Basic Trope Description: A character lives their life like if they would do if they would be healthy, although they are still recovering from an illness or injury and have Doctor's Orders to rest and take it easy.
- Straight: After being ordered to stay in hospital for a week by her doctor, Alice just gets up and leaves without anyone else being okay with it.
- Exaggerated:
- All hospital patients in the whole city leave the hospitals without being allowed by doctors.
- Even the doctors leave the hospital without being allowed.
- Downplayed: Alice isn't allowed to leave her bed. She leaves it anyway, but just to go to the hospital's coke vending machine.
- Justified:
- Alice isn't really ill, she was just placed in the hospital again by her mother, who has Munchhausen-by-proxy syndrome and doesn't play her little games any longer.
- The hospital does unethical experiments on its patients, and Alice doesn't want to fall victim to them.
- Inverted:
- Despite being released from hospital, Alice stays there willingly.
- Alice flees from home to a hospital besides being in good health.
- Subverted: When the nurse is checking on Alice, she finds her bed empty. But Alice is just standing behind her.
- Double Subverted: The woman behind her is Alice's identical twin sister, who is just as shocked as her.
- Enforced: The director says that Alice cannot miss this episode, so she has to leave the hospital.
- Averted: Alice stays in hospital during the whole time she has to stay.
- Parodied:
- Alice runs off with rotating legs. As soon as she is on the street, she slips on a banana peel and is dragged back to the hospital in handcuffs.
- (Also counts as justified) The sole reason why Alice even took off was because of the absurdly high cost of getting healed, knowing that living with a severe injury is better than living in abject poverty due to the health costs.
- Zig-Zagged: When the nurse is checking on Alice, her bed is empty. She alarms the staff, but Alice is found in the hospital morgue. Then she suddenly runs from there, out of a door and is believed to be lost. But later she is found at the hospital morgue, mourning over a corpse that looks exactly like herself...
- Lampshaded: "The patient has left the building! I always feared the day when I would have to say that."
- Discussed: "You were in hospital?" "Yes, but I just ran off."
- Conversed: "Kinda dumb. When you are in hospital, you are usually there with a good reason."
- Deconstructed: Since she doesn't get the medicine that she needs to stay alive at the moment, Alice collapses on the street and only survives due to being brought back fast. That was possible since her hospital gown was visible from far and since she was still wearing an ID bracelet.
