I remember they gave me cereal at a hospital once. I shouldn’t have stayed to close to that fire as a toddler but at least I found out my favorite cereal….…I also found out I had bronchitis.
Do this is why doctors fail to find things. Like, they’re overloaded with a billion different patients and way too many things to think about at once. It seems like it’s so easy to overlook things if you’re mind (and body) is moving in a billion different directions at once
Especially when you are running on 4 hours of sleep in the past 3 days or something like that. And it's only gonna get worse with the mandates and tens of thousands of nurses being fired for a personal choice. Get ready for Canadian wait times and shitty care!!
@@dominiquer156 does “personal choice” actually mean “not getting vaccinated in a global pandemic and therefore putting hundreds or thousands of people’s lives at risk, especially because they work in the literal medical industry”? Because if so, that’s on them; that’s their fault. It’s not about a “personal choice” when the circumstances are dire.
@@shaybrown7355 as someone who’s parents a COVID specialist and was trained by the cdc on COVID regulations . The vaccination isn’t as useful as you would think….sadly 🤷🏾♀️. The vaccination only works if you’re on the severe side of COVID where if you’re asymptomatic, mild, or moderate it doesn’t protect you. When you get the vaccine it lays dormant in your body until the virus hits but it needs certain antibodies to activate the vaccine. Which only comes from those severe COVID cases which most times are those on ventilators or severe/ moderate breathing issues . Those patients are the ones who get hospitalized and get a steroid shot in their belly that pushes a bunch of health antibodies in your system to fight the virus . Then there’s the people who don’t realize that the medicine they’re already taking has the same/ similar ingredients to the vaccine so it counteracts in their system. What ends up happening is their body rejects it which most times comes in the form of migraine, nausea, sleeping a lot , dehydration, etc . Most people don’t research the ingredients in their vaccines and medicine . Which plays a key roll especially in the COVID vaccine and yes this included the boosters and 2 other COVID vaccines coming out in the summer/ fall . Plus the vaccinated are spreading the virus 50% more than unvaccinated. BUT you have to remember they will never publicly say that because this is all about money and control . That’s why there is a huge lawsuit against the cdc for deformation against the unvaccinated because for the past 2 year they blamed COVID spreading on them when that wasn’t true . Hospitals are starting to speak up spreading the truth ! Hospitals are also the #3 super spreaders behind young children ages 2 through 10 .
Hey, you can always add a little peanut butter to those graham crackers and Ginger Ale. Maybe a tiny can of low sodium chicken noodle soup but no bowl to warm it up in? What about some off brand, bland jello cups? That sounds like what’s in our patient nutrition room at work 😂😂😂
Do y'all at least get to sometimes eat the ice cream soft food patients can get? That shit is the best part of staying at a hospital, on demand ice cream lol
When I was an STNA and worked in a nursing home I used to have to help the nurses dig out impacted elderly people. Definitely one of the most smells I've ever encountered. I felt really bad for the poor parents though, none of them wanted to be there either.
As long as you’re off for 8 hours in between shifts you’re good to go!! Even if 1-2 hours are driving, or making up for your lack of a break by eating and pooping. Also, it’s because hospitals are so short, because they don’t have the staff/doctors and PAs to be there 24/7 as needed for the demands of the job. It’s not their fault people are literraly “too stupid” in general to be doctors let alone take care of themselves to the point that less people wouldn’t need hospitalized. (I’m semi generalizing and not ignoring unwarranted heart attacks/strokes/semis and other cancer/conditions, but a lot of health issues are avoidable bu recognizing early signs and seeing your PCP regularly as well as getting tests done and living a somewhat healthy lifestyle. I see a ton of alcoholics and diabetics at the PCU I work at. Those are more lifestyle than genetic. Don’t treat yourself like shit people.
This is what we go through as doctors. It is dangerous for everyone, I have had many good colleagues die on the drive back home because they fell asleep wh8le driv8ng after working 24-36 hours.
After surgery they almost had to do this to me, I said F no and did it myself 😭😭😭😭😭😭 they screwed me up with that surgery anyways, and I have to do it again next year. FML 🤦♀️ I have ptsd from that one
A lot of people talking about the hours and such. A lot of people dont seem to understand supply, and demand, we need doctors, but we do not have enough doctors, it takes a decade of schooling/internship/whatever else. Some of the hardest tests to pass, and if you fail too many times your credit hours mean nothing, and youre now in 100k debt or more. That debt scares away a lot of people, and if you are bleeding out from a stabbing, or gunshot, or need some kind of lifesaving surgery immediately, your doctor cant rest. Plus there are laws to follow, you might have that 20 year surgery nurse who could likely do the job of a doctor, but without that test/college paper that says I can do X, they cant help you.
Unfortunately I’ve had to do exactly the first one and I’ve been that constipated before, I feel for people who have deal with this problem. It’s scary bcuz based on how far the gastrointestinal doctors in an entire region are booked out, you can almost gauge the overall health of a region 🥺 if you can get an appointment with this kind of specialist in under 6 months in my region, you’re doing pretty good 😌 otherwise most of us in my region won’t get to see one of these awesome doctors quickly, unless it’s in the emergency room. Myself and one of my sons has issues with severe constipation and Miralax is one of my besties 🤣🥰🥺 and mineral oil, glycerin suppositories and Fleet enemas, senokot or Dulcolax definitely isn’t for me or my sons, it causes more painful cramping than I’m willing to put up with. Funny how I’ll tolerate the generally more invasive enemas better than a supposed “gentle laxative” like Dulcolax 🤣🤨
Umm I'm a nurse and I know for a fact that if you tried to reach up Into someones rectum and forcefully pull out their stool, that has lawsuit written all over it.
Ok. I know it’s TMI but I have constipation issues. One time 13 years ago, I went 9 days without a bowel movement. My gastroenterologist, not the nurse, calmly put on some gloves, stuck his finger up my bootyhole, and literally tore me a new one when he pulled out unholy shit. Me and my bootyhole were never the same. Eat your fibre y’all.
( Do they not have C.N.A's give solution enemas to loosen impactions anymore? I'm sure that they wouldn't miss doing that procedure one little butt. Bit )
Why are we okay with not letting doctors, who are literally responsible for saving our lives, have rest? I don't want a sleep deprived doctor. I want a well rested doctor. I want a doctor who is able to devote enough time to me to really help me, rather than shuffle quickly from one patient to the next because their caseload is so full they can't even sit down, let alone eat, go to the bathroom, or rest. It is so very very messed up that this is the system we have.
@@Sbeatly no There isn't enough doctors, hell not enough staff in general My mom works as room service in a hospital and there's time we're she is THE ONLY ONE ON ROOM SERVICE FOR THE ENTIRE 8 FLOOR HOSPITAL The health care industry is incredibly understaffed
Sure let them go home at night, if you have an emergency, just wait til the morning. It sucks but unless you have enough doctors to fully staff 2-3 shifts that is how it is.
@@LMvdB02 Many in the US. A trauma doctor in my story. But many US doctors earn well over a million dollars a year. Many earn several million a year. How much per hour do you believe that is?
I never understood why a medical system would function this way on purpose. The people who are responsible for life and death should be healthy and well-rested. Why is this still a thing????? Also why don't labor laws forbid this sort of thing?
Short answer: $$$$. At least in the U.S, residents have next to zero power because of The Match. Once you're placed, that's basically endgame. Doing anything to disrupt the system can get you blacklisted; unlike other jobs where if the abuse is abundant you can up and leave easily, for residents, this is sadly not the case. There are not enough residency spots yearly to go around as is, and if you do break with your previous spot, EVERY OTHER PROGRAM will know about it. Thus, residents feel powerless and just suck it up. Work over the 80 hour work week limit? Keep quiet. So tired you have to call an Uber to get home safely after a 36 hour call? Keep quiet. Patients or co-workers abusive? You get the idea. Programs love using residents since the govt pays them to train each one. For the surgical specialties especially, the average resident makes the hospital much, MUCH more money than they cost to train, and they can pay them less per hour than more attendings or NP/PAs. And considering that your average resident works the equivalent of two FULL TIME jobs hours-wise and are STILL making on average about $63k a year is a reason why so many of us are also mentally unhealthy on top of what you've mentioned.
According to my attendings; if we didn’t work so many hours we’d have to train for 2-3 times longer. He was probably only half joking. Besides, every high performance job requires those kinds of hours. Ask anyone who’s served in the military, is an intern or junior at a respected law firm, is a higher level analyst in the investment/marketing space, an engineer at a Silicon Valley startup, all of them work just under 100 hours/week
Because of the amount of knowledge they have to absorb. It literally takes that many hours. Doctors need to have that much experience before they can safely practice independently. So if they work fewer hours they would have to add on an extra year to their schooling.
My father almost died at the hospital quite recently. They saved his life once, he couldn’t breathe due to covid. Eventually though, he almost died again when he became severely dehydrated. The doctors forgot to give him fluids. Our doctors are extremely overworked and don’t even have time to use the restroom in between patients. We end up writing off incidents like this as lazy doctors but the reality is, doctors can easily make mistakes when they’re sleep deprived and starving. The system needs to change, and fast.
Thank you for mentioning the bathroom thing. It’s so true that sometimes we don’t even have time to use the bathroom…it can feel like a privilege at times 🤦🏻♀️
My grandfather needs around the clock care for his many organ issues and dementia. We took him to the hospital during one of his flare ups where he literally cannot advocate for himself and they didn't let my mom in (a nurse who knows all of his medical information) in because of covid. She tried explaining his issues while they were still outside to the doctors and they said "we'll just let our patient tell us what he is experiencing thank you" in the most rude tone. Then they didn't tell us when they released him on the OPPOSITE side of the hospital for hours while we waited for the call from the parking lot. They just rolled my Tata on his walker and left him right outside the hospital during a winter night when he obviously can't even stand on his own.
@@savannaobregon3823 that is horrible, that's a messed up hospital for sure. im so sorry that happened, I hope that your grandfather is doing better at the moment. my mother wasn't allowed to visit my father after he had just woken up from being intubated for about 8 days because of covid. she had to facetime him, she wasnt allowed to go to him and help calm him. she had to wait 21 days until she was allowed in to finally see her husband. hospitals are in pretty terrible conditions at the moment.
Can I just say, I really respect how rational and understanding you are about the people who are technically responsible for your father's death. Most people who are in grief over a loss immediately blame anyone who could've prevented that loss, and I appreciate that you understand that the true cause is an inherently unethical system.
I saw an episode arc on ER about the issues with being incredibly overworked, and the way the doctor described it was perfect. She said when you get on a plane, do you want that pilot to be on his 36th hour without sleep? No? Then why would it be any different for somebody else who's in charge of the lives of others? (The context was her being a resident who had to go back to being a med student for a year, and was realizing just how insane it was since she was seeing it from such a different perspective. Aaannd she was essentially made fun of for not being "tough" enough to handle it so nobody listened to her)
Next time you're in an ambulance ask if they work 12, 24, 36, or 48hr shifts. I used to work 36s and BOY was I white knuckled on the steering wheel trying to focus after 20hrs. Or trying to start an IV?? Don't even get me started on doing the math to convert lbs to kg then administer .2mg of medication that comes in a 20ml bottle so you need to convert ml to mg based on the ratio of medication in the mixture... to a BABY being held by a crying mother who is watching your every move like a hawk. So much pressure, you've been awake for 30hrs, you're recalculating your math over and over in your head because you don't want to go to jail for killing a baby so now that's all you're thinking about is your life being over for missing a decimal, with the nightmare of this child's face and mother screaming... you can hardly see the tic marks on the syringe... you're shaking from exhaustion, fear, and the 7 energy drinks and coffees you've had in the past day and a half on shift as you drive your elbow into your thigh to stabilize your Parkinsons looking hand as you bring the needle towards the baby and unpredictable mother. And recite 10 hail marys for all of your sins, begging for her forgiveness and protection right now. Oh, and that was all for minimum wage. ALL of emergency medicine is out here struggling in the U.S, but at least Dr's aren't behind the wheel of a top heavy, 400k mi on the engine, flying toaster going head on with traffic and running red lights, hoping they don't mix up adenosine and atropine, and PRAYING they don't push the adult dose of epinephrine to an infant during cardiac arrest.
I remember that epsidoe. She had done the math wrong on a IV med and almost killed a child. That was an intense episode. And yet things still haven't changed
@@margauxf4321 It's honestly a mess top to bottom, but traditions are so long held and well respected for zero reason. Simply because that's how they did it 70 years ago, is what a lot of the stupidity boils down to really. It's ridiculous. Medicine needs a top-down makeover with a fine tooth comb, not more endless disjointed, unconnected automation/tech.
Honestly it must be painful as a doctor to know how harmful it is to be sleep deprived, stressed and on a poor diet And still put themselves through it The system is a joke
I'm with everyone on this, why is this a thing. We get upset when they force truck drivers to drive long hours. But completely fine for doctors to make life or death decisions while dead asleep. 🤔
Town planning - seriously was amazed at the job package my housemate has for super relaxed hours, easy work and amazing pay. Look into it in your location.
@@cidd801 Okay, but by not becoming a doctor you're increasing this same workload for everyone else, if you were legitimately considering it you probably should do it
This is why I left med school. The reality just set in how much my life wouldn't be for me to control much less enjoy. Became a HVAC tech and Plumber instead. Making almost double the money my former now graduated classmates are making as interns. I hope to start a business soon and by that point would make what they do if they were attending. Good luck to all the students out there, it's a hard unforgivening life. But if you love it more power to you.
Man in in the same boat except I decided not to go even after getting accepted. Working for my county, get paid excellently with 5% rasie every year and ability to continue moving up in positions. With investments, I'll make more than I ever did as a physican and work less. The debt nowadays is killer too.
@@AJ-ox8xy covid has really exposed that too. I'm not against people getting vaccinated by choice but when the people getting hospitalized and dying have 3-4 or more comorbidites, shouldn't we be telling people to get healthy as well? Then to treat all healthy people like they are equally at risk of hospitalization and dying as the people that actually are is laughable. Other diseases still have went on killing more people than covid, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity all which are often lifestyle diseases. Yet here we are with covid being the big bad guy. The medical system like you said is just sick care.
Glad you found a path that works for you, but you're dreaming if you think you're going to make over 200k / yr working 40 hrs a week without a professional degree or a serious silver spoon (or an extraordinary invention or smthg) Sadly you have to suffer if you want to make real money and have an iota of freedom/power
Meanwhile the nurse, who actually performed the disimpaction, hasn’t taken a sip of water or pissed in the last 10 hours. But it’s fine…everything’s fine…we’re fine
Not to add gasoline to the fire but I have also never ever had a physician hold up a pannas while I change a dressing (and I have personally changed a lot of pannis dressings). In all honesty I’ve only ever once seen a physician even take a blood pressure. I love and respect my docs but don’t act like you do the grunt work. I’ve been a nurse for a decade and I still sometimes go home crying… sometimes I cry because I’m not even remotely surprised but what I saw and did and it sucks.
@@williamking6787 Well, sounds like college will be a well needed rest for you, then! I kid. I *do* hope your adrenal glands don't burn out like mine did. You be on meds the rest of your life 🙄
@@dutchik5107 Yeah, it can. Adrenal insufficiency can be caused by a few different things, such as an autoimmune disease attacking the glands and damaging them, so they don't work as well or maybe at all if the damage is bad enough. In my case, I was born into and raised in very dysfunctional and abusive situations, which kept on until my 20s. Abuse puts your body in "fight/flight/freeze" mode, but that state is only meant to be temporary, to kick in and get you out of danger. But if you stay in bad situations, then the body keeps responding to it with fight/flight, and my adrenals just...burned out. Of course, I have a hereditary weakness of the body, so mine was more likely to break. Someone with really healthy genetics could go through the same thing and be fine.
@@OuchingTigerLimpingDragon Stress has been linked to autoimmune diseases, actually. It's pretty well established now. There's also a pattern of women being significantly more likely to develop autoimmune disease than men, but we're not sure yet as to why.
There should be a research focus, on measuring dementia caused by sleep deprivation in the field of health care. I think it'd be an interesting focal point.
SO sad that it is so true !!!!!!! Waw !!! I actually just filmed a video during my ON CALL shift. I was up for no joke 30 hours. You can see in the video that I am almost delirious jaja sleep deprive. I dont have the video up but you will see what I mean. It should be up by Wednesday. Everyone stay safe ! pls
@@SLYKM jajaja ! Thank you ! I do have my 24hrs on call IN the surgical ICU video NO sleep and Pediatric ICU 2 hours of sleep. But I will have the other video soon! Stay safe :)
The problem with the medical system, over worked and understaffed. This creating mor misdiagnosis and illness in those actually in the medical feild. Then covid on top of it
im currently a medical student in Egypt. we Dont really see many patients through out medical school. Ive been watching your videos and even tho they are incredibly funny , they are truly causing me a ton of anxiety and scaring the living hell out of me. so is it real? is being a resident such a horrible job?
Yes, it's real here in America. People have literally committed suicide because of it. If you don't see Patients while in Med School, how in the world do you know what you are doing??? You don't! Now I know about Egyptian Doctors... That scares me! 😆
Oh sweet doctors. My father's a doctor and my husband's an NP you guys go through so much! Being on call is insane. I used to spend the night with my dad at the hospital ER when he worked overnight to get time with him. I loved it. Completely not a thing that could be done now.
That's why many doctors support some version of socialized medicine. Secondly medicaid and medicare are socialist policies so it is absolutely baffling to me as an American who voted for Trump, how so many of my fellow Americans can genuinely try to equate socialism to communism. Especially considering American capitalism is one of the biggest driving factors of Chinese communism! But we don't want to talk about that. We don't like to see the irony of our own ignorance.
Oh please, we see how well those patients are taken care of everyday in the ER. Soiled from their mid back to toe, left in their deteriorating condition for days and then sent to the ER because “they’re not acting right” 🙄
@@youngswoll3 I'm sorry that's happening in the Nursing homes where you are, but that's not happening in mine. Even as short staffed as we are we care about our residents and work hard to provide the best care we can. It's not always perfect, but I've taken care of the same residents for many years and I consider them family. We need more help! We need to come up with staffing solutions instead of blaming. Thank you!
As a nurse, I love the senior reminding the intern that all those things are still part of their job 😂 Patient care is a team effort, the grimmer side isn't just the jobs of the nurses and HCAs
Fecal disimpactions are within the nurses scope of practice. Although with good nursing care they can be avoided. May need a doctors order though. I have never seen an intern have to do a disimpaction.
It is a team effort however these duties can be performed by literally anyone on the nursing team or a medical student. I need to focus on the notes that haven't been written or the patients that haven't been seen so I can go home after a 15 hour work day that I have do again tomorrow all for no overtime. Yes, menial stuff like this should be delegated. And I was former CNA. This stuff is nothing to me.
@@jonfilibuster8499 Agreed it is a team effort. That's why where we work the patients nurse do it. Although it's rare that it even happens because nursing here is diligent about bowel care. Surgery interns are already busy as is. Nurses that weasel out of doing this part of their job to get the intern who's already being worked to death are just plain bad nurses IMO.
@@jasonb4254 Your place sounds awesome. At my place, the nurses are NEVER required to do it, which is why we get mad when they avoid giving the enemas we order to avoid going digging three days later. I'm certainly not above doing anything--I've helped assist bedside procedures, cleaning, transport, and post-mortem care, in addition to poop-shoveling. That said, it does put me tremendously behind when, like the intern in the video, you're covering a list of 50+ patients. I don't discount that handling 4 beds of patients constantly for 12 hours is work, but I do wish my place were a little more pro-active on getting the nurses to help at our place (they are also exempt from removing NG tubes, doing nasal MRSA swabs, and a few other things that are generally low/no-risk; yeah, it takes 2 minutes, but imagine if that were the thinking for every 2 minute task for all 50 patients on that list...). Especially when we were short-handed during COVID, I got to see more of what nursing struggled with since it became more a part of my daily life and I try to give them leeway on things that I didn't understand before I lived it. I wish sometimes they could see it from our perspective, is all.
It's times like these when I like to remind people that hospital CEOs a thing and that they do absolutely f*ck all while making 10x the pay of any doctors in the same hospital : )
The irony is, Dr's work way harder than they should have to to he Dr's, so there aren't enough Dr's, so they have to work harder. The whole reason this is perpetuat3d is so the insurance companies can convince Dr's they deserve ridiculous amounts of money, and get even richer by charging people insane amounts for medical care (arguably this could just be the US I just somehow doubt it)
When I've needed medical care, I've always delivered a box of snacks to my care team after. This video... Very much explains the reactions. The nurse's are appreciative, but a couple residents have been close to tears.
lol im an intern korea, i literally actually looked up if dinger enema is on intern job list today. and it said its intern job in my department(GI) .altho in most department it isnt. what a coincidence
No left over Graham crackers and ginger ale For u, Doc......just pop up to ICU.....I brought a nice big hot homemade lasagna and a great fresh salad from my hot house garden.....and heavy garlic bread to die for .......and u can nap in #8.... There wont be anyone in there tonight..you're all set. .........oh! And devil's food cake w cream cheese frosting for dessert.👋🏻☺️
April’s fools. Dinner is a styrofoam cup of crushed ice.
oh boy, sounds so... appetizing. At least you'd get some water from that
Bold of you to assume we have cups
Dude that ice is the nectar of the gods I practically grew up in a hospital and it's the only good part
I really, really miss hospital ice. Was all I had for like 2 weeks at one point, I got addicted lol
I remember they gave me cereal at a hospital once. I shouldn’t have stayed to close to that fire as a toddler but at least I found out my favorite cereal….…I also found out I had bronchitis.
Do this is why doctors fail to find things. Like, they’re overloaded with a billion different patients and way too many things to think about at once.
It seems like it’s so easy to overlook things if you’re mind (and body) is moving in a billion different directions at once
Especially when you are running on 4 hours of sleep in the past 3 days or something like that. And it's only gonna get worse with the mandates and tens of thousands of nurses being fired for a personal choice. Get ready for Canadian wait times and shitty care!!
@@dominiquer156 does “personal choice” actually mean “not getting vaccinated in a global pandemic and therefore putting hundreds or thousands of people’s lives at risk, especially because they work in the literal medical industry”? Because if so, that’s on them; that’s their fault. It’s not about a “personal choice” when the circumstances are dire.
@@shaybrown7355 as someone who’s parents a COVID specialist and was trained by the cdc on COVID regulations . The vaccination isn’t as useful as you would think….sadly 🤷🏾♀️. The vaccination only works if you’re on the severe side of COVID where if you’re asymptomatic, mild, or moderate it doesn’t protect you. When you get the vaccine it lays dormant in your body until the virus hits but it needs certain antibodies to activate the vaccine. Which only comes from those severe COVID cases which most times are those on ventilators or severe/ moderate breathing issues . Those patients are the ones who get hospitalized and get a steroid shot in their belly that pushes a bunch of health antibodies in your system to fight the virus . Then there’s the people who don’t realize that the medicine they’re already taking has the same/ similar ingredients to the vaccine so it counteracts in their system. What ends up happening is their body rejects it which most times comes in the form of migraine, nausea, sleeping a lot , dehydration, etc . Most people don’t research the ingredients in their vaccines and medicine . Which plays a key roll especially in the COVID vaccine and yes this included the boosters and 2 other COVID vaccines coming out in the summer/ fall . Plus the vaccinated are spreading the virus 50% more than unvaccinated. BUT you have to remember they will never publicly say that because this is all about money and control . That’s why there is a huge lawsuit against the cdc for deformation against the unvaccinated because for the past 2 year they blamed COVID spreading on them when that wasn’t true . Hospitals are starting to speak up spreading the truth ! Hospitals are also the #3 super spreaders behind young children ages 2 through 10 .
This was a roller coaster of emotions ... I’m exhausted.
Doctors: take care of yourself
Also doctors: *proceed to not take care of themselves*
Medically professionals often make the worst patients.
Or as I tell mine: Do as i say, not as I do.
Can you make more videos about interactions between doctors and nurses in hospital settings? Your previous videos are spot on.
I love how he just ignores the intern’s logical and sensical explanation for why he shouldn’t have to do that
Hey, you can always add a little peanut butter to those graham crackers and Ginger Ale. Maybe a tiny can of low sodium chicken noodle soup but no bowl to warm it up in? What about some off brand, bland jello cups? That sounds like what’s in our patient nutrition room at work 😂😂😂
Do y'all at least get to sometimes eat the ice cream soft food patients can get? That shit is the best part of staying at a hospital, on demand ice cream lol
When I was an STNA and worked in a nursing home I used to have to help the nurses dig out impacted elderly people. Definitely one of the most smells I've ever encountered. I felt really bad for the poor parents though, none of them wanted to be there either.
"Can we back up to mr jones?"
No, hes already backed up!
I truly love this rather wholesome content 👏
“I went to medical school so I don’t need to get dirty”
As long as you’re off for 8 hours in between shifts you’re good to go!! Even if 1-2 hours are driving, or making up for your lack of a break by eating and pooping. Also, it’s because hospitals are so short, because they don’t have the staff/doctors and PAs to be there 24/7 as needed for the demands of the job. It’s not their fault people are literraly “too stupid” in general to be doctors let alone take care of themselves to the point that less people wouldn’t need hospitalized. (I’m semi generalizing and not ignoring unwarranted heart attacks/strokes/semis and other cancer/conditions, but a lot of health issues are avoidable bu recognizing early signs and seeing your PCP regularly as well as getting tests done and living a somewhat healthy lifestyle. I see a ton of alcoholics and diabetics at the PCU I work at. Those are more lifestyle than genetic. Don’t treat yourself like shit people.
Oh gosh the ending is the scariest part!!
I thought you guys would give Mr Jones would get an enema first but damn
This is what we go through as doctors.
It is dangerous for everyone, I have had many good colleagues die on the drive back home because they fell asleep wh8le driv8ng after working 24-36 hours.
We all have the power to change overworking and underpaying, if we all stop accepting it. The public has power. Dont forget.
After surgery they almost had to do this to me, I said F no and did it myself 😭😭😭😭😭😭 they screwed me up with that surgery anyways, and I have to do it again next year. FML 🤦♀️ I have ptsd from that one
Holy shit being a doctor sounds like a pain in the ass
The cruelty knows no bound
THE ONLY TIME YOU APPEAR IS WHEN I'M EATING
A lot of people talking about the hours and such.
A lot of people dont seem to understand supply, and demand, we need doctors, but we do not have enough doctors, it takes a decade of schooling/internship/whatever else. Some of the hardest tests to pass, and if you fail too many times your credit hours mean nothing, and youre now in 100k debt or more.
That debt scares away a lot of people, and if you are bleeding out from a stabbing, or gunshot, or need some kind of lifesaving surgery immediately, your doctor cant rest.
Plus there are laws to follow, you might have that 20 year surgery nurse who could likely do the job of a doctor, but without that test/college paper that says I can do X, they cant help you.
God damn, medical workers deserve so much better
5 days? Those are rookie numbers.
When I was an opiates addict I'd go weeks without pooping.
When I did poop though....
And the US has “the greatest health care system in the world” 😂🤣
When I saw Grey's anatomy, I envied doctors in the US😂😂
Some good ol’ magnesium citrate helps too
I actually didn't 💩 for 2 weeks after I got off pain killers. It was a nightmare
Unfortunately I’ve had to do exactly the first one and I’ve been that constipated before, I feel for people who have deal with this problem. It’s scary bcuz based on how far the gastrointestinal doctors in an entire region are booked out, you can almost gauge the overall health of a region 🥺 if you can get an appointment with this kind of specialist in under 6 months in my region, you’re doing pretty good 😌 otherwise most of us in my region won’t get to see one of these awesome doctors quickly, unless it’s in the emergency room. Myself and one of my sons has issues with severe constipation and Miralax is one of my besties 🤣🥰🥺 and mineral oil, glycerin suppositories and Fleet enemas, senokot or Dulcolax definitely isn’t for me or my sons, it causes more painful cramping than I’m willing to put up with. Funny how I’ll tolerate the generally more invasive enemas better than a supposed “gentle laxative” like Dulcolax 🤣🤨
Umm I'm a nurse and I know for a fact that if you tried to reach up Into someones rectum and forcefully pull out their stool, that has lawsuit written all over it.
Ok. I know it’s TMI but I have constipation issues. One time 13 years ago, I went 9 days without a bowel movement. My gastroenterologist, not the nurse, calmly put on some gloves, stuck his finger up my bootyhole, and literally tore me a new one when he pulled out unholy shit. Me and my bootyhole were never the same. Eat your fibre y’all.
OK doctors and nurses have it bad enough I guess They really do deserve that crazy hospital bill
Why wouldn't they try an enema? It doesnt make sense.
Kardashians fund a hospital (or 5..) challenge
The finger up the butt is a thing. Ya gotta dig in there like a bird trying to pull out insects from a tree hole.
The torture is the point guys
I cannot work out which parts are jokes...
So that's the secret to Dr staying skinny working so much they can't even eat anything. 😂😔
And yet we still think we have the best medical system in the world
Doctor's narcissism vanished quickly re the poop.
You should never feel aloof for any job.
Even though the entire work load IS too much.
If i studied for a doctor like them i would never work more then 10 h 12 h max when doing practice
ahh, bowel disimpaction my old friend
I hate how accurate and horrible this is.
Their was a time I wanted to work in medicine so fucking glad that didn't work out
I literally have to do the first one every day and I'm 31 :/ It sucks
Your lookin the wrong "ways"
5 days? I had bad constipation and ibs for 3 years and often went a month and a half before I could go.
Are interns forced to do this just so they can definitely perform the procedure?
The Swamps of Dagobah….
U should hear the vets complain about a impacted cats bowels.I ain't pretty .
They need more MANPOWER
( Do they not have C.N.A's give solution enemas to loosen impactions anymore? I'm sure that they wouldn't miss doing that procedure one little butt. Bit )
Are there Doctors leaving their job to do something else?
Why are we okay with not letting doctors, who are literally responsible for saving our lives, have rest?
I don't want a sleep deprived doctor. I want a well rested doctor. I want a doctor who is able to devote enough time to me to really help me, rather than shuffle quickly from one patient to the next because their caseload is so full they can't even sit down, let alone eat, go to the bathroom, or rest. It is so very very messed up that this is the system we have.
Not enough doctors.
@@last-genrichtofen9360 nah, enough doctors. Is just the crunch and hierarchy culture that we insist on enforcing upon ourselves
@@Sbeatly so ur saying the senior docs don't pick up the slack?
@@Sbeatly no
There isn't enough doctors, hell not enough staff in general
My mom works as room service in a hospital and there's time we're she is THE ONLY ONE ON ROOM SERVICE FOR THE ENTIRE 8 FLOOR HOSPITAL
The health care industry is incredibly understaffed
Sure let them go home at night, if you have an emergency, just wait til the morning. It sucks but unless you have enough doctors to fully staff 2-3 shifts that is how it is.
I laugh and then I remember I am an incoming intern...
Ohh god...this made me crack up🤣
Me too...
Guys I was scared too but don’t worry it’s fun and meaningful
Don't worry to much about it... 😁
Stay safe when you start...
haha thanks guys!
Doesn’t overwhelming hospital staff actually mean patients receive worse care?
Correct. But who cares about that when hospitals can save $$$
It usually does. But it shouldn’t.
Someone's got to take care of the patients. That's why doctors make $500+ an hour.
@@catlover1986 what doctor makes 500$ an hour lol
@@LMvdB02 Many in the US. A trauma doctor in my story. But many US doctors earn well over a million dollars a year. Many earn several million a year. How much per hour do you believe that is?
I never understood why a medical system would function this way on purpose. The people who are responsible for life and death should be healthy and well-rested. Why is this still a thing?????
Also why don't labor laws forbid this sort of thing?
Short answer: $$$$. At least in the U.S, residents have next to zero power because of The Match. Once you're placed, that's basically endgame. Doing anything to disrupt the system can get you blacklisted; unlike other jobs where if the abuse is abundant you can up and leave easily, for residents, this is sadly not the case. There are not enough residency spots yearly to go around as is, and if you do break with your previous spot, EVERY OTHER PROGRAM will know about it. Thus, residents feel powerless and just suck it up. Work over the 80 hour work week limit? Keep quiet. So tired you have to call an Uber to get home safely after a 36 hour call? Keep quiet. Patients or co-workers abusive? You get the idea. Programs love using residents since the govt pays them to train each one. For the surgical specialties especially, the average resident makes the hospital much, MUCH more money than they cost to train, and they can pay them less per hour than more attendings or NP/PAs. And considering that your average resident works the equivalent of two FULL TIME jobs hours-wise and are STILL making on average about $63k a year is a reason why so many of us are also mentally unhealthy on top of what you've mentioned.
@@CaptDuck96 oh maaaaan. I surely didn’t realize just how badly it all was messed up.
According to my attendings; if we didn’t work so many hours we’d have to train for 2-3 times longer. He was probably only half joking. Besides, every high performance job requires those kinds of hours. Ask anyone who’s served in the military, is an intern or junior at a respected law firm, is a higher level analyst in the investment/marketing space, an engineer at a Silicon Valley startup, all of them work just under 100 hours/week
Absolutely!
Because of the amount of knowledge they have to absorb. It literally takes that many hours. Doctors need to have that much experience before they can safely practice independently. So if they work fewer hours they would have to add on an extra year to their schooling.
‘You’re gonna have to eat left over crackers and ginger ale’
I felt that.
For me is oreos and orange juice ! Patient fridge :). But so true
brutal
Only if you've played nice with the floor nurses lol
I felt called out....
I actually looked forward to the Graham crackers... the alternative is plain saltines
My father almost died at the hospital quite recently. They saved his life once, he couldn’t breathe due to covid. Eventually though, he almost died again when he became severely dehydrated. The doctors forgot to give him fluids. Our doctors are extremely overworked and don’t even have time to use the restroom in between patients. We end up writing off incidents like this as lazy doctors but the reality is, doctors can easily make mistakes when they’re sleep deprived and starving. The system needs to change, and fast.
Thank you for mentioning the bathroom thing. It’s so true that sometimes we don’t even have time to use the bathroom…it can feel like a privilege at times 🤦🏻♀️
My grandfather needs around the clock care for his many organ issues and dementia. We took him to the hospital during one of his flare ups where he literally cannot advocate for himself and they didn't let my mom in (a nurse who knows all of his medical information) in because of covid. She tried explaining his issues while they were still outside to the doctors and they said "we'll just let our patient tell us what he is experiencing thank you" in the most rude tone. Then they didn't tell us when they released him on the OPPOSITE side of the hospital for hours while we waited for the call from the parking lot. They just rolled my Tata on his walker and left him right outside the hospital during a winter night when he obviously can't even stand on his own.
@@savannaobregon3823 that is horrible, that's a messed up hospital for sure. im so sorry that happened, I hope that your grandfather is doing better at the moment. my mother wasn't allowed to visit my father after he had just woken up from being intubated for about 8 days because of covid. she had to facetime him, she wasnt allowed to go to him and help calm him. she had to wait 21 days until she was allowed in to finally see her husband. hospitals are in pretty terrible conditions at the moment.
Can I just say, I really respect how rational and understanding you are about the people who are technically responsible for your father's death. Most people who are in grief over a loss immediately blame anyone who could've prevented that loss, and I appreciate that you understand that the true cause is an inherently unethical system.
@@2GoatsInATrenchCoat thank you for this reply, but my dad didn’t die, he almost died though. :’) Sorry for the confusion!
I saw an episode arc on ER about the issues with being incredibly overworked, and the way the doctor described it was perfect. She said when you get on a plane, do you want that pilot to be on his 36th hour without sleep? No? Then why would it be any different for somebody else who's in charge of the lives of others?
(The context was her being a resident who had to go back to being a med student for a year, and was realizing just how insane it was since she was seeing it from such a different perspective. Aaannd she was essentially made fun of for not being "tough" enough to handle it so nobody listened to her)
Next time you're in an ambulance ask if they work 12, 24, 36, or 48hr shifts. I used to work 36s and BOY was I white knuckled on the steering wheel trying to focus after 20hrs. Or trying to start an IV?? Don't even get me started on doing the math to convert lbs to kg then administer .2mg of medication that comes in a 20ml bottle so you need to convert ml to mg based on the ratio of medication in the mixture... to a BABY being held by a crying mother who is watching your every move like a hawk. So much pressure, you've been awake for 30hrs, you're recalculating your math over and over in your head because you don't want to go to jail for killing a baby so now that's all you're thinking about is your life being over for missing a decimal, with the nightmare of this child's face and mother screaming... you can hardly see the tic marks on the syringe... you're shaking from exhaustion, fear, and the 7 energy drinks and coffees you've had in the past day and a half on shift as you drive your elbow into your thigh to stabilize your Parkinsons looking hand as you bring the needle towards the baby and unpredictable mother. And recite 10 hail marys for all of your sins, begging for her forgiveness and protection right now.
Oh, and that was all for minimum wage. ALL of emergency medicine is out here struggling in the U.S, but at least Dr's aren't behind the wheel of a top heavy, 400k mi on the engine, flying toaster going head on with traffic and running red lights, hoping they don't mix up adenosine and atropine, and PRAYING they don't push the adult dose of epinephrine to an infant during cardiac arrest.
I remember that epsidoe. She had done the math wrong on a IV med and almost killed a child. That was an intense episode. And yet things still haven't changed
@@margauxf4321 It's honestly a mess top to bottom, but traditions are so long held and well respected for zero reason. Simply because that's how they did it 70 years ago, is what a lot of the stupidity boils down to really. It's ridiculous. Medicine needs a top-down makeover with a fine tooth comb, not more endless disjointed, unconnected automation/tech.
Honestly it must be painful as a doctor to know how harmful it is to be sleep deprived, stressed and on a poor diet
And still put themselves through it
The system is a joke
I'm with everyone on this, why is this a thing. We get upset when they force truck drivers to drive long hours. But completely fine for doctors to make life or death decisions while dead asleep. 🤔
Ummmm now I’m rethinking the whole doctor thing...maybe I should just become an architect, or an artist.
Town planning - seriously was amazed at the job package my housemate has for super relaxed hours, easy work and amazing pay. Look into it in your location.
@@classicambo9781 oh ok, I will! Thanks!
@@cidd801 Okay, but by not becoming a doctor you're increasing this same workload for everyone else, if you were legitimately considering it you probably should do it
@@williamking6787 what if they realize the profession doesn't suit them? Better to get out early before becoming indebted and burnt out
@@spicysalad3013 true but if they're just worried about the hours and not the work I would say go for it
This is why I left med school. The reality just set in how much my life wouldn't be for me to control much less enjoy.
Became a HVAC tech and Plumber instead. Making almost double the money my former now graduated classmates are making as interns. I hope to start a business soon and by that point would make what they do if they were attending.
Good luck to all the students out there, it's a hard unforgivening life. But if you love it more power to you.
Man in in the same boat except I decided not to go even after getting accepted. Working for my county, get paid excellently with 5% rasie every year and ability to continue moving up in positions. With investments, I'll make more than I ever did as a physican and work less. The debt nowadays is killer too.
@@duncanfranklin9462 it was a wise choice. Medicine is largely extinct today while sick care has pretended to be it's substitute
@@AJ-ox8xy covid has really exposed that too. I'm not against people getting vaccinated by choice but when the people getting hospitalized and dying have 3-4 or more comorbidites, shouldn't we be telling people to get healthy as well? Then to treat all healthy people like they are equally at risk of hospitalization and dying as the people that actually are is laughable. Other diseases still have went on killing more people than covid, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity all which are often lifestyle diseases. Yet here we are with covid being the big bad guy. The medical system like you said is just sick care.
Glad you found a path that works for you, but you're dreaming if you think you're going to make over 200k / yr working 40 hrs a week without a professional degree or a serious silver spoon (or an extraordinary invention or smthg)
Sadly you have to suffer if you want to make real money and have an iota of freedom/power
@@duncanfranklin9462 debt is good. Every company in existence begs for debt. Its an investment you make into yourself
The real April Fool's is that they would just make a nurse dig the poop out.
Don't ask me how I know this.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a doctor do it….
Manual disimpaction. Not really something we do anymore. Too much risk of anus damage.
Can’t they just give a medicated enema..?
Meanwhile the nurse, who actually performed the disimpaction, hasn’t taken a sip of water or pissed in the last 10 hours. But it’s fine…everything’s fine…we’re fine
Not to add gasoline to the fire but I have also never ever had a physician hold up a pannas while I change a dressing (and I have personally changed a lot of pannis dressings). In all honesty I’ve only ever once seen a physician even take a blood pressure. I love and respect my docs but don’t act like you do the grunt work. I’ve been a nurse for a decade and I still sometimes go home crying… sometimes I cry because I’m not even remotely surprised but what I saw and did and it sucks.
It still scares me that these folks are the ones in charge of my life from time to time. You can only live on adrenaline for so long... right?
I've been living off pure adrenaline for the last 6 years, and I just started college
@@williamking6787 Well, sounds like college will be a well needed rest for you, then! I kid. I *do* hope your adrenal glands don't burn out like mine did. You be on meds the rest of your life 🙄
@@OuchingTigerLimpingDragon that's a thing that actually happens?
I am being stressed out since I was freaking 10, yes it an increased blood pressure.
@@dutchik5107 Yeah, it can. Adrenal insufficiency can be caused by a few different things, such as an autoimmune disease attacking the glands and damaging them, so they don't work as well or maybe at all if the damage is bad enough. In my case, I was born into and raised in very dysfunctional and abusive situations, which kept on until my 20s. Abuse puts your body in "fight/flight/freeze" mode, but that state is only meant to be temporary, to kick in and get you out of danger. But if you stay in bad situations, then the body keeps responding to it with fight/flight, and my adrenals just...burned out. Of course, I have a hereditary weakness of the body, so mine was more likely to break. Someone with really healthy genetics could go through the same thing and be fine.
@@OuchingTigerLimpingDragon Stress has been linked to autoimmune diseases, actually. It's pretty well established now. There's also a pattern of women being significantly more likely to develop autoimmune disease than men, but we're not sure yet as to why.
There should be a research focus, on measuring dementia caused by sleep deprivation in the field of health care. I think it'd be an interesting focal point.
I have binge watched almost all your videos now. Laughter/comedy is your medical speciality, forget GI! Great content!
Man...i want to laugh, but it hits too close to home
SO sad that it is so true !!!!!!! Waw !!! I actually just filmed a video during my ON CALL shift. I was up for no joke 30 hours. You can see in the video that I am almost delirious jaja sleep deprive. I dont have the video up but you will see what I mean. It should be up by Wednesday. Everyone stay safe ! pls
I subscribed to see this video, I'll be waiting 👀 lol
@@SLYKM jajaja ! Thank you ! I do have my 24hrs on call IN the surgical ICU video NO sleep and Pediatric ICU 2 hours of sleep. But I will have the other video soon! Stay safe :)
I’m glad I changed majors and steered away from med school. No worth the amount of stress, exploitation, and trauma.
The problem with the medical system, over worked and understaffed. This creating mor misdiagnosis and illness in those actually in the medical feild.
Then covid on top of it
What, the joke's on us 😬🥴😢
The “left over graham crackers and ginger ale,” line hurt me. 😂
im currently a medical student in Egypt. we Dont really see many patients through out medical school. Ive been watching your videos and even tho they are incredibly funny , they are truly causing me a ton of anxiety and scaring the living hell out of me. so is it real? is being a resident such a horrible job?
Yes, it's real here in America. People have literally committed suicide because of it. If you don't see Patients while in Med School, how in the world do you know what you are doing??? You don't! Now I know about Egyptian Doctors... That scares me! 😆
@@jesusismyking9993 I think he's just starting out 😂 and think things will stay like that which they won't...
The struggle... 🥲
Oh sweet doctors. My father's a doctor and my husband's an NP you guys go through so much! Being on call is insane. I used to spend the night with my dad at the hospital ER when he worked overnight to get time with him. I loved it. Completely not a thing that could be done now.
First!!!!!!!
🎖
I'm a RN, I've never seen an intern do those fun tasks 😄
Me neither.
My consultant did it, I love her.
They just didn't tell you
I've seen senior physicians do them
That's why many doctors support some version of socialized medicine. Secondly medicaid and medicare are socialist policies so it is absolutely baffling to me as an American who voted for Trump, how so many of my fellow Americans can genuinely try to equate socialism to communism. Especially considering American capitalism is one of the biggest driving factors of Chinese communism! But we don't want to talk about that. We don't like to see the irony of our own ignorance.
Is this a repost. I feel like i've seen this before.
Posted to Instagram/TikTok previously
I mean... being a Nurse in a long term care facility where working 3rd I'm responsible for 60 patients...you got this!
Oh please, we see how well those patients are taken care of everyday in the ER. Soiled from their mid back to toe, left in their deteriorating condition for days and then sent to the ER because “they’re not acting right” 🙄
@@youngswoll3 I'm sorry that's happening in the Nursing homes where you are, but that's not happening in mine. Even as short staffed as we are we care about our residents and work hard to provide the best care we can. It's not always perfect, but I've taken care of the same residents for many years and I consider them family. We need more help! We need to come up with staffing solutions instead of blaming. Thank you!
As a nurse, I love the senior reminding the intern that all those things are still part of their job 😂 Patient care is a team effort, the grimmer side isn't just the jobs of the nurses and HCAs
Fecal disimpactions are within the nurses scope of practice. Although with good nursing care they can be avoided. May need a doctors order though. I have never seen an intern have to do a disimpaction.
@@jasonb4254 My interns when I am faculty attending have done disimpactions. All part of the job unfortunately
It is a team effort however these duties can be performed by literally anyone on the nursing team or a medical student. I need to focus on the notes that haven't been written or the patients that haven't been seen so I can go home after a 15 hour work day that I have do again tomorrow all for no overtime. Yes, menial stuff like this should be delegated. And I was former CNA. This stuff is nothing to me.
@@jonfilibuster8499 Agreed it is a team effort. That's why where we work the patients nurse do it. Although it's rare that it even happens because nursing here is diligent about bowel care.
Surgery interns are already busy as is. Nurses that weasel out of doing this part of their job to get the intern who's already being worked to death are just plain bad nurses IMO.
@@jasonb4254 Your place sounds awesome. At my place, the nurses are NEVER required to do it, which is why we get mad when they avoid giving the enemas we order to avoid going digging three days later. I'm certainly not above doing anything--I've helped assist bedside procedures, cleaning, transport, and post-mortem care, in addition to poop-shoveling. That said, it does put me tremendously behind when, like the intern in the video, you're covering a list of 50+ patients. I don't discount that handling 4 beds of patients constantly for 12 hours is work, but I do wish my place were a little more pro-active on getting the nurses to help at our place (they are also exempt from removing NG tubes, doing nasal MRSA swabs, and a few other things that are generally low/no-risk; yeah, it takes 2 minutes, but imagine if that were the thinking for every 2 minute task for all 50 patients on that list...). Especially when we were short-handed during COVID, I got to see more of what nursing struggled with since it became more a part of my daily life and I try to give them leeway on things that I didn't understand before I lived it. I wish sometimes they could see it from our perspective, is all.
It's times like these when I like to remind people that hospital CEOs a thing and that they do absolutely f*ck all while making 10x the pay of any doctors in the same hospital : )
The irony is, Dr's work way harder than they should have to to he Dr's, so there aren't enough Dr's, so they have to work harder. The whole reason this is perpetuat3d is so the insurance companies can convince Dr's they deserve ridiculous amounts of money, and get even richer by charging people insane amounts for medical care (arguably this could just be the US I just somehow doubt it)
When I've needed medical care, I've always delivered a box of snacks to my care team after. This video... Very much explains the reactions. The nurse's are appreciative, but a couple residents have been close to tears.
I rezident doctor now on ER round and seen my boss a ICU specialist doctor scooping poop out like this 🤢 , next time will be my moment lol
Doctors and nurses sound like slaves to me, eating so very little getting paid so very little and suffering through everything
That is resident life. Doctors and nurses get paid decent when eating so little and suffering through everything.
why do we treat medical professionals like this??
That's when you resign. Fuck that noise.
I am so glad I’m not a medical student. The last thing I want in life is to deal with other peoples medical problems.
Don't look up pannus abscess 😭
Y’all we need to treat doctors better
lol im an intern korea, i literally actually looked up if dinger enema is on intern job list today. and it said its intern job in my department(GI) .altho in most department it isnt. what a coincidence
Thank you all doctors for your service! 😊
Doctor:hes dead
Family goes to funeral and wife gets buried
Doctor:APRIL FOOLS!
Family: ...
Dark humour joke uh ok this isnt a good joke
I always appreciate my daily reminder that going into med school would've been a poor decision
As a medical scribe working in cardiology, I feel that comment about the notes thing! SO....MANY....NOTES!!!!!!
No left over Graham crackers and ginger ale
For u, Doc......just pop up to ICU.....I brought a nice big hot homemade lasagna and a great fresh salad from my hot house garden.....and heavy garlic bread to die for
.......and u can nap in #8....
There wont be anyone in there tonight..you're all set.
.........oh! And devil's food cake w cream cheese frosting for dessert.👋🏻☺️
"You're gonna have to eat leftover graham crackers and ginger ale for dinner!" This was gold.