midnightresult
/ˈmɪdnaɪtˌrɪzʌlt/nounVerified NewA lab result released to a patient portal at night, read alone and unexplained before any clinician has spoken to the patient.
Systems that auto-release results at 00:01 hand patients the raw text first — a flagged marker, a scare word, a number with no range — to be interpreted at 3 a.m. with a search engine. Some results are nothing; the reading hour is always the same. Midnightresult names that appointment nobody scheduled.
Etym. — midnight + result — the timestamp is the phenomenon; auto-release made it a nightly possibility.
Rel. — portalclerk
Novelty check: NEW · checked 2026-11-08
review evidence: wordstoreview/review-batch-3-06-health.md
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Method: Editorial batch review — per-word exact-form web search (WebSearch/Tavily) per docs/REVIEW-criteria.md §2