Anesthesia Compilation Part 1 

It’s Compilation Thursday! Every week I’ll post a few of my favorite videos along with some behind the scenes Glaucomtrivia
00:00 - Anesthesia On/Off Switch
Most of my operating room themed videos come from real life experiences I’ve had in my career. As a 3rd year med student, I was assigned to do 6 weeks of vascular surgery (or hell, as I like to call it). At the end of a particularly long case involving suturing every blood vessel in the entire body, the surgical fellow was growing impatient with the speed in which the anesthesiologist was waking the patient up from a 7 hour case. The surgeon made a grave error he hopefully never made again. He asked, “what’s taking so long?” This prompted a particularly menacing drape glare from the anesthesiologist, who then replied “you know I don’t have an on/off switch back here.” We all laughed. 10 years later I turned this interaction it into a skit which is now my most popular video to date.
00:46 - Surgery Add On
I try my best to avoid tired medical joke cliches that everybody has heard a million times. However, some universal truths are unavoidable: Radiologists being dark adapted, slightly anti-social doctors, neurosurgeons never seeing their families, and anesthesiologists doing puzzles to pass the time in the OR. The only thing I regret from this video is the surgeon not asking for more add ons in exchange for the Dell Sudoku Spectacular, a puzzle book I found at my local gas station. He could have gotten much more, it was not a fair trade.
02:00 - Surgery and Anesthesiology go to Therapy
I love making therapy videos. The psychiatrist looks and sounds like a real therapist, but he is pretty terrible at his job. It’s what you’d expect from an ophthalmologist acting like a psychiatrist with zero psychiatric training. The charge nurse hat steals the show here. I found that hat at my local surgery center. There were about 30 different flower hats. I picked the most flowery. It contrasts well with the prickly demeanor of your average charge nurse. I try to work it into as many skits as possible. I feel most powerful when I pretend to be the charge nurse bossing myself around in a pretend operating room.
03:56 - Anesthesia Helps Out Emergency Medicine
This is part 2 of the emergency department turning doctors into different kinds of doctors. I am a big horror fan, so a fair number of my skits have horror undertones. My empty clinic at night sets the perfect stage for these. This skit idea came from an anesthesiology follower on twitter who posted about getting pulled into a trauma, then looking around and realizing the EM doctor who asked for help was nowhere to be found. The patient was now his. People in medicine have the best stories.