Am I normal? Are you normal?

"Never get a medical test," my father once advised me, "unless you already know what's wrong." Paradoxical advice, I thought, coming from a doctor. When I suggested as much, he explained that tests are guaranteed to show abnormalities, and while a layman might regard that as the precise point, ab­nor­m­al­ities are mostly irrelevant because no real person is what diag­nos­ticians call normal ...

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