Maybe one day I’ll hang this list in the waiting room of my clinic:
- I can’t cure your cold
- I can’t give you antibiotics for your cold
- I can’t give you antibiotics for your flu
- I can’t give you antibiotics for your diarrhoea of two days
- I can’t give you antibiotics for sinus congestion
- I can’t give you morphine for your back pain
- I can’t cure your back pain if you don’t lose weight
- I can’t help you lose weight if you don’t eat right and exercise
- I can’t help you with your diabetes if you don’t lose weight, exercise and eat right
- I can’t help you with your high blood pressure if you don’t lose weight, exercise and eat right
- I can’t help you with your chronic pain if you don’t lose weight, exercise and eat right
- I can’t help you if you lie and say you are exercising and eating right
- I can’t help you with recurrent chest infections if you keep smoking
- I can’t reverse your Lung Cancer which was a result of your smoking
- I can’t cure your depression / anxiety if you aren’t trying your very best to lead a life based on honourable work, forming meaningful social relationships, exercise and eating right
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