Official: Healthy person here
17 Jul 2008 
in the late afternoon 
Matt Winckler
Today marked the final barrage of tests involved in becoming a police officer: the medical tests. These were considerably less routing and more mundane than the psychological test. The morning consisted of another lengthy questionnaire, a drug/urine test, a blood pressure test (120/71), a blood draw, a vision test, a hearing test, a lung capacity test (kind of like a breathalyzer), and a general physical examination. This was followed by a chest x-ray, which concluded the morning’s festivities. This afternoon I took a treadmill stress test at the cardiologist’s office, which I summarily passed, though I only managed to stay on the treadmill for just under 16 minutes. (It’s the continually-increasing slope that gets you! Or, rather, got me, being accustomed only to running on a flat track.)
The only remaining uncertainty is now the psychological exam, for which I still do not have the result. The scheduled tests, however, are now wholly complete.