Hello. Could you, US English speakers, explain to me a sentence said by a Florida flight instructor to a student? I don't quite get the meaning of "medical" in it, it's a bit too colloquial, I guess. The sentence is:
"If you got yourself a medical I'd have soloed you in a couple of days."
(By the way, it comes from cpt. Dickinson's book, if anyone is interested.)

From the context it sounds like "If you had got yourself and passed a medical examination I would have let you fly solo in a couple of days."

With medical in this context referring to getting a medical checkup/exam done by a doctor.

I could be wrong as there isn't much context to work off of.

I'm not an American English speaker but in this context I'm 99.99% sure it's referring to a medical (clearance) certificate that basically says you're fit to fly.

Both of the above posters are correct. Refers to a medical certificate, which is needed to fly as a pilot (whether student or pro).

In flight school I've met some people from time to time who were technically able to fly a plane solo (good airmanship) but legally not allowed as they havn't got their medical clearance. I'm not sure about the US but in Europe you need a Medical clearance to fly solo. Flight training with an instructor in the plane can be done without.

Thanks for the answers. Medical certificate was also my guess, but I've seen it understood as "If you get a sick leave from the doctor (in order to get some additional days off work) I'd solo you soon". Which would be, of course, cheating, but well, this happens so it wasn't a complete nonsence.

Actually, I think there is also a matter of difference in regulations because (if I'm not mistaken) in Poland I had to get medical certificate before any flying, also with instructor, not just before solo. So maybe the guess that led to misunderstanding was: he already flies, so he must have the certrificate, so "medical" must mean something different.

If it’s from a book, there was a time long ago in the US during simpler times, you could take flight lessons before receiving a student pilot certificate.

The student pilot certificate and medical certificate used to be on the same form. So when you went to get your medical certificate, the other side was the student pilot certificate. You need both to solo.

So you would fly and train. And at some point before you solo you got your medical and student pilot,certificate. It appears that the student pilot was ready to solo, but because he didn’t have a medical certificate, he also didn’t have a student pilot certificate and so the instructor couldn’t let him solo.

Today the student pilot certificate is no longer issued with the medical certificate. So the context is lost.