In the mainland Chinese drama series I'm watching at the moment, which is set mainly in a hospital, one of the doctors asked his colleague to go and collect some 医嘱 yīzhǔ / doctor's orders (or medical orders).
I immediately thought of 遗嘱 yízhǔ / "leave-behind instructions", differing only by the tone in one of the characters, meaning "will" (what is left behind by a dead person).
Imagine a patient's family mishearing 医嘱 yīzhǔ / doctor's orders and thinking their doctor's been asked to go and collect the patient's 遗嘱 yízhǔ / will.
People do die in hospitals, but doctors won't have anything to do with a patient's will, so maybe it won't get mixed up after all...
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