Ugh. It's easy man. Just go left down the hall from the main entrance. Turn right when you see the cafeteria. Not the main cafeteria though, the snack shop. The one with the Starbucks. You go down that hall until you see a bank of elevators. Ignore it. Keep going and you will see another elevator. Take that one up to the 2nd floor. Go right again past the offices until you see a sign for 2 west. Cross over past the nurses station in 2 west and hang a slight left (not a full left) at the patient pantry. At the end of that hall you should see someone from facilities management named Mickey. If you give him a snickers bar he will unlock the door to the stairway. Take those stairs up 3 and 3/4s flights and you will find the OR waiting room. Answer the riddles three of the receptionist and she will open the door into the OR. ORs 1, 2 and 4 are right there. No one has been able to find OR 3. We think it might be in its own pocket dimension.
Nursing student My first day of doing practice in a hospital ward I forgot my uniform pants in my dorm meaning I had to leave the hospital , run uphill to my dorm and return back , get dressed and somehow find my group . I managed to find my way after asking for directions from : 3 different ward secretary's , 2 nurses , 1 doctor , 3 cleaning ladies and a group of students . my whole search felt surreal , I litteraly felt as if I was in a movie . after that I vowed to always check if I had everything I needed before going to the ward , and the next morning I forgot my pair of " hospital shoes"
This was me last week. Arrived 2 mins late at the OR, trying to play it cool, while suppressing a professional flag panic attack. Plot twist, surgeon arrives after and *apologizes* to me. Anesthesia saw the whole thing and didn't say anything. Our eyes locked (just for a second), a thank you without words. Anesthesia, I will tell tales of your compassion.
When you locked eyes with anesthesia, did you feel an overwhelming sensation of comfort as if everything was going to be fine? Did anesthesia give you a firm nod of reassurance? If so, I think that anesthesia might be a Johnathan
This was quite realistic! As a med student, especially early on, we often don’t have access or key cards. We also don’t know our way around the hospital, or bits of info like the little shortcuts and impossible room numbers and which stairwells will keep you prisoner. It can get pretty stressful, especially if you start running late! Nice one!
When I was on medschool, I'd stand near the doors with pin combinations and pretend to be on my phone. Then I'd see what the key was and note it down. Hospitals usually have a few for the entire building.
On my very first rotation (in patient family medicine), I got trapped between two doors I couldn’t badge out of and had no idea where I was. I called my resident freaking out, and this literal saint of a person searched for me and found me within the depths of the hospital between the laundry and peds ER.
No lie, the paramedics picked the lock on my apartment building's front door because it needed a buzzer code from a landline to unlock or someone to open it from the inside... and I was stuck three floors up, unable to get down the stairs, and don't have a landline because who does? It took them exactly three seconds. I was still trying to call a neighbour (it was 3am) when they showed up. Lockpicking: absolutely an essential skill for first responders, lol. I am slightly concerned about how easy it is to break into buildings with a pair of medical shears, though. (As a bonus, I counted the number of bicycles parked in the hallway from the ambulance bay to the ER -- there were 5. At 3am. Emergency Medicine is 100% accurate.) The paramedics watch Dr G, we talked about our favourite videos on the ride to the hospital. I would have been a bit more worried that the driver was looking at us more than the road, but the street is empty at 3am. A+ ambulancing, 5 stars, would ride again.
This happened to me before and it still boggles my mind to this day. Is it not a legal requirement for fire safety reasons that the stairs on the lowest level be unlockable from inside the stairwell so that people can escape in case of an emergency? I remember vividly being stuck in a hospital stairwell once and told myself, "don't panic, don't panic". Went to the ground floor and there was this huge ass metal bar barricading the entire door. It was a ten-floor building too, and I was too afraid of causing a ruckus to be shouting for help, so I spent the next fifteen minutes running up and down the stairs like a mad human every time I heard footsteps. Eventually found a nurse who heard me running and was kind enough to realize it's another trapped medical student and held the door open for me
In most buildings I've been in that have this problem, you can theoretically get out by tripping the fire alarm which unlocks (at least some of) the doors, but most people don't do that when they're stuck because it causes a ruckus.
Wow, that's incredibly bad. What a great way to kill lots of sick people, doctors and nurses if there's no emergency exit that's working (even in a stampede/crushing). Why on earth would it be locked? (Consider reporting it to health & safety)
I worked at shopping malls for a few years. Plenty of them had emergency doors locked either from the inside or the outside. It was like a weird puzzle, does this door open from the inside or the outside? Sometimes I heard someone screaming for help because they wanted to go up or down a floor but either the stairwell only let you go all the way down or all the way up. So I called security or maintenance and they would release the unfortunate souls. According to the guards, the idea behind it was to control movement so unauthorized people couldn't go through those unguarded areas, some even added a padlocked grate to the ones leading to the street. That way thieves couldn't steal something and run all the way out. I always wondered what would happen in a real emergency, I doubt security would remember to unlock these doors. It was potentially because of the banks and jewelry stores' safety being higher than human lives.
I literally got stuck in a stairwell while on my away rotation at Bascom Palmer as a med student. Finally tripped the emergency alarm to escape. I did not Match there 💩
Your comment helped me confirm that people can leave the stairwell. So, thanks. The thought that people could actually be trapped in a stairwell was worrying.
This happened to me once as a medical student. I went up and down the stairwell trying to find an exit. Eventually I just decided to go for it on a random floor that wasn’t locked. As soon as I entered I heard this loud alarm, turns out it was the psych floor and they thought someone had escaped. I casually walked away as the staff all rushed towards the stairwell…
Because you DEFINITELY didn’t just need to cause a distraction so patients could escape a different way. I wonder why the psych ward was the only door unlocked. Sounds ludicrous.
I once worked in a hospital that started out as a tiny country hospital and as the population grew, it morphed into a large building by having wings stuck on to it REALLY badly. This resulted in stairways going nowhere, and corridors ending in blank walls. I was on call one night, there was an arrest and I ran, took a wrong turn and ended up face first into a wall at the bottom of a stairwell. Nearly broke my nose. That place was hell.
This would make quite the interesting psychological horror film (and with the fear being in the setting and anxiety rather than something like a monster or ghost)
I remembered this one time when a new urologist ran late to a surgery. So my town has two separate regional hospitals that go by the same name. They're basically one hospital split into two to reach more coverage, and every doctors work at both. One time I was shadowing the anesthesiologist and we have an uro patient waiting for surgery, but the doc hadn't shown up for about half an hour. I was instructed to call him and it turned out he was walking around in confusion at the other half of the hospital. He rushed into the one where the surgery will be held, then he called me again saying he's already at the OR but no one is there. Turned out he was at the emergency OR right above the ER (usually for midnight SCs), and we have another building only for scheduled ORs separate from the main building. Again he ran to the OR, and I can see him running in the corridor before he ran facefirst into a locked backdoor of our resting rooms. I had to fetch him there because he seemed so dizzy and confused 😅 our first meeting was so funny but admittedly he's one of the best teachers I had, and he kept on laughing everytime we met probably because of the memory lmao
"Cut suture in a way that seemed okay but was apparently completely wrong" is so true. You'd think it can't be that difficult to just cut it, but most of the time someone had something to say about it. Too short, too long, use the tip of the scissors, it's okay if you cut the knot but cut it really short, be careful to not cut the knot 🙃
Its the same in diagnostics. I've failed xray competencies on the same body part for being too collimated, too uncollimated, using more technique than one preceptor wants and less than another wants... Being a student in healthcare is a nightmare. You are always wrong. Get used to it.
I thought I solved that problem by asking "ok?" everytime just before cutting. It worked quite well until the surgeon complained that I was asking too often. Then I went back to the guessing game and sure enough - I cut it wrong. And that surgeon was one of the "nice ones." 😆
You can't do ANYTHING right as an intern in the OR. You do (or don't do) the EXACT same thing you've been told in surgery A in surgery B and get yelled at. You can't win. In a hospital shit is always falling down, and there is A LOT of it.
Phew crisis averted. When I was an intern my attending gave me the wrong room and the wrong hospital to meet at. When I finally figured it out and made it and told him his response? "Yea you have to be careful". That day was a fine line between surgery intern and serial killer
Felt this. Can't stand hospital layouts, the keycard access especially. For EMS, we would have to drop our ambulance keys with security if we were transferring to a specific floor instead of just using the ER floor. Combined with working in NYC, the amount of different hospitals and layouts -- only being able to get to a certain half of the 8th floor through a specific elevator, having a patient thinking you're incompetent because you can't find shit. Best advice? Don't ask doctors or nurses for directions, ask custodial staff -- they know the building better than anyone.
When I was chief neurosurgery resident for a newly opened trauma hospital, I did an emergent case in the middle of the night. My attending got trapped in one of these stairwells with a medical student, neither who had a keycard, until a kindly anesthesia resident was able to free them both. I had already finished the case and the patient did well. The attending was so happy to finally find the OR
Bilingual bonus: “Trappe” means “stairs” in Danish. So our poor med student was trapped by trapperne. (Edit: “trappe” in singular, “trapper” in plural)
This happened to me once while on a night shift. I banged every single door, but it was night time and I was the only person there. I finally found a door which lead to weird elevators and finally found my way out. I'm terrified of stairs nowm
I remember going to a paediatric ward to fix their Blood Gas machine. You have to get manually buzzed through three sets of doors to get to the machine. On the way out, door number 2 managed to lock itself and wouldn't unlock. We had doctors and nurses on each side of the door fiddling with the handle, trying to open it. I just sat back and played with my deionised water and flush unit for ten minutes until they got it open.
The longer ago medschool gets the more forgiving I get. Then I watch your videos and the deja vu makes my palms sweaty and mouth dry. Keeps me humble I tell you
This is so true. My preceptor at my first rotation told me where his office was, but the entrance closest to his office was locked until 8 am. I called him and he said oh just go to the main entrance (on the other side of the hospital) and me not knowing how to get to his office after using the main entrance. Made it a few minutes before he showed up gasping. I had arrived 5 am that day and I was scheduled to go on rounds with him at 6 am btw. Great rotation just very stressed that first day.
@@ivanovosixx The original post is from someone with the username Hank Hill. It's a character in the show, King of the Hill. This is a reference to a quote by that character.
I am a field service engineer. For those that don’t know I install and take care of the medical equipment at hospitals. I ran into this very situation at a site because they moved our servers to a basement closet that to access you had to go through the Dr lounge then a hall way and down to a secure locked door in the basement. My badge opened all the doors to go down but to come back up it didn’t open the one to open the door to the lounge to leave. Thankfully I had cell service because the only other way would have been fire alarm protocol of hold the door until the alarms started. Their security quickly fixed that issue.
Every...damn...time! Happens to me even as a grown-ass attending, most recently at a national conference, had to call security to come fish me out of there. Gotta say not my proudest moment 😂
This one was one of the funniest to me. Like actually filming in a hospital and I just wondered if he interacted with anyone at any point (maybe why this was voice over, but I love it), and at some point he had to ask someone to hold his phone because at 1:40 it’s on the outside of the door. Also I just love this skit, not a doctor but just the perpetual fear of being lost
Having gotten trapped in one of those stairwells in the past...I still have a phobia of them. Also got trapped in a series of underground tunnels that ran between two hospitals... Should have a nightmare tonight reliving those past traumas Thanks
I have literally SPRAINED MY ANKLE on my first day of co-op running down an escalator because my contact's last name was "Hall" so I thought I was looking for a literal fucking hall like FirstName Hall in this building and I asked EVERYONE I ran into where said hall was and NOBODY could tell me. So that's when I started running around frantically trying to search the entire building and twisted my ankle. Literally limped around for the first 2 weeks. UGH.
The other 3 students in your cohort, and the five in the year behind you cowering in the corner, would have provided sufficient cover for a late entrance. The surgeons would never have noticed, and the scrub nurse would have reduced you to a pile of Ash, then handed you a cookie for surviving the stairwell evolution. Nobody has a pass to the stairwell. NOBODY. You cannot even reach my floor. Or the ones above and below. We guard the younglings. Next time sleep over in the broom closet.
Senior was screwing with him from the start. No planned procedure starts at 7 am, unless you are a surgeon with tightly packed schedule with support of very agreeable and supporting anesthetic team.
Omg this brings back traumatic memories of me being trapped in the stairwell at URMC, banging on the doors and yelling HELLLLP repeatedly for what seemed like hours. All these years I repressed those memories....until now! 🤣🤪😱
I thought when you showed up and the OR was empty that the first case for the day was canceled or similar and the entire team just forgot to notify the med student. It's happened.. more than once
oh maaan how painfully real this is!! Reminds me of my time as a medstudent on a surgical away rotation in an unfamiliar city. Had to depend on a complex public transportation system to get me to the hospital each day. One day I must have incorrectly planned the route, and ended up completely lost, running around the city, showing up in sweaty clothes, LATE to rounds. I was so mortified 🤣 Took a cab every day from then on.
The locked in the stairwell thing happened to me. I wasn't a med student, I wasn't an anything, nor was I in a hospital. I just happened to be locked in a stairwell for 7 hours.
Sir, please keep up the great work. I always wait for your videos even though i don't really know much about medicine, but with your videos, I learn a lot about that world♥️
Something similar happened when I got locked out the hospital on a overnight after I went to get food on break... The only way back in was the emergency department
@@emphasis20 i didn’t write the original comment but i’m guessing it’s a public danger because it can trap a person in there and they could potentially die due to a medical emergency or building catastrophe because they couldn’t escape
I've actually had the stairwell thing happen to me at a hospital I was working agency for. Didn't know that you needed a swipe card after 6pm! Luckily someone came by within 10 minutes.
I volunteer in the Surgical care unit and I had a keycard that would open any door, but dumb little me forgot it on the desk when I needed to go downstairs but didn't want to wait for the elevator. I was stuck in this exact scenario until I called the front desk to let me back in.
What about when they tell you to come to the OR but they don't tell you which one? I've gone to OR's in entirely different buildings to realize they meant somewhere else. Or ended up walking into the wrong OR suite and the entire team, that was focused on the operation, simultaneously turn around to give me the stink eye. Still gives me nightmares...
That is hilarious! I got locked in a bathroom once at a hospital. I closed the door and realized after there was no door handle on the door hence no way to open the door. I panicked for a little bit but then was pounding on the door. No answer. I decided to just call the hospital and try to reach someone to open the door. That was the best solution bc that is what I did and it took like 30 mins for a maintenance person to get the door open with like a screw driver. What was bad was I really had to use the bathroom but after calling I wasn't sure how long it would take to open so I was afraid to go in case he might open it unexpectedly. That would be hilarious! "Excuse me! Can you close the door? Can't you see it is occupied???"
Omg that happened to me once when i was a student! It was one of these doors that when they're closed you can't open it from the inside! I tried EVERYTHING, i even tried calling my team leader but i couldn't get a signal!! In the end i just stood near the glass staring like a maniac until a janitor noticed me and let me out! Hahaha good times indeed! XD
Getting stuck because your card opens only very randomly chosen doors and never 2 in the same hallway and certainly never the last one you need to get through on your way to your destination... yeah... we've all been there.
Oh god, this is me every time an attending gives a specific time. Recently I had a minor panic when an unexpected change in my bus route and the sky-high prices for Ubers/Lyfts in my area resulted in me arriving only 15 minutes early for the pre-round didactic session (which was mostly pitched at the senior residents and fellows, so I was kind of confused). I mean, I was fine once I knew I was still early, but boy howdy the tachycardia when that was still up in the air…
That reminds me of that one time I showed up 2 hours early for an exam just because I have never been to that specific building before nor did I know where the room was. Stood up at about 4 am. One thing I hate about different faculties of my uni being scattered all over the city... Its also funny when you unsuspectingly take the stairs and one corridor is pitched black, no ligth, and someone put some lines from harry potter at the door, saying something about a forbidden floor. Kind of funny but given that it was from the cemistry department it crept me out quite a bit 😂
There used to be a shortcut the night doctors would take that cut across the admin offices. At night, it's totally dark and the floor after that is lit like in some ghost movie, it's usually quiet. Totally the most creepy experience available above ground. Especially when you start hearing voices or footsteps echo, only to realise it's someone else on the other end as there's a bend into an elevator that cannot be seen on the corridor. Most doctors hate it but the shortcut was way too useful NOT to use.... Staircases can't beat underground though. No idea how IT does it :)
Best advice is to walk around everywhere for like an hour a day if you can. If you can't memorize locations/shortcuts carry a memo pad. Ask those who have been there for a long time they know everything. Put aside your ego and let people know that you are still learning and you will succeed in the goals you want. Remember regardless of title as new information is discovered therefore everyone is still a student. Do not be afraid of not knowing be afraid of not wanting to know.
Good advice. my first thought would be to contact security or the front desk and ask for assistance. Tell them I'm new to this hospital and need directions to X room and also that they haven't given me a badge to unlock the doors to the room. A good hospital would be able to walk me through the process of getting to X room and also making sure I have access to the room.
This is relatable for any workplace that requires secure access where they don't give new employees (+ apprentices/contractors) a means of access so you have to rely on the employees who do have them.
I've been trapped in a locked stairwell before, so memories came back!!! 🤣 Another reason to keep a cell phone with you at all times which is on the Verizon system. ☺️ (They normally work inside of buildings.) LOVE the ending!!! ❤️😃
Hah! I'm lucky if I get wifi in hospitals, let alone cell service, if I'm anywhere but under a router or next to a window. I swear that all the hospitals around me are designed to be Faraday cages or something in case there's ever a doomsday EMP
I’d actually had a surgeon rush me to prep and drape the patient so when the residents would show up late they couldn’t scrub because they were “late” 🤷🏻♀️😬
My friend found a naked psych patient trapped in the stairway. He was trying to escape from the hospital. There's a reason why only employees can open these doors...
I wish I can double like the video!! This is so amazing, not surprising for your wonderful performance, Dr. G!! I was listening to a very interesting podcast and immediately pressed play for your video- has to be instant gratification. I just couldn't focus on that podcast... now returning having watched the video and shared with my family.. Namaste!!🙏💕😊
I once worked in an office where I continued to find new rooms after 3yrs. My favorite spot was an abandoned staircase. It’s where I took all my mental health breaks, but I would’ve been screwed if I ever got locked in there 😅
Dear sir, my father is a world renowned surgeon and you nail it every single time!!! I’ve needed years of treatment due to his narcissism, your videos heal me!😂 I binged every single video.
I was on my surgery sub I when I got trapped in the stairwell between the ED and the OR. Eventually a security guard found me and let me out. No one noticed or missed me 😂
2 years ago as a student I got stuck in a stairwell the same way (every door locked, alarmed, or needed keycard). I finally had to call on my cell phone for security to come rescue me.
I was trapped like this in a covid hospital during night shift It was SO SCARY All I could hear was oxygen hissing and icu beeping We had the covid wards on 5th floor and all the other stair cases were closed to avoid usage by covid healthcare I was going around in circles and them somehow I found my way out Exited the building and then went back again to the 5th floor
Had an almost identical experience in my second rotation. Had to grab something from the floor below me, only to find that all the doors locked like this. Thankfully, one of the lower floors wasn’t locked down, but the area was so unfamiliar to me I wandered for a good half hour before I finally worked my way back up to where I started.
That's the best title/video combination, on youtube with short videos it's very easy to spoil all the sketch with an explicit title. It is just an awesome choice you've made
Oh yeah. Getting locked on staircase/getting lost in unfamiliar hospital happened to me more than once and to combine it with dreadful fear of being late… Ugh
Wonderful video! I am not a med student or doctor, however I can really relate to the strange stairwells in hospitals. One time I had a job that involved taking elderly residents to their appointments and runs to the hospital pharmacy. I was up on the third floor waiting for the pharmacy when I realized I needed paperwork from my vehicle. I *thought* I was taking a stairwell that would take me close by the main entrance... instead I ended up in the physcian lounge and changing area, by a totally unfamiliar door controlled by a keycard. Luckily, I could retreat back the way I came and get back to the Pharmacy.
Once as a med student, I left the OR, down the stairs to get lunch on the first floor. I opened the door and it led outside into the landscaping. So I went back up the stairs and all the doors were locked. So I had to go back down into the 30 degree outdoors, wearing only my scrubs, and walk around to the front entrance of the hospital.
I love the monologue of him feeling abandoned and Lost! Glad he was Extremely Early! 👏😆👍 This reminds me of a time when I thought I was supposed to be at a meeting for a Church calling because I assumed it was Thursday. Just as My Mom and I were heading out of the neighborhood, my Mom mentioned that it was Wednesday. I realized that I was actually a day early and we were able to make a quick turn around! We both had a good laugh and my Mom said that she's done this a few times herself! 😆 Good times! 😊👍
During my entire surgical rotation the hospital was building a new wing which involved new pre and post-op units, through which was the main way to get to the OR from the rest of the hospital. If you think getting lost in a normal hospital is bad, try getting lost in a construction site with plastic sheet and temporary paneling instead of walls.
I've been trapped in a stairwell like that once. My phone ran out of power, and it was late on a Friday. Luckily, there was a window on 4th floor, where I stood in the "Help me!"-position for 35 minutes, till another student noticed me and came to the rescue.
This very thing happened to me. Saw some stairs at the university hospital in the back of a unit while on internal medicine as a student. Thought I'd found a quick shortcut to my next patient a few floors down...
There is nothing quite as surreal as the experience of being late in an unfamiliar hospital
I feel this sentence on a deep level
Ugh. It's easy man. Just go left down the hall from the main entrance. Turn right when you see the cafeteria. Not the main cafeteria though, the snack shop. The one with the Starbucks. You go down that hall until you see a bank of elevators. Ignore it. Keep going and you will see another elevator. Take that one up to the 2nd floor. Go right again past the offices until you see a sign for 2 west. Cross over past the nurses station in 2 west and hang a slight left (not a full left) at the patient pantry. At the end of that hall you should see someone from facilities management named Mickey. If you give him a snickers bar he will unlock the door to the stairway. Take those stairs up 3 and 3/4s flights and you will find the OR waiting room. Answer the riddles three of the receptionist and she will open the door into the OR. ORs 1, 2 and 4 are right there. No one has been able to find OR 3. We think it might be in its own pocket dimension.
Nursing student
My first day of doing practice in a hospital ward I forgot my uniform pants in my dorm meaning I had to leave the hospital , run uphill to my dorm and return back , get dressed and somehow find my group .
I managed to find my way after asking for directions from : 3 different ward secretary's , 2 nurses , 1 doctor , 3 cleaning ladies and a group of students . my whole search felt surreal , I litteraly felt as if I was in a movie . after that I vowed to always check if I had everything I needed before going to the ward , and the next morning I forgot my pair of " hospital shoes"
Surreal? 🧐
@@kyle857 😂😂👏
This was me last week. Arrived 2 mins late at the OR, trying to play it cool, while suppressing a professional flag panic attack. Plot twist, surgeon arrives after and *apologizes* to me. Anesthesia saw the whole thing and didn't say anything. Our eyes locked (just for a second), a thank you without words.
Anesthesia, I will tell tales of your compassion.
Anaesthesia: can you help me with this cryptic crossword while we're allies?
Haha that's awesome!
well, maybe you could start by not calling a fellow professional "anesthesia"
@@lisas1441 chill, they're probably using a cell phone.
When you locked eyes with anesthesia, did you feel an overwhelming sensation of comfort as if everything was going to be fine? Did anesthesia give you a firm nod of reassurance? If so, I think that anesthesia might be a Johnathan
This was quite realistic! As a med student, especially early on, we often don’t have access or key cards. We also don’t know our way around the hospital, or bits of info like the little shortcuts and impossible room numbers and which stairwells will keep you prisoner. It can get pretty stressful, especially if you start running late!
Nice one!
I even had this experience getting stuck in a stairwell working as a hospital cleaner
@Kali Shaffer i'm sure this is a thing
@Kali Shaffer This already exists for some buildings
Well said Yitzchok :)
When I was on medschool, I'd stand near the doors with pin combinations and pretend to be on my phone. Then I'd see what the key was and note it down.
Hospitals usually have a few for the entire building.
On my very first rotation (in patient family medicine), I got trapped between two doors I couldn’t badge out of and had no idea where I was. I called my resident freaking out, and this literal saint of a person searched for me and found me within the depths of the hospital between the laundry and peds ER.
That’s painfully hilarious 😂 🤣🤣🤣
That sounds stressful! I'm glad you had someone who could help you out!
Happy that you had your phone on you
So what I'm taking from this is is that lockpicking is an essential skill for a med student to have.
No lie, the paramedics picked the lock on my apartment building's front door because it needed a buzzer code from a landline to unlock or someone to open it from the inside... and I was stuck three floors up, unable to get down the stairs, and don't have a landline because who does?
It took them exactly three seconds. I was still trying to call a neighbour (it was 3am) when they showed up.
Lockpicking: absolutely an essential skill for first responders, lol. I am slightly concerned about how easy it is to break into buildings with a pair of medical shears, though.
(As a bonus, I counted the number of bicycles parked in the hallway from the ambulance bay to the ER -- there were 5. At 3am. Emergency Medicine is 100% accurate.)
The paramedics watch Dr G, we talked about our favourite videos on the ride to the hospital. I would have been a bit more worried that the driver was looking at us more than the road, but the street is empty at 3am.
A+ ambulancing, 5 stars, would ride again.
Sequel to the LockPickingLawyer, the LockPickingMedStudent
I know a lawyer they could consult...
@@suzannepottsshorts
“Nothing on 1”
Bribery is better
This happened to me before and it still boggles my mind to this day. Is it not a legal requirement for fire safety reasons that the stairs on the lowest level be unlockable from inside the stairwell so that people can escape in case of an emergency? I remember vividly being stuck in a hospital stairwell once and told myself, "don't panic, don't panic". Went to the ground floor and there was this huge ass metal bar barricading the entire door. It was a ten-floor building too, and I was too afraid of causing a ruckus to be shouting for help, so I spent the next fifteen minutes running up and down the stairs like a mad human every time I heard footsteps. Eventually found a nurse who heard me running and was kind enough to realize it's another trapped medical student and held the door open for me
In most buildings I've been in that have this problem, you can theoretically get out by tripping the fire alarm which unlocks (at least some of) the doors, but most people don't do that when they're stuck because it causes a ruckus.
@@rayvnekieron8587 another commenter said this literally happened to them and they did end up tripping the fire alarm lol
Wow, that's incredibly bad. What a great way to kill lots of sick people, doctors and nurses if there's no emergency exit that's working (even in a stampede/crushing). Why on earth would it be locked? (Consider reporting it to health & safety)
Which hospital was that?
I worked at shopping malls for a few years. Plenty of them had emergency doors locked either from the inside or the outside. It was like a weird puzzle, does this door open from the inside or the outside? Sometimes I heard someone screaming for help because they wanted to go up or down a floor but either the stairwell only let you go all the way down or all the way up. So I called security or maintenance and they would release the unfortunate souls.
According to the guards, the idea behind it was to control movement so unauthorized people couldn't go through those unguarded areas, some even added a padlocked grate to the ones leading to the street. That way thieves couldn't steal something and run all the way out. I always wondered what would happen in a real emergency, I doubt security would remember to unlock these doors. It was potentially because of the banks and jewelry stores' safety being higher than human lives.
I literally got stuck in a stairwell while on my away rotation at Bascom Palmer as a med student. Finally tripped the emergency alarm to escape. I did not Match there 💩
I never had to trip the emergency alarm but have definitely been trapped in my fair share of stairwells!
Lmao
Bascom of all places! Terrible luck, hope you’re happy with your match.
Your comment helped me confirm that people can leave the stairwell. So, thanks. The thought that people could actually be trapped in a stairwell was worrying.
Did you match at all?
This happened to me once as a medical student. I went up and down the stairwell trying to find an exit. Eventually I just decided to go for it on a random floor that wasn’t locked. As soon as I entered I heard this loud alarm, turns out it was the psych floor and they thought someone had escaped. I casually walked away as the staff all rushed towards the stairwell…
Because you DEFINITELY didn’t just need to cause a distraction so patients could escape a different way.
I wonder why the psych ward was the only door unlocked. Sounds ludicrous.
lmao op was hired by psych pts to be the distraction sounds like a movie
@@SugarandSarcasm Why, you ask? so that patients can find their way back to the psych ward on their own, of course!
@@SugarandSarcasm might be a door that needs to be opened with a key from the inside but doesnt need one from the outside
@@leobastian_ you make a good point
I once worked in a hospital that started out as a tiny country hospital and as the population grew, it morphed into a large building by having wings stuck on to it REALLY badly. This resulted in stairways going nowhere, and corridors ending in blank walls. I was on call one night, there was an arrest and I ran, took a wrong turn and ended up face first into a wall at the bottom of a stairwell. Nearly broke my nose. That place was hell.
This would make quite the interesting psychological horror film (and with the fear being in the setting and anxiety rather than something like a monster or ghost)
@@gokucrazy22 Shall I interest you in a genre known as "The Backrooms" and "Liminal Spaces" or "Liminal horror"?
Sounds like they retrofitted your building with fun house mirrors.
the backrooms, liminal spaces, and the haunted Winchester mansion? PFFFT. try a hospital expanded in fits and starts over several decades.
That’s why I stuck to the paperwork, no patience for the patients. I truly do not envy your profession.
I remembered this one time when a new urologist ran late to a surgery.
So my town has two separate regional hospitals that go by the same name. They're basically one hospital split into two to reach more coverage, and every doctors work at both. One time I was shadowing the anesthesiologist and we have an uro patient waiting for surgery, but the doc hadn't shown up for about half an hour. I was instructed to call him and it turned out he was walking around in confusion at the other half of the hospital. He rushed into the one where the surgery will be held, then he called me again saying he's already at the OR but no one is there. Turned out he was at the emergency OR right above the ER (usually for midnight SCs), and we have another building only for scheduled ORs separate from the main building. Again he ran to the OR, and I can see him running in the corridor before he ran facefirst into a locked backdoor of our resting rooms. I had to fetch him there because he seemed so dizzy and confused 😅 our first meeting was so funny but admittedly he's one of the best teachers I had, and he kept on laughing everytime we met probably because of the memory lmao
“That the entire surgical team would think I just didn’t show up for work today” I don’t know why this is so funny and relatable lmao
"Cut suture in a way that seemed okay but was apparently completely wrong" is so true. You'd think it can't be that difficult to just cut it, but most of the time someone had something to say about it. Too short, too long, use the tip of the scissors, it's okay if you cut the knot but cut it really short, be careful to not cut the knot 🙃
Its the same in diagnostics. I've failed xray competencies on the same body part for being too collimated, too uncollimated, using more technique than one preceptor wants and less than another wants...
Being a student in healthcare is a nightmare. You are always wrong. Get used to it.
It is a universal truth that the suture will never be cut "just right".
I thought I solved that problem by asking "ok?" everytime just before cutting. It worked quite well until the surgeon complained that I was asking too often. Then I went back to the guessing game and sure enough - I cut it wrong. And that surgeon was one of the "nice ones." 😆
Goldilocks length. Not too short, not too long, juuuuust right.
You can't do ANYTHING right as an intern in the OR. You do (or don't do) the EXACT same thing you've been told in surgery A in surgery B and get yelled at. You can't win. In a hospital shit is always falling down, and there is A LOT of it.
As someone who woke up at 3 am every day during their surgery rotation because i was so afraid of being late, this was painfully hilarious
When did you go to sleep then?
@@ntity95 Sleep?
In Medschool?
wait, so people don't actually have to wake up that early???
Yeah its brutal :(@@erinnorwood6124
Thanks for this video, Doc. It keeps me alive.
-sent from a random hospital stairwell
This is why I'm afraid to go anywhere without a buddy
use the buddy system kids
But what if there's not enough saltines for the both of you!
Then you can both be trapped together!
"Oh right, just use your keycard to get us out"
"What keycard?"
XD
That way you have someone to eat to survive the cold winters in the stairwell
@@Natalie-101 That's when your buddy starts to become a potential meal.
Phew crisis averted. When I was an intern my attending gave me the wrong room and the wrong hospital to meet at. When I finally figured it out and made it and told him his response? "Yea you have to be careful". That day was a fine line between surgery intern and serial killer
Felt this. Can't stand hospital layouts, the keycard access especially. For EMS, we would have to drop our ambulance keys with security if we were transferring to a specific floor instead of just using the ER floor. Combined with working in NYC, the amount of different hospitals and layouts -- only being able to get to a certain half of the 8th floor through a specific elevator, having a patient thinking you're incompetent because you can't find shit. Best advice? Don't ask doctors or nurses for directions, ask custodial staff -- they know the building better than anyone.
Support services always knows the way.. and we have all the bathroom codes
@@dr6091 bathroom codes are elite, where else can I hit my vape while my partner gets the signatures
When I was chief neurosurgery resident for a newly opened trauma hospital, I did an emergent case in the middle of the night. My attending got trapped in one of these stairwells with a medical student, neither who had a keycard, until a kindly anesthesia resident was able to free them both. I had already finished the case and the patient did well. The attending was so happy to finally find the OR
Once again pure gold my man. I have been the staircase student, finally a staircase attending.
staircase attending lmao
Bilingual bonus: “Trappe” means “stairs” in Danish. So our poor med student was trapped by trapperne.
(Edit: “trappe” in singular, “trapper” in plural)
"Treppe" means "stairway" in German. Haha
Oh, my, first double punch and then triple Wham! Poor intern xD
It's trap in Dutch lol
Trappa in Swedish
This happened to me once while on a night shift. I banged every single door, but it was night time and I was the only person there. I finally found a door which lead to weird elevators and finally found my way out. I'm terrified of stairs nowm
The scrub tech in me shouted "don't use the stairs!". The locks are real. Brilliant vid!
And when you get no phone service while trapped in the stairwell, THIS is when all the anxiety is induced
To be young and trapped in random hospital spaces. Brings me back
I remember going to a paediatric ward to fix their Blood Gas machine. You have to get manually buzzed through three sets of doors to get to the machine. On the way out, door number 2 managed to lock itself and wouldn't unlock. We had doctors and nurses on each side of the door fiddling with the handle, trying to open it. I just sat back and played with my deionised water and flush unit for ten minutes until they got it open.
Is a "blood gas machine" as hardcore as it sounds?
The longer ago medschool gets the more forgiving I get. Then I watch your videos and the deja vu makes my palms sweaty and mouth dry. Keeps me humble I tell you
literally lmao im on holiday and this threw me back to placement
This is so true. My preceptor at my first rotation told me where his office was, but the entrance closest to his office was locked until 8 am. I called him and he said oh just go to the main entrance (on the other side of the hospital) and me not knowing how to get to his office after using the main entrance. Made it a few minutes before he showed up gasping. I had arrived 5 am that day and I was scheduled to go on rounds with him at 6 am btw. Great rotation just very stressed that first day.
How many rotations does one need to do before they can sell propane and propane accessories?
@@kevinklassen4328 a man only needs to have a love of Propane, God, and America to be a a propane salesman.
@@kevinklassen4328 what ?
@@ivanovosixx The original post is from someone with the username Hank Hill. It's a character in the show, King of the Hill. This is a reference to a quote by that character.
I am a field service engineer. For those that don’t know I install and take care of the medical equipment at hospitals. I ran into this very situation at a site because they moved our servers to a basement closet that to access you had to go through the Dr lounge then a hall way and down to a secure locked door in the basement. My badge opened all the doors to go down but to come back up it didn’t open the one to open the door to the lounge to leave. Thankfully I had cell service because the only other way would have been fire alarm protocol of hold the door until the alarms started. Their security quickly fixed that issue.
Every...damn...time! Happens to me even as a grown-ass attending, most recently at a national conference, had to call security to come fish me out of there. Gotta say not my proudest moment 😂
This one was one of the funniest to me. Like actually filming in a hospital and I just wondered if he interacted with anyone at any point (maybe why this was voice over, but I love it), and at some point he had to ask someone to hold his phone because at 1:40 it’s on the outside of the door. Also I just love this skit, not a doctor but just the perpetual fear of being lost
He's probably holding it around the edge of the door lol
Jonathan is everywhere. And available for your disposure at any time of the day or night!
I totally got locked in a stairwell as a med student... and I think it was indeed my surgery rotation. Good times!! 😅
Having gotten trapped in one of those stairwells in the past...I still have a phobia of them.
Also got trapped in a series of underground tunnels that ran between two hospitals...
Should have a nightmare tonight reliving those past traumas
Thanks
I have literally SPRAINED MY ANKLE on my first day of co-op running down an escalator because my contact's last name was "Hall" so I thought I was looking for a literal fucking hall like FirstName Hall in this building and I asked EVERYONE I ran into where said hall was and NOBODY could tell me. So that's when I started running around frantically trying to search the entire building and twisted my ankle. Literally limped around for the first 2 weeks. UGH.
The other 3 students in your cohort, and the five in the year behind you cowering in the corner, would have provided sufficient cover for a late entrance. The surgeons would never have noticed, and the scrub nurse would have reduced you to a pile of Ash, then handed you a cookie for surviving the stairwell evolution.
Nobody has a pass to the stairwell. NOBODY.
You cannot even reach my floor. Or the ones above and below. We guard the younglings.
Next time sleep over in the broom closet.
we guard the younglings 😂 i'd love to work with you
Senior was screwing with him from the start.
No planned procedure starts at 7 am, unless you are a surgeon with tightly packed schedule with support of very agreeable and supporting anesthetic team.
I've been addicted to your videos! Can't wait to see more!
OMG! This brings back memories of my time has a rad student. So much anguish, so much doubt, so much embarrassment.😥😂😂
I'm not in medicine, but this whole scenario feels eerily familiar to me.
It's a bit like finding your way around a convention center.
This is the most surreal yet relatable experience shared by anyone who ever had a surgery rotation, ever.
Omg this brings back traumatic memories of me being trapped in the stairwell at URMC, banging on the doors and yelling HELLLLP repeatedly for what seemed like hours. All these years I repressed those memories....until now! 🤣🤪😱
I thought when you showed up and the OR was empty that the first case for the day was canceled or similar and the entire team just forgot to notify the med student. It's happened.. more than once
oh maaan how painfully real this is!! Reminds me of my time as a medstudent on a surgical away rotation in an unfamiliar city. Had to depend on a complex public transportation system to get me to the hospital each day. One day I must have incorrectly planned the route, and ended up completely lost, running around the city, showing up in sweaty clothes, LATE to rounds. I was so mortified 🤣 Took a cab every day from then on.
Half expected that stairwell to dump you outside. I’ve had that happen multiple times.
I watched this 4 hours after it was posted, hope the surgery is going well!
Even if he had been there at 7, surgery probably wouldn't have started until about
8:30.
The locked in the stairwell thing happened to me. I wasn't a med student, I wasn't an anything, nor was I in a hospital. I just happened to be locked in a stairwell for 7 hours.
That's terrifying. I'm glad you got out.😬
You are so darn good at this comedy, I swear you are perfecting your craft by each segment.
Being locked in the stairwell is a real thing. We would often have to fetch people locked in there. Good times.
Your timing is impeccable; I'm the med student starting my surgery rotation on Monday!
i have literally been trapped in a stairwell like this when my keycard suddenly stopped working. 😂😂😂
Sir, please keep up the great work. I always wait for your videos even though i don't really know much about medicine, but with your videos, I learn a lot about that world♥️
Glad I'm not the only one haha.
@anon we are here to lear and found the best teacher ever
And you too sir keep up being who you are because you sound like a wonderful person
@@Drsilmi thank you hope you have a grear day too
Something similar happened when I got locked out the hospital on a overnight after I went to get food on break... The only way back in was the emergency department
Oooh. A Fire Marshall would love to find a staircase like that. The fines would be epic
Can you please explain why the staircase is not ideal? I'm genuinely curious.
@@emphasis20 i didn’t write the original comment but i’m guessing it’s a public danger because it can trap a person in there and they could potentially die due to a medical emergency or building catastrophe because they couldn’t escape
As a nurse in a large urban hospital, this, THIS is one of my greatest fears… 😱
I've actually had the stairwell thing happen to me at a hospital I was working agency for. Didn't know that you needed a swipe card after 6pm! Luckily someone came by within 10 minutes.
I volunteer in the Surgical care unit and I had a keycard that would open any door, but dumb little me forgot it on the desk when I needed to go downstairs but didn't want to wait for the elevator. I was stuck in this exact scenario until I called the front desk to let me back in.
What about when they tell you to come to the OR but they don't tell you which one? I've gone to OR's in entirely different buildings to realize they meant somewhere else. Or ended up walking into the wrong OR suite and the entire team, that was focused on the operation, simultaneously turn around to give me the stink eye. Still gives me nightmares...
The part about cutting sutures “wrong” had me dying of laughter 🤣 too relatable!
Love your work! Always entertaining and very spot on 😂 This is coming from an FM who desperately needs a Jonathan 🙏
*Only* 4 hours early? Damien Danger over here living life on the edge
That is hilarious! I got locked in a bathroom once at a hospital. I closed the door and realized after there was no door handle on the door hence no way to open the door. I panicked for a little bit but then was pounding on the door. No answer. I decided to just call the hospital and try to reach someone to open the door. That was the best solution bc that is what I did and it took like 30 mins for a maintenance person to get the door open with like a screw driver. What was bad was I really had to use the bathroom but after calling I wasn't sure how long it would take to open so I was afraid to go in case he might open it unexpectedly. That would be hilarious! "Excuse me! Can you close the door? Can't you see it is occupied???"
Omg that happened to me once when i was a student! It was one of these doors that when they're closed you can't open it from the inside! I tried EVERYTHING, i even tried calling my team leader but i couldn't get a signal!! In the end i just stood near the glass staring like a maniac until a janitor noticed me and let me out! Hahaha good times indeed! XD
Getting stuck because your card opens only very randomly chosen doors and never 2 in the same hallway and certainly never the last one you need to get through on your way to your destination... yeah... we've all been there.
Oh god, this is me every time an attending gives a specific time. Recently I had a minor panic when an unexpected change in my bus route and the sky-high prices for Ubers/Lyfts in my area resulted in me arriving only 15 minutes early for the pre-round didactic session (which was mostly pitched at the senior residents and fellows, so I was kind of confused).
I mean, I was fine once I knew I was still early, but boy howdy the tachycardia when that was still up in the air…
We at least have doorbells / camera next to the stairwell doors, but it just goes to the desk. Hope someone is there.
The stairwell survival guide for med students : carry saltines in coat,exercise in captivity & reach 4hrs early
That reminds me of that one time I showed up 2 hours early for an exam just because I have never been to that specific building before nor did I know where the room was. Stood up at about 4 am. One thing I hate about different faculties of my uni being scattered all over the city...
Its also funny when you unsuspectingly take the stairs and one corridor is pitched black, no ligth, and someone put some lines from harry potter at the door, saying something about a forbidden floor. Kind of funny but given that it was from the cemistry department it crept me out quite a bit 😂
There used to be a shortcut the night doctors would take that cut across the admin offices. At night, it's totally dark and the floor after that is lit like in some ghost movie, it's usually quiet. Totally the most creepy experience available above ground. Especially when you start hearing voices or footsteps echo, only to realise it's someone else on the other end as there's a bend into an elevator that cannot be seen on the corridor. Most doctors hate it but the shortcut was way too useful NOT to use....
Staircases can't beat underground though. No idea how IT does it :)
Best advice is to walk around everywhere for like an hour a day if you can. If you can't memorize locations/shortcuts carry a memo pad. Ask those who have been there for a long time they know everything. Put aside your ego and let people know that you are still learning and you will succeed in the goals you want. Remember regardless of title as new information is discovered therefore everyone is still a student. Do not be afraid of not knowing be afraid of not wanting to know.
Good advice. my first thought would be to contact security or the front desk and ask for assistance. Tell them I'm new to this hospital and need directions to X room and also that they haven't given me a badge to unlock the doors to the room. A good hospital would be able to walk me through the process of getting to X room and also making sure I have access to the room.
THAT WAS ME! Except I did NOT come 4 hours early... By the time I managed to escape captivity, I was already late
This is relatable for any workplace that requires secure access where they don't give new employees (+ apprentices/contractors) a means of access so you have to rely on the employees who do have them.
I've been trapped in a locked stairwell before, so memories came back!!! 🤣 Another reason to keep a cell phone with you at all times which is on the Verizon system. ☺️ (They normally work inside of buildings.) LOVE the ending!!! ❤️😃
Hah! I'm lucky if I get wifi in hospitals, let alone cell service, if I'm anywhere but under a router or next to a window. I swear that all the hospitals around me are designed to be Faraday cages or something in case there's ever a doomsday EMP
I was laughing sooo hard. This is so true, poor med students - the hospital is like a maze
I’d actually had a surgeon rush me to prep and drape the patient so when the residents would show up late they couldn’t scrub because they were “late” 🤷🏻♀️😬
My friend found a naked psych patient trapped in the stairway. He was trying to escape from the hospital. There's a reason why only employees can open these doors...
I wish I can double like the video!! This is so amazing, not surprising for your wonderful performance, Dr. G!! I was listening to a very interesting podcast and immediately pressed play for your video- has to be instant gratification. I just couldn't focus on that podcast... now returning having watched the video and shared with my family.. Namaste!!🙏💕😊
I once worked in an office where I continued to find new rooms after 3yrs. My favorite spot was an abandoned staircase. It’s where I took all my mental health breaks, but I would’ve been screwed if I ever got locked in there 😅
Dear sir, my father is a world renowned surgeon and you nail it every single time!!! I’ve needed years of treatment due to his narcissism, your videos heal me!😂 I binged every single video.
I love watching this guy, EVERYTHING he does and say is so spot on!
Having just finished my surgery rotation a few weeks ago, this spoke to my soul in a way that few things do
haha loved it, esp the “stand in the corner and get ignored”
oh man i remember waiting near the door just in case someone would pass by and i could go in with them haha
I was on my surgery sub I when I got trapped in the stairwell between the ED and the OR. Eventually a security guard found me and let me out. No one noticed or missed me 😂
2 years ago as a student I got stuck in a stairwell the same way (every door locked, alarmed, or needed keycard). I finally had to call on my cell phone for security to come rescue me.
I was trapped like this in a covid hospital during night shift
It was SO SCARY
All I could hear was oxygen hissing and icu beeping
We had the covid wards on 5th floor and all the other stair cases were closed to avoid usage by covid healthcare
I was going around in circles and them somehow I found my way out
Exited the building and then went back again to the 5th floor
That eloquent inner monologue was quite something...just as I remember back in my days
The truth is, he probably arrived on time. He just forgot to account for the unspoken rule of +30 min for an OR case's start time.
You forgot to account for the 15 min before start time when the room is prepped and patient is waiting in anaesthesiology hands too :)
the OR access being locked from the stair is 110% accurate. Props. So glad it’s an universal hospital law 😂😂
Had an almost identical experience in my second rotation. Had to grab something from the floor below me, only to find that all the doors locked like this.
Thankfully, one of the lower floors wasn’t locked down, but the area was so unfamiliar to me I wandered for a good half hour before I finally worked my way back up to where I started.
I was watching this with my husband and when he reached for the stairwell door I found myself screaming, “NOOOOOO! DON’T DO IT!!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's the best title/video combination, on youtube with short videos it's very easy to spoil all the sketch with an explicit title. It is just an awesome choice you've made
Oh yeah. Getting locked on staircase/getting lost in unfamiliar hospital happened to me more than once and to combine it with dreadful fear of being late… Ugh
Wonderful video! I am not a med student or doctor, however I can really relate to the strange stairwells in hospitals. One time I had a job that involved taking elderly residents to their appointments and runs to the hospital pharmacy. I was up on the third floor waiting for the pharmacy when I realized I needed paperwork from my vehicle. I *thought* I was taking a stairwell that would take me close by the main entrance... instead I ended up in the physcian lounge and changing area, by a totally unfamiliar door controlled by a keycard. Luckily, I could retreat back the way I came and get back to the Pharmacy.
Once as a med student, I left the OR, down the stairs to get lunch on the first floor. I opened the door and it led outside into the landscaping. So I went back up the stairs and all the doors were locked. So I had to go back down into the 30 degree outdoors, wearing only my scrubs, and walk around to the front entrance of the hospital.
This exact thing happened to me once in a hospital I used to work in. Luckily I had my phone since I had to call hospital security to let me out 😅
This was me yesterday. No saltines, but a kind nurse saw me waving after 10 min or so and saved me. 💟
I love the monologue of him feeling abandoned and Lost! Glad he was Extremely Early! 👏😆👍
This reminds me of a time when I thought I was supposed to be at a meeting for a Church calling because I assumed it was Thursday. Just as My Mom and I were heading out of the neighborhood, my Mom mentioned that it was Wednesday. I realized that I was actually a day early and we were able to make a quick turn around!
We both had a good laugh and my Mom said that she's done this a few times herself! 😆
Good times! 😊👍
During my entire surgical rotation the hospital was building a new wing which involved new pre and post-op units, through which was the main way to get to the OR from the rest of the hospital. If you think getting lost in a normal hospital is bad, try getting lost in a construction site with plastic sheet and temporary paneling instead of walls.
In normal times, the main issue is finding the mythical floor 2 1/2 on which the OR lockers are located.
I've been trapped in a stairwell like that once. My phone ran out of power, and it was late on a Friday. Luckily, there was a window on 4th floor, where I stood in the "Help me!"-position for 35 minutes, till another student noticed me and came to the rescue.
This very thing happened to me. Saw some stairs at the university hospital in the back of a unit while on internal medicine as a student. Thought I'd found a quick shortcut to my next patient a few floors down...
I was relieved when he said 4 hours earlier😂 never be late for surgery!
This is the most accurate summary of my entire clinical experience as a med student