I’d love to hear what the cardiologist and the nephrologist have to say about his coffee consumption. They’d still fight each other of course but they might actually find themselves on common ground for once
Excellent content as always! I’d also add “I spend 5 minutes staring at the cork board with hundreds of thank you cards from mothers that I gave an epidural to”
Omigod, yes!! I always wanted to send my anesthesiologists flowers for their fabulous epidural work. But they always disappear before you can write down their names! They are real life superheroes!
My anesthesiologist during my labor was a bit incredulous when I told him only one half of my body was numb and I could perfectly feel everything on the other side. He didn't make a stink of it thankfully and fixed the issue, probably because he knows not to mess with a person going through childbirth.
As an anaesthesiologist getting ready for work right now (it is 5.50 am in my timezone) I can confirm that this is almost exactly how my work starts. Except the coffee funnel, my wife is in family medicine and would never get up this early....
Even thought surgeons may think of themselves closet to god amongst all the physicians, it is the anesthesiologist who has the final say for patient safety. You rock.
"God may have created Heaven, but He only sees whom St. Gabriel lets through." (Not religious, but your comment made the idea pop into my head and I just had to voice it.)
Yeah that's weird cuz when I was in school it was not like that. Everyone that I knew was a surgeon or going that route was doing it because they were endowed with surgeons hands which is basically just really excellent fine motor control. It was totally awesome working with them in lab because I would do all of the brain work and they would do all of the physical work on dissections, lol. For The fetal pig dissection we got called out as having done the best fetal dissection our professor had ever seen by splitting up the workload based on our individual skills. For context our professor had been running this lab for over 20 years, but also it was undergrad and in our specific class we were the only ones to have zero degradation and 100% perfect cuts labeling identification and observations. I got bonus points for catching the fact that our fetal pig wasn't fetal because it had dirt in its hooves.
As of today, I just matched into anesthesiology... somewhere!!! I'll find out on Friday. Can't wait to get my Junior MD Sudoku book for Board Prep and my first peritoneal coffee dialysis 🎉
When I was driving for Grubhub I delivered to an anesthesiologist who came out of the operating room to get his food, I asked him if he was in surgery and he said yeah, but the patient wouldn't miss him 😂😂
😂😂😂. I know I scared the crap out of my entire surgery team in November. Went from joking to emergency the second I went out. They spent 2 hours pumping my stomach and clearing my airway because I started throwing up. Woke up and that sweet anesthesiologist was right by my side to make sure I was ok ❤️
Hey Dr glaucomflecken! I'm a huge fan! I'm a medical student, currently on my neuro rotation. Can you please make a video called "neuro rounds" and make sure to refer to ophthalmologists as eye dentists (my attending actually did that the other day and it made me laugh)
I needed surgery about 3 years ago. I have a rare condition that could cause me to go into anaphylactic shock really easily. When I had a pre-op meeting with the anesthesiologist, he said "I've heard of your condition but I've never met anyone who has it." I'm glad that I could provide a teachable moment. They had to order special drugs for me. When I was in the operating room, the anesthesiologist held up a vial of a particular drug and said "We haven't used this drug in years!" I'm glad that they searched the back of the supply closet for me!. They kept a close eye on me during the surgery and all was well..no sign of anaphylaxis. Unfortunately, some people find out that they have the same condition as me when they have a reaction on the table during surgery.
Okay Dr. Glock I have an important question: scrubs tucked vs untucked. Pros and cons. I am a tucked kind of lad but many others seem to contempt such fashion.
@@SALTYCOMBATDIVER-ExInstructor 😀 I'm sorry... I didn't know... Nowdays technology prob changed to voice control the music. Where/when I worked, anesthesiologist had to b DJ. Fellows were scrubed in, couldn't touch anything.
@freethinkeralways the music controls are voice operated, they have always been voice operated. I haven't worked an OR that allowed us to have music service that is like Siri, we just use whomever is in the OR and at least in my ORs it's not the anesthesiologist...there's some things not even surgeons dare to do and that includes upsetting someone who has so much control on whether a surgery can happen or not.
Visualizing tasks is an incredible way to keep your mind sharp. When we go over things in our head to help us prepare for something, whether it be routine work tasks or planning how you’d escape a dangerous situation on the interstate, helps create new neural pathways and keeps our mental reflexes sharp.
@@Madamchief from my experience that's not really an issue and the one time I do remember a young nurse missing my veins, at least in recent years, she was a pretty little thing, so that's a bonus to wake up to as well ;)
ill never forget my first yr working one of my anesthesiologists showed me their treasure.. a caffeine ampoule that had expired 10 yrs ago. didnt even know those existed til that moment. god bless
I somewhat recently had to bite my tongue really hard with my anesthesiologist. He asked if I was pregnant (nope) and then lectured me on the dangers of what he was giving me to an unborn child. …I don’t think he bothered to look and see that my surgery was a HYSTERECTOMY and removal of cancer from my small intestine. Somehow I think that would have been way more harmful had any divine being made me pregnant.
That's not a "bite your tongue" situation my dear peer, that is a "I see you didn't read my chart yet" moment. Gotta send them to go through your chart whenever you catch them! 😅
Get use to it, my poor spouse is regularly asked questions that the answer to them is clear if they could remember for five minutes they already had a hysterectomy. Good luck with the cancer diagnosis as well!
As an anesthesiologist I want to leave a snarky retort, but my phone scrolling thumb is too sore to type. I should add that to my sitting down exercises
It’s funny how anesthesiologists have this reputation of not having to do much and overall a super chill job, but they are also the person you need most in the most stressful emergent situations like an airway emergency or crashing patient in the OR. What a strange dichotomy to spend 99 % of the day bored and 1 % of the day bolused with adrenaline during those critical moments.
I've always thought it would be funny to have a sketch with an anaesthetist covering critical care bailing out a team and taking a patient to the unit, then going to theatre to anaesthetise a patient for that team and have the standard 'bed up' 'bed down' chat 😛
I paused the video at several frames to see what books you had on your bookshelf. Thank you for reading taking the time to read those specific books. You're a better hcp for it.
One encounter with anesthesia that I'll never forget is when I was eleven. Ended up taking a nap before they came in and I woke up then after my surgery. I have NO idea if I was even awake when they administered it to me. 10/10 experience.
I passed the test for Anesthesia and Intensive Care spec on saturday, in a week and a half I'm taking oral exam and that's it. Wish me luck, if I pass I'm totally incorporating these into my morning routine. Minus 5am coffee oral infusion - my wife would never wake up so early.
So true. One favorite anesthesiologist told a cardiac surgeon that he could follow himself and squeeze in a pacemaker if he didn't utter a single word. This was after he whined all morning. I thought his head would explode, ha ha! Good times, I miss it now that I am retired.
Interesting. Maybe I should become an Anesthesiologist. I work in IT, so I'm already sitting on my butt for most of the day, I'm very good at saying "No" and my coffee intake is pretty close already. I guess I can tone it down to 2 cups before leaving home.
I know several anaesthesiologists who dabble in IT stuff on a semi-professional level. But vice versa one cannot do anaesthesiology "semi professionally", it takes full commitment :)
I see Atomic Habits by James Clear on your shelf. Good choice! Sudoku makes a mentally challenging workout that you can set down immediately when needed, and pick up again right where you left off... :D
I love when anesthesiologists can see that I am really nervous going into surgery and so give me a med to calm me, before wheeling me back to the OR. 🥰
Not in Germany, most anesthesiologists rotate from the OR to the ICU and the Emergency Services (Anesthesiologists are deployed as emergency doctors in the rescue service and are alerted in the event of serious accidents and illnesses)
A psychiatrist will be more than happy to investigate the relationship between caffeine use disorder, stress and precieved alertness among medical doctors.
Don't forget getting the patient's one good vein in their arm, making sure every subsequent person who tries to put in a canular or get blood has a *time* of it (the anaesthetist always got to my one good vein every single time making it *fun* for everyone else post surgery to get needles in me)
Not surprisingly, I only remember one of the anasthesiolgists (sorry, that spelling ain’t happening 😂) who has worked on me. It is a positive memory, I was getting ECT, and even though you’re only out for 15 minutes tops, it’s still scary going under. After I started hyperventilating when she put the oxygen mask on me the first time, she remembered to wait a little longer for the rest of the treatments. It’s stressful enough as it is!
I chuckle when I watch these thinking about non#medical people who watch. Do they get it? I do and after working in hospitals for 35 years, I love them all doc! 😊
Anesthesiologists are wizards. Needed one to come tube an infant with a difficult airway. They showed up, put the tube in on first try and disappeared. No one saw them come besides RT and the attending.
I just had propofol (milk of amnesia) for a colonoscopy! My anesthesiologist told me "You're going to sleep now. When it feels warm count to 5." And I didn't do that at all! It was interesting. It hit the back of my hand and felt itchy in a warm kind of way. Then nothing for a split second then the warmth ran up my back into my shoulder blades. From the middle of my ribcage to my neck. Then it tickled the back of my neck from the inside. Then, I don't know how common this is but I had a 4-5 minute lucid dream and when it was time to wake up I knew it was time to wake up. I didn't know how much time was passing but I knew time was passing and that it was finished so I said it's probably time to wake up. And it was! I felt great and wasn't hungry afterwards. I wasn't emotional or confused like I was when I had my appendix taken out in 2005. It was like that weird ADD sleep where you get to keep worrying about everything even though you're asleep and know your body is recovering from the day. I swear the only time I make a to-do list is when I am asleep and know that I am only going to get 4-5 hours of sleep. I never do any of the things but it's pretty interesting.
