I had the same pediatrician from when I was born to age 19. He had a long white mustache that he would use gel to curl up, he wore fun bow ties, and whenever he put foam hand sanitizer on, he’d put it into the shape of a bunny and make it hop around. I even made him do that at my last appointment when I was 19. He looked at me like I was crazy and I said “This is the last time I’m seeing you, man. *Do the bunny.*” He did the bunny.
(TW: description of not nice phlebotomy experience, but not the main point of the thing, mostly about nice doctor) This is incredible. I love that he did the bunny, what a bro. :) it makes me think of a doctor I met once. I had an appointment in my late teens where I had to get blood drawn, and I have had several very very bad experiences with inexperienced phlebotomists. I actually went into shock one time because one didn't get my vein and was fishing around with the needle in there wiggling it while it was still inserted. Another doctor had to use an ultrasound to find my vein. But on that one appointment, I told the doctor I was very nervous about getting my blood drawn. He smiled and gave me a chocolate coin to bite down on when they had to put the needle in so that I would focus on that instead of being scared. It honestly helped so much. I really didn't expect him to take the time to make sure I was ok, and there were no problems at all drawing my blood. The doctor who gave me the chocolate also gave me a tiny squid stuffed animal. I was doing a test to see if I had residual brain damage from a TBI when I was a younger child, and one of the tests was throwing a ball back and forth to him while I named as many things of a category he named as quickly as possible. One of the categories was animals, and at a certain point I tried to say 'sea cucumber', but I accidentally said 'sea pickle' which was a nickname my siblings and I invented for nasty people and we had been talking in the car about how we hoped he wouldn't be a sea pickle. He didn't understand the context, (thank goodness, because he was a lovely person and I wouldn't want him thinking he was a sea pickle,) but his nurse and him and my mom and I all had a laugh about it, and he gave me the squid saying it was a sea pickle. I still have it to this day, even though I'm an adult, and it still makes me smile every time I look at it. I was very much a teenager who was perfectly fine being a kid a few years longer, and doctors who get that are wonderful. A pharmacist gave me a lollipop with my medication the other day and I was so happy and excited.
Dr. Bailen was my pediatrician; I was sad when he retired when I was 16. I liked my new doctor, but he was no Dr. B. Imagine my delight when I took my baby niece to the community health center (9 years later) and her doctor was *my* Dr. Bailen! He was volunteering at the center, and was his same gruff-but-kind self.
Worst thing about adult medicine is clearly the lack of stickers. I had to get blood drawn the last time I went, and I didn't get a sticker for being brave!
When we were practicing phlebotomy all my classmates used standard tapes on me. Was so happy when one of them used one with a butterfly pattern on it with green background. I was their favourite patient since my veins are visible even without tourniquets 😂
Radiology never failed to give me a stuffed animal when I had imaging. I suffered a traumatic injury one summer and after that, imaging almost every day for weeks, the radiologist never forgot me and got excited and insisted on stuffed animals even as a teenager. Best guy ever. He was just so happy that I survived.
The right answer was either "everything" or "the kids." Pediatrics still has to deal with parents (adults) which probably isn't that great a lot of the time 🤣
I am a peds receptionist. I get real heated. These nurses and doctors did NOT go through years of training to be snapped at by Karen’s. The job is wonderful and rewarding and the kiddos are spectacular. But a lot of parents in my town are grade-a brats. It gets under my skin because we want to help the children but parents will get prideful and refuse to take their kids in just to “make a point.” I grew up in a home that medically neglected me, so watching it happen to children who don’t know any better for parents’ being petty really bothers me.
The whole gang is here, today! That means the costume changes made producing this take awhile and made it messy. Thanks for the commitment and the entertainment, as always!
@@EthanMitch Along with pediatric ENT, because kids like to stick weird things up their noses almost as much as they like to poke each other in the eye with sticks.
They are special beings: knowing the physiology of kids of every size, understanding PALS down to a 't", keeping parents "put together", and applying concepts of palliative medicine at the drop of a hat. Yep, they are a different species of doctor. (Ped ID in the house, and I have witnessed arrivals of kiddies who died on the way to the hospital (that was during the heyday of HIV) and very bloody resuscitation attempts in the middle of terrible shifts.) These docs are true heroes.
Mad respect for those who work in paediatrics, Im a RN but I am definitely not cut out for that. A kid would code or Id have a patient with abusive parents or a kid would be critically ill and it would totally destroy me. Kudos to all of you in paeds, you’re way stronger than I could ever be.
I've had two kids code on me and not make it. Never in my life will I forget their faces or any details of those nights. There's nothing worse. No idea how peds does it.
my only wish after i get out medschool is not having that exact experience, i am the oldest in my family and have seen all my little brothers/sisters grow and love them so much i couldn't manage to not get emotionally invested with the cases, and if i happen to lose one, it would break me so bad i don't know if i could continue without therapy, i know is not in my power to have them or not, and eventually it will happen, but i feel so sad just thinking about it, idk how pediatrics do it i have a deep respect for them, even more so than many other fields just based on that
@@keinjuan hey now no need to be rude, here in Canada we pride ourselves on being polite and friendly. We have a reputation to uphold here. Both spellings are good. One is efficient while the other is faithful to latin and is aesthetically pleasing. Both are good :)
@@lindalee8793 It actually fully developes at 25. We picked 18 for entirely different reasons that have nothing to do with biology. Most of the time bc the government wants to lower the age it can send ppl to war at
I needed stitches about 40 years ago, when I was in my 20's. The doctor who stitched me up was actually a pediatrician helping out in the ER that day. When he was done, he blew up the glove and tied it, turned the thumb into a nose and drew a face, tied the fingers together for hair, then handed it to me with a lollipop. I still can see the faint scar and I smile every time I look at it 🙂
As an intern in Africa, our departmental meetings involved donations for the children... Watching this here reminded me of that. The neonatologist was forever buying stuff for kids whose parents couldn't afford it, or appliances. He was the definition of anything for the babies
This is so true across the board. Watching adult neurologists rotate at our pediatric hospital and our pediatric neurologists rotate at our adult hospital confirms this! (Med/Peds observer)
The sub-specialities! Yaaaas! I’ve loved my pediatric oncologist so much. His neck ties always had animals on them, I especially loved his fish tie(cartoon trouts with wings)and told him this, he wore that tie to every subsequent appointment I had with him. I got diagnosed with osteosarcoma at age 9 in my right foot. He got me through all of it, the surgery, the chemo, he was with me every step of the way, cracking jokes, adding to my sticker collection, I literally never felt scared. Him and that dumb trout neck time, easily the best and most devoted doctor I’ve ever had and I’m 32 now lol.
Worst thing about adult medicine: no excuses for confectionery. (I haven't been given a sweetie for being a cooperative patient since I was about six. BOOOOOO!) I am extremely proud of Radiology, coming up from the basement to attempt peer interaction. He should be encouraged.
My doctor's office still has dum dums, and I pick one up most times after my every-other-week three shots. You're never too old for sugar on a stick, even if you don't need to be told you are sooo brave.
Had a highly specialized group of pediatric doctors as a child, some were okay, some were absolutely amazing, my pediatric orthopedic surgeon was ancient when I started seeing him, it's 35 years later and the guy still practices, you can tell he does NOT do it for the money.
Our pediatrician had pure white hair and was balding even when my kids were first born, but he was sharp as a tack and one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. He loved his calling and you could tell and my kids loved him like family. He sure helped us through a few crises. I was always nervously asking if he planned to retire soon and relieved when he said no. I literally cried when the last came of age and had to start seeing a new doctor as an adult and we wouldn’t be seeing him anymore.
I want to be a pediatric pharmacist so bad because people tell me I’m really good interacting with children. Plus pharmacology for kids is challenging and interesting. Infants don’t have the enzymes to metabolize certain drugs, everything has special weight dosing, renal and hepatic dosing is different, and sometimes you have to compound something into a form thats more child friendly. I feel like its a job that I will never bored because there’s always going to be extra weird things that you don’t see with adult patients
@@candy6852 Not likely. Hospital pharmacists for pediatrics or adults don’t have to deal with insurance stuff because hospitals have a department dedicated to all that. Only retail pharmacists have to deal with insurance issues every day as part of their job.
Props to you and encourage you to pursue your dreams. I am currently a pharmacy resident and peds/nicu is a whole different species when it comes to dosing anything and everything. But the collaboration I've seen between our peds pharmacists and pediatricians is like none other, they go hand in hand on everything. I wish you all the best. We definitely need more peds pharmacists 🥰🥰
You will adore peds! For all the reasons you just listed. Kids have a lot more congenital and complex diseases, so you'll be exposed to SO much more rare and interesting pathology! Plus, who doesn't like figuring out how to make the yucky medicine go down better?
I'm a sterile compounder. I make pediatric and neonatal dilutions and other meds for kids all day. It is interesting and keeps you very focused because any mistake or contamination can be deadly to tiny premie bodies.
The only sad part about working with kids is when they don’t get better. For that reason I don’t work with peds icu, peds oncology or nicu. I love children too much and I appreciate their resilience. My heart broke when we lost a 2 year old from AML it was heartbreaking. I cried, the resident cried, the attending cried, the cna’s, environmental service we all loved her. Sleep In Peace Zay💜
My dad was an RN, he had worked peds ICU for a couple years but after a child’s death that was the same age I was at the time (6-7) he couldn’t handle it anymore and moved to cardiology for the rest of his career.
@@winterfyre85 the same happened to me. I stopped working peds and went into adult medical units. I was so close with my families and my kids. When we lost one it hurt so bad. Preparing that baby for pickup was too much for me. It really traumatized me. My children are older but at that time I had a 3 year old son. My heart broke for that baby and her family. I went into orthopedic surgery and been here since. Sometimes the job gets to us. Hug your dad for me❤
My favourite part of paediatrics is calling the ward and hearing some sort of screeching in the background, and the doctor will respond to queries with “hm? Oh that! That’s normal, don’t worry. So what’s up?”
I will never stop hating adult care and loving peds, change my mind. Everything I hate about the world melts away when I hold a 9year old’s hand and listen to him talk about how much he loves cows.
When my daughter was born, I needed someone at the hospital to sign a form so that HR would approve my parental leave. I asked the pediatrician, and he said, "One of the things I like about my specialty is that my patients don't have adult needs like HR paperwork." He did not sign the form.
Not an understanding Child Bro doc, they should have stated that they didn't have the authority to sign the form and informed the Baby Bro doc to sign this form as they were the doc whose care you were under
Yay for pediatrics!! I'm not a physical doctor but I am a therapist, and I'm one of the few people in my office who LOVES taking on that angry teenager or that tiny six-year-old. Adults are cool too, but I'm really here for the kids who have gone/are going through trauma. You can do so much more with them than people expect, so I love talking about them and working with them and advocating for them. Plus they're way more open to art therapy and sand therapy and play therapy, and you can witness some really amazing metaphors in such different ways.
Yes, yes, yes - pediatrics and pathology are my two favorite "characters" of yours - but only, because the rest is so... well. neurology-ly. The contrast is great. I keep rewatching these. My kid (6 y o) wants to be a pathologist ("a sickness detective") - but that maybe doesn't mean much, since he also wants to become an astronaut-baker... meaning he wants to bake. IN SPACE.
Can somebody please open an adult clinic that is run like a children’s clinic? Bright colored walls, fish tanks. All the yummy flavored medicines. The cute bandages. A reward chest after ur finished with the doctor. Somebody is really missing the boat with this! There’s a lot of us grown ups who are still kids inside and want a less negative association around doctor visits.
I'm an ED doc and I sometimes give well done/superhero stickers to my adult patients when I do a painful/scary procedure (like fracture manipulation). The grown ups like it 😁
I worked in the ER at a pediatric trauma center and I have to be honest: I didn't notice you filming us have our staff meeting... But it's basically word for word in this video...
Now I want to know the top 5 things they don't like about adult medicine. I'll throw in a few: 1) anatomy physiology is way to constant as an adult compared to children 2) general cynicism from life sucking the joy out of adults 3) adult injuries take forever to heal 4) Distinct lack of fetal hemoglobin 5) you know what's better than 206 bones. 300.
I asked my bf (who is in paeds) the same question - "what is the best thing about paeds?", and he got the correct answer! He really deserves to be in paeds :D
By the same token that what is good in Pediatrics is everything, what we don't like about adult medicine is EVERYTHING. I must say that I was disheartened when the end of my third year in med school was approaching. I could not find myself doing anything related to adult medicine. Then came in Pedi: a lovely resident showed me that one could be a good doctor and still have fun!!! It is not only the fun, but the opportunity to educate a family on doing the right thing for their kids for a lifetime of healthy living. There have been plenty of painful moments and experiences when my kids allowed me to be a participant. What an amazing change of attitude!!!
I want a kid's dentist in the team too. One my fondest memories of doctors as a kid was with a dentist. She was a resident I believe, and would come outside her ward to play with me even after the treatment session was over. She would make glove balloons for me. I still remember the shock and despair I felt when that balloon exploded at home. That was about 20 years ago, and I would still be ecstatic receiving a glove balloon from her. I wish her good health.
One of the pediatric surgeons on my M3 rotation was teaching about the differences between repairing an umbilical hernia in an adult vs a kid: "The problem with adults is, they're big... and they suck." Which, coincidentally, is going to be my personal statement for ERAS this year. 😆
When I was a kid the doctor gave me a sucker. Now I’m an adult and the doctor says “no more sugar”. Adult medicine is the worst. …I mean she was right and I’m doing loads better without the sugar, but still no fun.
EKG leads are a cost-abusive racket. V3 wire gets damaged? Well, your only option is a full set of leads for $198, complete with HEIM wires that you're not going to use. You can store those extras right next to the old ones that nobody wanted.
"Everything?" "Welcome to the team." Radiology just got picked to take the scans for the next kid that comes in with busted bones from falling off a bike or out of a tree or the infamous spiral fracture... Good luck, Radiology. 😂
Parents are usually better than no parents. Unless it's like that one mum with munchausen's who put corrosive chemicals on her kid's skin until the poor soul died from it...
@@povilzem Oh yeah, non-zero amounts of parents are generally better than zero parents, I'll give you that. Still don't really want to deal with them in their parent role though XD
To my dying day, I will remember the little girl I held on my lap while my mom checked her feeding tube. She was so light, and so small for a 12-year-old.
The caregivers are the best part of pediatrics. The moment that the doors of Pediatrics swing open and I enter with my nurse and portable xray machine I know, deep down, that it's a place of compassion and I absolutely love it.
I had ear infections and strep a lot as a young kid. And I'll never forget Dr. Match. He was always so super nice and did this magic trick by pulling small toys out from behind my ear. I swore it made some of the pain go away each time.
This reminds me of how every surgeon who I've said that surgery is growing on me (I'm on my rotations currently) have told me to keep an open mind while every pediatrician has just flat out told me to do pediatrics hahahaha
I'm retired R.N and disabled now, but eons ago, I started my nursing career in pediatrics, following in the footsteps of both my mother and my older sister. Spent 7 years in it working in a long-term chronic care hospital here in Chicago called LaRabida Children's Hospital which was affiliated with the University of Chicago. We took a lot of abuse/neglect kids and l worked 13, 16 hour nights. One night, after admitting a child, I was sitting at the desk, opened the first page of the child's chart, immediately closed it and thought, "I can't do this anymore " The burnout was real; I couldn't read one more case of how adults (usually parents) hurt their kids. I transfered to adult medicine and was amazed how s l o w they were to respond to those small clues that the patient was going south; I thought they were all crazy. Then I learned the adult physiology compensates quite a deal more- in peds, we're trained to look for those little signs, as kids decompensate FAST; it could mean the difference between life and death. The upside is, you can get them back just as fast and when you
Engineer here, it seems that the 'average' neurologist is much like an Electrical engineer. Arrogant,brilliant,and pathetically inept in social situations.
Adult neuro here! That description typically applies to us adult neurologists. Peds neuro loves toys, kids, and they usually have great social skills since they have to break bad news to parents just so often. :(
yes the pressure cuffs! when I was a med student I had to bring my own pediatric cuffs during pediatric rotation. especially pediatric nephrology, those kids' bp need to be taken every other hour, yet there's only adult cuffs in the room🗿 i get it lots of the older kids are overweight from the steroids they get, adult cuff is what they need, but how am i supposed to fit it on a toddler🤦🏻♀️
Coming from someone who was hospitalized as a child for a brain tumor pediatrics ONE AND ALL I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU 🎉 IM HERE BECAUSE OF THE AWESOME TEAM I HAD
Did my residency training in pediatrics and remember there being cookies and snacks on the ward every day. That plus kids are generally healthy, and bounce back. Lots of perks…though the kicking, screaming and crazy parents we can do without. 😬
I’m really disappointed in Pediatric Neurology. Kids are incredible BECAUSE of their high levels of neural plasticity. Their abilities to learn, adapt, and recover from neurosurgeries are far superior to those of any adult. He let the entire field down by not reminding his colleagues of this fact at every possible opportunity.
You know neurology is different from neurosurgery, right? Most pediatric neurologists deal with the damages that plasticity cause. Seizures, intellectual disability, global retardation.
Pediatric radiology and imaging at the children's hospital were SO PATIENT with my son when he was in for his GI weirdness diagnosis (it was Eosinophilic Esophagitis). A hyperactive 2 year old who did NOT want to drink the weird stuff and did NOT want to hold still for longer than 10 seconds...it was a challenge, but they made it work. All his pediatricians have been the best, from the gastroenterologist to psychiatrist to his primary. All the love to those who work to help kids.
I love our pediatrician! She is fantastic! Our geneticist is a gruff old lady that loves kids to pieces & always has a stuffed animal & kind, gentle words for all the kids she sees. She even lets the kids play games on her hospital computer. Her cranky demeanor is for the adults in the hospital only. She is a rare gem, for sure. Our ped ENT & GI are the best of the best & they always do nice things for their patients. We have a whole team of awesome ped doctors, though a few departments at our hospital have problematic ones. I think they need to attend one of these meetings. :D
Just experienced my first multidisciplinary peds clinic today - peds heme/onc, neuro, and nephrology. It was absolutely amazing to see as a student. This perfectly encapsulates how the conversations go between the docs. Even got the part where we talked about hating adult medicine lol
As an adult, I prefer being treated by pediatric nurses whenever I have to get blood drawn. They always seem to be gentler and are way better at handling anxious patients (like me)
Ooh, congrats, and bwahaha. When my sister-in-law had her twins, she wound up at a completely different hospital than she had expected because the NICU was swamped by SURPRISE TRIPLETS and another set of preemie twins. Instead of being by her place, she wound up here in the city by me, so my apartment became a waystation for all the visiting friends and fambly, lol. My landlord was like "Since when do you have a dog and a 5-year-old?!" So excited for you! And their doc, lol. We have a bunch of sets of twins in our family so quickly learned that when they're identical, you can get away with "Hmm, so what's your sister's name again?" if you can't tell who you're talking to 😅
Can we appreciate how many unicorn accessories this man went to get just for us to have that much more fun with his post? “grow a prefrontal cortex already” had me laughing a hell of a lot faster than I should have! Thanks for the laughs you give us with these man!😂
The cuff thing just killed me.. all of us as interns had the worst rotation in pediatrics where most of our time just went searching for the right size of the cuff which was also working!!! The mean part me in glad tho that that's the problem everywhere 🤣🤣🤣
Lol love that smile. Worst thing about pediatrics? Has to be dealing with the terrified parents. (I'm not a doctor, just a parent!) Thanks for sharing the fun!
Not me thinking “how many unicorn headbands does he have?” because I’ve gotten so used to him playing multiple characters accurately and the cinematography is *chef’s kiss
I love how every time I watch your videos the RU-vid algorithm provides a shelf review for the specialty it was about. It’s like hope you enjoyed your break now back to step study.
omg nephrology's salt grinder XD i would love to see pediatrics nephrology with one of those novelty salt shakers shaped as cartoon characters i loved to play with as a kid
