Ok, I’ve raised the grant money, I paid $8 for the cast-iron pan and I have $3.50 for bus fare. When can I come round to start the testing?
Bring a date.
A long time ago, during a herpes epidemic, I heard a newsperson say the phrase, “inadvertent oral-genital contact”.
The grant doesn’t cover snacks.
Well, you could just be taking a close look, and slip.
That seems to take care of the snack problem.
Another one of those million-to-one shots! 
After the fourth time it happened to me, I learned my lesson, and I now wear goggles and a surgical mask when taking a close look at someone’s genitals. Sure it’s less romantic, but safety first I say.
“Gut” often just means abdomen in general; this isn’t really a howler.
Don’t get me started on cancer portrayals. They manage to cover up the head hair but tend to forget the eyebrows and eyelashes. You lose ALL your hair. I had a chronic cough my last two rounds of chemo because I lost my nose hair. And chances are you are not going to have uncontrollable vomiting. They have drugs to counteract that. But, drama.
Don’t forget epileptics swallowing their tongues.
Ignorance fought. Now I shall be super-alert for anyone having a seizure, so that I can (smugly) stop people trying to stuff things in their mouth. Oddly, I did a pretty extensive NOLS first aid course, and I’m pretty sure they never taught us this.
This is also how many shows portray pregnancy.
On-screen vomiting is often used to show someone who didn’t know that they were pregnant getting the first indication. Is that part realistic? Is it common to get nausea or actual vomiting before you sense anything else, before you realize that your period is very late?
The show “Psych” (which I love dearly) had a scenario where they were interviewing firefighters about an arsonist, and were doing this while the firefighters were training. One was getting his CPR recert while the questioning was going on. It was explicitly stated that, in order to get his cert, the firefighter had to be practicing on a living person.
(Don’t ever do CPR on a person with a heartbeat…you could do much more harm than good)
I don’t see this one as much anymore, but also don’t perform CPR on someone in a bed or on a couch. There needs to be a board under them, or they need to be laying on a hard surface.
Not exactly ‘Medical’, but moronic media:
As reported by CNN Newsource about the Oregon man who was snowbound in his truck with his dog for five days. Quote: “It is not clear how he, or the dog, got water. A person can live five days without water and six weeks without food, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.” Unquote.
Who knew that snow is not really frozen water? I’ve been misinformed all these years. :smack:
Hmm, you just jumped to calling them morons without a few seconds googling?
If you have no way to melt snow, eating it (or melting it with your body heat) is not advisable. It’s mostly air, so you need to eat a lot of it to get a significant amount of water. And for your body to generate the heat required to melt it, metabolism uses up water, so the net effect can actually be to dehydrate you.
https://www.sunnysports.com/blog/outdoor-myths-eating-snow-dehydration/
Sorry for the magazine-style references, it’s all I could find on a brief search, but this is in accord with the science. I think they are slightly exaggerating - eating a small amount of snow over a short period if it’s not too cold is probably fine. But this guy sounds like he was trapped in extremely cold temperatures, and for 5 days. Hypothermia would be a serious concern if the only water source was unmelted snow.
ETA: on looking for some better sources and doing some back-of-the envelope calculations myself, I think that the idea that eating snow could lead to net dehdyration is pretty dubious. The main reason that it’s inadvisable as a survival strategy is the chilling effect, increased risk of hypothermia. So eating a bit of (clean) snow if you’re skiing and plenty warm is fine; having it as your only water source if you can’t melt it in an extended survival situation in low temperatures is a problem.
Jack Benny once had an episode set in a hospital and a doctor needed to view an X-ray. The doc had it upside down and nobody noticed.
The article indicated he ran the motor from time to time to get heat. That could melt to the snow.