"I'mma take your grandpa's style I'mma take your grandpa's style No for real, ask your grandpa, Can he spare some clothes for an impoverished family medicine doc?"
As a current 2nd year family medicine resident, this really hits home. Now excuse me while I go to the hospital for my 24 hour shift simultaneously covering inpatient medicine and inpatient OB
Ah, Family Medicine, where you get to experience the financial hardship of a Medical Student, the workload of a Resident, and the responsibilities of an Attending at the same time. If you stick with it, you also get the administrative responsibilities of an Executive and the overtime pay of a Janitor.
Lol same thought; as an R2 is psych I was thinking the ‘Find X inside yourself’ is a fair jab but also a bit off base; we’d be bridging the dialectic. You cans BOTH have a Jonathan AND set and defend your boundaries!
This is so real. My family doc has called me on a Sunday afternoon. He has driven (unasked) to my house to bring me a wax soak he was loaning me for an injured hand. He has been heartbroken when a patient died, and he hugged me when I had a terrible thing happen in my life. The family medicine doctor is part of his or her patients' families. He or she can see them from birth to adulthood. And these docs work their asses off for their patients. Fortunately, my doc has recently acquired a Jonathan, and she's fantastic!
Mine never does anything to help me. He orders labs and other tests and then might send me to a specialist. He looks depressed and like he would rather be any place else than the examination room. I find it unhelpful as well as depressing. I get no help but I'm supposed to feel sorry for him?
I hope you don’t tire of making these. They are so well done and hilarious. It’s impressive how you can simultaneously bring these real problems out in the forefront so they can be discussed not only by those in healthcare, but also by those of us who would never have know otherwise.
Considered the most versatile of all physician specialties, family medicine provides comprehensive medical care to patients of all genders and all ages. This wide range of diversity is not only limited to patients, but also includes the care they receive and the family physicians who provide it.
Slap on some minor surgeries as well and they truly are the jack of all trades in medicine, and often a master of some. Although in saying that, one time my GP described his job as a "professional referrer" haha
@@zaggardbrondie1147 This depends on your country. In mine (Canada) GP/general practitioner means the same thing as family doctor. Other synonyms include family physician, primary care physician, and generalist (though generalist can also refer to other specialties of medicine that also practice medicine from multiple domains). Family medicine is also recognized as being a speciality itself - to specialize in the general care of everything.
That subtle touch where family medicine's glasses straighten, and his collar and tie are neat when Johnathan shows up. The genuine joy and change of attire when he finally thinks a load is lifted off his shoulders and his life has a chance of coming back into order... and then immediately going back to chaos when the therapist says no. Absolutely love it, you're a master of the craft,.
Family physicians are the absolute best. In my country (Netherlands) they are absolutely vital. They are the gatekeepers of the healthcare system, easily accessible, treat the whole family cradle to grave and are the managers of your overall care. And the numbers don't lie, in the US the ratio of emergency physicians - family physicians is 1:3, in my country it is 1:21. They keep costs and workload down for the entire healthcare system. True heroes!
Your population is the size of one our major cities and you live in homogenous racial and cultural society and your healthcare system is geared toward that…. Good for your doctors though.
@@Hmfirestormz This for some reason seems to elude the minds of most people in the healthcare debate. They just assume that a healthcare system fostered in a racially and culturally homogenous population, with minimal social and fiscal detriments of health, will just magically translate perfectly into a massive melting pot of differing cultures, beliefs and races, all of whom have a widely varying degrees of need and definitions of what it means to be healthy. And if you ever mention the above, you get labeled a racist. Which just goes to show how vested these people are in intelligently arguing their stances and the sheer magnitude of their grip on reality. 🙄
@@cbl6520 As someone from Australia, which is definitely a melting pot of cultures and beliefs, stop with the bullshit, your healthcare system is decently below average for any comparable country for healthcare quality and access as of 2016 (results published 2018), with the pandemic that number is sure to have plummeted even further given the financial stress on people. maybe take a hint from the rest of the world and fight to overhaul half your systems which just exploit your population's continued existence or spend even a fraction of your ludicrously over-inflated defence budget on healthcare, education and social benefits and you might catch up to the rest of the world in quality of life instead of having to scrape for basic fucking health care, literally everyone I know would happily pay higher taxes if it meant they had to pay less when sick, even with the cost of living crisis.
@@Hmfirestormz "Your population is the size of one our major cities" That's all the more reason WHY USA shouldn't be so far behind. It isn't the lower population that makes European healthcare better, it's the amount of taxes the population pays and to which degree those taxes are distributed into healthcare. Those things are much easier to scale *up* than scale down. Slap a 40% tax on Bezos and his cash alone could probably fund the entire health care system. (and let's be clear, the "homogenous European country" fantasy hasn't been real for many decades now) EDIT: and just to be clear: I am not chewing you out because I think you're a racist or any such bs, I'm chewing you out because the way Americans defend their shitty health care, shitty public schools, shitty public transport etc with "well it can't be helped, we MUST be shitty because we're BIG" is the same kind of bad argument you'll hear from an abused spouse. You've all been beaten down so hard by your government that you see it as natural to be slapped around, and you couldn't possibly have a healthy relationship where you're not beaten on a daily basis. It's very tragic and frustrating to watch. Other countries does not magically have better health care because we're smaller, it's something we had to actively work towards.
My GP died recently at 74. He was much loved. One of the most caring human beings on the planet. He would work all day till 5pm then head over to another office and work till 9pm. His patients had his cell phone number. RIP Dr. H. You are greatly missed both as a person and as a doctor. It was an honor to know you.
As a primary care doc in public service, this message arrives in the brain like a frozen steel rod hurtling through the spine, while tumbling down the rabbit hole of paperwork, deafened by the din of incessant meetings and blinded by flashes of financial inadequacies. And tomorrow, everything repeats with the same Kafkaesque precision.
@Adrian Derek thank you. The medical paperwork in public service is Orwellianly Kafkaesque and Kafkaesquely Orwellian. It's omnipotent and omnipresent. Just like the "Matrix" and corruption in "The Mechanism" (Netflix) Whatever happens, remove all problems and yet, the paperwork remains and returns with more vengeance. It's got a life of it's own.
As someone who works in an ER, the cafeteria coupons hit a special kind of nerve. Recently, we’re given a coupon for 30% in our gift shop. Thing is, it excludes food, drinks, flowers, magazines, paperback and puzzle books, and greeting cards. Plus the gift shop is usually closed by the time my mid afternoon shift starts. 🤦♀️ Really makes you feel appreciated.
I did (and taught) Family Medicine for 18 years after residency. It finally wore me out; I was accepted into a fellowship and became a subspecialist. Life is MUCH better now. If I had had a Jonathon, I might have been able to continue in Family Medicine. But Family Medicine is really a young doctor’s job.
I'm a General Practitioner (GP) in Australia, and I believe I would cover the work of a family medicine doctor. It is absolutely INSANE how the profession is structured in the USA to make these doctors feel so overburdened and under-appreciated. I left a surgical pathway for GP and have never had such a wonderful work/life balance, sense of meaning in my work and appreciation for my job and patients (most of the time). More than that, I'm remunerated very well for it, compared to the median salary of a family medicine doctor in the US. Don't get a new job, organise and fix the broken system, because it can work beautifully for you and your patients.
IDK if you have any merch yet but if not, "You can find the Jonathan within yourself " definitely needs to be on a t-shirt or coffee mug as an inspirational quote!!
I'm a full-spectrum rural Family Doc who did deliver a baby and admit (and discharge) a bunch of patients and see a bunch of patients in clinic and boy howdy, I feel this in my bones
As a current Jonathan for a Family Med Physician, I can't imagine being a doc creating perfect notes that actually get reimbursed for the work and time you spent with the patient on top of all of the medical decision making. Not to mention the never ending in-baskets from patients and insurance companies calling the office throughout the day eating up the already 0 minutes between patient visits. Docs and Jonathans of this world, you are in my prayers.
My GP just retired last year. I still miss him because he was one of those good older docs who treated me, a Medicare patient, the same as the rest. If you don't know the difference, be glad you don't have Medicare. My doc had been suffering from burnout especially since the pandemic hit and it was just time for him to retire and rest. He earned it. I dragged my heels on picking a new GP, but I like the PA-C I finally saw last week. I think she and I will get along well.
PCPs are as close to social workers as medicine gets outside the mental health department. So determined to help everyone they can't say no and end up in worse shape than their patients/clients by the time they retire it's truly worrisome.
I always feel extremely sorry for Family Medicine. A few years ago I had the chance to become a kindergarten teacher and already had a year experience, because I did a voluntary year in a kindergarten. In this one year I've witnessed so many things...for example the way parents treat their children. A three year old girl sat in front of me and told me how much her body hurts every time she had ballet lessons. A THREE year old girl. The parents knew about that. It felt like as if at least 75% of the parents were awful. Most parents there had very fancy jobs. Lawyers, scientists, doctors, CEOs etc.. Watching parents treat their own children like a piece of po*p and not being able to do anything about it is one of the most awful feelings to exist. That's why I decided to not work with children, even though it's one of the things I'm really good at. And that's why I have huge respect for every single person that works with children or people in general.
You know this person is built to be a kindergarten teacher because they self- censored the word "poop" in a TH-cam comment. Only the most caring person would do that.
From my decade in child welfare law this hits home, even though this video is medicine. The file up and down prep before and after each day’s court list was never ending and exhausting, usually about 40 kids a day, and I called them my kids-an overall caseload of around 300 in a courtroom of medically needy and special needs kids from 0-21, me trying to learn all about their medical conditions to make solid recommendations to the court because these were the kids whose families didn’t stick around to stay involved in their lives and make those calls. And our public interest salaries were cut as well when budgets got tough.
I was waiting for thissss! As a family med resident, I approve. Also, I find it funny that family medicine gets the less shade in your videos because we already have so much on our plate there's no need for it 😂
Thank you for another great video. Our cousin married a pediatrician and it's that time in life to retire but ...he just...isn't....ready....he never learned to say no to work.
My PCP works three mornings a week as a part timer. And I’m okay with that. She is the best doctor I’ve ever had and actually is mindfully present during her appointments.
During Covid I worked at the office of my family medicine doctor to support her in these demanding times. I'm about to finish medical training to become a family medicine doctor too. I have high hopes to work together with her and continue my doctor's office when she eventually retires (hopefully not soon). I know it's going to be demanding, so wish me luck ;-) Greetings from Germany!
I love the transformation when Jonathan arrived. He does paperwork AND grooming! For real though, if paperwork is such a time sink, why aren't medical scribes available for all specialties? You don't need a medical degree for it, do you? And having a second set of eyes and ears would cut down on mistakes. Prevent overwork, increase accuracy and detail in records, open up a lot of new jobs, get people interested in the medical field and potentially increase the number of future doctors and nurses in the process?
Family Medicine is like that piece of lose metal you jam into a project as a "place holder" but it becomes incredibly imperative to the structural integrity of the place yet at the same time it's increasingly becoming more and more likely to snap from the stress of too much work and not enough planning to accommodate it, but it can't leave or everything falls apart
My parent worked for a Family Medicine physician for about 15-20 years. We could always tell when he was around because he had a heavy limp. Doc blew his knee out and couldn't/wouldn't take the time to let it recover, then he couldn't/wouldn't attend his own physical therapy appointments. Then, when it got worse he couldn't/wouldn't take time off to get the corrective surgery. The man has threatened to retire for the last 20 years, all while definitely not retiring and angrily dragging around that painful cluster of nerves that he calls a leg. I swear, Family Medicine Doctors work like mules and are twice as obstinate. When people say, "Doctors are the worst patients." they mean Family Medicine doctors.
@@RG-or3hu Family Medicine, where the Doctors all have blown out knees/hips and the nurses all have carpal tunnel/tendonitis and not one of them follows the advice they exasperatedly give to their patients.
I was going to send this to my Doctor. But then at the end saying family medicine needs a new job... I will cry if my doctor ever quits. He can never see this. Also we all know Jonathan already broke into Family Medicine's house and finished his charting before he even showed up. That's really what the nod was about.
Everyone commenting on how funny this was, when it made me want to cry... Family Medicine does need a new job. But they stay. Because we depend on them.
Glauc pitches JONATHON for the WIN! I show all my scribes (and we have several- twelve Ortho Bros at my clinic) LOVE the Jonathon skits. When the surgeons are long gone from clinic, they stay buried to their chins in charts... never smiling, eating, or interacting with anyone... I always get gut laughs when I slide up beside them and turn on your channel. Ortho is heavy work in an area that prizes sports above all else (from peewee to collegiate) THANK YOU!
When my primary care doctor of decades retired I cried my eyes out. He helped me through many crises. Please know how much we appreciate you! Now I'm really worried that Bill will become my new doctor.
You still need to be in a movie. Or two. Or three. Or . . . Can you write yourself a screenplay and film it yourself? You’re one of the most talented actors I’ve ever seen!! Maybe THE most talented.
My family medicine Dr. just sent me an email saying that she's leaving the clinic 😭 I hope she goes somewhere she's appreciated, and appropriately compensated, because she's the best.
Really appreciate family medicine doctors. They do so much and need to know about wide range of cases and ages. They are the old doctors of the past too when doctors use to do house visits.
Yes! And thank you for this! This was a realistic scenario from my residency days and I only graduated 3 years ago. My program was unique in that our Family Med patients were managed by the Fam Med inpatient/call team from the time they hit the hospital doors, including when they arrived in the ED. The FM inpatient team or FM resident on call was paged to the ED to manage the patient there. And while you were busy if you got paged that a FM OB patient was admitted to L&D or even came into OB triage you had to go and manage that. Similar to our FM peds patients, where we were primary on peds ward and if paged, we had to go admit them. Which then meant we also did discharges. And then depending on the day of the week and rotation, you may still have to do clinic on the same day on which you were in hospital and figure out how to get charts done before having to be back in hospital the next morning at 6 AM. So thank you for this. I hated residency because of how ridicously hard it was but looking back on it, I realized that it better prepared you for what you wanted to do later on (options). So for those who only see their FM docs in clinic doing referrals or refills and think they don't do much more other than complain about charting you don't begin to know half of the story....
I’m not a family medicine doc but this brought a tear to my eye. Now excuse while I admit 10-12 patients, consult every specialist, and still make it home in time to see my family, relax in my hot tub, and watch a little tv before turning in just to do it all over again for 7 days straight awaiting the 7 days off I will have after. Oh yes, the life of a hospitalist. It’s hard work but someone has to do it 😂.
OMG ! I’m wheezing my lungs out when Jonathan appears! 🤣🤣 My PCP would definitely appreciate this ! To all Family medicine Drs: Thank You! You are invaluable! Hope you know you’re seriously appreciated! ❤️❤️❤️
Seriously... All his videos just really makes me wanna hug all th doctors out there and tell them they're awesome cuz when I read in the comments how close he is to their positions... I wanna cry for them.
Spot on! Add in ABFM making you pay fees so you can take tests AND corporate medicine admin making you take tests all on your own time. Can’t practice if you don’t take the tests or pay the fees. Plus student loan debts. Cost to benefit ratio doesn’t pan out
I love Dr. G. His videos are made by a doctor FOR other doctors. I am a semi-retired doc from Preventive and Addiction Medicine. The ironies and problems of medicine in general are always described in great detail. It sounds like with all the technical advances (most of which are way above my head), the problems still abound!
My friends and I were paid in cafeteria coupons when I was intern at a local hospital when I was in school. A good chunk of our food still came from whatever kind nurses and doctors brought or bought for us
I guess I’m supposed to tell you what equipment I used to film this:
iPhone XS - find it on eBay probably
Costumes- your grandfathers closet
"I'mma take your grandpa's style
I'mma take your grandpa's style
No for real, ask your grandpa,
Can he spare some clothes for an impoverished family medicine doc?"
Jajajaja You are the best !!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m 💀.
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I like how his glasses and necktie straightened up once Jonathan is in the room and his overall mood is improved hahaha
Jonathan works magic
Exactly 😂
excellent observation! - & of course, attention to detail by Dr G! 😊
best part :D especially when he goes back to the tired mode. priceless
When the papers go flying in the air as Jonathan whizzes by 🤣😂
As an Intern in Germany who is actually paid in cafeteria coupons, this one hits a little close to home.
You're kidding.
Oh my !!!!! Not right!
@@jjohnsoc23 Haha, I wish. I get a 7 Euro coupon a day. They are pre-dated so I can't use them on other days.
That sounds hyper illegal
Run run run..you deserve better cuisine than this!
As a current 2nd year family medicine resident, this really hits home. Now excuse me while I go to the hospital for my 24 hour shift simultaneously covering inpatient medicine and inpatient OB
the unsung heroes. I hope videos like this can show others the light.
Oh looooord 😂😂😂 would you mind if I contacted you about some questions related to FM residency btw ? I’m currently a med 4
Just wait until you graduate :)
Family doc here. Stay strong! The future of family medicine is very, very bright.
I am in 2nd year of medicine school, and i still have high hopes xD
Ah, Family Medicine, where you get to experience the financial hardship of a Medical Student, the workload of a Resident, and the responsibilities of an Attending at the same time. If you stick with it, you also get the administrative responsibilities of an Executive and the overtime pay of a Janitor.
Overtime pay of a janitor? 🤣🤣😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have no idea what the overtime pay of the janitor is...but at least there's overtime pay!!! I would take it!
@@jesuswept5863 Oh, did I say pay? My mistake, there's no pay. You get to clean your own office though.
This is one of the most accurate descriptions of family medicine I have ever heard.
@Donna Henrikson School janitor here; the pay varies by district. For my district, it's $11.50 hourly so about $17.25 an hour overtime
Words fail me. I love the arrival of Jonathon in a swirl of paper and wind! I think FP should have said “No!” To psych denying him Jonathon!
Lol same thought; as an R2 is psych I was thinking the ‘Find X inside yourself’ is a fair jab but also a bit off base; we’d be bridging the dialectic. You cans BOTH have a Jonathan AND set and defend your boundaries!
@@rebeccacomeau7668 bingo! Well said!
@@rebeccacomeau7668 Honestly having a Jonathan seems like the most efficient way to defend those boundaries
Unfortunately, Jonathans are expensive. Hence why Ophtho can afford them.
I was a Jonathan once. I made $7.25/hr
This is so real. My family doc has called me on a Sunday afternoon. He has driven (unasked) to my house to bring me a wax soak he was loaning me for an injured hand. He has been heartbroken when a patient died, and he hugged me when I had a terrible thing happen in my life. The family medicine doctor is part of his or her patients' families. He or she can see them from birth to adulthood. And these docs work their asses off for their patients.
Fortunately, my doc has recently acquired a Jonathan, and she's fantastic!
Wow, your physician sounds amazing. Do you live in a smaller town?
What magical land do you inhabit? Cannot be in the USA.
I didn’t know doctors like this still exist 😲🤯
Mine never does anything to help me. He orders labs and other tests and then might send me to a specialist. He looks depressed and like he would rather be any place else than the examination room. I find it unhelpful as well as depressing. I get no help but I'm supposed to feel sorry for him?
@@annshaffer3314 you can have empathy but don't let that allow you to continue substandard care. If you have a choice get a different doctor.
I hope you don’t tire of making these. They are so well done and hilarious. It’s impressive how you can simultaneously bring these real problems out in the forefront so they can be discussed not only by those in healthcare, but also by those of us who would never have know otherwise.
ya, now you know. dont go to a teaching hospital. ...or do you...
Comedy is a great way to point out problems! Making people laugh can be more effective than making them defensive.
@@jclemenzi I can tell you, it's not different in private hospitals.
@Shelia Villamil Amen
I agree
Considered the most versatile of all physician specialties, family medicine provides comprehensive medical care to patients of all genders and all ages. This wide range of diversity is not only limited to patients, but also includes the care they receive and the family physicians who provide it.
Slap on some minor surgeries as well and they truly are the jack of all trades in medicine, and often a master of some. Although in saying that, one time my GP described his job as a "professional referrer" haha
What is the difference general practitioner vs family medicine?
@@zaggardbrondie1147 This depends on your country. In mine (Canada) GP/general practitioner means the same thing as family doctor. Other synonyms include family physician, primary care physician, and generalist (though generalist can also refer to other specialties of medicine that also practice medicine from multiple domains). Family medicine is also recognized as being a speciality itself - to specialize in the general care of everything.
@@zaggardbrondie1147 family physicians are skilled in family healthcare which is more comprehensive that just general practice
@@zaggardbrondie1147 In the US a general practitioner finished one year of residency and a family medicine doctor completed 3 years.
"And I stayed awake."
The ways the eyes dart around a bit after that one hit too close to home. I know that headspace.
I love that Family Medicine’s glasses got fixed when Jonathan came over 😂 Then they changed when he left again haha
Waawwww gonna watch it again to notice
So, a Jonathan is the 21st century version of a Jeeves?
😂
As a family med doc, this hits painfully close to home... Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying.
Even me. I was like, “why is this my truth?!?!”
You're so very appreciated, doc. Make sure to hydrate when you can
It’s why the laughing emoji has tears 😂
I appreciate you Doc!!
@Jess O, thank you for taking care of literally EVERYBODY. Ill start the petition to get you all Jonathans!
That subtle touch where family medicine's glasses straighten, and his collar and tie are neat when Johnathan shows up. The genuine joy and change of attire when he finally thinks a load is lifted off his shoulders and his life has a chance of coming back into order... and then immediately going back to chaos when the therapist says no. Absolutely love it, you're a master of the craft,.
Family physicians are the absolute best. In my country (Netherlands) they are absolutely vital. They are the gatekeepers of the healthcare system, easily accessible, treat the whole family cradle to grave and are the managers of your overall care. And the numbers don't lie, in the US the ratio of emergency physicians - family physicians is 1:3, in my country it is 1:21. They keep costs and workload down for the entire healthcare system. True heroes!
Whoooo!!!
Your population is the size of one our major cities and you live in homogenous racial and cultural society and your healthcare system is geared toward that…. Good for your doctors though.
@@Hmfirestormz
This for some reason seems to elude the minds of most people in the healthcare debate. They just assume that a healthcare system fostered in a racially and culturally homogenous population, with minimal social and fiscal detriments of health, will just magically translate perfectly into a massive melting pot of differing cultures, beliefs and races, all of whom have a widely varying degrees of need and definitions of what it means to be healthy.
And if you ever mention the above, you get labeled a racist. Which just goes to show how vested these people are in intelligently arguing their stances and the sheer magnitude of their grip on reality. 🙄
@@cbl6520 As someone from Australia, which is definitely a melting pot of cultures and beliefs, stop with the bullshit, your healthcare system is decently below average for any comparable country for healthcare quality and access as of 2016 (results published 2018), with the pandemic that number is sure to have plummeted even further given the financial stress on people. maybe take a hint from the rest of the world and fight to overhaul half your systems which just exploit your population's continued existence or spend even a fraction of your ludicrously over-inflated defence budget on healthcare, education and social benefits and you might catch up to the rest of the world in quality of life instead of having to scrape for basic fucking health care, literally everyone I know would happily pay higher taxes if it meant they had to pay less when sick, even with the cost of living crisis.
@@Hmfirestormz "Your population is the size of one our major cities"
That's all the more reason WHY USA shouldn't be so far behind. It isn't the lower population that makes European healthcare better, it's the amount of taxes the population pays and to which degree those taxes are distributed into healthcare. Those things are much easier to scale *up* than scale down. Slap a 40% tax on Bezos and his cash alone could probably fund the entire health care system.
(and let's be clear, the "homogenous European country" fantasy hasn't been real for many decades now)
EDIT: and just to be clear: I am not chewing you out because I think you're a racist or any such bs, I'm chewing you out because the way Americans defend their shitty health care, shitty public schools, shitty public transport etc with "well it can't be helped, we MUST be shitty because we're BIG" is the same kind of bad argument you'll hear from an abused spouse. You've all been beaten down so hard by your government that you see it as natural to be slapped around, and you couldn't possibly have a healthy relationship where you're not beaten on a daily basis. It's very tragic and frustrating to watch.
Other countries does not magically have better health care because we're smaller, it's something we had to actively work towards.
Family medicine is definitely one of the most underrated professions out there. respect to u family medicine doctors!
I work for My husband who is a Family Medicine doctor. I am his Jonathan. He works basically 24/7. My job is also exhausting.
Bless your heart! Your a wonderful wife. 🤗
I never thought about marrying a Johnathan...great idea!
Also bless you
Hope y’all can hire more help! Life is short. Share the workload if possible and make less money. I am not trying to be glib.
"I said okay and cried about it later" is too close to home
also I love how Johnathan is like a medical genie at this point
😞😪😢 I agree with the therapist this time!! Family medicine needs a new job AND a Jonathan 🤓🤓🤓
Keep up the great work Doc Glauc ❤️
My GP died recently at 74. He was much loved. One of the most caring human beings on the planet. He would work all day till 5pm then head over to another office and work till 9pm. His patients had his cell phone number. RIP Dr. H. You are greatly missed both as a person and as a doctor. It was an honor to know you.
I could never really wrap my head around how Jonathan is not in fact a different person. Jonathan face is so distinctive.
The world has more than enough Jonathans! If we would distribute them fairly and equally, burned out family medicine would be a thing of the past!
As a primary care doc in public service, this message arrives in the brain like a frozen steel rod hurtling through the spine, while tumbling down the rabbit hole of paperwork, deafened by the din of incessant meetings and blinded by flashes of financial inadequacies.
And tomorrow, everything repeats with the same Kafkaesque precision.
@Adrian Derek thank you.
The medical paperwork in public service is Orwellianly Kafkaesque and Kafkaesquely Orwellian.
It's omnipotent and omnipresent.
Just like the "Matrix" and corruption in "The Mechanism" (Netflix)
Whatever happens, remove all problems and yet, the paperwork remains and returns with more vengeance.
It's got a life of it's own.
Too true.
As someone who works in an ER, the cafeteria coupons hit a special kind of nerve.
Recently, we’re given a coupon for 30% in our gift shop. Thing is, it excludes food, drinks, flowers, magazines, paperback and puzzle books, and greeting cards. Plus the gift shop is usually closed by the time my mid afternoon shift starts. 🤦♀️ Really makes you feel appreciated.
Whatta slap! 😟
So what can you actually buy with it?
@@phoebegilliland8897 idk. I’m never in there to know what I can buy. I only know what I can’t because it said on the coupon 😂
I believe that leaves those fuzzy scarves that used to trend in the 90s. 🤔
I did (and taught) Family Medicine for 18 years after residency. It finally wore me out; I was accepted into a fellowship and became a subspecialist. Life is MUCH better now.
If I had had a Jonathon, I might have been able to continue in Family Medicine. But Family Medicine is really a young doctor’s job.
I burned out in under 5 years after residency. It's barely a young doc's job anymore. It's really become quite unsustainable in many places.
Which subspecialty?
Every Family Medicine practitioner should have a Jonathan. Period. Thanks Doctor G!
I'm a General Practitioner (GP) in Australia, and I believe I would cover the work of a family medicine doctor. It is absolutely INSANE how the profession is structured in the USA to make these doctors feel so overburdened and under-appreciated. I left a surgical pathway for GP and have never had such a wonderful work/life balance, sense of meaning in my work and appreciation for my job and patients (most of the time). More than that, I'm remunerated very well for it, compared to the median salary of a family medicine doctor in the US. Don't get a new job, organise and fix the broken system, because it can work beautifully for you and your patients.
Im an actual “Johnathan” at a Family Medicine Clinic and umm yeah spot on 😂😂
To all family medicine docs out there, you're awesome. I'm sorry you don't get the respect you deserve.
Truth
You def need to do “Psychiatry goes to therapy” sometime 😂😂
IDK if you have any merch yet but if not, "You can find the Jonathan within yourself " definitely needs to be on a t-shirt or coffee mug as an inspirational quote!!
Second this!!!
I have a great need! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!
I’ll be one of the first in line for this!!
I would drink from that while doing my charts :) (family med here)
Paging Dr. G - you'd make some money here! I'd buy one too
"I don't like that Johnathan, I want the good Jonathan"
-Dr.Glaucomflecken, 2022
I'm a full-spectrum rural Family Doc who did deliver a baby and admit (and discharge) a bunch of patients and see a bunch of patients in clinic and boy howdy, I feel this in my bones
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As a current Jonathan for a Family Med Physician, I can't imagine being a doc creating perfect notes that actually get reimbursed for the work and time you spent with the patient on top of all of the medical decision making. Not to mention the never ending in-baskets from patients and insurance companies calling the office throughout the day eating up the already 0 minutes between patient visits. Docs and Jonathans of this world, you are in my prayers.
His glasses were only on his face normally because Jonathan was present
I was once a Johnathan for a family medicine physician for a whole year before med school, great experience and made the docs life much easier.
As a family med intern: This is how I feel on the inside some days. Luckily, my coresidents and faculty make the grind worthwhile.
I’m watching this 2 days before my family med residency interview 😂😂😂 thank god your comment is a little more reassuring
@@stephaniekaram623 Best of luck!! It’s hard, but if you find the right group of people, it makes the whole experience much better.
My GP just retired last year. I still miss him because he was one of those good older docs who treated me, a Medicare patient, the same as the rest. If you don't know the difference, be glad you don't have Medicare. My doc had been suffering from burnout especially since the pandemic hit and it was just time for him to retire and rest. He earned it. I dragged my heels on picking a new GP, but I like the PA-C I finally saw last week. I think she and I will get along well.
When Jonathen walked in and gave his nod, I felt a surge of relief, safety and comfort
PCPs are as close to social workers as medicine gets outside the mental health department.
So determined to help everyone they can't say no and end up in worse shape than their patients/clients by the time they retire it's truly worrisome.
I always feel extremely sorry for Family Medicine.
A few years ago I had the chance to become a kindergarten teacher and already had a year experience, because I did a voluntary year in a kindergarten.
In this one year I've witnessed so many things...for example the way parents treat their children. A three year old girl sat in front of me and told me how much her body hurts every time she had ballet lessons. A THREE year old girl. The parents knew about that. It felt like as if at least 75% of the parents were awful. Most parents there had very fancy jobs. Lawyers, scientists, doctors, CEOs etc..
Watching parents treat their own children like a piece of po*p and not being able to do anything about it is one of the most awful feelings to exist. That's why I decided to not work with children, even though it's one of the things I'm really good at.
And that's why I have huge respect for every single person that works with children or people in general.
You know this person is built to be a kindergarten teacher because they self- censored the word "poop" in a TH-cam comment. Only the most caring person would do that.
“Serve on the committee to come up with more committees.” 🤣🤣🤣 I’ve been on that committee!!!! Against my will and on my days off. I need therapy. 😐
I’ve been on that committee too. I was misled…New motto, “Never go to meetings with time wasting morons!”- that’s all of them.
From my decade in child welfare law this hits home, even though this video is medicine. The file up and down prep before and after each day’s court list was never ending and exhausting, usually about 40 kids a day, and I called them my kids-an overall caseload of around 300 in a courtroom of medically needy and special needs kids from 0-21, me trying to learn all about their medical conditions to make solid recommendations to the court because these were the kids whose families didn’t stick around to stay involved in their lives and make those calls. And our public interest salaries were cut as well when budgets got tough.
I was waiting for thissss! As a family med resident, I approve. Also, I find it funny that family medicine gets the less shade in your videos because we already have so much on our plate there's no need for it 😂
Thank you for another great video. Our cousin married a pediatrician and it's that time in life to retire but ...he just...isn't....ready....he never learned to say no to work.
I work in family medicine....this is very accurate. Scary accurate 😬
My PCP works three mornings a week as a part timer. And I’m okay with that. She is the best doctor I’ve ever had and actually is mindfully present during her appointments.
As a family medicine physician, this is pretty accurate.
Family medicine slowly tearing up throughout the entire sketch is heartbreaking 💔
“I don’t like that Jonathan, I want the good Jonathan”. I felt this in my soul.
During Covid I worked at the office of my family medicine doctor to support her in these demanding times. I'm about to finish medical training to become a family medicine doctor too. I have high hopes to work together with her and continue my doctor's office when she eventually retires (hopefully not soon).
I know it's going to be demanding, so wish me luck ;-)
Greetings from Germany!
Congratulations 🎉🍾 . I’m sure you’ll do a fabulous job. 🤗
Oh my goodness! Very courageous -All the best of luck to you in your honorable chosen profession 🙏 🎉
As an ophthalmic Jonathan myself, I too get to places at breakneck speeds while also breaking my neck from nodding so much
Family Medicine is the backbone of the entire medical system. They really need to be compensated more.
“You need to find the Jonathan within yourself. I don’t like that Jonathan I want the good one” would make a great T-shirt or mug, super funny skit!
I love the transformation when Jonathan arrived. He does paperwork AND grooming!
For real though, if paperwork is such a time sink, why aren't medical scribes available for all specialties? You don't need a medical degree for it, do you? And having a second set of eyes and ears would cut down on mistakes. Prevent overwork, increase accuracy and detail in records, open up a lot of new jobs, get people interested in the medical field and potentially increase the number of future doctors and nurses in the process?
Family Medicine is like that piece of lose metal you jam into a project as a "place holder" but it becomes incredibly imperative to the structural integrity of the place yet at the same time it's increasingly becoming more and more likely to snap from the stress of too much work and not enough planning to accommodate it, but it can't leave or everything falls apart
Kudos to all family doctors and pediatrician. As a dad of 4, i can say that you guys and gals are my new best friends!
My parent worked for a Family Medicine physician for about 15-20 years.
We could always tell when he was around because he had a heavy limp.
Doc blew his knee out and couldn't/wouldn't take the time to let it recover, then he couldn't/wouldn't attend his own physical therapy appointments. Then, when it got worse he couldn't/wouldn't take time off to get the corrective surgery.
The man has threatened to retire for the last 20 years, all while definitely not retiring and angrily dragging around that painful cluster of nerves that he calls a leg.
I swear, Family Medicine Doctors work like mules and are twice as obstinate.
When people say, "Doctors are the worst patients." they mean Family Medicine doctors.
You know what we call a doctor who has retired?
A patient
Haha I too have a busted knee and no time to fix it! Maybe it’s a thing in family medicine 😅
@@RG-or3hu Family Medicine, where the Doctors all have blown out knees/hips and the nurses all have carpal tunnel/tendonitis and not one of them follows the advice they exasperatedly give to their patients.
I was going to send this to my Doctor. But then at the end saying family medicine needs a new job... I will cry if my doctor ever quits. He can never see this.
Also we all know Jonathan already broke into Family Medicine's house and finished his charting before he even showed up. That's really what the nod was about.
I will likely use this in my next lecture on "Burnout"- this from the FM doc. ;) This is so painfully accurate and on point!
One of the best therapy sessions yet. Too dang funny
Everyone commenting on how funny this was, when it made me want to cry... Family Medicine does need a new job. But they stay. Because we depend on them.
Someone please save family medicine🥺😢
please never stop making videos dr glaucomflecken we love you so much
Glauc pitches JONATHON for the WIN!
I show all my scribes (and we have several- twelve Ortho Bros at my clinic) LOVE the Jonathon skits.
When the surgeons are long gone from clinic, they stay buried to their chins in charts... never smiling, eating, or interacting with anyone...
I always get gut laughs when I slide up beside them and turn on your channel.
Ortho is heavy work in an area that prizes sports above all else (from peewee to collegiate)
THANK YOU!
When my primary care doctor of decades retired I cried my eyes out. He helped me through many crises. Please know how much we appreciate you! Now I'm really worried that Bill will become my new doctor.
You still need to be in a movie. Or two. Or three. Or . . .
Can you write yourself a screenplay and film it yourself? You’re one of the most talented actors I’ve ever seen!! Maybe THE most talented.
My family medicine Dr. just sent me an email saying that she's leaving the clinic 😭 I hope she goes somewhere she's appreciated, and appropriately compensated, because she's the best.
Really appreciate family medicine doctors. They do so much and need to know about wide range of cases and ages. They are the old doctors of the past too when doctors use to do house visits.
Yes! And thank you for this! This was a realistic scenario from my residency days and I only graduated 3 years ago. My program was unique in that our Family Med patients were managed by the Fam Med inpatient/call team from the time they hit the hospital doors, including when they arrived in the ED. The FM inpatient team or FM resident on call was paged to the ED to manage the patient there. And while you were busy if you got paged that a FM OB patient was admitted to L&D or even came into OB triage you had to go and manage that. Similar to our FM peds patients, where we were primary on peds ward and if paged, we had to go admit them. Which then meant we also did discharges. And then depending on the day of the week and rotation, you may still have to do clinic on the same day on which you were in hospital and figure out how to get charts done before having to be back in hospital the next morning at 6 AM.
So thank you for this. I hated residency because of how ridicously hard it was but looking back on it, I realized that it better prepared you for what you wanted to do later on (options). So for those who only see their FM docs in clinic doing referrals or refills and think they don't do much more other than complain about charting you don't begin to know half of the story....
My mother was in family medicine and just retired.....it's nice to finally meet her
I don't know how many brothers that guy have, but they're all amazing.
I work for a family practitioner who can't say "no". Not only is the Doc like this but so is the staff!
As an RN in internal med I continually see our MDs get worked to the bone. Primary care is sadly going down the tubes. MD burnout is real!
We all want the good Johnathan. Also you know when you've watched these so much, when you know he yelled for a Johnathan without him having to say it.
I’m not a family medicine doc but this brought a tear to my eye. Now excuse while I admit 10-12 patients, consult every specialist, and still make it home in time to see my family, relax in my hot tub, and watch a little tv before turning in just to do it all over again for 7 days straight awaiting the 7 days off I will have after. Oh yes, the life of a hospitalist. It’s hard work but someone has to do it 😂.
Watching this just I am finishing my Saturday charting. I’m off on the weekends…says no family medicine provider ever.
My friend is in family medicine, he didn't have time to go out with our friend group for 4 years. The pain is real
OMG ! I’m wheezing my lungs out when Jonathan appears! 🤣🤣
My PCP would definitely appreciate this !
To all Family medicine Drs: Thank You! You are invaluable! Hope you know you’re seriously appreciated!
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I have no idea how the algorithm sent me down this medicine rabbit hole, but what Family Medicine needs is a good union.
Currently waiting to see which FM program I match into. I laugh through the tears.
My dad was a family doctor and y'all don't realize how accurate this is... :D
😭😭😭😭 this is so sad… I feel like crying at the end.. he is so precious!!
"I want the good Johnathan." I felt those words so deeply.
Seriously... All his videos just really makes me wanna hug all th doctors out there and tell them they're awesome cuz when I read in the comments how close he is to their positions... I wanna cry for them.
Awww....this is so sad, but true. Healthcare we are burnt out. Love this video❤️ Keep up the great work Doc
I’m not so patiently waiting to match into family medicine (13 days and counting), I probably shouldn’t laugh so hard at this one. 😂
Very best wishes to you! 🤗
How is it going so far ⌚️ 👀 🙊
@@2Bad4YOUuu matched into family med :D, working on driving to my new state now actually.
@@cloudwolfbane7704 Ahh, okay 👍 haven't started yet--well good luck to you!
@@2Bad4YOUuu most residencies in the U.S. don’t start until July 1st though orientation, like mine can be in June.
I need *when therapist goes to therapy* episode! 🥳
I like to think that Jonathan never left the room because he was never dismissed and just stared at them with his Jonathan smile
I was cheering him on everytime he said No!!🤣🤣
A timely reminder for me to say Asta la Vista at my crazy workplace this week!
#TheGreatGoodbuy
Spot on! Add in ABFM making you pay fees so you can take tests AND corporate medicine admin making you take tests all on your own time.
Can’t practice if you don’t take the tests or pay the fees. Plus student loan debts. Cost to benefit ratio doesn’t pan out
I love Dr. G. His videos are made by a doctor FOR other doctors. I am a semi-retired doc from Preventive and Addiction Medicine. The ironies and problems of medicine in general are always described in great detail. It sounds like with all the technical advances (most of which are way above my head), the problems still abound!
"I said okay, then cried about it later." I feel that on this Sunday morning when I should already be at work.
I think my Jonathan’s broken, I’ve been shouting for three hours...
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I laughed out loud when I realized he was trying to summon Jonathan!!!! I love these videos so much 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 thank you 😊
as a family physician I can honestly say this is spot on
I like how Jonathan just appears there faster than the wind. Pushing him further as a superhero.
There’s a Jonathan in all of us, we just have to find him. Fortunately, as an ophthalmologist I can have my scribe Jonathan do that for me.
You’re going to have your Jonathan find the Jonathan in you? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Alright, you know wut? .. That's iT!! 👆 😂
ER doc here !!!!! You are the best ! So funny so true. STAY SAFE ALL !!!! :)
I'm watching this late at night while finishing charting at home and now I think I am going to cry.
My friends and I were paid in cafeteria coupons when I was intern at a local hospital when I was in school.
A good chunk of our food still came from whatever kind nurses and doctors brought or bought for us