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25 Medical Facts That Need To Be Common Knowledge

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Mental illness can be as serious as a physical one. Get treated. You wouldn’t let a broken leg go.

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When you suspect whoever is lying down is not breathing by themselves, begin CPR immiditially AND DO NOT STOP until medical professional arrives, even if this means that you have to go on for several hours. We do not perform CPR to have the patient miraculously wake up and make out with us, we do this to sustain the most vital bodily function – the circulation of oxygen to the brain – until we can get that person to a hospital.

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Dentist here: Just because a tooth ache goes away, doesn’t mean it’s all better. Many times It’s the calm before the abscess. It goes from dying, to dead, to abscessed in as fast as a day or sooner.

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If exercise were a pill, it’d be the most prescribed drug in existence.

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Drug allergies and side effects are not the same thing. It makes you look like a crazy person when you have 20 allergies and 19 of the reactions are nausea.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.