Communication In Medicine Fan Prints

"Take two of these and call my answering service in the morning."

"I'll tell ya what we don't need is some Dr. Durango helping us with a dang snake bite."

"'CPD'...stuff and nonsense, the old ways are fine for me, now pass me a hammer. I need to put this patient out!"

'Doctors are all booked up. Nurse is busy. The best I can do is offer to type your symptoms into Google.'

Obstetrics.

"Well, yes, I suppose I could explain the test results in 'plain English' — but then you'd know how sick you are."

A doctor statue and a patient statue

'I should try the polyclinic, sir.'

'You've got Finklestein's syndrome!' - 'Are you Finklestein?'

"Just a minute - I'm uploading."

"The good news is your weight and cholesterol are stable. The bad news is the research has changed."

"Take two aspirin and email me in the morning."

"Oh, here's the problem. He's got a doohickey on his thingamabob."

'And their financial E.K.G. shows that they are in excellent health.'

"If this company can make an herbal soda...there's no reason why I can't make and sell my own too!"

'No, there is no such thing as generic doctors!'

"Well, I have some good news and some lab results."

Telephone consultations worked but maybe TEXT consultations were a step too far...Does anyone recognise 'fngx stre pink' as a symptom?.

"I told him 1 tranquilizer every 4 hours, not 4 tranquilizers every 1 hour."

"I don't feel so good, Tia Carmen."

"Well, saying it over and over again doesn't make it true."

"Sure, we have problems, but at least we can talk about them."

'Advanced access' isn't REALLY about you booking an appointment in advance of having anything wrong with you!

Long before Louis Pasteur's epic work, pioneer researcher Boris Zamochovich...

'When I asked if she was critical I didn't mean verbally!'

'Don't just go 'tsk, tsk', without explaining yourself.'

'I'd like to take some x-rays to determine if there is a problem or if you're just being a big baby.'

"There's very little of this going around? Is that supposed to make me feel better?"

"We've run it past you - shall we stroll it by you?"

"You want a second opinion? Do you have a second illness?''