Stupid Test 3 Answers

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Here are all the Stupid Test 3 answers that I have found so far!

1. wrong

2. celery

3. beans

4. more, core, cord, cold

5. hannah

6. Press the green button carefully. The positions change.

7. 5

8. more scrambled eggs

9. butter

10. neither

11. all of them

12. yes

13. a coin collector

14. He never boarded the ark. It was Noah.

15. Earth can’t be removed from a hole.

16. milk

17. macromedia

18. (it should say subtract your original number) = 4

19. call, ball

20. the last button is the tiny yellow one between the two green ones in the 2nd row

21. numismatist

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Family Blames Cigna For Teen Death

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 Cigna Health Care

A grieving family is blaming an insurance company for the death Thursday of a 17-year-old leukemia patient, who died hours after the company reversed course and agreed to pay for her to receive a liver transplant.

Nataline Sarkisyan was being treated at UCLA Medical Center, where she had been unresponsive in intensive care for about three weeks, her mother said.

“She had a 65% chance of survival if she had gotten the liver,” Hilda Sarkisyan said from her home this morning.

The Sarkisyans’ insurer, Philadelphia-based Cigna HealthCare, denied the transplant earlier this month.

Doctors at UCLA sent a letter Dec. 11 to Cigna emphasizing that Nataline was eligible for a transplant, Hilda Sarkisyan said. But Cigna refused to pay, citing a lack of medical evidence the procedure would help.

Hilda Sarkisyan said the company was trying to save money. “They just like to collect. They don’t want to deliver,” she said.

On Thursday, the family rallied supporters online and staged a protest at Cigna’s Glendale office with about 150 people, including many members of the local Armenian community and the California Nurses Assn., which had released statements supporting the family’s cause.

Later in the day, Cigna released a statement approving the transplant payment.

“Although it is outside the scope of the plan’s coverage, and despite the lack of medical evidence regarding the effectiveness of such treatment,” spokesman Wendell Potter wrote, “Cigna HealthCare has decided to make an exception in this rare and unusual case, and we will provide coverage should she proceed with the requested liver transplant. Our thoughts and payers are with Nataline and her family at this time.”

Nataline died about 6 p.m.

Cigna spokesmen did not respond to e-mail and telephone requests for comment this morning.

The family’s lawyer planned a news conference later today to discuss the situation.

Charles Idelson, spokesman for the Oakland-based California Nurses Assns., called Cigna’s handling of the Sarkisyan’s case “outrageous.”

“If Cigna could approve the transplant yesterday in response to hundreds of phone calls and people pounding on their door in Glendale, why couldn’t they have done it eight days earlier?” Idelson said this morning.

He said his group, which represents 75,000 nursing professionals, the majority in California, has recently rallied around a number of patients who have been denied care.

While it isn’t clear that Cigna could have saved Nataline by approving the transplant earlier, Idelson said, the insurer should have trusted her doctors.

“The transplant was recommended by the medical professionals at the bedside,” Idelson said. “They should have been listened to.”

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New Medical Slang Of 2007

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David Hasselhoff Drunk
DOCTORS have always used a tribal vocabulary to communicate between themselves, but now their secret lingo is been enriched by the electronic media and urban slang.

Paul Keeley, a consultant in the department of palliative medicine at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland wrote to the weekly British Medical Journal a sample of new words that British doctors use among themselves.

They include:

  • Disco biscuits: The clubbers’ drug ecstasy. As in: “The man in cubicle three looks like he’s taken one too many disco biscuits.”
  • Hasselhoff: Term for any patient who shows up in the emergency room with an injury for which there is a bizarre explanation. Source: Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff, who hit his head on a chandelier while shaving. The broken glass severed four tendons and and an artery in his right arm.
  • Agnostication: A substitute for prognostication. Term used to the describe the usually vain attempt to answer the question: “How long have I got, doc?”
  • Blamestorming: Apportioning of blame after the wrong leg or kidney is removed or some other particularly egregious foul-up happens.
  • 404 moment: The point in a doctor’s ward round when medical records cannot be located. Comes from internet error message, “404 - document not found.”
  • Testiculation: Description of a gesture typically used by hospital consultant “when holding forth on subject on which he or she has little knowledge”. Gesture is of an upturned hand with outstretched fingers pointed upwards, clutching an invisible pair of testicles.Other slang used by doctors, according to past letters to the BMJ, include UBI (for “Unexplained Beer Injury”), PAFO (”Pissed And Fell Over”) and Code Brown, or a faecal incontinence emergency.CTD means “Circling The Drain”, GPO signifies “Good for Parts Only” and “Rule of Five” means that if more than five of the patient’s orifices are obscured by tubing, he has no chance.
  • A patient who is “giving the O-sign” is very sick, lying with his mouth open. This is followed by the “Q-sign” - when the tongue hangs out of the mouth - when the patient becomes terminal.

    As for genetic quirks or inbreeding, FLK means “Funny Looking Kid” and NFN signifies “Normal For Norfolk,” a rural English county.

    General practitioners may use LOBNH (”Lights On But Nobody Home”) or the impressively bogus Oligoneuronal to mean someone who is thick.

    But they also have a somewhat poetic option: “Pumpkin positive” refers to the idea that a person’s brain is so tiny that a penlight shone into their mouth will make their empty head gleam like a Halloween pumpkin.

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