I‘m a surgeon and I apologize ALL the time. Yesterday for example I told a patient I was sorry I couldn’t operate on him today because anaesthesia was lame and lazy and didn’t want to work overtime again. Took me all the effort though.
I read Surgeon Apocalypse :D , but I read with my Brain, not my Eyes. That happens a lot -.- In A Way, it was an Apocalypse for the general Surgeon, so everthing plays out
Same, in middle of have-to-do stuff, see title and was pressing play while brain still registering what it read. I'd better get back to the other stuff now.
He didn’t sign his real name that he’s always trying to get the surgeon to call him… I guess the surgeon did so well with apologizing that he now has a pass for not knowing anesthesia’s name
Thanks so much for pointing this out. I've been having eye problems (oh, the irony) and my vision wasn't good enough to see that without your heads up to really peer at it.
as a former ER scribe, I concur. Several ER docs gave me lessons about how to express condolences to relations when a patient died without saying, "I'm sorry". Those words were taboo and would get you sued, or so the tale goes.
I'm pretty sure doctors in medical school learn to be really really vicious in defending their lunch money. Considering it probably takes the 3-6 years to save up enough for lunch I can't blame them.
"what you have done for staff morale... it's more than we could do with 1000 wellness modules." Spot on! As always incredible insight into every aspect of every profession!
This video is supposed to be an exaggeration, but in reality when I think about it...I really never have seen a surgeon apologize for something that was their fault.
As a student I witnessed a surgeon cut her assistant who was completely stationary holding a retractor the surgeon had placed and told them to hold. "I think you've just cut me". [Awkward 5 second pause] "Your hand got in the way of where I was cutting." Needless to say I am not a surgeon.
Dr Glauconflacken, I'm a retired Nurse Anesthetist. Retirement has been rough for me. I really miss my job. But you have done more for my mental health over this last week - since I first discovered you - than any treatment, drug or therapy - EVER! Well done! 😃💗
Man I felt this shock. My podiatrist is a nice guy with patients, but I saw him ripping into nurses almost every time I went to an appointment and half of the time it was a miscommunication/assumption he made. Did he ever apologize? Nope, just moved along like he was in the right and smiled like he wasn't being an ass two seconds ago.
I'm an OR nurse and everytime a surgeon is losing his mind on the staff, I always wonder what patient's would think if they suddenly woke up to that. Patients have NO idea what happens after they're asleep. I used to think a great reality show, would be putting hidden cameras in the OR for when the surgeon goes apeshit and then showing it. Sometimes an anesthesia provider is the culprit, too. Circulators and scrubs aren't allowed to go off no matter what, but surgeons are allowed to go off over anything with little to no repercussions.
My surgeon said that I had a lot of adhesions from gallstones - closest he came to admitting that I was right and he was **wrong** that the pain I had wasn't "musculoskeletal" and that it was gall attacks.
So true. Love everyone's reactions when the surgeon is running late - everyone just quietly waiting and bored. Now if someone other than the surgeon is late they are all wondering and asking where the person is, paging them, and yelling at them for the hold up. LOL.
If hospital legal is good, they will know doctors who explain the situation and are apologetic elicit more sympathy than those who don't admit guilt and draw less lawsuits :)
I clicked on this so fast! One time I was scrubbed in with one of my general surgery docs and he was being really grouchy to me. When he came back for the next case instead of saying sorry for being grumpy he said “I was hungry. I’m better now.” It was the closest I ever got to a sorry. Can you make a surgery one when you give the doctor what they asked for but it wasn’t what they actually wanted and it’s your fault for not mind reading?
I have been there when everyone makes eye contact around the room and immediately asks what is wrong with the doctor. Gotta love the certificate with a CEO backwards E.
This makes me laugh because I was a patient who received an apology (and a handshake) from a surgeon. When the nurses heard, they excitedly pressed me for details after my appointment as they giggled to themselves that the Doc was made, by the hospital, to make nice with me for his behaviour.
So for those asking what happened: I had a planned orthopedic surgery. My surgeon and I had discussed my issues with pain control/complications due to a genetic disorder, and come up with a treatment plan that involved admission for an otherwise outpatient procedure. To avoid giving too much detail, the long and short of it is he didn't follow through with any of it, and caused me significant distress/unnecessary pain/delay of treatment. My mother snapped. Never seen someone go full momma bear so fast. She made some calls, a patient liason was involved, the end result was the surgeon being educated/the eventual apology. As a fun little bonus, another surgeon who I saw had gone to med school with the offending ortho. He was unsurprised at what had transpired and laughed at the other doc having to go to "charm school".
Does that mean you’re watching this during an ongoing surgery? 😂 as someone not in medicine, it’s funny to see the stereotypes reinforced in the comments
Fun fact, HR sole focus is to benefit the business. They aren't the employee advocate. They will screw employees over real quick to protect the business. That's what the union rep is for, or in the case of travel nurses, the agency recruiter.
Hearing a surgeon apologice must be the same feeling some people have when their parents apologize to them for doing something wrong instead of derailing the conversation to avoid having to make an apology.
Left eye done! Right eye is scheduled. Luckily I have no nerve damage, according to my wonderful ophthalmologist. He’s great! Not funny, but kind and really good at what he does!
@@melissaconnellyjones2622 I’m really sorry to hear that. I was so scared when I was told I had narrow angles. I’m so glad there are people who love to fix eyeballs. I was really Squamish when I had to dissect an eyeball in biology class.
When I was a SPI teaching med students to do normative exams and having them give checkups you could always tell who was going into surgery and who was going into peds. Every time.
I would've gone for a reverse from the CEO. "We heard you apologized 😁. See to it that never happens again 😠. We can't have you admitting fault for anything. It's a massive liability." Still though funny shit as usual.
I'm coming from the veterinary side, but I worked with two boarded surgeons who were awesome. They expected a lot from their staff, but they genuinely cared about all of us, and our department had some of the best morale in the whole hospital.
I knew a dude at school who was aiming to become a surgeon. 'Andreas', top grades, driven, a probable sociopath with a terrifying lack of empathy... He would argue, ridicule and be genuinely mean to avoid conceding fault in any way. God, I hope I never need surgery at whatever hospital he works at now. Someone tell me not all surgeons are like that?
"Not all surgeons are like that." I mean, you didn't ask for an honest answer but you did ask for that particular answer so, there you go. Enjoy. Seriously though, I'd say most surgeons develop the same attitude as the attendings that train them. They are people and people tend to mimic their superiors. Monkey see monkey do.
I have watched three times. Love the CEO’s reaction 😂I am a theatre nurse who has worked in OT more than 10 years. This is so true. Surgeons don’t apologize.
Please keep doing what you do. I think you'll be as big as Dr. Mike, soon. I've been watching y'all and Dr. Schmidt from the jump. Would love to see some collabs.
I almost had to go back a few seconds and make sure I heard the actual apology. It happens so fast, I nearly didn't register it. But I did get it, and the aftermath was funny.
I love when one surgeon is too lazy to do his job and then another one has to do it because, ya know, morbidity and mortality, and they get mad at me and tell me that it’s “bullshit!”
I almost got an apology from the OB who delivered my first child. He'd been quite dismissive of me during labor, like "Quit being such a big baby!" though not in those words. I was evading pain relief because our insurance didn't cover it (1986, Texas,) but finally he's like, "You have to have an epidural, you're going to wear yourself out," (true, I was at the point of understanding why women just give up and die in childbirth.) Once that took effect, I really wasn't thinking about anything except the blissful relief. Someone comes in, says "turn over," then, "turn over again," then "surgery, now!" They do general anesthesia on top of my fresh epidural: you tell me, is this because they were afraid I'd freak out? Four hours later, I wake up, baby's okay, but I learned later (different doctor,) that the baby's heartrate had dropped critically low, and he was a little blue (and pissed) when he came out. Later OB and pediatrician come into my room and OB is kind of sheepish, notes that I had actually birthed a toddler. (He did have a ginormous head.) So maybe I wasn't such a big baby? (He also (slightly) cut the baby's cheek when he sliced me open, but maybe that's not uncommon? Except I don't think he realized the baby was in the posterior position (sunnyside up) and literally had gotten stuck, so...he probably needed to feel a little sheepish about that, too.) The bright side to story is, our terrible insurance didn't cover any part of a normal birth, so we had prepaid. But they did cover c-sections, so we actually got a refund. 😂
My patient: hemoglobin is dropping. Obviously bleeding from op site. Surgeon: take an iron study and a peripheral blood film. Find out whats causing the anemia. Coz it’s obviously NOT my fault. Haha every damn time.
These videos showing Surgeon always remind me of working in a hospital in High school for nursing classes. It was the only time in my life I have seen a 30-something man throw a temper tantrum. I will never remember what he was screaming about, only that he was making it very clear he was upset about his surgery being cancelled and he was doing this in the General Ward.
I was about to say "oh come on, they apologize all the time," then tried to think of a single instance in which I've heard a surgeon apologize. Still working on it.
I can't decide what part is the funniest- the patient waking up and getting in on it, the CEO showing up and giving the surgeon an award, or that the "E" in CEO on the award is backwards.
Gather round, and let the curmodgeonly anaesthesiologist regale ye with a tale of old. There was once a surgical dept. head (I shall not name the specialty) who was so notoriously late that the Sandman's horde (anaesthesiology) deployed their lawful good and wrote down alllll the minutes of waiting time. Every day. For a year. And on the thirteenth moon, they added the sum and went to the sovereign of the land to present their findings. The wise one ruled that the perpetually late surgeon owed them what amounted to a year's wages for costs incurred, and proceeded to subtract said sum from the sad surgeon's wages. Lo and behold, for in the land far and wide, not a single minute was wasted on waiting time henceforth... and the Sandman's horde happily returned to their chaotic good ways...
But the CEO just contaminated the operating theatre, thank you CEO you've just undone Surgery's good work and everyone will have to re-sterilise the room.
I look forward to the day any ortho surgeon apologizes. Many of them act like whiney little kids. I always look forward to your latest and greatest Dr. Glaucomflecken.
"Surgeons don't need to apologize" Well it's obvious they do but honestly in all the time I've spent in surgical wards , and operation rooms I've never seen a surgeon mess something up , not even some miniscule not important detail Sure as a nursing student it could be that I never saw one mess up because I don't stick around surgeons enough to see everything but every time I interacted with a surgeon they were ON POINT
It’s okay, hun. That patina of excellence will fade real fast after Surgery bro reams you out for an order they wrote, you followed, and was wrong. Or, when you have to call three times during a shift for their tanking patient. Signed, _Old Battle Axe Nurse
