Things that annoy you when it comes to medical stuff on tv

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When they wake up and immediately rip out their cannulas and walk off. No!!!

It doesn’t work like that and I unfortunately had first hand experience last week when a lady did just that. Blood every where

Also in the majority of children's books and tv programmes about hospital, all the patients on the ward are either having minor elective surgery (tonsils etc) or they have broken a limb, usually from falling out of a tree. If the programme features casualty then someone will have swallowed something they shouldn't, put it in their ear or up their nose.

I'll admit it has got better recently with operation ouch and get well soon featuring children (or puppets) with chronic illnesses but a lot of them still don't. I know it's not really appropriate to have Peppa pig going into hospital and meeting a rabbit whose taken an overdose, a dog with cancer and a zebra with kidney failure but it would be more realistic.

The way pregnant women always go into labour by suddenly having an agonising contraction. In my experience (and everyone I know who has given birth) labour starts gradually,with twinges, building up over several hours. You don't go from zero to massive contractions every 2 minutes instantly!

The waters breaking/immediate contractions/delivery of a cute, smiley 6 month old baby within minutes is VERY misleading!!

Just thought of another one!

Bed rails always being down, regardless of what's wrong with the person!

Always? I didn't.

Sorry if this one has already been done....drs wearing white coats,I trained in 1972, never saw a white coat!!

UK TV programmes that show people taking medication out of those American style yellow tablet bottles! I'm sure I saw this on Line of Duty.

Most medication in the UK is pre packaged into blisters. If not it's put in brown 'amber glass' plastic bottles.

Also necking tablets from these bottles without any negative consequences.

Sorry, I meant women giving birth accidentally at home.
When women give birth in hospital they do often lie in the bed, though not always on their backs.