Dr. Ahmed Al Ajaj, a specialist in internal medicine and travel medicine at Al-Ahli Hospital in Qatar, said that medical errors in Arab films and series are "nothing wrong", which is understandable, but it is strange that serials and Hollywood movies, which spend billions of dollars, are riddled with funny medical errors. Repeated for decades until today.
Dr. Ajaj's statement on his Facebook page, providing ten of the most famous of these medical errors:
1 - When injecting a needle into the muscle begins its effect within a second or two and this is a funny mistake, because any muscle injection does not start before ten minutes at the minimum.
2 - are injected venous needles perpendicular to the vein and sometimes contrary to the direction of blood, the correct is the injection in a diagonal direction with the direction of blood flow.
3 - When a cardiac arrest occurs, the hero or paramedic injected a needle into the heart, a procedure that has been found wrong and the hero used for at least thirty years.
4. When a person is resuscitated after a cardiac arrest, he wakes up immediately as if nothing had happened. This is not scientifically correct.
5 - When there is a gunshot wound in the body of the hero or heroine, he or his partner with the extraction of the gunshot and the problem ends immediately, although the removal of the gunshot may lead to death because it was closing an artery, which reduces or prevents bleeding, not to mention the stupid way to extract it.
6 - Any wound to be sewn or shot to be ejected, it is enough to drink the hero a bit of whiskey, and pour on the wound a little of it and then do the work, and this is not scientifically correct because alcohol is not anesthetic and painkillers or sterile concentration in the whiskey.
7 - When dislocated in the shoulder joint, the superhero hit his shoulder on the wall and the joint back to normal and return to fight, and this is absurd and scientifically incorrect.
8 - a person who loses consciousness for several months, and when he wakes up to be in full physical and mental health and this is not scientifically true because it is physically exposed to muscular dystrophy, and mentally needs a long time or shorten for mental rehabilitation and it is rare to return as it was.
9 - a person with a deadly viral disease, scientists discover the antiviral serum and give it to the injured immediately recovered, although this method of treatment with serum (intended antibodies) is incorrect, but even if it is true, the patient needs days and weeks to recover from such deadly diseases.
10 - a person in the film has severe headache or excruciating pain, take a pill to feel better within seconds, and this is not scientifically correct, it needs at least ten minutes to twenty minutes.