'''More Animal ReadingFrom ''Scrubs'' Season 1 Episode 13 "My Balancing Act"'''
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- [[FISH]]''Dr. Cox and J.D. are the bedside of an ICU patient, Mr. Yeager, who has both of them stumped. But J.D. think he has an answer.'' J.D.: So, judging from the ataxia, dysarthia, and the mental status change, I've concluded that Mr. Yeager is suffering from... kuru. DR. COX: Kuru? J.D.: Kuru. DR. COX: Kuru. J.D.: Yes, kuru. DR. COX: Wow. I'd actually never thought of that. J.D.: Hell, yeah. DR. COX: Were you aware that the only documented cases of kuru were members of a cannibalistic tribe in eastern Papua New Guinea? J.D.: I was not.
- [[Frog MR. YEAGER: Actually, Doc, I was in the Throat]]New Guinea just last week.
- [[Hoofbeats]]J.D.: Really?
- [[King Cobra]]MR. YEAGER: No.
- [[Pandemic]]DR. COX: Newbie, do you happen to know what a '''zebra''' is?
- [[Pet Therapy]]J.D.: That patient just mocked me!
- DR. COX: It's a diagnosis of a ridiculously obscure disease when it's much more likely that the patient has a common illness presenting with uncommon symptoms. In other words, if you hear [[Pigface CatheterHoofbeats|hoofbeats]], you just go ahead and think [[Gallops|horsies]], not '''zebras''', mm'kay, Mr. Silly Bear?
- [[Turtleneck]]
'''More Animal Reading'''- ---* [[FISH]]* [[Frog in the Throat]]* [[Hoofbeats]]* [[King Cobra]]* [[Pandemic]]* [[Pet Therapy]]* [[Pigface Catheter]]* [[Turtleneck]]* [[Zerbaxa (Ceftolozane-Tazobactam)]]
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