Health Irony

282 real-life examples of health irony, submitted by readers and voted on by the community. Think you've spotted irony in the world of health? Submit your own example.

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  1. Is it ironic that My gym teacher looks like she's eligible to be on Biggest Loser?

    83% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that My father had a subdural hematoma (brain bleed) in the same area of his brain where my mother had a stroke seven months before?

    77% not ironic 3 votes Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that I'm learning to fight like Charlie's Angels from an instructor named Charlie?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that I was creating a poster representing health today whilst suffering from migraine.

    57% not ironic 3 votes Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that An oncologist is diagnosed with cancer.

    83% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that My pay gets docked for having too many sick days when it is work that made me sick in the first place?

    57% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that My mom gets me to search all over the house for her cigarettes and I finally find them sitting on top of the book she was reading - the encyclopaedia of family health.

    53% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that My 6 month old daughter who can't crawl yet has been diagnosed with walking pneumonia.

    50% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that A group of physician assistant students develop deep vein thromboses while sitting for an extended period of time, studying the subject of peripheral artery disease?

    77% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that That a person becomes too ill to have an operation that will make them better.

    50% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that If a man with the flu takes flu medicine and has an allergic reaction?

    57% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Oh, the irony! Recently, as I typed away writing a grant application for COPD grant funding, the people sitting behind me in the waiting area I was in, reeked of stale, musty cigarette smoke! I considered asking them to proof it for me.

    70% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that I am 63 and still at work.

    50% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that While I had strep throat, I coughed up a bit of blood in the perfect shape of a heart? Later accompanied by other splotches of blood.

    83% not ironic 3 votes Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that You got run over by an ambulance?

    83% ironic 3 votes Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that The giant is as thin as a stick?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that I know food I like is unhealthy and will kill me eventually but I make fun of my friends for eating healthily?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that You get a contagious disease from the Contagion film reel?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that The leader of a sliming club was morbidly obese.

    73% not ironic 3 votes Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that My mom always said she was scatter brained and then got diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that Waiting all the year long to go to Disney and get sick.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that I attended school to study the health affects of childhood trauma to improve the outcome of said children.

    50% ironic 2 votes Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that My doctor prescribed antibiotics to cure my diarrhoea.

    60% not ironic 2 votes Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that Like pulling teeth to get father to take daughter to dentist so daughter can get teeth pulled.

    50% ironic 2 votes Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that Commercial sunscreen used to protect skin from UV rays contains an ingredient that causes hormone disruption.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Vote →