I’m 76 and I’ve never had one of these (to digress briefly). Am I missing out?
In addition to being bizarre, inappropriate and demented, the statement is laughably false. Has he seen the women he hires? They only have one qualification.
Presumably he meant that he doesn’t like good looking men. And there’s undoubtedly a lot to unpack there.
That they look like Autons?
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One reason for the different parts of the test is to get around that some people just are bad at some things. Draw a bed? Some people are really crap at drawing. Clock face? Some have issues with that. If you have trouble with just one item but breeze through the rest you’ll be considered OK.
I know, I know… “It’s taking longer than we thought”
It’s not just that they’re “good looking” - they look remarkably alike. He only likes one particular mode of “good looking” women. If you can’t meet that standard you aren’t attractive by his standards. Rumors are that women are flocking to plastic surgeons for “procedures” like lip plumping and botox, and I’m not sure what the profession is called but I’m sure there are folks who will tell/teach you how to do make-up in the called-for style, along with clothing advice. Fake, fake, fake. As fake as Trump’s tan.
Another instance of his lack of imagination.
< John Oliver enters the chat >
I’m surprised that your medical provider hasn’t scheduled these with you. These are part of the provided Medicare services. (And, presumably, a nice source of income for your doctor and their staff.) I have mine in December of each year, and they always make an appointment for the next year before I leave the office. I also have lab work done a couple of days before the appointment.
I have an annual physical, that seems to include most of what I see listed in a “medicare wellness check” but no mental acuity tests, and it’s the same basic physical that I’ve been getting for 25 years at least, not labeled “Medicare” by any of the PCPs I had. Maybe my mental acuity shines so brightly they don’t feel the need to test for it.
The screening doesn’t have to involve an actual test
From CMS
Detecting cognitive impairment is a required element of Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit (AWV). You can also detect cognitive impairment as part of a routine visit through direct observation or by considering information from the patient, family, friends, caregivers, and others about changes in memory, judgment, decision-making, medication adherence or errors.
ETA
Pretty much
They didn’t start screening my mother for senility until it was pretty obvious, years after she complained about declining mental function.
Or, more worryingly, you took that test and don’t remember it.
yeah, trump still going today…ugg don’t wish misery, but please…just leave.
(i just realized maybe TMI and off topic, big rambling text on annual checkup, sorry.
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I’ll be 74 in about a week, and I’ve never had one either. I always chat with my doctor when I see him, so maybe he can tell I’m enough compos mentis to not need it?
My mother behaves like this when we’re trying to get her to go somewhere, and she has very significant dementia.
I get the clock and three or four words. I suppose if I punted one or the other I’d get something more comprehensive.
We’re talking about Mar-a-Lago face.
Is it just me or does this look awful?
And I don’t mean they are ugly people (that’s subjective), but rather the amount of thick product they put on their face looks unreal, like some clown parody of a TV personality.
That last photo matches trump’s lips.
I wonder how much botox went into those faces. Probably equals the amount of filler.
Just wait until Erika Kirk gets her lips inflated. They’re gonna write Usha Vance off the show and stage the wedding of the century between the Widow Kirk and JD, just in time for sweeps, I mean midterms.
It’s 103,000 cancer cases from 93 million CT scans. That’s about a one-tenth of one percent rise in cancer risk per scan. Over a lifetime. That’s… fine. It very much doesn’t give me any concerns about having one done.
The analogy from the video is silly.
Don’t you find it a little funny that you dismiss the NIH in favor of the science dude from Nerdist?