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Cartoon: How To Recognize A Drug-Seeker [1]
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Date: 2025-02-22
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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels. The cartoon is set in a doctor’s examining room – it has one of those tall examination tables with padding so patients can lie down, medical equipment and a degree hanging on walls, various cabinets, a sink. A tired-looking woman in a yellow tank top and black capri pants is sitting on the exam table. A doctor is standing in front of her. We can tell he’s a doctor because he’s wearing a white lab coat and has a stethoscope hanging around his neck. He’s holding a clipboard in one hand.
PANEL 1
The doctor is speaking to the patient. The patient is slumping a little, while the doctor is stiffly upright.
DOCTOR: Some people use narcotics to get high. So when you come here and say you’re in constant pain, that tells me you’re a lying drug-seeker.
PANEL 2
A closer shot of just the doctor as he speaks, looking stern and a bit angry, clutching the clipboard to near his chest.
DOCTOR: If you ask for pain meds, you’re a drug seeker.
DOCTOR: If you seem desperate, you’re a drug seeker.
DOCTOR: If you cry, you’re a drug-seeker.
PANEL 3
A close-up of the doctor’s face as he lectures, one forefinger raised.
DOCTOR: If you talk back to me, you’re a drug-seeker. If you don’t like me assuming you’re a drug-seeker, you’re a drug-seeker.
PANEL 4
A shot of the patient and doctor. The patient is now very wide-eyed, and leans back, away from the doctor. The doctor leans forward, hunching over his clipboard a bit as he makes a note.
PATIENT: Could I talk to a doctor who isn’t horrible?
DOCTOR: “Doctor-shopping.” Classic drug-seeker.
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