Pretend Practitioner Gifts

"Take a pill in the morning, in the afternoon and at night."

"Did I hear the dog in here?"

"He likes it."

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

Tuning Up for the Air Guitar Competition

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

Little doctor.

"I will give you the specimen some other time!"

'Off hand I'd say she needs re-stuffing.'

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

"You want a generic or a regular sugar pill?"

Imagination

'Stop purring I can't hear your heart beat.'

'All of our Little Doctor medical kits are on sale. Since the Healthcare bill passed, sales of the kits have been poor.'

A boy dressed as a cowboy riding a stick horse encounters a stick with a cow's skull at the end lying on the ground.

"I tested very high in playing."

'Don't bite it. I have to check Daddy next.'

"Jonathan! I've told you not to put your space toys in the freezer and pretend they're on the ice planet!"

That kid's all business.

"As night falls, You return to claim what isn't yours. . . come at me, sea devil!!!"

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."

He kept pretending he was going to work when he was just running errands.

"Let's play make-believe. I'll diagnose you with a life-threatening illness, then cure you with a wonder-drug that turns out to be a placebo."

"It's cute that yours has a Fire Island share, mine has the East Hampton Dream House."

'Maggots.' - playing doctor

"Tea parties are passé. I'm opening a craft brewery."

Junior Doctor.

A little boy is crawling through a sandbox towards his mother as though he were dying of thirst in a desert.

"I'm playing "Explorer" and looking for the Elephant Cemetery: there should be really big bones there!"

'Let's play doctor. You be the primary care giver and I'll be the doctor you refer patients to.'

Kid to sister: 'I never play doctor anymore. There's too much paperwork.'

'I'm not playing with Kevin anymore. He's suing me.'

"Broom! Broom!"

"So Dr. Gracie...how are your patients today?"

"You need more info? Listen, son, our ancestors faked it, I fake it, and by gawd, it's time you learned to fake it."