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When we go to see a doctor, we can rest assured knowing that they are qualified to be treating illnesses, prescribing medicine and diagnosing diseases. They have completed at least a decade of education after high school and have endured rigorous training and testing to ensure that they know what they’re doing. 

When we log onto the internet, however, anyone with a keyboard and an opinion can feel free to spout whatever medical misinformation they like, so we should take everything we read online with a grain of salt. Thankfully, there is one page that’s dedicated to calling out irresponsible and inaccurate medical advice that’s shared online: the Bad Medical Takes Twitter account.

We’ve gathered some of the most ridiculous, hilarious and alarming posts Bad Medical Takes has shared down below, so you too can enjoy hearing all of the wacky ideas ignorant people felt the need to share online. Be sure to upvote the claims you wish were posted satirically, and then let us know in the comments what the worst medical advice you’ve ever received was. And then if you’re interested in another Bored Panda article featuring medical takes that are definitely not doctor approved, you can find our last story on the same Twitter account right here.

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Colin Timp
Community Member
4 years ago

So nobody's ever died in childbirth or from pregnancy complications? Nobody has ended their life from post-partum depression?

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    Buren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Someone failed biology class. Badly.

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    Cecily Holland
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Oooff

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    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Exhibit A on why men should not be making decisions about women's bodies

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    Community Member
    4 years ago

    some people shouldnt be allowed to person

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    Buren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Yeah, I wonder why you decide to leave a digital dumb footprint.

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    Aunt Riarch
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    There's only one person in this exchange who I wouldn't trust not to drool

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    Xottel
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Please just open his head and place the brain back inside.

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    Buren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I'm about to commit massive butchery to the extension of my central nervous system this afternoon.

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    You'll be a stretched out sheet of skin, yelling "Moisturise me!"

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    Buren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    So he only needs one meal?

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    Community Member
    4 years ago

    mammals? what about the lizard men??

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    Susie Elle
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Why is everyone talking about salts and nobody mentions the bacteria and viruses in ocean water

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    Buren
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Need. To. Stop. Reading. Head. Hurts.

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    Moolia
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    If other people being alive was such a problem for you, it was a mistake to have kept you alive 🤷

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    XrAtCaTkiD
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    this is very sad like how can people be so ignorant

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    M O'Connell
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    If sex without reproduction is unnatural and a phenomenon less than 100 years old, why is prostitution the "oldest profession"?

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    Anonymous
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Thank goodness my broken leg is just a deception made up by dairy farmers!! Silly me thought I actually needed this cast. *circular saw starts up* /s

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    Ovata Acronicta
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Yes. I'll get the flu vax in the other arm from the cov booster just to annoy Nathan in particular.

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    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    So all that time scientists spent working out blood types and they could have just broken it into male and female blood? Thankyou random person on the internet!

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    PattyK
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Heart attacks can happen at any age.

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    Serial pacifist
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Oh my God, this person deserves to be locked in a cage with two male primates and rubbed with estrogen, just to see what kind of offspring they would produce.

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    4 years ago

    sometimes i wonder how these people come up with such creative ways to be dumb

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    Henrik Schmidt
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Mathing is hard!

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    Serial pacifist
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Cheaper milk will lead to more lactose intolerant kids.

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    PickleRick
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    These people scare me.

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    Ovata Acronicta
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Ah, no, you're thinking of one of those substandard mannequins for drawing references.

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    PickleRick
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    He should have his 🍆 checked.

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    Nadia Montera
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I'd like to see THIS sunburn. lol

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    Nadia Montera
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Extract from Wikipedia : Hexagonal water, also known as gel water, structured water, cluster water, H3O2 or H3O2 is a term used in a marketing scam that claims the ability to create a certain configuration of water that is better for the body. The term "hexagonal water" refers to a cluster of water molecules forming a hexagonal shape that supposedly enhances nutrient absorption, removes metabolic wastes, and enhances cellular communication, among other things. The scam takes advantage of the consumer's limited knowledge of chemistry, physics, and physiology. Gel water is referenced in the version of the hoax in which plants or animal fascia are said to create or contain a "fourth phase" of water with an extra hydrogen and an extra oxygen, despite the simple reality that this compound is neither water, nor stable—in other words it doesn't exist in any practical sense

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    𝖊𝖆
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    ⚠️ Incel alert ⚠️

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    PickleRick
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Remember this when they forget you in your "golden years".

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    Henrik Schmidt
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    No, because if the DO say they're depressed, they'll come down with a slight case of being jailed or just killed.

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    BatPhace
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Gotta love a good incel rant

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    Community Member
    4 years ago

    f*****g ADDICTION??? this list is making me mad

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    Ovata Acronicta
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Secondary sexual characteristic, not much different from a beard. More useful, but harder to style.

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    Sian E
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited)

    Wasn't there a police officer in the US who touched something in a suspect's car and got a nearly fatal dose of fentanyl poisoning? It was captured by the other officer's bodycam. They had to narcan him twice? Although I do concede that there may be a psychogenic aspect to some poisonings.

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    Léonie
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I snorted

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    Henrik Schmidt
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Obvious joke.

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    Ovata Acronicta
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Crack the "chiro"s back. With a steamroller. Thx.

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    Asriel Dreemurr
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    If this batpoop theory was actually true (which it isn’t) you’d think those meds would be a lot cheaper.

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    Community Member
    4 years ago

    What is this even about?

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    UpupaEpops
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Depo. Just saying.

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    Persephone hates Pomegranate
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    And trans women are women, and trans men are men.

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    albernistuff 4sale
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    He's not wrong. This is a commonly repeated study on odour/pheromones and genetic compatibility. This does not mean that a particular someone is your soul mate or even sociologically, emotionally, intellectually, etc compatible; just that the two who found each others' odours palatable would have the highest chance of a genetically healthy child.

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    $cagsy
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I get why this is included, it fits the brief, but come on BP, do you really want us to laugh and poke fun at the under pressure mother of an autistic child? Not cool.

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