Doctor-patient Relationships Mugs

"You know, you wanting to get a second opinion is very insulting to my medical degree."

J. Greeble, MD: Practice limited to simple, straightforward, old-fashioned diseases.

'Well, what do I have?...Within reason, of course.'

'Nurse, I said x-ray, not microwave.'

Sign in doctors office - Malpractice Makes Perfect.

"..Your analysis and medication would be perfect if you were a goat."

'Still have gas problems, Mr. Quigley?'

"I made a list of all my symptoms. Lost the list. Can't remember any of my symptoms now."

'Where does it hurt?'

'-not back with the same old corn are we?'

'When you perform the surgery, please don't remove any of my untapped potential.'

"But doc, I can't understand what my body is telling me. It's mouth is always full!"

'The best thing for you, is to give up booze and smoking.'

'Please open your mouth and say '68, 56, 87, ..'

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

'I'm the doctor - I'll decide what's chronic!'

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

"Your sodium level is high...probably from taking everything you hear with a grain of salt!"

'Hey, what do you want from me? As a primary care physician, ALL I DO is prescribe drugs and refer you to specialists.'

'Heroic stoicism has its rewards.'

A doctor statue and a patient statue

"Is this your first time seeing a specialist?"

"Well, if you want my blood pressure lower don't keep waiting two hours to see you."

"You can't check my pulse while I'm checking your pulse!"

'Very interesting... your blood pressure is 17 over 76.'

"Unfortnuately, we won't know what's wrong with you until we do an autopsy."

"I hope you're not one of those kids who have trouble swallowing pills."

"So, we are all agreed, gentlemen. There shouldn't be that many of those, and that's a funny colour."

Your nose is running...which I guessing is more than I can say for your feet.

"Geoffrey's a bit worried about Lyme disease."

"He wants to know what's taking me so long."

"Lucky we caught it early. It's easier to treat in the larva stage."

"It's the only way I can get some of my paitents to listen to me."

'You have nothing to worry about. You're only imagining you have hypochondria.'