Also because I think for that episode and maybe some others he completely misses the context of them, like how Gina and Jake are supposed to be misinformed about most things because Gina is supposed to be a caricature of those mainstream online types and Jake is naive.
12:32 distraction 100% works for pain control: i had a second degree burn on my hand from the oven so i spent hours with my hand in the sink under running water and still felt pain. I then binge watched all of Brooklyn 99 and my mind was completely absorbed by the show so i felt no pain. The pain only came back during the five seconds when an episode ended and before the next one started. I’m not a doctor but for personal experience it works.
I mean your anecdote does not intself prove Dr Mike incorrect however the absolute tonne of research and journals that has gone into distraction to manage pain does. It's frankly one of the most insane things I've ever heard Dr Mike say. There has been so much research on the topic and it is relatively well known that distraction does work for pain. He's usually pretty good but he said like 3 things in this video which were batshit
@becky2235 I've been in so much pain I've vomited from it before. I've broken my ankle clean through. I've also had biliary colic. No one says distraction has to nullify 100% of pain to be effective still. During one especially bad episode of gallbladder attacks I laid on the floor, rocky slightly whilst singing Smelly Cat. It worked pretty well. Burns are also well known to be pretty severly painful so if he's had 2nd degree burns he has been in some pretty intense pain.
Brooklyn 99 distracted me enough to get through a cancer diagnosis and surgery. It was the only thing that I could watch at the time (had to stop watching Supernatural and go back to it)! 99 is like a faithful friend. I have lost count of how many times I have watched it!
What I also was excited to see is his reaction when Boyle says "if the bullet had just been a little to the left and a little up, I would've been paralyzed!" and "if the bullet had hit just a little bit to the left and WAY up.. it would've hit my brain!! o-o"
3:54 hiii!! Serbian here! Yes everyone claims that the government had used an illegal sound canon to disperse the crowds during the 15 minutes of silence for the 15 (now unfortunately 16) victims of the incident in Novi Sad. Thank you for the awareness of what's happening in my country ❤
Lawyer here. The most famous "hot coffee" case involved an elderly woman who ordered coffee from McDonald's, spilled it on herself, and received third degree burns. In the course of the lawsuit they uncovered evidence that McDonald's knew that the coffee that they were serving wasn't very good so they tried to cover up for the bad flavor by making it very hot, much hotter than the recommended temperature. The woman received a moderate amount of actual damages, but the bulk of the award was in punitive damages, which are damages unrelated to the injury but which are designed to punish bad behavior by a rich/powerful defendant. The value of the Plaintiff's damages in that case would be insignificant to a company like McDonald's so you add the extra damages to make it hurt enough to force them to change their behavior.
@GintarasSakalauskas I mean, the legal system, like any system designed for and run by people, isn't even close to perfect. There are absolutely people who game the system or who are trying to con their way into a big settlement or damages award. But the legal system works fairly well most of the time, at least on these kinds of cases. The vast majority of grousing about things like hot coffee cases are from people who are somewhat ignorant of the reality or from conservatives who don't like that injured people can sue rich people or companies to be made whole.
Yeah and McDonald's then went to spread propaganda that the woman was crazy and most people believed it for a while till people started researching the case again.
Its hippa if medical staff is talking about medical records around other people where they can hear. This would be a hippa violation. Considering he said "I overheard" could inply this.
@christiandewit2804if Jake was saying he overheard it from Sarge’s doctor that would mean Jake would have to have been already at the doctor’s with Sarge. It’s more likely that Sarge was talking to the captain about it when Jake overheard.
@christiandewit2804 It might "inply" that if the doctor knew he was being overheard by someone else and disclosed PHI without consent. A doctor talking to a patient on the phone does not inherently violate HIPAA. Asking a coworker if someone is ok does not inherently violate HIPAA. You're grasping for implications that help push your unwarranted narrative because the scene doesn't give the implication on it's own.
My dad is a dentist and his brother is a physician, so we have a rendition of the "which is harder, dental school or med school" argument at every holiday lol
medical is obv harder since there's a ton more to study; altho if the surgical part is all you're looking at, dental work is pretty difficult, often requires some strength, and yet is also delicate. probably only specialised surgeons have it harder when it comes to that. however, the question from the show seems to be "which is harder to _get into_ " so maybe dental is harder because it's a more straightforward course and therefore more oversubscribed? demand > supply
@alveolate you'd be surprised how many theoretically unrelated things can come from teeth issues and dentists need to know about them. Also, I never thought there was any difference, in my country you do med school and then choose specialisation, one of them being dentistry.
Funny because my godmother is a psychiatrist and her brother is an anesthesiologist, but somehow they don't really bring their job specifics up. If they were ever to argue which one's harder, it would make a very interesting conversation that I'd love to witness.
@MaKa-en8cwwell, so do we. The 1st reaction you can see nowadays is that the leading Serbian political party, the one in power, can’t organize any big national meeting anymore anywhere without people reacting, stopping and interrupting them, and their threats and pressure are no longer working on regular people. Protests may have slowed down, but people woke up. Now it’s up on the oposition politicians to step up and prove their intentions are pure and not for the self-interest.
Thank you dr Mike for mentioning that. Right now we're going trough tough times and it's great to get recognition on your channel. Btw, another great video. Greetings from Serbia to you and your team. PUMPAJJJ!!!🇷🇸
I believe I read its the largest protest in Serbia history, one of my friends is from Serbia and recently moved back. Where she lives, the train station roof collapsed that she would take to school and ever since she has been scared because they had told the government how unsafe it was. She keeps me informed as she particpants in protests I wish the best for her
13:20 It's funny because Captain Holt DOES have a point. Not about Dentists not being "real doctors", but that medical doctors have essentially taken over the term "doctor". Doctor really just refers to having a PhD in a specific field and becoming highly specialized. Originally, doctors were called "medical practitioners" or some other term depending on the time frame. However, as the medical field pushed for a specialized medical degree where the medical practitioners started getting PhDs, and with people having more interactions with medical doctors and any other type, they started becoming what people consider "true" doctors.
doctor was not originally given to PhD. Doctor came from the latin "docere" which means "to teach". So doctors were people who had attained the highest accreditation to be able to teach. Also PhD was not originally the only doctorate. You can see this remnant of medieval doctorates at Oxford, where they have tier list of doctorate, where the first precedence is given to Doctor of Divinity, those who teaches in matters of theology.
9:46 the reason the McDonald's lady won was because McDonald's was warned that they were keeping the coffee too hot and that someone would get hurt and then when someone did get hurt it caused major damage. The reason why this new guy won was because the cup wasnt secure in the holder before it was handed to him so the worker effectively dumped the coffee on him again leading to major damage.
@adamrodger5351 to be fair it's not like this is his field and he didn't state an opinion on the subject. I'd be more concerned if Legal Eagle was saying stuff like this
Also, the lady was elderly and her polyester pants had fused to her skin, requiring skin grafts. She originally just wanted her medical bills covered by Mickey D's.
@adamrodger5351it's also something that had an absurd amount of money put behind the smear campaign of the lady. So rather than get angry because someone doesn't know it's best to educate as they may have just fallen victim to the misinformation.
7:23 never thought i would hear that docter agree that cannibal would have the same ads as surgeons.... which to be fair, explain why these kind of thing would be off the radar....
Jake said he overheard, so it was probably a medical professional that shouldn’t have divulged it in a public place or directly to Jake, since it appears that Sarge hadn’t told anyone about it.
The lawsuits about hot coffee are for these big amounts because they usually come after a reasonable resolution was refused by the big company concerned. For the McDonald’s case, the lady had asked for her medical bills to be reimbursed, McDonald’s refused. For the Starbucks case, the person asked for an apology and better training for staff, Starbucks refused. They are meant to hit the pockets significantly enough that they are inclined to stop it from happening again.
@laner.845 Honestly, companies who do this (as in waiting out their victims; whether McDonalds did in this case, or not) should have the fine multiplied several times, and a criminal investigation should be opened!
LegalEagle has a very good video on this lawsuit. The most important detail that was often missed was how the specific McDonalds had been selling their coffee at temperatures significantly hotter than what they are supposed to. Like absurdly hot. And the investigation found that there had been hundreds of previous complaints about the coffee being too hot which resulted in injury. So the McDonald’s was ignoring the issue altogether.
9:50 they win those lawsuits cause the large companies are criminally liable for harming people but they work hard for the zeitgeist to be "lawsuit happy opportunists" instead of "individuals being maimed"
Yeah mainstream press always makes sure to show the victims as ridiculous. Can't mention how the coffee was *boiling* hot which is *against health&safety regs*, can we? Wouldn't want a big corpo to become exposed for repeatedly breaking the law and endangering customers. ☺
Aye its normally because the cap isn't even close to secure when they know its being taken in a car, and is served as massively over the top temperatures that can fuse your skin to your clothes.
even if the people winning are opportunists, that should be what we all aspire to. corporations exist just to milk society for profit, and depending on how amoral the CEO is, they could be doing anything from underpaying thousands of employees to denying insurance claims. if the courts somehow judge in favour of the little consumer, we should all be celebrating. and plotting our next "opportunist" lawsuit.
9:45 I don't know about the Starbucks case specifically, but the most famous one with McDonald's for example is based on the fact that the coffee is served too hot so it would actually cause third-degree burns, so it's beyond any consumable measure. Also, they served it intentionally at that temperature knowing that it could cause serious harm. So, it's not the "dumb woman didn't expect coffee to be hot" McDonald's wants you to think, it's more like "McDonald's served its coffee so hot, that it would actually burn parts of your skin of." It's probably something similar with that Starbucks case. There it was a delivery driver. I'd bet they didn't warn him about it being a hot beverage or pressured him to work faster and neglect his safety handling that stuff.
It wasn't, that's just the propaganda that's been pushed ever since it happened. She was grossly negligent with the coffee. She held it in her crotch to be able to mix in sugar and cream. She was an incredibly stupid person who burned herself due to her own stupidity, and should have lost the case. And before you try and tell me I need to look at the case more, I know all about the case, it was decided wrongly by a bleeding heart jury. She should have lost.
9:55 the reason they win the suit most of the time is because the restaurants are serving the drink way above regulation temperature, like with the old lady who sued McDonald’s the coffee was so hot that it fused her labia to her leg, the fda states restaurants aren’t allowed to serve hot drinks over 160 degrees the coffee was being served at 200
13:15 I love this rant. Likely because Holt is defending his husband, who holds a PhD and is not a doctor. Edit: Technically, is PhD is “literally describing a doctor” (as said by Captain Holt), Kevin is a doctor, just not a medical doctor.
MDs have co-opted the term. What if MDs didn’t let DOs call themselves doctors. Also, it is absurd that chiropractors get to call themselves doctors but not phds. Lastly, pretty sure a phd in biomedical engineering is just as hard as med school.
10:54 "Dr. Gundry would not approve! He would say 'might as well have a chocolate'!" Dr. Gundry's hyperfocus on sugar content (ignoring other nutrients and portion sizes) has traumatized Dr. Mike so much 😂
For the People wondering about how people "get spilled and sue" that version tends to be the sanitized and altered version that companies feed the press in order to discourage people suing over mistreatment and injuries. Heck, the most famous is the one old lady that was parked in the McDonalds parking lot in the companion seat and when it fell on her it caused like 3rd degree burns; It melted her Genitalia. And she didn't even want to sue Mac originally, she just asked for them to cover her medical bills, which they responded with 20 dollars and an apple pie coupon. And when she Sued a LOT of people around the country spoke up about having similar experiences like her and not saying anything because they were not sure anyone would listen to the little guy. When they went to court It was discovered that Macdonalds was serving coffee at an ABSURD temperature, like it was given boiling and like 50 degrees above what it was considered even safe. So After LOSING the case, Macdonalds lowered the temperature at which they served coffee, BUT as the sore losers they are, they've been spending millons across decades to make people think of this lady like an idiot that "got burned whilst driving at 60 mph". Never take the side of the multimillionaire company, that's the job of their lawyers, and they get paid for that
You really should look into the case of the woman who sued AND WON against McDonalds, and the hot coffee. She was SEVERELY burned and it wasn’t her fault.
By the way he commented on people suing over it, he should educate himself anyway. It could make for a good video, looking into *why* they won those cases and just how nasty the megacorps were in trying to spread misinformation and slandering the victims.
@The_Keeper I heard she held the cup of coffee between jer legs because of no cupholder. id argue that it was her fault but apparently the coffee was too hot.
@lotrfan8 He said cases plural - it's lumped in, he just raised the most recent one. Would love to see him invite Legal Eagle on to walk through them - Legal Eagle already covered the McDonald's one so it would be interesting to see them tackle both the medical and legal of both that one and Starbucks.
The McDonald's coffee lawsuit makes a lot of sense, that specific store had been warned multiple times that the coffee was too hot by people who got burned, and the woman who suffered the burns had third degree burns that required a skin graft. She had only wanted medical costs, but after being refused, it went to trial and the big payout was punitive damages equal to I think2 days worth of McDonald's coffee sales. That later got reduced.
I think it's even worse that she not only needed a skin graft, but it was her entire groin. 16% of her body. She had skin fuse together, that's how hot that damn coffee was. She literally almost died. The reason people still bring it up as an example of a "frivolous lawsuit" is because McDonalds launched such a massive disinformation campaign claiming stuff like, 'she did it on purpose', or 'she was messing with the coffee while driving' (she was a passenger in a parked car).
I remember being shocked about the woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald’s back in the day. Then I learned that the media demonized her to turn attention away from the fact that McDonald’s repeatedly ignored reports of severe burns and did nothing to address it. The woman who sued and won got 2nd and 3rd degree burns everywhere it spilled, within seconds of it spilling on her. If you were to see photos of how severely she was burned, you would have no questions about how she won her lawsuit.
Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher are arguably the two best cast individuals for a show. Steve Carrell as Michael Scott is up there too, but man Jake and Holt are just amazing characters played perfectly.
My favourites are Holt and Boyle. I absolutely adore characters that are a little weird and out there, especially if they're kind of socially awkward too. Boyle checks all the boxes, I was so happy to see Boyle win the title of the "one true Boyle". I wouldbhave liked to see him win the last heist though instead of Hitchcock.
So for anyone curious about the Hot Drink situation at 09:47 it's typically because the drink is TOO HOT. Like melts flesh and causes severe burns that require hospitalization. The mcdonalds lady was like...severely injured, needed surgery, flesh had basically melted together in her pelvic area.
@ Fr! That one woman that said we should get ‘vaccinated with Jesus’ is beyond saving. If she actually believes that’s the alternative to vaccines, she can’t be convinced otherwise.😭
@autumnele999 It truly was! Someone actually said that what she was saying was so insane, that her face didn’t even agree with her. I could see it too, her face looked like it too was disgusted with what she was saying.😆
The principle of it goes at least as far back as 1974, used in the pilot episode of The Six Million Dollar Man and may even predate that. Sorry, I know that's not helpful as far as it being used on your people.
3:55 yes, it is exactly what happened the govrnment issued a statement saying they do not own that type of weapon, later claiming they do but havent unpacked it yet, and then saying yes we did but we didnt bring it out that day, then therewere pictures that they did, so they said okay we did bring it out but we used it as a big sound system... so people made pettition to send to some world organisation (Im not very well versed in which one, but its something for human rights) to sue the governing party for using illegal and non humane methods of crowd control (even though the protests themselves were completely peaceful and didnt require any measurments)
3:52 No way Dr. Mike mentioned my country - Serbia and the peaceful protest that was held - during which apparently an LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) was used. People got really sick, many of them needed to seek medical help. Many reported that their hearing aids stopped working, some people reported headaches, nausea, temporary hearing loss etc.
People forget that the lady who sued cause her 'coffee was too hot', had third degree burns, with some places even going down to the bone, and McDonalds knew this! That lady deserved every penny she got out of it, but no, McDonalds made sure you remembered it as, 'Karen complains hot coffee is hot'.
Thank you so much for mentioning Serbia… I am in awe and so emotional because people are finally seeing what is going on here. I love your videos and I think you are amazing and the fact that you are spreading awarness just makes me so happy! Sending love from Serbia! ❤
Doc, you need to watch the documentary Hot Coffee, which is about the case where the old woman ordered a coffee from McDonald's and it spilled and burned her legs. People turned it into a joke at the time because she sued, but as it turns out, she was absolutely right. The coffee was WAY too hot, and she got third-degree burns on her legs and needed multiple surgeries. The family initially only asked McDonald's to cover the $10,000 cost of her surgeries, but McDonald's refused, so they sued and got millions. Because of that case, fast food places now have to regulate how hot their beverages are.
Horrendous video, stopped watching after the second person was voted out whilst Mike was making good points. Based on the little of that video that I watched, I really doubt some anti-vaxxer is gonna watch it and change his mind, which would be the ultimate goal of a video like that in my opinion. They should have just given everyone a set time to speak, say, 3-5 minutes, and give Mike the same time to reply.
Mike the coffee suits are usually criminal negligence. The famous McDonalds case they were caught serving it significantly hotter than legal. And the woman didn’t sue until they refused to cover the medical bill.
Yes! And these people get a settlement and an NDA to sign so we end up with the narrative of frivolous lawsuits pushed by the corporation that was negligent. Coffee should never come to the customer at a temperature that could cause significant lasting damage if imbibed or touched. I've had plenty of hot beverages before but never anything at that level of hot.
That woman's story is so tragic. The injuries she sustained would've merited a lot more than she pushed for. And then McDonald's worked hard to smear her name and act like she was being silly.
Poor woman got third degree burns to her groin. And the media tried to paint it as her drinking hot coffee while driving, but the reality was that she was a passenger in a parked car when it spilled.
@onionbubs386 go ahead and call me out for over exaggerating but wasn't like due to the hot coffee skin and body parts were like fusing together or whatever its called? I know it was real bad :/
Love your videos, Dr. Mike! I hope you see this, but you should know being a physician that the Mcdonald's case of hot coffee was actually a needed lawsuit. The coffee that burned Stella Liebeck was dangerously hot-hot enough to cause third-degree burns, even through clothes, in three seconds. Liebeck endured third-degree burns over 16 percent of her body, including her inner thighs and genitals-the skin was burned away to the layers of muscle and fatty tissue. She had to be hospitalized for eight days, and she required skin grafts and other treatment. Her recovery lasted two years. All she had asked for was 20k to cover her medical bills and Mcdonald's offered $800. The coffee was kept at almost 200 degrees and being served like that.
Yep. Some added context: McDonalds had been warned that their coffee was too hot, and had been sued for it prior, but they did nothing about it obviously. So the jury awarded her several million, which was the amount McDonald's makes on a lunch hour. That's not actually what she got as there was eventually an our of court settlement, and it was likely a lot less. However, the real tragedy there was that McDonalds spent millions on a slandering spree, paying off comedians (notably Leno and Lettermen) to basically mock her on air as a greedy clumsy woman, largely to stigmatize suing when you've been legitimately wronged. in the case of the Starbucks, the guy was injured because the staff not only was serving coffee that was far hotter than it should have been, but because they didn't secure the cups properly. Starbucks originally offered him money first, he counter offered, asking for less but requesting they change their practices to safer ones, and Starbucks withdrew, so the case went forward and they ended up losing 10 times what their original offer was.
Yeah, that was what I thought about the 3rd° burns. You can't be serving people coffee like that. It's a shame the media made it into a joke. "of course it was hot." OH, I didn't realize it was acceptable to serve things hot enough to burn your body away and just call them hot like you could blow on them for 5 minutes.
I need to see a full video of him being absolutely stunned by all the absurd and batshit crazy medical problems that Scully has. Mike will be in tears from laughing so hard.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dr. Mike, I know you mentioned the Starbucks lawsuit, which I am only now hearing for the first time, but in regards to the famous case of McDonald’s being sued for hot coffee, it was because they were serving it around 200° nearly boiling. It would make no sense to keep coffee that hot, and if it wasn’t for the fact that that woman was also wearing sweatpants, which when she spilled it (while parked) soaked into her sweat pants and caused her extended contact with the near boiling coffee, causing her to need skin graphs.
Starbucks one was almost worse than the McD one. SB's barista spilled it on him, and the REASON the coffee spilled out was cause SB cups were not as good as they could have been due to it taking like half a cent per cup more to make them less prone to spilling
Additionally, mcdonalds had recorded literally hundreds of incidents like this beforehand, so corporate knew it was injuring people and did nothing about it. Which if you asked legal eagle, he would tell you, thats stacking piles of negligence on mcdonalds to magnify the sheer level of responsibility they held in the issue. This wasnt just one random location going rogue and serving literal boiling coffee, this was corporate policy, they knew it was injuring people frequently, and they just kept hushing it up and refusing to change things on their end.
Dr Mike, you should look into those drive thru burns. The most notorious was an elderly lady that was burned at a McDonald's drive thru because her coffee was ridiculiously over the safe limit for serving. Her wounds were pretty gnarly and McDonalds tried to deny any wrong doing, but it was proven that the coffee was well over what the recommended temperatures for serving were. Coffee is supposed to be served at around 140 degrees and the coffee she received was closer to 200 degrees.
9:50 Usually those cases are won because the temperature of the coffee they're given is so hot it does immense damage to their bodies. The classic case everyone knows about of that one woman years ago won because her leg skin practically melted the water was so hot.
9:51 there's a certain temperature a drink can be to be adequate for consumption. You don't win a case with a first degree burn, most of the cases in which a person won it was because the coffee was SO hot they got second or even third degree burns.
0:19 Weird comment. HIPAA has nothing to do with the situation. This isn't a doctor's office, he's talking about it in a public place and people are overhearing him. You can ask your friend anything you want about their medical status. In a lot of cases it's probably a jerk move, but checking in with a friend when you hear them saying they're going to the doctor has absolutely nothing to do with HIPAA.
I’ve seen a couple people comment this, but I think the issue is that Jake “overheard it”, which, since sarge seems to not have told anyone, it was probably a medical professional that shared it without his consent or in a public place
@percymooncash Sarge and Captain Holt seem to have an extremely close relationship with each other. I just figured it was that conversation that they alluded towards.
@percymooncash You're wrong. Their desks are only a few feet away from each other. Terry is sitting at his desk and says, "Okay, great. I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks doctor. Have a good one." When he says "Thanks doctor" Jake turns around and looks at him while he's still on the phone.
9:57 for anyone wondering, it is more so about the heat at which the drink is being prepared and served rather than the culpability of the (hot) drink serving business for the act of someone accidentally knocking the drink over on themselves while going through the drive-thru. I believe these lawsuits are not "frivolous" at all but rather these lawsuits are a matter of work health and safety. It is unsafe for a drink to be served at the boiling point of human skin to someone who may spill it (regardless of whether they take the drink into a car or not) and it is unsafe to expect a worker in such business to also not potentially be hurt by such hot liquid without appropriate PPE
Hey Dr. Mike, I'm a premed student, and in three months I've got my entrance exam. I just wanted to say thank you! Your videos have been a huge help, especially the "day in the life" one - it's been really inspiring me to keep going.♡
9:50 That happens because people receive third degree burns when their drinks spill. Obviously that shouldn't happen, and there's regulatuons in place that should prevent drinks from being that hot, however companies like Starbucks and McDonald's do not care and see it as easier to just pay the lawsuit.
Dr Mike - On the drink spill lawsuits, it's something where research really changes the story! Most of these cases, including the (in)famous McDonalds coffee case, aren't just because someone spilled their drink and got mad. They sue and win because the restaurants are serving their drinks at temperatures much hotter than the maximum allowed by law for consumer safety, often after having been advised to reduce temps more than once. The severe, costly, and painful burns suffered by the customers aren't just because they spilled, which wouldn't generally be the restaurants fault, but because the spill causes severe injury because of the dangerously high drink temperatures. This is one of those things like 'kids are using litter boxes in classrooms because they identify as cats' where the popular understanding of the story doesn't match the more horrifying reality. Thought you'd like to know!
and the only reason they keep the coffee that absurdly hot is "people buy it on the way to work and they don't want it to get cold during the commute!" bro the answer is not SERVE MOLTEN LAVA IN A CUP the answer is BUY YOUR COFFEE CLOSE TO WORK
I can't find any information regarding the Starbucks lawsuit, but the victim in the McDonalds lawsuit from the 90s suffered from Third Degree Burns, as well as lesser ones on other parts of their body. These lawsuits don't just stem from simple skin irritation or pain, they have the ability to cause lasting damage.
@dietotaku No, the reason they do it is because it "stays good longer" according the them. When it comes to corporations it's hardly ever about what the consumer wants, it's always about the bottom line. They literally didn't want to throw it away as quickly.
@TruestFable and on top of that, she asked for JUST her medical bills paid. Nothing else. McDonald's refused and launched a smear campaign (that people still believe today) so she smeared them in court. It's almost Erin Brokovich- esque.
The recent Starbucks guy won his lawsuit because he was handed a coffee that wasn't properly secured in the tray, resulting in it spilling. He straight up got 3rd degree burns and nerve damage to his genitals. It was no joke.
It's cheaper for big corporations to pay out for serious burns (the old woman who sued McDonalds had third degree burns) than to make the coffee a safe temperature, because the coffee tastes fresh longer at the crazy high temp so they don't have to brew as often. They absolutely should be sued in those cases, their greed puts them in the situation and people get seriously injured
8:50 Okay, I wish I said that when I was hit by a car. One fracture in the 3rd lumbar, three fractures long the left side of my skull, and I was rushed over to a different hospital because they detected bleeding in the brain. I was lucky and was able to walk things off without surgery.
Came here from the Jubilee video, doctor mike was well-spoken and VERY respectful of everyone there, even when they may not have deserved it. Thank you for being a positive voice and advocate doctor.
FWIW The McDonald's burn lady did accept 10% fault in the judgement for opening hot coffee in her lap. However, McD's was found serving dangerously hot coffee in a majority of their locations, and were warned about it. Her clothes fused to her dang legs.
9:50 It's due to negligence on the companies side making something hot for more efficiency, but the percedent was set by the old McDonald's lawsuit, since then any company offering a hot beverage and cuts corners is baiscally over for them in a law suit tbh. No, it's not a quick get rich scheme. Some of these people literally have been disfigured.
Love this show
Jake’s classic “that’s where the bloods supposed to be” is something I’ve wanted Doc to react to for awhile 🤣
That's the joke I came here for
One of the funniest jokes in the show 😂
@hermiona1147 Legitimately my favorite joke from the show I think
Watched that little clip like 4 times
Didn't parks and recs do that joke first??
RIP Andre Braugher. Loved this show.
Why "loved"?
Yeah man 😢
RIP Capt Holt.
@ItsDylanBruh If you continue to watch it it's never really finished
“Oh captain my captain” 🫡☹️
2:10 you can tell he hasn't watched this show because everyone who has laughs their ass off from those two lines.
Also because I think for that episode and maybe some others he completely misses the context of them, like how Gina and Jake are supposed to be misinformed about most things because Gina is supposed to be a caricature of those mainstream online types and Jake is naive.
@arcanine_enjoyer yeah exactly. You can tell Mike doesnt know holt is a robot. Meep Morp zeeeeeeep
@arcanine_enjoyerJake isn't naive, he's just Jake. *Boyle* is naive
12:32 distraction 100% works for pain control: i had a second degree burn on my hand from the oven so i spent hours with my hand in the sink under running water and still felt pain. I then binge watched all of Brooklyn 99 and my mind was completely absorbed by the show so i felt no pain. The pain only came back during the five seconds when an episode ended and before the next one started. I’m not a doctor but for personal experience it works.
I mean your anecdote does not intself prove Dr Mike incorrect however the absolute tonne of research and journals that has gone into distraction to manage pain does. It's frankly one of the most insane things I've ever heard Dr Mike say. There has been so much research on the topic and it is relatively well known that distraction does work for pain. He's usually pretty good but he said like 3 things in this video which were batshit
Also, gate control theory: 100% a thing
Youve never had real s3vere pain have you? Distration might work for mild but after that no chance
@becky2235 I've been in so much pain I've vomited from it before. I've broken my ankle clean through. I've also had biliary colic.
No one says distraction has to nullify 100% of pain to be effective still. During one especially bad episode of gallbladder attacks I laid on the floor, rocky slightly whilst singing Smelly Cat. It worked pretty well. Burns are also well known to be pretty severly painful so if he's had 2nd degree burns he has been in some pretty intense pain.
Brooklyn 99 distracted me enough to get through a cancer diagnosis and surgery. It was the only thing that I could watch at the time (had to stop watching Supernatural and go back to it)! 99 is like a faithful friend. I have lost count of how many times I have watched it!
Nooooo you cut out Boyle yelling "I can taste my thoughts!" When Rosa was pointing the directional sound machine at him 😂😂😂😂
They cut out a lot of good parts.
Also cut out Amy’s shooting blanks joke which was my favorite part of that scene
@triciaramgoolam4045 yeah, the whole show lol
What I also was excited to see is his reaction when Boyle says "if the bullet had just been a little to the left and a little up, I would've been paralyzed!" and "if the bullet had hit just a little bit to the left and WAY up.. it would've hit my brain!! o-o"
@kai9137 yesssss
3:54 hiii!! Serbian here! Yes everyone claims that the government had used an illegal sound canon to disperse the crowds during the 15 minutes of silence for the 15 (now unfortunately 16) victims of the incident in Novi Sad. Thank you for the awareness of what's happening in my country ❤
I heard it was a heat based system.
Hejj, kako mi je drago da nas ima još Srba ovde
Pumpaj!!!
@GhostBear3067 it's still all speculation because the government isn't admitting to anything
Now imagine people with epilepsy standing in that crowd
Lawyer here. The most famous "hot coffee" case involved an elderly woman who ordered coffee from McDonald's, spilled it on herself, and received third degree burns. In the course of the lawsuit they uncovered evidence that McDonald's knew that the coffee that they were serving wasn't very good so they tried to cover up for the bad flavor by making it very hot, much hotter than the recommended temperature. The woman received a moderate amount of actual damages, but the bulk of the award was in punitive damages, which are damages unrelated to the injury but which are designed to punish bad behavior by a rich/powerful defendant. The value of the Plaintiff's damages in that case would be insignificant to a company like McDonald's so you add the extra damages to make it hurt enough to force them to change their behavior.
Thanks for bringing back hope that common sense still prevails
@GintarasSakalauskas I mean, the legal system, like any system designed for and run by people, isn't even close to perfect. There are absolutely people who game the system or who are trying to con their way into a big settlement or damages award. But the legal system works fairly well most of the time, at least on these kinds of cases. The vast majority of grousing about things like hot coffee cases are from people who are somewhat ignorant of the reality or from conservatives who don't like that injured people can sue rich people or companies to be made whole.
I'm pretty sure her damage wasn't moderate. The water was superheated and fused/melted all the skin on her crotch together.
Esp considering, afaik, she didn’t spill it, it was so hot the steam popped the cap off
Yeah and McDonald's then went to spread propaganda that the woman was crazy and most people believed it for a while till people started researching the case again.
Hi I'm Serbian and really happy that you are so informed about our country, yes the govrnment did use an illegal sound wepon on a peacful protest
Is it real that the protesters are also calling for the annexation of kosovo?
@illumi4460 no, that's something unrelated
@illumi4460 it might come as a complete shock, but not everything revolves around kosovo for us.
Zdravo
1:41 "and they made me black!" IM DYING THIS SHOW IS AND WAS SO OUT OF POCKET AND INSANE 😭😭
0:42 Jake’s not a medical professional. A regular person can ask another person about their medical stuff that’s not HIPAA protected.
Its hippa if medical staff is talking about medical records around other people where they can hear. This would be a hippa violation. Considering he said "I overheard" could inply this.
@christiandewit2804if Jake was saying he overheard it from Sarge’s doctor that would mean Jake would have to have been already at the doctor’s with Sarge. It’s more likely that Sarge was talking to the captain about it when Jake overheard.
@ChaseJonas75Terry was talking on the phone and said "thank you doctor" or something like that and Jake overheard
@AIopekisoh yeah I know! I was just giving the proper context
@christiandewit2804 It might "inply" that if the doctor knew he was being overheard by someone else and disclosed PHI without consent. A doctor talking to a patient on the phone does not inherently violate HIPAA. Asking a coworker if someone is ok does not inherently violate HIPAA. You're grasping for implications that help push your unwarranted narrative because the scene doesn't give the implication on it's own.
My dad is a dentist and his brother is a physician, so we have a rendition of the "which is harder, dental school or med school" argument at every holiday lol
medical is obv harder since there's a ton more to study; altho if the surgical part is all you're looking at, dental work is pretty difficult, often requires some strength, and yet is also delicate. probably only specialised surgeons have it harder when it comes to that.
however, the question from the show seems to be "which is harder to _get into_ " so maybe dental is harder because it's a more straightforward course and therefore more oversubscribed? demand > supply
i kow your grandparents dont care, just happy both kids came out smart lol
@alveolate you'd be surprised how many theoretically unrelated things can come from teeth issues and dentists need to know about them. Also, I never thought there was any difference, in my country you do med school and then choose specialisation, one of them being dentistry.
Definitely thought physician said physicist, which still kinda works cause they're both Dr's.
Funny because my godmother is a psychiatrist and her brother is an anesthesiologist, but somehow they don't really bring their job specifics up. If they were ever to argue which one's harder, it would make a very interesting conversation that I'd love to witness.
You forgot the part where Jake forgot to publicize the blood drive and did the whole thing himself and fainted😂😂
😂😂 poor Jake
Or how about Captain Dozerman and his heart attacks? lol
Which season and episode is that ? I gotta rewatch it again !!!
Also his wrong blood type transfusion after being shot
4:00 thanks for mentioning this, it is a very big thing happening in Serbia. We should all support the students and protest the corrupt government!
Solidarity with the people of Serbia! It’s very inspiring to see the mobilization
@MaKa-en8cwwell, so do we.
The 1st reaction you can see nowadays is that the leading Serbian political party, the one in power, can’t organize any big national meeting anymore anywhere without people reacting, stopping and interrupting them, and their threats and pressure are no longer working on regular people. Protests may have slowed down, but people woke up. Now it’s up on the oposition politicians to step up and prove their intentions are pure and not for the self-interest.
Thank you dr Mike for mentioning that. Right now we're going trough tough times and it's great to get recognition on your channel.
Btw, another great video. Greetings from Serbia to you and your team.
PUMPAJJJ!!!🇷🇸
@Belgrade.Aquarist I imagine that would be hard to prove, since almost all politics are self-servin'.
I believe I read its the largest protest in Serbia history, one of my friends is from Serbia and recently moved back. Where she lives, the train station roof collapsed that she would take to school and ever since she has been scared because they had told the government how unsafe it was. She keeps me informed as she particpants in protests I wish the best for her
13:20 It's funny because Captain Holt DOES have a point. Not about Dentists not being "real doctors", but that medical doctors have essentially taken over the term "doctor". Doctor really just refers to having a PhD in a specific field and becoming highly specialized. Originally, doctors were called "medical practitioners" or some other term depending on the time frame. However, as the medical field pushed for a specialized medical degree where the medical practitioners started getting PhDs, and with people having more interactions with medical doctors and any other type, they started becoming what people consider "true" doctors.
It's like nobody cares about etymology
doctor was not originally given to PhD. Doctor came from the latin "docere" which means "to teach". So doctors were people who had attained the highest accreditation to be able to teach. Also PhD was not originally the only doctorate. You can see this remnant of medieval doctorates at Oxford, where they have tier list of doctorate, where the first precedence is given to Doctor of Divinity, those who teaches in matters of theology.
“…AND NOBODY GIVES A DAMN ABOUT ETYMOLOGY!”
@cgallegos2106 "Apparently that's a trigger for me."
I mean, does HIPAA really apply if it’s not doctors and Jake just overheard one half of the conversation? Also “willy nilly” took me tf out 🤣🤣🤣
I’m kinda annoyed Mike brings up HIPAA like that. Like did he forget how during Covid people kept bringing that up and causing confusion and harm
Yeah, I'm sure Doctor mike was just joking around but the misunderstanding of HIPPA has caused a lot of trouble.
9:46 the reason the McDonald's lady won was because McDonald's was warned that they were keeping the coffee too hot and that someone would get hurt and then when someone did get hurt it caused major damage. The reason why this new guy won was because the cup wasnt secure in the holder before it was handed to him so the worker effectively dumped the coffee on him again leading to major damage.
Yeah, but why should Mike do even the most basic googling before he spreads McDonald's and Starbucks' propaganda for them? 🫤
@adamrodger5351 to be fair it's not like this is his field and he didn't state an opinion on the subject. I'd be more concerned if Legal Eagle was saying stuff like this
Also, the lady was elderly and her polyester pants had fused to her skin, requiring skin grafts. She originally just wanted her medical bills covered by Mickey D's.
@AndreJNick1 Adam Ruins Everything made a good video about this
@adamrodger5351it's also something that had an absurd amount of money put behind the smear campaign of the lady. So rather than get angry because someone doesn't know it's best to educate as they may have just fallen victim to the misinformation.
Legal eagle did a great piece explaining why the spilled coffee lawsuits were totally justified.
Still waiting for a Legal Eagle collab with Doctor Mike :D
@eTiMaGo This might be a joke but I genuinely can't tell lmao. They've done multiple collabs together if you're not aware
@alanbiju1765 huh, I have no memory of that! I'll dig around for those episodes then
so did adam ruins everything
@qtpaulie Oooh thats right! I forgot about that one.
7:23 never thought i would hear that docter agree that cannibal would have the same ads as surgeons.... which to be fair, explain why these kind of thing would be off the radar....
That internal bleeding quote is one of my favorites from this series.
HIPAA doesn’t apply when people are just talking to each other, but it’s fine to shut down inappropriate questions about health at work.
Nosey coworkers can and will ask anything!
Jake said he overheard, so it was probably a medical professional that shouldn’t have divulged it in a public place or directly to Jake, since it appears that Sarge hadn’t told anyone about it.
@percymooncash I think it was just the sarge on the phone talking about it
Yup. His own fault for calling his doctor while at work.
The lawsuits about hot coffee are for these big amounts because they usually come after a reasonable resolution was refused by the big company concerned. For the McDonald’s case, the lady had asked for her medical bills to be reimbursed, McDonald’s refused. For the Starbucks case, the person asked for an apology and better training for staff, Starbucks refused. They are meant to hit the pockets significantly enough that they are inclined to stop it from happening again.
The first lady still hasn’t been paid out. (From what I understand. Maybe I’m wrong)
Also, she was severely injured! Her genitals & legs had 3rd degree burns and her labia was fused together...she was mauled.
@e.b.squared The first lady died in 2004, so I doubt she's getting anything that was still owed her today.
@laner.845 Honestly, companies who do this (as in waiting out their victims; whether McDonalds did in this case, or not) should have the fine multiplied several times, and a criminal investigation should be opened!
LegalEagle has a very good video on this lawsuit. The most important detail that was often missed was how the specific McDonalds had been selling their coffee at temperatures significantly hotter than what they are supposed to. Like absurdly hot. And the investigation found that there had been hundreds of previous complaints about the coffee being too hot which resulted in injury. So the McDonald’s was ignoring the issue altogether.
9:50 they win those lawsuits cause the large companies are criminally liable for harming people but they work hard for the zeitgeist to be "lawsuit happy opportunists" instead of "individuals being maimed"
Yeah mainstream press always makes sure to show the victims as ridiculous.
Can't mention how the coffee was *boiling* hot which is *against health&safety regs*, can we? Wouldn't want a big corpo to become exposed for repeatedly breaking the law and endangering customers. ☺
Also it was cheaper for starbucks to give away that money than to get stronger cups/cup holders
Aye its normally because the cap isn't even close to secure when they know its being taken in a car, and is served as massively over the top temperatures that can fuse your skin to your clothes.
even if the people winning are opportunists, that should be what we all aspire to. corporations exist just to milk society for profit, and depending on how amoral the CEO is, they could be doing anything from underpaying thousands of employees to denying insurance claims.
if the courts somehow judge in favour of the little consumer, we should all be celebrating. and plotting our next "opportunist" lawsuit.
@alveolate Makes sense. Fight fire with fire.
9:45 I don't know about the Starbucks case specifically, but the most famous one with McDonald's for example is based on the fact that the coffee is served too hot so it would actually cause third-degree burns, so it's beyond any consumable measure. Also, they served it intentionally at that temperature knowing that it could cause serious harm. So, it's not the "dumb woman didn't expect coffee to be hot" McDonald's wants you to think, it's more like "McDonald's served its coffee so hot, that it would actually burn parts of your skin of." It's probably something similar with that Starbucks case. There it was a delivery driver. I'd bet they didn't warn him about it being a hot beverage or pressured him to work faster and neglect his safety handling that stuff.
yup, glad someone pointed this out
It wasn't, that's just the propaganda that's been pushed ever since it happened. She was grossly negligent with the coffee. She held it in her crotch to be able to mix in sugar and cream. She was an incredibly stupid person who burned herself due to her own stupidity, and should have lost the case.
And before you try and tell me I need to look at the case more, I know all about the case, it was decided wrongly by a bleeding heart jury. She should have lost.
9:55 the reason they win the suit most of the time is because the restaurants are serving the drink way above regulation temperature, like with the old lady who sued McDonald’s the coffee was so hot that it fused her labia to her leg, the fda states restaurants aren’t allowed to serve hot drinks over 160 degrees the coffee was being served at 200
13:15 I love this rant. Likely because Holt is defending his husband, who holds a PhD and is not a doctor.
Edit: Technically, is PhD is “literally describing a doctor” (as said by Captain Holt), Kevin is a doctor, just not a medical doctor.
MDs have co-opted the term. What if MDs didn’t let DOs call themselves doctors. Also, it is absurd that chiropractors get to call themselves doctors but not phds. Lastly, pretty sure a phd in biomedical engineering is just as hard as med school.
Exactly as Holt said, PhD's are the REAL doctors. Medical doctors are the ones who just started using the term.
AND NOBODY EVEN CARES ABOUT THE ETHYMOLO-
NOT A DOCTOR. SH.
But then a DDS is also a doctor.
I almost died when Dr Mike dissected Jake’s “all the bleeding was internal, that’s where the blood is supposed to be” line. Please diagnose me doctor
10:54 "Dr. Gundry would not approve! He would say 'might as well have a chocolate'!" Dr. Gundry's hyperfocus on sugar content (ignoring other nutrients and portion sizes) has traumatized Dr. Mike so much 😂
For the People wondering about how people "get spilled and sue" that version tends to be the sanitized and altered version that companies feed the press in order to discourage people suing over mistreatment and injuries. Heck, the most famous is the one old lady that was parked in the McDonalds parking lot in the companion seat and when it fell on her it caused like 3rd degree burns; It melted her Genitalia. And she didn't even want to sue Mac originally, she just asked for them to cover her medical bills, which they responded with 20 dollars and an apple pie coupon. And when she Sued a LOT of people around the country spoke up about having similar experiences like her and not saying anything because they were not sure anyone would listen to the little guy. When they went to court It was discovered that Macdonalds was serving coffee at an ABSURD temperature, like it was given boiling and like 50 degrees above what it was considered even safe. So After LOSING the case, Macdonalds lowered the temperature at which they served coffee, BUT as the sore losers they are, they've been spending millons across decades to make people think of this lady like an idiot that "got burned whilst driving at 60 mph".
Never take the side of the multimillionaire company, that's the job of their lawyers, and they get paid for that
"Most doctors probably get the same ads as cannibals." Doctor Mike :D
Correction surgeons
You really should look into the case of the woman who sued AND WON against McDonalds, and the hot coffee. She was SEVERELY burned and it wasn’t her fault.
That's not the case he cited but yes
By the way he commented on people suing over it, he should educate himself anyway.
It could make for a good video, looking into *why* they won those cases and just how nasty the megacorps were in trying to spread misinformation and slandering the victims.
@The_Keeper I heard she held the cup of coffee between jer legs because of no cupholder. id argue that it was her fault but apparently the coffee was too hot.
@lotrfan8 he also didn't know anything about the case he cited, which was even more the establishments fault
@lotrfan8 He said cases plural - it's lumped in, he just raised the most recent one. Would love to see him invite Legal Eagle on to walk through them - Legal Eagle already covered the McDonald's one so it would be interesting to see them tackle both the medical and legal of both that one and Starbucks.
The McDonald's coffee lawsuit makes a lot of sense, that specific store had been warned multiple times that the coffee was too hot by people who got burned, and the woman who suffered the burns had third degree burns that required a skin graft. She had only wanted medical costs, but after being refused, it went to trial and the big payout was punitive damages equal to I think2 days worth of McDonald's coffee sales.
That later got reduced.
and MacDonald didnt actually pay everything to her either, they also ran a mud campaign against her, so the case is regarded as a joke
It was 700 times they were warned.
I think it's even worse that she not only needed a skin graft, but it was her entire groin. 16% of her body. She had skin fuse together, that's how hot that damn coffee was. She literally almost died. The reason people still bring it up as an example of a "frivolous lawsuit" is because McDonalds launched such a massive disinformation campaign claiming stuff like, 'she did it on purpose', or 'she was messing with the coffee while driving' (she was a passenger in a parked car).
I remember being shocked about the woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald’s back in the day. Then I learned that the media demonized her to turn attention away from the fact that McDonald’s repeatedly ignored reports of severe burns and did nothing to address it. The woman who sued and won got 2nd and 3rd degree burns everywhere it spilled, within seconds of it spilling on her. If you were to see photos of how severely she was burned, you would have no questions about how she won her lawsuit.
10:48 MIGHT AS WELL
FINALLY, THE VIDEO I'VE ALWAYS WANTED
omg me too!!!!
yess !!
I wish it was ten times longer but I guess I could just watch it again 🤔
Not the video we wanted,but the one we needed.
@MissBlueEyeliner true dat
0:12 Yes! He finally said it 🎉
Peewoop spotted!!!!!🎉
Peewoop
Beewoop!
Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher are arguably the two best cast individuals for a show. Steve Carrell as Michael Scott is up there too, but man Jake and Holt are just amazing characters played perfectly.
My favourites are Holt and Boyle. I absolutely adore characters that are a little weird and out there, especially if they're kind of socially awkward too. Boyle checks all the boxes, I was so happy to see Boyle win the title of the "one true Boyle". I wouldbhave liked to see him win the last heist though instead of Hitchcock.
0:20 thats just their friend they can ask their friend about medical stuff.
That LRAD device used in Serbia was crazy. They denied it but showed the media what "could" be used
9:55 there are regulations about how hot those drinks can be, if they're getting burns beyond a certain degree then the sellers are liable
I recently watched this episode and forgot how scared terry got of Amy😂 9:13
So for anyone curious about the Hot Drink situation at 09:47 it's typically because the drink is TOO HOT. Like melts flesh and causes severe burns that require hospitalization. The mcdonalds lady was like...severely injured, needed surgery, flesh had basically melted together in her pelvic area.
Hey Doctor Mike!! Your debate with the 20 anti-vaxxers was insane! I don’t know how you handle that, I’d freak out so quickly! 😂😂
oh jesus he did one of those jubilee gangbang videos?! i wish that channel would be shut down already, they're just rage bait...
I seriously got depressed watching it
@ Fr! That one woman that said we should get ‘vaccinated with Jesus’ is beyond saving. If she actually believes that’s the alternative to vaccines, she can’t be convinced otherwise.😭
@conlan_branchflower1 literally I think that lady was in psychosis or something because what she was saying was just outrageous!
@autumnele999 It truly was! Someone actually said that what she was saying was so insane, that her face didn’t even agree with her. I could see it too, her face looked like it too was disgusted with what she was saying.😆
Serbian over here, yes the sound canon was used on peaceful people who were protesting against corrupt government!
Thanks for mentioning us!🩵
Dr Mike is the man! Cak je i on cuo da nas drzava gazi.
The principle of it goes at least as far back as 1974, used in the pilot episode of The Six Million Dollar Man and may even predate that. Sorry, I know that's not helpful as far as it being used on your people.
So sorry for you guys 😢
yeah saw it it next day after it happenned, was wondering about that
3:55 yes, it is exactly what happened
the govrnment issued a statement saying they do not own that type of weapon, later claiming they do but havent unpacked it yet, and then saying yes we did but we didnt bring it out that day, then therewere pictures that they did, so they said okay we did bring it out but we used it as a big sound system... so people made pettition to send to some world organisation (Im not very well versed in which one, but its something for human rights) to sue the governing party for using illegal and non humane methods of crowd control (even though the protests themselves were completely peaceful and didnt require any measurments)
3:52 No way Dr. Mike mentioned my country - Serbia and the peaceful protest that was held - during which apparently an LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) was used. People got really sick, many of them needed to seek medical help. Many reported that their hearing aids stopped working, some people reported headaches, nausea, temporary hearing loss etc.
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People forget that the lady who sued cause her 'coffee was too hot', had third degree burns, with some places even going down to the bone, and McDonalds knew this! That lady deserved every penny she got out of it, but no, McDonalds made sure you remembered it as, 'Karen complains hot coffee is hot'.
THIS IS LITERALLY MY FAVORITE SHOW
Same
It is I watched it on repeat for 3 times now it’s my 4th
10:54 justifyable crashout
Vast difference and willy nilly? Mike gave us two back to back puns, what a blessing.
The sudden smirk at "willy nilly" got me lmao
His pun game is leveling up 😂
Thank you so much for mentioning Serbia… I am in awe and so emotional because people are finally seeing what is going on here. I love your videos and I think you are amazing and the fact that you are spreading awarness just makes me so happy! Sending love from Serbia! ❤
doctor reacts to brooklyn 99, chef reacts to the bear, chemistry professor reacts to breaking bad. what's next? serial killer reacts to Dexter?
I completely forgot about that internal bleeding joke, I love it so much. 😂
And for Mike asking, yes, that's exactly what was used in Serbia few weeks ago, happy you brought attention to the issue.
3:06 raise your hand if you watch doctor mike while sitting 🙋
Doc, you need to watch the documentary Hot Coffee, which is about the case where the old woman ordered a coffee from McDonald's and it spilled and burned her legs. People turned it into a joke at the time because she sued, but as it turns out, she was absolutely right. The coffee was WAY too hot, and she got third-degree burns on her legs and needed multiple surgeries. The family initially only asked McDonald's to cover the $10,000 cost of her surgeries, but McDonald's refused, so they sued and got millions. Because of that case, fast food places now have to regulate how hot their beverages are.
The “okay, captain..” killed me 🤣 13:21
Your anti vaxxer video was great
Bro they wouldn't let him talk😭
@sharkgod4572yeah like…they voted a person out whenever Mike had a good point to finish
@sharkgod4572yea 😣
@KlompenRoundtheClockThat just shows even they realize that a lot of their points are too insane to compete with the intellect of Dr Mike
Horrendous video, stopped watching after the second person was voted out whilst Mike was making good points. Based on the little of that video that I watched, I really doubt some anti-vaxxer is gonna watch it and change his mind, which would be the ultimate goal of a video like that in my opinion. They should have just given everyone a set time to speak, say, 3-5 minutes, and give Mike the same time to reply.
Mike the coffee suits are usually criminal negligence. The famous McDonalds case they were caught serving it significantly hotter than legal. And the woman didn’t sue until they refused to cover the medical bill.
Yes! And these people get a settlement and an NDA to sign so we end up with the narrative of frivolous lawsuits pushed by the corporation that was negligent.
Coffee should never come to the customer at a temperature that could cause significant lasting damage if imbibed or touched. I've had plenty of hot beverages before but never anything at that level of hot.
That woman's story is so tragic. The injuries she sustained would've merited a lot more than she pushed for. And then McDonald's worked hard to smear her name and act like she was being silly.
Poor woman got third degree burns to her groin. And the media tried to paint it as her drinking hot coffee while driving, but the reality was that she was a passenger in a parked car when it spilled.
@onionbubs386 go ahead and call me out for over exaggerating but wasn't like due to the hot coffee skin and body parts were like fusing together or whatever its called? I know it was real bad :/
@hammbon3367 from what I heard, yeah. It was really brutal :/
Love your videos, Dr. Mike! I hope you see this, but you should know being a physician that the Mcdonald's case of hot coffee was actually a needed lawsuit. The coffee that burned Stella Liebeck was dangerously hot-hot enough to cause third-degree burns, even through clothes, in three seconds. Liebeck endured third-degree burns over 16 percent of her body, including her inner thighs and genitals-the skin was burned away to the layers of muscle and fatty tissue. She had to be hospitalized for eight days, and she required skin grafts and other treatment. Her recovery lasted two years. All she had asked for was 20k to cover her medical bills and Mcdonald's offered $800. The coffee was kept at almost 200 degrees and being served like that.
Yep. Some added context: McDonalds had been warned that their coffee was too hot, and had been sued for it prior, but they did nothing about it obviously. So the jury awarded her several million, which was the amount McDonald's makes on a lunch hour. That's not actually what she got as there was eventually an our of court settlement, and it was likely a lot less. However, the real tragedy there was that McDonalds spent millions on a slandering spree, paying off comedians (notably Leno and Lettermen) to basically mock her on air as a greedy clumsy woman, largely to stigmatize suing when you've been legitimately wronged.
in the case of the Starbucks, the guy was injured because the staff not only was serving coffee that was far hotter than it should have been, but because they didn't secure the cups properly. Starbucks originally offered him money first, he counter offered, asking for less but requesting they change their practices to safer ones, and Starbucks withdrew, so the case went forward and they ended up losing 10 times what their original offer was.
@2centschange The amount the jury awarded was actually the equivalent of two days of coffee sells specifically
@chickenladysam4098 thanks for the correction.
Yeah, that was what I thought about the 3rd° burns. You can't be serving people coffee like that. It's a shame the media made it into a joke. "of course it was hot." OH, I didn't realize it was acceptable to serve things hot enough to burn your body away and just call them hot like you could blow on them for 5 minutes.
3:39 did not know thats how betadine was pronounced
I need to see a full video of him being absolutely stunned by all the absurd and batshit crazy medical problems that Scully has. Mike will be in tears from laughing so hard.🤣🤣🤣🤣
5:38 just explained something I never knew the answer to. Never knew why you get so cold when you have a fever.
Dr. Mike, I know you mentioned the Starbucks lawsuit, which I am only now hearing for the first time, but in regards to the famous case of McDonald’s being sued for hot coffee, it was because they were serving it around 200° nearly boiling. It would make no sense to keep coffee that hot, and if it wasn’t for the fact that that woman was also wearing sweatpants, which when she spilled it (while parked) soaked into her sweat pants and caused her extended contact with the near boiling coffee, causing her to need skin graphs.
Starbucks one was almost worse than the McD one. SB's barista spilled it on him, and the REASON the coffee spilled out was cause SB cups were not as good as they could have been due to it taking like half a cent per cup more to make them less prone to spilling
That was so weird because I was pretty sure I had seen on his channel a video about the grandma that was severely burned by the coffee? But maybe not.
Additionally, mcdonalds had recorded literally hundreds of incidents like this beforehand, so corporate knew it was injuring people and did nothing about it. Which if you asked legal eagle, he would tell you, thats stacking piles of negligence on mcdonalds to magnify the sheer level of responsibility they held in the issue. This wasnt just one random location going rogue and serving literal boiling coffee, this was corporate policy, they knew it was injuring people frequently, and they just kept hushing it up and refusing to change things on their end.
It's crazy the PR McDonald's did to make everyone hate that old woman for the lawsuit when they were keeping the coffee at an insane temperature.
Came here to say this. It was actually a very heartbreaking case.
3:45 I loved Brooklyn 99 but the fact that our dr mentioned Serbia had me in gasp 😮. Thank you for that ❤ we truly hope for better days.
7:30 I lost it there😂
1:58
They didn’t have enough anesthesia as Terry needed for the procedure, so he was on enough to be loopy, but not enough to go completely under
brooklyn 99 is the BEST sitcom
Andre Braugher was truly a gem we as a society didn't deserve. May the king rest in peace. ❤
Andre was the heart of the 99, I miss him. I was so sad when he passed.
Dr Mike, you should look into those drive thru burns. The most notorious was an elderly lady that was burned at a McDonald's drive thru because her coffee was ridiculiously over the safe limit for serving. Her wounds were pretty gnarly and McDonalds tried to deny any wrong doing, but it was proven that the coffee was well over what the recommended temperatures for serving were. Coffee is supposed to be served at around 140 degrees and the coffee she received was closer to 200 degrees.
Dr. Mike & BK99 in the same video? Watching instantly!!
9:50 Usually those cases are won because the temperature of the coffee they're given is so hot it does immense damage to their bodies. The classic case everyone knows about of that one woman years ago won because her leg skin practically melted the water was so hot.
9:51 there's a certain temperature a drink can be to be adequate for consumption. You don't win a case with a first degree burn, most of the cases in which a person won it was because the coffee was SO hot they got second or even third degree burns.
0:19 Weird comment. HIPAA has nothing to do with the situation. This isn't a doctor's office, he's talking about it in a public place and people are overhearing him. You can ask your friend anything you want about their medical status. In a lot of cases it's probably a jerk move, but checking in with a friend when you hear them saying they're going to the doctor has absolutely nothing to do with HIPAA.
Yeah I wish he wouldn’t have said that because people already misunderstand HIPAA and its protections. Comments like that don’t help.
I’ve seen a couple people comment this, but I think the issue is that Jake “overheard it”, which, since sarge seems to not have told anyone, it was probably a medical professional that shared it without his consent or in a public place
@percymooncash Sarge and Captain Holt seem to have an extremely close relationship with each other. I just figured it was that conversation that they alluded towards.
@percymooncash You're wrong. Their desks are only a few feet away from each other.
Terry is sitting at his desk and says,
"Okay, great. I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks doctor. Have a good one."
When he says "Thanks doctor" Jake turns around and looks at him while he's still on the phone.
Holt getting triggered by dentists being called doctors is one of my favorite moments. Truly the best captain. RIP.
That whole episode deserved every award that it won.
@scottshinbaum1772 It's my favourite episode, I even have it downloaded on my phone. My favourite scene is when the dentist knows he's cooked.
Nooo you missed all the scenes where Jake's dad had to go to the hospital because he cut his thumb off 😂
9:57 for anyone wondering, it is more so about the heat at which the drink is being prepared and served rather than the culpability of the (hot) drink serving business for the act of someone accidentally knocking the drink over on themselves while going through the drive-thru.
I believe these lawsuits are not "frivolous" at all but rather these lawsuits are a matter of work health and safety.
It is unsafe for a drink to be served at the boiling point of human skin to someone who may spill it (regardless of whether they take the drink into a car or not) and it is unsafe to expect a worker in such business to also not potentially be hurt by such hot liquid without appropriate PPE
I don't usually get big laughs from TV comedies, but internal bleeding not being bad because "that's where it's supposed to be" got me. 😂
Hey Dr. Mike, I'm a premed student, and in three months I've got my entrance exam. I just wanted to say thank you! Your videos have been a huge help, especially the "day in the life" one - it's been really inspiring me to keep going.♡
11:50 this whole bit was *comedy gold*
Heck, the entire episode is arguibly the best in the entire show.
I love that you shade that quack doctor REGULARLY 😂
4:52 THATS OSCAR MARTINEZ FROM THE OFFICE
9:52 yeah, sometimes companies are incompetent and cut corners that lead to their customers getting disfiguring injuries.
11:12 Starving yourself is worse than eating junk food.
You should still drink water, not saying dont drink water, but it goes Starving
9:50 That happens because people receive third degree burns when their drinks spill. Obviously that shouldn't happen, and there's regulatuons in place that should prevent drinks from being that hot, however companies like Starbucks and McDonald's do not care and see it as easier to just pay the lawsuit.
4:50. I didn't know Oscar switched jobs. I knew he was smart.
RIP Captain Holt😢
That last episode on this clip reel was toight toight toight toight.
Dr Mike - On the drink spill lawsuits, it's something where research really changes the story! Most of these cases, including the (in)famous McDonalds coffee case, aren't just because someone spilled their drink and got mad. They sue and win because the restaurants are serving their drinks at temperatures much hotter than the maximum allowed by law for consumer safety, often after having been advised to reduce temps more than once. The severe, costly, and painful burns suffered by the customers aren't just because they spilled, which wouldn't generally be the restaurants fault, but because the spill causes severe injury because of the dangerously high drink temperatures. This is one of those things like 'kids are using litter boxes in classrooms because they identify as cats' where the popular understanding of the story doesn't match the more horrifying reality. Thought you'd like to know!
and the only reason they keep the coffee that absurdly hot is "people buy it on the way to work and they don't want it to get cold during the commute!" bro the answer is not SERVE MOLTEN LAVA IN A CUP the answer is BUY YOUR COFFEE CLOSE TO WORK
Came here to say this!
I can't find any information regarding the Starbucks lawsuit, but the victim in the McDonalds lawsuit from the 90s suffered from Third Degree Burns, as well as lesser ones on other parts of their body. These lawsuits don't just stem from simple skin irritation or pain, they have the ability to cause lasting damage.
@dietotaku No, the reason they do it is because it "stays good longer" according the them. When it comes to corporations it's hardly ever about what the consumer wants, it's always about the bottom line. They literally didn't want to throw it away as quickly.
@TruestFable and on top of that, she asked for JUST her medical bills paid. Nothing else. McDonald's refused and launched a smear campaign (that people still believe today) so she smeared them in court. It's almost Erin Brokovich- esque.
The recent Starbucks guy won his lawsuit because he was handed a coffee that wasn't properly secured in the tray, resulting in it spilling. He straight up got 3rd degree burns and nerve damage to his genitals. It was no joke.
It's cheaper for big corporations to pay out for serious burns (the old woman who sued McDonalds had third degree burns) than to make the coffee a safe temperature, because the coffee tastes fresh longer at the crazy high temp so they don't have to brew as often. They absolutely should be sued in those cases, their greed puts them in the situation and people get seriously injured
Real happiness comes from being lowkey, informed, and in control of your own life and health without all the extra noise
8:50 Okay, I wish I said that when I was hit by a car. One fracture in the 3rd lumbar, three fractures long the left side of my skull, and I was rushed over to a different hospital because they detected bleeding in the brain. I was lucky and was able to walk things off without surgery.
Came here from the Jubilee video, doctor mike was well-spoken and VERY respectful of everyone there, even when they may not have deserved it. Thank you for being a positive voice and advocate doctor.
FWIW The McDonald's burn lady did accept 10% fault in the judgement for opening hot coffee in her lap. However, McD's was found serving dangerously hot coffee in a majority of their locations, and were warned about it. Her clothes fused to her dang legs.
WE NEED A PART TWO
NINE! NINE!
One of my favorite police dramas is Brooklyn 99.
YOU TOOK THE WRONG FLUFFY BOI 👩✈️ Raymond holt screamed as he fought his corgi cheddar kidnapper
9:50 It's due to negligence on the companies side making something hot for more efficiency, but the percedent was set by the old McDonald's lawsuit, since then any company offering a hot beverage and cuts corners is baiscally over for them in a law suit tbh.
No, it's not a quick get rich scheme. Some of these people literally have been disfigured.