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* '50s B-movie ''[[The Amazing Colossal Man]]'' has one of the doctors tending to the eponymous rapidly-growing man describe the human heart as "one big cell." As [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo]] says, "You're not a ''real'' doctor, are you?"
* In another '50s B-movie, ''The Alligator People'', a physician uses hydrocortisone injections to induce accident victims to regenerate damaged body parts. While cortisones do reduce inflammation (swelling), and can therefore make injuries ''feel'' better, they actually ''slow down'' the healing process.
* In ''[[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|The World Is Not Enough]]'', Renard has a bullet lodged in his medulla oblongata that is "slowly killing off his senses". [[No One Could Survive That]]! This is credited with removing his sense of touch, despite this not being where the sense of touch is in the brain. The sense of touch is in the parietal lobe (mostly) which is at the top back of the brain. The medulla is at the bottom of the brain. While some have survived with bullets in their brains, such as Kiran Prajapati, who they were likely thinking of, if a bullet was damaging your medulla your heart would quickly fail, you would stop breathing, and your sense of touch would be fine. [[Captain Obvious|Until you die, of course.]]
* The African exhibit in ''[[Night at the Museum]]'' includes an ostrich. Ostriches are African, so no problem, right? Except that the exhibit is specifically and prominently titled "The Hall of African '''Mammals'''."
* ''[[Push]]'' has the lead character {{spoiler|inject soy sauce directly in to his blood stream with no side effect at all.}}
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