A Night in the Life: On Call with a GI Fellow 

You can tell this guy is really a doctor because of how much information he can pour out his mouth non stop. I look away from the video for a couple seconds and I've missed 4 symptoms and a couple treatment plans! 🤯

As an RN, thank you for being so kind when nurses call and ask for simple things like diet orders. Not all specialists are nice when you call after hours.

As a med student, I’ve read about these diseases in books, but to see you deal with them practically is fascinating. Love the brief explanations of each disease and how you plan to treat them. Please keep doing these 🙌

Haha I’m a surgery resident on call tonight and just as you said “sometimes I get paged right away-“ I got a page 😂😂 so thanks for jinxing me!

As a Crohn’s patient, I really appreciate what you do, and how much better my life is now that I know how to treat it.

This is FASCINATING. I had many preconceived ideas about what being on call was like, but it's so cool to see an example, especially by someone this good at explaining. It's wild that you can get a call and within minutes be 'on' and giving advice. And in addition, you follow that up with a vlog for the viewers before getting back to sleep. I love that you've got a nocturnal buddy as well! Thanks for this window into the support system we all take for granted will catch us in an emergency.

You're such a kind person. I see so many different types of physicians and go to Mayo, etc and boy, I would like to have more Drs that are kind like you! Keep up the funny videos!

Absolutely fascinating!!! Thanks for this window into your life. Specially liked the middle of the night mood lighting-- nice touch!

Both of my parents have needed GI consults in the last few months, and I’m so thankful for the care they received. Sadly, my mom had metistatic cancer in her liver, and she took the lactolose as long as she could. She passed away last month. Then my dad had signs of internal bleeding, but it wasn’t found in his GI tract. He has since stabilized, and we hope his anemia will resolve. Doctors don’t always get the thanks and respect they deserve. Your care makes all the difference for the patient and the family.

Wow, so interesting! As a biomedical science student, I've thought one or twice about pursuing med after my degree, but this is one of the main reasons that pushes me to stay in the lab! I need so much sleep to function, no idea how you guys do it, big respect to all the nurses, docs and other healthcare professionals who work nights!!

When I worked the floor as an RN, I would get real annoyed with doctors because the patient was never d/c'd on time. Now that I am an NP, I will never say another bad thing about doctors. Thanks for the laugh!

Well done on your laymen's explanation of hepatic encephalopathy, the md's at my hospital at terrible at talking to patients like they aren't also doctors.

Thank you for what you do. My gastro saved my life and continually helps me survive. Life with severe UC is so much worse without a good GI!

RN here. This is why I couldn’t do med school. Four 12s is a lot but you guys never stop 😭

Loved the Video, this feels like my life as a family doctor who gives out her number , lots of after-hours calls, and a full day of work after. Keep up these great videos

Thanks for this. It was really interesting seeing “a night in the life”.

I'm a med student, this was really a good insight into how GI would be

Thank you for explaining lactulose!!! I had a pt today (social worker) and the nurses were saying he wouldn’t take his lactulose because he didn’t want to poop too much…but he was detoxing and VERY confused and lethargic. I had no idea what that med was for but now I do. I loved this style of video. Thanks so much!

I’m an EMT student and your channel is helping me get a picture of how care in and out of the hospital works. Thank you!

I love this... I wish more specialists would do this , I love hearing the dxs and plan of care

I wasn't sure if this was a funny video (like your usual ones) or a real one at first, but boy am I happy it was the latter. Really enjoyed this video Sir, please make more of these as and when you can, they're very inspiring!

Love listening to these little lectures 👍🏼

Mad respect. Thank you for what you do!

I follow you on TT and then found your channel here. What an entertaining & gifted teacher you are!

Love the fact you share the cases and your responses! More on call vids!

I really enjoy your funny quips amd also the informative ones like this. Thanks for sharing!!

Thank you so much for this insight of your routine! As a med student, I find this kinds of videos very fascinating! Glad you had a relatively chill on-call night

Thank you for this. I am about to start GI this July and it was awesome to see how a night call goes. Keep it up the awesome videos.

MORE LIKE THIS!!! Im in medical field too and i LOVE THIS STUFF!!💁🏼‍♀️

Thank you for letting us see a doctor's viewpoint. My wife has been in the hospital for 3 months. Coincidentally she is in liver failure so I am familiar with everything you were talking about. Your video helps put into proper perspective how dedicated doctor's are to their jobs. I can say with full confidence that our local University hospital saved her life and is continuing to so. In fact she just got out of her third heart catheterization checking for right-sided pulmonary hypertension. Thanks again for the video.

I'm a med student and your videos are really amazing and helpful for me. I really appreciate how you patiently describe every GI disease. Thank you🌻

I like this style of video for sure! Interesting to get a walk through of this role from your perspective

You are a very knowledgeable doctor and excellent communicator. Very impressive videos.

This will be my life next year, starting Peds GI fellowship.

I’m an RN, and I don’t work at a teaching hospital. Were a chicago suburban trauma center (loved to hear you help out small IL hospitals

Thank you for giving us your precious moments of sleep. A very generous and informative gift.

Pls do more! These are so interesting!

Hey Doc, I'm a fresh grad from med school, and I have been thinking about GI a bit, so the video really helped me get a glimpse of the life of a GI fellow, thank you so much, and please keep making awesome contents, and more quizzes with your wife, some of the terms are pretty new for me 😅

Watching this video while on call in Oncology during my break ☺️🤗 A forth year Medical oncology fellow here 🙋 enjoyed the video ✅ hope to see more of these in future.

As a nurse I loves seeing this insight! Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for this video! I am very interested in becoming a GI physician, and it was very neat to see what an call night is like for a GI fellow. Props to you for your hard work Doctor Schmidt, especially given that you don't have to make these videos.

This really enjoyable to watch I'm a US IMG gi fellowship has been always my dream. Thank you for making this video

Love your presentations. I often forward them to my 1st yr. med student grandson.

God bless you for the work you do

I loved this!!! I’m trying to get into nursing school and I’m super interested in being involved with transplants when I’m an RN. I loved hearing about your day on call. Please keep doing these!?

I love this format! Please keep it up! I love the comedy videos and this format too. I just need more content!!!!

Awesome video. 10 minutes of high quality learning experience here.

This is so epic! I want to be a GI doctor when I grow up as well. This is so awesome!

From all the on call videos I've seen this is a really good one, enjoyed it.

This was a great video, thank you Doctor Schmit!

Great format!! I love the periodic updates through the night. And i have more respect for Fellows like you… on call for the night and then 7 to 5 the next day!!!! Exhausting 😰😰hi tyrone

Two thumbs up on this one! Very interesting!

I used to be an on-call hospice nurse. I hated the stress of not knowing what my night would be like or whose house I would have to visit. Some of the neighborhoods were dicey. It was a great job but I don’t miss being on call. Thankfully my pager-PTSD is gone!

I really liked this video! Fascinating!

Hey DOC it woudl be great to see more videos like this!

Both fun & informative! Sharing your channel with all my partners in crime !

Good to see what you have to deal with on a daily basis.

Tyrone is precious, as a reptile lover myself glad to see a little cameo of him

Dr..... We respect you

I love these videos!!

Thank you! I have a leopard gecko, Fiest. Tyrone is lovely. Old RN here. It is nice to keep my fingers in medicine even if from a distance.

Love this type of vid, fascinating

I love this video as a Rn .please keep it up

My daughter is a Charge Nurse and i send her all your videos , she says your so funny and its all true!

I didn’t realize that GI was in charge of the liver. I love your channel, thank you!

You and my GI doctor would make the best videos ever. AND THE A Team GI docs.

I go oncall…but I am an engineer. I just come here cuz I frigging LOVE your house MD video. Having to see a doctor is always scary, so I have so much appreciation for doctors who dare to show their sense of humor! Kudos to you :)

Very interesting day in the life. Thank you for sharing and get some sleep.

Very interesting!! Thx for making this vid!! 👏👏👏

I have to spill. I’m a chiropractor, I work for a hospital. I inturned in a hospital… twice… at the same time. It might be a grass is greener take, but I’m so damn jealous of what you get to do. I deal with back pain which operates in a grey area most of the time. It’s mostly clinical diagnosis and the occasional MRI to show disc herniations etc. We actually learned every system and how to care for it in school, the blood work and all. Since I don’t see those things, I have lost much of that knowledge. When I see these videos it really reminds me of how much I love diagnostics and the body. I always want to go back to med school, but the debt…. Lastly I’m never on call so I have, what I assume is, a good work life balance. Though I love medicine, my wife probably wouldn’t like me going back to learn more of it…. Keep these videos up man, you make me want to go back and learn more.

Notice how his excited speech slowed significantly when he was awaken in the night.

Good for people to understand what is going on behind the scene.

Holy cow I thought being an on-call clinical social worker in psych was bad. I typically get either no calls or only a few. I’ll never complain about the very few calls I get on my on-call weekends ever again!

Awesome thanks for the info. ❤️

When i was doing my internship in GI department, the consultant GI doctor beat the hell out of me with the questions. I was numb the whole week with him. Love, doctor from KASHMIR.

It was fun to meet your cresty, Tyrone! He did look confused😂

I love your videos ! very nicr

In hospital I worked before, GI Fellow on call would be called only if there is a need for urgent endoscopy (say unstable GI Bleed). Whenever we call them, it's usually quite a mess already, therefore they will stay overnight at hospital with us fellow residents. And also since the duty is quite heavy, they split duty with GI Surgery team. For pancreatitis/ SBP/ acute liver failure, it's all on the on-call residents, very exicting on site call everytime!

This is the best on call video I’ve seen! So informative and interesting. I’m not a med student or doctor but now I’m motivated to be able to get to this level of being a fellow 😂

Thank you for sharing

You have tbe patience of Job👏

More Tyrone, please!!!

Wow.. I've been binge watching his videos and am quite surprised to find out how much workload they have to deal with. All those hospital dramas do not do a justice! But then again, if it was too real, there will be nothing but docs calling each other and never 'get it on.'

God Bless you, I felt for you the entire time.... It is so helpful and eye opening to see behind the scenes. Kudos to you! Question: what time of self-care do you use or relaxation techniques do you use to keep going? Thank you for your feedback. Now, I have to subscribe to you channel =)

Your a beast remember to take care of yourself.

very informative!

I loved this videos, would really like to see more if possible

Very interesting. I struggle with the wake and sleep and repeat during 1 night rest. You seem to handle yourself well.

Lord, when I was an internal medicine resident 40+ years ago, lactulose was still used for cirrhosis patients. My cousin's cat was on it for his bowel problems! That must be one of the oldest meds in use!

More content like this plzzz

Omg he is so good

You have a Cresty?! What a lad!!

Your gecko is cute 🥰

Man. I’m blessed to say after 2 years of trying to get a GI Fellowship I got accepted for the new academic year. I’m super nervous about starting. If you got any advice I’d really appreciate!

I came here after watching your comedy videos. Kinda confusing to see you being serious 😉 (community hospitalist here). Keep up the good work.

Well done sir! Give my best to Tyrone! (How old is he? They can live up to 30 years!😃)

Love from India !🇮🇳❤️

Been working in the GI department in a multi speciality hospital in india for over 3 years now. Although I didn't like the subject much at the beginning.... I got fascinated by it after 3-4 mths.... And the best part is I don't need to do night shifts as most emergency patients can be admitted, stabilised and then we can have a look!

This is such a cool perspective to have, thank you for sharing! Do you ever work with any PAs in GI? I’m starting PA school in a couple of months and am potentially interested in the specialty!

Longer than your last 10 videos combined =P