Day in the Life: Weekend Call with a GI Fellow 

I love this, insight into why as a patient there is so much waiting that happens. It is so easy when you are seriously sick to forget what an enormous heroic responsibility doctors have taken on and how much of themselves they are giving to help us get well.

I love the phrase “liver fellow” because it sounds like you’re just describing him as a “liver man”

We the World need you to go #VIRAL You are so real & humane! Never lose it please!

I'm not a nurse or a doctor, just a person who has had a colon resection, so I greatly appreciate you sir for everything you do for people. Be safe Dr. Schmidt!

I work as a chaplain at three different hospitals, including many on-call shifts. I hear these challenges of on-call work. Most of my overnight calls are for end-of-life needs or emergent crisis support. Thanks for sharing this, it is nice to see what it is like on the rest of the team.

You got me to subscribe with those short videos. They are so relatable and comical. Keep up the good work 👏🏼👍🤜🏼🤛🏼

As someone with IBD this is fascinating and explains some of my hospital experiences.

I love your shorts. I have been binge watching them since I found you

Dr. Schmidt, You got me hooked with your shorts and now I am binge watching all of your content. Keep up the good work.

I used to volunteer as a patient greeter for an outpatient endoscopy unit. I basically brought patients to change into gowns and send them to their beds. I'm a nursing student now but I appreciate the videos! I love seeing a different perspective and learning from a doctor

You explain things really well in layman terms - which I realised it's really important not only in patient education but also case presentations and actually - being able to do so well shows that your understanding is actually very strong. I'm learning so much as a PT 😊 Please consider doing educational videos on days where you're not feeling like doing meme-types (tho I enjoy those alot too as they're very accurate!!)

Oh the joys of call. Don't miss it one bit.😊😊😊😊

Finishing ophthalmology residency in a few weeks! Weekend call is definitely sphincter puckering! Why do people like to punch the face!! I’ve always been grateful for my medicine colleagues! You don’t get any appreciation; you’re work is simply expected.

I got worried at 6 minutes in when you said the word quiet! You should know better 😂😂

Hi Dr. Schmidt, I've seen your tictoks before but I did not know you were a GI Fellow. I'm really glad I found your channel because your GI content is fascinating and gives great insight into the GI specialty which I think is spare on RU-vid. I am currently a Nutritional Sciences PhD student and RDN with plans on attending Medical school in 2023. I hope to become a gastroenterologist. Love the content, looking forward to seeing more!

Glad to have found your channel Doc!

Love these kinds of videos! Great job doc

Love how informative these videos are.

high five, I am the endo nurse that is on call with the GI attending too this weekend. Fingers crossed

Thanks for this great peek into your weekend on call. I've been enjoying all your short videos, love the different facial expressions & the various wigs! I especially appreciate the humour mixed in with all the medical terminology as I am a retired RN & worked for a couple of years in an endoscopy unit. Only one of the GI doctors I worked with seemed to have any sense of humour - good to see you do. Best wishes from Sydney, Australia

Love your videos! My mother and I both work in hospitals, and we send your videos back and forth! I also appreciated the IBS video in 60 seconds; I JUST got diagnosed and am in the process of trying to adjust.

Doctors work so hard. Ty for what you do .❤

I am impressed with how many detailed and frequent comments you make on your on-call days for us.

I love your videos!! I just love watching doctors making medicine fun and informative at the same time being a 3rd year medical student myself❤ Its either OBGYN or GI for me!!! Just love them!! Glad you didnt get as many consults as you normally do this week!

I have a lot of stomach issuses and you have given me some good advice

I have a lot of respect for doctors being on call. I personally am interested in medicine but I could never do on call. Keep up the great work!

I love videos like these since I think they do a great job of reiterating to the public how difficult and involved being a doctor and the training involved is. I think we do a bad job of making that clear and most people don’t understand what the problem with doctor shortages is and feel we get paid too much. You’ve inspired me to make some ophthalmology content in the same vein as yours! (Although I may not hit the mark as well with the comedy bits)

Awesome Doc !!!

Didn't know you had a wife! It would be fun if you did a video with her like you did with your parents- asking different technical terms and stuff. Love the content!

I love your videos, especially the shorts!!

These videos are great!

Great work!!

I’m a Pain Management/Rehab doc on call right and over Memorial Day weekend. Thanks for the entertainment👍🏾💯.

Cool video, cheers from Colombia!

I absolutely loves how he calls everyone "fellow ". Fabulous!! 😂

This was fascinating to watch! I am enrolling in a PA program this year and am highly interested in working in this field. I grew up with 2 family members with IBD and this field has evolved so much to provide more effective solutions, and hopefully one day that will include a cure. I have so much respect for gastroenterologists and their dedication to this work!

Heck yeah SLU! Love your videos!

I LOVEEEE THESE!!!!! MORE OF THESE!!!!😃

Thank you. I love your RU-vid channel.

Imaging the door opens and Doc Schmidt is ur doctor 😭😭

My hat goes off to you!

For the algorithm cuz this is good stuff

Awesome! Please do more videos like this

Is must be fun to work with you lol. You're a celebrity now!!

Enjoyed the vlog. Subscribed!

Love the channel and I wish you a very successful career 👍🏼

Love the vids. Thanks

How often do you think a patient knows another doctor consulted on them? Only time I have ever heard about it previously was when my primary doc said “oh that’s weird, neuro asked for a consult on your MRI”.

love this content! more alien consults please :)

You are very brave even trying to go home lol.

This is real perfect

This is really interesting to see! I’ve actually been in the ER twice before and was told point blank “we won’t hear from the on call specialist until tomorrow”. They never reached out. Finally we got ahold of the department and all they did was refer me to a private specialist group (urology). It took about 3 years for me to get diagnosed. Who finally cracked the case? Not any general medicine, emergency medicine, or urologist. It was the pelvic floor physical therapists that they sent me to as a last resort :/

I just found this channel! Absolutely love it! I actually have a methadone question. I'm a bit worried about my liver, I don't have any issues now. But I'm currently on MAT. Will prolonged use of methadone destroy my liver?

That was interesting respect on-call workers.

I like these videos. The call system is so broken. I wonder if it will eventually be fixed.

I really enjoy these. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us. I am curious if you tell time by the sun? On Sunday evening you looked at the window to decide it was 7:38 ;)

Hi doc! So much respect from a medical student from italy💪🏾

I’m a GI nurse. GI docs are awesome.

How senior are you in the US when you’re a fellow? I’m an Orthopaedic Surgeon (equiv. of an attending) in Australia but when I was a fellow doing on call, I had done my specialist exams, and could have worked as a specialist at that point already if I didn’t want to do more specialist training. I had a team of registrars or what you’d call residents below me who would see the patients as they came in through the ER and I would only have to go in for urgent operations that were needed to be done.

Did you do med school at SLU or are you doing the fellowship through SLU (is that even a thing?). Andywho... SLU!

Dude, as someone who had an abcess rupture after a heart failure....u guys really don't get paid enough!

Do you always prescribe PERT for whipple patients? Why or why not?

👏🏻👏🏻

Commenting for YT to boost

SHIT! As an intern in 1982 (yes, 40+ years ago), my weekend call started Friday 5 pm and went until Monday 7 am. UGH!

Just wondering...some people only require 4 hours of sleep in general to function. Are you one of those people? Also, some people are great nappers by nature. In your field it might be an acquired skill but I was just wondering because if it is acquired in your case that would be great. You seem to be brimming with energy all the time which is also wonderful !!! 👍👍👍👍

Quick question ... How does your significant other deal with these crazy hours?

Hello Doctor, how are you doing?! I was accepted to do my master degree in gastroenterology!! I will be starting soon. What would you advise me before i start my first days?! Do you recommend and clinical skills that i should be aware of before getting in touch with patients? I apprecuate any videos links or any advice! Thank you.

Are you covering for the good fellow as well

Do you do octreotide routinely for variceal bleeding, esp. in a post code that isn't stable enough for a hair cut let alone a scope? Kind of seems variable per facility...

If there's a Bronze team, is there also a silver and gold team?

What is scoping? Is that putting a camera into the stomach?

I find it funny that that the bronze team is heptalogy.

Is a fellow the equivalent of our registrars in the U.K.?

Alot of sitting in this room typing notes. Yep, sounds like a HCW

Why would they have you work the position of 4-5 doctors, that sounds dangerous!?!

Interesting. Grueling schedule.

That lunch was packed with complex carbs and healthy fats.

Hi

Don't you have on call rooms

Are you in Canada?

Just wait until you are the attending and you can hire a PA or NP to take first call. After years of fellowship torture, it is soooooo nice!

Your slurring a bit at 3AM on Saturday morning. I do believe that our higher senses are significantly compromised during those hours. We are depending exclusively on highly tuned reflexes to respond to critical situations.

Doctor, what is your fellowship in?

These vids ARE…humorous…Dr Schmidt: YOU “put up with” a LOT (!!). 👍🏼👣🩴

"Better safe than sorry" on something thaf isnt real? Dude, sanity? Its a thing?

could've been worse :)

Not as funny as the other ones