Sleep deprivation is a huge one for me. Absolutely shocking how much my colleagues going through surgical residencies have to work. Its exploitative and detrimental to their health.
I dont even understand it. Why would anyone want their surgeon to be sleep deprived and operate on them? I want my surgeon to be healthy and perform optimal. Sometimes I question why I always dream to become a surgeon
@@lalanto341 because the biggest copium huffing that happens in medicine is the lie that more hours directly = better doctors Because to admit the opposite would be to force a person to acknowledge that they were hazed and exploited by an archaic system designed around a stimulant addict, that the suffering they had to endure may not have been productive. And admitting that is very hard to do
It probably has to do with the whole belief of especially older doctors that, "I suffered, so these youngins should to. Because that's what it takes to be a GREAT surgeon!" When really, all they're doing romanticizing the kind of trauma and abuse that, more people outside of medicine knew about, would be shocked.
Can you do a video on “Five emerging medical specialties you’ve never heard of - until now” by the AAMC? Includes cancer immunologist, nocturnist, lifestyle medicine, clinical informatics, and medical virtualist.
I dont even understand it. Why would anyone want their surgeon to be sleep deprived and operate on them? I want my surgeon to be healthy and perform optimal. Sometimes I question why I always dream to become a surgeon
The modern system for residency was based off of, and designed by, a cocaine addict that was able to work insane 120 hour work weeks since his addiction kept him awake with such little sleep. His name was William Stewart halsted
I think there were studies which didn't show any health issues connected to chronic exposure to sevo and N2O, but if you know of studies with different results, please link them, I would be interested as I worked in hospitals without a gas scavenging systems. I feel like most modern ORs should have a scavenging system so that the gases aren't released back into the OR so that the staff breathes them in in small doses. Also, I think I read that electrocautery devices when burning tissue release smoke which is comparable to cigarette smoke (and surgeons, OR nurses and anesthesiologists regularly breathe those in) and it was even found that cauterizing HPV lesions has the potential for you to breathe in the HPV virus.
Ah yes, the IV cardiology I scribed for always said his biggest fear was a glioblastoma. Scary. As much as I wanted to do IVC I am wanting to just stick with cardiology
@@killerwaspy1303 IV Cardiology would be Interventional Cardiologist, a cardiologist who did further fellowship training to do some image guided procedures like stents. The risk for glioblastoma being due to radiation coming from the imaging while they're doing their procedures.
I work in pathology and say it is overall a safe job except for forensic pathology-I have seen pathologist cut themselves during a autopsy and several of the bodies are “infectious” and needed to be done it a special room.
5:50 I know that today we build bunckers that mittigate the effect of exposure to radiation , even in the very long term . So , my question is : did our teachers lied when they told us that , if you choose diagnostic radiology , you don't need to be affraid of the exposure to radiations because today it's basically zero due to the new technology used in our equipment and in the construction of the bunckers ? I start now to be a little bit concerned ...
do you think you could do a video about becoming a doctor in a different country. i’m a us resident in undergraduate and i was wondering about the process of going to the uk to become a doctor
My mother has been a dentist for over 30 years now, she wishes she didn’t work standing up because now she has painful varicose veins and tendon impingement in her shoulder.
I guess this video doesn’t include dentists as they are not medical doctors, but let me say that dentists are at higher risk than 99% of the medical physicians , we basically work on the patient mouth with aerosol generating procedures, we also perform surgery procedures on daily basis, and we do ALOT of x-rays throughout the day ON the dental chair, this is besides the risk of developing back disks problems and nick pain .
You can make any of these arguments for just about any medical specialty as well. For example, Interventional Radiologists also perform surgical procedures on a daily basis using a fluoroscope that is constantly emitting ionizing radiation not just once for a few seconds, they're also utilizing the patient's vascular system to perform these procedures and are therefore opening themselves up to potential infection with bloodborne pathogens. EM doctors are also very often looking or working inside patient's mouths on things like dental abscesses, perform many procedures and are present for bedside X-rays for things like traumas, not only that but when things like COVID-19 come about those that are on the front lines of this infection are the EM doctors and other emergency Healthcare professionals. ENT and OMFS are always doing surgeries or other procedures in the head/neck areas. Pathologists literally just straight up handle different patient samples and microbes all day. Gastroenterologists work with the GI tract that is home to a host of opportunistic pathogens. All this to say, it's not a competition. Practicing medicine in any form comes with risks just like everything else in life. This video specifically is meant to help people make informed decisions about potential specialty options when they're finished with med school. Edit: Spelling
Oh man, don't even get me started on the crazy stuff I've seen in the ER regarding violent AMS/psych patients, and I'm only a scribe! It can be pretty dangerous, indeed. This doesn't deter me from wanting to possibly work with similar patient populations in the future once I become an RN, but people definitely need to see, preferably first hand, what they're getting into before choosing a nursing or medicine specialty with such risks. Otherwise, I fear more nurses and providers might get seriously hurt if not become even worse burnt-out, which we do not need any more of.
I do understand the sharp at risk but there's things that you can do to prevent that to happen to you like a bloodborne illness cuz we have gotten to that point where you can take prep. Which is a medication to prevent getting HIV. And recently we found out a way to cure hepatitis C. And as long as you get your socks for HPV virus hepatitis A and B. You shouldn't have to worry too much. There are still rare blood born illnesses but you probably won't come across them in the United States. Always do the safest practice that you were taught to prevent getting stabbed with a needle scalpel or anything sharp that comes in contact with blood.
Don’t go to med school to be a dermatologist. Most won’t make it as you have to be literally perfect in med school to match it. If you’re happy being any type of doctor, then consider med school. If you’re happy being anything else though, I strongly recommend it. Takes a real masochist to be a physician.
I was once a visitor in an ER at a large Philly hospital when a cop started yelling at me. His "reason" was that I was standing in a way that put me out of the line of sight of said cop!! It was that dangerous for physicians and other staff there. When I left they wouldn't even let me walk to my car alone in broad daylight.
Fantastic video, thanks. Only for other videos, will it be great to include dentistry in the airborne infections section, at least. It may not be that obvious but dental specialists, surgeons etc. are part of the front line, and we are exposed to a lot of pathogens and infectious aerosols, not to mention the static load on the muscles during a procedure.
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People who can’t get into med school are the only ones who go into nursing, so people choosing to become doctors are more at a position of choosing what they want because they’re more hardworking and skilled and smart, hence the video
