Playing God: a trauma surgeon's views on Death vs Science | Russell Gruen | TEDxNTU 

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I am so happy to hear the outcome was positive! What a compassionate Doctor!

What a great doc for telling you what had happened (broken arm), some docs never visit their patients after or if do and they've made errors then they refuse to answer questions/admit it. I'm so glad your baby was saved and they were honest with you.

@Grady Whitman There isn't an age limit to have a child although there should be and an IQ test as well.. wow...

There we go with the god ! Literally everything has to be god incorporated it's a brain wash it's like a damn virus

In the emergency room where I worked, we implemented an (unofficial) program in order to respect the person who had just passed and those who worked to prevent it: After a patient died, the team would gather around the patient in a circle and hold hands. There would be one minute of silence after which the attending physician thanked each person individually for their work. It made dealing with death much easier.

Dr it is not your fault they died It was their time If you stay they will die anyway I’m a nurse and work hospice Remove guilt from your heart Do always your best From your heart The patient will The thankful Thanks 🙏🏽

It'll sound cold but the dead don't care if you walk away.

@@Xarkom89 I have a provision in my will, stating that only with 100% of all of my relatives agreeing can override it, that if I code on the table, I am not to be given more than any ER doctor would give, and I am not to be put on life support. I also have a statement there for any medical team, thanking them for their attempt to save me, but also saying I understand that not everyone can be saved. I also stated I want my body, which will be a "used up husk" at that point, to go to science, so maybe in death, I can still serve the world.

@@SheepdogSmokey My point still stands past the point of death you won't care...

People are jerks. What other reason could there be?

Literally same

Same technalogy which help this guy to fight 4 patients also bring more patients to him majority of trauma caused by technalogy

Probably Packers fans

most likely religious people who abhor technology that can compete with the powers of their invisible fake diety.

Christopher K. Sadly some these amazing doctors end up committing suicide :( they live sheltered lives with no friends or family. They fully commit to this career that they forget to have social experiences Their money piles up but no one to spend it with.

Not to mention he's English.

He said he is a baseball coach...

Imagine: it is possible to speak English and never have seen a football game or know the rules. The TED talk was not in the USA, he doesn't sound like a Yank, so: he read the Vince Lombardi quote in a mag or whatever, and didn't get the complete context.

Christopher K. It is possible for a Dr to enjoy and know a sport along with being an amazing Dr🤦🏻‍♀️

Sorry but you're dad didn't bring life into this world, the woman did.

beautifulperson081 he most definitely did

@@beautifulperson081 he ASSISTED in bringing life to this world

That's amazing. They kept you here in the land of living. May you see the goodness of the Lord

Great comment!

Facts... -paramedic

Thank you for your kind words,doctors certainly have their defects, I am a doc but I think the majority of docs do really want to help people,in fact I think that is the most important role of anyone in this life, not just docs. It's not always easy to help people but can you think of any other reason to exist? Best wishes ,Bart

@Miz Rix haha I'm guessing you have worked with them before 🤭

Storm Meridian Dee!! Your highly intelligent, well reasoned response here, is so passionate and intense. What a great caring and compassionate woman you must be. You just sound so awesome and intense; passionate and intelligent!! I pray God Our Heavenly Father blesses you in every tremendous way He can truly love and bless you, Storm.

finally, a constructive comment.

Amazing man we need more like him

@G. uhm no. If he had he wouldn't be able to work efficiently.

@@janedoex1398 yes he could

Trauma people should train with F1 pitstop mechanics lol

PinguinCrazy No, other way around...

Very very true,no question there.

@Andy B godspeed

Thanks for offering respect to all dr

@@bluewater3783 Agreed sounds like an Aussie to me.

while you have a point, being a surgeon is all about attention to detail. It's a matter of life and death.

I did learn something: you can lose a baseball game because you ran out of time. 😉

The anesthesia providers do as much and sometimes more then the surgeons to keep a patient alive. In the O.R.. My surgeons always consult with me before we decide to end ineffective heroic treatment.

Really!! and it's no strange fact that most surgeons are suspect of being sociopaths. \this guy (real as he may be) may just be self promoting. Who knows?

Still they lost the game.

Coz we r Kardashian and not the doctor.

Spaghetti Who/what are the kardashians?

It’s a team effort. Without EMT like you, the patient would never get to the trauma centre in time. Everyone is trained to do something different and it’s because we all work together that we achieve the incredible!

"I was just an EMT, " Hello you are on the front line in the medical field Don't ever say you were JUST an EMT ! You people are the true hero's Give yourself some credit

I am currently living in a country with no EMT services. Trust me your EMT role is vital and invaluable work.

Find a cure for metastatic ocular melanoma, thanks in advance lol ;)

Thank you. We need more people like you.

The other thing is that not everybody is really comfortable with public speaking, especially to a large group. In fact, most surveys rank "fear of public speaking" higher than "fear of death", which means that a significant number of people would rather be the corpse than the one delivering the eulogy. I'm lucky-I've never been scared of speaking in front of a large group. Tell me I've got to talk for an hour about a subject I'm familiar with, and I'm ready now. But I'm the outlier.

His breathing seems to be from nerves and emotion

Like OH my goodness this person is alive and needs to breathe! I don’t get why people complain. Let’s see them speak in front of a few hundred or thousand people!

I complained about the breathing, but I can tell you that it's not his fault. I've studied and worked with microphones and sound engineering, and it's because someone placed his microphone wrong. Had they placed it right you would have heard sighs, but not every breath he takes. So placing his microphone right would have solved the breathing issue, and it wouldn't have ruined his story telling.

whats the name of the surgeon?

What did he see ? Could you tell us.... I wanna know

The aspect of God is somewhat misunderstood, how could humans understand a being such as God as it is a being that is infinite in every way. While I have in the past struggled to wrap my head around God and how this being correlates with people and this world all I could conclude is due to the conservation laws of thermodynamics particularly the first law that states energy is neither created or destroyed only converted we do not enter a big empty and cease to exist, how could we defy laws that cannot be defied. We live in a world where we understand infinity and the definition of it has never changed, it is an inevitable truth that it exists and while some people think God doesn't exist this fact alone should be all that is required to understand when someone says that then they are wrong. We do not understand infinity and it appears that if energy is infinitely converting then existence should be continuous and without end. I tried to understand the bible, the quran etc etc and they all share a commonality which states the same thing. Of all the experiences I have had in my life I have to say the most pronounced is speaking to the being Christians refer to as Christ, Muslims refer to as Muhammad. I figured one day I would simply ask how and why, the amount of knowledge I obtained from such an simple question was enough to convince me God was there. However, I did not get some sort of spiritual enlightenment, I got vivid realizations of why people don't believe there is a God, why it should be virtually impossible and still have existence happen, and a lot of answers to questions people never realize is the staple of life itself. After all that I still wasn't completely convinced and it is difficult to explain but I fell asleep one day and I normally do not dream however this not only was a dream but it was the most vivid dream I had ever had and they were over a series of a few days. I know its gonna sound crazy but I saw a few times I existed and of those times how I died. Reincarnation is the system God uses for people to maintain balance in a world balance is fluctuating all the time. The very last dream was of a wreck caused by my own stupidity and cost my life and the lives of the people in the vehicle, then suddenly after I was on the bank of a very pretty lake waiting. I had a sense I was waiting on someone but no one but me was physically around but thee was a sense Christ (I refer to the being as Christ but it was the same entity of other religions) was there, instantly I felt better about the lives lost as I was reassured they went on to exist again and then I left his presence and was returned to another body. The most prolific thing about this is I mentioned to my mom memories of when I was born, the look of the interior of the hospital and what was being said. she confirmed the memory and was astonished that I could remember what no human on Earth seems to remember, when she asked how could I remember it so well, I said I asked God to remember it and so I did. I am quite aware it all sounds crazy but it is even more crazy to think this spontaneously happened out of thin air. From what I understand is we reside within the imagination of God and is why it is important to believe he is there so we are not forgotten. We were the product of creativity and creativity comes from the imagination and nowhere else and is why we can control certain things we are powerful enough to control with our own minds. I did ask a few atheists why they believed there was no God and mostly the end result was a more agnostic belief. But honestly the fact we must think to understand and knowing something is not the same as understanding it and a whole process needs to take place before you gain the understanding of what is being discussed should prove that consciousness is on a separate dimensional plane, otherwise there would be no thought process as the brain would be the controller for consciousness. But that isn't what happens, our consciousness tries to make sense of knowledge we do not yet posses and is the causation for the whole thought process. Honestly it may sound crazy but what is even more crazy is living in a society controlled by people who are NOT scientist or even the smartest of the lot allowing them to lead an entire group of people when we know free will exists. The fact we do this means mankind is not intelligent enough to understand the mind of God otherwise we would not feel compelled to shrink the world into a societal standard and follow rules regardless of intent in which they were created for a sense of safety and security. The world is too big for us all to live without a controlling factor of government, so why people think they should be able to grasp the mind of God is beyond me.

evilcowboy this is inspiring thank you for this, everything you’ve explained makes so much sense i relate to not being able to wrap my head around God either and im trying to have more faith.i would love to talk to you more it seems like you really understand and know God 😇

@@evilcowboy i know what you mean to a certain extent. 1) when I was younger and was first learning how to speak my parents told me I started to get angry at them for not talking about my older sister who died in the first, but I never had an older sister and I was never in a fire. From what my parents have told me, I used to go into great lengths about her and how she saved me, but she didn't make it. My mom said the weirdest moment was when I was getting a toy from the store and it was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and i sat down and started yelling, in the middle of the parking lot, how this is fire and when people told me it wasn't my eyes got wide and i yelled they don't know what they are talking about. 2) I am older now and I have little recollection of "my older sister", but I have narcolepsy with cataplexy and there have been incredibly strange moments where I really believe there is something greater out there. Some of the strangest include the lights I saw as a child, my memory when I am asleep and my weird dreams that sometimes gives me guidance into things that very few people would be able to understand.

laynn 10 Amen

And you work at an ICU? Can you wear a special hat or something? I want medical professionals working on me, not fantasists.

I am a max fax resident. it's never about talent, that I can guarantee.

Thank you for being a nurse! I found this video very interesting. We just lost our 4 yr old son Mikey on the operating table on 6/10/19. Mikey had a severe CHD and was having a thoractomy. His left lung artery exploded and he bled out immediately and was left brain dead. I wish I could have met everyone that worked on Mikey so I could have thanked them for trying.

@@christy49534c ty. I'm so sorry for your loss.

@Slippery Storm the doc is useless without proper gear, he can't operate with bare hands,

Oh no doubt it's a team effort and yes thank you for representing, the docs oft get the limelight but it's the folks behind the scene that actually make everything possible for the doc to do their work .

John Adams Thank their parents instead, your god isn’t real and definitely did not create anything.

Brett S. Stop with the nonsense.

Make me, or be silent while the adults in the room talk.