The department is open.

Status: out of office, permanently

You asked for retirement forms. We went one better and got a real doctor. Doctor's Orders: Enjoy Your Retirement is a gift book of 101 prescriptions from a practicing family physician for the part of life that finally goes right: sleeping in, playing more, moving well, seeing her people, laughing hard, staying needed and remembering it all. Every one rests on a real study or official health guidance, with a dose, a cost tag and a box to write down what happened. And the people who love her write the first prescriptions.

Doctor's Orders

Enjoy Your Retirement: 101 fun, science-backed prescriptions for a long, happy life after work

Pages that leave the book: wallet cards, coupons, a door hanger, a doctor's note to photograph, and six "Open when…" notes her people hide inside for her to find months later.
From your people: a last section her coworkers, friends or family fill in before the party.
Paperback $14.99 or hardcover $24.99; 6 × 9 in, 174 pages. From a practicing family physician, and from the makers of I'm Not Mad, I'm Documenting.

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Free form: the doctor's note

Excused, on medical advice, from alarm clocks, Mondays, meetings that could have been emails, and feeling guilty about resting. Print it, write her name in, photograph it for the group chat.

To whom it may concern:Linda, from accounting

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The fine print. The doctor's note is a joke. The prescriptions in the book are for enjoyment and general information, not medical advice; her own clinician outranks any book on everything about her.

Want another department open? The vote is on the home page. Office humor instead? I'm Not Mad, I'm Documenting is right this way.