Pretty sure it's a reference to a very old youtube channel that ran "Is it a good idea to microwave this?", and they had this catchphrase in the beginning of each episode "Here, at the Jory Caron laboratory, safety is our number one concern. That's why we hide behind this big tinfoil shield. It's to protect our nuts, because nobody likes roasted nuts."
Electrical engineer: I wouldn't touch that thing because of all the radiation! Nuclear engineer: I wouldn't touch that thing because of all the high voltage!
A few weeks ago, i hung up a sign at the power socket of our Server closet at work, that said "This won't kill you, but i might", after i had to drive two hours because some idiot unplugged their router to plug in a vacuum cleaner
There was a standing joke at a nuclear plant when visitors would ask if they'd die from swimming in the fuel pool. The answer was "Yes, you will die from the guards shooting you!" Actually I'm sure they would fish you out and then you'd be arrested for something and added to the list of people not allowed in nuclear facilities.
I think part of the fear of x-rays is how they used to be. The old shoe fitting fluoroscopes averaged around 6.5 mSv per second and people would just stand there looking down at their foot through it to contemplate how well their shoe fit around their toe bones. It also doesn't help that fear that every time we get an X-ray, they slap a heavy lead-filled pad whatever part of our torso they aren't scanning and hide in a bunker while a mini air raid siren goes off. Good for safety, bad for PR.
the reason they hide in a room adjacent is because they do more of these than any one person will get in their lifetime, they just have to do that. Same reason they have the warning equipment. The lead vest is to minimize stray radiation exposure and absorption. It's not THAT big of a deal, but anything you can do to substantially lessen the amount of absorbed radiation is a GOOD thing. IK you probably already know this stuff lol, just expanding on it for the curious minded.
That stupid number was the real bill. I recently learned how this works. The hospital bills that, insurance says no, and pays its 9 grand, charging the insuree the 2 grand. The hospital then writes off the 80,000 as a loss on its taxes. Everyone wins. Well, except the insuree who is still being overcharged for an x-ray.
Or the poor guy who doesn't have insurance but still has assets. It's worth it even to have really crappy insurance that pays almost nothing because at least you get the lower insurance company negotiated rate.
@davidg4288 Most hospitals have a department you can contact to talk down or get a bill removed if you can prove hardship. It's just stupid that the system is so busted thats necessary. Especially since if you are sick, bureaucracy should be the last thing you have to deal with.
My partner was billed 114K for a one night hospital stay and surgery, out of that the surgeon billed 5000 and the anesthesiologist billed 3000. He ended up on the hook for 5000 plus other random fees. The whole system is jacked.
Yup, and this is really the biggest most immediate problem with US health care rn. It forces people to the insurance companies because good luck pulling that off as a private individual instead of an insurance company.
it's not as a "loss on the taxes" and the end result will be the same ;) but it's considert a "gift" what they than can be REDUCED from there taxes. It's just wording but sometimes that matters (don't know if that's the case here. you decide).
if you didn't know about this video, William was going through a lot at that time, and the people's overreaction to that video was so immense that he broke and quit youtube for a while.
The way medical bills work here with insurance is annoying. For those of you who don’t know, he doesn’t really owe 69k. That’s what the hospital “charged” for it, then his insurance company said no we say it’s worth 8k so that’s what they pay. The remaining 61k isn’t paid by anyone. He may owe like $100 or something out of pocket, or maybe $0. It kinda depends. The remaining 61k the hospital “eats”, and uses that amount as kind of like “charity” in the eyes of the IRS so they can get tax breaks come tax season
Oh nevermind I made this comment right after he showed the bill and it’s been so long since I saw this video I forgot they talked about this right after. So he owes $2k. Which means the insurance company agreed to pay like $10k for the service, paid $8k themselves and he owes the remaining $2k. And that amount is kind of just down to how good of insurance you have determines how much of the charge they cover vs you. So the hospital gets to put down like $59k in their files towards their tax breaks
Depends on his deductible. I have a $5000 per person deductible. I had a procedure a few years ago and I paid the full (insurance negotiated) $3500 for the procedure. I rarely get to the point in a year where the insurance is paying for anything.
I don't know what's more terrifying, the fact that you could buy a full xray machine for less than getting an xray done, or that the insurance actually did their job for once and paid for his medical bill.
Medical insurance technically usually pays for what it's supposed to cover. The problem is that what it's supposed to cover is a lot less than people expect because the terminology is a mess. Things like total deductible, specific care deductibles, copay, out of pocket maximums and "family" variants of all of those get jumbled and there are coverage maximums as well. Then on top of that you add covered procedures, out of network providers, and other costs that spike the patient part of the bill upward. And then care providers pull shenanigans to charge you even though your insurance already paid them or they code things intentionally incorrectly to increase what the insurance pays, coincidentally hiking up your portion of a bill in the process. When I was young mom was always fighting the doctors offices over them trying to bill the insurance for each test in a visit as if each test were a complete visit. We really need a single payer system.
The Hospital's price is originally insanely high because they bargain with insurance. It's busted unless you have goverment insurance like medicare,caid. Government insurance is less likely to bargin and sets a fixed price per procedure.
Hospital charged 70,000 for a $500 scan, insurance says the operation should only cost 10k, insurance refuses to pay more than 8k and the hospital gets a tax write-off, then insurance pays 20 times the cost and the patient pays 4 times the cost
The weird thing about the price is that we don't need to build an X-ray for every patient, so getting an x-ray is just the cost of operating (a few cents of electrical bills + about 20 minutes of a specialist's time), so US healthcare could slash X-ray scan prices down to a 1/5th of what they are now and they would still turn a profit.
This just shows how broken the US medical system is... IMO due to two words: "For Profit". They are not there to provide the best service they can, they are there to make a profit. They will do the minimal service they can for the highest price they can charge. On top of that, if someone has insurance, they will multiply the charge so they can charge even more. Since the insurance is also For Profit, the costs are passed onto the person through higher "premiums"
Nearly all medical systems in the world are for profit. The main question that determines the difference is who pays. Healthcare in countries with "free" systems is cheaper than it is in the US because the government has more purchasing power than any individual insurance company.
on the bright side at least you're getting your X-Rays before your broken bone starts to heal wrong. also you're not paying a third of your income every month even when you're not getting sick or injured.
@@windhelmguard5295 I wasn't arguing with the idea that US healthcare is lousy. I was taking issue with the way it was described, because when you frame an argument badly it becomes more difficult to defend.
When I was active duty Air Force, I had to have my ankle reconstructed after a training accident. The hospital sent me the bill (instead to Tricare) and I was shocked how much the bill was: $898,341. In the itemized section, I saw '0.007 oz tube - Bone Graft Paste' for $7,600 and I knew I was in the wrong career field. After a few months, I started getting nasty-grams from the hospital because Tricare didn't pay it. Thankfully, Tricare finally paid the bill after another 6 months.
I have a chronic illness that's kind of like diabetes; 100 % fatal if untreated but completely normal life expectancy and outcomes with modern treatment. Insurance covers the rx, BUT NOT THE NEEDLES. They can fluctuate monthly between almost nothing and thousands of dollars. Even with some of the best insurance available, I've had to needle shop to the point of having hit up harm reduction centers to score syringes to be able to take my life preserving medicine. Craziest part? I have "great" insurance.
I have a similar health problem and insurance issue. I was able to buy needles and syringes off a vetrinary supply website for far cheaper than getting ripped off at the pharmacy counter. If it's sterile enough for a horse, it's sterile enough for me.
My wife has 2 masters in physics and worked at one time for a xray tube company. I love to build things and when we watched this video a long time ago i suggested building a xray machine together, she forbid me from doing it.. :/
I'd argue that him making a home-made X-ray machine is reasonable for the purposes of "reasonably achievable", simply because the educational value of doing it is higher than the risk-factor of doing it, since it's not really that unsafe for somebody in his position.
Especially given he overdrove the tube. Typical x-ray tubes get 10 - 14 kv drive. He had a what, 69 kv power supply? Much more x-ray output than rated and fairly harder x-rays.
I forgot how funny William is. Your video popped up in my recommended, and it was definitely worth watching. It's cool that you're just not nit-picking the hell out of it and enjoying his humor as well as what he's working on.
Basic X-ray Systems for veterinary use start at about $16000. These systems are used on humans in some parts of the world, where the certification requirements are not as strict as in the US or Europe. My job is in the medical IT and I've seen some really good human X-rays from such systems (But also really bad ones. The generators are not that strong so the exposure times need to be much longer and it is really easy to mess up)
Really depends on the system though. A system designed to be used for larger animals like horses is perfectly capable of taking good x-rays of humans, but a dental system for dogs and other smaller animals is altogether different.
@@Bobbias You're absolutely right! I just kept it simple and short for everyone to understand. Even today a X-ray system is a white box at the hospital that beeps and magically delivers an image of their insides for most people, so please excuse my oversimplification :)
@@Bobbias Further more really obese people sometimes has to be brought to the veterinary systems just because they can't fit in the human systems, it happens more than you think and should be a clue that you should go on a diet.
Actually happens in US on a regular basis. Hello, how much does an X-Ray cost? Well, it depents it goes from 270$ up with no upper limit. (So basically 270$-infinity$ lol) Even though you already have the machine and it costs 1-2cents of electricity per picture.
Scientific American magazine had a column called 'The Amateur Scientist'. Various experiments and bits of apparatus, all of the home-made variety. Several issues covered different X-ray machines, the tubes were modified radio vacuum tubes. Did you know that in Washington State a person can get an X-ray operators license, without any sort of training or medical background? Yep...sort of like a commercial drivers license, but for ionizing radiation.
Good thing that I live in the Netherlands and our healthcare system! You get multiple x-ray scans and you pay NOTHING! Insurance takes care of it completely. We pay around 200 bucks a month for healthcare insurance and never have to pay for x-ray scans. You only have to pay for some medication that you get for the first time or that insurance doesn't cover but everything else will go straight to your healthcare insurance. That's why most people here go to the doctor as soon as something is a little wrong. Unlike America where most people are scared for the bill so they wait until something is really wrong or even when it's already too late!
Whereas in live in the UK and I could get multiple x-rays for nothing without having to pay anything for insurance (yes I know I pay for it with taxes). The NHS, one of the best things about the UK and the Tory govt are hell bent on destroying it so that they and their friends can make vast sums of money by bringing in a US like system...
Remember, anything or everything is gound when you are using voltage's above 600 volts, you need special insolators and spacing to keep the high voltages in the controled circuit from going to ground. If you are not careful and don't know what you are doing, remember, you are ground, it may injury or kill you.
I built my own x ray that used an old TV rectifier tube and a spiral line pulse generator. It developed well over 120KV at multiple amp range pulsed power for about 60nS. The pulses of x rays were very bright and penetrating, and because 90% of the power is in the first 10nS it can stop motion of extremely fast things as well. The pulse generator is extremely easy to build. Its a jelly roll capacitor with several extra turns of foil inside. The outer foil and inner foil are discharged and the pulse creates a current wave that compresses in time and increases voltage when it hits the inner foil turns. Each quarter turn doubles the voltage. A spark gap triggers it. ❤
The system isn't broken, it's working as intended. It's just openly malicious. And it's not just spawned from the void, it was made like that by people. *People who have names and addresses.*
@@b14hb14hDoesn't need shielding. The only reason they're shielded in hospitals is because of the sheer amount of x-rays the technicians are exposed to, some technicians take upwards of 2000 a day. While it's still far below the regulations for safety we use shielding when not needed as a peace of mind rather than actual fear of damage. If it weren't for people's lack of understanding and all the propaganda that surrounds anything nuclear we wouldn't have shielding on a great number of things, just makes it more complicated and expensive to produce, not to mention heavy and toxic.
Fun fact: bean cans, or canned goods in general, make great simple capacitors/leyden jars. (possibly) Salty, conductive innards separated by a non-conductive anti-corrosion layer with a metal shell around it
Same with a chunk of a TIG rod crimped to a lightbulb filament support and a brakelight bulb filament as the cathode. Putting a reflector cup around the filament makes it much more powerful. An easy way to get an extreme vacuum inside is to backfill with oxygen then pump out. Have a small amount of magnesium or titanium inside electrically connected. Next power up enough that the metal melts and boils. This will remove any remains of gas, both oxygen and nitrogen from the tube.❤
This to me sounds like something i would see drempt up on the Red Green show. Photonic induction's channel is pretty crazy, he did one with an x ray tube, 200,000V Jacob's ladder, and lots of other crazy things.
Someone made an X-ray machine (not a terribly good one, but it worked) using sticky tape as the source. There are videos and at least one Wired article.
My job has exactly one sign that i remeber really well, because instead of just being warning low roof, its "warning headcruncher" and i remeber it really well
William: Wait, so I don't owe that money? Me, a European: So you still have to pay $2491? Wut? I got an x-ray a couple weeks ago, and all I paid was $30 for my GP to look at it in the first place. The actual x ray and everything else was free. The state even covered my travel costs
I agree signs which make you think about them... and maybe get a laugh... would make sense. Maybe add them right below the "Legally Required Standardized" ones which since our brains recognize the signs and don't think of them any further.
If you need an xray for a non-life-threatening injury, like a broken bone, definitely go to urgent care before the ER. I broke 2 bones in my foot and got 3 xrays from a local urgent care for about $110 vs well over 1k if id gone to an ER. And if you do need a specialist review it you can just get urgent care to forward the xrays
What’s sad is if he called and asked how much the X-Ray would cost with insurance it probably would have been more than not having it. I don’t know what’s wrong with the medical system but it’s severely messed up.
I work at a lumber mill around a ton of forklifts. Thy all have back up beepers and it does not take long for the beeping to just blend in with else. So yeah safety sign blindness is a real thing
That lead looks at least as thick as the lead in an xray room I did some work in on and around, and yeah modern xray machines are rather different than old ones, the digital plates measuring the xrays are in fact wifi connected and iirc powered by a rechargeable battery.
Had an American friend once with me here in Germany and he drove with me to a Hospital after i had a bike crash and the doc told us that Something for the treatment (forgot what it was) would have a high share that i had to pay. My friend was shocked to hear that And even more shocked, when we went to the pharmacist and i paid like 15€
@@cpace123 The German Medical Fee Index (GOÄ) regulates prices for all kinds of medical procedures and it lists an x-ray for a hand in two planes at 25,08€. Google it or ask Chat-GPT if you don't believe me.
It's funny how you explain that with a break they take X-ray photo's of various positions. When I broke my left knuckle, wrist and pinky (all different occasions), they took at most 2 X-rays and for the knuckle a 3rd one after 4 weeks to verify no surgery was needed. This was in the Netherlands though which has a fairly comprehensive basic health insurance. The 2 concussions lead to a CT scan each and an MRI for the first one after 4 months. The MRI was really weird...
Depends on the type of fracture. When I hear people talk about "breaking" bones they typically mean a complete fracture, which may need a few different angles.
The way medical insurance works (in the US) is the hospital send a (ridiculous) bill and the insurance says, “Well pay a tenth of that.” Out of that 1/10 they end up paying is coming out of your pocket. The hospital is fine with this because they charge such an insane amount and the money they didn’t manage to get from your insurance will be written off as a “loss” and then they pay less on taxes because… well… ‘Mercia…
Hospitals here charge a ridiculous number because they know insurance will pay more that what it's worth and then insurance pays way less than that number given to the hospital because they know they're going to do that and finally you pay a little tiny bit of that number and the rest gets filled as a loss on taxes. Insurance gets to save money and the hospital gets to avoid taxes with made up losses 🙃
Someone explained how American healthcare works to me, Basically, the hospital gives a bill - The insurance pays a big chunk, you pay a smaller amount than the insurance (Like excess on car insurance), The hospital write off the remainder...
the funny thing about that video and probably was why you were requested it was because everyone in the comments were acting like experts on the subject saying that could have killed him or given him cancer, it's like at this point what does not cause cancer because so many things do, stores sell stuff that cause cancer.
8:22 Cool but I'm pretty sure a dental x-ray machine doesn't just light the thing up and leave it on. I'm guessing the exposure time is measured in tenths or hundredths of a second.
Beryllium metal really isn't so bad. Tiny particles that you inhale might be, and beryllium oxide is definitely bad to inhale. And the cost and availibility of beryllium parts (at least a year ago) is crazy. William is right that it might be interersting to salvage the Be windows, if you can maintain the vacuum seal.
If you would like to venture out towards a bit more mystery with some freak science coincident you should have see Wendioon 's The Bizarre Death of Gloria Ramirez
The hospital bill is actually 69K but then the Insurance goes, nah we're not gonna pay that we are only gonna pay 8K, the hospital agrees and the 61K difference is written of as a gift and can be reduced from there taxes. The system is broken but for all the wrong reasons...
The way USA insurance works is the hospital overcharges, knowing the insurance isn't going to pay out the total amount. Then, depending on the individual's insurance, they pay a "small" amount, also known in some places as an excess fee, and the hospital writes off the rest as a tax deduction leading to the hospitals paying near zero tax. Whilst the system is very much broken, it is a lot less scary when you understand it, although, don't get me wrong, it is an awful system. Health is a right, not a commodity.
How is that resistor doing any work @ 6:20 ? Looks like both connections are coming from the one side of the Resistor, looks like the leg of the other end has been snapped off or something.
I was really angry & scared for him after seeing William's video because people who have money and zero iq could recreate this and seriously hurt themselves and others
"Safety is our number one priority" from the guy who runs a podcast called "Safety Third"
It's well worth checking out the 1932 Harold Lloyd movie "Safety Last!".
Exactly what I thought lol.
Pretty sure it's a reference to a very old youtube channel that ran "Is it a good idea to microwave this?", and they had this catchphrase in the beginning of each episode "Here, at the Jory Caron laboratory, safety is our number one concern. That's why we hide behind this big tinfoil shield. It's to protect our nuts, because nobody likes roasted nuts."
@@jordanwaeles Man that's OG TH-cam right there.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049 good old times
Electrical engineer: I wouldn't touch that thing because of all the radiation!
Nuclear engineer: I wouldn't touch that thing because of all the high voltage!
Me: I wouldn't touch that thing!
My grandfather "Eh, whats the worst that could happen?"
Non engineer: Where can I sign up?
Radiological engineer: I wouldn't touch that thing without tinted sunglasses
Electrical engineer that has worked in the nuclear field for over a decade: I really want to touch that
We had a safety sign that said " This will not kill you but it will hurt really really bad "
"not only will this kill you, it will hurt the entire time you are dying" -AVE
A few weeks ago, i hung up a sign at the power socket of our Server closet at work, that said "This won't kill you, but i might", after i had to drive two hours because some idiot unplugged their router to plug in a vacuum cleaner
@@p3chv0gel22 love it
There was a standing joke at a nuclear plant when visitors would ask if they'd die from swimming in the fuel pool.
The answer was "Yes, you will die from the guards shooting you!"
Actually I'm sure they would fish you out and then you'd be arrested for something and added to the list of people not allowed in nuclear facilities.
"Danger: Do Not Look Into Laser With Remaining Eye"
I think part of the fear of x-rays is how they used to be. The old shoe fitting fluoroscopes averaged around 6.5 mSv per second and people would just stand there looking down at their foot through it to contemplate how well their shoe fit around their toe bones.
It also doesn't help that fear that every time we get an X-ray, they slap a heavy lead-filled pad whatever part of our torso they aren't scanning and hide in a bunker while a mini air raid siren goes off. Good for safety, bad for PR.
the reason they hide in a room adjacent is because they do more of these than any one person will get in their lifetime, they just have to do that. Same reason they have the warning equipment.
The lead vest is to minimize stray radiation exposure and absorption. It's not THAT big of a deal, but anything you can do to substantially lessen the amount of absorbed radiation is a GOOD thing.
IK you probably already know this stuff lol, just expanding on it for the curious minded.
@@killingtimeitselfYep, and the "mini air raid siren" is a high voltage discharge inside the emitter.
In todays episode "Nuclear expert doesnt know x-ray is not nuclear!
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307Go troll elsewhere.
@@Merennulli Oh your also ignorant of the fact its not nuclear! LOL that explains alot!
That stupid number was the real bill. I recently learned how this works. The hospital bills that, insurance says no, and pays its 9 grand, charging the insuree the 2 grand. The hospital then writes off the 80,000 as a loss on its taxes. Everyone wins. Well, except the insuree who is still being overcharged for an x-ray.
Or the poor guy who doesn't have insurance but still has assets. It's worth it even to have really crappy insurance that pays almost nothing because at least you get the lower insurance company negotiated rate.
@davidg4288 Most hospitals have a department you can contact to talk down or get a bill removed if you can prove hardship. It's just stupid that the system is so busted thats necessary. Especially since if you are sick, bureaucracy should be the last thing you have to deal with.
My partner was billed 114K for a one night hospital stay and surgery, out of that the surgeon billed 5000 and the anesthesiologist billed 3000. He ended up on the hook for 5000 plus other random fees. The whole system is jacked.
Yup, and this is really the biggest most immediate problem with US health care rn. It forces people to the insurance companies because good luck pulling that off as a private individual instead of an insurance company.
it's not as a "loss on the taxes" and the end result will be the same ;) but it's considert a "gift" what they than can be REDUCED from there taxes. It's just wording but sometimes that matters (don't know if that's the case here. you decide).
if you didn't know about this video, William was going through a lot at that time, and the people's overreaction to that video was so immense that he broke and quit youtube for a while.
However, we have since seen evidence that his 'most valuable parts' were indeed well protected.
was the shovel vs spade incident around that time as well? he seemed pretty pissed off over that too
@@ericpayne9091 yeah the "you're using wrong shovel to dig" comments when the clip was a bit... i get Williams annoyance.
The way medical bills work here with insurance is annoying. For those of you who don’t know, he doesn’t really owe 69k. That’s what the hospital “charged” for it, then his insurance company said no we say it’s worth 8k so that’s what they pay. The remaining 61k isn’t paid by anyone. He may owe like $100 or something out of pocket, or maybe $0. It kinda depends. The remaining 61k the hospital “eats”, and uses that amount as kind of like “charity” in the eyes of the IRS so they can get tax breaks come tax season
Oh nevermind I made this comment right after he showed the bill and it’s been so long since I saw this video I forgot they talked about this right after. So he owes $2k. Which means the insurance company agreed to pay like $10k for the service, paid $8k themselves and he owes the remaining $2k. And that amount is kind of just down to how good of insurance you have determines how much of the charge they cover vs you. So the hospital gets to put down like $59k in their files towards their tax breaks
@@TheJerseyNinjathat's still an absolutely batshit insane system.
@@TheJerseyNinja sounds like fraud to me.
Depends on his deductible. I have a $5000 per person deductible. I had a procedure a few years ago and I paid the full (insurance negotiated) $3500 for the procedure. I rarely get to the point in a year where the insurance is paying for anything.
I don't know what's more terrifying, the fact that you could buy a full xray machine for less than getting an xray done, or that the insurance actually did their job for once and paid for his medical bill.
Medical insurance technically usually pays for what it's supposed to cover. The problem is that what it's supposed to cover is a lot less than people expect because the terminology is a mess. Things like total deductible, specific care deductibles, copay, out of pocket maximums and "family" variants of all of those get jumbled and there are coverage maximums as well. Then on top of that you add covered procedures, out of network providers, and other costs that spike the patient part of the bill upward.
And then care providers pull shenanigans to charge you even though your insurance already paid them or they code things intentionally incorrectly to increase what the insurance pays, coincidentally hiking up your portion of a bill in the process. When I was young mom was always fighting the doctors offices over them trying to bill the insurance for each test in a visit as if each test were a complete visit.
We really need a single payer system.
@@Merennulli see where I live it just covers everything, like most of the world. you go to the hospital, you get better, you never pay anything.
@@SKPetel I know. That's how they tricked you into using the metric system. They injected milliliters in your bloodstream instead of fluid ounces.
The Hospital's price is originally insanely high because they bargain with insurance. It's busted unless you have goverment insurance like medicare,caid. Government insurance is less likely to bargin and sets a fixed price per procedure.
Are teeth and eyes part of "everything" there?@@SKPetel
if I recall correctly the "safety nerds" bothered hiim SO much he eventually didn't find it fun to do these videos anymore
Yeah the response was pretty wild. Good to see an expert here appreciating the video in the way William intended!
He posts on his second channel regularly
Hospital charged 70,000 for a $500 scan, insurance says the operation should only cost 10k, insurance refuses to pay more than 8k and the hospital gets a tax write-off,
then insurance pays 20 times the cost and the patient pays 4 times the cost
Wut? The people who do that should be jailed for life, that is a scam
Tax write offs for hospitals that are almost always non-profits and don't pay taxes. Definitely not a conspiracy.
@@diablo.the.cheater welcome to healthcare.
@@bhume7535More like "welcome to American healthcare".
@@nikkiofthevalley Everywhere else you pay in wait time not dollar amount.
WILLIAM IS AWESOME YOU GOTTA WATCH MORE OF HIS STUFF!!!
NeVeR hEaRd Of HiM!
The weird thing about the price is that we don't need to build an X-ray for every patient, so getting an x-ray is just the cost of operating (a few cents of electrical bills + about 20 minutes of a specialist's time), so US healthcare could slash X-ray scan prices down to a 1/5th of what they are now and they would still turn a profit.
Save that the insurance company then underpays, leaving the services provided by contract at a loss.
We in the Robot Combat circle love William. He's one of us yeah hes famous but he still rocks with the Robot Combat community.
Didn't he get HUGE backlash for buying a battlebot?
This just shows how broken the US medical system is... IMO due to two words: "For Profit". They are not there to provide the best service they can, they are there to make a profit. They will do the minimal service they can for the highest price they can charge. On top of that, if someone has insurance, they will multiply the charge so they can charge even more. Since the insurance is also For Profit, the costs are passed onto the person through higher "premiums"
Nearly all medical systems in the world are for profit. The main question that determines the difference is who pays.
Healthcare in countries with "free" systems is cheaper than it is in the US because the government has more purchasing power than any individual insurance company.
on the bright side at least you're getting your X-Rays before your broken bone starts to heal wrong.
also you're not paying a third of your income every month even when you're not getting sick or injured.
@@windhelmguard5295 I wasn't arguing with the idea that US healthcare is lousy. I was taking issue with the way it was described, because when you frame an argument badly it becomes more difficult to defend.
When I was active duty Air Force, I had to have my ankle reconstructed after a training accident. The hospital sent me the bill (instead to Tricare) and I was shocked how much the bill was: $898,341. In the itemized section, I saw '0.007 oz tube - Bone Graft Paste' for $7,600 and I knew I was in the wrong career field. After a few months, I started getting nasty-grams from the hospital because Tricare didn't pay it. Thankfully, Tricare finally paid the bill after another 6 months.
I can confirm your service, and specifically the Air Force l, based on you saying “nastygram”. You’re verified as authentic.
I have a chronic illness that's kind of like diabetes; 100 % fatal if untreated but completely normal life expectancy and outcomes with modern treatment.
Insurance covers the rx, BUT NOT THE NEEDLES. They can fluctuate monthly between almost nothing and thousands of dollars. Even with some of the best insurance available, I've had to needle shop to the point of having hit up harm reduction centers to score syringes to be able to take my life preserving medicine.
Craziest part? I have "great" insurance.
I have a similar health problem and insurance issue. I was able to buy needles and syringes off a vetrinary supply website for far cheaper than getting ripped off at the pharmacy counter. If it's sterile enough for a horse, it's sterile enough for me.
@@gazmodius holy crap that's brilliant
Huge thank you for this tip 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
My wife has 2 masters in physics and worked at one time for a xray tube company. I love to build things and when we watched this video a long time ago i suggested building a xray machine together, she forbid me from doing it.. :/
Start building one anyway. Tell her if she loves you and wants you to live, she'll help you lol.
glad you finally cheked out Will. loved your reaction to his safety measures!
Thanks for adding value to this video. This is definitely something I will not be trying myself!
I'd argue that him making a home-made X-ray machine is reasonable for the purposes of "reasonably achievable", simply because the educational value of doing it is higher than the risk-factor of doing it, since it's not really that unsafe for somebody in his position.
Especially given he overdrove the tube. Typical x-ray tubes get 10 - 14 kv drive. He had a what, 69 kv power supply? Much more x-ray output than rated and fairly harder x-rays.
I forgot how funny William is. Your video popped up in my recommended, and it was definitely worth watching. It's cool that you're just not nit-picking the hell out of it and enjoying his humor as well as what he's working on.
Basic X-ray Systems for veterinary use start at about $16000. These systems are used on humans in some parts of the world, where the certification requirements are not as strict as in the US or Europe.
My job is in the medical IT and I've seen some really good human X-rays from such systems (But also really bad ones. The generators are not that strong so the exposure times need to be much longer and it is really easy to mess up)
Really depends on the system though. A system designed to be used for larger animals like horses is perfectly capable of taking good x-rays of humans, but a dental system for dogs and other smaller animals is altogether different.
@@Bobbias You're absolutely right! I just kept it simple and short for everyone to understand. Even today a X-ray system is a white box at the hospital that beeps and magically delivers an image of their insides for most people, so please excuse my oversimplification :)
@@Bobbias Further more really obese people sometimes has to be brought to the veterinary systems just because they can't fit in the human systems, it happens more than you think and should be a clue that you should go on a diet.
Actually happens in US on a regular basis.
Hello, how much does an X-Ray cost?
Well, it depents it goes from 270$ up with no upper limit.
(So basically 270$-infinity$ lol)
Even though you already have the machine and it costs 1-2cents of electricity per picture.
Scientific American magazine had a column called 'The Amateur Scientist'.
Various experiments and bits of apparatus, all of the home-made variety.
Several issues covered different X-ray machines, the tubes were modified radio vacuum tubes.
Did you know that in Washington State a person can get an X-ray operators license, without any sort of training or medical background?
Yep...sort of like a commercial drivers license, but for ionizing radiation.
Not according to the law. RCW 18.84.080 states you must graduate from an approved school, pass the exam, and be of good moral character.
Good thing that I live in the Netherlands and our healthcare system! You get multiple x-ray scans and you pay NOTHING!
Insurance takes care of it completely.
We pay around 200 bucks a month for healthcare insurance and never have to pay for x-ray scans.
You only have to pay for some medication that you get for the first time or that insurance doesn't cover but everything else will go straight to your healthcare insurance.
That's why most people here go to the doctor as soon as something is a little wrong.
Unlike America where most people are scared for the bill so they wait until something is really wrong or even when it's already too late!
Whereas in live in the UK and I could get multiple x-rays for nothing without having to pay anything for insurance (yes I know I pay for it with taxes). The NHS, one of the best things about the UK and the Tory govt are hell bent on destroying it so that they and their friends can make vast sums of money by bringing in a US like system...
So wait if he got his operating license and registered it. Could he then do X-ray visits out of his garage?
I'd be interested in seeing your reaction to Neptunium's DIY particle accelerator.
yeah that whole series is crazy lol
Remember, anything or everything is gound when you are using voltage's above 600 volts, you need special insolators and spacing to keep the high voltages in the controled circuit from going to ground. If you are not careful and don't know what you are doing, remember, you are ground, it may injury or kill you.
Hell, even a 10kv line can act as ground if the other line is 60kv.
I built my own x ray that used an old TV rectifier tube and a spiral line pulse generator. It developed well over 120KV at multiple amp range pulsed power for about 60nS. The pulses of x rays were very bright and penetrating, and because 90% of the power is in the first 10nS it can stop motion of extremely fast things as well. The pulse generator is extremely easy to build. Its a jelly roll capacitor with several extra turns of foil inside. The outer foil and inner foil are discharged and the pulse creates a current wave that compresses in time and increases voltage when it hits the inner foil turns. Each quarter turn doubles the voltage. A spark gap triggers it. ❤
Dr. Oppenheimer would be proud
The system isn't broken, it's working as intended. It's just openly malicious. And it's not just spawned from the void, it was made like that by people. *People who have names and addresses.*
You could use a 3d printer to set up a good containment unit for this setup. I think it could look pretty good.
@@b14hb14hDoesn't need shielding. The only reason they're shielded in hospitals is because of the sheer amount of x-rays the technicians are exposed to, some technicians take upwards of 2000 a day. While it's still far below the regulations for safety we use shielding when not needed as a peace of mind rather than actual fear of damage.
If it weren't for people's lack of understanding and all the propaganda that surrounds anything nuclear we wouldn't have shielding on a great number of things, just makes it more complicated and expensive to produce, not to mention heavy and toxic.
@@b14hb14h There are some filaments that have metals mixed in. Or there are machines that are designed to print metals
Fun fact: bean cans, or canned goods in general, make great simple capacitors/leyden jars.
(possibly) Salty, conductive innards separated by a non-conductive anti-corrosion layer with a metal shell around it
@2:25
"Pound sand! I have health insurance!" Was absolutely hysterical.
The X-ray tube its easy to do too, i made one with a small tungsten cube a small lightbulb filament, a crt trasnformer and a fridge pump for vaccumm.
Same with a chunk of a TIG rod crimped to a lightbulb filament support and a brakelight bulb filament as the cathode. Putting a reflector cup around the filament makes it much more powerful. An easy way to get an extreme vacuum inside is to backfill with oxygen then pump out. Have a small amount of magnesium or titanium inside electrically connected. Next power up enough that the metal melts and boils. This will remove any remains of gas, both oxygen and nitrogen from the tube.❤
This to me sounds like something i would see drempt up on the Red Green show. Photonic induction's channel is pretty crazy, he did one with an x ray tube, 200,000V Jacob's ladder, and lots of other crazy things.
3:50 "The technician"
Now i realised a doctor is just a technician for humans
Just for reference, you can do this with an incandescent light bulb, or vacuum tube... And voltage multipliers
Been there done this
Someone made an X-ray machine (not a terribly good one, but it worked) using sticky tape as the source. There are videos and at least one Wired article.
As for radiation goes, what doesn't kill you gives you super powers.
I was wondering when he would look at this.
Imagine going to work and they just give you a dog and are like "Yeah just stand behind him as much as you can"
it is ironic that he said holds electrons worse than, when thats exactly backwards
69k for xray??? what the hell is happening in America 😂😂😂
in my country its free tho
4:28 the point is, that William acts stupid on camera, but is not stupid. there is an high possibility that he expected or planned the arcing.
My job has exactly one sign that i remeber really well, because instead of just being warning low roof, its "warning headcruncher" and i remeber it really well
This is the video I've been waiting for you to check out! I love William. Dudes the reason I own a ton of cat shirts.
William: Wait, so I don't owe that money?
Me, a European: So you still have to pay $2491? Wut? I got an x-ray a couple weeks ago, and all I paid was $30 for my GP to look at it in the first place. The actual x ray and everything else was free. The state even covered my travel costs
I agree signs which make you think about them... and maybe get a laugh... would make sense. Maybe add them right below the "Legally Required Standardized" ones which since our brains recognize the signs and don't think of them any further.
William is the most unhinged science tuber out there. His content is what got me hooked on this stuff
cathode ray tube, metal plate, some cooling rig. not that bad.
If you need an xray for a non-life-threatening injury, like a broken bone, definitely go to urgent care before the ER. I broke 2 bones in my foot and got 3 xrays from a local urgent care for about $110 vs well over 1k if id gone to an ER.
And if you do need a specialist review it you can just get urgent care to forward the xrays
What’s sad is if he called and asked how much the X-Ray would cost with insurance it probably would have been more than not having it. I don’t know what’s wrong with the medical system but it’s severely messed up.
7:28 Tyler, you should roll into work wearing that sometime and see how long it takes for someone to notice. 😂
I work at a lumber mill around a ton of forklifts. Thy all have back up beepers and it does not take long for the beeping to just blend in with else. So yeah safety sign blindness is a real thing
I saw where that was going as soon as he held it up and said it. I guess I might have to watch the original now
Would love to see more reactions to William Osman's videos!
“guard dogs would actually be pretty good protection” lol
Safety Third honestly is the most fitting podcast name for Williams podcast.
That is so interesting because they already have the machine, using it costs like 1 cent of electricity
That lead looks at least as thick as the lead in an xray room I did some work in on and around, and yeah modern xray machines are rather different than old ones, the digital plates measuring the xrays are in fact wifi connected and iirc powered by a rechargeable battery.
If you had to pay for an X-Ray in Germany, you'd pay around 25€. Of course it's covered by health insurance, so you don't have to pay anything.
Had an American friend once with me here in Germany and he drove with me to a Hospital after i had a bike crash and the doc told us that Something for the treatment (forgot what it was) would have a high share that i had to pay. My friend was shocked to hear that
And even more shocked, when we went to the pharmacist and i paid like 15€
Never had an x-ray in the USA for then the $25 with insurance. Something is not adding up?
@@cpace123 The German Medical Fee Index (GOÄ) regulates prices for all kinds of medical procedures and it lists an x-ray for a hand in two planes at 25,08€. Google it or ask Chat-GPT if you don't believe me.
It's funny how you explain that with a break they take X-ray photo's of various positions. When I broke my left knuckle, wrist and pinky (all different occasions), they took at most 2 X-rays and for the knuckle a 3rd one after 4 weeks to verify no surgery was needed.
This was in the Netherlands though which has a fairly comprehensive basic health insurance.
The 2 concussions lead to a CT scan each and an MRI for the first one after 4 months. The MRI was really weird...
Depends on the type of fracture. When I hear people talk about "breaking" bones they typically mean a complete fracture, which may need a few different angles.
Please do more William!
Kreosan also made an X-ray device!
The way medical insurance works (in the US) is the hospital send a (ridiculous) bill and the insurance says, “Well pay a tenth of that.” Out of that 1/10 they end up paying is coming out of your pocket. The hospital is fine with this because they charge such an insane amount and the money they didn’t manage to get from your insurance will be written off as a “loss” and then they pay less on taxes because… well… ‘Mercia…
Hospitals here charge a ridiculous number because they know insurance will pay more that what it's worth and then insurance pays way less than that number given to the hospital because they know they're going to do that and finally you pay a little tiny bit of that number and the rest gets filled as a loss on taxes. Insurance gets to save money and the hospital gets to avoid taxes with made up losses 🙃
Ebay is crazy. I occasionally resell Eberline stuff from decommissioned nuclear facilities. They send any and everything its wild.
the sytem isnt broken, it is working excatly according to plan
Someone explained how American healthcare works to me, Basically, the hospital gives a bill - The insurance pays a big chunk, you pay a smaller amount than the insurance (Like excess on car insurance), The hospital write off the remainder...
Pro strat for a $50 x-ray in America.
Have insurance.
Don't go ER unless it's life threatening, go to urgent care.
Nuclear engineer plays subnautica when?
the funny thing about that video and probably was why you were requested it was because everyone in the comments were acting like experts on the subject saying that could have killed him or given him cancer, it's like at this point what does not cause cancer because so many things do, stores sell stuff that cause cancer.
I‘d really love to see you react to more of Williams content, he‘s a cool dude^^
Great video! Keep it up!
I absolutely love how TH-cam has enabled mad scientists to enter the spotlight
Only 200-300€ here, unless ordered by a doctor then it's free. Too bad for US citizens.
My namesakes motto is: Wyatt, if the pistols a jumpin, the bodies start thumpin
the running inside joke at the start.
Is they have a podcast called Safety Third.
You should check it out and maybe join and talk about radiation.
I think the lead roofing sheet was overkill. A few sheets of sheet metal would probably do the trick for short term exposure.
That was great! I loved the DIY x-ray video and was curious what your take on that was.
There are industrial radiography units that use Co60
William has been crazy long before styropyro. Don’t worry
7:45 So I would be more worried about my thyroid than the crown jewels
can you please do a review or ig over view of the Geiger counters you've used or you'd used
8:22 Cool but I'm pretty sure a dental x-ray machine doesn't just light the thing up and leave it on. I'm guessing the exposure time is measured in tenths or hundredths of a second.
those x ray heads probably have beryllium windows and can cause berylliosis.
Beryllium metal really isn't so bad. Tiny particles that you inhale might be, and beryllium oxide is definitely bad to inhale.
And the cost and availibility of beryllium parts (at least a year ago) is crazy. William is right that it might be interersting to salvage the Be windows, if you can maintain the vacuum seal.
What kind of X-Ray did he get. I have never heard of X-Rays costing that much even with insurance.
If you would like to venture out towards a bit more mystery with some freak science coincident you should have see Wendioon 's The Bizarre Death of Gloria Ramirez
The hospital bill is actually 69K but then the Insurance goes, nah we're not gonna pay that we are only gonna pay 8K, the hospital agrees and the 61K difference is written of as a gift and can be reduced from there taxes. The system is broken but for all the wrong reasons...
The way USA insurance works is the hospital overcharges, knowing the insurance isn't going to pay out the total amount. Then, depending on the individual's insurance, they pay a "small" amount, also known in some places as an excess fee, and the hospital writes off the rest as a tax deduction leading to the hospitals paying near zero tax.
Whilst the system is very much broken, it is a lot less scary when you understand it, although, don't get me wrong, it is an awful system. Health is a right, not a commodity.
Small correction: Technologist. Not Technician
For that "medical debt" they would get the finger, and never see a cent. And I would use scorched earth tactics to make sure they never got a cent.
How is that resistor doing any work @ 6:20 ? Looks like both connections are coming from the one side of the Resistor, looks like the leg of the other end has been snapped off or something.
I was really angry & scared for him after seeing William's video because people who have money and zero iq could recreate this and seriously hurt themselves and others
17:41 bro totally missed how uhh…
How the dogs had guns ☠️ totally necessary for the sign
Very important assets.
Xrays in Australia are pretty much free I think.
Welcome to the world of high voltage
Where everything is a live wire
And you can die
Has he seen when Steveo put himself through a baggage x-ray?
Almost like theres a reason the whole thing was put in oil 🤔