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AS EN ER DOCTOR THIS IS AMAZING !!!! DO LOOK FOR MY LONGER COMMENT ON THIS. I JUST WISH I COULD PUT PICTURES OF MY HELMET AND GLASSES. AND MY FRIEND ON SHIFT LITERALLY DRANK 2 RDBULLS IN 4 HOURS THE OTHER A MONSTER. 😂😂🚑👍🗽👊
I used to know someone who regularly a bottle or so more than a few times a week. He later developed ulcers. Although maybe that was due to H. pylori infection. 🤷🏻♀️
@@ashleykumar6144 really easy explaination. Hot coffee can burn your skin or your tongue. And you can't chug it. Energy drinks and coke on the other hand....
Nope, it’s how they stay awake after doing double shifts at an unsafe level. Hospitals are run like corporations. They exist to increase the wealth of their investors and not the care of patients. That falls on to the shrinking number of under paid, under valued, over worked medical professionals. It’s been broken a long time ago. To put it in to perspective, before Covid-19, medical professional burn out at hospitals were like a smoldering wild fire that can’t be put out. After covid it was like having the Tongan Volcanic eruption on top of the already smoldering wildfire.
My mother works at an ER. She didn't get the helmet at first. I pointed out that she got all her biking tips (gear, best shop) from one of the doctors. The delayed reaction when she realized the stereotype is true made the video even funnier
It's a nod to how all ER docs are adrenaline junkie adventurers. That's why they went into emergency medicine, because you only work when you're on the clock and can take off to the middle of nowhere when you aren't @@Traisas
And hellllloooooooo, what’s THE first thing the surgeon and Hospitalist say?? That’s right “what did the CT show?!” So let’s stop pretending ER docs are the only CT dependent specialty. 🤨 Amirite?!
@@TriumphDoc We (surgery) only did CT if the ultrasound was inconclusive and suspicion was still strong! (or if it's out of office hours and the radiologist doesn't want to come in for the US)
@@Reyalegro good for you and your patients! Not my experience at all but who cares 🤷🏻♂️ we’re here for some comedy relief, I argue with unwilling consultants all day at work, I come here for levity!
Hey, as an ED Physician in Germany I can confirm everything. But I drink real coffee, complain a lot about family doctors, diagnose almost everything with ultrasound, bike every single day to work (also in winter when it's snowing). I just need to start rock climbing! Thanks for the input!
But I'm guessing you dont have a high volume of patients seeking care in the ED simply because no other form of healthcare is available to them, like diabetics who are out of insulin and can't afford it. That's a US problem.
A few years back, we in the Birmingham, AL, area had a severe ice storm. A man in very critical condition in one hospital needed a cardiologist. One finished his surgery where he was, THEN WALKED ACROSS BIRMINGHAM in very hazardous conditions to get to that man. Both patients survived, as far as I know. At the same time, a man attempting to walk home after helping others out of ditches fell down an incline, broke his leg, was covered with sleet, and froze to death.
@@larafields3106 I'm not working in healthcare but an issue I heard is that (especially elderly) patients tent to call the ambulance for non urgent care so they don't have to wait for a normal appointment at a specialist.
Yeah, but you cannot even conceive of the US emergency room. My hospital is only here because otherwise people would have to drive too far to the hospital. We have an overfilled ER almost every day. People come to us because they cannot afford to see a family doctor and we have to treat them regardless. Waiting 7 hours? Be happy, because apparently you’re not dying. They’re angry anyway. You have the luxury of people having a Hausarzt they go to. My patients haven’t seen a doctor in years.
I had my gallbladder out last week after an ER visit and an ultrasound and now I’m in serious pain. Not from the surgery but from laughing at this because the doctor said with a sigh “we should probably do a ct but I feel pretty confident from the ultrasound that we’re going to want to do surgery.”
I have a kidney disease that can spread cysts to all my other organs leading to ulcerations, destoryed Gallbladder/livers, ovarian/kidney problems and more. For five years I must have been in and out of hospitals and every single ER gave me a CT scan. No one told me until Id had literally over 100 about the increase chance of cancer. Almost every time I go into the ER I am given a CT scan until my doctor finally put a note on my chart to avoid when possible. I honestly thought the joke was like when at a job interview you're asked your biggest weakness and you say "You know, my coworkers often say I over do it and work TOO hard." Like it's what you say to get the job, not what you do.
I find the depiction of emergency medicine in all these videos fascinating. Extremely overworked, perpetually overwhelmed, yet still passionate and caring deeply about the well being of the patient.
I think all of the doctors (not administrators etc.) that he depicts are intended to care about their patients. They just express that care in different ways.
Unfortunately, an ED physician I grew up with struggled with drug diversion as a result of his burnout and chronic pain. After multiple attempts to get and stay sober, including a stint in Urgent Care to try to cut back on stress, he finally completed suicide after being told he would not be allowed back at work. RIP, Dr. H. The whole system gleefully failed you, patients, and all other staff.
sorry for your friend, however the truth of the matter is he was a danger to both himself his staff and especially patients. Would you trust your care to someone on the job who’s dozing off from stolen narcotics? Nobody failed him but himself. And he managed to corrupt your clarity of the situation by playing the victim before he left, i see.
@@Littleathquakes That’s a terrible thing to say. What’s the matter with you? Just say “I’m sorry for your friend” and move on. Or, don’t comment at all. Yeah, healthcare is rough, and people have diverted (and before you accuse me, you can dox me and check my license) but you don’t have to go rubbing salt in a wound. I’ve met healthcare professionals I wouldn’t trust that were completely sober.
The personality types that thrive in emergency medicine are also the types that are prone to addiction. For many that is just addiction to adrenaline, caffeine and the rewards of saving lives in a critical situation. But others fall down a rabbit hole of trying to feel good enough to do their job, then trying to be good enough at their job to feel...anything. I am very sorry for you loss, and especially how lost he must have felt. Hope he is at peace now.
@@Littleathquakes you obviously have little understanding of pharmacology especially as it relates to addiction and why the opioid crises even became.a thing ....
My wife works with a doctor who (while not an E.R. doc) lives in his truck, and alternates between multiple towns so he can rock climb and presumably other stuff. The dude basically just seems to work and exercise.
Currently living in a cargo van during med school myself at the University of Oklahoma. Definitely doable, especially if you only go home to sleep anyways
@@jamesrichardson1331 Sort of just around the city, park somewhat randomly. Only rule is "as long as nobody cares". But yeah, definitely possible. I'm a MS2 at the moment, been doing it since January!
Walked in on two of my ER docs watching this video and cackling, one of them is the epitome of burnout and is constantly biking to work. You really know your audience.
As the wife of a radiology resident, thank you ER docs for ensuring that there is a constant demand for Rads moonlighting to read all those 3:00 am CT’s.
As an ED physician, I can confirm the accuracy of carrying granola bars, IV meds, and dread of missing a diagnosis! THE TRUTH OF IT ALL. Thank you for the spot on roast, Dr. G!
Yeah, between Dr. Glaucomflecken, Dr. Schmidt, Steveioe, ChubbyEmu, Medlife Crisis, and a few others I'm probably forgetting, I think the algorithm has decided that I'm actually doctor 😆
The amount of people i know who've gone in with severe abdominal pain and come out with "well there's no baby or appendix in there so have 0 or 100 coedine and come back here if you develop coma ciao"
My wife and I are obsessed with your videos. I’m a doc in Australia and despite the differences in our training, it’s incredible how much our experiences seem to overlap. Patagonia vest and cargo pants 😂
I had horrific episodic pain in my upper right abdomen for over 3 years. I saw multiple specialists from cardiology to multiple Gastros. Finally one day the pain was so bad i couldn't breathe so I had to go to the ER. They did an untrasound and diagnosed my gallstones in 15 minutes. The other docs ordered everything from endoscopies to ECGs, but only an ER dr would look at a skinny, 16 yo boy and go "gallbladder untrasound time!"
“Overwhelming dread that I missed a potentially fatal diagnosis”.. and “severely burnt out due to the crushing volume of patients..” is 💯 - bicycle helmet wearing emergency medicine guy
Dear Dr G. I cannot thank you enough for providing me with brief minutes of levity watching your intelligent, funny and amazingly precise social commentary on medicine and surgery. I am a pulm/cc doc and needless to say, there are very few if any moments in my professional life at this time that can be considered as nice or funny. Thank you for being honest and since I am not on Twitter, youtube is the only avenue I can enjoy this amazing art.
Today we learned that our ER group's contract got canceled with only 2 months' notice. Serendipitously, I also discovered your videos today. I sent several links to my colleagues to cheer them up. I've been practicing emergency medicine for 40+ years. You are spot on! The critical care vs hospitalist interaction made me laugh out loud. Hang in there. Burnout is not a foregone outcome.
"when do you admit a patient to internal medicine? right after ordering a huge lab workup but before any of the results come back" I felt this in my bones
I think you need to give more justice to these guys. They literally do have the coolest personalities out of all the medical fields. No bias here, I am IM.
Over 20 years in the ER now - so spot on! And ketamine so much more convenient than the old B52 we used to carry around! :-D :-D Thanks for bringing some lightness to the work!
When that violent combative patient needs to go to sleep right now. Ketamine tends to preserve protective airway reflexes and does not inhibit respiratory drive, which is an advantage over benzodiazepines.
The caffiene addiction definitely doesn't *help*. I'm not in any med field, i work retail but I can't get through some days w/o 600+mg of caffiene. it's not healthy but ya gotta do what ya gotta do
The question asked by anyone who does any kind of emergency work is not "is it healthy?" It's "will it fill me up and will it keep me up?" Any food or drinks we can cram down our gullets between traumas
I laughed so hard at the "born with the circadian rhythm" joke. I'm an ER PA and this is so true. My non-medical friends question how I sleep and live. Please make more ER videos! You are hilarious!
The Ketamine joke got me.. 😂😂😂 Literally a couple of days ago I was having a chat with a couple of ER residents and was surprised by how freely they use Ketamine 😳 I'm an Anesthesia resident and don't use it half as much!
My goal is to become an ER doctor. I enjoy Diet Coke, diet Red Bull, standing/running around all day. I also am naturally anxious and so I’m used to the overwhelming feeling of dread that some ER docs face as they think about the potential deadly cases they missed.
lol - I have been awake 90% of the past 2.5 days and have been getting multiphasic naps in between jumbo Monsters while studying for my EENT integrated exam I just took this morning. Currently feel great. Maybe this video is a sign.
Love love love this one. :). My Mom was an ER nurse. But, my ER Docs here did order CT scans both times I was rushed to the ER in the past 20 years (I fell on my head/hard at full speed tripping over a gate & left kidney infection because they kept thinking it was a heart attack because I couldn't breathe either (kidney impinging on my left lung and I have asthma).
Honestly, as an EM resident. I don't even see this as a roast. I think I've told many people now that one of the reasons EM is great for me is that my circadian rhythm is non-existent so when you mentioned that I cried laughing. 😭🤣
Dr. G I’m so glad you were able to get your content back and got rid of that stealing parasite. people can be horrible. as a person who watched almost all of the medical dramas I’m living for your videos. I’m actually a mathematician and little wannabe doctor😂 edit: my math work involves optimizing the best conditions for doctors, nurses, and patients edit: thank you Anonymous Neko, I doubt that I’ll ever become a doctor, thank you for your input to society, nurses are the best(: they do waaaaaay more than dr’s do and know more about patients, catch dr’s mistakes and make everything run smoothly, superheroes. my grandma was a nurse
@@andressa9111 This youtube channel is different from the one where most of us were watching Dr. G's videos for months. Turns out the original Dr. Glaucomflecken youtube account was an impostor, copying his content all over from Tiktok and with the about text being copied from Dr. G's website. He came onto youtube on this channel just recently, intending to start using youtube for real, then discovered the impostor had beaten him to using all his own content. RUclips finally took down the impostor account, and Dr. G got to change this one to being named "Dr. Glaucomflecken" instead of "Dr. Glaucomflecken - the real Dr. G" (it said that for a few days to distinguish the two), and now this account, the one that's always been truly his, is the main active place to be. If you were subscribed to the impostor before, check now, you likely haven't subbed to this one yet. Hope that helps clarify what's up!
You are hilarious. Your family medicine doctor with his crooked glasses, bemused expression and despairing glances at the money tree is just like me - an Aussie GP. Great work. 🤩🍫
Yeah, I have gone to the ER with heart palpitations before. They asked me what my caffeine intake was like- a couple cups of coffee and a coke at lunch. Tech said "Hell, I had that much before I got to work."
Was waiting for this one! Did not disappoint! Amazing as always. This year is my last as a med student, with a bit of luck, I'll be an ER interne in 5 months!
Im not in medicine in any kind of way buy because you, everytime i see a doctor cycling out/into a hospital, i quickly say to myself 'aaa another ER doctor'
You can identify us by our fanny packs, bikes, overall chill attitudes, and the smile on our faces as we leave the hospital because we know we are not going to be called.
Pretty much my whole family is in medicine and we love these shorts-you’ve covered every specialty in my family but I’m still waiting for mine… psychiatry. Please do psychiatry 😢
As an internal medicine doctor ( from UK), I can confirm that - I received countless numbers of ED referral before lab results come back . Best part was - labelling “ sepsis of unknown origin “ without any test done .
The serum rhubarb is important, but not to the ER. Once the threshold of referral is reached, teh call is made. Expecting all crafts groups to practice the same is asinine. Paramedics are really rough cut, ER is rough cut, wards are fine cut.
0:25 Holy crap, that happened to me. Middle of the night, out of town, told the ER doc that my Gastro sent me in and wanted a CT. He didn't do it, actually discharged me! I had a burst Meckel's diverticulum. What the hospital lacked in ER, they made up for in a quick-thinking surgeon who saved my life. But I'll never get over the feeling of being dumped in the waiting room, unable to walk, stage 2 sepsis. That jerk.
While I want to go into neurology I think I'll have to be in the ER somewhat regularly and as an ADHDer who's managed to make caffeine her blood group I am very much looking forward to the thing most people who didn't choose emergency medicine dread. I was always torn between neurology and emergency medicine ... I think brains just won because there is no hope for mine.
Man medical workers do so much for us, no matter what specialty! Thanks guys, for all you do ❤️. Keep going, I know it’s tough but you do so much for everyone, and are loved and cared about by so many. Stay safe, and God bless, everyone ❤️✝️
Doc you NAIL all the stereotypes man. I'm an Ortho and I love all the characters . My wife is Ophtho and we kind of want to meet ya lol 😂 you are our spirit animal
I saw one of the ED physicians in the doc lounge a few nights ago, he looked tired, said he wanted to get out of medicine and was lamenting how he wasted so many years of his life…I knew how he felt…medicine sucks, especially non-procedural specialties…
Doc….. I know zero about medicine except how to read the directions when taking it. Anyway you kill me! I look forward to watching your videos to get a great laugh! Keep them coming.
You are quite an empath. Plus many other wonderful qualities. I hope you keep your negative qualities unexpressed at least on RUclips. I do wish you and yours the very best😄😁😆😉.
In ten years: "If i haven't transfered to ICU to catch my breath, I'll still be addicted to other people's pain, feeding off it like a vampire at 4:00am, exactly like a serial killer."
Haha I love the bike helmets. My friend was saying how at her interview for A&E when they asked about her hobbies and interests she made sure to say cycling as all the A&E doctors she know love cycling
Where does he come up this stuff?!😂😂😂 My next visit to my Physician may be causal of sudden uncontrollable laugher-outburst syndrome b/c of these videos.
I'll be hitting as many specialties as possible over the next few months. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss anything. We are making our way to 100k. Thank you Glauc Flock!
Thank you for entertaining us. Loving your content
These keep getting better and better! Thanks for the humor while I cry into my study material
AS EN ER DOCTOR THIS IS AMAZING !!!! DO LOOK FOR MY LONGER COMMENT ON THIS. I JUST WISH I COULD PUT PICTURES OF MY HELMET AND GLASSES. AND MY FRIEND ON SHIFT LITERALLY DRANK 2 RDBULLS IN 4 HOURS THE OTHER A MONSTER. 😂😂🚑👍🗽👊
Please do Interventional Radiology!
Hiiiii Doc, I was wondering if you could put CC or subtitles? My first language isn't english and with so many medical terms I get lost 😅
Hey thanks for being here and don’t worry, all the Diet Coke was donated to an emergency department in need
LMAO
Your subscribers are steadily rising! Almost at the goal of 75k!! Woo!!
Pass me some of that Diet Coke I’m planning on being a physician assistant there in a couple years
Former ER Johnathan here, thank you for your contribution
I used to know someone who regularly a bottle or so more than a few times a week. He later developed ulcers. Although maybe that was due to H. pylori infection. 🤷🏻♀️
I found it hilarious how the ER doc kept increasing his caffeine intake with every breath he took. It just shows how much of an adrenaline junky he is
But no coffee.....?!
@@ashleykumar6144 really easy explaination.
Hot coffee can burn your skin or your tongue. And you can't chug it. Energy drinks and coke on the other hand....
@@EastPlays lol.....or you could drink cold brew 😉
@@ashleykumar6144 trust me, instant is muuuuuuch easier to grab on department than cold brew (unless you byo)
Nope, it’s how they stay awake after doing double shifts at an unsafe level.
Hospitals are run like corporations. They exist to increase the wealth of their investors and not the care of patients. That falls on to the shrinking number of under paid, under valued, over worked medical professionals. It’s been broken a long time ago. To put it in to perspective, before Covid-19, medical professional burn out at hospitals were like a smoldering wild fire that can’t be put out. After covid it was like having the Tongan Volcanic eruption on top of the already smoldering wildfire.
My mother works at an ER. She didn't get the helmet at first. I pointed out that she got all her biking tips (gear, best shop) from one of the doctors. The delayed reaction when she realized the stereotype is true made the video even funnier
I always thought the helmet was a nod to the particular trauma of being an ER doctor
It's a nod to how all ER docs are adrenaline junkie adventurers. That's why they went into emergency medicine, because you only work when you're on the clock and can take off to the middle of nowhere when you aren't @@Traisas
@@TraisasI always thought it was paranoia about traumatic brain injuries from having treated a few too many.
As an ER doctor I attest this is 100% accurate, with all due respect how we will know what's going on without a CT scan 😅
And hellllloooooooo, what’s THE first thing the surgeon and Hospitalist say?? That’s right “what did the CT show?!” So let’s stop pretending ER docs are the only CT dependent specialty. 🤨 Amirite?!
Goes along with the "fear of missing diagnosis"
@@ninjason57 FOMD = medical FOMO
@@TriumphDoc We (surgery) only did CT if the ultrasound was inconclusive and suspicion was still strong! (or if it's out of office hours and the radiologist doesn't want to come in for the US)
@@Reyalegro good for you and your patients! Not my experience at all but who cares 🤷🏻♂️ we’re here for some comedy relief, I argue with unwilling consultants all day at work, I come here for levity!
Hey, as an ED Physician in Germany I can confirm everything. But I drink real coffee, complain a lot about family doctors, diagnose almost everything with ultrasound, bike every single day to work (also in winter when it's snowing). I just need to start rock climbing! Thanks for the input!
But I'm guessing you dont have a high volume of patients seeking care in the ED simply because no other form of healthcare is available to them, like diabetics who are out of insulin and can't afford it. That's a US problem.
A few years back, we in the Birmingham, AL, area had a severe ice storm. A man in very critical condition in one hospital needed a cardiologist. One finished his surgery where he was, THEN WALKED ACROSS BIRMINGHAM in very hazardous conditions to get to that man. Both patients survived, as far as I know. At the same time, a man attempting to walk home after helping others out of ditches fell down an incline, broke his leg, was covered with sleet, and froze to death.
@@larafields3106 I'm not working in healthcare but an issue I heard is that (especially elderly) patients tent to call the ambulance for non urgent care so they don't have to wait for a normal appointment at a specialist.
@@cyan_oxy6734 in the US? No. That's not a thing. No one wants those ambulance bills.
Yeah, but you cannot even conceive of the US emergency room.
My hospital is only here because otherwise people would have to drive too far to the hospital. We have an overfilled ER almost every day. People come to us because they cannot afford to see a family doctor and we have to treat them regardless. Waiting 7 hours? Be happy, because apparently you’re not dying. They’re angry anyway.
You have the luxury of people having a Hausarzt they go to. My patients haven’t seen a doctor in years.
Strength: "i was born without a circadian rhythm"! 😂
How do you come up with these jokes!? 😂
You're a gem doc!
well that's not very fair
everyone that graduates from medschool ends up without a proper circadian rithm
He just applies the reality of our jobs :P
He missed his calling, should be a comic. But he can do both, hope to see him with his own comedy show special.
@@buckbenelli8 I reckon he just rerouted. Now he is a comic with more ammo.
Why do you think they are jokes?
I had my gallbladder out last week after an ER visit and an ultrasound and now I’m in serious pain. Not from the surgery but from laughing at this because the doctor said with a sigh “we should probably do a ct but I feel pretty confident from the ultrasound that we’re going to want to do surgery.”
🤣🤣🤣👍
I'm shocked there wasn't a CT done first then an ultrasound ordered to confirm what the CT found.
@@unnhkp8mza522 Pretty sure they were joking.
I have a kidney disease that can spread cysts to all my other organs leading to ulcerations, destoryed Gallbladder/livers, ovarian/kidney problems and more. For five years I must have been in and out of hospitals and every single ER gave me a CT scan. No one told me until Id had literally over 100 about the increase chance of cancer.
Almost every time I go into the ER I am given a CT scan until my doctor finally put a note on my chart to avoid when possible. I honestly thought the joke was like when at a job interview you're asked your biggest weakness and you say "You know, my coworkers often say I over do it and work TOO hard." Like it's what you say to get the job, not what you do.
I find the depiction of emergency medicine in all these videos fascinating. Extremely overworked, perpetually overwhelmed, yet still passionate and caring deeply about the well being of the patient.
Yes,thats true
I kind of feel this way about all types of doctors and nurses
I think all of the doctors (not administrators etc.) that he depicts are intended to care about their patients. They just express that care in different ways.
Unfortunately, an ED physician I grew up with struggled with drug diversion as a result of his burnout and chronic pain. After multiple attempts to get and stay sober, including a stint in Urgent Care to try to cut back on stress, he finally completed suicide after being told he would not be allowed back at work.
RIP, Dr. H. The whole system gleefully failed you, patients, and all other staff.
sorry for your friend, however the truth of the matter is he was a danger to both himself his staff and especially patients. Would you trust your care to someone on the job who’s dozing off from stolen narcotics? Nobody failed him but himself. And he managed to corrupt your clarity of the situation by playing the victim before he left, i see.
@@Littleathquakes That’s a terrible thing to say. What’s the matter with you? Just say “I’m sorry for your friend” and move on. Or, don’t comment at all. Yeah, healthcare is rough, and people have diverted (and before you accuse me, you can dox me and check my license) but you don’t have to go rubbing salt in a wound. I’ve met healthcare professionals I wouldn’t trust that were completely sober.
The personality types that thrive in emergency medicine are also the types that are prone to addiction. For many that is just addiction to adrenaline, caffeine and the rewards of saving lives in a critical situation. But others fall down a rabbit hole of trying to feel good enough to do their job, then trying to be good enough at their job to feel...anything. I am very sorry for you loss, and especially how lost he must have felt. Hope he is at peace now.
@@Littleathquakes you obviously have little understanding of pharmacology especially as it relates to addiction and why the opioid crises even became.a thing ....
@@Littleathquakes you sound like you have zero life experience. Do you?
My wife works with a doctor who (while not an E.R. doc) lives in his truck, and alternates between multiple towns so he can rock climb and presumably other stuff. The dude basically just seems to work and exercise.
As a premed student who lives in my truck and plans to mostly stay transient through med school and residency, this is very encouraging lol
@@ItsAsparageese lol go for it, he seems to have a good system. He only works like twice a week too, not much expenses in that truck I suppose.
Currently living in a cargo van during med school myself at the University of Oklahoma. Definitely doable, especially if you only go home to sleep anyways
@@austinwalker7943 Yo how is this possible, where do you park and sleep?
@@jamesrichardson1331 Sort of just around the city, park somewhat randomly. Only rule is "as long as nobody cares". But yeah, definitely possible. I'm a MS2 at the moment, been doing it since January!
"Right after you order a lab work up but before any of the results come back"....Sooo true 😂
Walked in on two of my ER docs watching this video and cackling, one of them is the epitome of burnout and is constantly biking to work. You really know your audience.
That's adorable.
As the wife of a radiology resident, thank you ER docs for ensuring that there is a constant demand for Rads moonlighting to read all those 3:00 am CT’s.
Lmao at the coke. Visited a college friend who is now an ER resident and the only things I saw in his fridge is coke and booze.
Your friend may need help
Hahah that’s about right lol
The cup of whiskey he's about to pour it into is off camera.
#PRIORITIES
Before and after shift snacks covered
As an ED physician, I can confirm the accuracy of carrying granola bars, IV meds, and dread of missing a diagnosis! THE TRUTH OF IT ALL.
Thank you for the spot on roast, Dr. G!
And thank you for your hard work ❤️
How do you deal with the stress and dread?
@@xoxjelloxox By quitting and entering radiology :>
@@xoxjelloxox prehospital it’s mostly caffeine nicotine and alcohol
Yeah, that part was amazingly funny and yet too real at the same time ^^
Incredible how relatable your skits are to non doctors as well
I think so, too!
Yeah, between Dr. Glaucomflecken, Dr. Schmidt, Steveioe, ChubbyEmu, Medlife Crisis, and a few others I'm probably forgetting, I think the algorithm has decided that I'm actually doctor 😆
@@Fern635 i discovered chubbyemu today. Will look up medlife crisis too
“If you can’t diagnosis it with a ultrasound then its not worth diagnosing” too real
The amount of people i know who've gone in with severe abdominal pain and come out with "well there's no baby or appendix in there so have 0 or 100 coedine and come back here if you develop coma ciao"
Except the ultrasound machines are always broken.
@@Mrsangeandbella ice cream machine always broke- medical edition
Loooool
@@Mrsangeandbella or the correct handheld piece has disappeared, so you're using a tiny scanner to try and see a whole baby.
My wife and I are obsessed with your videos. I’m a doc in Australia and despite the differences in our training, it’s incredible how much our experiences seem to overlap. Patagonia vest and cargo pants 😂
FXD workwear FTW !!
I had horrific episodic pain in my upper right abdomen for over 3 years. I saw multiple specialists from cardiology to multiple Gastros. Finally one day the pain was so bad i couldn't breathe so I had to go to the ER. They did an untrasound and diagnosed my gallstones in 15 minutes. The other docs ordered everything from endoscopies to ECGs, but only an ER dr would look at a skinny, 16 yo boy and go "gallbladder untrasound time!"
How much caffeine do you want?
Emergency Medicine: Yes.
“Overwhelming dread that I missed a potentially fatal diagnosis”.. and “severely burnt out due to the crushing volume of patients..” is 💯 - bicycle helmet wearing emergency medicine guy
This is getting better and better. Sharp. Socially aware. Self aware. Meta. My kinda stuff. I'll get addicted like this.
“I was born without a circadian rhythm” gonna use that next time.
Emergency veterinarian here! And it’s SO spot on for me as well that it took me a hot minute to realize this was MD humor 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dear Dr G. I cannot thank you enough for providing me with brief minutes of levity watching your intelligent, funny and amazingly precise social commentary on medicine and surgery. I am a pulm/cc doc and needless to say, there are very few if any moments in my professional life at this time that can be considered as nice or funny. Thank you for being honest and since I am not on Twitter, youtube is the only avenue I can enjoy this amazing art.
"sometimes i rock climb" you owe me a new pc i spit water all over mine
Today we learned that our ER group's contract got canceled with only 2 months' notice. Serendipitously, I also
discovered your videos today. I sent several links to my colleagues to cheer them up. I've been practicing emergency medicine for 40+ years. You are spot on! The critical care vs hospitalist interaction made me laugh out loud. Hang in there. Burnout is not a foregone outcome.
"when do you admit a patient to internal medicine? right after ordering a huge lab workup but before any of the results come back" I felt this in my bones
Physician wife of ER doc hubby… and he burnout thing is sooooooooo spot on! He’s 30 years into complaining…. 😂
Thank you for your service.
I think you need to give more justice to these guys. They literally do have the coolest personalities out of all the medical fields. No bias here, I am IM.
I love ER docs. They know ER is the societal lighthouse. No need for an office or wardrobe. Meet 'em greet 'em treat 'em and street 'em.
Over 20 years in the ER now - so spot on! And ketamine so much more convenient than the old B52 we used to carry around! :-D :-D Thanks for bringing some lightness to the work!
Why ketamine?
When that violent combative patient needs to go to sleep right now. Ketamine tends to preserve protective airway reflexes and does not inhibit respiratory drive, which is an advantage over benzodiazepines.
Before this, I hadn't thought how much dependence on soda/cola/energy drinks correlates with burnout 🤔
*Eyes own stack of Monster in the corner I've been demolishing to get through my dissertation*
Probably even more closely correlated to the patient volume, pace, and alertness expected while on the job.
Both are probably caused by stress and unbearable work load, probably not the case that one is causing the other
The caffiene addiction definitely doesn't *help*. I'm not in any med field, i work retail but I can't get through some days w/o 600+mg of caffiene. it's not healthy but ya gotta do what ya gotta do
The question asked by anyone who does any kind of emergency work is not "is it healthy?" It's "will it fill me up and will it keep me up?"
Any food or drinks we can cram down our gullets between traumas
I laughed so hard at the "born with the circadian rhythm" joke. I'm an ER PA and this is so true. My non-medical friends question how I sleep and live. Please make more ER videos! You are hilarious!
I vote we declare this man an international treasure and have him protected by international law.
The Ketamine joke got me.. 😂😂😂
Literally a couple of days ago I was having a chat with a couple of ER residents and was surprised by how freely they use Ketamine 😳 I'm an Anesthesia resident and don't use it half as much!
No, you use propofol instead. I've done both. Ketamine for airway maintenance baby !!
Work in the ED and you’ll use it more….
My goal is to become an ER doctor. I enjoy Diet Coke, diet Red Bull, standing/running around all day. I also am naturally anxious and so I’m used to the overwhelming feeling of dread that some ER docs face as they think about the potential deadly cases they missed.
Welcome, Cousin. We're happy to have you.
Same, my personality screams er doctor
The helmets and sunglasses just never get old 🤣 please do a skit about virtual interviews
lol - I have been awake 90% of the past 2.5 days and have been getting multiphasic naps in between jumbo Monsters while studying for my EENT integrated exam I just took this morning. Currently feel great. Maybe this video is a sign.
You will rock it
Love love love this one. :). My Mom was an ER nurse. But, my ER Docs here did order CT scans both times I was rushed to the ER in the past 20 years (I fell on my head/hard at full speed tripping over a gate & left kidney infection because they kept thinking it was a heart attack because I couldn't breathe either (kidney impinging on my left lung and I have asthma).
Honestly, as an EM resident. I don't even see this as a roast. I think I've told many people now that one of the reasons EM is great for me is that my circadian rhythm is non-existent so when you mentioned that I cried laughing. 😭🤣
Born without circadian rhythm...lol nailed it.
Wow as a med student, I should take notes and put this to good use during my interviews. What if I actually get hired xP
Saved the anesthesiology interview haha
Me: Sees thumbnail
Me: Trying to hold it but can’t help bursting into laughter at the middle of the night when my roommate’s asleep
Dr. G I’m so glad you were able to get your content back and got rid of that stealing parasite. people can be horrible. as a person who watched almost all of the medical dramas I’m living for your videos. I’m actually a mathematician and little wannabe doctor😂
edit: my math work involves optimizing the best conditions for doctors, nurses, and patients
edit: thank you Anonymous Neko, I doubt that I’ll ever become a doctor, thank you for your input to society, nurses are the best(: they do waaaaaay more than dr’s do and know more about patients, catch dr’s mistakes and make everything run smoothly, superheroes. my grandma was a nurse
Oo hi little doctor.. Im rooting for u..
-a nurse 🤣😂
Wait, what happened?
@@andressa9111 This youtube channel is different from the one where most of us were watching Dr. G's videos for months. Turns out the original Dr. Glaucomflecken youtube account was an impostor, copying his content all over from Tiktok and with the about text being copied from Dr. G's website. He came onto youtube on this channel just recently, intending to start using youtube for real, then discovered the impostor had beaten him to using all his own content. RUclips finally took down the impostor account, and Dr. G got to change this one to being named "Dr. Glaucomflecken" instead of "Dr. Glaucomflecken - the real Dr. G" (it said that for a few days to distinguish the two), and now this account, the one that's always been truly his, is the main active place to be. If you were subscribed to the impostor before, check now, you likely haven't subbed to this one yet. Hope that helps clarify what's up!
Thank you for that heads up. I thought I was already Subscribed, but it turns out I was not. I am now though.
@@anonymousneko7908 thank you darling
You are hilarious.
Your family medicine doctor with his crooked glasses, bemused expression and despairing glances at the money tree is just like me - an Aussie GP.
Great work. 🤩🍫
As an EM doc, soooo many facts 🙌🏼 (on my way to order another CT)
I'm pretty sure has has a patagonia 1/4 zip on....got one.
Energy drinks...yep.
PERFECT.
I'm 17 years in...to a crisp.
Yeah, I have gone to the ER with heart palpitations before. They asked me what my caffeine intake was like- a couple cups of coffee and a coke at lunch. Tech said "Hell, I had that much before I got to work."
This is hilariously accurate. I'm sending this to my climber buddy who is an ER doctor lol.
Oh man, the feeling of overwhelming dread of missing a fatal diagnosis hits home so hard, lol
I love the idea of rock-climbing to get to work 😄
Was waiting for this one! Did not disappoint! Amazing as always.
This year is my last as a med student, with a bit of luck, I'll be an ER interne in 5 months!
The only channel I dont see on 2x speed....entertaining to the core!!!!
Having worked for physicians and surgeons for over 25yrs, I can totally vouch it’s the real world of medicine!!
Im not in medicine in any kind of way buy because you, everytime i see a doctor cycling out/into a hospital, i quickly say to myself 'aaa another ER doctor'
You can identify us by our fanny packs, bikes, overall chill attitudes, and the smile on our faces as we leave the hospital because we know we are not going to be called.
“An overwhelming dread that I’ve missed a potentially fatal diagnosis.”
I knew it when I saw the massive list of orders.
I love these interviews. Keep up the great work! Please do radiology next, pretty please?
"sit down"
Big doubt of ER representation accuracy
I can't stop watching 'how to ace your interview vids' .. lol.. keep em coming
THANKS!!!!! This is awesome 🤣. I am an ER tech and this has a lot of similarities. Keep the good work Doc and remember to stay away from apples 🍎. 😁
Pretty much my whole family is in medicine and we love these shorts-you’ve covered every specialty in my family but I’m still waiting for mine… psychiatry.
Please do psychiatry 😢
"I was born without a circadian rhythm."
Shit. I'll take that.
As an internal medicine doctor ( from UK), I can confirm that - I received countless numbers of ED referral before lab results come back . Best part was - labelling “ sepsis of unknown origin “ without any test done .
There are only 4 infections. Chest, urine, skin, and unknown.
The serum rhubarb is important, but not to the ER. Once the threshold of referral is reached, teh call is made. Expecting all crafts groups to practice the same is asinine.
Paramedics are really rough cut, ER is rough cut, wards are fine cut.
C'mon man, where are the chips and doughnuts!😁
You've been in Opthalmology too long!
On the money Dr G👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Just finished my emergency room rotation for my nurse study.
Loved it.
I thought for sure your answer to the 5year question would be, “At the summit of K2”. 🤷♀️
I always think „this is his best one yet“ and then a new video drops. I feel like a parrot!
🔥🔥🔥 overwhelming dread keeps the heart rate up.. Amazing stuff man, don't ever stop..
Very, very well said!!! While it brings a smile, the reality is that what is said is all too true. Good job, Dr. G! 🙂
0:25 Holy crap, that happened to me. Middle of the night, out of town, told the ER doc that my Gastro sent me in and wanted a CT. He didn't do it, actually discharged me! I had a burst Meckel's diverticulum. What the hospital lacked in ER, they made up for in a quick-thinking surgeon who saved my life. But I'll never get over the feeling of being dumped in the waiting room, unable to walk, stage 2 sepsis. That jerk.
Im studying to be a forensic pathologist and im terrified of the day he does a skit on us because we are god damn weird.
Spot on. Spot on. I am an ED physician and you pegged me.
I was going to send this to some people, then I realized they just wouldn't get it. Only a doctor would have this intimate understanding of my soul.
This whole skit made me laugh…then it made me sad…
I guess the best and funniest jokes are born from truth.
Yes, that’s me. ER , born without a circadian rhythm and prone to burn out when my heart rhythm goes below 100. Thanks for the laughs
We are in a La Nina atmospheric condition at the moment; EM might just be able to triathlon to work.
this is pure gold. im making my way through all of your videos and shorts
I absolutely love his emergency doctors in the bicycle helmet!!! ❤😂
While I want to go into neurology I think I'll have to be in the ER somewhat regularly and as an ADHDer who's managed to make caffeine her blood group I am very much looking forward to the thing most people who didn't choose emergency medicine dread. I was always torn between neurology and emergency medicine ... I think brains just won because there is no hope for mine.
U r amazing
Even though I hate ophthalmology and i love general surgery
No one can describe each field as hilarious as you do
32+years in a tertiary ED this is gold summed up my career and life in 1 minute
Maybe it counts that I jogged to the bus this morning. Heart full of blood, lung full of air - how hard can it be?
I was an NEMT-B IV in Colorado and this is waaaaaay too spot on for the physicians.
Scanners, every last one of 'em.
Our healthcare system is on the level of Welfare. May God protect us !
Man medical workers do so much for us, no matter what specialty! Thanks guys, for all you do ❤️. Keep going, I know it’s tough but you do so much for everyone, and are loved and cared about by so many. Stay safe, and God bless, everyone ❤️✝️
Doc you NAIL all the stereotypes man. I'm an Ortho and I love all the characters . My wife is Ophtho and we kind of want to meet ya lol 😂 you are our spirit animal
I saw one of the ED physicians in the doc lounge a few nights ago, he looked tired, said he wanted to get out of medicine and was lamenting how he wasted so many years of his life…I knew how he felt…medicine sucks, especially non-procedural specialties…
The continuously increasing size of Diet Coke bottles was fucking perfection 🤣🤣🤣
Doc….. I know zero about medicine except how to read the directions when taking it. Anyway you kill me! I look forward to watching your videos to get a great laugh! Keep them coming.
You are quite an empath. Plus many other wonderful qualities. I hope you keep your negative qualities unexpressed at least on RUclips. I do wish you and yours the very best😄😁😆😉.
"where do you see yourself in 5 years" - That was the most accurate feeling I could see
As a nursing student wishing to go into emergency medicine , I wouldn't expect nothing less
In ten years: "If i haven't transfered to ICU to catch my breath, I'll still be addicted to other people's pain, feeding off it like a vampire at 4:00am, exactly like a serial killer."
Nailed it. Though when I did ER I was able to go in and screen for Medicaid and if not Medicaid I would refer you to free clinic.
I love how the second he's not talking he's chugging everything he can to stay awake
This speaks to me as an ED provider
Haha I love the bike helmets. My friend was saying how at her interview for A&E when they asked about her hobbies and interests she made sure to say cycling as all the A&E doctors she know love cycling
Where does he come up this stuff?!😂😂😂
My next visit to my Physician may be causal of sudden uncontrollable laugher-outburst syndrome b/c of these videos.
"Even more burned out" 😅