Excellent advice for morning back pain

This is a two-panel stock photo meme. The first panel depicts an elderly male patient holding his lower back in visible discomfort, speaking to a male doctor in a clinical office setting, with a speech bubble reading 'Doctor, my back hurts when I wake up in the morning'. The second panel shows the same doctor grinning and giving two thumbs up, offering the absurdly unhelpful sarcastic advice 'Wake up in the afternoon then'. The joke comes from the doctor avoiding addressing the actual cause of the patient's pain, instead suggesting a lazy, impractical workaround that avoids the triggering action entirely.

This meme was shared on the r/Meme subreddit on Reddit under the original title 'Excellent advice'. It uses a widely circulated, commonly repurposed stock photo doctor-patient meme template that is frequently edited to feature jokes about useless, sarcastic, or absurd medical advice.