There's No I in PTCH

The show’s name is both an acronym and a mission statement. PT is physical therapy, CH is chiropractic — smash them together and you get PTCH. Jason points out in the first episode that people still can’t say “chiropractic” correctly (“chiropractics,” “churo-practor,” “chiropracty”), so spelling it out seemed like the least they could do. Kathy’s version of the origin story is that it was her idea, full stop. Jason does not dispute this.

The sign-off — “Remember, there’s no I in PTCH” — is a play on the old team-sports cliché “there’s no I in team.” And it’s literally true: P-T-C-H has no I in it. The deeper point is the same as the joke: this isn’t a show built around one ego or one profession. It’s two clinicians, often arguing, usually agreeing, always trying to give you the least-wrong answer — no “I” required.

It closes every episode and has become pure reflex — so much so that the one time Jason accidentally said “no E,” the show just kept rolling.