History Main / NonstandardPrescription

* Dave Seville of Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks fame had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=654CwfbIXxI a 1958 song titled "Witch Doctor,"]] in which the Doctor "prescribes" Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang.

* For patients with any number of disorders and diseases, including obesity, high blood pressure, pre-diabetic indicators, and arthritis, doctors may write a prescription for... [[https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/health/prescribing-exercise-as-medicine/index.html exercise]]. Studies show that in cases where regular exercise is helpful in treating or mitigating illness, getting it in writing results in a significantly higher rate of patients adhering to an exercise regimen compared to just getting at as "doctor's advice," with a better long term results as an outcome.

-->-- '''Dr. Cox''', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu"

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

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--->1 ten-mile walk every morning.\\
--->1 bed at 11 sharp every night.''

-->''1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours.''
-->''1 ten-mile walk every morning.''
-->''1 bed at 11 sharp every night.''

--->''"I read the prescription. It ran:''
---->''1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours.''
---->''1 ten-mile walk every morning.''
---->''1 bed at 11 sharp every night.''
---->''And don’t stuff up your head with things you don’t understand.”''

-->--'''Dr. Cox''', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu"

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

** In the episode "Damned If You Do", House gives a mall Santa a prescription for cigarettes as a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', during marriage counselling, the councilor prescribes Hank and Peggy a motorcycle, because they had been planning on buying a pair of motorcycles and riding around the country together.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In a WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX episode]] when Maggie starts growing tentacles they take her to see Dr. Hibbert.

* Dave Seville of Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks fame had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=654CwfbIXxI a 1958 song titled "Witch Doctor"]], in which the Doctor "prescribes" Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang.

-->--'''Dr. Cox:''', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu"

-->'''Dr. Cox:''' I'm gonna go ahead and write you a prescription for two testicles; and you feel free to get this filled out whenever you want.\\
-- ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu"

-- ''{{Scrubs}}'', "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu"

* 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]].

* {{John Buchan}}'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]].

!!Examples

* In the book ''Ramona Forever'', a doctor diagnoses Ramona with "siblingitis" (that is, jealousy over the attention her parents are giving her newborn sister) and hands her father a prescription for more attention.

* In the Harry Nilsson song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo "Coconut"]] a woman puts lime in the coconut and drinks them both up, and gets a bellyache. She calls her doctor (wakes him up) and the doctor prescribes... [[HairOfTheDog lime in the coconut, drink them both together.]] Then she'll feel better.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In a WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror episode when Maggie starts growing tentacles they take her to see Dr. Hibbert.

* In strip 196 of ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'', a doctor prescribes a destitude woman oral sex... not to cure her depression, but to pay for the actual therapy.

* In Chapter 1 of ''Literature/ThreeMenInABoat'', J. tells of going to his doctor after [[InducedHypochondria having convinced himself that he has every disease known to mankind]] (except housemaid's knee). His doctor gives him one of these.

-->Homer: Is there anything you can prescribe, doctor?
-->Dr. Hibbert: Fire! And lots of it!

!!Examples

* Around 2000, a doctor in the Orkney Isles [[http://www.bmj.com/content/320/7246/1361.3.full prescribed tubs of marinaded herring]] rather than drugs as a heart disease treatment.

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