They can't help that they're helpless...

Men watch helplessly, or perhaps it's nervousness, as their wives check them into doctor appointments, fill out their paperwork, and speak for them in 3rd person as if they are children, or worse - insignificant. The husbands glance over each completed form as their wives hand it to them. Yet they never make a comment and not once do they protest, even when the wives direct them to affix their signatures to whatever she's written! Perhaps it gives them something to do while they wait for their names to be called. What is it about a doctor's office that renders husbands mute and stupefies them into submission?