Printable Card: "How To Understand Your Doctor"

Cover Verse:

Georgia’s Personal Guide
to Doctorspeak

What Your Doctor
Says:

What Your Doctor
Means:

I’d like to run a few more tests.
(I want the sunroof option for my new sports car.)

Please make a follow-up appointment.
(I’d also like the CD player with the five-disc changer.)

Bend over.
Bend over.
(Hey, some things are bad enough without some deeper meaning.)

The nurse will take over from here.
(I’m late for my tee-off time.)

You’ll feel some slight discomfort.
(This is gonna hurt like hell.)

Hmmm… that’s interesting…
(What the heck is THAT?)

This is a highly treatable disease.
(How much insurance do you have?)

Inside Verse:

What This Card
Says:

Hope you’re
better soon, Jerry!

What This Card
Means:

Hope you’re
better soon, Jerry!