You Don’t Need To Be A Doctor To Appreciate These 81 Hilarious Medical Memes (New Pics)
Somewhere between the beeping machines and endless paperwork, healthcare professionals manage to find humor in the chaos that make even the longest shifts bearable.
Workplace interactions can be meme-worthy if you have the right perspective and setting — whether it’s the long and exhausting med school studies or the awkward doctor-patient interactions.
Some memes are too hilarious to stay just in the staff room and the Funny Doctors page makes sure to share them with everyone. While we make sure you see some of the best ones here.
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I’ve made more than enough money. Never cured my cluster headaches or combat PTSD
Yes, this is precisely how blown up fool Trump was elected by more fools... And Trump is deporting anyone who could vote against him, so he is a clever fool for that matter... in the land of the blind, one-eye is king. I wished Americans would wake up after the invasion of Venezuela. Like Europe should wake up against the unrightful invasion of Ukraine, or an future invasion of Taiwan... Did Erasmus say anything on fools waking up?
Load More Replies...This is one of the most elegant definitions of the Dunning-Kruger Effect I've read.
I wonder why Trump hasn't put his name on this yet. It makes more sense than doing it to the Kennedy center.
Load More Replies...Yes, the AWFULs are taking a toll on our country.
Load More Replies...Just like in any other profession, doctors and nurses also share jokes and memes on group chats and their Instagram feeds. As frontline workers, it gives them a much-needed dose of comic relief amid all the stress and emotional toll.
Medical memes are also a way to both celebrate and critique the profession — they can sometimes hit too close to home by highlighting real issues such as staffing shortages or working straight for months without a day off.
Medical humor is not uncommon. TV shows like Scrubs or Grey’s Anatomy have long shown the chaos and absurdity of hospital life. But memes take it to a whole other level.
They are easily shareable, making them the perfect humor channel to help health workers laugh, vent and connect with their colleagues all at the same time.
That sounds like it would be Snape's job. Or worse, Voldemort.
Load More Replies...Harry Potter and the Dehumanizing of Trans Humans is JK's preferred title currently
God just decided "This dude isn't enough. Let's take a rib and make another, but with a hole and a 3D printer in her stomach"
After 9 months of growing a baby, than pushing it out. The whole body will never be the same.
I was hospitalised 5 times in 2024, I also wished all my nurses a very pleasant ‘never again, thanks.’
While at a hospital for an outpatient test, the nurse suggested that I have a living will and medical directive on file with the hospital in case I come back for other services. I innocently asked, "Why? Is your mortality rate that high?" She was totally flustered, and the two students who were in the room observing couldn't stop laughing. Borrowing from Mary Poppins, in every test that must be run there is an element of fun.
I hate it when the medical person asks how I am and I, being British, respond "Fine thanks" and they ask "Why are you here then?"
They should be banned from saying it. Though convo with a doctor today re blood tests Him: 'and how are you feeling, do you feel well?' Me: No. Did he explore this? Nope.
Load More Replies...On the flip side, I gave up working on my cars when I turned 60. I do maintenance but take everything else to a shop. I felt a need to confess to the guys at the counter that I was done, and they were comforting, supportive, and welcoming. Apparently I wasn't the first one to throw in my tools.
It happens unfortunately. My husband is in a similar situation these days. Though I loved how he made sure I knew, properly, how to change a tyre. I'm physically incapable of changing a tyre. Knowledge won't help me here. It's always going to be no more taxing than calling the AA!
Load More Replies...My doctor in the process of discharging me after my gall bladder calmed down, said "don't be a hero. If it flares up again, come straight back." I did, less than a week later, and it was removed.
I said this to my oncology nurse on my bell ringing day. We laughed, hugged, and I haven’t seen that angel of a human since. (It’s been 2.5 years now)
Having been in ICU twice as well as hospitalized on and off through the years, I have had this conversation many times.
After 9 months of cancer treatment I thanked all the staff and was so keen to leave that I forgot to ring the bell. Hope to never see those wonderful folk again.
Yep that's the standard goodbye phrase in the hospital "bye, don't ever come back here".
“Medical memes are a great way to get a laugh whether or not you are part of the medical community. I think that they are incredibly relatable as you can catch the humor even as a patient,” Dr Mike Varshavski, a family medicine physician in the US, wrote on Facebook.
“I will say that some of the memes can be dark and if taken out of context can even seem offensive BUT we need to understand that this is medical satire. Being able to laugh at ourselves and our troubles is a healthy habit to practice,” he added.
On a serious note, as someone with PhD, this was my biggest learning from the degree that it is alright to say you dont know and it has come to rescue me multiple times since.
I guess that for some people gaining knowledge increases the confidence to admit that there are topics they don't know about
Load More Replies...I don't understand people that are incapable of saying that they don't know. Ignorance is not a problem (unless it is willful or malignant)!
I have one from the top down--I look like one of those cartoon characters whose eyes are popping out of their skull. Think I'll have it framed.
Friend of mine hadn't realise how wonky her nose was until she had an MRI for a brain tumour! I've never seen any of mine... can't say I'm at all bothered by that!!
Load More Replies...I prefer "What's that, brain maggot? You starving? Yeah, I'm hungry too"
Some memes are way too real for people working in the medical profession — exhausting night shifts, charting marathons, looking for a working printer. They show how demanding healthcare work can be.
Through these jokes, healthcare workers also feel reassured that they are not the only ones struggling with the workload.
Length of the needle is just the first measure. The force with which the injection is completed finishes the survey!
Note the star watermark in the bottom right-hand side corner. This image was AI-generated by Google's Gemini.
When my little cat had her tag put into her neck I felt so guilty because the needle looked enormous. I felt so bad, the only remedy was slightly warmed chicken for her dinner (a favourite)
The red one was used to inject cortisone into my hip joint to treat bursitis...
so what is so bad being a dishwasher? this perpetuates a negative stereotype.
Any good lab worker washes up their own equipment . . . that way you KNOW that it's clean for the next use . . .
The last placed I worked for they had a lab. The lab technician was to lazy to wash his own utensils. So the owner had the general supervisor had one of the regular employee to wash his utensils for him. Which i was chosen to do this for awhile. Which I didn't think I should have done that. He made the mess he should have clean up after himself. Even the general manger once mention to me that I shouldn't be cleaning the lab up. The lab technician should be doing it.
It's not the best job as a career, and it's not going to pay you much of anything.
I'm buried in some et al. listings on a few publications and I can't even find them.
A survey of over 2,600 US healthcare workers found that 26% had symptoms of mental illness, but only 20% of them said they sought treatment — mainly due to not getting time off of work and being worried about confidentiality and expenses.
The most common work stressors were burnout, inadequate staff, and huge amount of workload or job demands.
And not to forget the emotional stress of being a frontline worker. Dealing with severely ill patients and their families, coping with loss and trauma are some of the major stressors as well.
If your hands are sweaty, it's always number two, regardless of doctor or nurse.
Maybe you mean priorities? Because that's not how problems work. Now you just have a major obstacle to fixing the problems you already have plus a bunch of new ones.
To be fair, when my husband was in ICU with pneumonia, I did realise I didn't care anymore about any of those other problems. Still don't. Including my own wonky blood issues. Though mild depression (which is a long way from where I was a few years ago!!) may have a teeny helping hand in there!
Load More Replies...To say it with a Creed song title: Only in America.
Load More Replies...Old people who live along the southern border of the US with Mexico often go to dentists in border-towns because of this. Everyone of them I've met while visiting the retirement park spoke very highly of the care and cleanliness of the Mexican ones and said it was literally 1/20th of the cost.
Or as I experienced today..the extraction was $1100, the post to anchor the new tooth is $1200, the new tooth is $1000. Shoulda been a dentist.
Extraction c. £200; crown prep £300; porcelain crown £500. In northern England, last year at private dentist.
Load More Replies...For my sisters and I, it was the molars. Between us, we may have 3 of the original 12. The good news (?) is that once a crown is installed, that tooth is done. No further changes expected (unless you get reaaal unlucky).
I am unlucky. While flossing, an old crown popped off and the tooth underneath broke off. The tooth was fractured so over the course of several months I had to have the fractured tooth dug out, let that heal, implant put in, let that heal, finally got new crown - hopefully now good to go.
Load More Replies...I have really excellent teeth. Lost a couple when younger because I didn't take care of my teeth like I do now.
And that is why I haven't been to a dentist in like 20 years.
When you are gumming your oatmeal, consider adding a touch of cinnamon for variety.
Load More Replies...Memes can be eye-opening for some of non-medical workers too, as they give a sneak peek into the daily chaos at hospitals and beyond.
Doctors also get tired and frustrated. Memes help us humanize them — making us more empathetic to their situation.
With their struggles involving work-life imbalance, sleep deprivation, as well as exposure to diseases or workplace hazards — it’s no wonder that all of them need some kind of a breather to cope with such situations.
Research shows that almost all microbe transference happens in the first contact, so 1 seconds or 5 seconds doesn't really matter because it's dirty either way. The five second rule was invented by parents hoping to sit still through an entire meal.
True. If it goes on the floor, chuck it. My first flatmate was convinced that it was okay if it were frozen - it isn't.
Load More Replies...If TV has taught us anything, it's that the bad guys attack only one at a time anyways.
Especially in Hong Kong martial arts movies, in which all the anonymous henchpersons circle uselessly around the two who are fighting.
Load More Replies...I used to not mind waiting in the exam room if they had some trash magazines in there to read. Since Covid now all I do is doom scroll on my phone!
That's provided they have WIFI. I'm too cheap to get unlimited data.
Load More Replies...A study shows that humor acts as coping mechanism for healthcare professionals and trainees. Many medical students find insider humor emotionally bonding, and it helps them make sense of their experience as doctors-in-training.
But there are, of course, other ways that these employees use to cope at work. Talking to colleagues about their struggles, professional counselling and therapy, and exercise are some of the ways that doctors swear by.
Even meditation, taking time off work whenever possible, going on vacations are some habits that can help make them feel less burdened.
What do you mean? Those are some perfectly normal Runty and Иovrs bars. 😂
Load More Replies...It works for books but not so well if you're incentivizing yourself to clean the bathroom.
Just throw one in toilet and get it when you clean it
Load More Replies...Runty? I know some people don't like the coconut one, but that's just straight up chocolate-shaming.
I've not laughed so hard in ages - the image, the comments... Thanks so much BP folks. It's not been the greatest day so needed that!
Load More Replies...Yeah. That's annoying. Especially in the middle of a dirty job.
So the gloves are as bad all around the world! I thought i just somehow get the monday packages
Monday packages? I've heard of Friday Afternoon cars! Owned one once... I loved it but I spent an awful lot of time going back and forth to the dealership. Still exchange Christmas cars with the salesman. (That last bit's a joke 😀)
Load More Replies...Before I retired the last company I worked for when I had to be on a pack out line, when I first working there, we didn't have to wear disposable gloves like this. Eventually it became mandatory. At times I would put on pair of gloves. They would end up tearing. If they tore you supposed to replace them immediately. I wouldn't because I felt I didn't have time. So they would get tore up pretty good before I replace them. Another reason I didn't like replacing them is my hands would get really sweaty and when I went to put them on it would be very difficultto do.. Even if I dried my hands off with a dry rag and i went to put a new pair of gloves on, it would be very hard to get on. If anyone wore these type of gloves and tried to replace them with sweaty hands you will know what I mean.
"Just put a little dirt under a microscope. And it looks like ... a lot of dirt".
With caution... Those things can be a nightmare for some people.
Load More Replies...That used to be the way a lot of doctors looked up through the 70s/80s with the ashtray full of butts in their offices. I don't have any overweight doctors these days.
"But you have so much to be happy about" "Just smile" "Adjust your attitude" "Other people have it much worse" "You're hormonal" "Stop looking for attention" -Unhelpful responses found in the wild
It's funny. I think some of my friends and family have this idea that I have some kind of depression that could be medically diagnosed. However, I was in therapy for quite a while, like, years. Through that I learned, definitively, that I do not have that. I'm just bummed out 'cuz the world went to shït and I'm cynical because, for the most part, people are stupid.
"I'm gonna be honest with ya... I'm standin' here... lookin' at you kids... and I'm tellin' ya... I've got a fever. And the only prescription... is more cowbell.
Load More Replies...If i lived in the US I would be putting all my efforts into emigrating. My neighbour is American and lives here part of the year. I had a medical issue and her first concern was not how I was doing but whether I could afford treatment. Can only feel sorry for people who have to live like that.
In the US it's, "sorry for your first loss, here's an itemization of your second one."
Load More Replies...At an ER visit a couple of years ago, once our child's bleeding was somewhat controlled, they sent an employee in to the exam room with a computer on a wheeled kiosk asking for our credit card for our copay (we had good insurance, and no open invoices).
Along with: “Do you take any medication?” “Nope!…………… Just my Catapres, Warfarin, Synthroid, Zestril, Prilosec…….”
How is it that people know all the brand names?
Load More Replies...Since about three days since i called for an appointment, sooooo....two months back?
I believe they had a symptom detection for patients course in medical school, followed by one called patience with the patient.
I was leaning over a demented patient one time doing some routine daily care, when all of a sudden I felt his hand on my head. I looked up, surprised, and he said "Oh! I thought you were a dog."
i guess they were either taken that way with a selfie camera or webcam (you can choose whether to flip or not) or possibly to avoid bots detecting copyright infringement (the latter is just a guess)
Load More Replies...I wonder if radiologists home interiors are really colorful, or just monochrome (really am curious).
Whatever the answer is, they probably don't use very many lamps...
Load More Replies...I have never seen a doctor put in an IV or draw blood a single time in my life. They say slippery when they mess up and miss the vein.
Load More Replies...The page isn't about what happened. In this case it's about how you'd find a vein to stick the needle into.
Load More Replies...It's a subtle thing, but technically, CPR shouldn't start until the person is dead.
I wear Croc flip flops, still have all my toes in the correct places, in the correct order.
First several times I ever saw crocs was in a hospital, and I thought they were special patient shoes. So anyone wearing them looks like they are wearing a hospital gown to me.
That's exactly what it's for. For you to learn how to learn for yourself self. Sets you up for life.
Since i started working in the cardiology unit every chest pain i have is an oncoming heart attack.
Helping diagnose diseases based on labs and scans is one of the best uses for AI. Humans miss a lot.
That makes sense. Use AI as a tool, not necessarily the answer.
Load More Replies...*the Psychotherapist scribbles down something in notepad*
Load More Replies...I see Mothra descending on Godzilla. Guess what sort of movies I've been watching lately?
Oh god no. I met a cute girl (I was 9, I think she was 10) because I got up to use the toilet rather than pee in that plastic thing after an operation. "You'll be sick" said the nurse. I was sick. And I did it again. And again. Coming back from the third time, the girl beckoned me over and we started talking about random stuff.
Load More Replies...No,no,no. When I was in hospital I hated having to stay by my bed and pee in the bottle thingy. Just because one time I almost face-planted when my blood pressure crashed.
Had a intestinal bleed, so they admitted me. I asked the nurse if I could do a lap around the floor I was on. Came back just in time to see her with the BP cuff. "Hmmm, sit dowm"..."hmmm, lay down". "So what my reading?..."zero"..3 days in ICU later...
Load More Replies...Modern cold cereal - Kellogg. Hot oatmeal? Some medieval peasant, if not earlier.
I wish I had easy subjects that gave me stuff like an exam on wikipedia...
These are clearly actors. A real Dr wouldn't be caught dead without wearing their white short-sleeve status symbol coat.
To test the corneal reflex a doctor will gently brush your eye with a piece of cotton or something similarly soft. In this picture they're using the little hammer thingy.
Load More Replies...Nah, they're British. In BritSpeak, 'Revising' is what Americans call 'Studying'.
Load More Replies...Is it strange that they look kinda delicious? I would buy a desert looking like that on top
AI can be terribly bad, but that seems far more likely to be a digital error in the form of putting your digit on the r key instead of the e key, while trying to misspell definrillator. <- I won't bother fixing that, since it's exactly the same sort of error. Similarly, the "lal" is almost certainly a problem with finger timing.
Load More Replies...But then they forget to tell you about the very pertinent rash they have in addition to the other symptoms. Or something else extremely pertinent that they end up casually mentioning later or when you are wrapping it up.
Load More Replies...As a parent there is always the balance between "bring your kid in too soon, they'll tell you there's fluid in the ears but just give acetaminophen and rest" vs "your child has a raging miserable ear infection why didn't you come in sooner."
If blood isn't coming out and I am able to stay conscious and I don't have impaired movement...then I'm fine. I'm not one of those people who runs to the doctor for every little ailment. In fact, the last few times I went to the doctor wasn't for any particular treatment, it's because work doesn't allow you to self-certify that you feel awful. So you have to go talk to the doctor who writes a paper that says you feel awful and work accepts that as justification. 🤦 Such a palaver...
I have a family member currently dying because of this. It's really not that funny.
Or you wait so long for an appointment that you have survived and no longer need care.
Isn't this everybody in any office anywhere who has to attempt to get Word to reproduce what is showing on-screen on a printer?
Being smart is not all that matters. Being curious and caring matters more. If you are only smart and do not really listen to your patients, you will miss a diagnosis or a unsaid fear.
Load More Replies...My best score was 200 over 172. Paramedic - "Yes, that's because of the pain."
Ooh, I'm on that stuff, but 3.75mg,along with five other medications daily.
Hey that's what I'm taking :D :D The "fun" thing about betablockers is that they have three effects: making the heart-rate more regular, more slow, and lower the blood pressure. You often take it for one purpose, and the others are side effects - I already have BP 90/50 without the meds and I have a pacemaker to make sure it doesn't go too slow... but I need it to make the heartrate more regular.
Even cats won't touch the gallbladder, and they are willing to eat *everything* else. Fur, bones, and stomach contents, yummy, but they draw the line at the squidgy green thing.
So do the Amazing Maurice's educated rodents! Never eat the green wobbly bit.
Load More Replies...I’d like to think a doctor would use the correct spelling of “break”.
Funny but we have a strict "no medical personnel running in the corridors" rule unless it's an emergency. If you start running medical staff will follow you asking what happened and who's dyîng.
No wonder doctors are notorious for having terrible handwriting - it's to disguise the fact that so few of them can spell.
It will be in a week or so after they get us to do their work for them by upvoting the best...
Load More Replies...I found half of these great, even though I'm the other sort of doctor.
As a dermatologist, i am not amused about how some of those posts make fun about dermatologists. We have feelings, too 😢
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Blatant bull sh!t. Bugger off and be banned. I've reported.
Load More Replies...No wonder doctors are notorious for having terrible handwriting - it's to disguise the fact that so few of them can spell.
It will be in a week or so after they get us to do their work for them by upvoting the best...
Load More Replies...I found half of these great, even though I'm the other sort of doctor.
As a dermatologist, i am not amused about how some of those posts make fun about dermatologists. We have feelings, too 😢
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Blatant bull sh!t. Bugger off and be banned. I've reported.
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