People see a borer and stomp on it harder than Issac stomps necromorphs. Doctors find out about them instantly because of the medhud icon and use surgery to remove it. Then most people will scream over the radio to get it out.
The officer was a new guy and I had to explain to him how my ID didn't have a icon on the sec hud because of the title, as far as I remember he didn't try to arrest me.