This is the home of Doctor's Orders, gift books of fun, science-backed prescriptions from a practicing family physician. If a book sent you here, the free pages are just below.

The books

Cover of Doctor's Orders: Enjoy Your Retirement, a marigold prescription pad with sunglasses

Doctor's Orders: Enjoy Your Retirement

101 prescriptions for the part of life that finally goes right, each with a reason from a real study or official health guidance, a dose and a box to write down what happened, plus a last section her colleagues, friends or family fill in. Paperback $14.99 or hardcover $24.99.

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Cover of Doctor's Orders: Happy 60th!, a teal prescription pad

Doctor's Orders: Happy 60th!

The 60th-birthday edition: 101 prescriptions for the next decade, a last section her people fill in (with an organizer's list for whoever gathers them) and a certificate of sixty years that everyone signs.

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Print a fresh doctor's note

The doctor's note in each book is made to be photographed and sent. If you'd rather hand one over on paper, print a full-size copy here.

The retirement doctor's note: excused from alarm clocks, Mondays and meetings that could have been emails

Excused from Mondays, for the retirement book.

Print the retirement note (PDF)
The 60th-birthday doctor's note: excused from acting her age, Mondays and sixty candles

Excused from acting her age, for the 60th.

Print the 60th note (PDF)

Copying pages

Every page in these books that is made for cutting out or photocopying is yours to copy for yourself and your guests. For anything else, such as a class, a club newsletter or a shop display, please ask first: hello@outofofficedoctor.com.

For the office

The same makers also publish I'm Not Mad, I'm Documenting, a book of passive-aggressive office forms, and free printable forms at fakeformcompany.com.

The fine print

The books and this page are for enjoyment and general information, not medical advice. Your own clinician outranks any book on everything about you. The doctor's notes are a joke, not a medical certificate.