By popular demand I take my first look at Grey’s Anatomy! I can't believe it's 13 years old?! That's right I'm giving very up to date content on this channel :) I had a fun time talking about the medicine and sharing some similar experiences of mine that appeared in the episode. Hope you enjoy. Comment below if you remember where you were when you first watched this one...
I was a little hesitant to watch this video because I love Grey's Anatomy, and even I know there are quite a bit of mistakes in it, but you explains things so nicely without necessarily mocking them. That and you're cute to boot =D
I'm glad you've said this (not the cute bit the not mocking shows!). My thoughts are that firstly these shows are super important for getting people interested in medical professions and secondly so much work goes into creating a show like this and therefore should be evaluated in the context that they're set out to be a drama not to revise med schools exams off.
I have temporal lobe epilepsy; dimentia, hallucinations, seizures are all a part of my life. It was strangely calming hearing you talking about it. My diagnosis with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy was a disability that ultimately made me have to drop out of medical school. I grew up from a very young age with a passion for medicine, surgery, and have always had a specific fascination with the brain and smaller neural systems of the body. That's a lot of backstory for just explaining that I did not expect to find your review of Grey's Anatomy of all things to be so touching. Anyway thank you for your videos, they're fantastic.
Loved this! I watched Grey's ages ago and all of House. Lumbar punctures turn up so much in House! That cauliflower demonstration was fantastic and genius
Stone Roses I was just going to say that’s not really an insult as it just kinda pretty stupid & in my opinion seriously reaching.. so if that’s the worse they can say about him then I would feel pretty damn good about myself lol
I have it, and that's after one murdered best friend during an argument with his ex boyfriend, having to clean up your own friend's murder so his sister wouldn't have to see the blood or the crushed lampshades, it was so stressful, I have lost a lot of people to overdoses and suicides throughout the years, and I loved them and it hurt, but losing my favorite person in the world in such a violent and pointless way...I remember the phone call, the coroner, the questions, having to clean up, make sure the cats were taken out in carriers with me, organizing the memorial, paying for every little thing including arguing over the cost of a small vase they basically glue onto the stone monument where he's interred, and then sleeping for days after it was officially over, I don't think I spoke one word for a year. I made gestures, and wrote things down but my voice just didn't work, I was diagnosed with PTSD, and really there isn't much you can do to make it better other than helping other people as best you can. It's been two years and I can talk, but I prefer to type. I actually used RU-vid as a starting point to communicate with others, because they were strangers, who didn't know me.
I was told that's what I have for years, only recently I learned I have "complex PTSD". I have my social work diploma & +15 yrs experience (ptsd came first) & Im just learning the difference. Hang in there, fellow ptsd pals, & be good to yourselves- HUGS🤗
I swear you can run a paid show teaching medicine - paid like John Green has crash course you can have your own website teaching medicine ......that would be so cool
Cedra AlKarri season 3 I think is when they were second years and I think a few people(at least one) stayed. I may be thinking of the 3rd group(I’m pretty sure I am)
In America the number one job with the largest rate of suicide are physicians, and yet all those people died in various dramatic ways, and I just had a hard time accepting that, the statistical probability of all of those horrible things happening to a small group of very attractive doctors, and only one of them is of Asian descent, not one Indian guy? Not one impacted bowel? I just stopped watching when Sandra Oh wasn't on it as often as she used to be, I have a major crush on her.
Seizures are scary! The old daycare I worked in the other teacher went on break. I was left alone with 10 infants. Most were sleeping. One woke up and just didn’t look right at all. His lip was trembling he looked EXHAUSTED. I knew something wasn’t right so I kept a careful eye on him. Seconds later he was seizing. Happened multiple times with him and me together. Never scared me any less!
They should've called him "Mister Wade." For one, to kind of remove the Doctor role; and two, because you can wade in water when your trousers are too short.
Just saw you on Dr Mike. SO Im very late to your channel, but im certainly going to binge watch. You're very in depth and provide lots of education on the parts of the brain, your hospital dynamics and your experiences. Love it❣ I'm Canadian so its very interesting to see the similarities in your National Health Service and ours and the drastic differences too.
What about doing a UK medical show, Doc Martin. I enjoy watching it on netflix here in the US and have been wondering how acuratly it shows the british system
Saw Grey's and I have never clicked so fast!!! You're really good at explaining stuff! But in relation to a non keyhole position,this WAS back in 2005 so would really have been done? Oh god you just pulled out the cauliflower as I'm typing this! 😂 Definitely subscribing! Ps you might enjou scenes from the later seasons when the residents and attendings are doing insane research and innovative surgical techniques!
Thanks! Yeh from what I can find around 2005 was about the year that most became keyhole, so actually entirely possible that open is realistic for the time.
Please do a review of Chicago Med. I believe it has a good representation of ER docs (I don't work in the healthcare industry, yet) and hospital staff in general
You need to review the pigs episode of Greys, because I always wanted to know from a doctor's point of view if 1. Is it ethical? and 2. Is it realistic? I'll search it up and edit the comment with the season and number of episode in a bit. Edit: Season 5, episode 6, "Life During Wartime". Former army doctor giving trauma training on live pigs.
It's not ethical, but that is actually how medical training works in military school I don't know how it works for civilians, but one of my best friends was a military trama surgeon, and has told me that they had to save pigs that they shot. He was a vegan, and it was really tough for him. They'd keep the same pig alive for months, caring for it, saving it again and again, and then having to shoot it, stab it, blow stuff up beside it, etc. After about two months of doing this, he decided to take the poor mark, and mercy kill it.
@@_homewardbound_4149 That's absolutely horrific. Anyone who would torture an animal for months, especially an animal as intelligent as a pig, without being traumatized by it is a sociopath or was turned into one by the military.
Do ER! Please? My Uncle is a doctor and he says it was one of the more accurate medical dramas. Also, do Chicago Med. My sister could barely handle five minutes because it was so inaccurate
Your cauliflower demonstration was brilliant. Great work, keep it up! Also, it's called a *season* not a series basically everywhere but the UK lol I always get confused when people talk about series of Dr. Who or QI! I'm like, "you mean the season?! series would be the entire show's length."
I lowkey enjoy the first (only the first) season of Grey's Anatomy. If someone confronts me in the OR during anesthesia rotations about this I'll deny it to the death.
I'm not a medical professional, but I work at a dementia unit (Food handling and cleaning). It's really heartbreaking to see, and every day to hear someone begging you to take them home. It can be very rewarding though. Just remember that they are people, people with the same wants and needs as you. Much love from Canada. Your videos are both entertaining and educational.
I love your Cauliflower demonstration on SAH .😄😁 I am preparing for my postgraduate entrance exam and I have been binge watching Greys anatomy it's ma favourite and a kind of motivation 😁😍... mocking was not there so I really like your opinion on this show .. Thanks✌
I cannot watch that show, it hit way too close to my own life and how tiring it is to keep up the charade. I thought it was fairly accurate, although there's no way the boob grabbing doctor could've survived a residency, it's just too risky and begging for malpractice suits, although he did say that he was basically unemployable.
Interesting video, it's really cool that you linked the medicine in the show to real life, would be cool to see more although Greys only gets more ridiculous and out of touch in the later seasons lol. I've had a lumbar puncture..yeah...not fun :') What year in your training are you in btw?
I feel like I don’t see too many real doctors breaking down the medical mysteries in Grey’s so this was really cool to watch! I’m a huge Grey’s fan so I’d love to see you do more episodes. :)
Dr. Mike was too overcritical and it just became quite mean... A bit condescending maybe. This one also appreciated the storyline and was fair, it is also a drama show with plot and a story, not focused only on medecine lol
I thought so too..Dr.Mike was more focused on criticizing their medical accuracy and reactions without taking into consideration that it's a TV show that's supposed to generate views thus it must be dramatic to some point.most people overlooked his criticism because he's cute but his video was mostly unfair and bias,..not to say the show didn't have mistakes but come on it's a TV show😑
I like your reaction to Greys Anatomy's pilot episode than Doctor Mike's reaction. I learned something from this video, compared to his reaction video.
Loved this video!!! I want you to know that I will study medicine next year here in Argentina and these videos really inspire me!! You are great, keep doing this amazing content.
Absolutely loved this video!! You're such a great teacher, the way you described what was going on with the patient, I don't think I'll ever forget it. I'm a Grey's fan and was slyly waiting for this video lol. Also love your AF video too.
On a Swiss channel they once took a quick glance at scenes from various medical dramas. One of them was "Emergeny Room" and one medical professional commented a scene with "the right medicine at the right moment at the right dosage administered the right way". And I've read in some places that the medicine on the show is very realistic and that they had actual nurses play nurses on the show to make it more realistic. Maybe you could look at some scenes from more than just one episode of "Emergency Room". Please?
The first tonic-clonic seizure I saw was weird. The second, I failed to recognize my boyfriend was having one, or the partial seizures over more than a year that built up to that.. I still feel like shit about that. =|
Officially subscribed... Thank you for taking the time off of your busy schedule to do this for us. It might not mean much to some but it means a lot to most. Thank you.
Thank you! One of the reasons I left nursing was the fear and it was good to have that validated. I worked in L&D at a high risk pregnancy unit and was scared most of the time. When bad stuff happens it happens really fast and you don't want to lose baby or the mother. Everybody thinks L&D is such a happy place to work but so much can go wrong and when everybody is already geared up with a high risk mindset it is much less "fun." (I also spent several years caring for Alzheimer's patients and that was far less scary. You just had to be prepared to have the same conversations over and over for 8-12 hours. There also was the advantage that if you had a disagreement about something in 5 minutes it was ancient history and the patient who had resisted something, say bathing, could be approached differently and the bathing done with no problems!)
I like your reaction to Greys Anatomy's pilot episode than Doctor Mike's reaction. I learned something from this video, compared to his reaction video.
I loved Grey's Anatomy. Its good to know that it wasn't all a bunch of crap! Your video was brill - such interesting detail. I'm subscribing. Thank you!
On my first day as a pedia intern, I was assigned to one ward and since I'm from a 3rd world country i took care of atleast 30 kids (neonates included) my self. while taking my hourly vitals, i noticed one patient(newly diagnosed with leukemia). has increasing fever. i texted my resident and she replied ok just give meds. I just told the nurses to give the patient paracetamol. I was so nervous because i was so used to handling adult patients but not kids. this patient was about 6 years old with her father. hours later after my rounds i notice the patient's having oxygen desaturation. i texted my resident and she didn't believe me. i texted her again and again because i was panicking as it was my first day in pedia and all the nurses were shouting at me coz almost all the neonates needed their IV lines reinserted again. I wanted to cry but I cannot. I increased the little girls oxygen level but no changes. when i checked her heartbeat i heard nothing and I shouted CODE BLUEEEE!!! all the nurses were waiting for my commands but i cannot intubate my anxiety level was shooting up! i ran to the resident's lounge and i woke her up. SHE GOT SO MAD AND SAID ""YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD MEEEEEEE!!!" BITCH!! i told you so many times!!! after doing cprs, and intubation and all the likes. the patient died. and after the resident just laughed at me and said "it's normal" and i was like, so that's why she didn't even bother to come down. After that, i did everything in my power to save all the pedia patients assigned to me in every shift for a month. I studied a lot and asked advise from other residents.
When I saw the Grey's Anatomy episode about "pink mist" I immediately thought "huh... I wonder what a doctor would think of this" because even *I* know it's extremely unrealistic and I only have a minor fascination with medicine and the medical field and I only know what I've done research of my own on (mostly herbal medicine, and if you think herbalism is a quack understand that many modern medicines are still derived from plants today *cough cough* aspirin *cough cough*) rather than having any form of medical training. Would LOVE to see that on this channel.
I remember watching this pilot episode of Grey’s Anatomy again after finishing my intern year. It was probably 10 years after I first saw the episode but I ended up crying from relating to how lost Meredith felt on her first day, just like how I did. It’s funny how my opinion of these medical shows have changed from first seeing them as a teenager and now looking back at them 10 years later as a licensed doctor who can pinpoint everything wrong in the episodes. Lol
This was really interesting. I have been watching Grey's Anatomy since they started and I still love this show. I assumed they would have doctors who help them make it as real as possible, but it's cool to hear an actual doctor's opinion. The demonstration with the cauliflower was great. I totally understood it all. :) P.S. I just found out about the actually existing anatomy book a few weeks ago and it was one of those enlightening "Wow, I had no clue" moments. Haha...
Regarding 5:00 : having that many people on the helipad is a major violation. The helicopter crew would have been perfectly fine unloading the patient on their own, maybe with the help of one other person. There is no way in hell five "newbies" would be allowed at the helicopter.
I never understood how people could enjoy Grey's Anatomy. Every single last character in that show is a criminally bad person. Every one should, if they were real, be rotting in a prison cell. The show is little more than depicting what the medical field would be like if every single person was either morally bankrupt or outright sociopathic. In reality, making the decisions they do would kill people and wreak suffering. "Oh look, the surgeon has a tremor... but he's a good dude, we should just cover up for him" yeah, fuck the patients, who cares when he kills someone? At least he doesn't lose his job. Patient needs attending to? Nah, they'll be fine, go get laid in a closet. Drinking on the job? It's fine, they're hot. Throwing the intern in the deep end as a stunt? Why not? Just kill everybody, as long as the pretty doctors keep having affairs, the audience is entertained. In most shows if there's something medical that's not right, its usually safe to assume the writers just didn't know better or did it for dramatic effect or something, but as best I can tell any mistakes in Grey's Anatomy are actually showing that the character knows better but is just intentionally getting it wrong so they can hurt more people and get back to stomping puppies or whatever they do in their free time.
Rewatching this two years later, now I'm a nursing student. On my first clinical placement I was in a surgical ward. A patient on my preceptor's load who was in good health and about to be discharged suddenly started seizing, went into cardiac arrest, and had a MET call. Even though I had nothing to do with the MET code, it's frightening to see as a student, indeed!
I love watching your content. It's made medicine so much easier to understand. I'd love to see a video on Crohn's or IBD just because so many people have no idea what it is but so many people have it
My favourite episode was when they did a six way kidney transplant, tripped, dropped the kidney on the floor, froze, looked at each other, said "5 second rule!", picked it up off the floor and stuck it straight in the patient anyway.
Yeah I know this show has its flaws and literally don’t even care about the medical stuff. I just like to look at them and live through them. Unfortunately I gave up on grey’s due to shonda getting rid of every OG character except for Alex Meredith, Richard, and Bailey
Thank you for this great video. I was really looking forward to it because Grey´s is my favorite show and I had fun watching this reaction. It´s awesome that I always learn something new or understand certain medical terms better in the end of your videos. Also the show seems to be more accurate than I originally thought even if it´s more the little things. I would love to see you watching ER because to me (about to do my A-levels so no medical knockledge) it seems pretty accurate. (also sorry for possible mistakes I´m german)
I remember when my teacher had a seizure right in front of the whole class. we were playing Kahoot and then she's on the floor super stiff and shaking the thing is only two people reacted my friend got up to get someone and another kid called the cops most of us including me just looked at her it was so quiet. the assistant teacher was panicking to she was like "can you guys do something" and I got up and put her on her side it was so scary. I was with her for a minute and I didn't even notice everyone had left the classroom. my friend was kinda mad at the assistant expecting kids to know what to do.
I just noticed that Dr. Grey defribulated that seisure patient when someone else's hand was on the girl's shoulder. I'm surprised you didn't call that out as that's life threatening.
I would really love to hear your thoughts on the first episode of ER (1994-2009). The medicine is probably out dated, but the characters dynamic with each other and the hospital I think is interesting. Loving these videos :)
That was a beautiful and simply put way of describing dementia and their emotions. I’m not a doctor but I have interacted with individuals with dementia. Thank you for explaining that emotion of wanting to talk to their mom so beautifully.
Boo Radley Yes, I was touched by that too! My paternal grandmother (the wife and mother of doctors) has dementia, and it is heartbreaking. Especially to see my Dad, who throws himself into taking care of people and at least improving there lives if he can't fix their ailment, sitting there, not able to really do much at all, to not be known by his own mom, it's really disturbing and just endlessly sad. I hope, in time, we find better treatments so people don't have to do this. To have them so fully taken away from you, but still there is a very specific kind of pain. Dr. Hope's way of understanding the meaning underneath the words will help me handle this in the future.
My 18 month old nephew has quite a bit of seizures. He has Neurostorms which suck because a lot of the time the diazepam (7mg) doesn't work and he'll often have a storm for a day or two. He used to have Infantile Spasms, which to me are terrifying due to the damage to the brain that is happening through such a semi-subtle looking seizure. Anyway, I'm a new subscriber and I love what you are doing bro. I watched tons of your videos the other night. I love learning about medical subjects so thank you for doing what you're doing.
My Granddad has dementia, and he's had it for 15 years. And no, it wasn't early onset. We've just been VERY lucky (or unlucky, depending on your perspective). Conversation-wise, once of the worst periods was when his memory lasted about 5mins long. He was so eager to talk still, but he had 3, maybe 4 stories that he'd tell one after the other, again and again. It was really difficult to deal with, especially as someone who struggles in normal social situations. But like Dr Hope says, it's just one of those things you learn to deal with and find ways to get on with, because it's the only communication the person has left, and just because they're not mentally capable of normal conversation anymore, doesn't mean they don't need the connection or emotional support.
At the University of Pennsylvania, they used to have operating rooms with closed circuit TV. There'd be rooms specifically for watching surgeries on a completely different floor.
Lol @ 13:02 - at first I thought he said “blow me”.... It wasn’t until i rewound it to double check that I realized he was actually saying “blimey”.... Lol 😹 Lame!
