My med school friend just got into NSGY residency. Probably a good thing that we were only roommates for first year, the imposter syndrome glare was felt even then 🤣
As a medical student who worked with several neurosurgeons, I have to say this is exaggerating. They are in fact really nice, they never charge me for the blanket warmer.
As the psychiatrist married to the neurosurgeon I remember an evening in the early years of our marriage when he leaned over in bed and traced a pattern through My hair - he was mapping his approach to the surgery the next day - lol! Between us, we have a great appreciation for the brain.
Umm yeah! I still think I’d have been terrified when I realized what he was doing!! But hey! Who am I to disparage your marriage?!?! I just graduated with a lowly degree in psychology. If you’re both happy, that’s the absolutely only thing that matters! I’d still be terrified and/or paranoid after that experience. But, again, that’s just me! I suffer from anxiety, so I’m sure you have absolutely nothing to worry about!! (Absolutely no disrespect meant - I know and have no problem admitting that I’m quirky!!)
the chief of surgery at one of my med school's hospitals had a crayon drawing done by one of his kids, of which he was very proud, on the wall in his office. It showed a house with stick drawings of a mom and 2 kids labeled "our house" and a rectangular tall building with a sign "hospital" with a stick figure of a man labeled "Daddy's house". Even then, I thought it was very sad.
This brings back memories. My dad used to be a neurosurgeon before he retired. When I was a kid I used to play with a doctor’s kit at home and he would come in during the weekends and point out what I was doing wrong and how my surgeries werent realistic. Fun times!
OMG!! WOW!! I’m not only speechless - I don’t know how to react!! This has literally never happened to me before! 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ Ummm! So how did you feel like when he did that? (That’s the only thing I can think to say!)
There's something oddly heartwarming about the neurosurgeon appreciating the happiness of the JCPenney stock family. May he find the same if he can ever remember what his family looks like or where he last left them
My anatomy profesor is a doctor which worked in many fields over the years amasing soo much knowledge he can explain in the greatest possible detail every minute thing in the human body and everytime I rise my hand to answer a question nobody else knows I fell as if I was pushed out of a giant crowd to answer a question coming from god himself
I‘m a neurosurgeon and I can tell you: doing 100 surgeries a week is not good, doing 1 surgery for a week is the awesome stuff. Unfortunately my longest was only 18 hours but I assisted one that took 27 hours. It was the best day(s) of my life! PS: my wife won’t be bothered I didn’t say our wedding cause she is a neurosurgeon too. I always enjoy meeting her in the hallway!
@@charmainesmith5623 eat: didn’t, drink: didn’t, toilet: didn’t need to since I didn’t drink. No breaks. It was an AVM in a 4 year old it was bleeding all the time, adrenaline was high, adrenaline is all you need in days like these. Patient was severely disabled before surgery but recovered perfectly and did a little dance for me 3 months after. That’s what keeps you going.
As someone who scrubs (Surgical tech here) with neurosurgeons on a regular basis, this certainly tickles my funny bone! And it's 100% accurate! We especially have a neuro doc here who is literally here everyday. He works as if he will be destitute and on the streets if he misses a day. Please Dr. N, go home!
Please,, as a neurosurgery patient,, I beg you. Do not forget your patients are people not just skulls to crack. My first neurosurgeon, at a top ten hospital, had his own surgical suite. He was an asshat. I give that you need a bit of a god complex to crack into someone’s brain. But still,,,, he was an asshat. My favorite neurosurgeon was from The Cleveland Clinic, he has become a good friend even out of work. He’s human,, warm and caring. He held my hand and patted my head while I was having a panic attack before my surgery. Everyone else ignored me,,, he got me through that. I will be forever grateful that he is a compassionate human being. He’s done amazing work with deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s patients. He’s an amazing physician, surgeon and person. Please,,,, don’t become one of the many asshats. Become one of the rare compassionate ones. Thx
My son had a 6cm vestibular schwannoma that required several complex and lengthy (9 hours, 16 hours, and 8 hours) surgeries to fully debulk, plus a nerve anastomosis. The lead neurosurgeon on his case was just amazing, we are so grateful to him. He is incredibly intelligent and committed to his surgery, but also kind and compassionate. He said he was most proud of how the surgical team, comprising different specialities (paediatric neurosurgery, ENT, tumour specialists, paediatric anaesthesiologists) came together to ensure a successful outcome in a rare and complex case. Hats off to you, I wish you every success in your chosen field 🎓
😂 When they capped resident hours to 80 h per week on avg, Neurosurgery increased the duration of its residency from 6 to 7 years because 80 hrs per week for 6 years is not enough time to train neurosurgeons. Seriously.
@@ordinarytree4678 IKR?!!? I didn't realize that the residents had to clock in that many hours. This can't be healthy. How could anyone function properly?? Especially doing brain surgery! This just blew my mind. Lol!
My teenage daughter’s pediatric neurosurgeon made the incision further back from her hairline than he initially planned because right before surgery my husband told him she really cared about her hair. And in a location where her hair would cover the scar. Sadly he retired from ucsf in 2020. What an understanding gem
I'm a non-doctor from a family of doctors just appreciating what I didn't get myself into because I like sleeping and having a normal work-life balance.
Blanket warmer sleep is the best sleep. Sometimes they bribe the charge nurse to hang a liter of LR to go in during their nap, and they not only sleep like a baby angel, they awake refreshed and ready to go!
I used to be a caretaker of a neurosurgeon’s home for a few years he was one of the best in his field He had a very beautiful house in a wealthy neighborhood This hits home more than you think He never came home in the time I was employed by him he maybe stayed in his house once I worked there so long I almost forgot what he looked like b
I was a neurosurgeon and lived like this for a long time. I don't know 5 days in a row but I definetely kept changing ORs due to continuous flow from my ED and elective cases combined for3 days, 2 hrs sleep every now and then. Daily dexamethasone injections around 10.30 AM when cortisol starts to drop and I start feeling exhausted. Now I quit and planning for another specialty, just realized I don't want to spend my life like that. Also looking at colleagues and other people like they are not important is toxic. Most of my NS friends got a divorce at least once. It took me 2 painful years after quitting ns to realize that. I wish I never chose NS in first place.
Psychiatry. Medicine, work life balance and working in a field that badly requires good doctors for a very vulnerable and overlooked patient population, what more could someone want. Plus you get to work with some pretty awesome people. 😏
I actually have a Neuro-vascular Surgeon and he's one of my favorite Drs! His bedside manner is amazing. He gets my jokes and is able to joke back. Also, I was in the ER once for severe migraine issues that he was concerned were vascular in nature, he actually came down to the ER from his very palatial 4th floor office and sat and talked with me for quite a while. He's the head of the number one stroke team in the state. Clearly he's a one in a million, actual personable neurosurgeon. And then there's my plain, regular neurologist. Who has no personality, no compassion and has given up on me, in person, on 3 separate occasions. He just said he had no idea what my issue was, my problems are too complex and just turned and walked out the door.
): I've read that a lot of neurologists are like that to migraneurs. I'm sorry you had to deal with that, hopefully yr receiving good treatment now. Migraines can be so disabling.
I have multiple types of head pain, including what I now know are primary stabbing headaches/icepick headaches (quite aptly named). When I described them as best I could to one of my past neurologists, she looked at me, raised a very skeptical eyebrow, and stated "I have absolutely *no* idea what you're talking about.". She then turned on her heel, strode away, and that was my last visit with her. I've seen a plethora of doctors in my life, but rarely have I felt so stupid, humiliated, judged, etc. by one. Is it really so hard to say "I'm sorry, but I can't think of anything that matches the pain you're describing. I can refer you to someone who might, though," and then do so? Especially since years later, another neurologist with horrible bedside manner did just that, which is how I finally found out what they're called. I mean, he did it after he made me cry twice, but still.
Problem too complex for a neurologist reminds me of the auto mechanic who I watch here on RU-vid who just this very day completed the diagnosis on a car's problems and traced the issue to a bad solder joint on a fuse box component. This car had even been to the dealer who couldn't diagnose the issue. This guy is the go to guy for hard issues. He diagnosed another issue that another dealer ran a parts cannon on and located the issue once he checked on a ground strap that had corroded in 3 years! Giving up on a patient says you don't know how to do your job to start with and you don't know how to try out some cross-discipline consulting to see if the issue crosses over disciplines.
Coming from someone who would have died from a subdural hematoma, thank you to all the neurosurgeons out there who are scrubbed and prepped for their next patient at all times🥰 My craniotomy was forty-two years ago, I was just a toddler so I don't even remember my surgeon.
Bless our family's ped neurosurgeon! He had a bank of monitors AT HOME connected to monitors of his patients. This was back in the early 90s. Watching these monitors, he saw my then 4 y/o crashing 12 hrs post op. There is something to say for ped neurosurgeons blurring of work-life balance. BTW, he took up pogo sticking (with a helmet, naturally) & was a huge advocate for ALL parents to give it a try.
Sir, I work with neurosurgeons for a living, and I'll have you know that- you absolutely nailed this, thank you, I'm sending it to all my co-workers in the dept immediately. We even have one doc that the running joke is the idea that he'll go to the pre-op area and just grab any patient he can rather than go home. Head canon for the same doc - Dr. Smith from plastics once shared a KitKat with NS doc, and now that's why that plastics doc is ALWAYS the one invited for co-surgeries.
Never underestimate the power of a candy bar when your coworkers are hangry. I learned that lesson years ago during critical care fellowship and started buying bite-sized assorted chocolate in bulk for morning rounds 😀
To this day, I still cherish one of the greatest days I had during my internship was assiting the same neurosurgeon from the morning, through the evening, all the way to my night shift; I entered so many surgeries that the anesthesio resident knew my name and already was joking with me and remember when she said "how you doing, Tired as f*ck I guess" and the neurosurgeon was so nice and explained everything to me while operating with hard rock and progressive rock on the back ground!!
Hilarious . It was one time I saw that neurosurgery was asked to come to Pediatric ICU and when they came , they came is surgical gowns from their OT itself. These guys are legends and not to be messed with.
45 yrs nursing, 38 of them in the OR. Showed your "turnover time" to some of the staff and docs at work. Hilarious! Thank you. We need the comic relief!
I was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and had my first brain surgery at 3 weeks old. Now, as a 15 year old who is otherwise pretty healthy, I am so thankful to God and my neurosurgeon. Now I am planning to be a peds nurse because of all the times I’ve had nurses take care of me.
I am a doctor, but my daughter was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma (after ordered the MRI because her doctor and a neurologist would not) at age 8. Turns out that I was in the same class in med school as he was. He checked on her every day at 5 am and again around 8 pm. Even as the patient’s mom, I was concerned if he ever went home. Anyway, we are eternally grateful, my daughter is now a Sophomore in college!
AS an OR nurse all I have to say is 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love your video's. The first on I watched was Turnover time. You were spot on and our surgeons thought it was funny too. Of course there were a few we did not show it to.🤣
The best part about neurosurgeons “living in the operating room” is when they don’t plan out their cases to coincide with how many surgical trays the hospital has and how long it takes to reprocess them: Cleaning Disinfecting/Assembling/Sterilizing! 🙃
True story (as told to me 3rd party....) Had a friend in urology residency. He was having lunch with a neurosurgeon resident. The neurosurgeon resident told my friend he was quitting residency and going into psychiatry. My friend was utterly shocked - why would you quit neurosurgery!!!!!!! One sentence. It Wasn't Invasive ENOUGH....
I literally know nothing about medicine but I still laugh hysterically at this. It also simultaneously makes me want to go into medicine and stay as far away from it as possible.
god this video had me in absolute stitches! i've been yearning for more wholesome comedy surrounding occupational situations after having burned myself out watching so many shows focused on shock humor and gratuitous violence. its a nice switch in comedic effect.
I'm watching this again and I'm only just now realising the subtle implications you put in that the neurosurgeon is not only genuinely extremely competent at their job, but there's that underlying sense that they do it because they *do* actually care and they feel an urgency to always get it right, to *be* right for their patients. I'm sure neurosurgeon would never admit this, though...
Psychiatry ... Can you tell me, does the personality disorder choose the specialty, or the specialty develop the personality disorder? Question from a psychologist 🥴😅
Not a psychiatrist (although an absolute nerd), but which personality disorder? Because by god are there many that could be factored into this question Edit: furthermore, I’d advice against saying “the personality disorder choose the specialty” as that may objectify your disordered clients, wouldn’t you say? With all due respect, I think the word you’re looking for is “determines”
The personality disorder chooses the specialty, definitely. The general favorites in medicine are Borerline, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Narcissistic. Source- am a psychiatry resident
After completing 2 months of neurosurgery posting during my MS training, I relate 💯 % to this very funny. Prepping psychiatrist with a trimmer 😂 Very funny content. Keep it up.
