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The Good Doctor Sprained Wrist Innuendo Meme

This meme features a screenshot of a blonde woman sitting cross-legged on a hospital bed in a patient room, wearing a light blue tracksuit over a pink tank top, with a wrist brace on her injured wrist. Two lines of text are overlaid at the bottom: 'DOCTOR HAS CHECKED MY HEARTBEAT 7 TIMES IN 5 MINS. I ONLY TOLD HIM THAT I HAD A SPRAINED WRIST?'. The joke is a sexual innuendo implying that the doctor treating her is so distracted by her physical attractiveness that he is repeatedly checking her heartbeat unnecessarily instead of attending to her sprained wrist, mocking the stereotype of men being easily distracted by attractive women.
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DOCTOR HAS CHECKED MY HEARTBEAT 7 TIMES IN 5 MINS.
I ONLY TOLD HIM THAT I HAD A SPRAINED WRIST?

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DOCTOR HAS CHECKED MY HEARTBEAT 7 TIMES IN 5 MINS. I ONLY TOLD HIM THAT I HAD A SPRAINED WRIST?

Overview

This meme features a screenshot of a blonde woman sitting cross-legged on a hospital bed in a patient room, wearing a light blue tracksuit over a pink tank top, with a wrist brace on her injured wrist. Two lines of text are overlaid at the bottom: 'DOCTOR HAS CHECKED MY HEARTBEAT 7 TIMES IN 5 MINS. I ONLY TOLD HIM THAT I HAD A SPRAINED WRIST?'. The joke is a sexual innuendo implying that the doctor treating her is so distracted by her physical attractiveness that he is repeatedly checking her heartbeat unnecessarily instead of attending to her sprained wrist, mocking the stereotype of men being easily distracted by attractive women.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted on the Reddit r/meme subreddit with the title 'The Good Doctor 👨🏻‍⚕️'. The base image is an unedited screenshot taken from a BBC-produced medical drama series, as evidenced by the BBC watermark in the top left corner of the image. The humorous caption was added to the original screenshot to create the comedic meme.

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