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In reply to the discussion: Trump's Medical Report Is More Insane Than His Campaign Somehow [View all]3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)22. Odd wording, indeed. A more appropriate adjective for desirable lab results...
...would be "favorable."
When I walk into an exam room and tell a patient's mother that her child's rapid flu test is positive, she knows that means the child HAS influenza.
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"Normally a positive result in the language of medicine is not a good thing. "
uppityperson
Dec 2015
#3
For example, I took an AIDS test once and was glad I wasn't positive. Positive bad, negative good...
winstars
Dec 2015
#4
Between Trump's head and the tea party's lips, there wasn't any room for the probe
jmowreader
Dec 2015
#19
Between Trump's ass and the tea party's lips, there wasn't any room for the probe View profile
Wounded Bear
Dec 2015
#41
That article says "spent his entire career as a resident at Lenox Hill Hospital."
mainer
Dec 2015
#34
Odd wording, indeed. A more appropriate adjective for desirable lab results...
3catwoman3
Dec 2015
#22