"How Does It Look, Doc?" MRI Scan
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How Does It Look, Doc? refers to an exploitable meme showing a doctor or radiologist looking at a computer screen while someone gets an MRI scan. A person wearing red scrubs is shown lying down in an MRI machine, asking, "How does it look, doc?" or "Does it look bad, doc?" to which the doctor responds, "Lmao, hold on fam," or "hold on dude," while distracted by a video game, meme or piece of media on his computer screen. The original image stems from a stock image originally uploaded to the internet in 2009, after which it came to be used in memes all through the 2010s.
Origin
The digital art stock image of a doctor looking at a computer screen to see the results of a person's MRI machine was originally uploaded to Shutterstock[1] by James Steidl on January 5th, 2009, titled, "Technician Monitoring MRI Scan."
The earliest known meme made using the MRI scan image was a Demotivational Poster meme in Polish, posted to Demotywatory.pl[2] on July 15th, 2010. The text loosely translates to, "Professionalism: When you can keep a straight face even in the most unpleasant situations."
According to TinEye,[3] the site "LolHome" hosted an early variant of the meme showing the radiologist or doctor to be distracted by something besides an MRI scan on his computer screen showing him playing World of Warcraft.
Spread
On November 29th, 2016, Facebook[4] page Lego Star Wars II-core posted the earliest known version of the meme to contain text, showing the patient asking, "Does it look bad, Doc," and the doctor responding, "Lol, I dunno you're probs fine." The post gathered over 1,000 reactions in nine years.
On January 14th, 2021, Redditor[5] /u/philly7453 posted a similar meme to /r/2007scape with the caption, "Gimme a sec," gathering over 2,000 points in four years.
On January 26th, 2025, the Instagram[6] page @negusflex posted a version of the meme that shows a person wearing red scrubs lying down in an MRI machine, asking, "How does it look, doc?" to which the doctor responds, "Yeah, one-second bro" while looking at ChatGPT.
On January 30th, 2025, CoolMathGames posted an Instagram[7] slideshow of "How Does It Look Doc?" MRI Scan memes, gathering over 67,000 likes in four days.
Various Examples
https://imgur.com/gallery/meanwhile-russian-hospital-LbkNn
https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/qfodcu/nice/
Search Interest
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External References
[1] Shutterstock – Technician Monitoring MRI Scan
[2] Demotywatory – Profesjonalizm
[5] Reddit – /r/2007scape
[7] Instagram – coolmathgames
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