I can’t help but wonder why are we idolizing people like the Kardashians and Cardi B when we have women like these two ladies making a real difference.
The way this doctor views treatment for her patients as a “privilege” give me SO much hope. The doctors that legitimately care for their patients will always be the best doctors, no matter their level in expertise.
Roochi speaks to my soul when talking about why she gravitated towards oncology. That's why I LOVE being a chemotherapy infusion nurse! I love what I do, who I serve, and I LOVE being a part of their fight. Don't get me wrong, some weeks are SO hard, but its such a privilege. It truly is. Thanks for all your videos, Siobhan!
I just got accepted into med school, and listening to your videos makes me very excited about the great adventure I am going to live ! Thank you very much ! :)
This is so lovely to see! My mom was recently diagnosed with stage 1 endometrial cancer and had her full hysterectomy last week. The prognosis is looking super super super good and like this may be the only treatment she needs. Thank you SO much for the work you do as a doctor - I know families like mine appreciate it tremendously.
Hi, I am so sorry to hear that. I hope things are okay now. If you do not mind me asking, what type of surgeon did the hysterectomy? Best wishes to you!
I was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 32. The type of cancer I had, Ewing’s Sarcoma, is so rare that there is only one treatment protocol for first time patients. It’s also considered a pediatric cancer because it’s most commonly found in adolescence, so I was treated at a Children’s Hospital. I was so weirded out at first at the idea of being treated alongside kids, but the atmosphere and care was so much better than I have experienced in adult hospitals. We had huge rooms and huge windows on the 12th floor, and each nurse only had 2 patients at a time. I have met some incredibly inspiring kids! As heartbreaking as it is to watch kids battle cancer, they almost always have a better attitude than adults. Many of them them ride their IV poles done the hallway just like in the movies. Unfortunately, I was basically out of commission for 6 months during treatment because of the types of chemo that are used for Ewing’s. I know that many cancers require coming in for an infusion every 2-3 weeks, but I was inpatient for anywhere between 2-6 days at a time. Not to mention that a week after finishing a chemo cycle I almost always ended up back in the hospital due to high fevers and horrible bone pain. I am definitely fortunate though because I just hit my 5 year remission date! I discovered your channel tonight and I love it! I find medical stuff so interesting, especially after my cancer experience!
Congratulations I'm so glad you're cancer free I also have thyroid cancer and had my thyroid removed. I'm on my third round of RAI but I'm very hopeful I will be cancer free myself soon!!
@@kso4068 How do you do? RAI is when you swallow something radioactive, right? Been there, done that. I needed three rounds and three surgeries, but the cancer has not come back in 20 years. Do not give up!!! It's you second birthday when they tell you that you are cancer-free.
My mother has stage 4 metastasized breast cancer and she is doing amazing! Medicine is constantly evolving and providing more relief in terminal patients
As someone with a chronic illness I have seen so many horrendous doctors... but you seem to have such a lovely way and your positivity is amazing! Also love your HALT acronym. Congratulations on becoming a 2nd year resident!
I really love watching your videos and watching the life of people making changes in our world. The crazy thing is watching this video made me see the other side of my doctors help me with my cancer. When I was 3 1/2 I was diagnosed with ALL and defeated it when I was 7, I still did some treatment for 2 years more, and now I am 14 and 7 years cancer free.
🎉CONGRATS on 100k and on your second year as a medical resident!!🎉 Your channel has grown so fast but with great reason, youre just wonderful to watch!!💜 I can totally relate to washing your hands constantly and being afraid to touch public things. Since I became a mom I am constantly washing and disinfecting my hands and always carry a travel size purell with me.😊😅
Cancer has been such a huge part of my life, my grandpa died of prostate, my aunt had lung and my mom had breast. My aunt and mom are doing great, years being cancer free!
Great video- I'm fortunate to have a Great Hematology /Oncology doctor, and the best Oncology nurses!! The work they do, the care and love give, is beyond incredible !!! I've been a Hematology patient for over 5 1/2 years.. I've built a bond with my team, and other hematology /oncology patients that are in the trenches with me. So, thank you for all the love and care you give to the patients you take care of !! Xxoo ❤ ❤
Great video Siobhan! My aunt is exactly 1 year in remission this month from breast cancer. She was diagnosed 9 months before retirement from the police so it really sucked. Now she is going all out and really making the most of life & travelling after all the treatment. The other thing being sadly, 75% of my family have had cancer at some stage and none never make it to the 5 year cancer free, so make hay while the sun shines :(. It's definitely hard to feel like a ticking time bomb!!
This video made me very very sad. My uncle recently passed away from lung,Colon and liver cancer. He had it for awhile and he was just so miserable. 😭I LOVE this video so much and it made me realize how sweet you are. All I can say is God bless you! I hope you have many wonderful and happy years ahead of you!❤ I hope you keep doing these videos because I've learned so much!
I hope you and your colleagues keep fighting cancer, keep on learning and don’t get lost in the status quo and getting patients through procedures, through paperwork etc. Unfortunately we never had an experience where we connected with and felt supported by an oncologist
I think I write this for all (ok most) your videos but honestly thank you so much for taking the time to post these videos and for being such an amazing person. As a premed student, when I watch you, I feel like I'm shadowing you and gaining clinical experience through your videos while also getting some good laughs in. With limited shadowing opportunities in Canada for premeds, I can't thank you enough. I'm so happy that you've been able to get into your desired field! Best of luck in your second year of residency :)
You are an amazing inspiration! I am currently half way done with my doctorate of pharmacy and find how you handle your day to day work life in a hospital setting truly amazing! thank you for sharing your days here on RU-vid!
Congrats on making it to 2nd year! Thanks for all the info on medical residencies and your positivity is contagious💗Love and prayers for your journey!! As an OT, I have worked some in the past with breast cancer women. You are right, it can be sad at times but also very rewarding and you be one good friends with all of them. I wish you well deciding what you will end up doing 😀
Congrats Siobhan on becoming a 2nd yr resident!! 🎉🎊 I am currently a yr 3 medical student. I learn alot from your videos. This cancer vid is so informative as well. It really clears up some stereotypes about oncology. Keep up the good work and best wishes in all your future endeavours.
Congrats on 100k love! Can't wait to see what you'll be doing as a second year! (btw totally saw you at the hospital and didn't want to bother you at work!)
Thank you for doing this one. I'm currently just on monitoring with an oncologist but it is so nice to see how much they help people. As always your enthusiasm, humor and energy is contagious. Keep up the good work :)
Congrats on 100k! I'm glad you can get a bit of validation for all the hard work you put into the channel. :) I'm premed right now, and it's always inspiring to see your videos!
Would love to see a collab between you and TheStriveToFit! I currently work in a level 2 trauma center in the ED, and I see IM and ED physicians interact quite a lot, so I think it would be cool to see you guys discuss how you two may work with other people in similar fields, and maybe the difference between American and Canadian hospitals
My dad recently died of cancer, esophagus cancer that was spreading. I got told a week after my birthday on feb 9th (my birthday is feb 2nd) so I was like, okay he’s gonna get chemo and surgery, cause that was the plan. Well, on Easter/ April fools day I got the call from my uncle that my dad was dying and they said 3-6 months to live and he was put in hospice care, so I went down to see him and my family for two weeks from April 8th to April 23rd and by the time I came home from my trip, his health was declining to the point where he was too weak to talk. Sadly at 2am on thursday April 26th my dad passed away and it devastated me. It’s gonna be his birthday next month on the 12th then the month after is gonna be the one year anniversary of his death and both times are gonna be hard for me. So I am grateful for the cancer doctors that help patients fighting cancer and although many don’t survive, it gives them more hope to find a cure for cancer that will someday be a reality and we can save many more cancer victims from death
My father has stage 4 lung cancer and I can’t put into words how much it helps to have kind and helpful medical staff involved in his treatment. They can change my whole outlook on his treatment days to keep me positive for my father.
Hi, I just finished my high school coop with Trillium Health Partners this past January, and during my last month I worked in the outpatient cancer and palliative care clinic. Most common was melanoma, ovarian cancer, and lung cancer. I got to learn so much and as someone who never wanted to go near oncology it’s amazing when you see it from the doctors perspective as per the patients. Thank you for this video, a great reminder and refresher of past memories for myself! I love watching your videos and your an inspiration to me!
Amazing video! Congrats on 2nd year coming up. My wife works in immunohistology here in cleveland. She does the testing of the tissue and does the initial readings of all the tests those oncologists send in. She does more skin cancer tests hands down. It always bothers her a bit, knowing that every time she sends a positive result to the pathologists, that someone is about to get some unfortunate news in their life. It certainly wears on her mentally. You're an amazing individual Siobhan! Keep up the wonderful work.
Thanks so much for sharing - it sound like your wife is a really empathetic person! Her job is so so important... I wish she were able to hear about the stories where people did well because she identified the cancer!
My dad passed from Kidney cancer just over 2 years ago.. and then after that both my grandparents passed from cancer. We have had so many cancer deaths in our family in the past few years and it’s so tough. We were so grateful for all the oncology residents and nurses that assisted us at sunnybrook in Toronto.
I found it very interesting hearing the residents opinion on cancer treatments! Incredible that some treatments are relatively non-toxic. I don’t know much about adult cancers but I was diagnosed with a brain tumour at age 10. My chemo was one of the “lighter” ones but still made me so sick and have very low counts. Many of my friends from the cancer clinic at my hospital (SickKids Toronto) have had extremely toxic treatments as well, but I have had some friends on chemo that are able to go to school during treatment! Medicine has come a long way! Thanks for sharing Siobhan. I want to be an oncologist when I’m older. Loved this video! Congrats on finishing your first year!
Hi Jess - thank you so so much for sharing your story and your experience with the medical system. I'm so sorry to hear you had to go through cancer therapy at such a young age... but I'm guessing from your message that your treatment was successful, which is definitely a testament to medicine and your strength!! So happy you are part of this community ❤️
Congratulations on finishing your first year of residency, and on over 100,000 subscribers. I love watching your videos because they are so informative and you are always so upbeat. I love your dimples, and freckles. I also have freckles that become more noticeable in the summer. Thank you for taking the time to do these videos.
Hi Siobhan! I'm not sure how I found your videos, but I am so glad I did! You seem like such a nice, kind-hearted person. You've got the looks, the personality, the sophistication. You're an all around great individual who is going places in life. Keep up the great work!
Just watched this video. My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 non small cell adenocarcinoma in December of 2018 and passed February 16th 2019. I wish she had either of you two as her doctors. You both have beautiful souls.
Two very caring Doctors. Congrats on your 2nd year of residency. How time flies. I'm always showing my family members your videos and they also love watching you. I must tell you, I went to see my RA doctor and I asked him to watch your video and he did. He was impressed. Happy day.
Wow I found a 2 yr old video! I love your videos! Now I can go back and catch u from begining hopefully. U have been so excited evidently from the begining. U educate so well. Thank u
Thank you for taking time and making great and educational videos! I always make sure to watch them as soon as they are posted! Congrats on the 100,000 subscribers! :)
I was diagnosed with breast and endometrial cancer at age 32. A year and half later, I am happy to say I am cancer free! I was able to do hormonal therapy for endometrial cancer and had two lumpectomy surgeries and opted not to have radiation on my breast. I have no family history of cancer. I did genetic testing and no mutations were found. My doctors believed they were both estrogen driven by excess, unopposed estrogen due to PCOS. I’ve spent a lot of time advocating for endometrial cancer in pre-menopausal women. I helped found a Facebook support group in March of 2017 and we have over 700 young women with this disease. We often get overlooked but it’s so important! I think your personality would be perfect for Oncology. You have a calming presence about you and you’d really put people at ease. And you seem like a straight shooter - we certainly don’t need anything sugar coated. We need the facts! Thank you so much for what you and your colleagues do!
It's channels like yours when I wish I remember which video I started watching you and how many subscribers you had then. Seems like you got to 100k pretty fast!
We've all been touched by cancer in some way and it's great to see that the field has advanced so much, even in the last 5-10 years. Nice video, thanks for sharing.
Dude I’m a nursing student & im 100% with you on the washing hands thing! I never used to be like that, but now like you said, when I come home, I HAVE to wash my hands! I started actually carrying around hand sanitizer bc I will keep thinking about my hands being dirty until I wash them omgggg!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE your channel! I would have loved to work in the medical field, but I’m terribly afraid of blood and needles. I have a really hard time getting shots and I pass out whenever I have my blood drawn. I think watching your channel is helping me get over it a bit. I think your kind, honest, and open way of explaining and talking about the medical field makes it much less scary for me!
As a young person (20yo) who's been through cancer this year (stage IIIB Hodgkin's Lymphoma, diagnosed 4th January), this was super interesting - I got a new perspective on things. Thanks, Siobhan
Congratulations on 100k, you definitely earned it & deserve more! Can't wait to celebrate your next milestone! Thank you for educating and spreading positivity on this channel!
Great video as always! I loved getting to hear about another resident's perspective! It is really exciting to see how far they are coming in treating cancers. My aunt died when she was 40 years old from lung cancer. She was diagnosed in November and died January 7th, but that was almost 30 years ago now. If that had happened nowadays, she might have stood a fighting chance!
Congratulations on making it to your second year!!! You have such an inspiring work ethic that has honestly kicked my butt into gear a time or two! Haha! I'm so happy for you!!! Thank you for taking the time to make videos and keep us all updated :)
I am a cancer survivor. My Physician was/ is incredible. I have been cancer free almost 4 years. Cancer is a devastating disease and very scary, and patients need kind and caring Physicians. I am so thankful for the Doctor I had after the cancer diagnosis. I was so afraid. My Doctor was amazing and hugged me and told me I was going to do great and get well. So thankful for wonderful Physicians!
In Scotland where I’m from we have the Beatson west of Scotland cancer centre which I visit with my mum when she gets her chemotherapy and it is really good to see all of the different things that go on in different countries for cancer care
Your channel really inspires me and shows me what it’s really like being a doctor. Your videos have really helped me decide what career path to follow. Thank you so much. By the way I love your day in the life videos.
Hearing that your oncology clinic sees women in their 20s and 30s with breast cancer reminded me of my cousin. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in her early thirties, right after she got married. It was treated, she was in remission, and she and her husband had their first baby. Then when she was pregnant with her second child, the cancer came back (in spite of a double mastectomy she had the first time). They had to tailor their treatments in a way that wouldn’t harm the baby, and by the time she gave birth, the cancer had metastasized to a few places. She passed away a few months ago, still so young. It’s always hard losing anyone to cancer, but I’ve found losing a family member who was around my own age and was just beginning the next chapter of her life (marriage and kids) particularly difficult. When you think “breast cancer”, you don’t normally picture someone like my cousin. I was already passionate about prevention where possible (sunscreen, no smoking) and early detection through routine self-exams and regular appointments with your doctor, but now even more so.
My grandmother got cancer in the 1950's and she survived just fine, living until 2008. And your chances of surviving cancer have gotten a lot better since then.
I am a student nurse studying 2nd year in Australia, your videos are great contribution to my learning and it helps to broaden my knowledge in the medical field, not to mention that they are just purely fun to watch. You earned yourself one of the 100k subscribers. Side note: still contemplating whether i should pursue aesthetics nurse emergency nurse, it would be nice if you can share your insights on the specialists' nurse. Your POV matters
Do you think you could make a video that goes more in depth about being a violinist while still pursuing medicine? How do you balance it and do you recommend majoring in music before medical school or is it not a wise choice? Thanks
mmmm yeah that's a cool idea! I'll tell you it is tough balancing it when i'm on heavy rotations like ICU but on this oncology rotation it has been easier (not as much call). I can try to bring that into a video for sure! As for recommending majoring in music... I don't think it's a "strategy" but rather a reminder that you can follow something you are passionate about outside of science and still go to medical school - although it may take longer to do the pre-requisites. On the other hand, I do think it made me stand out during interviews and applications.. but there are lots of things you can do to separate yourself!! Follow your passion... #1 advice!
Always love your videos, but I especially appreciated this one! My dad passed away from bone cancer about 15 years ago and I never understood much about what the doctors were doing or why they were doing it so it's nice to have a bit of an inside look. Finally! 😉
You're amazing. What a woman. Tha k you for all you do. I live in the UK and cancer care is close to my heart. I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer when he was 54. And now... At the grand old age of 33 I'm about to start med school to give back 😬
I just binge watched all your videos and now I sometimes wake up at night and say "hey guys! I'm Siobhan. First year medical resident" but other than that I'm really enjoying this channel. I find it wildly interesting to watch your vlogs from hospital. Thank you for these! I of course subscribed and I now know everything can be fixed with a water pill ;).
The tips for taking care of yourself to better deal with death and tragedy were helpful, but it seems like it would be extra difficult to make time for that during residency. Do you have any tricks or tips you use to fit in those other things, or is it just making sure to carve time out?
Thank you for your post. I love learning about medical world, it's so interesting. I just had my second colonscopy last week and they found 5 polyps and everything came back clear. I am so thankful for it. I was in the in er twice in one both for different reasons. Lots of medical issues. I have also had 6 family members that have cancer, most have past away and only one is still living. My mom had leukemia, past away 15 years ago. My great uncle had lung cancer, my great aunt have ovarian cancer and few others in my family. My grandma is the only one living today and she is cancer free from breast cancer.
Hey siobhan! New subscriber here although I've watched alot of your videos....I just have to mention that I watch alot of doctor shows on RU-vid but I never subscribed to them. You however, I just love your personality and they way you speak. And how could u turn away those dimples you've got? Your just all around awesome so thanks for the great videos, but thanks even more for your awesome personality!
One thing doctors should not do is what happened to me. I have a pretty rare genetic disorder (NF-1) so it's not easy to find specialists. So I have had a mystery illness for about 9 months. My GP called and said she had found a specialist for me and they would call later. Later arrives and I answer to "This is Dr. So-and-so at OHSU oncology." That is not a call you want to get. No, I don't have cancer, but my disorder is closely linked with cancer, so this specialist is also an oncologist.
I love all of your videos! This one was especially hard for me to watch. My mom was just diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer about 3 weeks ago and started her first chemo treatment this past Tuesday!!
I just started watching your videos and I really enjoy them. You teach me a lot about terms and conditions I have never heard of myself. So thank you for educating me, because I firmly believe that in order to succeed in life, we have to keep learning. Like you I want to go into the medical field, but not as a doctor, instead as a dietician. Right I’m working on completely on my associate’s degree and then I will apply to universities for my bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietics. I believe that that good nutrition and physical health are the foundation to leading a healthy lifestyle and it’s going to be my job to education people on the subject. Again, I appreciate your videos and insights as a medical professional. Thank you for your dedication to the field and the ever changing (and sometimes confusing) research and practices. Some questions I have: As a student doing their medical residency, is there an area of the field that you like to specialize in or would you prefer to be more of a general doctor? In your opinion, would you say that dieticians are respected members of the medical field? (Because I heard that sometimes dieticians aren’t viewed as a valuable to the team when they offer their insight or experience)
I only just found this channel, started binch watching all of the vids. I have an irrational fear of hospitals yet I can't stop watching. They're so entertaining and informative. Keep up the good work
You totally lost my attention when you failed to eat the food!! I laugh hardly more than a minute!! omg sorry that's soooooo funny 😂 btw I love your long duration video.. keep it up!
