I'm watching "Law and Order": Do you think the following conditions/sentences could be applied in reality as described?

(N.B. It’s the legal TV series, not the SVU or others. It’s the very first episode of the first season.)

SENTENCE 1: There’s a guy, 25 years old, basically healthy. He has a bad headache. His neck’s sore, but that’s ambiguous. A doctor prescribes peridine for the headache without a patient work-up. It masks the symptoms of meningitis this guy has.

SENTENCE 2: A patient walks on with a headache. Does she have a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a berry aneurism, a retro-orbital tumor, or just a simple headache?