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Injuries or illnesses requiring medical attention are a ubiquitous feature of fiction. With very few exceptions, even those who write medical dramas are not doctors themselves. Many have real doctors as consultants, but even with that, there are still things that would never happen in real life that make it into a show to preserve Rule of Drama. Tropes Are Tools aside, these inaccuracies can be dangerous if presented as accurate through medical series, leading to well-meaning bystanders causing more harm than anything else. When in doubt, call the professionals. May be related to Artistic License – Biology, Artistic Licence – Anatomy and Artistic License – Botany. See also Artistic License – Pharmacology, and Medical Treatment Tropes. |
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In Fight Club Tyler gives the Narrator a chemical burn and informs him that "water will react with it and make the effects worse" while "vinegar will neutralize the chemical", and so vinegar is applied to "cure" the burn. While Tyler's reasoning in and of itself is technically correct, it ignores two important things: Water will also wash it away, and an acid neutralizing a base is an exothermic reaction (meaning it releases heat). In real life the vinegar would have neutralized the lye but also release a lot of heat, giving severe heat burns to his already damaged flesh and making the wound much worse, while the water would have flushed the lye from his flesh before it could actually worsen its effects. | |
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The Casagrandes: In "Mexican Makeover", Lupe starts having a heart attack from shock, but when the shock goes away, this cancels out the heart attack. That cannot happen in real life. | |
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In two now-deleted fan videos of The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl break all of their bones, yet they're able to sit up straight and talk, neither of which would be possible with every bone broken. | |
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365 Days has some egregious examples: Massimo is told he must choose whether to save Laura or her unborn child after she gets shot. However, due to the unclear timeline, it appears Laura would be less than six months pregnant at the time (she was a few weeks pregnant at the end of 365 Days and This Day seems to take place over a few months). Therefore, medically-speaking it's unlikely saving the baby over Laura would even be an option, as the fetus probably wouldn't be able survive outside the womb (one of the most prematurely-born babies to survive was born at 21 weeks or about five months, which is extremely rare; not to mention Laura had been shot, making survival even less likely). In the third book, Laura goes on a boozefest, only for Massimo to tell her to slow down because she could damage her new heart. Yep, it turns out Laura got a heart transplant at the end of the previous book, which she was clueless about until now. Organ transplants don't just involve the doctors taking out old organs, popping a new one in and Bob's your uncle; Laura would need time to recover, lots of medication and follow-up checks to make sure the new heart is working correctly, plus the doctors would've been the ones to tell her about the things she should and shouldn't be doing post-transplant. |
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In Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, a doctor explains that a character has gone blind because "both optic nerves have separated from their respective corneas". The optic nerve and the cornea are literally as far apart as two parts of the eye can possibly be. The writers likely meant "...from their respective retinas". | |
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Ricochet: After Styles is rescued after being drugged and kidnapped by Blake, he's informed about having gonorrhea due to his blood work. This is wrong on so many levels: first, the only STDs that show up on blood work are syphilis and HIV. Second, these are based on the body's antibody response, so it takes a while to turn positive, not overnight as in this scenario. Thirdly, doctors only run tests that are actually medically needed (or at least the ones they are sure they'll get paid for!). Since they didn't know he'd been raped or had unprotected sex, there would never have been a test for that (only whatever drugs he had). | |
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In Dark Winds, the hospital has an MRI machine. Those existed in 1973, but most hospitals didn't have them yet, so it's unlikely that a small hospital in rural Arizona would have had one. | |
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In November 9, Fallon's burn injuries aren't really described or dealt with realistically. It's stated that she suffered fourth-degree burns to 30 per cent of her body, with her left side being covered in scars. Fourth-degree burns are some of the severest burn injuries you can receive, extending down to muscle and bone. In many cases, body parts such as limbs that have been burnt this severely need to be amputated and there's usually permanent damage to the affected areas (provided the person even survives). Fallon is extremely lucky that she didn't lose an arm or leg, or go blind in her left eye; it's also more likely that her left breast would've removed as opposed to just being scarred. At the start of the book, it's only been two years since the fire and yet Fallon is completely physically recovered besides her scars, without so much as a limp. In real life, if she was that seriously burnt she'd likely still be in and out of hospital getting skin grafts and reconstructive surgeries, would probably be in physical therapy to regain use of her body and may not be fully able to eat, drink or speak on her own yet. She'd likely also be wearing protective gear to prevent her burns getting infected during the healing process and be taking pain medication. | |
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Fargo: A gunshot Hanzee steals hydrogen peroxide to disinfect his wounds. It's a common misconception that hydrogen peroxide should be used for wound disinfection. In reality, it's used to sterilize medical tools but not applied to wounds directly because it actually slows down wound healing. | |
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House The show often features chemotherapeutic drugs as a single "chemo" chemical that you just give a patient to kill any cancer that might be anywhere in the body. In reality, chemo can use alkylating agents, antimetabolites, anthracyclines, plant alkaloids, topoisomerase inhibitors, or any number of other chemicals, and it all depends on the specific type of tumor. In one episode, we see a patient ripping out his cochlear implant — cue spurting blood and frantic attempts to save his life. In real life, the external parts of the device (the microphone and speech processor) are held on magnetically, with the actual implant itself safely under the skin. Deaf people and hearing itinerants remove them all the time. It's the equivalent of someone tearing their eyes out by removing their glasses. note Some of the earliest experimental implants did have the external components physically connected. As this requires leaving a gaping hole in the patient's flesh, they don't do that anymore. Chances are that any of the recipients of those early prototypes are either dead of old age, or have upgraded to a newer model. The series has repeatedly shown the OR with dark, dramatic lighting. While there are some cases where this would happen, the truth is that OR rooms are brightly lit in the majority of cases. The series has confused CT and MRI machines on more than one occasion, and they show x-rays on film being hung on lightboxes, even though the majority of hospitals have switched to digital x-rays. They've also shown the doctors taking CT scans, drawing blood, and doing the lab work themselves. In reality, these jobs would be done by technologists and technicians, as doctors simply don't have the time or knowledge of how to use the equipment. Toxoplasmosis? A fungus (in reality, a disease caused by parasitic protozoa). ALS? Affects sensory neurons (there's a reason it's also known as "motor neuron disease"). Unnoticed tumors 30 centimeters in diameter (larger than a basketball). Etc. In one episode, House claims that epilepsy is curable. It is not (it cannot be cured because its causes are not fully understood), but it is treatable (there are several generations of various drugs that, taken constantly, prevent the epileptic fits from occurring). While an ordinary viewer might not know the difference, any MD student not to mention doctor should know this. Absence of libido (which can be a symptom of a medical issue such as a tumor) is equated with asexuality, a lack of sexual attraction, which is not a medical disorder. Libido is basically a desire to do something sexual, and while sexual attraction often triggers it, it's not the same thing (an asexual with a libido usually feels compelled to masturbate). In addition, since the man afflicted had apparently never been attracted to anyone before, this implies the tumour formed during puberty. In reality, someone who'd had a brain tumour for that long would have had other, worse symptoms, or even died, long ago. |
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The Simpsons: In "The Bart Wants What it Wants", Homer thinks he will not have to pay for deliberately injuring himself in Canada due to the free healthcare. In reality, Canadian healthcare is only free to other Canadians, so he'd still have to pay. That said, Homer is stupid so it's plausible he just didn't know. In "Jaws Wired Shut", Homer gets his jaw wired shut and can't speak. Speaking with one's jaw wired shut is harder, but not impossible. In "Blood Feud", Mr. Burns gets a kidney transplant from Smithers, despite them having different blood types. Kidneys can only be donated between people with the same blood type. In "Round Springfield", Bart gets appendicitis from eating jagged metal. This would cause internal bleeding, not appendicitis. |
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The Orville: In the episode "All the World Is a Birthday Cake", Doctor Finn and Lieutenant Talla are touring a Regorian hospital and are brought into a surgical suite where a C-section on a premature child is taking place. There's two pieces of artistic license here, one justified, the other not so much. The justified part is that the C-section is completely unnecessary, and yet the Regorians are performing a lot of them. The Regorians are delivering babies weeks ahead of schedule on purpose due to a societal superstition that children born under a specific astrological sign are predisposed to violence. The unjustified part? Finn, the Orville's chief medical officer, should have known better than to enter an active operating room without scrubbing or donning PPE. |
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Tales of the Bounty Hunters: It's unlikely at best that emotions simply could be removed by cutting parts of the hypothalamus out (or that doing so wouldn't cause irreversible damage if not death to the patient). Of course, it's Star Wars, which is hardly "hard" sci fi. | |
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Want to make a doctor, a toxicologist, and a pharmacist howl in laughter together? Show them the toxins and disease table in the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Old World of Darkness game line. It contains such madness as: Methanol is a relatively benign poison, and less dangerous than tear gas (Real world: untreated methanol poisoning will blind you and/or kill you, and even treated it just might. Methanol poisoning is a medical emergency. Tear gas is in the vast, vast majority of cases highly irritating, but not debilitating, and after some exposures, you can have a tolerance to it.) You resolve whether or not you get cancer with a roll that takes place in a single turn (3 sec) The difficulty of catching a disease and the difficulty of fighting it off are the same, so a lethal disease is always easy to catch, while highly transmissible, not-too-painful diseases don't exist (This is the exact opposite of Real Life trends; the Red Queen Theory states diseases that are "too lethal" actually will be selected against because they will destroy their hosts, while mild diseases that leave their hosts mostly intact will be selected for and have more chances to become more communicable) Fouled water is a thing. Don't ask what that is, how it's fouled, or with what it's fouled. Ebola is apparently airborne since it must be avoided with methods similar to avoiding a cloud of poison gas (Ebola is spread by body fluids and is actually not easy to get; it's just incredibly lethal if you do get it) One Dose Fits All is absolutely in effect. It is just as easy to catch HIV as it is leprosy No (non-magical) system describes how to cure these diseases, nor what might be possible with mundane medicine that should be available to the majority of characters in the World of Darkness. The game explicitly states that there is no way to do anything but treat the effects of a toxin when several on the list have literal exact antidotes. Somehow, in the middle of an epidemic of deaths from synthetic marijuana in the United States and virtually no cases of death attributed to old-fashioned marijuana, the chart collapses both into just THC. |
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Heroes shows Mohinder checking Hiro's pupillary response while in a dimly-lit room, without any additional light. Aside from that you'd be hard-pressed to even see whether someone's pupils are dilated in a dark room like that, especially if they have very dark brown eyes like Hiro's... of course his pupils are dilated. It's dark. | |
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Grey's Anatomy. In the second part of the bomb episodes in season two, all Addison Montgomery can do for Miranda Bailey—who is extremely distraught about her husband being in surgery next to the might-explode-at-any-second bomb—is tell her the baby could die if she doesn't push. Offering support and encouragement and taking charge is apparently something only interns do. And in the season three premiere, with the preemie who was left in a trash can at a high school, and the four girls who could have been the mother? All they had to do was give them a regular pee on a stick pregnancy test. The pregnancy hormone, hCG, stays in the blood for up to six weeks after birth. | |
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In ANNO: Mutationem, Erythropoietin is an in-game item that provides a Status Buff when used. This is not true, it's really for increasing red blood cells by supporting the survival of erythroid progenitor cells. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, Wekapipo's Wrecking Ball effect is repeatedly named "Left side ataxia"; ataxia actually refers to an impaired ambulatory ability. The effect shown in the series is closer to (a fictionalized version of) Asomatognosia, in which the person is unable to perceive some of their own body parts. | |
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In Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, when Andy is on a hospital bed, the leads to the EKG unit are completely misplaced. They're not a bit off - they look like they were slapped on by someone just trying to make things look medic-... Oh, yeah. When they are moved to another person, they are similarly slapped on incorrectly. This kind of thing normally triggers an alarm if the machine thinks the leads are misplaced or the rhythm detected by the machine is way off. Nothing sensible would come out from simply putting the leads in the wrong places, likely triggering an alarm, though hospital staff don't always react to an alarm with the urgency you'd hope. | |
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Triage X: Multiple-organ transplant operations are part of many characters' backstories, including Arashi. This would normally provoke an immune response, killing the transplanted organs, requiring a lifetime of immunosuppressant drugs, but the series gives a plot-relevant justification: While serving with a Doctors Without Borders-like NGO, Dr. Mochizuki discovered a village where a folk medicine treatment involving a virus and its vaccine were used to suppress immune response in crude transplants. He refined the technique, but the virus was so contagious and so lethal without the vaccine that he and his team decided to suppress knowledge of it rather than risk a worldwide epidemic. | |
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In Vampire Girl, Laura, a Certified Nursing Assistant provides the titular vampire girl Levana with sangria as a placebo whenever she has relapses from blood withdrawals to avoid having to take actual pints of blood from the hospital's blood bank. In actuality, stored blood can only last for about six months before much of it "dies", becoming useless for people, and it therefore goes to waste; unless vampires are picky as far as drinking live blood or dead blood goes, Laura could have secretly saved the wasted blood for Levana. | |
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Ugly Betty: When Christina is implanted with an embryo, a nearby screen shows cells rapidly dividing. Mitosis, even in an embryo made of stem cells, usually takes hours, and can't be easily seen within the body. | |
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Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo: The flu spreads from a human girl to all sorts of different species at the zoo (while some flus are zoonotic, it shouldn't go that far) and is described as a cold that "got bigger". | |
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Amoridere acknowledged this in the tags and notes for one of Kill la Kill AU fanfics, with Ryuuko's fever being about 112 degrees and the fact that she was running said fever for more than 48 hours. As she's stated in the note, she figured Ryuuko would have died from said fever, along with noting that she did research but didn't get clear answers. In-story, it was pointed out that Ryuuko's body was starting to shut down, as a result. However, she probably wouldn't have been able to recover from that so quickly. | |
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In an in-Verse example, Dean on Supernatural once explained away his having fired a gun in his girlfriend's garage by claiming he'd seen a possum and knew they carried rabies. Due to their low body temperature, opossums are the least likely North American backyard mammals to harbor the rabies virus, something any doctor who knows about rabies or exterminator who knows possums would be aware of. Justified because Dean was an "exterminator", but of the paranormal variety rather than the vermin variety. | |
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King of the Hill: In "Hank's Unmentionable Problem", Hank sees a doctor about his constipation, where we're given a healthy dose of Artistic License: Right after questioning Hank about his constipation, the doctor performs a sigmoidoscopy. In real life, that requires the patient's bowels to be emptied beforehand (typically involving a powerful laxative and/or an enema), otherwise the doctor wouldn't be able to see anything other than poop.note Not to mention it would have solved Hank's problem here. After the exam, the doctor finds nothing clearly wrong with Hank's colon, but recommends removing it. In real life, removing a healthy-looking colon is NOT recognized by the medical community as a legitimate treatment for constipation. |
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Sesame Street: In the "You've Got to Be Patient to Be a Patient" skit with the little girl, she was allegedly suffering from the flu. However, she's perfectly active and the main conflict of the song is that she finds resting boring. In actuality, even the mildest flu will cause some lethargy, and being bored is a sign you no longer need to rest. In "Elmo Visits the Doctor", animals who can talk, but are otherwise not anthropomorphised visit the same doctor as Funny Animals, monsters, and humans as opposed to going to the vet. |
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The Legend of William Tell; Will goes hypothermic after wandering around a mountain for a while. Well, sort of. (He can speak, walk with help, and is more or less fine after one night under a cloak.) | |
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Evil Dead: Ash is never shown at any point doing much more to his stump initially than wrapping it up, unless he treated it properly and kept it clean he would have died a pretty quickly. | |
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In Not as Planned, someone dies from "catching a bad cold from being out in the rain". The common cold comes from a virus, not from cold weather. The setting is so primitive, the characters would know nothing about viruses. It is also possible that the cold weather weakened the immune system so the viral cold became deadly. Extreme cold temperatures can cause hypothermia, which has different symptoms. | |
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A few examples from Columbo: While blowfish poison can be quite fatal, one episode went for the usual trick of the poison killing its victim within 1 minute of ingestion. It's not quite that effective. The episode "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" actually subverts this. In the episode, the host of a fugitive show kills a news anchor threatening him by putting drops of nicotine sulfate into cigarettes from his favorite brand. The fatal dose of nicotine sulfate administered probably would kill a man as fast as was shown in the episode. The killer may have added a little more poison than necessary in order to guarantee that it would work. |
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Frozen Fever: Elsa's disease is said to be a cold, but at one point, she gets delirious. Colds aren't serious enough to cause delirium. | |
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In Punch Club, acupuncture is somehow capable of instantly healing concussions and broken limbs. | |
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Apprentice and Pregnant: Applefur is a cat who suffers from delusions. To help with the hallucinations, her medicinecat tells her to eat a mixture of poppy seeds and yew leaves every day. In real life, this would probably kill her. Yew is toxic to most animals. | |
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Peppa Pig: In "Not Very Well", Dr. Brown Bear makes a house call just for a skin rash. Real life doctors only make house calls if the situation is serious. In one episode, when Mummy Rabbit gave birth to the twins, Peppa and her friends were allowed to watch her do so. In real life, kids aren't allowed to watch childbirth. |
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In Rusty and Co., YT kills "Koenig" the vampire hipster by shoving a pizza on his face because he's gluten intolerant. Gluten intolerant people gets damaged intestines when ingesting gluten, but it is very rarely fatal. Especially since "Koenig" didn't actually eat the pizza. | |
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In Surgeon Simulator 2013, some minor liberties have been taken regarding human physiology, such as being able to survive without otherwise vital organs. Like a brain. Also alluded to with some achievements: for example, "I'm sure he'll live" requires finishing surgery when the patient has a very small amount of blood left. An average human male can lose up to 40% of his blood before his body can no longer keep up with the loss and he's on his way to a better world (unless some immediate medical help is applied), and even at this point his body becomes rather pale (which isn't shown in the actual game). This means that once your patient's blood level goes below 3360ml, "I'm sure he'll live" becomes a rather Blatant Lie. Not that it's saying much, considering Nigel's methods of performing the surgeries... |
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In Fifty Shades of Grey doctors don't seem to know the difference between contusions (bruises) and concussions (severe injury to the brain). | |
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Donkey Hodie: In the episode "Cheesy Con", Donkey is told to rest and stay off her hoof after spraining it on a toy truck. In real life, you can still walk on a sprained foot, or if it's a really bad sprain, perform activities with the assistance of a wheelchair. | |
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Black Widow (2021) takes something the title character spoke of in Avengers: Age of Ultron, about the Red Room assassin training ended with forced sterilization, and escalates to what would actually harm the super killers: Yelena says that along with the womb the Red Room also removes the ovaries, cutting the body's oestrogen and causing premature menopause, which has several negative health effects, including reduced bone density. | |
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Seven Pounds has Will Smith's character commit suicide by box jellyfish so he can donate his organs to people he thinks deserve them. Box jellyfish venom would have made his organs unusable since it damages cell membranes. | |
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In Some Came Running, the doctor says that alcohol adds large amounts of sugar to the blood. Alcohol, in fact, lowers blood glucose levels by inhibiting gluconeogenesis. (In fact, diabetic hypoglycemia has almost-identical symptoms to drunkenness, such that insulin-dependent diabetics often carry written instructions on their person to emphasize they're not drunk, just in need of glucose). | |
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Darkman: The spinothalamic tract is stated to transmit pain and vibration. It actually transmits pain and temperature. Also, no doctor would call the pathways within the spinal cord "nerves" (they're axons or nerve fibers), and severing them would do nothing to prevent Westlake from suffering unbearable pain from his burned face. The synthetic skin cells are stated to have a membrane potential of 122 megavolts. The human cell membrane potential is measured in millivolts, making this off by a factor of a billion. |
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The Petri Dish: In one strip, Thaddeus fears that the lab is infected with COVID due to a scan revealing the presence of bacteria on all the surfaces. COVID is not a bacterium; it's a virus. A Running Gag is Thaddeus getting paranoid every flu season, and it often involves scientists going into the lab with the flu. This is illegal in real life. |
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An episode of Herman's Head had Herman give a bear a donut and then find out later that the bear was diabetic and died a short time later. Bears don't get diabetes, nor would one sugar hit kill any diabetic animal unless it was already on the verge of death, besides which any creature the size of a bear would need a lot more than a single donut to significantly affect its blood glucose level, diabetic or not. | |
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In Travels of the Trifecta when Paul faints after the Canalave Gym battle, he stays unconscious for at least a few hours, which would be an abnormally long time in real life and would be a sign of something much more severe than exhaustion and influenza/severe cold. Possibly justified by his terminal chronic illness that is revealed later on in the story, although this instance still stands out as unusual when compared to the other times in the story when he is rendered unconscious. In Chapter 10, for example, he wakes up from Mars knocking him out in a much quicker amount of time. | |
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In The X-Files fanfic Look After You, Scully suffers from what's diagnosed as a chest and throat infection, but it causes her to vomit and pass out. | |
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In Funky Winkerbean, Holly breaks her ankle while baton-twirling at a football game. At the hospital, a nurse asks her, "Do you feel safe at home?" with Holly's husband Funky in the room, standing right next to the nurse. This is not considered an effective method of screening for domestic violence. | |
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In The Sims series, the Medicine career track has Sims becoming a nurse before becoming a doctor. In real life, those are completely separate careers. The Sims 3: Seasons lets Sims take a seasonal flu vaccine at hospitals during fall and autumn, including while the Sim is currently sick with the same flu that the vaccine is aimed to cure, and taking the vaccine will instantly cure the Sim either way. In most real-life situations, such a combination would make the patient feel more ill, not less, and would usually not make the person more immune. |
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In Madame Web (2024), Constance Webb is told that her unborn baby has myasthenia gravis. There is no way to diagnose it before birth now, let alone in 1973 when the scene in question is set. Myasthenia gravis is not a genetic condition but an autoimmune disorder. | |
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Stargate SG-1 had a minor case with pathology in "The Broca Divide", the episode where SG-1 and -3 accidentally bring back a disease that causes humans to regress to a primitive mental state. Leaving aside whether it's physically possible for a disease to do this, the goof came when Dr. Fraiser referred to the organism causing the disease as a virus that feeds on histamine. This allowed them to cure it with massive doses of allergy meds, starving the disease. Viruses do not feed on anything: they use cells to replicate, plain and simple, so antihistamines would have had absolutely no effect had it actually been a virus. She also refers to it as a "parasitic virus". Viruses are parasitic by definition. | |
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In Batman: Arkham City, IV bloodlines are shown with white gaps (presumably air) between red pockets of blood. This is very bad: air in a blood vessel can cause a potentially fatal embolism. | |
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Arthur: In "Arthur's Chickenpox", the chickenpox causes Arthur to hallucinate, which is not a symptom in real life. | |
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In There's Something About Mary, Ted's chiropractor says that Ted has "tender fascial tissue left of L7". There are only 5 lumbar vertebrae (L1-L5), not 7. | |
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The Sims 3: Seasons lets Sims take a seasonal flu vaccine at hospitals during fall and autumn, including while the Sim is currently sick with the same flu that the vaccine is aimed to cure, and taking the vaccine will instantly cure the Sim either way. In most real-life situations, such a combination would make the patient feel more ill, not less, and would usually not make the person more immune. | |
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Angela Nicely: In “Matchmaker!�, Miss Darling says that she has hay fever and needs a day off. However, hay fever isn’t contagious and unless the sufferer is immunocompromised, it isn’t serious enough to incapacitate someone, so it wouldn’t generally necessitate a day off. | |
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Lackadaisy has several. After receiving a serious head injury, Rocky is strong enough to walk around St. Louis the following morning and clear-headed enough to carry out a bootlegging run with Freckle and Ivy the following night. In real life, Rocky would have been out of commission for much longer than one night. Rocky leaves his stitched-up head injury unbandaged the next day and repeatedly gets it wet in the rain. In real life, both of these would be huge no-nos with a stitched-up laceration, as they would greatly increase the chances of an infection. |
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Figment: Justified. In his song, the Plague erroneously lists autism as one of the diseases he plans to give to Dusty. Autism is a mental disorder, not a disease, and it certainly can't be spread between people like diseases can. The developers clarified in a comment on their YouTube channel that this line was intentionally incorrect because the Plague is all about spreading medical fears, even if they are totally illogical. The Plague is killed by having a bucket of water dumped on him. While a nightmare representing the fear of disease may not follow the exact rules of an actual germ, you can't kill germs with just water unless it's really hot, and water sitting in a bucket is not nearly hot enough (unless it's very hot in the mind world. But if it was, the heat in the air probably would have killed him before the water did.) |
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The Loud House: Enforced in "One Flu Over the Loud House", which portrays the flu as similar to a zombie virus. This version of the flu causes the whites of the sufferer's eyes to turn green and can spread to cats, dogs, hamsters, and canaries. In "No Such Luck", Lana volunteers to pee on the wound if anyone gets stung by a jellyfish. That's a myth— jellyfish stings should be rinsed with hot water and then treated with vinegar, not pee. Paula Price is allowed to play sports, despite her leg being broken. This wouldn't happen in reality. |
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Doctor Strange (2016): Medical staff go unmasked in the operating room, wash their hands too quickly, clean themselves in the wrong order, have painted nails (an infection hazard), don't follow standard medical roles, demonstrate poor bedside manner, have poor administration, and repeatedly violate HIPAA rules on patient privacy. | |
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Cold and Flu Invasion: First off, the title: a large number of people with a disease is meant to be referred to as an "outbreak" or "epidemic", not an "invasion". None of the characters seem sick enough to have the flu. When the player character gets sick, red bubbles fly above his head. |
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In the 2018 Bollywood film Andhadhun, a character says that another's corneas will be used for transplantation if the blood types match. Because corneas have no blood vessels, matching blood types is not necessary for transplantation. | |
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Little Princess: Justified in that it's only make-believe and the person doing it is only four, but in "I Want Baked Beans", the Princess is pretending her toys are sick from too many beans and bandages their bellies. Bandages can't treat nausea, and may even worsen it if the abdomen is bandaged. Subverted in "I Don't Want a Cold", where Puss seems to have caught the Princess's cold despite being a cat, but it turns out to just be Hypochondria. In "What's Wrong with Gilbert?", an ambulance is called regarding Gilbert the teddy bear's detached leg (and Gilbert isn't a Living Toy either; he's truly non-sentient) and actually arrives. If anyone in real life did this, they'd be brushed off if they were a child, and fined for wasting time if they were an adult. |
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Turns up in the backstory of Tyranno Kenzan in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. While on an archaeological expedition when he was younger, Kenzan fell and broke his leg. Rather than do something completely unreasonable like getting him to a hospital, they performed an on-site surgery to replace his broken bone with that of a dinosaur that they had dug up. Not even getting into how they just happened to find a dinosaur bone the exact size and shape of the shin-bone of a maybe ten-year-old boy, or how fossils of bones don't actually contain any bone (it's converted to rock in the fossilisation process). | |
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Awake (2007). Oh boy, Awake. Along with making the same mistake as the below-mentioned Seven Pounds (only with medication instead of jellyfish venom), there are a few. For instance, how the anesthesiologist is allowed to just step out of the operating theater to make a phone call when it's his job to stay there to make sure the patient isn't starting to wake up before the surgery is complete. Or how the donated heart for the surgery shows up AFTER they have already opened up the patient. Although, according to Film Brain at least, this helps makes the movie a so-bad-its-good experience for both non-experts and medical professionals alike. | |
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Futurama: Even ignoring Catch Your Death of Cold, "Cold Warriors" has a flashback to the past where Fry is said to be running a fever of 109°F (42.8°C). Given that the brain begins to liquify at about 105°F, it is all but certain that Fry would be dead long before he could reach that point. However, it's possible that the thermometer was defective. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: During the invasion of the Southlands, Bronwyn gets hit with an arrow from behind, getting pierced through the chest, on the left side. First, a bow-and-arrow setup can't adequately penetrate a heavy bone like the scapula, and even less the head of the arrow to come out on the other side, it can only puncture the lungs. Anyway, Bronwyn loses a lot of blood, and asks her son to take the arrow out of her chest, because otherwise, she will die. Remember that she is a healer with supposed medicine knowledge. Anyone with basic medicine knowledge would know that taking out the object piercing your body would only speed up the hemorrhage, but this can be an Acceptable Break from Reality, because Bronwyn's wound is sealed immediately with elfirine seeds, known to have magical healing properties. She also recovers fast for a human, only a few hours later, she is back on her feet, celebrating, and suffering no repercussions like septicemia, breathing problems, lungs flooded with blood, or at least a crippling pain that should keep her in bed for days until she recovers. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010): Hiccup's loss of his leg at the end is simplified and streamlined in several ways: He is shown waking up with a crude peg leg already on. In real-life, people typically are required to heal fully before being fitted with a prosthesis, and their stump is allowed to shrink first (this may be achieved with shirkers and also by the swelling going down). This process can take months before they get a prosthesis. Also, Hiccup is shown stumbling, but he overall has an unrealistically easy time walking with his peg leg. People usually are required to do special exercises for their stump, ideally every day, to prevent the stump from "locking up" and permanently losing mobility (this is called "contracture"), something Hiccup couldn't do while asleep, so in theory, Hiccup's stump should be suffering from contracture, depending on how long he was in a coma. This may be because the films and show is family friendly, but there appears to be no hint given that he has phantom sensations or pain in his missing limb. |
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The Boy Who Cried Idiot: Lincoln gets scars instantly after the raccoon scratches him. In real life, scars take a while to form. | |
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In the SuperMarioLogan episode "The Couch!", Mario gets diarrhea after eating peanut butter that expired four months earliernote The expiration date was December 2016, and the video was uploaded in April 2017. Rancid peanut butter certainly doesn't taste good, but it won't harm you if you eat it. Furthermore, peanut butter spoils rather slowly. | |
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Horatio Hornblower novel The Commodore zigzags it due to the fact that the story was published serially in a magazine. The plan was for Hornblower to fall gravely ill with typhus at the end of the story, and so C.S. Forester had Hornblower get fleabites after an implied tryst with a Russian countess (which would have been Laser-Guided Karma for stepping out on his wife). Between publishing that chapter and the final chapters, however, Forester learned that the incubation period is much shorter than he'd thought, so no reference is made to that earlier event and instead it's assumed that Hornblower picked it up during the Siege of Riega itself. | |
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Sick Simon: Simon is said to have a cold, but he not only doesn't seem any less active than usual, he throws up at one point, which in real life is never caused by a cold. | |
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Melanie's Marvelous Measles has Melanie allegedly suffering from the titular disease, but she's still active and her rash doesn't even itch, however, her doctor claims it's the worst case he's seen. In reality, the rash nearly always itches, the disease nearly always makes you sleepy, and in the worst cases, it can kill you. | |
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The homeopathic doctor and the witch doctor in BitLife. Say you got something serious, like PTSD, skin cancer, dementia, or heart disease. You go to the regular doctor, and most of the time you won’t be cured. So you head to the homeopathic doctor. This typically doesn’t do anything unless you’re really lucky. However, the witch doctor should definitely be used as a last resort. Sometimes nothing happens, sometimes you get cured, but sometimes you will die. Helpful hint: don’t swallow things like hemlock, cobra venom, or green bubbling liquids in real life. | |
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Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs: Played for Laughs in "Achoo", where six different diseases (a cold, a Polka-Dot Disease, a high fever, filling up with helium, a horn ache, and a growing neck) all stem from the same virus. | |
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In Street Kings, Ludlow says that his wife died because she had a blood clot in her brain, and it burst. Blood clots do not "burst". What is meant is an aneurysm, a structural defect in a blood vessel. | |
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Hitman (2016): The final target of Season One is a man who suffers from Situs Inversus, a birth defect where some or most of a person's internal organs are mirror-flipped (IE: the heart is on the right), which makes him prone to heart problems. This is true to real life. However, this man needs a heart transplant that requires a special mirrored donor heart to fix the aforementioned heart problems or else he'll die; this isn't true to real life, as a person with Situs Inversus can receive a regular left-handed heart transplant, albeit it requires a far more complex surgery. | |
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Jane and the Dragon: In "Dragonphobia", Jane eats some poisonous berries and they give her a fever and amnesia. Seeing as a fever is the body's way of killing pathogens, it isn't usually a result of poisoning — eating poisonous berries usually results in stomach cramps and possibly diarrhea and/or vomiting instead. | |
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House of the Dragon: Unless he has an incredibly high pain tolerance, Aemond Targaryen takes getting his eye slashed out surprisingly well. Even getting a scratch on the eye is incredibly painful, so much so that people often become delirious or pass out, and Aemond's was basically sliced open. Aemond is also wide awake as the physician sews up his wound, which in reality would induce profuse sweating, uncontrollable shaking, and screaming, before eventually making him pass out again. | |
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On Stargate Universe, one character donates a kidney to another. The location of the scar on the donor's belly suggests that they accidentally transplanted his spleen instead, as a donated kidney is best extracted from the lower back, not the front. | |
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Da-Jeong from The Friendly Winter is a 19-year-old who looks 7 at most. This is explained by hypothyroidism that was found out too late. Hypothyroidism causes many things but it doesn't make people mature slowly. | |
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Penryn and the End of Days: Apparently only one human who can't even suture straight developed and performed the operations done on the low demons. Later it's revealed he can reattach wings, despite there being no mention of his education on angel biology/anatomy. Laylah heads everything vaguely science-related that the angels do, wandering between such specialties as medicine, biological engineering, and pathology. |
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In the Martha Speaks episode "Martha in Charge", Truman's medical book lists lycanthropy (being a werewolf) as an actual disease. | |
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Child of the Storm makes a point of subverting this, allowing for the author being quite clear that he's not a medic: While Harry donates blood to Carol in the sequel on the spot (it being an emergency), it's made clear that he's got type O blood a.k.a. 'universal donor'. In chapter 55 of the sequel, the author (who has epilepsy) also makes painfully clear that grabbing and trying to restrain someone who's having a seizure, as Harry does, is an incredibly bad idea (while also pointing out that Harry wouldn't know this and had reasons for wanting to do so). This is because it will only lead to both people getting hurt. Rather, he explains you should try and make sure that the area around them is clear so they don't get hurt, call emergency services. It initially added, 'and make sure they don't swallow their tongue' (but don't stick your fingers in their mouth, as it is "unhygienic and stupid, as they will probably bite you"), before the author was reminded that swallowing one's tongue is a myth (he's a bit embarrassed about that, apparently). |
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Face/Off: Obviously, there's no known way to do a full face swap yet. They at least say that it's a newfound, cutting-edge technique (so don't pretend this isn't fiction), plus some alterations to make their bodies alike in other ways. However, Archer and Troy still have different builds which would be a dead giveaway for people who know them well, since those can't be altered (they aren't even with the fictional surgical wizardry). | |
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For a series with a doctor as a protagonist, Forever (2014) is a repeat offender. Zigzagged in regards to a certain poison. In the pilot, Henry mentions that if he were to have poisoned the subway conductor, he would have used polonium, as it would take weeks to work and allow for the creation of a better alibi. This is much closer to real-life than how it is depicted in "The King of Columbus Circle," where a victim of polonium poisoning shows symptoms soon after being dosed and is treated by pumping her stomach. In reality, it takes some time before the adverse effects become noticeable and by the time they do, it's too late to do anything besides making sure the victim's comfortable. In "New York Kids," when Henry finds a suspect unconscious and barely breathing, suspecting an overdose, he mixes sour milk and baking soda, then pours it into the man's mouth to induce vomiting. Trouble is, a person who is unconscious is generally unable to swallow, or even to protect their airway by coughing. Sitting an unconscious person up and pouring any liquid into their mouth is a good way to drown them, and even if they survive, foreign substances getting in their lungs is a recipe for severe aspiration pneumonia. This is why it's recommended to put an unconscious person in the "recovery position" lying on their side, so that if they vomit or regurgitate, the fluids can drain out of their mouth instead of pooling inside and being inhaled as they would propped upright or lying on their back. Even better, there's a length of rubber hose around his upper arm when they find him, of the sort that would be used to make the veins stand up for injecting drugs. If the overdose was an intravenous injection, there would be absolutely no point in making the patient vomit, and it would only create a risk of aspiration pneumonia or drowning. In "The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths," the killer tells Henry that he's punctured his lung and "vena cava artery" and he'll bleed to death in minutes. The vena cava, as the name indicates, is a vein, not an artery. Arteries are under much higher pressure, so damaging the equivalent artery, the aorta, would have led to bleeding out much more quickly. The medicine is correct that a large vein would fulfill the killer's goal of making his victim suffer longer, but the terminology should have been used correctly. Two thousand year old Adam's blood found at a crime scene, and assistant M.E. Lucas reveals that it has antibodies to diseases that haven't even existed for centuries. So, why would a forensic lab be testing for them? How would they even have a test for a disease that hasn't existed since long before such testing was invented? Sure, it's possible some kind of anthropological researcher might develop a test for a disease found in ancient mummies or bog-men, but why would a forensic lab run such a test on a modern-day suspect's sample, even assuming they knew the test existed? |
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In Survivor Dogs, Lucky teaches the Leashed Dogs that Wound Licking is just as good medical care as going to a vet. Licking a wound might help the pain but it isn't good medical treatment. If anything, it's more likely to make you even sicker. | |
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In DC's latest reboot, Superman performs surgery on Lois Lane to save her from a gunshot wound. And he does every step past the obvious one of using his X-Ray vision as wrong as he can. He starts by putting gloves on—and then immediately cutting a hole in them for the only part he actually touches her◊. Then instead of removing the bullet, he uses his heat vision to vaporize it and then uses that same supervision to cauterize the wound shut◊. The writer is apparently unaware that heating lead to the point of vaporizing it would have cooked Lois from the inside out, and that cauterizing a wound is not the same thing as welding metal together — it isn't a quick healing that doesn't leave a scar so much as it is a fast way to seal bleeding wounds, and cauterizing two pieces of skin like that would ensure they don't heal together at all. | |
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Vienna Blood: Justified due to the show being a Period Drama set in mid-1900s Austria. Max, part of the main Buddy Cop duo, is portrayed as thoughtful and enlightened for his belief in and use of Freudian psychology and the "talking cure". His supervising physician Gruner is portrayed as a brutal torturer for his use of electric shock therapy. In the show, it's ambiguous whether Max or Gruner was more effective at treating Amelia's dissociative disorder (though the framing supports Max since it's his story). Modern medical science has shown ECT to be really useful for quite a few mental conditions when properly performed (i.e. with muscle relaxants and anesthesia, as opposed to just hooking the patient's head up to a voltage source the way Gruner does it), while Freudian psychology, though the forerunner of modern cognitive behavioral therapy, is now dismissed as mostly nonsense. On the other hand, Max is completely correct to have taken the eponymous "Melancholy Countess" of the season 2 premiere off of Gruner's prescription of opium: besides the obvious dangers of addiction, opiates tend to make depression ("melancholy") symptoms worse after the high wears off. | |
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The Peanut Butter Solution: The main character loses his hair after being scared by ghosts. A doctor calls it "the Fright, though the correct medical term is 'Hair-em Scare-em.'" | |
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In Boiling Point (2021), the ambulance workers that arrive at the restaurant use an oxygen mask that has a reservoir bag with the bag completely deflated, which negates the function of the mask. | |
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The writers of Warrior Cats have gone on record about how the Healing Herbs and other remedies used in the series aren't actually accurate. Readers shouldn't try to self-medicate cats using those methods. | |
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Casino Royale (2006): Whenever Le Chiffre uses his inhaler he puffs out - thus exhaling (rather than inhaling) his medicine. When Bond is poisoned, he is advised to use the defibrillator and combopen. The former is not used as it can increase the dysrhythmia, while the latter would have no effect. |
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Station Eleven features a mutated superflu with no incubation period and a near-100% mortality rate that destroys 99.99% of humanity. In reality, such a virus would kill all its hosts long before it could spread globally. | |
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Malignant has the conflation of a parasitic twin (an embryo does not fully separate into twins, but rather than developing into conjoined twins, one half maintains dominant development over the other) and a teratoma (a type of tumor composed of diverse tissue types, such as hair, teeth, muscle and bone). And even if one were to accept that Gabriel is a parasitic twin teratoma, that is a far cry from being a fully sapient conjoined twin that can survive the surgery that was meant to remove him. To say nothing of the fact that pushing Gabriel's face, which retains enough skull that he still has teeth, into Madison's cranium and sealing it back up, would probably have a negative prognosis for Madison in the long term at least. A slightly justifiable case is that identical parasitic twins can't be of opposite genders like Gabriel and Madison are, but Gabriel is so malformed that the basically has no biological sex, with his only male characteristic being the voice, that is clearly telepathic. | |
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Family Guy: In "The Unkindest Cut", after a Groin Attack from a shark results in Quagmire's penis being ripped off, Ida gives him the latter's penis from before she transitioned. Thing is, her penis wouldn't have been removed in the first place, just reshaped and tucked into her body to simulate a vagina. This one overlaps with Series Continuity Error since her first appearance had her point out that this process is what happened during the surgery. | |
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Vera Drake: The method of abortion which Vera uses was actually invariably lethal — there's no way she'd have used this for twenty years before having a fatality. It's also extremely painful — they would not be getting up after that as if nothing happened. Jennifer Worth of Call the Midwife fame harshly criticized the portrayal as a result. | |
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Sword Art Online: The "Mother's Rosario" arc (volume 7 of the book series, last third of season 2 of the anime) deals with Asuna befriending Konno Yuuki, a sick girl who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion given to her mother during a C-section. While it is medically possible to get HIV from a transfusion, it's anachronistic enough to be extremely unlikely: this would have happened in 2010 given the in-universe dates. Blood centers began testing donations for HIV-1 in 1985 and the rarer HIV-2 strain in 1992, and the practice has only been intensified in the years since. According to the Red Cross, at time of writing your chance of getting even the commoner strain this way is about 1 in 2 million. | |
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Trauma Center (Atlus) operations are completed within a few minutes each; the time limit for most operations is 5 minutes, and 10 minutes for Final Boss-type illnesses. In real life, a patient is highly, highly unlikely to be in and out of the O.R. in recovering condition in just 10 minutes. After all, this is a game, not medical school. It's quite possible that in-universe, the procedures take much longer than the 5-10 minutes that serve as an out-of-universe mechanism in favor of the player. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In the first season finale, baby Naomi has a fever, and Janeway tries to make her better... with water. Water is dangerous for a baby under six months to drink, and should only be drunk in small amounts until age one. | |
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Cool Cat Fights Coronavirus is very inaccurate, which is quite unfortunate since the PSA is meant to be educational. The film starts off dubiously with Cool Cat punching away some tennis ball-sized coronavirus molecules, complete with pinball sound effects. That could possibly be justified as a stylised depiction of Cool Cat fighting COVID, but then Dirty Dog comes along, trying to spread COVID to kids by coughing on them. This is despite the fact that he's a dog and therefore can't spread COVID to humansnote Dogs can catch COVID, but they can't spread it to humans., and that children are the age group least at risk from COVID. But the pinnacle is when Dirty Dog literally grabs a coronavirus molecule out of the air, adds his "magic sauce" to make it grow, then thanks the "witch-dogs" for the magic powers. And then Cool Cat comes along and punches the coronavirus, making it explode and ending the entire pandemic. | |
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Artemis Fowl has a cure for prolonged alcoholism: a virus that eats alcohol in the body. It works perfectly fine on fairy biology. | |
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In Katawa Shoujo, the actual medical terms are pretty accurate, but the nurse does seem pretty blasé about confidentiality, discussing Hisao's private medical matters right in front of other people. Hisao even lampshades it. | |
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Level 16 has Deadly Doctor Dr. Miro transplant skin from girls' cadavers to wealthy clients for rejuvenation purposes. Skin sourced from a cadaver can be transplanted (usually for wounds, burns, and the like, not wrinkles) to a living person, but only for temporary use. | |
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TheOdd1sOut: In "A Book I Made as a Kid", the doctor in said book diagnoses the young James with kidney failure by putting his hand on James's face and confirming that it hurts. | |
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Terminator Salvation includes a character getting impaled through the chest, which requires a heart transplant to fix. This is a huge medical mistake because there is no trauma that would require this. If the heart is not punctured, he does not require a new heart. If the heart is punctured, he would be instantly dead. It's one or the other, and there is nothing in betweennote Yes, a trauma which blows a big enough hole in the heart is going to leave you very dead very quick, but an injury which nicks the myocardium could cause a pericardial tamponade. This is treated by pericardiocentesis (drainage with a needle) followed by surgical repair of the heart. Cardiac tamponade is caused when there is bleeding into the tough sac of connective tissue which surrounds the heart. The sac cannot hold enough fluid for the blood loss to be fatal, and its position makes dramatic leakage from the sac unlikely. As more blood leaks into the sac (the pericardium), death results from heart failure when the heart can no longer expand and contract because blood is not compressible. It's not necessarily a death sentence with modern medicine, but it is without a trained surgeon and quick treatment. You don't go looking for a donor heart, and you don't slap any ol' corpse's heart in there, either.. The fact that there is no mention of infection, compatibility, rejection, or just the fact that it's a procedure that's hard to accomplish even in a non-collapsed society with functioning hospitals, makes it even worse. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In one episode, as they are preparing to vent a cargo bay into space to extinguish a plasma fire and remove some potentially deadly radioactive materials, Doctor Crusher advises La Forge to "resist the urge to exhale" when the cargo bay's oxygen is depleted. This is a very bad idea: if one is to be subjected to a hard oxygen-less vacuum, the correct measure to take is to expel all of the air from your lungs beforehand. Attempting to hold your breath in an airless vacuum will only cause your lungs to rupture as the air inside them attempts to escape into the vacuum. Dr. Crusher and Counselor Troi freely discuss their patients' medical information upon casual request and even in simple conversation. In reality, it's a serious breach of medical ethics to share a patient's private medical information without going through formal channels or getting the patient's permission. In America, it's a crime. In "Time's Arrow", Data mistakes two men who are coughing as victims of a cholera outbreak. Cholera is an intestinal disease, not a throat or lung infection. In "Genesis", it's claimed that it's traditional to name a new disease after the first patient discovered with it. In reality, the names of diseases can come from a wide variety of sources, including a simple description of its effects, the name of the most prominent researcher, the name of the most prominent patient, the location of the first known outbreak, and even literary references. In "Samaritan Snare", Wesley calls Picard's mechanical heart "parthenogenetic", which would actually suggest a biological heart that was artificially created. In "Metamorphosis", when O'Brien's dislocated shoulder is healed with an alien's supernatural abilities, no bones are seen moving back into place. In "Clues", Dr. Crusher's medkit is meant to depict a Rod of Asclepius (a snake wrapped around a staff, which is a symbol of healing), but actually depicts a caduceus (two winged snakes depicted around a staff, which is a symbol of messengers). Admittedly, this is a common mistake made in real life, but it's an odd mistake for Starfleet to make. |
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