History Main / NonstandardPrescription

** Turk once wrote his wife Carla a prescription for himself, suggesting she "apply him to a sensitive area."

* At least one troper had a childhood doctor who would issue prescriptions for ice cream cones at a nearby fast-food place at no cost to the patient.

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* In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E14WolfInTheFold}} Wolf In The Fold]]", Doctor [[TheMcCoy McCoy]] had Scotty visit a club with a bellydancer saying it was prescription. In the films, Bones drinks [[GargleBlaster Romulan Ale]] for "medicinal purposes".

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-->"I'll write you a prescription."\\

And of this you can be sure..."

And of this you can be sure...

* Creator/JohnBuchan's novel ''JohnMacnab'' opens with a doctor suggesting that an excessively bored politician "steal a horse in some part of the world where a horse-thief is usually hanged" as a cure. The conversation when he mentions this to some friends leads to the [[HilarityEnsues actual plot of the story]].

* Multiple times on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', usually by Dr. Cox (although Turk once wrote his wife Carla a prescription for himself, suggesting she "apply him to a sensitive area").

* In the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' episode "The Cycling Tour" Mr Pither goes to a doctor to ask for directions to Iddesleigh. "Normally I would have asked a policeman or a minister of the Church, but finding no one available, I thought it better to consult a man with some professional qualifications, rather than rely on the possibly confused testimony of a passer-by." The doctor writes something down and tells Mr Pither to take it to a chemist ([[SeparatedByACommonLanguage pharmacy in the US]]). The next shot is a chemist looking at the paper and giving Mr Pither the directions.

* ''Film/WhatAboutBob''. Bob hunts down his psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin, who's on vacation in New Hampshire. Dr. Marvin makes Bob promise to go home, then writes Bob a prescription advising Bob to "Take a vacation... from your problems". This backfires, because it inspires Bob to take his vacation right there in New Hampshire, and he becomes TheThingThatWouldNotLeave in the Marvin household.

-->''And don�t stuff up your head with things you don�t understand."''

* One ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story has Archie's dad, Fred, begin to excessively worry about every possible little thing that could go wrong. The doctor he visits prescribes watching ''Series/TheThreeStooges'' to help him get over it all.