehe.

@M.A.R. I've reached the rep required to ruin people's lives. I'm a chimp with a machine gun right now, in the timeless words of Chuck McGill.

@userr2684291 When you come to the doctor with your complaints for the first time, it's the primary visit. It's the usual term. The doctor makes the first record in your medical history card concerning this particular complaint. You will visit him later to learn the results of testing and report on the results of treatment.

The initial diagnosis is made during this visit and may be later corrected based on emerging data.

So when I edit a question I can't also cast a vote to leave it open, but I can vote in order to close it? Hm.

I'm kinda surprised at what people are voting to close, in particular as "proofreading".

@CowperKettle OK, I see what you mean now. I wasn't aware of that terminology.

I saw a sign that said "Falling Rocks." I tried. It doesn't.

Word of the day: wye

@CowperKettle Yeah, gravity sucks.

I had a sort of chaotic days during the last two weeks.

Anyways, just wanted to say hello to my old pals.

@CowperKettle I now bike around 25 miles each week.

It reminds me of you.

Be safe and strong my friends.