PHYSICIAN vs PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT & talking SCRUB TECH stereotypes | intern year 

I recently just passed my boards and I’m now a certified PA! ☺️

no ones talking about how relaxing her voice is?!! it’s like ✨silvery✨ - honeypot films

Any PAs/future PAs or scrub techs here!? Would love to hear your perspectives and your experiences! Medicine is truly a TEAM sport and the more we support each other, the better off our patients are. And when all is said and done, it's the patient that matters most ☺️

I'm a pre-PA student who is looking to go into OB/GYN and I really loved this video! So real and informational

I'm so glad you did this video. I'm a surgical tech (scrub tech), and I'm a very kind person but I can't always show that in the O.R. because nurses, residents, and doctors (in my experience) have a tendency to look down on ST's and try to walk all over us. I agree with being a bit tough on the med students and residents, because it's so true that if they mess something up it screws me over, and the doctor blames the surgical tech before they blame themselves, the resident or medical student. Surgical techs are soooo under appreciated and represented! So shout out to ST's #backboneoftheOR :D

when I first scrubbed in on a surgery (as a mere undergrad!!!) I thought the scrub techs were being so strict and mean, but now I obviously realize how truly important having a sterile environment is to the life of the patient!

Yay! I’m also pre-PA! 😁

It’s so true about learning from the book and real life experience, because during my MA school I didn’t learn as much as I did during extern.

amazing video Madalyn, I'm a doctor and my best friends in the hospital are the nurses and the scrub techs, I spend more time with them than with my colleague doctors.. I've learned a lot from them. they are the real heroes in Medicine ❤️

There is SO much value in understanding the other #interprofessional roles on the team! This is an amazing way to learn that is VERY often overlooked. Thanks for all you do!

I had 8 rounds of chemo, 2 surgeries w/in 24 hours and just finished 25 rounds of radiation for breast cancer over the past 6 months. I had excellent doctors and nurses and I find medicine fascinating. Yesterday, I had my chemo port removed in a sterile environment and the PA and nurses were so professional and comforting. I find medicine so interesting.

Hi Madalyn! When I finish this semester, I will officially be halfway (!!) through my PharmD. I LOVE when youtubers show the collaborative efforts between physicians and all others from the healthcare team. I know it's probably super different for each place you go, but I would love to continue to see the collaborative videos :) Probably a little hard to get people together for them, since everyone is crazy busy, but I can't tell you how much we enjoy seeing the interaction of the team as a whole. Thanks for doing that! :)

I’m pre PA and I’m so happy to have come across this video! So much information regarding each profession, scrub tech, pa, and residency. Love it all 💕💕💕💕 Good luck to everyone on the path toward their dream career. You’ve got this!🥰

This was a great video! I'm an LPN looking into PA school, so it's great to hear everyone's different perspectives.

I just found your channel and I'm literally OBSESSED

Wow! Such a great video, is true it’s important to be nice and be open to get to know everybody. Inter-professional collaboration is super important

Yesss!! It's about being a team! I hate how the media (like movies & tv shows) only portray doctors & nurses - when really there is so much more and it's very unrealistic!

Awesome video again! Informative as always. There definitely is a stereotype about scrub techs where I am training, although I've personally had amazing experiences. It might also have to do with geography. People tend to be "straight shooters" up in the NE compared to the South. Nice sidestep at 2:36. Since we are in the thick of residency interview season, could you reflect a bit on your experience through this whole process in a future video (i.e. anxiety about invites, interview experience, weird questions, ranking process, etc.)? Keep up the awesome work!

This is such a great, positive look into this part of healthcare! I wish everyone had respect for the whole team like you do. Great video!!! 😊

I really how humble and positive you are! I really enjoy your energy in your videos 😍

Madalyn, I love your mentally; always willing to learn from other to improve yourself, and you are super sweet to everyone that you come across. Learning from other is the key to improve one self and we must know a little about every field to be successfully, not only the area we are trying to go for. I hope you inspired to become a better periodontist. I hope we can chat a bit

I'm a scrub and applying to PA school. We can be mean, but mostly we're nice. As long as the students come in, show respect and listen to us we're good. I plan on being an OBGYN PA hopefully in surgery. I LOVE SURGERY!

It is good to see why they are the way they are it is understandable. It is good to see different perspectives. I agree at the end of the day it is about the patient.

Current PA student doing my OB rotation right now, and i LOVE how direct the scrub tech i work with is. Lol shell slap my hand and bark at me sometimes but I appreciate it because usually im so hyper focused on the case and what i need to do ill make mindless little mistakes that she catches and corrects. All future clinicians, your didactics will not be able to prep you for every nuance of surgery. Your STs will be a saving grace on everything from sterile procedures, anticipating what can happen, and if theyre very experienced they’ll even improve your procedural techniques big time. Keep in mind their stern mentality is reflective of the gravity of the situation, not their opinions of you or anything. Dont let it get to you!

Great video. I'm a PA and I love how you promote the whole healthcare team. There is so much in-fighting in medicine, which is sad because it is a really difficult field to work in, especially now. I've started my own RU-vid channel and hope to have your kind of success! Best wishes on your medical career and your channel!

You have such a welcoming and inviting presence!

hey, my mom's a pa! :D she's so cool. she's working for an allergist at the moment but the first job i remember is her working for a pediatrician, which she absolutely adored. pa's are awesome but so many people don't know their job exists!

I just love the fact that you are so encouraging and above all emphasize on the well being of all around us.Believe me you have taught me to live every moment of life happily,enjoy everything you do,find happiness in every times of life😍😍😍😍.I also want to become a Doctor one day.😄May God bless you Madalyn's you are a great inspiration for me. You are so jolly and positive_natured girl which is very rare nowadays. You are a gem sweetheart.Never ever stop living your life like this.We all love you💞

Loved the vlog 🤩 thank you for this!

Love this video! I am a UCLA nursing student considering the NP program 😅

Yay!!!! Im a scrub tech student and I’m so excited for this!! ❤️❤️ Currently going over disinfection and OR turnover as well as surgical site infection, I love my career choice! It truly is team effort 👌🏼

Hard facts from both providers! The book life is not real life! I passed my EMT course and thinking that I know what the life on the rig really was but I was sooooo wrong lol This is why people need to realize that medicine needs to be learned by doing and not just reading it.

great insight Madalyn thanks for the upload, g'day from down under!

Thanks for the insight and perspective in this video, will carry this closely!☺️

After getting my BS degree in a non-health related major, I decided to enroll in a Surg Tech program! I never heard of Surgical Techs before, but after researching about different roles in the OR and watching videos about them, I really can't wait!

Thank you for this video! I am a pre-PA and I work in the pediatric ICU as a nurse tech and recently I have been feeling so discouraged because the nursing environment has been so toxic in my unit. The nurses talk bad about each other and spread gossip and belittle the new nurses as well as the nurse techs. They treat us like the absolute bottom of the chain and are very condescending. I shadow an ortho PA and a urology PA and their fields are more male dominant and I have so much more enjoyed my time in those environments. It saddens me because my passion is in pediatrics but I am tired of dealing with the mean girls that have become Peds ICU nurses. I can respect someone who is “mean” in order to prevent harm coming to the patient like that scrub tech but I cannot stand mean people who just do it out of spite and in no relationship to patient advocacy but as a power trip. I really hope that I find a better work environment when I become a PA.

I couldn't stop staring at ur brows lol they're so perfect! Edit: and ur glasses are super cute! 👓🌞

I found your channel recently and I've been obsessed 😍btw you're so gorgeous!❤

ah ! I’m a pre nursing student, I want to travel nurse for a year or two and ultimately I want to be a PA !! 💕

. Your in sight on healthcare team working together is amazing! You wrapped it up beautifully. We are all a team and here for our patients!

You are so amazing!! You just reminded me why I choose medicine❤️❤️I can’t wait to see more videos of you and your journey

Aspiring PA here! And thank you for the video! I didn’t know there were Labor & Delivery PAs! I’ve always wanted to work in L&D and OB-GYN. Random question, where are your glasses from?

this was so good! Im a 2nd year med student with interest in obstetrics. I loved this video, gave so much insight on how to approach rotations and the possibilities of L&D. Gained a follower. thank you

Omg hi! I'm pre-PA working in labor and delivery as an L&D tech and training as a scrub tech on the job. I hope to continue to work in labor and delivery as a PA.

That was so interesting and informative, thank you guys so much!!!!!

As a scrub tech, I hate that we inherited the old generations reputation. There are a ton of old meanies but the new generation isn’t as mean lol sorry to all the med students that have been treated wrong by the cranky old techs lol

i love thisss!!

Much love for you and your videos, you are so kind and I hope you are doing well! :) I am currently a freshman in college and have been considering physician assistant studies and medical school. What would you recommend considering when exploring both careers?

I love your vlogs, you is so beaultiful and charismatic😍😍😍😍😍

Love your videos! What camera and editing do you use? The quality is so sharp.

i absolutely LOVE this video! 😘

Thanks for spending time with us :)

Yes, yes 👏One of the first of your videos I’ve watched and it’s very refreshing how emotionally intelligent and aware you are being. Seeing their perspectives really broadens how much more you can appreciate and grow personally in your career choice! I’ve recently become interested in the PA program but decided on nursing. For anyone who was unsure as to what career choice to make, have you dealt with this? And what made you choose pa over nursing or other professions ?? 😊

Would love to see more interprofessional videos like this! Maybe you can do one with rehab professionals like OTs, PTs, and SLPs?

I want to become an OB Tech! Loved the video thanks so much.

I’m in scrub tech school!! I start my clinicals in May, this video is super helpful and really shows what great techs should look like. Molding myself to be like katie 🤣🤣

I love your videos !

all the support from morocco love youuuu

Loved the video!! Do you remember what you majored in college??

im a nursing student and this was a good video !

Thanks for your video! Where are your glasses from? What model are they❤️❤️❤️

You’re all stunning, i can’t wait to become a doctor too :)

From a Scrub Techs perspective, I typically enjoy having residents in the field as they can be very helpful. For example, helping to get the case started by tying up our gowns before scrubbing in, helping with patient positioning, putting up light handles while we are stringing out the suction and bovie, etc. Though at times, there are new residents that demand extraneous things and are not helpful to OR staff. As far as the reputation, we are taught to be assertive yet tactful. We protect the field and the patient, we keep the case flowing smoothly by procuring all necessary sterile items, instruments and equipment, which we are usually running around for throughout the day, before setting up the entire OR while still providing quick turnovers. We take call just like Surgeons, which means we get called in the middle of the night for emergent cases. My last hospital had us take call for 7+ consecutive days every 5 weeks for the specialty. We stay late and scrub overtime on a regular basis, get called in at 1am and manage to be there at 6am or earlier for early cases. We miss major life events because we are working. We have family members pass while not being able to be there for them like we should because we are taking care of other people and do not have regular jobs. During the staffing crisis over the past two years, the Scrub Tech will many times fill in for the anesthesia tech, setting up anesthesia circuits and helping to intubate/extubate, we help the OR nurses and we turn over our own rooms because the hospital doesn't want to hire an OR assistant, we make the OR bed and supply our own case carts when sterile processing is short staffed. We literally do everything to get the case started, scrubbed and turned over and we are the ones that get screamed at because the Surgeon is in a bad mood. They go off to do their notes after the case and don't even really realize there is only one person doing everything to turn over while the RN gets the next patient. I left a hospital I once loved one month ago because of the staffing crisis. I can't do my job safely if there are no adequate supplies, instruments, or staff to help. Most hospitals are desperate right now and this is something new residents should be aware of in terms of how they interact with staff. I'm a kind and easygoing person, but if the energy in the room is tense, it's most likely because the Surgeon or anesthesia is in a mood and the OR staff is getting treated like sh*t when we are already overworked and burned out. This is just a post pandemic perspective of a Scrub Tech. But hey, what do I know.

Ahh thanks for this !!

Did anybody catch the greys anatomy season 17 premiere that end had me balling bro😭

I am a 1st year Canadian nursing student and your videos are so inspiring to me! My end goal is to become a physician after nursing school! I'm finding nursing school really challenging but I know that everything will pay off in the end! Thanks so much for keeping me motivated through your videos! You are awesome!

Thank you for this!

Thank you for this video, Pikachu!

Loved the video thanks

I am so excited for this video....😃 you have no idea

Enjoy your content/vids ... soon enough, the PAs will be shadowing you (lol!) ... stay healthy!

Pre-Pa was Pre-med switch getting too old 25yrs old and I took a 2yr gap after HS now sophomore in biomedical science .

The PA is gorgeous 😍

I’m actually in sterile processing so I sterilize surgical instruments but I also interact and assist some scrub techs when on the surgical floor. I love the environment but I definitely want to be a PA or a doctor

wow so cool!

can you making tutorila video, about how to wearing and fit check n95 mask properly

Love your video, ❤️❤️😍😍

I am not in medicine AT ALL (nor do I want to be lol) but this video was so fun and insightful! :D

Do more videos about this more. From janitor , cna, lvn, rn, it, tech, emt, kitchen staff. assistant, volunteer's, front desk, medical asistant and rt.

Girl whered you get your glasses? Its prettyy

I'm in nursing school but I hope to advance to PA as my final career😊

I was wondering the differences between PA and doctor? What are the reasons for choosing medical school/physician profession over PA (especially since PA seems to be less time & $$)? I'm a premed and I don't think I currently have enough information to really answer this question because the PA profession seems kind of obscure to me & everything I've heard has been to convince people to go into PA so I'm not sure I have all the facts. Any comments are greatly appreciated! Also i LOVE your videos 😍😍

Love your eyebrow

I am a high school student and you really inspiring to be a doctor and to love medicine🥰

In med school do you see a lot of older students? Or students with children?

I will be stating PA school in January and would love to hear more about her role and if this was her first job out of school !

Good VLOG 👩‍⚕️🤗

Was wondering what camera you use??

Future OB-GYN here!!!!

This really has got to premiere while I'm at school lol.

Thank you for sharing

I volunteer at a hospital in labor and delivery and there are no pa’s in our hospital and I’m just curious if that the case for every hospital? I really want to be a PA either in pediatrics or LD in a hospital setting but I’m not sure if they have pas in hospitals

I graduated from college 10 years ago. I am interested in PA program. But don’t know how to start. I had my BSC in Biology. I am wondering if I can do Scrub tech program this will help me to get into PA school. Also if you can please share where did Katie got her certificate from. Thanks

Where do you got your eyeglasess?

Thank you for the videos 🙂but I got a question are you a doctor or a physician associate ?

Hello Mad, you are the best, you will achieve many achievements, I want to be a doctor that you recommend. 🥺🙂

The stereotypes are crazy to hear regarding scrub techs and OB departments

Can you please do an NP’s interview??? I mean how’s their life, etc?

I am gonna take up nursing as my course for college then hopefully become a doctor just like you, and you inspire me so much!! Keep making videos and i hope someday i get to comment that i made it!! 🥺💗💗

That’s cool to work with someone who delivered you