Breaking Your Legs To Get More Dates
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Short men are going to great lengths to increase their romantic chances, and overall confidence. Leg lengthening surgery is extremely costly, dangerous, and soaring in popularity. The Internet has boosted the ease with which people can undergo major life-changing operations, leading to the commodification of cosmetic surgery. But what should the medical profession's role be in all of this?
With huge thanks to @CharlesCornellStudios for making the Skee-Lo backing track, allowing me to truly butcher 'I Wish', and to @JordanHarrod for providing her voice for an article excerpt.
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References:
Original article: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifesty...
China's cosmetic surgery craze. Leg-lengthening operations to fight height predjudice can leave patients crippled pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15046...
Shortchanged: Height Discrimination and Strategies for Social Change on JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1xx...
China's cosmetic surgery craze. Leg-lengthening operations to fight height predjudice can leave patients crippled pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15046...
Cosmetic bilateral leg lengthening using intramedullary nail experience of 9 cases pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32055...
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the rap was *very* good
Nice chandrayaan (sp?) 9 poster in the back!
Certified Rap God
Truly barz
The sponsorship bit at the end was the best I've ever seen. I people don't skip it.
half medical deep dive, half witty standup comedy... incredible
agreed! I come here for the bursts of wit that make me laugh out loud!!
Don't forget the crazy rap skill
Agreed. Laughing away to myself whilst cooking dinner.
that’s the rohin sweet spot!
A cardiologist, nonetheless!
Hearing the word “waifu” come out of Rohin’s mouth in that falsetto tone was simultaneously the funniest and most atrocious thing I’ve experienced in a while.
i was gonna say it was the last thing i ever expected to happen, but it never even made the list
visceral rage
Despite his serious façade, hes an absolute troll
How can a channel be this unhinged and also so wholesome at the same time?
Bro that 9mm joke was completely out of left field, funny as fuck
Because it addresses things honestly. It’s refreshing sometime to not have to beat around the bush and talk about topics.
@@serratedbeanstalk6089 nobody could have seen it coming - politicians.
The obsession with height in American culture is absolutely insane. I was exactly the national average in the US and was considered short by tons of women. I've never had an issue with it in the Nordics despite being shorter than the average. I remember a date with a Danish woman who was a full head taller than me. I asked if that was an issue about halfway into the date and she looked absolutely perplexed and said, "Why would it be?".
I thought this hight thing was because Tinder doesn't have a field for penis size.
As an American, I can tell you that almost any bit of modern American culture is complete consumerist, narcissist, vapid dog shit.
It’s because most Americans have at least some Native American genetics, who were much much taller than the original Western European colonizers. As they bred together, taller Western Europeans with native features started being born and seen as more attractive than the pure Western Europeans in America over time.
@@natk4017
That sounds... made up. Could you provide a source or two?
It’s not just the US. In MANY cultures around the world, taller stature is considered more attractive. Historically, our caveman ancestors would elect the tallest man in the village to be the chief, because they were seen as stronger and thus better suited to protecting the tribe. Women always wanted taller men because taller men were seen as better able to protect them. It’s just human biology. It’s not an American thing. But studies HAVE shown specifically in the United States that the taller of two presidential candidates usually are more likely to get elected. The average US president height is 6’0. But having said that, it is NOT just an American cultural thing.
As a American I never thought I'd voluntarily give a doctor money, but the intro and the song were AMAZING.
Thank you that’s very generous of you! 🙏
Extremely talented and funny, thank you for the infotainment.
😂 too relatable
That was pretty great 😂😂
@@MedlifeCrisiswhere did you get that shirt
“Of course you [Americans] have integrated the metric system into children’s education, because you’re quiet keen on using 9mm’s in schools”. Honestly, thats the greatest burn I have ever heard in my life against Americans, and I’m American.
an extremely clever joke impeccably delivered. I swear I a shed a tear from laughing so hard
I had to pause the video to recuperate from that one
I cracked up and had to pause the video too after shedding a tear. Both from the laughing and from the fact it is true... such a dark joke but so accurate.
Can someone tell a non Americans what is the 9mm joke?
@@dalfifran7572bullet calibre (or caliber as they say)
The thing is that even if I went through limb lengthening (I am 5’6) to let’s say 5’10, I would still be called short. Or maybe ugly, or perhaps poor. There’s always something people won’t like about me. I can’t change that. I always like to take the stoic approach and try to understand that in the end it doesn’t matter. Life is so short that it makes no sense to chase the unattainable standards of society. F**k what people think .
5'10 is not short, cut the shit.
Awwww, yes. The great teachings of Marcus Aurelius and Ryan Holliday has made my life so much better.
I respect what these short kings go through, but I also know that if they became true stoics that their problems would seemingly cease to exist. It’s inherent within the doctrine of stoicism.
A good thing to remember too is that the prominent standards of society makes you forget that there's such a range in people's preferences. Im a (barely) 5'3 woman and have always really liked short guys. Even my same height (or hell, even shorter than me).
There seems to be just one or two ways to be "properly masculine" and therefor successful projected in the social discourse, but I think there's many different kinds of masculinity and ways of being masculine, and I am attracted to many of them. Its definitely difficult to find them, but there will always be some people out there who would genuinely appreciate you for the way you are
Chiming in to say I'm one of the women who likes average height men. I don't want to date a giant.
Almost nobody thinks 5'10 is short irl.
I was born without a fibula in my left leg. Due to this it was impossible to for my left leg to grow. I needed to get limb lengthening surgery. It was horriblely painful, almost every minute I had some degree of pain. You are always badly sore, and depending on where the surgeon decided to install the fixator I would have to lock my knee overnight. Considering there was a major medical device drilled into my bone this wasn’t easy. On top of my doctor prescribing as many opiates as the law would allow him to. He would also prescribe valium as because of the pain it was incredibly difficult to sleep. I also had to go to extreme painful physical therapy for at least as long as I was lengthening my leg, which could be months depending on the distance that needed to be corrected. When I found out that some people get this VERY invasive surgery just to be taller it send a shiver up my spine. I’m about 5’6” and my height is the least of my issues.
I'm so sorry, how awful. I hope you're better now. Don't hesiatate to seek therapy (EMDR is pretty good for trauma).
@@whychoooseausername4763 I’m doing well (or at least better) now. My last surgery was (I think) in 2018. Unless I start to develop spinal alignment issues that should me my last surgery.
Because physical pain is just temporary. The emotional pain of being ridiculed by others, and rejected by potential dates is lifelong, and sometimes hurts worse than any physical pain.
@@harsh3948 How do u have gigachad pfp and worry about this stuff? grow up
@@idc1121 havent you realised yet? Generaly speaking people that identify with terms like alpha or seek a chad aesthetic are usually the ones obsessed with their bodies, only its in a way perceived as societally acceptable.
But anyway, being cognisant of other peoples perspectives doesn't mean you need to grow up. You saying grow up just marks you as a growing number of people who lack empathy and critical reasoning skills...
"Don't message me if you discriminate against people based on race, sexual orientation or gender identity, or if you're under 6 feet tall." Yeah, figures.
The irony is insane isn’t it
@@MedlifeCrisisalmost accidental ratio. Keep going 😊
Every new thing I learn about dating apps makes me so glad to be a lesbian, we still just get our dates by meeting (girl)friends of (girl)friends. (Not always in person anymore of course.) Much easier, and you have someone to complain to if something goes wrong..!
It's like in Austin Powers. "If there's two things I can't stand, it's people who discriminated against others for immutable characteristics, and short people".
@@krombopulos_michael life imitates art after all. Funny that.
I read a bunch of leg lengthening surgery forums a while back and it was one of the most doomer corners of the internet I’ve ever seen. I’m a 5’6” man and there were guys on there who were TALLER than me saying with total conviction that their height made their lives unlivable, but somehow being a couple inches taller would fix everything. It was baffling.
Everything tall enough to ride the rollercoasters with the biggest height requirement is perfect. Every inch above is just extra filler.
Yeah it's really sad, I feel for these guys who fixate on physical attributes (a hallmark of incels) as some weird form of essentialism, ie this is how the world works, so in their eyes all their problems are due to that particular thing. Some are even more absurd than height, like their chin or...narrow shoulders like me!
@@MedlifeCrisis Exactly. And any argument made on those forums that someone’s height was normal and they didn’t need the surgery was dogpiled on so quickly-on one of them it was literally against the rules to say anything like that. My best guess is that they’ve developed an attitude of “I’ve tried everything and these stupid normies just keep telling me to magically become confident,” sort of like how a lot of us feel about the “you’re depressed? Have you tried yoga?” sentiment.
Yeah, I think it's safe to say that the actual physical truth doesn't matter that much. A hell of a lot of people getting cosmetic surgery were better looking than me to begin with, but if I was given the exact same money to spend on anything, I know I wouldn't be spending it on my appearance.
This is why I do think proper psychological assessment is desirable - because I'm sure that a hell of a lot of people are convincing themselves that something they feel is being caused by their appearance. When you have guys agonising about their clavicles, I feel like that's definitely what's happening there.
Good thing you have a rap career as plan B when the whole heart doctor thing won't work out!
I remember a few years back i was on a date with a girl. She was telling me that she was surprised how much she liked me because she used to never date short guy. She said she always said, what do you call a guy under 5'10"? A friend.
I was like wow, thanks and ended up ghosting her ass
Yes!! That should be the answer! Ghost those people, don't break your bones for them! ❤
DAAAMN, that is fucked up to say to someone! Even if I was sleeping with her, if a woman said that shit to me, it probably would never leave my brain! Good job ditching that lunatic.
Omg- laughed imagining her saying the quote, not because that shitty excuse for a joke is funny, but because she thought that would go over well with you. Holy shit lol
Good job on ghosting those thots king.
iconic of you
As a 5'6/167cm American manlet, I have never once thought "Hey, I need to go into massive debt to become taller!" This is absolutely mental!
Same but in Europe. I did look into it at one stage when I heard about it, but I thought it was just growth injections of some kind that worked, when I heard it was an expensive invasive surgery? Fuck that man, it's no where near enough of a problem. There's 100% a bias to shorter guys in society that many won't notice unless they're short themselves but you can literally just ignore all of it and the parts you can't ignore are usually vain shit that doesn't even matter.
The surgery gives you maybe 3 inches and wrecks your proportions. It's not worth it, it's not gonna help you
there is always turkey and India 15-20K in good hospitals
That's because you weren't young enough by the time your area modernized enough to the point where being short is now an actual detriment for quality of life.
@@WildBandit300 I'm 21, 5'6", it's not a determinant for your quality of life. My friend, 5'7" is with another girl every month. I hang out with my 6'2 aussie friend and still get noticed, I still meet women and although I don't sleep around so can't back that side of things I am in a relationship with a girl that's my height without issue. There's nothing stopping you from succeeding other than vain people on the internet trying to make you feel like shit, I can guarantee you it's your personality that's causing you problems not your height.
That rap was absolutely fucking sick Dr Rohin! I want more! We need more doctors in this very vacuous medical rap genre
Yes please ❤
That 9mm joke was soooooo savage! Not as savage as refusing to pass meaningful legislation, but still savage af.
small caliber joke?
Nope, about metric system. Seriously brutal and I love that humour !
@@carlosgaspar8447 Yeah, morbid joke about school shootings
I think he was talking about the push in some states to get teachers and other school staff to carry guns. I don't think he was referring directly to the school shootings.
@@trentgraham465 I agree indeed!
I’m a woman and was at one point so set on this procedure I thought it was life or death. It occupied my mind 24/7 and my leg length still does. I think if I could have afforded it, I would have done it without blinking. It’s crazy how something so inconsequential like leg length can destroy you.
[I actually have a related procedure scheduled now and I feel so weightless. Sometimes changing your body is much easier than changing your mind]
I just discovered I have socioeconomic dysphoria. I'm a $200k / year engineer soul trapped in an unemployed body.
Great go work for it just like those guys went through the surgery no one is stopping you full support to you.
That 9mm joke hit home, great aim!
Savage
It caught me off guard
I see what you did with those last two words.🤣🤣
I am 5"4 and my height has never bothered me. What was bothering is being mocked and insulted by my classmates in primary and middle school. Problem was not my height; it was the children around me. It is sad that children can be very ruthless towards each other. Eventually they grow up and learn to behave civil but bullied children carry the scars throughout their adult life. Teach your children not to bully other children based on their appearances. Now I am 30 and seeing some women posting insulting comments about short guys on social media. I don't understand the point, the motive behind using vulgar language towards short men. Everybody can have preferences in dating, but these preferences are meant to be communicated in civil manner, and privately.
They all sound like horrible people, who cares what they think
"Short men who are going to great lengths to be tall"
This is why I'm subscribed
Had a housemate in uni who was a 6'3" woman who always complained about how difficult it was to find guys who were taller than her to date. Ended up marrying a guy 5'5" tall and they're incredibly happy together.
Quite certain that man has a very robust self-esteem.
😊 life is the good stuff
it is interesting that her culture pushed her to date a taller man. Glad she got past that cultural barrier.
My partner and I are the same height, he said he wouldn't have dated me if I were taller. It's astounding to me that someone let something so shallow determine who they spend their life with. I'd still marry him if he was a brain in a vat
Saving this
I love the Skee-Lo inspired rap, its brilliant! I was feeling a bit depressed but now I'm grinning. Thanks Medlife Crisis
so amazing loool, didn't know people still rated skee-lo like that
So fun, funny and well done
You should release it as a song, for reall...
Been saying “wish I was a baller, wish I was a ceiling insulation installer” for far too long now. Excellent stuff
I've been following you on RUclips since you only had a couple of thousand subscribers. Now you have 540 000 and you are STILL in my opinion, one of the most underrated RUclipsrs. You deserve many more! Truly talented at mixing entertainment with medicine.
That intro song was absolutely amazing and life changing for me!! Skee-Lo would be proud!!
Tbh, my gf had to convince her girl friends that dating a short guy was ok after she shared she was starting to date me. They needed some convincing.
For me, I follow the advice of "not giving a f*** about what people think". It has served me well.
I'd probably insist she unfriend them under such circumstances, or not date her if she's friends with such disgusting people.
Sparkle on Short King its Wednesday
The GF's friends tend to judge the harshest, and also have the highest chance to destroy the relationship by peer pressuring the GF into breaking up
This is further evidence of my theory that women don’t actually care that much about height but attempt to date tall guys anyway simply to impress other women. It’s kind of like men competing over who can get the girlfriend with the biggest bazongas
Do you know why? Honest question, I have hard time to understand this thinking.
Especially if there's a huge height discrepancy certain things tend to get... shall I say, mechanically interesting.
As much as I hate being short, the idea of repeatedly getting my legs broken is a deal breaker for me
a leg breaker
Just get into debt with some crims and have the procedure done for free!
At least you fit properly in compact cars and buses. Tall people also have to dodge branches.
There are so many pros to being short. You're just used to them.
The people that win the climbers jerseys at the grand tours in cycling, they are short. Same with Olympic medals in gymnastics.
Good stuff. Women have been able to speak up more recently about how we’re feeling on body pressure. I think it’s important for men to as well. I like how you carefully navigated ‘this doesn’t feel right for me’ but also ‘this may be very helpful for others’. Self body perception and body modification are a tough topic because there’s so many ‘right’ answers bespoke to the person seeking them. Thoughtfully navigated, and amusingly communicated.
Even as a guy I see that many men can't speak up about insecurities without blaming women for them which is a shame. Especially when it comes to the height thing.
@@BalloonbotBro how do you expect guys to speak about things without blaming women when it's women who set the standard to begin with?
@Balloonbot the real issue is that it's completely taboo to mention that women's standards may be creating these pressures. And they are. There are plenty of examples of this, even in this video. It's worth discussing, but instead we just blame men's issues on men themselves, telling them to "fix themselves." It's clearly not any more constructive than if someone were to exclusively blame women. The origin of the problem needs to be addressed, even if it is ugly and may critique women. Men have been critiqued for things like these for decades, right? Surely women can handle the same process.
@@Chicodon008 While women did set the standard in that the standard for what is attractive for a man _always_ has to be confirmed by women to be real... I rather doubt it was really the idea of women as a group. Probably some smaller, specific group. (I haven't done the research to figure out who, though.)
@@_Lumiere_ You make a good point with "men have been critiqued for things like this", so I want to confirm that what I just said applies also to men's standards for women. There seem to be a few small groups of powerful men setting various standards for what men expect in a woman. (However, in the case of men's standards for women, there seem to be multiple competing standards. And actually, there are multiple competing standards for what women expect from men as well, when you think about it.)
I shouldn't be surprised or shocked that this phenomenon exists.......shouldn't... I knew about Osteotomy procedures as I almost had one done a few years ago due to lack of cartilage in my knee - so, out of necessity. But this leg-lengthening thing is a "cosmetic mental disorder" and the whole mental part of this phenomenon is something that needs to be taken much more seriously!
Love your videos!
My son has undergone this twice due to a massive disparity in his leg lengths, which obviously caused a lot of issues for him. I can't imagine going through what he did simply because you want to be a few inches taller!. I used to cry (when he wasn't around) as I felt so sorry for him having to go through all the discomfort and pain. This world gets sicker by the minute and it is unlikely to recover whilst people are obsessed by social media and all the trash that brings with it.
Easy to judge when you're not on the recieving end of heightism.
I'm a short guy and I don't plan to have this surgery but I 100% understand others who feel they need it because I live the hell that is being short in a sick culture like ours.
@@garak55 I judged from the perspective of being someone who saw just how hard and brutal this operation is. My son didn't gain the 'benefit' of being taller however as it was just to get his short leg closer to his other, he is 5'8. On your other point, I totally agree that we do live in a sick culture. It makes me so mad when I hear these girls with their lists of must haves for men, being tall being one of those criteria. There hopefully are still some decent females out there who look beyond the superficial, I wish you well.
@@somad6997 I can assure you that I am not an incel, I don't think as a 60 year old wife and mother that I really fall into that catagory!.
@@somad6997it can also be a generational thing, some of the current right wing implications/associations ppl have among younger ppl is actually part of that “return to tradition” stuff
It's different when it's for cosmetic reasons. The complications rate is little and none and the recovery for a lot of people is a lot less painful
It's deeply sad how isolated these people are, and how commodified relationships are in our society
What else is there?
Yeah, this timeline sucks, but name a good timeline.
capitalism is supposed to endlessly grow so this is what happens when there's no more room in nature and such to endlessly expand into. what if we capitalize on peoples relationships instead.
What business is it of yours how other people decide to pursue their relationships? You do you
Its sad that in our culture(perhaps more accurately species) everyone is expected to be in a realationship. I think many people would be better of if they could be ok with being single. Treating relationships as a possibility not a requirement.
The amount of humour in this video is exceptional, excellent work!
Just found your channel for the first time. Informational and an awesome sense of humor? Love it!
I'm a guy, and I had a friend who was a 5'4" man and to say his hight dominated his life would be an understatement. He became one of the most miserable people I've ever met. He drove all of his friends away becuase of it. To this day, if I ever catch someone making fun of short men I stop them and explain this story. I hate comments about "society today" but todays culture is genuinely so hostile twords short guys. Makes me sad ...
Key being _he_ drove all his friends away, I know the shortest boy in my class was very vindictive and picked on me more than anyone else picked on me (I was pretty tall).
I'm 6'8" btw
Totally. Especially if you live in the west 5 10' is average and lots of things are made with that in mind. I was 5 7 before surgery and got about 4 inches afterwards. Its not that I cared about my height, its the people around me who would notice. I did it become invisble and not be noticed everywhere I go. Now I do. People be saying height doesn't matter and making height a requirement in almost everything, not directly but it literally dominates your life if you're short. :D
Totally. Especially if you live in the west 5 10' is average and lots of things are made with that in mind. I was 5 7 before surgery and got about 4 inches afterwards. Its not that I cared about my height, its the people around me who would notice. I did it become invisble and not be noticed everywhere I go. Now I do. People be saying height doesn't matter and making height a requirement in almost everything, not directly but it literally dominates your life if you're short. :D
@@lyrimetacurl0 no, key being he became, that doesn’t happen in a vacuum, nice attempt to imply that short men are inherently evil though lol
Come for the medical knowledge. Stay for the beard fetish.
It is majestic 🤩
I might be tall, but I am entirely unable to grow a useful beard. :(
I would gladly be shorter if I had a beard like that.
Or come for both if that's your thing
@@nuclearduck13,😉
Love the music video. But I really liked that this wasn't just a one-sided commentary.judgement, but opening up the discussion with additional questions.
by the way the feng shui of the room you're in is wonderful 👏 the entire presentation is so nicely done, better than most youtubers I see
You seem like the kind of guy who could pull off a tattoo of a heart with a name in it; your own name. Bond points for the heart-cardiology connection.
An anatomically accurate heart, I'm sure. None of that ideographic nonsense.
_bonus points?_
@@EggBastion Ah yeah. Autocorrect got me there. I'm just happy it wasn't accidentally dirty.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 oh yes, with the ECG on it too. Instead of the usual PQRST label he should label the ECG with ROHIN, that would be hella dope man! 🎉
Others want to be taller, I just want to possess Rohin's comedic skills. Great video
Coming in 2123, brain surgery to make you neurologically funnier!
That 9mm joke threw me off guard so much lmao
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721yep very true.
you NEVER fail to entertain, while providing relevant information. Kudos, sir!
As usual, a very thoughtful and insightful piece!
The rap is something else, I think if the medical field isn't doing it for you anymore I think you might have a possible career in music lined up
looked into this about 15 years ago while writing a paper about cosmetics in Asia, China mainly. Leg lengthening surgery came up as something people would do in order to be able to get a good job where being taller would allow you to use imposing height to impress and intimidate others (lawyer) or there would be height requirements (flight attendant). Really interesting...
Love how it is used in Gattaca.
rohin out here defying the narrow, bigoted stereotype that doctors can't rap......really holding it down at the frontiers for us💪🏽. in case the cardiology side hustle fails for u, the world of rap is open to lil medlife
If he put out songs like this, I'd listen to ever lil Meds' song. A true masterpiece.
The song did earn an instant Like ...
It took me a while to watch this video, but boy was it worth it! You are, like always, my favorite youtuber.
Beard fetish - if it were a choice, I am taking it. Laughed so hard hearing that. I hope you never tire doing what you do and that you continue to get opportunities doing it.
I'm exactly 6'0. I also spent five years working in a basement kitchen with pipes at 5'6". I then dated one girl on tinder who accused me of lying about my height because I wasn't hitting my head on the vents in her basement apartment. Sometimes you just can't win.
huh, didn't she hear of ducking??
As a tattoo artist, people tend to suck at actually understanding sizes, specially length, still seems bad to me that she felt that way, but I don't know anything.
Where's the connection with basement pipes?
@@nd264u7 I had a lot of ingrained muscle memory for ducking around obstacles in basements
I think you won by finding out early that she was a silly billy
Absolute banger of a track. Made my heart fibrilate with poetic bliss. It'd be a waste not to pursue a rap career, along the whole youtube/doctor business. I'm sure you'll handle it great.
thanks for all the knowledge and laughs
I underwent three leg lengthening surgeries between the ages of 9 and 12 due to a shortened right leg. The idea that anyone would subject themselves to this kind of procedure voluntarily and for purely cosmetic reasons is completely insane to me. This isn't a simple surgery, it's painful and traumatising, or at least it was for me.
As someone who is barely above the threshold to qualify as having dwarfism, it honestly does kind of suck in many ways (this summer I got the 10 and under menu when out with my family). But tbh, so much of my life has been shaped by being short that the idea of me gaining a few inches feels... uncomfortable? It's weird, but imagining myself as being a normal height seems as foreign to me as imaging myself as being a different race. I don't know if this perspective adds anything, but I thought I'd share!
Dude, you do you!
I’m glad to hear someone feeling normal being what they are!
Life is what you make it!
well yea im 5'1 and ive literally never cared
if anything ive always been the "king"/funny guy growing up through school, just for being short (?)
but after leaving school its different, u start seeing how other ppl judge u on ur height
even tho i did never care, ive definitely focused on its effect since.
and i dont think its possible for ppl to "not care what other people think". im largely in the same camp of, i do things without thinking about ppl being judgemental, but when u are clearly getting ostrasized and u got no one to back you, you start questioning things. we are social creatures at the end of the day, of course having a healthy social life is paramount to a healthy life.
crouch a bit when they measure you dude....get that disability
As a guy thats 5'9" standing around people taller than me makes me look short and standing around people shorter makes me look taller. Im not short but peoples perceptions are easily swayed especially when at family gatherings where the men taller than average. I wouldnt pay for those extra inches but i can see how they would be appealing to those in my position or slightly shorter where the height difference wouldnt mess with proportions.
No what you had to say added nothing..
I love my bald, short and ethical doctor ❤
read this comment exactly when he said it 😂
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As a kid, I used to have some issues regarding my height and not growing taller than my dad, but I've largely accepted my genetic lot and have chosen to focus on other charm points when I do actively care about my appearance.
Also, the full moustache I had by age 12 was a point of pride for me, especially since all the white boys couldn't even get close.
This has to be the funniest video yet, and I'm only halfway to the end yet!
Here's an interesting bit about the Turkish hair transplant market. In Turkey, doctors take a centralized exam to go on to specialize. Since there are only so many spots for each specialty, the minimum score needed to enter each specialty depends on supply and demand. Traditionally, the highest points were for prestigious and life-critical fields like cardiology and neurosurgery. Recently though, the situation flipped on its head - dermatology is now the most competitive specialty for newly minted Turkish doctors. Our best and brightest doctors go into dermatology while the doctors who barely scraped by are becoming neurosurgeons.
I think this is due to two trends that have been going on for years. The first being the absurd amount of money dermatologists can rake in from international customers. The second one isn't as well-known, and it's the fact that Turkish people treat doctors like absolute garbage. Especially if you're in an overcrowded and underfunded public hospital, getting beaten or killed by angry visitors is not out of the question. Even the most idealistic and starry-eyed doctor would become jaded and amoral after spending a few years in their mandatory public hospital residency. The healthcare system is falling apart because of this, and ultimately Turkish society has only itself to blame.
How interesting. Doctors are often treated with a reverence they do not always deserve by some groups or societies, and it's not hard to see how that might be the case. But the behaviour you refer to in Turkish hospitals seems to indicate a high level of mistrust and lack of respect among the general population, and I wonder if you have any information or ideas about why that might be the case?
Can confirm, one of the reasons I outright denied studying medicine
Will update if I ever end up going crazy and switch my major
Bro the situation is exactly the same in india...
about lesser known fields, i'm from ph 🇵🇭 and we have a lot of civil engineers. there's so many of them and so few construction projects their starting salaries are at $300 a month. in contrast our semiconductor industry earns about $80 billion a year. we sell more of it than any european nation. more than any western country in fact ex the usa. yet I do not know a single electronics engineer in person.
@@Ozymandi_as I genuinely have no idea what happened.
A Skee-Lo parody is not what I thought I needed this morning, but I was wrong.
I love your content so much, makes me smile every time I watch your videos
It's got to be an anatomically correct heart with crossed scalpels behind it and a scroll saying "Mum". A reference to doctor patient confidentiality. :) Loved the video by the way. Very thoughtful. Also love Contrapoints.
That's a badass tattoo idea ngl
Omg, the Skee-Lo skit had me rolling 😂😂
I was 5'6 but after hip surgery I am now 5'5. Looking forward to being even shorter after my knee surgeries! I'll be able to start buying childrens trousers again for that sweet 0% VAT. #benjaminbutton #novatlife
Vat is bull
Brutal
@@cirelestenVAT is just there to get more money from the poor for increasing wealth disparity. Its actually just disgusting.
Hope you gain a milometer for each thumbs up
Do you think you'll ever manage to get in to places for the kids' ticket price? That would be my goal.
this was awesome! THanks!!!
Absolutely incredible video!
Hahaha, the facial hair advert was amazing, the transitions ............... seemless.
3:00 To those interested, this film is called Gattaca. It is a film about eugenics and the film focuses on a pair of brothers, one genetically engineered and one naturally conceived.
The sibling who gets the leg lengthening is Vincent, the naturally conceived one. Jerome, the one on the wheelchair, is the brother who was genetically engineered to be an athlete but suffered an accident (none of this is a spoiler; it is all explained upfront).
Mind you, these brothers love each other a lot, but they also fight a lot due to miscommunications and societal issues, and both have internal struggles. I deeply recommend watching it at least once.
Not quite. Jerome isn't his brother - but like you said, he's a genetically engineered athlete who suffered a career-ending injury. The naturally conceived hero, Vincent, pays him to lend him his identity via fake fingerprints etc. so he can be an astronaut, since in that society only the most eugenic people qualify for space travel. Vincent does have a genetically engineered "superior" brother, but it's a different character.
YOOO I WATCHED THAT MOVIE IN MY BIOLOGY CLASS
I'VE BEEN SEARCHING EVERYWHERE FOR ITS NAME THANK YOU
@@robotizedcyborg7788I watched it in Science class in school. I loved it. Totally agree with OP that everyone should watch it at least once.
I think in that movie it wasn't actually genetic engineering but a very high level of genetic _screening_ . Technology was at a level where the average person could have dozens of in vitro fertilizations, test the DNA in each of those and then implant and carry to term the one which happened to get the most beneficial combination of chromosomes.
That's one of my favorite movies! But the 2 characters aren't brothers
Had more giggles watching this than a standup show. You're the man!
Thoroughly enjoyed that Rohin, great video. You could post once a year with bangers like this and be worth the wait.
Also, on the topic of the video and to provide anecdotal evidence regarding the relation between height & dating life success: I'm 190cm tall, atheltic (runner, not muscular), probably average looking overall, 32 years old with a good job, living in Paris and have been single for more than a decade. As always, the key is the awful personality and self confidence! Or is it the lack of beard?
See, you're not the only one who can subject others to an impromptue therapy session.
Looking forward to the next!
To my mind, the tragedy isn't that people are affected by bullying and prejudice, it's that there's so much bullying and prejudice.
This is nothing new, and no different from all the other ways society deems certain characteristics beautiful. It’s not bullying that society has certain beauty standards, that’s been the case for as long as there’s been humans. The only real difference is the invasive nature of the operation
@@zyzzsdisciples6707Beauty standards have always been there but never was it this bad that so many men just can't date due to their height.
@@zyzzsdisciples6707 Beauty standards can vary time and place. Culture is not immutable.
@@Chicodon008Beauty standards have never been this bad? Is that a joke. Look at Asia, where if you're darker than a paper bag, you're considered ugly. This has been the case for centuries. Skin bleaching is a billion dollar industry. But now it's bad? Sure.
@@Chicodon008 I'm willing to bet they could date, but don't want fatties or chicks with children.
Everyone has their prejudices, even those who are more often on the relieving end.
Insecurity is the most expensive thing you can have. Its why advertising forces it on us
Jaysus. What an absolute hip lad this channel/bloke is. Talented stuff, funny, well performed, spoken and well thought.
At 9 different times during this video I paused the video to like it, forgetting I had already done so, because this video is so good.
YO the 9mm in schools line got me laughing hard
Brooooo sameeeee 😂😂😂😂😂
I really appreciate your approach to this video as it has been really introspective. I got a mammoplasty reduction 11 years ago because of the damage my breasts were causing to my ribs and back but I still suffered from sensitivity issues to this very day. I will admit I honestly see that surgery as an improvement to my mental well-being though more than my physical well-being despite it being a medical necessity.
Had to come back to relisten to the rap. Dr Rohin the cardiologist here bringing a new meaning to "beats per minute"!
Who knew a cardiologist could master both heartbeats and rap beats! 🤣🤣
your channel is amazing!
Of all the jokes sprinkled throughout the video the one that really got me was the "RUclips Shorts" one
I watch too much youtube and so much great content out there, but nobody is as good as Doc Rohin. Thank you for your sharing your brilliant talent.
The entire essay is perfect but it was the sponsorship at the end that made me like and subscribe. If you can't tell from my profile picture, I don't need any kind of high-end shaving products. I can go by with the cheapest razor. So I have to be really impressed.
very thoughtful, as usual. Thanks.
"i heard you're quite fond of using 9mms in schools" holy shit. savage lmao
DUDE , there are not enough like buttons for this masterpiece. Medicinal info plus your sassy jokes made mi night watching this. Greetings for Chile my dude, thanks for staying true
I am doing PTS (wanting to be a paramedic) and watching your videos over the years moved me back on the path I wanted to be as a kid. Sometimes it's funny to go off script
Honestly, there’s no harm in waiting for the right time. We have to handle an enormous amount of trauma in this career, make sure you’re ready! I’m 25 now and just completing my training as a Primary Care Paramedic in Canada (equivalent to EMT-Advanced with IV endorsement). Not only does it feel right to have prior life experience, but most other paramedics talk about mid 20s being a great time to start.
Also saw a comment of yours earlier about height in the Ambulance- I’m just shy of 6.2 and bro I feel your pain haha. One upside tho is we can hold onto the ceiling handholds while still reaching the floor if we drop something
Great performance. I definitely did not expect you to write and perform a song, and it was really entertaining too!
We will need that rap as a stand alone video
Hehe I might do that
This video kinda struck a cord with me. I am saving up for abdominoplastic surgery at the moment. I've lost 25kg a few years ago and have lots of excessive skin around my tummy. It's partly medically necessary: My belly-button is now very deep so I get frequent skin irritations and sometimes infections. The skin is also annoying when I jump or run. But to be completely honest, a big part of the reason is that I finally want to look like my peers who have never been overweight. Nothing superhuman, not an insanely flat tummy - Just a normal 23-year-old woman who doesn't look like she has had two pregnancies. In some way, I think this is what I deserve after years of growing up overweight and being mistreated by others because of my appearance. I feel like I might be able to move on, once I have the surgery - Though I'll probably need to work on other aspects as well to finally feel better. Anyway, thank you for speaking so empathetically about this issue.
Same, I also don’t take things for granite either
@@Jwellsuhhuhtake things for granted*
@@eragonawesome whooooooooosh
Do what is best for you! Congrats on the weight loss, and you absolutely deserve it. Personally I also think your situation is very different from people who look nothing out of the ordinary but think a cosmetic change will significantly improve their quality of life on all aspects. While they're entitled to make their own medical decisions, and I have nothing against that, they will have a shit time once they realise their life is actually the same.
the last sentence reminds me of something a lot of men and women in the fitness industry suffer from - body dysmorphia. People look at their bodies, see millions of flaws, work on them, fix one or couple things, but find new flaws - in an endlessly repeating cycle.
Hilarious, tragic and informative! I particularly liked "..schools use 9mm..". Your self-deprecating humour is endearing and a really effective way to convey important topics for us to think about. Thanks!
Brilliant, quality content.
Hey Rohin, I’m 5’1”, which is… rough.
I believe that puts me in the 1st percentile among men. It is usually the first thing people comment on when they see me, but I didn’t realize the degree of disrespect in engendered until the pandemic, when the sudden switch to Zoom meant people who had never met me took my points far more seriously.
I appreciate the care that went into this video, and the delicacy required to walk the line between paternalistically telling people how to live their own lives and warning them about what is, ultimately, still a very dangerous procedure.
One comment I’d like to add, particularly since you said you moght address “commodification” again with respect to plastic surgery, is that commentators often neglect one of the benefits of turning luxuries, privileges, or impossibilities into commodities: egalitarianism.
Where once sugar, spices, and a full wardrobe were available only to the wealthy, they are now widely available even to citizens of poor countries (though their poverty, it should be noted, is often a result of the slavery and imperialism that allowed for commodification of these goods in the first place). Meat, over-the-counter medicine, and personal vehicles are also goods which were previously luxuries but are now widely available, albeit in the first world.
Commodification doesn’t exactly erase inequality-you still have to pay for things (hence why countries like the UK opt to socialize medicine), but it does lower the barriers.
I get frustrated when I see people, often quite privileged, complain about commodification. It often comes across as a worry that somebody might be able to buy into what they got, unearned, for free.
I won’t get leg-lengthening surgery. I love running and skiing too much to risk losing the ability to do either. But I also don’t begrudge anyone who spends their money trying to look a little closer to what so many Hollywood stars were born looking like-any more than I’d begrudge them for not eating the gruel of their peasant ancestors.
Wrote a thousand words but missed the point
@@scrumptious9673Do you have a critique of substance, or just empty snark?
I don't think it works that way, the people having these surgeries are rich people, this one specifically is popular among dudes in silicon valley, thinga getting cheaper to produce often makes them more widely available but that is not an effect of commodification, specially because commodification can come with exclusivity and elitism, also the first world comprises more or less 1.2 billion people, so the huge majority of people, about 85% still can get most of those things.
@@ZeteticPhilosophermogged.
It really never began
Hello down there!
It brings a lot of awful childhood (and recent) memories hearing all your personal stories about people making fun of your height. It’s painful.
Slowly over the years growing up, I managed to just tune out all the hurtful remarks about my height.
But thank you for the words of encouragement by the end of your video.
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
160cm guy
If it helps, I got made fun of because I'm tall. You can really never make everyone happy.
@@plantcraftie4141Would you rather be tiny?
@@plantcraftie4141As a 173cm tall girl who shot up in the 8th grade, I so relate to this. Kids can be so mean.
@@on_my_own_two_feet i was that length in 6th grade 😅
@@gj9157Smaller people are far easier to transport in bags
Fire in the booth! We need to get you on some grime and drill beats next.
As a 23-year-old 5' 7" "short king" who is very much failing spectacularly in the dating game, I've never considered having this surgery. I'd rather wait a few years and get into a relationship with an AI than get into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, months of excruciating pain, and permanently damaged legs, just for a chance of getting into a vain relationship with someone that only gave a shit about me because of my height. Don't get me wrong, I find both of these relationships equally meaningless, but at least I can larp as Ryan Gosling in the first one lol.
Why are you failing the dating game? It's not a matter of height, it never is.
Just based purely on physical characteristics, it depends on what you're looking for. I doubt many dudes below 6 feet are hooking up much but a lot of dudes 5'3 and upwards are definitely getting into happy, healthy relationships. Probably would help if you don't have social anxiety.
My other half is a couple of inches taller than you and I'm average wimmin height. It's never bothered me, or him, I'm as tall as him at least in heels. There's more to life than this. I'm not saying it's something else wrong with you. I'm saying it's maybe not you. Not directly. I think it's probably hard to meet people and the older you get the harder it is... If you want to find someone I hope you do. But don't assume it won't. I will say I've met loads of amazing ppl lately by joining a group I started off online only with and then ended up travelling to go to meets for it a few times, and it's blown my mind how many people are still around that could be potential options if I was looking. I'm nearly 40. Think about what you enjoy and go from there.
It's a about confidence, nothing to do with height. @@freespiritable
5"7 is average height in my country
Great video, been loving your channel since 2019. Nice combo of humour and education, thanks for the effort !
this is so weird, i was *just* having this conversation with my husband yesterday! i think the way short men are treated is preposterous. i’ve seen dating shows where the woman says her deal breaker is a man under 6ft (so, much taller than average) but gets angry when the dude says he prefers women who are thin and/or fit. don’t get me wrong, i think the latter is still uncool, but the lack of self-awareness to make your number one requirement in a romantic partner a physical trait but find it reprehensible for the other person to do the same is WILD. also, i at least understand the latter a bit more, because perhaps being very active and living healthy is a big part of your life and you want someone with that in common. while the former is just straight up shallow.
i say this as an overweight person myself, and i’m really not trying to be a pick me; far more often i find guys on dating apps and such much more vile. but this particular issue really bothers me.
Yup, fk fat womenz
Love the shirt
That rap + the quality of information in your videos =
Subbed! 🎉😄
You are most certainly my favourite youtube doctor, this one was a banger, from a short king to another.
edit post note: sometimes I applaud after videos, this was one of them
Thanks for blessing us with your contribution to fixing the lack of Skee-Lo in our lives - and the (as always) fab educational, yet entertaining content, of course!
As for tats, what about a true to life imaging of your heart above where it is? ❤
I just want to say how absolutely impecable the joke at 12:39 is. That is phenomenal timing and execution. Made me genuinely laugh out loud.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. This channel is amazing!
Rohin, how do you keep doing it. I'm laughing hysterically while being educated and made to think about (new) things in different ways.
Really appreciate how much effort you put into your videos. I watch them all at least twice
Tattoo suggestion: that staff with two snakes winding around it so that when people point it out and go “oh haha because you’re a doctor!” you get to launch into an explanation that it isn’t actually a symbol of medicine but gets used all the time by accident
Hermes?
2-snake caduceus isn't medical, 1-snake rod of asclepius is
@@EvMund yep, that’s the joke!
I'm only 7 minutes into the video, the song and the 9mm bits had me in tears 😂