He’s adorable because he’s really Dr. Glaucomflecken. Real Orthos are not adorable, believe me…well, not unless you’re a patient whose bone they repaired. But only let them do bone stuff - that’s the takeaway of this RU-vid post.
Thanks bro ortho is like my brofamily full of brozifs bro for real and like bones are the best for supporting that fleshy insulation i appreciate you totally thinking we are cute bro
I really love the fact that he keeps the clichees up a bit while still highlighting the skill and competence of ortho bros. Anyone who's ever needed them really appreciates what they do!
Agree. It's a good balance. But that's probably why his humor in relation to other doctors comes off as poking fun as opposed to insulting: He respects the skills at the same time as laughing at all the little things.
Yeah, showing the doofy bros suddenly rattling off a hyperspecific description of a tool or the attending putting his foot down surprisingly firmly over a glaring mistake in the consult request definitely added some respect and depth to the character. Props.
Reminds me a little of when I worked out at a serious bodybuilding gym many years ago. You had a lot of guys who kinda lived up to the stereotypes 90% of the time. But if they got to talking about joints, muscles, or nutrition, they'd suddenly become med students.
My dad taught me names of various bones as a pre-school aged child because it was his idea of important knowledge for a 3-4 year old. My dad was not an ortho bro, but I feel like it's something Ortho would do.
Totally. But I also bet a little kid would eat it up if he gave him a skeleton puzzle and had him put all the bones in the right places while learning the names, or something like that. I used to have a map of the US as a puzzle and would take it apart and put it back together when really small.
Can confirm, as a daughter of an ortho bro muscles and bones were something he taught us early. That and not allowing us on trampolines, horses or downhill skiing.
When my spouse graduated from psychiatry residency, the group right ahead of them alphabetically was phys rehab/Ortho. It was really funny to watch the big, buff Ortho guys doing manly shoulder grabs with their attendings, followed by all the obvious nerds in psychiatry. Up until that point I thought Dr. G was exaggerating about Ortho bros. 🤣
@@pipp972 That would be hilarious, but he actually looks 95% like a US family member's orthopedic surgeon, whom also does regular orthopedic visits. It makes me laugh remembering him.
Orthos have to keep themselves really strong because a lot of bone stuff has to do with both manual placement as well as eternally holding a leg in a specific position because there's no way to rig it so it actually works. so you end up holding on to some little old ladies eight leg for 7 hours while bones get put together... You got to be fit and strong .
@@ttfun4421 oh so it’s not just my internist?? Sometimes the nurses fill a whole tray with all the blood tubes 😅 This makes me feel better… kinda (20 lab tests is a conservative number though)
The funny thing is that ortho is an extremely competitive residency to get. Lots of residents were at the top of their class in medical school. No one know what happens between graduation and the start of residency but somehow they lose all their general medical knowledge. It is one of the great mysteries of the universe.
You kinda forget the fluff. As an intern I was a god with ECGs. As a Senior resident in Gen Surgery, I can barely detect arythmias much less classify and treat them
It's like any other career! I'm an especialist lawyer and for the love of God I can't help anyone with stuff that's outside my LLM, even after spending years in university on it. I guess when you get into such a complex, specialist field, your mind just forgets the rest bc it's not efficient
i scrub a lot of ortho surgeries and the 5th year residents who are about to graduate atleast 3 of them were valedictorians at their med schools and undergrad.
Ha. I had a super random emergency surgery on my left arm done by an ortho bro. Should have been a simple 45 min procedure but took 3 hours. When I had my post surgical appointment my doc was so jazzed about it. Pulled out his cell phone and showed me pictures of the inside of my arm. He then thanked me. “Dude… thanks for the cool problem. I was stoked to have something out of the ordinary to work on!” Then he gave me a high-five.
Having watched so much of Dr. G's since having a catastrophic wrist injury I now understand why my ortho surgeon was seemingly not super annoyed about being called in for this operation on a saturday early morning what was probably an even earlier phone call.
Might have been the ortho drs best case but hell for the surgery staff, he probably drilled multiple holes into your bone before he actually got it right, lol, usually not the best doc if it took that long,hmmmm
I was with an ortho bro intern on my med school trauma surg rotation. Everyday he was so sad whenever the patient didn’t have bone problems. But mentioning a pelvic fracture would make his day. A golden retriever ortho bro.
The ortho bro who took care of my shoulder caught me sitting on his rolling exam stool caroming around the large exam room, pushing off each wall as I zoomed at it, while waiting for him. He gave me a thumbs up for using my time appropriately by doing something physical. No matter that I am 67…who can resist a Rollie stool?
Still remember one of the orthopedists borrowing my stethoscope and asking: "Which end am I supposed to put in my mouth? " Always up for a joke is Ortho Bro.
Last year my mum was treated by an ortho bro. Funny guy. He checked in on my mum the next day. "How're you doing?" "Good" "Then what are you still doing here? Go home." That was it. The whole post op check in. He was really capable, young, handsome, charismatic. Main character energy. All the ladies in the ward loved him.
whoa whoa, I thought it was established in other Dr. G vids that all bros are bros regardless of gender/identifier. So bro-ette is unnecessary and kinda wastes time in ortho rounds.
When I was an intern, the ortho death rates were so bad (from medical complications) that they had a geriatrician/internist doing a daily round to make sure that all the bone patients had their soft bits taken care of.
Much of orthopaedics is taking care of geriatric patients with all their hip Fxs, etc. They tend to be a very sick group of people, whose body is deteriorating, and thus wind up breaking bones. A few weeks ago, while on weekend call, I had to operate on 4 pts. their average age was 89...all ASA 3-4.
I watched your videos then went into ortho for a follow up for a broken collarbone. It was the first time I realized the whole ortho team are all bros (and lady bros) and all heavily jacked (and lady jacked). The anesthesiology team really does just sit in the corner and scowl sometimes lmao
Ortho Bro is Ortho Bro, knows it, and is honest about it. "We're not good with stethoscopes and ophthalmologists aren't good with bone drills, so we don't use the others' tools" has never been said more eloquently.
@Avarren S oh yes when the testosterone flowed, and in dealing with other types of Dr's and staff, not always the team players. I ran into them as a CNS/advanced NP in a teaching hospital when they did bilateral total knee replacements on a 90yr old farmer, and by day 4 he wasn't up doing a jig. So they wanted me to admit him to geriatric rehab. Ohhh noooo. First I gave a lecture on why are you doing bilateral knee replacements on a 90yr old? So yes the ortho bros were mad, and I kept firm but polite. We arranged for a regular rehab stay for the man where he did well and went back to his farm work, but he needed time. So to soothe the angry beast docs I asked if they had any other geriatric patient issues. And then managed 2 elderly hip replacements along with social work, and the one they wouldn't see because she spat at them, all we needed was a Portuguese translator, a priest, a dash of antipsychotics, and the ortho bros fixed her hip finally, and social work found her a Portuguese nursing home to go to. So yes they were the older orthos, now retired but not always fun back then.
Why is this so accurate? I’ll say it again. Best note I ever saw as a med student was on ortho rotation. “Hospital day #278. No change(except used a delta for change)” It wasn’t just that the note was three characters, it was the fact that the past hundred or so notes were the same. As an internist, I should be offended at “tibular pain” but it seems about right. I do appreciate that on my orthopedic rotation I did learn how to hot-wire a bovie, which is a skill I am still searching for an occasion to use.
It's actually kind of depressing to think about the patient being in the hospital for 9 months with no change to his condition. Those bones need to heal faster!
As a med student, we had an internist teaching us part of the physical exam. He mentioned that ortho docs use the triple point. We all chuckled and then he said “turns out they’re right. It works.”
Regarding the barely abnormal lab values but someone I know spotted alkaline phosphatase was barely off, decided to follow up, and ended up finding cancer. IMs do amazing work.
Tibula and fibia are two very important anatomic landmarks to me as radiologist. Whenever those two words appear on my report, it's a sign that I must be very tired or sleepy and it's better to go get some rest.
@@mattrobinson22 Here in Brazil we say that you shouldn't make any important decisions or text your ex between midnight and 6 am for obvious reasons, but night shifts unfortunately do exist. In defense of my colleague, he got the liquid right, he just got confused with the place.
Had a talus fracture last summer. Orthopedic surgeon assigned to my case originally ended up calling a colleague who specializes in foot and ankle surgery to take it because he had a long hip replacement surgery the morning after I got admitted. The way he came into my ER room with this energy like "hey what's up, so here's the deal, my Ortho colleague bro is doing me a solid on this one so we can get you taken care of sooner, sorry about your ankle but we'll get that fixed up" it was everything I expected from Ortho 😆 (not actually he said but like that was basically the energy he brought)
It's a tribute to your acting and storytelling that Ortho is probably my favorite character despite the fact I'm very much on the geek part of the geek vs. jock struggle.
Haha, I think it also in part has to do with Ortho Bro being an aggressively positive and supportive jock. X) But agreed! Awesome acting, storytelling, and just general content. :)
Same! I think it’s because Ortho is so genuine and heartfelt. As a geeky PhD student, I very much appreciate and relate to people who openly display unironic enthusiasm for the subject they love. For me that’s planets; for Ortho it’s bones.
@@brittanyolenick2252 True. If he were constantly giving shade to people he thinks "don't exercise enough" or "the right way", he wouldn't be the Ortho Bro we know and love.
For sure Ortho Bro is the kind to see a nerd being bullied and go put his arm around the bully, lead him a bit off to the side and has a deep meaningful conversation about why they shouldn't bully and the physical, emotional and mental health issues that can result from it, and if they don't stop, Ortho Bro knows which bones heal the slowest.
My mom (retired urology PA) claims that if you ask Ortho or show Ortho anything not bone related, they respond thusly: What is this?? BONES! I DO BONES!!
My dad is an Orthopedic surgeon. These guys seriously have bone fascination issues I swear. My dad likes to learn about other areas of medicine as well but. I mean. Bones. They just love ‘em. One time we found a dead hawk and the first thing my dad says is “I’m gonna reconstruct it’s skeleton.” Homie did it. Bought flesh eating beetles off the internet and now we have a hawk skeleton. Ortho drs certainly are something special
You could be having a full on totally invested conversation with them about anything and as soon as they realize it’s not ortho related it’s like the switch goes off and back to notes they go
Ortho docs are some of the smartest docs around. They are so smart they make every other specialty think they are dumb so they can focus on just what they want to do.
Ortho being actually very smart regarding all things bone is both keeping completely in character, and also very interesting. Very well done on all counts.
I had to do an ortho rotation as an intern and everything about this is 100% spot on, except the underlings would never be allowed a moment to grab any weights! I once timed our ward round and we spent, on average, 70 seconds per patient. I never had enough time to write in the patient's chart - I scribbled everything in shorthand on a single piece of paper, and then went back to write in the chart later. Now that I work in pediatric oncology, I'm not gonna lie, part of me misses having all the decisions made by no later than 7:45am every day. 😅 I also really enjoyed that the hospital had enough insight to recognise that some patients 100% were not safe to be admitted under ortho - if you were 65 years or older and you came in with a broken hip, you were automatically admitted under the geriatricians post-op, and they'd come remind us when it was Day 7 and time for a wound review!
They "borrow" a nurse's when they are the primary/admitting service and do need to use one. have had 2 come back with mine when they realized they still had it. I keep their shears from walking away and they bring back my stethoscope. It works out.
Of course...my husband's an ortho and his stethoscope has been tucked in a random drawer in our house since 2016, when he started the residency😂 even when he wants to hear our daughter's lungs when she's ill (he did 4 years at general/rural medicine before ortho, he still remembers some stuff) he doesn't use it, just puts his ear on her chest😂😂
Our hospital has a mix. Most are genuinely fun and just like these bone bros. But the few that aren’t are the exact opposite. I mean extremely opposite. I feel your pain.
I'm so sorry! Most orthos I know (including my husband, lol) are super nice guys. But for what I gather, there are some MAYOR JERKS in his team...I guess a testorone-prone ambience lends itself for allowing some prick behaviour in some men
@@franug Well there’s really just one and while he is talented there’s more to the talent the deeper you dig. He was discussing some metrics from CMS and he actually said “I would never work on that patient, his BMI is too high “. While I understand the outcomes it’s also true that everyone deserves a chance and it’s not all about the outcomes. But that is why his numbers are good while dragging everyone else down. Plus he is very rude behind closed doors but, ummm maybe not as rude in public. Believe how people are behind closed doors. Anyway, luckily we have an abundance of great ortho bros!😃
My best ortho bro experience: in anesthesia training I had a young ortho attending come in, ask if the patient was asleep yet, then proceed to blare Gucci Mane’s ‘I Get the Bag’ over the OR sound system, it was awesome 😂
As a med student I was on rounds with Ortho resident and the patient started talking about her htn and diabetes. The resident interrupted her and said “Ma’am, I don’t do sick, I only do hurt.”
😂😂😂 Loved horrified ‘Bro …’ when Ortho was informed that the femur fracture was admitted to their team and they’d be responsible for all ‘soft fleshy parts’!! 😂😂😂
LOL so true. Speaking as an ortho, thanks for the laugh. Great that whether you're laughing with or laughing at, it's all good. It helps that ortho is the best place to be haha
I never thought I’d miss ortho as much as I do once I left the hospital but the lighthearted conversations with the ortho before his pager starts going off was actually kinda therapeutic for me during too many brutal shifts. The morbid compassion and irony in these guys is definitely unique
Ahahaha so accurate! My husband did general medicine for a few years in rural areas so it was weird to him to leave his stethoscope at home when he started his orthopedic residency. He's now a full ortho bro🤣 Ps: I actually think those years made him a way more complete doctor, especially in the ER, but don't tell him that!
I wouldn't mind betting that through doing all these videos Glaucomflecken has inadvertently become the most broadly medically knowledgeable ophthalmologist in the world
The authenticity in all of your skits in a skillful, rare light hearted truly funny is absolutely fascinating. I don’t know how anyone could be so talented. You are so incredibly rare in this world. A special thank you to your wife for saving your life and allowing us to experience this awesomeness that is you.
Flashbacks to intro osteology. Our first test visibly aged the professor. “There is no such bone as a tibula. Next person who writes that down fails the class.”
I don't know if there's a situation where Ortho would ever have to interact with a gynecologist but the thought of him calling them a 'lady parts bro' makes me chuckle.
Dr Glauc did a video where he introduced the new gynecologist (aka Mrs Glauc) to some of the other specialists including Ortho. You're close...Ortho referred to her as lady bro and asked if there were any pregnancy related bones he needed to be aware of.
Rumor has it that you can hear Ortho's bone-chilling breathing (as if he just finished an intense workout) nearby whenever you are playing football, climbing a ladder, skiing down a black diamond, walking over ice, crashing a car---oh, and when someone mistakenly assigns Ortho as the primary care team! 🤣
@@Francis-rs7zu But its a femur fracture on an 18 year old with no past medical history! They don’t take a single medication, all their labs are fine, and all four chambers of their Ancef pump are working at peak performance.
The ortho who did my tib-fib foot break off (yeah, it broke off) graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins med, had a PhD in chemistry AND ...... did his first ortho residency in Hawaii so he could surf. (I asked him.) Surgeries were great and he was wonderful.
the weather was cold and wet one morning and my tibula was acting up, but i still needed to see all my patients before rounds, i only made it on time because i learned about the triple point, ortho bros always coming thru for another bro
I love the Ortho bros so much. My mom has broken both her wrists several times now, and she’s always had amazing ortho docs that put her back together again. Especially the last time- those X-rays made even made me nauseas, and I know almost nothing about reading X-rays.
I’ve recently interacted with a pediatric ortho. She wasn’t this cute, nor was she a bro, but she helped my kid heal and keep growing after a fractured growth plate.
As someone that works in ICU I can attest to the simple note “As per ICU” 😂 Neuro may write “With thanks, as per ICU”, very polite. 😂😂 Our ICU system may be a bit different, admitting teams round and consult as to their plans or wishes when their pt is with us, they are not allowed to chart or change anything they let the ICU team know and they will either follow that direction or not. 😂😂 We micromanage the pt with ‘input’ from others until they leave and hand them back to their primary team. 😊
Can I ask what “per ICU” means, and why it’s funny here? I tried googling it but only got a bunch of stats on ICU staffing rates and costs. I’m usually able to follow or figure out most things in these videos, but as someone who doesn’t work in healthcare, there’s always going to be a few things that just go over my head, and this was one of them. Another was that I had to watch it twice to notice anything wrong with “tibula” 😂
Best part about ortho is, you don't even need to call them for a consult. They always have somebody constantly watching all new x-rays and intervene whenever there's anything wrong with the bones.
As a relatively normal kid, two of my earliest hospital visits were for broken bones, so I met plenty of ortho bros! Both arm and leg had to be reset too, fun 😁
I am in Berlin, Germany, not a doctor at all,but I have been watching this videos and oh my God...I went to an Ortho and I swear, the guiy was SO FIT. He was a silver fox. My husband, who does sports and is twenty years younger than the doctor, told me the guy made him look bad and weak and I did not believe it. But yeah!
I love that every single specialty has a special anecdote about why some other group/subspecialty has hassled them in the past and no longer feel too bad for them
I'm convinced that all Ortho Drs are ADHD folks using exercise as a coping mechanism to feed their brains the dopamine it needs to give them the modivation for all the amazing stuff they do. Love my ortho docs. Keep it up! 😁
