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| ***** | HANDBAG POSITIVE | confused patient (usually elderly lady) lying on hospital bed clutching handbag
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| ***** | POSITIVE SUITCASE SIGN | patients who are repeated admissions for prolonged periods with no physiological cause of their problems. They turn up at hospital with packed suitcases ready for admission
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| *** | POSITIVE SPACE. | Seating or rooms that can actually be occupied, as opposed to space reserved on a standby or if-available basis.
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| *** | PUMPKIN POSITIVE | a penlight shone into the patient's mouth/ear would encounter a brain so small that the whole head would light up
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| *** | GOWN'S SIGN, POSITIVE | a patient who leaves (self-discharge ) without official discharge orders
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| ** | SAMSONITE POSITIVE (POSITIVE SAMSONITE TEST) | someone who turns up in emergency with all their luggage (and insists on being admitted to a ward)
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| * | POSITIVE BLUE LEGS SIGN | (US) resuscitation behind closed curtains (US ER medics wear blue scrubs)
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| * | PILLOW POSITIVE | (Wales) patients who are repeated admissions for prolonged periods with no physiological cause of their problems. It is joked they go to hospital with their own pillows ready for admission
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| * | PLANK POSITIVE | stupid, as in 'thick as 2 short planks'
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| * | POSITIVE HILTON SIGN | demanding patient expects Hilton Hotel luxury; indicates patient well enough to leave!
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| * | POSITIVE GOBBLER | turkey i.e. faking illness to get out of drill (used by army medics)
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| * | POSITIVE | Phenological Observations and Satellite data (ndvi): trends In the Vegetation cycle in Europe
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