I am a patient that understands Bio, Chem, and much more than is good for me. I'll read them, & I better not see " patient complains of" instead of states, reports, says, fucking DEMONSTRATES". & for God's sake, listen to the pharmacist! They do save lives.
Arg, that is exactly how I feel every time I go to a doctor and have to tell the same story to every nurse, PA, and doctor who walks in the room. Just. Read. The. Notes.
my dad is a gastroenterologist and one time i was working for him in the hospital and he frequently got calls in his office asking him to "scope a patient" when it wasn't appointed beforehand and no kidding he always said : " yeah i'll do it in the morning." this is spot on.
Why? That's something I have wondered. Then I found out the gastroenterologist worked at three different hospitals plus private clinics, so that's why he scheduled the way he did. Your dad, too?
The don't let go of the wire joke for vascular surgery was so accurate it hurts. These are incredibly accurate. As an OR RN, the gravitational pull from the surgeons is strong.
@@blablup1214 During vascular sx, surgeons use a wire to gain access to where they want to place a stent or whatnot sort of like in urology with their stents. If the scrub loses/pulls out the wire by accident, surgeon loses access and you get so much shade from the whole room you’ll probably have to leave lol. You don’t lose or move the wire!
The pharmacists are my favourite. "You hear that sound every time a doctor does a med rec incorrectly" HAHAHHA... You saved my day, Dr. Glaucomflecken.
My favourite one by far is the physical therapy skit. As a current 3rd year OT student, one thing is for sure, we always consult with physiotherapy and share consults. Plus its rare that anybody posts an OT skit too 😄, so I appreciate it a little more.
I would describe my body type as a biconcave disk is oddly the most relatable thing I've heard all day. Also my favorite cells are macrophages and platelets
I'm a Canadian psychiatrist, but I had a love affair with Anesthesia before I met Psychiatry. I did 2 clinical electives in Anesthesia, and no one naps on the floor, or at all, but everyone is nice and you get to sit down all the time, which is heaven compared to e.g. Internal Med. It's so true that you can read, or do whatever. The saying goes, it's like being a pilot: the dangerous parts are the takeoff and the landing, and it's autopilot in between. I remember feeling such a sense of peace sitting behind that half curtain that separates us from surgery. There's only you and the anesthesia machine and maybe a respiratory tech. Sigh. But Psychiatry is better: we have a lunch hour.
As a medical geneticist, give me clinical genetics. I'll treat him right, and give him a support geneticists. We understand. We may not be doctors, but we biomeds will support them. They deserve our love and respect.
As someone who found out I have a genetic disease in adulthood & am now fascinated by all things concerning our human programming, I feel so bad for Clinical Genetics. Maybe it isn't always the most practical knowledge for the day-to-day, but it's so cool how our cells work [or in some cases don't work, lolol]!
My genetics were provided hi my breast cancer surgeon at MD anderson, jacksonville. I would like to thank her, and the geneticists that did the research on my blood, dna, and donated breast material. thanks to their vast experience and knowledge, I now know that I am not genetically predisposed to breast cancer; but, stomach cancer, and we'll see them and then they're Glad Tidings when my acid reflux, gerd, hiatal hernia turn into something far more serious than I can handle, and we'll need their emotional support when the stomach cancer finally hits. Thank you to all the geneticists, and they're great efforts on all cancer victims behalf.
I used to work as a research assistant with rheumatologists and they always told the students: NEVER order an ANA unless you know what you're going to do with the results. I love these!
Is part of the joke that ANA will often show a positive result (even when a patient does not have an autoimmune disorder) so you end up with more questions than answers?
@@zaku2939 Exactly. Beyond useless test for 99% of the reasons people think they have for ordering it. The worst is ordering it for "routine" outpatient settings. Lmao. Poor rheumatologists. Thankfully I only intubate people and jab them with pointy things
@@NoNameAtAll2 Because if it is negative it pretty much rules out a lot of autoimmune disorders. E.g. 98% of people with SLE (lupus) have abnormal ANA, so a negative ANA means lupus is very unlikely, but a positive ANA doesn't nessasarily mean it is SLE.
We once had a patient who kept developing haematuria every time he was approaching D/C. Finally 1 of the night nurses caught him sticking a pen up it. Now that's dedication. "I gotta go write some notes that no-one's ever gonna read" - said every nurse EVER
“You can always scope them in the morning.” I sweat to you this is true. Every morning like clockwork, starting at 530, we’d bring in all the inpatient Endoscopy patients. While also having to handle all the in patient critical care CTs. I swear Gastro and CC had a like a weird fetish about not doing anything until 530 AM.
I get that it's easier to let people do most of their fasting hours while asleep, but if a patient hasn't even been eating due to their condition & you still insist on the AM, like... It HAS TO BE a fetish at that point. 😅
I almost bled out because gastro wouldn't scope me in the hospital until the next day even though I hadn't eaten for days and it was only 9am. They had to call a rapid response team for me that night and I woke up in ICU getting blood transfusions with my colon missing and a colostomy bag. Good times.
Lolololol dietitian here and loved the section of med students talking about the metabolic pathways being useless 🤣🤣🤣 also loved the dietitian clip too
I have no idea how I'm going to convey the level of love I have for these videos. I'm hoping to get back in the medicine game once I get my own chronic illnesses under control. I'm literally living vicariously through these skits. Thank you so much for all you do xxx
I am not into medicine at all but for some reason these skits are still really fun. I think it's because the "worldbuilding" of this is really good. Because medicine is so complicated the jokes can get really specific.
@@TheLocomono9 I'm going to have to start from post secondary education. There are several routes depending on where I want to go and how. I can do at home learning to complete my A levels either by combining and doing them all then sitting the exams or spreading each out and focusing on each course. I could do that alone or alongside an access to nursing degree. The big aspiration I have is to be able to access a medicine course to one day become a fully fledged doctor but until I find a pathway into that I'm hoping to carry on with a nursing degree to get dug in to applied medicine and it wouldn't hurt for when/if I find an access route onto becoming a doctor. There were whispers that the U.K may start implementing courses for nurses to do further degrees to become doctors after 5 years of continued applied practice. It's a longer road and a lot of work but there are so many routes that I could take venturing off to other degrees such as pharmacology, medical science, pathology and the like. Xxx
Your videos crack me and my husband up every time. He’s a cardiothoracic surgeon, so I really liked your take on that:) Any video you make, I’m there for.
@@jakebak3008 probably the fact that you routinely have to cut someones ribcage with a saw then open it up and mess with peoples hearts. I cant imagine the stress and gross factor involved. Traumatic shit.
@@cirquedumushroom Nope. They "just" have an absolutely insane workload with extremely ill patients (coronary bypass grafts are usually the easier cases, for example), a soul crushing routine of endless surgeries, clinic and post op care, surgeries that have frequent and deadly complications (compared to other specialties). They also have an ego the size of Jupiter to match. Also it's extremely difficult for many to be the main surgeon of their team - I routinely see teams where one the surgeons is 50+ years old and still only first assistant and working like a first year resident. They are also pretty much on call 24/7 because they're small teams with complicated postops that may require reintervention at a moment's notice. I'm an anesthesiologist and yeah, from what I see of their lives (especially during residency) "WELCOME TO HELL" is pretty damn spot on.
Yay!! Thanks for including the dietitian! As a renal dietitian now & previously clinical RDN at a hospital, I could relate to so much! Correcting TPNs, but mostly trying to avoid TPN with a functioning gut, working with pharmacy to alert them that wrong order was sent! And oh the mismanagement of insulin I see, over use lasix, correcting metabolic acidosis & electrolyte imbalances… all while trying to counsel (misguided) patients about the most obnoxious fad diets/supplements they are on… not to mention constantly telling patients we don’t carry food around with us & to call food service instead 🤪. The most under-recognized profession, but we do love what we do for sure 🙌🏼 And YES! We all take deep sighs of frustration every time we are asked about documentaries & / or about Dr. Oz! 🤣 All of these are ON POINT!!
My dad was hospice director in our county for over 20 years...and yes he did have a weekly choir called the Hopeful Spirit Chorale that would visit palliative patient in their homes and sing hymns!!! It was very cathartic.
This is why I'm glad I'm a dentist. I love your videos. My dad had a 50 year career in medicine as a general surgeon and in family practice. My god the stories he probably had. He didn't tell me a single one. Probably dead inside. Anyways keep up the videos!
As a medical coder and NOT a doctor, nurse, or clinician of any type, I still think most of these are hilarious. And when I show them to my friends who don't know anything about healthcare, they wonder wtf is wrong with me.
I have met every one of these characters in my 19 years in education (4 hellish years in Gen Ed, and 15 years in Spec Ed). Oh, they go by different names, but they’re the same characters.
I don't work in Healthcare but still find them highly entertaining (even though some terminology goes over my head)! I especially love how Dr. G is bringing important topics to light too.
This brought back a lot of memories! I graduated in '85, and am still writing detailed notes that almost no one will read - but I do! So many of these were very relatable, but I can happily report that I worked with a very wonderful vascular surgery preceptor when I was a student - I learned an awful lot from him, and appreciated very much that I wasn't assigned to the other attending who fit the stereotype you presented.
Don't put yourself down like that. I'm sure for a few of your patients those notes will end up being useful to another doctor. I know that the ones written by my old PCP (internal medicine doctor) have been very appreciated by my new PCP (also internal medicine) since they made going through my long medical record a lot easier. I'm only 24 and my medical record is already longer than most people in their 50s or later AND we have still yet to figure everything out so there is a ton of tests from all different specialties in there.
I'm in a similar position to the person above. For what it's worth, *I* read whatever notes I'm allowed to, and I do my best to accurately pass relevant data on to appropriate individuals throughout my team of treating professionals. You are appreciated.
I've watched this about ten times and it never gets old. Today, for the first time however, I spotted the comment, "Just so you know, the med student honored all of his rotations" and I laughed so loudly, I startled the dog. Ahh yesss...the all-important, coveted, "Honors." Even the comment is perfect satire. Truly inspired.
I love all of your vids but my faves are the ones with neurology. That FACE when he steps out of the room into the hall, those glasses, that hair, like seeing an endangered animal in the wild, then it catches your scent and darts away before you can give chase XD
Pediatrician here. I'd lie if I say I don't have any little stuffed toys attached to my mini, toy-sized-stethoscope, and/or any cartoonish drawings in my scrub =b
The love for occupational therapy is real! Admittedly, I am a nurse and only learnt of OT in my second year of school. Had I known before I applied I know where I would have ended up for sure!
I do not know if I got lucky or not but my neurosurgery elective was incredible, the chief was so laid back and chill (he was f’’’ing brilliant) but it set the tone for all the lower rank residents. Almost went into neurology (father was DEPT Chair different Medical School) but this was forty years ago and I didn’t like that after the hunt for the correct diagnosis you end up saying you have X but there is nothing I can do for you.
Are you sure you didn't go into neurology? I could swear that you have treated me in the past. And now, 30 years later, you're treating my daughter, except you haven't found her x yet.
Yes the bane of neurology, and neurosurgery. Older neurologists used to follow up with stroke patients for years. Now by discharge you are a former neuro patient don't call us!
I'm a nurse and you are hilarious. The different doctors I've worked with are spot on, good job! I'll be sending this to my friend who just started her own practice. Stay safe!
"you can always scope in the morning." I literally just got out of the hospital this afternoon, as a GI patient. Had a bleed. Guess when they scoped? Yup. In the morning lol. Gawd, that was such a true bit.
Don't be intimidated by anyone. When you run into an asshole keep smiling and yessiring. Keep calm and carry on. Keep studying hard. Never allow others to see what you actually think of them. play the game. 10 years from now you'll be in the driver's seat.
@@Shattered-Realm judging by his videos....it seems like there are a lot of assholes in med-school ....... do people really feel that irritated by asking questions?
@@memoranda1 not that many. Most people are supportive but the 5-10% that aren't will tend to ruin your day. And you have to be nice to them otherwise it's a domino effect. All the assholes friends will hate you as well and you will be miserable. Questions aren't really welcome once you actually finish medical school. In med school you have teachers and discuss patients, cases ect. But once you actually start working nobody has time to explain anything to you. It's on the job training and you're expected to be up to date with current guidelines for anything you're treating in a particular ward. It's nothing to due with irratation but 100% to do with time pressure. Nobody is going to spoonfeed you that information you just have memorize it, despite working 80+ hours a week. Even if your consultant and senior medical staff are nice and want to teach you they will not have time and neither will you. It's just a sad fact of life. Occasional questions are tolerated but if you have numerous questions all the time you will just be shut down.
I am not in the medical field at all, but I have family who is and I've been to hospitals enough to recognize some of these "personalities". I have been LMAO for 12 minutes thanks to you and I truly appreciate it. OMG, the Dr. Oz thing is SOOOO relevant right now!!! I could watch these all day! Sigh.
I shadowed a bypass surgery as a high school student and the surgeon said literally the same thing. And as someone with a background in immunology I felt the clinical genetics stereotype in my core!
urology one had me screaming with laughter as someone with a suprapubic catheter- they search the department and its always the least qualified person who can get a catheter in no troubles
I’m convinced it’s because they’re less in their heads about it. The more you know the more you know how badly you can fuck up. Case in point: I almost didn’t post this cause I was in my head about it
This is hysterical! I am a retired RN & I've seen many situations very close to these and/or I've experienced some that had some similarities. Great job! 👏👊💥💫🤸♀️
That pharmacy skit felt more like nursing... the number of times I've had to be like "hey doc I don't think you meant to order this" and they're like "this voice mailbox is full"
I’m a high school drop out and don’t understand a lick of any of the terminology but the tone, the tone is gold, priceless and what pulls it all together
My bf is a neurosurgeon he asked me if i was interested in becoming a med student. In the first week that we were talking, very confident i said yeah im interested in anesthesia. I cant imagine what went thru his mind that he told me well you could be a certified nurse too 🤣🤣
@@eagillum The biochemical reactions that the medical students complain are clinically pointless are what is broken in genetic metabolic disorders. So geneticists use knowledge of those reactions to treat many of their patients, hence his sadness when the med students don't share his appreciation of them.
Wow, this compilation was undeniably absolutely entertaining; in every aspect of the video. You’re an amazing actor, and not to mention; an incredible singer. You’re also seem like a top-notch doctor; above all else. ✌️
I absolutely cannot begin to tell you how much I love your videos!! Absolutely stellar content!! And even great awesome acting!! I said acting with air quotes!!. Rotations sucks! Please keep up the awesome job thank you so much for sharing this with everyone I can’t wait to see more!!.
Chances are you can tell the patient is having an upper GI bleed or a lower GI bleed or both right away. A CT angiogram can be a life saver in finding and embolizing the bleeding.
So…we as the PT/OT team might need to educate you (along with most other docs in our hospital) as what it is we do! But seriously, these are all so good and so many nuggets of truth! 🤣
Does anybody anywhere get actual, hardcopy, paper journals any more? Oh, here's a good one, does anybody remember asking authors to send them a reprint? Ohhhh, remember the excitement, that particular smell, when the journal sent you your reprints? And you'd open the big envelope, and out would waft the smell of science, and for just that moment you'd feel like you had achieved something... ahem. As a post grad, my alma mater's health sciences library received journals by surface mail - getting to Down Under from Up There, it could take months for an issue to come in. BUT the esteemed research institution juuuuust across the road got their by air mail. To us, that was practically real time! So, you could try to sneak across the road and into their library - but they had killer-attack combat librarians whose job it was to keep the university hoi polloi out of their library. It could be a constant battle of wits. The best approach was to befriend someone who was a student there, or try to follow someone in after a seminar - supervisors who practically had to drag their students out of the labs to go to seminars could never figure out why we were always so eager to attend the ones at WEHI... crap, I feel even older now.
Im pretty young so i havent experienced actual hard copies of journal issues yet 😅 i would love to though! But open access science is hard to come across these days... One perk of digital journal issues is the shorter delivery time. another perk is that you can *creatively acquire* a pdf of a research article online when theres a paywall. or instead of asking the authors for a reprint, you can ask them for a pdf! they dont get paid much, or at all, for publishing in journals, so asking them for a pdf usually works
