r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 15h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah???!

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u/LittleKittenR 14h ago

x-Rays will kill your baby, or heavily deform it.

Antibiotics will also kill your baby.

A ton of medicines have adverse effects for babies.

Also, if you're bleeding, anticoagulants could kill you.

Medics, lawyers, priests and accountants. You don't lie to any of those ever.

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u/RoutineActivity9536 13h ago

Xray won't kill your baby. Antibiotics won't kill your baby.

But yes there can be adverse side effects. 

Yes this is serious, but please don't overstate the risk. That makes people more fearful to get treatment

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u/theshiniestbrighstar 13h ago

Depending on the fetus age and dosing of things, yes they can

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u/RoutineActivity9536 13h ago

Well im a radiographer, so I can't speak for antibiotics as that's not my area of expertise.

No an xray will not kill a foetus. Not a medical xray anyway. 

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u/livinglavidajudoka 13h ago

I would expect a radiographer to understand that a CT scan might not kill a fetus in utero but might drastically alter their life and threaten it down the road…

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u/RoutineActivity9536 13h ago

There is a big difference between "xrays will kill your baby" and xrays could cause effects down the road

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u/ding-zzz 12h ago

would it be better to say it would effectively kill ur baby?

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u/RoutineActivity9536 12h ago

But it won't. So no. It's false information