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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Is it ironic that Drinking medicine can make you more sick.
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Is it ironic that I cut myself on a band-aid box?
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Is it ironic that A dentist dies of tooth decay?
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Is it ironic that Health insurance, which is supposed to make health care cheaper, is wickedly expensive?
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Is it ironic that Im a flu champion (I give flu vaccines at work and nag others to have them) and now I have flu.
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Is it ironic that You try to sleep in a dream?
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Is it ironic that That my boyfriend got appendicitis over a week ago and has had his appendix removed and now I am laying in a hospital bed - post surgery after being diagnosed with appendicitis and just had it removed?
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Is it ironic that I vaccumed my house to get rid of dog hair before my allergic boyfriend came over, but there was no bag in the vacuum and I blew dog hair all over the entire house.
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Is it ironic that My sibling says that I'm lazy yet he himself was too lazy to grab the TV remote on the table less than a foot away from him?
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Is it ironic that I wear my "Praise the Lard" t-shirt when I go for a run?
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Is it ironic that When a mother is heading to a doctor's office to pick up a soft cast boot her daughter, who has broken her foot, the mother slips and breaks her foot resulting in needing a soft cast herself?
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Is it ironic that You say that swimming is boring when you are swimming.
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Is it ironic that I got sick right before I went to the doctor.
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Is it ironic that I wash down my blood pressure medication with a cup of coffee?
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Is it ironic that My dad had a heart attack on mothers day.
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Is it ironic that A friend is waiting in line at the police station, and is reading a poster about "drug identification".
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Is it ironic that The pollen count is so bad this year that crackheads are trying to convert their meth back to sudafed.
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Is it ironic that Researchers at Harvard Medical School have reported that salt consumption triggers autoimmune disease in mice and certain human immune cells.
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Is it ironic that A researcher working on spinal cord injury is diagnosed with a rare case of spinal cord tumor! is this ironic?
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Is it ironic that Two weeks after joining a suicide and depression club on campus I have surgery leaving a "down the stream" incision on my wrist?
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Is it ironic that Up until the 1960s, gas masks - made to preserve your lungs - contained asbestos?
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Is it ironic that That cigarette company supports a losing lung cancer program.
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Is it ironic that I had a patient who came to counseling every week for 6 months with concerns she would run our of money before she died and during this time she was diagnosed with terminal cancer --the money never came into play.
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Is it ironic that The word lisp is something someone with a lisp quite probably could not pronounce correctly?
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Is it ironic that Something that could have killed me (a deep vein thrombosis) might have also saved my life by preventing large pulmonary emboli resulting from a 2nd deep vein thrombosis from passing intact through the first deep vein thrombosis' scar tissue?