The point he was making was that absolutely everybody could be made to fail a medical if the DAME looked at the rules from a jaded point of view.
A few of the rules had very little relationship to being fit to fly, but if enforced, there goes your career.
And when I mentioned his sense of humour, I should have foreseen that readers of these threads would have none at all. The phone comment was a joke he made, Deirdre...