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MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 10:51 AM Jan 2018

Trump will have a physical. It should include this:

I get one every year, paid for 100% by Medicare. During that routine wellness checkup, I am asked to remember three words, and then asked to draw a clock face with the time of 11:10 on it. Later, I am asked to provide those three words. Those two simple tests are designed to check my memory functions and my cognitive abilities.

I'm hopeful that Donald Trump is given those two routine tests that are required by Medicare for those annual wellness checks. They are both quite good at intial diagnoses of memory issues and cognitive deficits.

By the way, the three words from last year's wellness check were: Banana. Breakfast. Chair. My clock looked like a clock with the time of 11:10. I wonder what Trumps words will be and what his clock will look like: Here's an image of a clock drawings that indicate cognitive impairment, along with a normal drawing at top left:


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Trump will have a physical. It should include this: (Original Post) MineralMan Jan 2018 OP
Pretty soon the clock face may not work for younger people hlthe2b Jan 2018 #1
Well, pretty much everyone on Medicare does know, though. MineralMan Jan 2018 #2
Trump, will draw it wrong and claim the clock was a fake and lied! n/t RKP5637 Jan 2018 #3

hlthe2b

(102,285 posts)
1. Pretty soon the clock face may not work for younger people
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 10:54 AM
Jan 2018

I was shocked to find that some of my neighbor's kids did not know how to read a clock face, relying only on digital interphases. I suspect they likewise can't read cursive writing, given many schools no longer teach that as well.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
2. Well, pretty much everyone on Medicare does know, though.
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 10:57 AM
Jan 2018

After I drew my clock the last time, I asked the nurse about whether a picture of a digital clock would work. "Nope," she said, and laughed.

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