My headcanon is that Mrs. Anesthesia is also an anesthesiologist, and while it's inconvenient that her husband is getting home late, she's enjoying the surgeon apologizing.
This is SO true. “This will only take 10 minutes” = 1 hr. “This will only take an hour” = 2 hours. “This will take about 3-4 hours” = 6-8 hours. Surgeons exist in a different space time continuum. I know - I worked in OR for nearly 40 years.
Applies also to university workers and students. I am guilty of the "will be back in 15 min - extended to almost 1 hour," just because something broke in the lab. I felt so bad for my student.
Funny story, I heard once that it's very common for surgeons to have ADHD. A common symptom of ADHD? The inability to gauge how long a task will take, known as time blindness.
This one hits home. My dad's an anesthesiologist - my whole childhood he wouldn't make it to dinner most days of the work week. He'd come back around 8 or 9pm, and my mom and I would sit with him while he ate his late dinner and talked about his day.
Surgeons will be surgeons…but it’s not only anesthesia on the hook, there’s at least a scrub nurse and circulator as well. So when the surgeon wanted to add a non-urgent case, I used to make him buy us all dinner!
did he actually buy you dinner? cause people say that all the time and then nobody actually ever buys dinner! same with people saying I''ll buy you a drink or next round of beers is on me and then they never buy the next round of beers or people say I bet you 5 bucks blah blah blah and then they never pay you your 5 bucks ya know.
As a retired operating room nurse, I know all too well a surgeon's idea of time and you have nailed it. But getting him to admit that anything is his fault is the real gem in this one!!
My dad’s a doctor, I got used at a very young age to just not see him most of the time. When there were important events he would rarely show up. I grew up and realized how hard being a doctor can be but man, its not fair.
Never going to happen. The long operating times are always because anaesthetics took too long, or because the theatre team took too long getting turned around... apparently! xD
My girlfriend is a surgical scrub and this is the story I hear at least twice a week. The problem isn’t just add-ons, it’s the surgeon and the scheduling team agreeing that the hernia cases will only take 30 minutes and then putting 16 of them on the eight-hour schedule. By 10am they’re already 2 hours behind. Every single time.
So accurate 😂 As a med student I assisted in a laparoscopic appendectomy once. Usually done in about 45 minutes. We operated for approximately 3 hours in the end because of some complications. When the appendix was finally out the surgeon left me alone to close up with anaesthesia and the OR nurses constantly asking how much longer it would take. No pressure at all 😅
@@ineedanewname4844 If i recall correctly the surrounding tissue was quite inflamed which made it very hard to reach the appendix itself. Also at some point two of the instruments we used gave out and we had to wait forever for a replacement.
Wait.... As a Med STUDENT the surgeon left you alone to finish an already complicated surgery? Med students aren't legally allowed to do that the Practicing physician has to supervise.....
Wait room….. late…… YOU LIVED IN THE HOSPITAL?? THATS ACTUALLY A THING?? I worked in a hospital on surgery but half the time they weren’t even there. Mostly at other hospitals unless something urgent happened but there’s really hospitals that y’all live in??
Story time: I had a hernia that was supposed to be a 1 hour surgery. Instead it turned out to be 4 hernias all in a line with a 5 hour surgery and a 3 day hospital stay after. My surgeon actually wrote "swiss cheese" in his report.
I had a similar situation. Went in for a small umbilical incisional hernia repair, ended up with a complete abdominal reconstruction. I have a 5" scar from my belly button up, and it goes a couple inches below my belly button inside. It went from an hour, no problem, to almost 4 and a hospital stay.
At my hospital, and others, there would be an anonymised list of "creative journal entries". Including, "feces the colour of door 18" "pt. Haven't talked to her husband since he died 5 years ago" and "female pt. Experiences moisture between her thighs" (he didn't mean her vahaho, but sweating from being fat).
I bribed my ppl to stay late on cases because I liked my team. Turns out they would stay anyway because I only do late surgeries if its really important to the patient. Most have just been told about the cancer that was found in their child and me doing what I can to ease their worry is worth it. I just found out they would stay in the past few weeks when I was myself in hospital for heart issues and they were cheering me up. I love my ppl.
@M You're wrong and know nothing about us. Yet you think you can make judgments on strangers. They have had many opportunities to work for other surgeons yet choose to stay. It's because we're like family, not because they need the job. Haven't you heard that there's a huge shortage of nurses in healthcare? They could go anywhere, but they chose to stay as a part of my team.
@@melodychanribis-roy4227 there's no need to be so aggressive/attacking. Chill. Most people know what family means in relation to work & much is related to my comment. We don't always see it when we're in it. Btw, you mentioned passing judgment - I think you caught yourself off guard neighbour, with alot you said. I've worked in med field for over 30 yrs & worked my ASS off like many others during pandemic. So before you're so quick to defend that next cup of coffee you're chugging, may want to catch yourself now & then.
My manager once signed me a letter to my gf explaining that there was an emergency and he needed me to stay. 🤣 Nothing like this but I really appreciated it and it was a bit funny.
My granddad was an asthesiologist. I can confirm. He delivered my uncle (at work) after over 30 hours on duty. He was so tired he put "girl" on the birth certificate... because he couldn't tell the difference due to exhaustion.
My dad's been head of anesthesia for my entire life. The amount of times I've gotten texts along the lines of "hey, case is running late, you're on your own for dinner"... I'll also call him sometimes, and we'll get five minutes into a conversation before he reveals that he is ACTIVELY IN SURGERY AS WE'RE SPEAKING. What a job
It's disturbing that the person who is responsible for keeping a patient alive and not waking up while being operated on was on the phone with anyone! No wonder they pump you full of Versed to make you not remember things or to be able to discount anything the patient reports as inappropriate as imagining it under the influence of the Versed.
@eb6s834 I am a medical technologist of almost 40 years experience who has seen many patients abused in the OR with staff laughing that " they'll never remember it." For example, the woman having a vaginal hysterectomy during which the surgeon and male OR tech joked about her anatomy, with the surgeon saying he should incise and give her a " husband's knot " and OR tech responding by saying " yeah, that'll give him the old grip back!" While pumping his fisted arm up and down. They were dressed down by the CRNA, they told her to get off it, it's not like she's going to remember it. Then there's the hospital whose OR cases were most often extensive dental procedures under anesthesia performed on patients who had developmental delays and were too combative to perform even the basic dental hygiene on. These patients often required a 12 lead ekg which was needed to be performed asap after induction. The patients were papoosed to maintain body temperature and I only needed access to upper chest and shoulders and ankles for 5 minutes. There were several nurses who would whip the entire blanket open revealing an entirely nude patient that one: wasn't being kept warm two: exposed to staff that had no business seeing the patient nude, violating his or her patient's rights three: nurses would often grab the leads and drag the wires across, and in the case of female patients, through, their genitalia. Sometimes the nursing staff would make comments about a male patient's anatomy with comments such as " what a waste on this guy" or when noticing the patient's erection one time the comment made was " too bad his brain doesn't work as good as his dick does." Other similar remarks. Disgusting. When I protested about this I was told on two occasions that the patient was so "retarded" he wouldn't know anything even without the Versed. Then many years later I was having my first surgery which was an absolute horror show, including being given " something to relax you" in my IV- right after I had just been yelled at by the surgeon because I was afraid. They slammed the gurney through the OR doors and told me to climb on the table. I told them I didn't want to have the surgery and someone said "you're here now, move" I said again I didn't want to but felt myself moving anyway. Two weeks after the surgery that gave me PTSD and has ruined me physically, psychologically and emotionally did I learn that I'd been given midazolam then given consents to sign. I had already signed some but these were others I have no memory of signing and totally look like they were signed by someone holding a pen in a hand with an IV. It also explains why I got on the table when I didn't want to. Versed makes you do what you're ordered to do. Like sign consents you couldn't have understood and move onto an OR table you didn't want to be on. There were things done to me in the OR that were 180 degrees from what was supposed to happen. Who was joking and laughing and saying who knows what about me? And how ironic is it that I advocated for patients my whole career only to have the same things done to me. Dr.K says himself Versed is insurance. How many times do they give Versed instead of pain med so they can get people up and out of the PACU faster than if they'd gotten pain meds instead? Sorry to ramble, but this is a subject that hits close to home.
Then yaw complain ... Forget too give patients a "block" and go home unaware that the patient will wake up later and remember your stupid name for the rest of thier life... Not that I would know.
No, that's just them overbooking their clinic, and having 0 respect for your time. My old man started interviewing his doctors when he was 30, made it clear that if he didn't get seen within 10 minutes of his appointment, he was walking out without paying anything. Wouldn't you know? He has a great relationship with his physicians, and actually was able to go to doctors appts on work days.
@AlyssMa7rin In our part of the world, specialists and even GPs are so few that the clinics are always overbooked. I don't have the mind to tell a Pt who has travelled 100 km to see me that sorry, because you are the 40th Pt, I can't see you. So I mostly get my lunch/dinner at 11 pm.
My dads 3 hour foot resconstruction took 6.5hours. and when they told us he was in recovery, he wasnt, and he wasnt in the ward, or apparently still in surgery, so they basically lost him. I work in my hospitals mortuary. We got so worried i even went down there to check for him!!
My bro is in med school right now and is thinking about going into anesthesia. I keep joking at him to make sure his spouse is a surgeon or a fellow anesthesiologist otherwise family dinner is gonna be rough XD
I was the cuttee on a less than 1hr procedure that went way wrong bc of the surgeon and it turned into a 5+ hr disaster recovery. I appreciate that Anesthesiologist more than he/she will ever know.
I used to be the “Front Door Dragon” for a couple of general surgeons. The patients with the least troubling ailments were the worst behaved, while the people who were actually dying were kind and understanding.
this is true for xray too. the people who've hardly bruised themselves are the biggest drama queens but the people who've actually hurt themselves will do anything you tell them because they just want to get the diagnosis so it can stop being so awfully painful
I'm a general dentist but after my one year general practice residency I spent 6 months as an anesthesiology resident along with the MDs and DOs. This is humorously accurate insofar as the attitude and relationships between the two. One time during an orthopedic case I advised the ortho resident that the patient was having a string of PVCs. He barely acknowledged it so I said, "but you ortho guys don't worry about the heart right?" The ortho resident said, "The heart says send blood to the bones." Loved it. (The patient came through the surgery fine btw.)
Anesthesia lives a very similar life to the service plumber. One innocuous leak at 4pm turns into a conflagration that takes hours and a run to the hardware store to fix.
Yeah, this was me during wrist surgery. Removed 7 screws and two plates, took five hours because my body decided to be extra and produce a massive amount of scar tissue. The most the surgeon had ever seen 🤦🏾♀️
This totally is true af lmao, the only way our anesthesiologist went home was just slipping through unseen cuz otherwise surgery and obgyn wouldn't stop hounding them.
Maybe Mr Surgeon read Douglas Adams at an impressionable age: "Time is an illusion (lunchtime doubly so)". If I was Anaesthesia, I'd hold out for something bigger next time. Like Mr Surgeon heading out to the nearest newsagency to buy my next Sudoku book.
As someone who works in theatres, this happens alot, a quick case in a surgeon surgeons mind doesn't exist. The procedure could be quick, but tack on getting the patient from the ward, checks, anaesthetic time, patient positioning, trying to find the surgeon because they got bored waiting and decided to go for a walk, getting them scrubbed. It's an hour later and you haven't even started the operation.
A clever man doesn't tip his waiter, he tips his anaesthetist. "Here's a grand if I wake up, thanks. Can't believe I got broken glass in my food again"
This is an occupation that needs far more regulation in terms of working hours. It’s dangerous how how doctors are sometimes required to work. Doctors are humans too and need regular breaks and sleep just like everyone else.
The problem with that is if there is that much regulation on time the amount of more drs needed would cause a MASSIVE shortage. The hospitals would have to have hours and that’s not feasible when accidents and emergencies happen 24/7. So the question would be, do you let more subpar drs in or make med school less expensive so we can flood the medical field with enough people to support that.
Yes and no. In many smaller areas there’s often only a few specialized surgeons sadly. So if they work a set amount of hours per week and no more? Guess what, there’ll be no doctors for emergencies. Also while it sounds like a good idea. They’ll always go over hours because of emergencies, regardless if they wanna work or not if they get called in for on call doesn’t matter. Better pop that 5 hour energy and save that man’s life.l
@@Eclipse-lw4vf I 100% disagree. More people’s lives are lost through doctors being over tired and making mistakes, than the odd person’s life saved in an emergency. Over working doctors (or anyone for that matter) is never the answer. If there aren’t enough doctors, then the government should subsidise medical training to help encourage more people to go into that area. They are doing it here with teachers and it worked, they need to do it with doctors.
I dated Miss Anasthesia and the hours could be tough, but the cases were tougher, especially unplanned surgeries and traumas where patients sometimes didn’t survive. Lord, bless our doctors and medical staff.
I was interning for my sterilisation and just before we were about to leave the doctor accidentally broke a bone at the end of the surgery and needed to use an implant tray to fix it.
My son has a major heart condition and had his leg surgery delayed (day of!) because they didnt schedule in a cardio anesthesiologist like I told them they had to do. The regular anesthesiologists all noped (like they should!). They made sure they had one months later when the surgery was rescheduled though.
This actually makes me wonder if the rate of ADHD is higher among surgeons. This sounds a lot like time blindness. Also, I think surgery would work well with my ADHD, more so than other medical careers.
This literally happened last month. Resident asked me to assist on a routine appendectomy, 1 hour tops he said. It lasted 4 hours!!!. Apparently the worst appendectomy he's ever done, he had to call in the consultant to help him. It was 4am by that time. Only good thing that came out It was the consultant was very impressed with my level of dedication as an intern.
I see this everyday in the OR and it frustrates all of us that these surgeons don't EVER think about the rest of the staff that has to stay to do these add ons, PACU, Pre-Op, Intra-Op. You know we all have lives to. The world doesn't revolve around them, im glad that most of our anesthesia providers say no and have them schedule it during an open block time the next day, unless its an actual true emergent add on thats needs to be done then we all understand but if it can wait until the following day, then do it then.
Surgeons are one of the jobs most favored by physcopaths(alongside CEO, Politicans and Lawyers) not to mention how many narcisist get into that specialty...so is it really that suprising that many have no consideration for others time?
Yeah where I work, they are constantly adding on more and more non emergent cases. Even on holidays like Thanksgiving they will add a bunch on. Like do you just hate your family and think everyone else does too??
My dad worked at a rural hospital since med school. And he was a CRNA? Thank you for making content that we can finally connect over, it is seen and it is very appreciated. You are so talented!!!!
When you ask a Surgeon who the three greatest surgeons are, he has difficulty naming the other two. "You may not need the surgery, but you are probably going to want some anesthesia." " I have a fracture" Classic Orthopod.
As a med student in anesthesia, so accurate, while I was observing the anesthesiologist, the anesthesiologist just sat down reading a book and timed it 20 minutes.
Yeah, the surgeon needs to call the nurses’ families, too! Especially since they’re waiting for him to finish, & still have to wait another hour-hour and a half AFTER he finishes to recover the pt.!
i asked my ortho how long my hardware removal surgery would take. he said it should only be an hour and a half, including pre-op and recovery time. the surgery started at 3pm. i was getting anesthesia from 3pm-6pm. i don’t know when they ended the surgery. i woke up in recovery around 8pm and didn’t get to leave until 9:30pm because my blood wasn’t liking the idea of clotting like it’s supposed to. went out with one IV and woke up with three IVs & a still bleeding wound… it’s been six weeks since i had that surgery and i still have scabs bc every single touch makes it bleed. also i can’t feel the very tip of my elbow so sometimes i don’t realize the incision rubbed up against something until there’s blood running down my fingers (or, my personal favorite, when my coworker that’s scared of blood starts gagging when i turn away from her because the blood has soaked through the gauze)
I was the first scheduled hemorrhoid case for the morning and it was only supposed to take 30-45 minutes and was just something that needed to be done before a super expensive test could be done to find the source of my GI bleed that was causing my anemia ... Well 4.5 hours later the surgeon was finishing up and came out to speak to my wife and she said he looked shell shocked. Needles to say I screwed up his entire schedule for the day for a "little" hemorrhoid :D
Literally 😂😂😂 my daughter has full trisomy 18 so she has many medical complexities so I have lots of interactions with basically all specialists so I really love these shorts!
The true icing on this skit would have been to say at the end that he had nobody to blame but the patient. Everyone knows us surgeons never blame ourselves!
This job probably pays way better than mine but I love my steady 8-5 schedule and paid time off and I can pretty much leave when I want as long as I make up the time. Kinda glad I never finished nursing school 🤪
Reminds me heavily of this: Sarge: Get on with it, Grif. Grif: (grunting sigh) I would just like to let everyone know.. that I suck! Church: And?! Grif: And that I'm a girl! Church: What else!? Grif: And I like ribbons in my hair! And I want to kiss all the boys! Sarge: This may be the best surrender of all time.
I’m a veterinary nurse, we had a rules for the vet-surgeon to be ready within 5 minutes or we would cancel the surgery (planned surgeries). The risks of longer anaesthesia aside, it’s so disrespectful to not be able to just clean yourself on time when we do all prepping!
Honestly, I'm nowhere near working in that field, but from an outsider perspective, that's a good friend thing to do. Coworker or not, when I was in a relationship tight like that, THAT would have saved me SO MUCH trouble. Anyway, good reel.
Hahahaha this is true. I am a surgeon and this happens sometimes. However in my hospital anesthesia doctors can just swap. They aren't doing the surgery and they aren't even scrubbed. They can just leave when the people of the new shift come along
For one particular surgeon I work with: “Holy Buckets”=at least an extra 30 minutes to an hour “Actual curse words”=hope you weren’t planning on going home tonight.
My dad, without fall, will triple the surgery time no matter what it is. One time he went in for a hernia and discovered after a very prolonged surgery, that he actually had *5*. Impeccable
I cluld never work on the medical field. Being a slave to the hospital. Nope. I wnjoy having rime to do little things loke going for a hike or something
0.0 ..... Navy Time? "Boss I'm still working here. You said it would be just a few hours!" "Its only been a few hours." "We're on our 5th Month Anniversary, I'm getting water logged. I got salt crust building up! I wanna go home!" "Just give it a few more hours." < Real Navy conversation on a Frigate Flight Deck. 6 months, ,3 weeks, 4 days, 9 hours and an ass chewing for actually believing the 3 days of Basket Leave were actually for real....so I went to Disney World to unwind.
His wife shouldnt care he is making like $130 USD per hour so thats like an extra 520USD for 4 hours lol plus whatever he made during the rest of the day.
My headcanon is that Mrs. Anesthesia is also an anesthesiologist, and while it's inconvenient that her husband is getting home late, she's enjoying the surgeon apologizing.
No yeah she's 100 percent also an anesthesiologist 😆
Nah. She's just getting out of her own overtime surgery and wants to know what to order for dinner.
Thank you so much for spelling canon properly, it makes me so happy! Sicherheit! Jawohl! Kampf keks!! 😊
Hahaaaaaa 😁😁😁
@@Variety_Pack wait, how people usually write canon?
This is SO true. “This will only take 10 minutes” = 1 hr.
“This will only take an hour” = 2 hours.
“This will take about 3-4 hours” = 6-8 hours.
Surgeons exist in a different space time continuum.
I know - I worked in OR for nearly 40 years.
Applies also to university workers and students. I am guilty of the "will be back in 15 min - extended to almost 1 hour," just because something broke in the lab. I felt so bad for my student.
I once assisted in a 16 hour surgery that was only going to take "a couple hours"...
"I worked in OR for nearly 40 years"
So you mean... 50 years?
@@0netwoguy54 No. I was not a surgeon. Specifically I meant 37 years, one month, 5 days. That is 13,549 days. 🤣
Funny story, I heard once that it's very common for surgeons to have ADHD. A common symptom of ADHD? The inability to gauge how long a task will take, known as time blindness.
The unbroken stare from behind the blood brain barrier. Unflinching. Judging. THE ACCURACY
Judging with accuracy
Laser-guided hatred
The Spiteful Stare
Blood brain barrier?
THE BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER 💀💀💀
This one hits home. My dad's an anesthesiologist - my whole childhood he wouldn't make it to dinner most days of the work week. He'd come back around 8 or 9pm, and my mom and I would sit with him while he ate his late dinner and talked about his day.
Aw that’s so nice of y’all 🥺
You: Daddy how was your day?
Daddy: I knocked out 5 and brought back 5
You: Daddy the great
Mom: Honey the great
Dont don't ever stop those interactions it's probably the only thing that keeps him sane
@@SallyWPM who are u trying to tell people how other people feel get ur own life and only worry abt ur own
At least he made that sweet Sweet anesthesiologist money
"Mrs. Anesthesia" I'm rolling
"Anna", for short
"No one to blame"
Same!
Down in the deep?
No, you're Henry
This problem is so common there have actually been scientific studies about it! Surgeons always underestimate time
Don't forget thst it took anesthesia 2 hrs to get the patient on the table
IIRC it's a known phenomenon affecting the planning of any task by skilled people.
Surgeons will be surgeons…but it’s not only anesthesia on the hook, there’s at least a scrub nurse and circulator as well. So when the surgeon wanted to add a non-urgent case, I used to make him buy us all dinner!
U do realise that is not to his personal benefit. He does not have to buy u diner to accommodate another public pt.
It’s just for fun chill dude
If he has a private practice it's directly in his benefit.
If he's on house staff he indirectly benefits from more experience operating.
did he actually buy you dinner? cause people say that all the time and then nobody actually ever buys dinner! same with people saying I''ll buy you a drink or next round of beers is on me and then they never buy the next round of beers or people say I bet you 5 bucks blah blah blah and then they never pay you your 5 bucks ya know.
@@tommyboy1986 true 😂😂😂 but you must hold a lot of grudges
As a retired operating room nurse, I know all too well a surgeon's idea of time and you have nailed it. But getting him to admit that anything is his fault is the real gem in this one!!
I like the way the response to “Hi, is this Mrs. Anaesthesia?” on the phone call must be “yes?”.
You learn fast that surgery minutes are like football minutes.
It's hard to guess that you wanted to become an actor and accident went into medicine or other way round. Lol so funny 😂😂😂
Well hello A. H. I like your initials
@@austinhall3937 Yes, Alfred Hitchcock was truly an epoche of an artist!
@@austinhall3937 this is so wholesome for so reason haha. Love it! Thanks c:
Alexander Hamilton is that you?
Alex Holbrook?
My dad’s a doctor, I got used at a very young age to just not see him most of the time. When there were important events he would rarely show up.
I grew up and realized how hard being a doctor can be but man, its not fair.
Are you from the US ?
I DONT LIKE THAT YA. DAD WASNT THERE SOMETIMES. BUT THERE FOR US WHEN WE NEED HIM HE IS AWESOME REMEMBER THAT ❤
I feel you! As an adult you understand and admire your parent for being in that demanding job, but as a child you just miss them...
Sad to hear.. ☹️ must've been tough..
That really is sad. I met a guy years ago whose dad was a pediatrician. He was never home. So his son became a radiologist.
The dream of a surgeon taking responsibility for his/her own actions.
Never going to happen. The long operating times are always because anaesthetics took too long, or because the theatre team took too long getting turned around... apparently! xD
My girlfriend is a surgical scrub and this is the story I hear at least twice a week. The problem isn’t just add-ons, it’s the surgeon and the scheduling team agreeing that the hernia cases will only take 30 minutes and then putting 16 of them on the eight-hour schedule. By 10am they’re already 2 hours behind. Every single time.
Yup. I can attest to that
Yup. I can attest to that
So accurate 😂 As a med student I assisted in a laparoscopic appendectomy once. Usually done in about 45 minutes. We operated for approximately 3 hours in the end because of some complications. When the appendix was finally out the surgeon left me alone to close up with anaesthesia and the OR nurses constantly asking how much longer it would take. No pressure at all 😅
I once assisted in a laparoscopic cholecystectomy that turned to a laparotomy + bowel resection. The case took 6 hours. I was so done by the end.
@@wp2727 Jesus... I SAID I WAS SORRY!!
I mean... I knew my bowels needed a good resection. (Whose doesn't?!!). Just not right at THAT moment. 🤷♀️
What were the complications?
@@ineedanewname4844 If i recall correctly the surrounding tissue was quite inflamed which made it very hard to reach the appendix itself. Also at some point two of the instruments we used gave out and we had to wait forever for a replacement.
Wait.... As a Med STUDENT the surgeon left you alone to finish an already complicated surgery? Med students aren't legally allowed to do that the Practicing physician has to supervise.....
As an anaesthesiologist, I can so well relate to this. Countless days where I've gone to my room late because of the orthopaedics team in my hospital.
Ortho is the worst!
@@MizzBee13I came to say that! 😂
Wait room….. late…… YOU LIVED IN THE HOSPITAL?? THATS ACTUALLY A THING?? I worked in a hospital on surgery but half the time they weren’t even there. Mostly at other hospitals unless something urgent happened but there’s really hospitals that y’all live in??
Story time: I had a hernia that was supposed to be a 1 hour surgery. Instead it turned out to be 4 hernias all in a line with a 5 hour surgery and a 3 day hospital stay after. My surgeon actually wrote "swiss cheese" in his report.
I'm so sorry that happened to you, that sounds awful!
I had a similar situation. Went in for a small umbilical incisional hernia repair, ended up with a complete abdominal reconstruction. I have a 5" scar from my belly button up, and it goes a couple inches below my belly button inside. It went from an hour, no problem, to almost 4 and a hospital stay.
yooooooooooo XD
Hahaha the medical record is permanent
At my hospital, and others, there would be an anonymised list of "creative journal entries". Including, "feces the colour of door 18" "pt. Haven't talked to her husband since he died 5 years ago" and "female pt. Experiences moisture between her thighs" (he didn't mean her vahaho, but sweating from being fat).
I bribed my ppl to stay late on cases because I liked my team. Turns out they would stay anyway because I only do late surgeries if its really important to the patient. Most have just been told about the cancer that was found in their child and me doing what I can to ease their worry is worth it. I just found out they would stay in the past few weeks when I was myself in hospital for heart issues and they were cheering me up. I love my ppl.
It's also called co dependency on the job. Lack of balance & boundaries.
@M You're wrong and know nothing about us. Yet you think you can make judgments on strangers. They have had many opportunities to work for other surgeons yet choose to stay. It's because we're like family, not because they need the job. Haven't you heard that there's a huge shortage of nurses in healthcare? They could go anywhere, but they chose to stay as a part of my team.
@Melody Ribis-Roy - Did you get that non FDA approved Covid shot?
@@melodychanribis-roy4227 there's no need to be so aggressive/attacking. Chill. Most people know what family means in relation to work & much is related to my comment. We don't always see it when we're in it. Btw, you mentioned passing judgment - I think you caught yourself off guard neighbour, with alot you said. I've worked in med field for over 30 yrs & worked my ASS off like many others during pandemic. So before you're so quick to defend that next cup of coffee you're chugging, may want to catch yourself now & then.
@@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937 No I got the FDA approved one, not that it's any of your business. I also wear masks.
A real surgeon would never admit any responsibility.
Nah that’s toxic
@@lijohnyoutube101 But the sad truth.😞
So you've chosen Dr. Death.
Srsly
Am Mrs. Surgeon. Can confirm.
I can't unsee Anesthesia always looking like a child during operations-
My manager once signed me a letter to my gf explaining that there was an emergency and he needed me to stay. 🤣 Nothing like this but I really appreciated it and it was a bit funny.
This is so sweet lol
😂😂
My granddad was an asthesiologist. I can confirm. He delivered my uncle (at work) after over 30 hours on duty. He was so tired he put "girl" on the birth certificate... because he couldn't tell the difference due to exhaustion.
RICK: let's go Morty, in and out, 20mins adventure
(4 hours later:) 😭😭😭
lmfaoooo
Doctors quoting Rick and Morty? Now this I can get behind.
@@Mysterious420x 😎😎😎
✔️Constantly in a near death experience.
✔️Become fugitives of another universe.
✔️Functional depressive.
✔️Need a vacation.
This is totally a Rick and Morty situation!
My dad's been head of anesthesia for my entire life. The amount of times I've gotten texts along the lines of "hey, case is running late, you're on your own for dinner"...
I'll also call him sometimes, and we'll get five minutes into a conversation before he reveals that he is ACTIVELY IN SURGERY AS WE'RE SPEAKING. What a job
Doctors' kids raise themselves.
It's disturbing that the person who is responsible for keeping a patient alive and not waking up while being operated on was on the phone with anyone! No wonder they pump you full of Versed to make you not remember things or to be able to discount anything the patient reports as inappropriate as imagining it under the influence of the Versed.
@@Seaspell13r u a doctor?
@eb6s834 I am a medical technologist of almost 40 years experience who has seen many patients abused in the OR with staff laughing that " they'll never remember it." For example, the woman having a vaginal hysterectomy during which the surgeon and male OR tech joked about her anatomy, with the surgeon saying he should incise and give her a " husband's knot " and OR tech responding by saying " yeah, that'll give him the old grip back!" While pumping his fisted arm up and down. They were dressed down by the CRNA, they told her to get off it, it's not like she's going to remember it. Then there's the hospital whose OR cases were most often extensive dental procedures under anesthesia performed on patients who had developmental delays and were too combative to perform even the basic dental hygiene on. These patients often required a 12 lead ekg which was needed to be performed asap after induction. The patients were papoosed to maintain body temperature and I only needed access to upper chest and shoulders and ankles for 5 minutes. There were several nurses who would whip the entire blanket open revealing an entirely nude patient that one: wasn't being kept warm two: exposed to staff that had no business seeing the patient nude, violating his or her patient's rights three: nurses would often grab the leads and drag the wires across, and in the case of female patients, through, their genitalia. Sometimes the nursing staff would make comments about a male patient's anatomy with comments such as " what a waste on this guy" or when noticing the patient's erection one time the comment made was " too bad his brain doesn't work as good as his dick does."
Other similar remarks. Disgusting. When I protested about this I was told on two occasions that the patient was so "retarded" he wouldn't know anything even without the Versed. Then many years later I was having my first surgery which was an absolute horror show, including being given " something to relax you" in my IV- right after I had just been yelled at by the surgeon because I was afraid. They slammed the gurney through the OR doors and told me to climb on the table. I told them I didn't want to have the surgery and someone said "you're here now, move" I said again I didn't want to but felt myself moving anyway. Two weeks after the surgery that gave me PTSD and has ruined me physically, psychologically and emotionally did I learn that I'd been given midazolam then
given consents to sign. I had already signed some but these were others I have no memory of signing and totally look like they were signed by someone holding a pen in a hand with an IV. It also explains why I got on the table when I didn't want to. Versed makes you do what you're ordered to do. Like sign consents you couldn't have understood and move onto an OR table you didn't want to be on. There were things done to me in the OR that were 180 degrees from what was supposed to happen. Who was joking and laughing and saying who knows what about me? And how ironic is it that I advocated for patients my whole career only to have the same things done to me. Dr.K says himself Versed is insurance. How many times do they give Versed instead of pain med so they can get people up and out of the PACU faster than if they'd gotten pain meds instead? Sorry to ramble, but this is a subject that hits close to home.
@@Seaspell13 And you never reported anything?
This is way too accurate, this is how my attending and resident anestiologists feel hahaha
Then yaw complain ... Forget too give patients a "block" and go home unaware that the patient will wake up later and remember your stupid name for the rest of thier life... Not that I would know.
So THIS is why I'm always in the waiting room for half an hour when I'm on time for doctors appointments
No, that's just them overbooking their clinic, and having 0 respect for your time.
My old man started interviewing his doctors when he was 30, made it clear that if he didn't get seen within 10 minutes of his appointment, he was walking out without paying anything.
Wouldn't you know? He has a great relationship with his physicians, and actually was able to go to doctors appts on work days.
@AlyssMa7rin In our part of the world, specialists and even GPs are so few that the clinics are always overbooked. I don't have the mind to tell a Pt who has travelled 100 km to see me that sorry, because you are the 40th Pt, I can't see you. So I mostly get my lunch/dinner at 11 pm.
My dads 3 hour foot resconstruction took 6.5hours. and when they told us he was in recovery, he wasnt, and he wasnt in the ward, or apparently still in surgery, so they basically lost him. I work in my hospitals mortuary. We got so worried i even went down there to check for him!!
Where was he?
@@Reality_TV some say he's still in the or.
This guy’s ability to emulate three different stress levels in one video is amazing lol
My bro is in med school right now and is thinking about going into anesthesia. I keep joking at him to make sure his spouse is a surgeon or a fellow anesthesiologist otherwise family dinner is gonna be rough XD
My father is a doctor and I can attest that the 4 hours number is just the point when the doctor tells his fam he’s not coming home until 11:30.
One of the greatest you have made. Although its a hard pick which ones the best since all of them are awesome.
I was the cuttee on a less than 1hr procedure that went way wrong bc of the surgeon and it turned into a 5+ hr disaster recovery.
I appreciate that Anesthesiologist more than he/she will ever know.
"Oh come on, it's just one last order, 3 items tops"
*proceeds to ring 4 appetizers 13 entrees 7 desserts and 2 to-go orders*
A surgeon with a healthy sense of humor? I trust and like this guy.
I used to be the “Front Door Dragon” for a couple of general surgeons.
The patients with the least troubling ailments were the worst behaved, while the people who were actually dying were kind and understanding.
That tracks, I feel like the people who need help the most tend to be more polite about it
@@strikerrey6016 yeah, cause they don't want to die because some asshole doctor's ego was bruised for a second
this is true for xray too. the people who've hardly bruised themselves are the biggest drama queens but the people who've actually hurt themselves will do anything you tell them because they just want to get the diagnosis so it can stop being so awfully painful
Heyyyy i had appendicitis and i was behaving! Lmao. I was frankly too tired and sleep deprived to cause trouble 😂
@@katierasburn9571 From what i understand, bone protruding through flesh is less painful than hitting a funny bone.
I'm a general dentist but after my one year general practice residency I spent 6 months as an anesthesiology resident along with the MDs and DOs. This is humorously accurate insofar as the attitude and relationships between the two.
One time during an orthopedic case I advised the ortho resident that the patient was having a string of PVCs. He barely acknowledged it so I said, "but you ortho guys don't worry about the heart right?" The ortho resident said, "The heart says send blood to the bones." Loved it. (The patient came through the surgery fine btw.)
Anesthesia lives a very similar life to the service plumber. One innocuous leak at 4pm turns into a conflagration that takes hours and a run to the hardware store to fix.
Yeah, this was me during wrist surgery. Removed 7 screws and two plates, took five hours because my body decided to be extra and produce a massive amount of scar tissue. The most the surgeon had ever seen 🤦🏾♀️
EMS here that stare is universal. I'm dying. 😂😂😂
Oh my god Anesthesia's angry face just barely poking out behind the screen kills me.
Anesthesia's nods in sync with the bleeps in the background 😂
We love Mr. Anesthesia - we love you for what you do - and we appreciate your sacrifices to keep us alive.
🤣🤣 you are a Never ending supply of skit ideas! And I am here for it 😆 Also didn't the surgeon promise to learn anesthesia's name 😅
As an anaesthetist I can confirm this is very accurate.... I cringe when I hear, ' I just have this quick case to book...'
My dad is an anesthesiologist, and I’ve heard plenty of stories lol
This totally is true af lmao, the only way our anesthesiologist went home was just slipping through unseen cuz otherwise surgery and obgyn wouldn't stop hounding them.
Maybe Mr Surgeon read Douglas Adams at an impressionable age: "Time is an illusion (lunchtime doubly so)". If I was Anaesthesia, I'd hold out for something bigger next time. Like Mr Surgeon heading out to the nearest newsagency to buy my next Sudoku book.
Surgeon admitted blame, not sure you can get bigger than that.
As someone who works in theatres, this happens alot, a quick case in a surgeon surgeons mind doesn't exist. The procedure could be quick, but tack on getting the patient from the ward, checks, anaesthetic time, patient positioning, trying to find the surgeon because they got bored waiting and decided to go for a walk, getting them scrubbed. It's an hour later and you haven't even started the operation.
An hour easy, an hour and a half more like it. Maybe two to get to incision.
All surgeons should have permanent GPS tracking
This might have been one of the last things I watched from the imposter before Gauc-impostergate. It was good then. It's better now.
Wait the what now
A clever man doesn't tip his waiter, he tips his anaesthetist. "Here's a grand if I wake up, thanks. Can't believe I got broken glass in my food again"
This is an occupation that needs far more regulation in terms of working hours. It’s dangerous how how doctors are sometimes required to work. Doctors are humans too and need regular breaks and sleep just like everyone else.
I agree and the high burnout is a result of it.
The problem with that is if there is that much regulation on time the amount of more drs needed would cause a MASSIVE shortage. The hospitals would have to have hours and that’s not feasible when accidents and emergencies happen 24/7. So the question would be, do you let more subpar drs in or make med school less expensive so we can flood the medical field with enough people to support that.
@@Tiffntuff Maybe the government should help fund education for more doctors? The system needs a complete overhaul.
Yes and no. In many smaller areas there’s often only a few specialized surgeons sadly. So if they work a set amount of hours per week and no more? Guess what, there’ll be no doctors for emergencies. Also while it sounds like a good idea. They’ll always go over hours because of emergencies, regardless if they wanna work or not if they get called in for on call doesn’t matter. Better pop that 5 hour energy and save that man’s life.l
@@Eclipse-lw4vf I 100% disagree. More people’s lives are lost through doctors being over tired and making mistakes, than the odd person’s life saved in an emergency. Over working doctors (or anyone for that matter) is never the answer. If there aren’t enough doctors, then the government should subsidise medical training to help encourage more people to go into that area. They are doing it here with teachers and it worked, they need to do it with doctors.
This is actually something I think employers should do. Let the boss deal with the Karen of a wife. There might be less overtime in the future.
THIS IS IT. THIS IS MY FAVOURITE. Impeccable scowling.
Truth! The rest of us standing around the surgical field staring at him too. Just so he could add another surgery to his check.
Or perhaps help the patient w a hernia
I dated Miss Anasthesia and the hours could be tough, but the cases were tougher, especially unplanned surgeries and traumas where patients sometimes didn’t survive. Lord, bless our doctors and medical staff.
The intensity in his eyes when he nodded, perfection...
Oh please, anesthesia would just be sitting on their stool watching RUclips videos the entire time!
The waffle house has found it’s new host
ngl I thought the joke was gonna be really dark and when he said "you're really gonna make me do this?" you hear the patient flatline
I was interning for my sterilisation and just before we were about to leave the doctor accidentally broke a bone at the end of the surgery and needed to use an implant tray to fix it.
This video lives in my head rent free I’m so happy to watch it again from the person who actually made it this time
My son has a major heart condition and had his leg surgery delayed (day of!) because they didnt schedule in a cardio anesthesiologist like I told them they had to do. The regular anesthesiologists all noped (like they should!). They made sure they had one months later when the surgery was rescheduled though.
The most inaccurate part of this is the surgeon saying "please" when asking the OR nurse to hand him the phone. Signed, an OR nurse LMAO
This actually makes me wonder if the rate of ADHD is higher among surgeons. This sounds a lot like time blindness.
Also, I think surgery would work well with my ADHD, more so than other medical careers.
Honestly fucking fair, dude. If your boss swears up and down that you'll be home for dinner, they should be the one calling your family lmfao
I've seen this one before and it gets even better every time I watch it. I cackle the second it cuts to 4 hours later 🤣
This literally happened last month. Resident asked me to assist on a routine appendectomy, 1 hour tops he said. It lasted 4 hours!!!. Apparently the worst appendectomy he's ever done, he had to call in the consultant to help him. It was 4am by that time. Only good thing that came out It was the consultant was very impressed with my level of dedication as an intern.
Should add an "I'm an inconsiderate poopy head" while he's at it
No
I snorted omg 😂😂😂 the *death glare* activation was intense!
I see this everyday in the OR and it frustrates all of us that these surgeons don't EVER think about the rest of the staff that has to stay to do these add ons, PACU, Pre-Op, Intra-Op. You know we all have lives to. The world doesn't revolve around them, im glad that most of our anesthesia providers say no and have them schedule it during an open block time the next day, unless its an actual true emergent add on thats needs to be done then we all understand but if it can wait until the following day, then do it then.
Surgeons are one of the jobs most favored by physcopaths(alongside CEO, Politicans and Lawyers) not to mention how many narcisist get into that specialty...so is it really that suprising that many have no consideration for others time?
Yeah where I work, they are constantly adding on more and more non emergent cases. Even on holidays like Thanksgiving they will add a bunch on. Like do you just hate your family and think everyone else does too??
@@vianjelos **Nervous laughter**
Signed,
Future CRNA
The one I hate the most is the add ons booked as Category Ones and when the patient comes in the OR they're walking in totally cheery and fine.
@@vincer7824 Yes!! That! The “emergency”caesar that’s coming down from delivery suite in three hours time.
My dad worked at a rural hospital since med school. And he was a CRNA? Thank you for making content that we can finally connect over, it is seen and it is very appreciated. You are so talented!!!!
LOL this is so freaking real even on the other side of the world😂
When you ask a Surgeon who the three greatest surgeons are, he has difficulty naming the other two.
"You may not need the surgery, but you are probably going to want some anesthesia."
" I have a fracture" Classic Orthopod.
As a med student in anesthesia, so accurate, while I was observing the anesthesiologist, the anesthesiologist just sat down reading a book and timed it 20 minutes.
Just didnt want to make that phone call himself
Yeah, the surgeon needs to call the nurses’ families, too! Especially since they’re waiting for him to finish, & still have to wait another hour-hour and a half AFTER he finishes to recover the pt.!
i asked my ortho how long my hardware removal surgery would take. he said it should only be an hour and a half, including pre-op and recovery time. the surgery started at 3pm. i was getting anesthesia from 3pm-6pm. i don’t know when they ended the surgery. i woke up in recovery around 8pm and didn’t get to leave until 9:30pm because my blood wasn’t liking the idea of clotting like it’s supposed to. went out with one IV and woke up with three IVs & a still bleeding wound… it’s been six weeks since i had that surgery and i still have scabs bc every single touch makes it bleed. also i can’t feel the very tip of my elbow so sometimes i don’t realize the incision rubbed up against something until there’s blood running down my fingers (or, my personal favorite, when my coworker that’s scared of blood starts gagging when i turn away from her because the blood has soaked through the gauze)
I was the first scheduled hemorrhoid case for the morning and it was only supposed to take 30-45 minutes and was just something that needed to be done before a super expensive test could be done to find the source of my GI bleed that was causing my anemia ...
Well 4.5 hours later the surgeon was finishing up and came out to speak to my wife and she said he looked shell shocked. Needles to say I screwed up his entire schedule for the day for a "little" hemorrhoid :D
Why? What did you have?
I can't differentiate these characters. Would be helpful if one of them had glasses, or anything like that.
Literally 😂😂😂 my daughter has full trisomy 18 so she has many medical complexities so I have lots of interactions with basically all specialists so I really love these shorts!
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My dad's an anesthesiologist and this is so accurate LMAOO
The true icing on this skit would have been to say at the end that he had nobody to blame but the patient. Everyone knows us surgeons never blame ourselves!
This job probably pays way better than mine but I love my steady 8-5 schedule and paid time off and I can pretty much leave when I want as long as I make up the time. Kinda glad I never finished nursing school 🤪
You should be glad. Too many psychos in nursing.
As a scrub tech, I completely understand this, 100% accurate!
Reminds me heavily of this:
Sarge: Get on with it, Grif.
Grif: (grunting sigh) I would just like to let everyone know.. that I suck!
Church: And?!
Grif: And that I'm a girl!
Church: What else!?
Grif: And I like ribbons in my hair! And I want to kiss all the boys!
Sarge: This may be the best surrender of all time.
I’m a veterinary nurse, we had a rules for the vet-surgeon to be ready within 5 minutes or we would cancel the surgery (planned surgeries). The risks of longer anaesthesia aside, it’s so disrespectful to not be able to just clean yourself on time when we do all prepping!
Honestly, I'm nowhere near working in that field, but from an outsider perspective, that's a good friend thing to do. Coworker or not, when I was in a relationship tight like that, THAT would have saved me SO MUCH trouble.
Anyway, good reel.
Hahahaha this is true. I am a surgeon and this happens sometimes.
However in my hospital anesthesia doctors can just swap. They aren't doing the surgery and they aren't even scrubbed. They can just leave when the people of the new shift come along
Depends on the roster and hospital. Many OTs do not have that luxury even if ideally there should be someone to cover.
For one particular surgeon I work with:
“Holy Buckets”=at least an extra 30 minutes to an hour
“Actual curse words”=hope you weren’t planning on going home tonight.
My dad, without fall, will triple the surgery time no matter what it is. One time he went in for a hernia and discovered after a very prolonged surgery, that he actually had *5*. Impeccable
I cluld never work on the medical field. Being a slave to the hospital. Nope. I wnjoy having rime to do little things loke going for a hike or something
Mrs. Anesthesia...🤣
"And I have nobody to blame but myself..."
I'll take things a surgeon never said for $500
This has gotta be my favorite skit of yours so far.....that glare from Dr. Anesthesia could make anyone want to go under in seconds lol.
0.0 ..... Navy Time? "Boss I'm still working here. You said it would be just a few hours!" "Its only been a few hours." "We're on our 5th Month Anniversary, I'm getting water logged. I got salt crust building up! I wanna go home!" "Just give it a few more hours." < Real Navy conversation on a Frigate Flight Deck. 6 months, ,3 weeks, 4 days, 9 hours and an ass chewing for actually believing the 3 days of Basket Leave were actually for real....so I went to Disney World to unwind.
Wish i could do this to every interventional cardiologist or electrophysiologist that keeps us back at work
His wife shouldnt care he is making like $130 USD per hour so thats like an extra 520USD for 4 hours lol plus whatever he made during the rest of the day.
I knew nothing of this but that facial expression behind the curtain after 4 hours had me rolling.
Eye surgeons must see it all...as long as it happens from 0630-1430, M-Tr
Accurate AF lol