I was thinking the same thing, but then a second voice in my brain was like "imagine if this was the first of his videos you'd ever seen" and felt bad for the confusion that would cause 🤣
@@grankmisguided That confusion is actually half of what drove me to watch more so I could try to understand it more, so I think it works out in the end lol
it reminds me of people in prison, use cigarettes as "currency". even the ones who don't smoke...OR maybe snack foods ? (candy, schocolate also counts !!)
You haven't seen any rural family medicine sketches yet?! Those are truly heartbreaking. Also Jimothy and Tristopher from United and Aetna, trying to fight the evil from within - and of course failing eternally? There were 10-year olds treatments denied, via mystery denial bag 😢
Purgatory....hmmmm. This sounds more like Limbo. "Limbo (Latin limbus, edge or boundary, referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned." The original sin is Anesthesia..... the life of breaks, an ether curtain keeping the Dark Lord at a distance..... Moral: Just avoid the entire first floor of any hospital. Stay within the relative safety of the OR suites!
He almost makes it to the door, but then he overhears two residents arguing about whether a 6th dose of Ativan or a 4th of haloperidol would be less risky...
The way he revealed that t-shirt under his scrub top as though showing an already-bleeding-for-some-time gsw in a battlefield in some angsty scene of sacrifice... "Its too late for me."
You'd think that Psychiatry is immune. But I was once roped into chasing a suicidal patient who made a break from the ED. Emergency and I were losing ground as she bolted down the main corridor towards the atrum until one of the cleaning staff tripped her with his mop.
I once lost a psych pstient in ED. She was an inpatient at the acute unit down the road and attended ED minors with a trivial laceration to her wrist. Unfortunately the psych nurse accompanying fainted when she saw blood (hence her career choice), face planted the wall and laid unconcious on the floor. In the chaos the psych patient escaped and ran back to the psych unit 200m down the road. Because being in an acute psychiatric unit was less traumatic than being in ED!
Im a medstud (going to graduate this year). At first I thought the thing with Emergency Doctor loving physical activity is just an exaggeration... until I went into Emergency rotation. My doctor literally came with a bike on his shoulder, full on gear with helmet, glasses, biking shirt and everything 😭
I remember going to the ER because my resting heartrate was abnormally high for me at 130bpm (normal is about 65bpm) and when I told my ER doctor this he replied "that's not too bad, during my workout this morning my heartrate was 190bpm".
Hi I'm a med student 5th year into my studies. I'm thinking about choosing anesthesia for specialty in the future, can I ask for your wisdom and experience on it while you're here real quick😅 are you happy with it?
@@fatemehosseinzade8291 If you like doing crosswords, enjoy frequent breaks, love coffee and do triathlons before shift starts, it’s perfect for you :) No really, it’s great. But you won’t the hero in shiny armor, you will be more like Batman. You have to be okay with not standing in the spotlight. Only if something goes wrong, people will be looking at you expectantly.
This hits home for me. I am a urologist and whenever I need to go to the emergency room and don't leave inconspicuously enough, suddenly there are three catheters that "can't be placed" and need to be done by me, I am urged to consult on at least three ultrasounds of the kidneys and everyone suddenly forgets how to treat urinary infections.
I'm so sorry for those consultants who don't make it out. As an ER nurse, you can identify a professional escape artist as someone who asked you what tests were done, meds were given, heck maybe they try and slip you a verbal. But by the time you turn around to be like, "oh hang on they have an allergy to cef---" *POOF* And like a whisp of smoke. Were they even there? Only Epic can be certain once they verify the orders loooong after we just figured it out without them.
As a chronic acute patient with multiple fatal allergies and over 30 surgeries I'm laughing wayyyy to hard over this. I've actually heard a nurse shout "God damn it!" after running around trying to find the doctor. Of course she bolted in and apologized when I started laughing but I assured her it was all good. Never fuck with thr ppl who have control over pain meds and the ability to puncture veins!
"That emergency doctor you mentioned have been dead for ten years. Funnily enough, whenever we need help in this hospital, someone just turns up, but they always end up asking for him right after..."
Yea. Imagine the amazing ER docs that were on the frontlines taking care of the sickest COVID patients while everyone else was working remotely. And when a patient needs to be treated for a STEMI, a stroke or other emergency, it’ll be the ER docs saving their lives
First time I’m commenting ❤ My dad is both a geriatric physician 👨🏾⚕️ and an ER (don’t ask me why…). He called me yesterday to tell me that one of his patient almost died of a heart attack and internal bleeding, because Anaesthesia came to “quickly help”, thought that the patient already died, and then proceeded to make a swift exit from the ER 😂 Thankfully Dad 👴🏾 thought of making a scan, found the internal bleeding, and quickly called back Anaesthesia to prep him for surgery. Last I’ve heard, the 69 years old was saved and is now sleeping soundly. After watching your videos, I really can’t blame my dad’s colleague to bolt out of the ER as soon as possible, I’m just glad he came back 😂 Great video as always Doc, keep them coming. Cheers from France 🇫🇷
@@hayleycakes3435 Yes, there was an incompetence of care, but due to the competency of the rest of the team, the patient was saved. I’m not sure you read it?
The ED docs in our hospital are famous for waiting until the end of their shift to call you with bullshit consults. So by the time you get there and evaluate the patient, they've gone home. When you go and try to find the original doc who called you to explain the dozen reasons why they should have never called you in the first place, they're nowhere to be found. And when you search for the ER doc they signed the patient out to, they say "Oh, I don't really know anything about the patient; Dr. X just told me you were coming in to admit the patient."
And the admitting docs at our hospital when called for an admission are famous for demanding some spurious additional test to be added before they will consult. So, near the end of your shift, you end up signing out what should have been a completed admission an hour ago to the next ER doctor who is completely disinterested in this being that they just showed up and are being bombarded with new patients. Therefore, they are not too knowledgable about it when the admitting doctor eventually rolls around and wants to discuss it. Finally, if it is a "bullshit" consult the simple and obvious thing to do is just discharge the patient instead of searching out someone else to talk to about the bullshit. Funny, despite all the complaints, that NEVER happens.
How I handle going to the ER as a Pharmacy Tech. Go equipped with candy. You can always distract them with candy. Outside the door take a deep breath and assess posture; chin up, shoulders down and back. Show no weakness.Enter and head straight for the trackboard to discover the identity of the RN looking after the patient whose medicines I carry. I then locate the nurse and confirm that they are indeed who I seek. If they look hungry, distract with a single wrapped candy and light humour. When thus appeased, it is safe to physically and verbally pass on custody of the medication to the ER RN. Leave as fast as you can manage without looking like prey or an escaping patient.
TRAPPED!!!!!! Wow I needed that today. Hey, I think I am being triggered........ I actually AM a BASE jumper as well as a doc. Have I been trapped without knowing????? I was just "helping out" with a small facial laceration; anyone could have closed it. But I was flattered that they asked ME to close it. This blows my mind. I think I need to go to counseling now...........
That’s why you always carry the OB phone with you when going to the ED. A fake obstetric emergency will get you out of “helping” with any central lines.
When I had my 4 wisdom teeth out with the maxophiliofacial surgeon, I was super nice to the man putting me to sleep / anaesthesia. He was such a great person. He was learning to ballroom dance at the time, with his lovely wife, and did a little demonstrated in the surgery room as the team were prepping the gear. I couldn't stop laughing to do the countdown from 10, and he said, "Don't worry, we'll know that you are out, when the maniacal laughing stops!" 😆😂🤣 Thanks anaesthesia, love you all! Princess Holly of Australia🕊🌿🌴🌻🌳🌲🍀 hairdresser 🕊🌿🌻🌴🌲🍀
Not really! As an emergency medicine physician I did request help very few times but never left my patient to any consultant. But I must say that would be awesome to do!🤡👻👺😎🤣
@@billyrodriguez1878 I hope this wouldn’t be the case irl haha but would like to clarify I was referring to how in the last video about the ER (the one set up like a horror movie) that had the surgeon slowly become a trauma surgeon haha
In the UK anesthesia is very much part of ED as much as ED doctors - as most ED doctors are not trained to tube patients. They also put in lines. Anesthesia also are the doctors on ICU/ITU departments.
They defs all take crazy amounts of breaks in the uk, and are always doing something thats not work lol. If the anaesthesiologist is actually paying attention it’s something to worry about. This is from an outsider, lil old xray over here
I’d sooner go to the cafeteria and get a whole new coffee-nay, venture to Starbucks and procure a completely new mug and coffee than approach near the dreaded ER-adjacent call room. Godspeed, Anesthesia. Godspeed.
It must be heartbreaking for the anesthesiologist when the scrub cap starts peeling off revealing the helmet-y growth underneath and he comes to the realization that it's too late for him as well 😰
If you haven’t you definitely need a book prop for anesthesia. We did a emergent IR case and after the proceduralist asked Anesthesia “were you reading a book?” And yes he totally was. Boring or emergent it makes no difference lol
This is very good but, before I claim that this is in fact a documentary, I should be honest and say the the emergency physicians are usually wonderfully helpful and give give handovers during most crashes to theatre. Keep up the great work!
"...Tell my wife and kids...I'm going base jumping this weekend..." Bwahahaha! That had me laughing so hard I snorted my coffee. Seriously, those ER people don't get enough praise. They are pure gold.
Honestly this is what it feels like as a patient in ER . . .there are no doctors coming and you are trapped in your curtained cubicle for what feels like an indefinite period of time.
The funny thing is that where I’m from, emergency medicine doesn’t exist as a stand-alone speciality. Out of all specialities, anesthesiology does the most emergency work
I think if the various specialties spent a whole shift in the ED, we might get a little more respect for what we do. Guardian of the at-risk population, chief resuscitationist, and perceived second best at everything else. 😉
Exactly. Sometimes I just want to call a consultant or hospitalist and tell them they have no idea how much shit I protected them from last night. Not only on the patient end but how many times I told the admitting team it’s not necessary to wake the consultant up at 3am for a “possible non displaced patella fracture” on the patient I’m admitting for a potassium of 2.2
Every time I hear a doc say something like “don’t call this ward again cause they’re mad we’ve sent them too many patients tonight and have spent so long on the phone with us”. Like man, we don’t get to choose who or what wanders in the ED at any given time. As if we go out hunting for renal patients or cardiac patients or whatever just cause we want to be annoying. ED is such a crazy environment, and those docs are probably running away cause they’re getting called to like 8 other things lol.
I love this series. Emergency turns into something of a paranormal being at night, luring and trapping his victims. I think OB/GYN NEEDS TO COME SAVE THEM! Everyone is scared of her because she’s: a) a female and b) handles parts of the body none of the others do. It’s her super power!!
I'm always fascinated how surgeons/cardiologists/misc will complain that all Anesthesiologists ever do is go on breaks and consume coffee, yet at the same time they happily and instantly dump every patient who might possibly require catecholamines or airway management in the not-so-distant future on anyone capable of holding a laryngoscope the right way around... ;)
The ICU gets dumped on a lot with many patients that could be possibly managed on the floor or at least stabilised. I've seen that from both perspectives and I guess surgeons tend to do it a bit more, because most patients that go from the floor to the icu have medical rather than surgical indications, and the surgeons will use that or will truly not be comfortable dealing with them. That being said, I don't know how medicine is practiced in your country, but in Germany you wouldn't see a patient that needs to be intubated or needs vasopressors outside the ICU. In my homeland Greece you see them everyday though, mixed with stable patients in the same room, mixed with MRSA positive patients and the intern is taking care of them along with thirty other patients. I find that suboptimal for patient care though.
YOu are mistaken and have been given a distorted view of reality. General surgeons spend a lot their training managing intuabted/ sick patients without help from other services. Plus, if the airway issue is so bad that anesthesia is unable to intubate, they call in the surgeon for a surgical airway, ENT or gen surg.
@@sachinvaikunth nah. If it is too difficult (failed VLS or Bronch) we will go for an emergency cricothyrotomy and then a percutaneous trach. Most of the trachs in our hospital are actually done by anesthetists. So no, we don't run and call the surgeons for airway management.
@@drhtum You obviously don't practice in the US. never heard of an American anesthesiologist putting in a surgical airway. That's not part of their training.
As emergency I have never done this before. Even if I'm forced to call anesthesia it's the CRNA that shows up and they make everything more difficulty and time consuming than it should be....Now that I watched this video I wonder if that's by design........... my brain is exploding
In all these videos I am struck and heartened by the fact that no one ever says no, or at least not for long. That the patient is an important duty to them even if terribly inconvenient. As a past and possibly future patient I take great comfort in that.
This is so good I can't stop thinking about it. I've spent twenty years in the overworked, understaffed and unappreciated grocery industry, and there are so many interpersonal parallells here.
Ffs 🤣🤣🤣 the moment he was like can you help me for a second I was like bro it’s a flippen trap 🤣🤣🤣 worse if Obs asks you to come help with a tube only for you to end up spearheading the entire resus 😭 at least that’s how it is for me 😭
🥳 The looks on each of their (your) faces are real! As a GI Nurse, would have to travel to a dark underground older OR...with minimal staff and the looks 😟. Well done, Doc
The looking up from doing something in resus and finding the A+E team has vamoosed is completely true!! If your covering ICU and you get referred a patient that, after you've reviewed, you either don't need to bring/aren't appropriate to bring your next job is to hunt down the A+E team to let them know you aren't taking the patient, which can take as much time as the actual review.
So yesterday I had a endo & colonoscopy and after the paperwork, some chit chats, and that fun stuff I watched the anesthesiologist pace between me and two other people I knew he was taking care of that day and I just remembering your videos and made me giggle, I am sure my husband thought I was nuts
The beginning of the video is gold! By saying "You owe me an extra break," Anesthesia is cleverly accruing enough for a whole day off! I'm guessing the ER is karmic retribution then. AHAHAHA!
I wrote this in A and E (ED) at Easter. “In the hushed and buzzing corridors of A and E, I sit, not a worker today but a shadow, momentarily free. The beeps and murmurs, a symphony of urgency, Clash with my heart's quiet, unspoken emergency. Here, where time stretches and folds in peculiar ways, I ponder the irony of these unplanned, idle days. Outside, the world hustles, breathless and alive, Yet here I am, trying to find joy in a pause, and to thrive. Surrounded by stories, each a universe of its own, I'm reminded of the strength in vulnerability shown. Yet, my hands itch to join the cast of the play. To be playing “my part” in the rude day to day. But this enforced break, a reminder so keen, Teaches me to find happiness in scenes seldom seen. In the smiles of relief, in the whispers of pain, In this quiet strength, we all stand to gain. So I embrace this pause, this unexpected rest, A detour on my journey, perhaps for the best. For even in stillness, there's growth profound, And in the silence, my heart's purpose is found. Some time, I'll return to the work I adore, But today, I'll cherish this pause, and explore the joy in being, in simply sitting here, In A and E, where life's fragility draws us near.”
I've worked in the public school system and what helps is not making eye contact and walking briskly with purpose toward the parking lot door at the bell. Keep your head down, anesthesiology.
At my hospital, I’ve never once seen the face of an anesthesiologist.. they will never come to the ER to help out. I was desperately calling one to come in to do a nasopharyngeal intubation because this girl had so much tongue swelling you could not intubate her regularly.. they said well i don’t think I’ll be able to help.. ent also refused to come in. Basically all was left was me doing a cric on this girl. There I was left out to dry by everyone in the middle of the night doing my first cric on a real patient. Went pretty I must say
Love the varying degrees of transitioning of the anesthesiologists. The sports glasses, the shirt, the helmet, the diet Coke. Storytelling genius 😂
I was thinking the same thing, but then a second voice in my brain was like "imagine if this was the first of his videos you'd ever seen" and felt bad for the confusion that would cause 🤣
@@grankmisguided That confusion is actually half of what drove me to watch more so I could try to understand it more, so I think it works out in the end lol
As an ED resident, I can confirm. I just started to grow my first cycling zip-up. Very exciting.
Eventually they'll be asking anesthesiology for some help with a quick intubation
The best part is them being disgusted by the diet coke but drinking it anyway
I love how breaks are currency to the anesthesiologists.
Thats the only time we get to warm up in those subzero rooms.😄😄😄😄😄😄
@@yvonnejones9940 lol
it reminds me of people in prison, use cigarettes as "currency". even the ones who don't smoke...OR maybe snack foods ? (candy, schocolate also counts !!)
Breaks are currency to all workers
🚑 As an OR Nurse, Anesthesia is the ONLY one of the team that get offered frequent breaks.
This is the saddest Dr. G video I have ever seen. My heart breaks for those anesthesiologists, trapped forever in the Purgatory that is ER.
So many breaks un-taken, so many Sudokus left blank
This literally reminded me of Dante's Purgatorio.
You haven't seen any rural family medicine sketches yet?! Those are truly heartbreaking.
Also Jimothy and Tristopher from United and Aetna, trying to fight the evil from within - and of course failing eternally? There were 10-year olds treatments denied, via mystery denial bag 😢
@@Alex-vq9vj the last rural medicine job interview video wasn't sad at all :)
Purgatory....hmmmm. This sounds more like Limbo. "Limbo (Latin limbus, edge or boundary, referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned." The original sin is Anesthesia..... the life of breaks, an ether curtain keeping the Dark Lord at a distance..... Moral: Just avoid the entire first floor of any hospital. Stay within the relative safety of the OR suites!
He almost makes it to the door, but then he overhears two residents arguing about whether a 6th dose of Ativan or a 4th of haloperidol would be less risky...
Or he hears the trailing end of a conversation with one of them telling the other: "...just make sure you're ready with some extra Narcan..."
It’s time for the Precedex gtt
this is why pharmacists avoid the ED
You funny people say words as joke. I like. I laugh at joke.
or if they can give versed with that.
I love that any time doctors go down to the ED it's like a horror film.
I felt exactly this way as a nurse being pulled to E.R.
The way he revealed that t-shirt under his scrub top as though showing an already-bleeding-for-some-time gsw in a battlefield in some angsty scene of sacrifice... "Its too late for me."
or the way he would show the zombie bite
The ED has metastasized and is infectious.
biike jersey! not a t-shirt!
You'd think that Psychiatry is immune. But I was once roped into chasing a suicidal patient who made a break from the ED. Emergency and I were losing ground as she bolted down the main corridor towards the atrum until one of the cleaning staff tripped her with his mop.
I once lost a psych pstient in ED. She was an inpatient at the acute unit down the road and attended ED minors with a trivial laceration to her wrist. Unfortunately the psych nurse accompanying fainted when she saw blood (hence her career choice), face planted the wall and laid unconcious on the floor. In the chaos the psych patient escaped and ran back to the psych unit 200m down the road. Because being in an acute psychiatric unit was less traumatic than being in ED!
Even Tony from Maintenance has been roped in by the ED.
Now there's a really GREAT law suit. Wouldn't even go to court.
i swear there's an episode of scrubs with this exact scenario
As an ex ER nurse, psych probably has the most reason to be stuck babysitting down there 😂😂
Im a medstud (going to graduate this year). At first I thought the thing with Emergency Doctor loving physical activity is just an exaggeration... until I went into Emergency rotation. My doctor literally came with a bike on his shoulder, full on gear with helmet, glasses, biking shirt and everything 😭
It does make sense that the adrenaline addicts would work there.
adrenaline junkies...that's why they thrive in emergent care
I remember one of the doctors cycling outside the hospital during his break. Apparently to "clear" his head
@@wisdomasculture3173lol they run and stand all day but still need more exercise
I remember going to the ER because my resting heartrate was abnormally high for me at 130bpm (normal is about 65bpm) and when I told my ER doctor this he replied "that's not too bad, during my workout this morning my heartrate was 190bpm".
As an Anesthesiologist I can say this is so true on so many levels 😅
@@aaliyahkishore246😂
Hi I'm a med student 5th year into my studies. I'm thinking about choosing anesthesia for specialty in the future, can I ask for your wisdom and experience on it while you're here real quick😅 are you happy with it?
@@aaliyahkishore246 Clearly not. They have time to comment on YT - so they're likely still safe in the OR, able to take breaks and do sudokus....
"We need help with the intubation"
Aaaand it's gone
@@fatemehosseinzade8291 If you like doing crosswords, enjoy frequent breaks, love coffee and do triathlons before shift starts, it’s perfect for you :) No really, it’s great. But you won’t the hero in shiny armor, you will be more like Batman. You have to be okay with not standing in the spotlight. Only if something goes wrong, people will be looking at you expectantly.
As someone that recently spent a day at ER without speaking to the same doctor twice, I find this explains a lot.
This hits home for me. I am a urologist and whenever I need to go to the emergency room and don't leave inconspicuously enough, suddenly there are three catheters that "can't be placed" and need to be done by me, I am urged to consult on at least three ultrasounds of the kidneys and everyone suddenly forgets how to treat urinary infections.
More KUB's make Nephrology happy tho....
I'm so sorry for those consultants who don't make it out. As an ER nurse, you can identify a professional escape artist as someone who asked you what tests were done, meds were given, heck maybe they try and slip you a verbal.
But by the time you turn around to be like, "oh hang on they have an allergy to cef---"
*POOF*
And like a whisp of smoke. Were they even there? Only Epic can be certain once they verify the orders loooong after we just figured it out without them.
The Epic reference is epic 😄
As one of the Nurse consultants to Epic out of their old Madison location, I'm laughing at the Epic call out! ! Lol
NO NOT CEPHALEXIN- pharmacy bro here screaming about overuse of antibiotics
As a chronic acute patient with multiple fatal allergies and over 30 surgeries I'm laughing wayyyy to hard over this.
I've actually heard a nurse shout "God damn it!" after running around trying to find the doctor. Of course she bolted in and apologized when I started laughing but I assured her it was all good.
Never fuck with thr ppl who have control over pain meds and the ability to puncture veins!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
"That emergency doctor you mentioned have been dead for ten years. Funnily enough, whenever we need help in this hospital, someone just turns up, but they always end up asking for him right after..."
That would have been a great plot twist.
Oh nooo he’s the trap!!
So when will this be an SCP
I’m moved 🥹🥹 this is what he chose to dedicate his afterlife to
Nobody wants to go to the ER even the doctors 😂
That true even for my country.
Once you step in there, there is always something to be done that needs your expertise, it is a mad house!
But...but...then how are we supposed to find people to base jump with :(
ESPECIALLY the doctors
Yea. Imagine the amazing ER docs that were on the frontlines taking care of the sickest COVID patients while everyone else was working remotely. And when a patient needs to be treated for a STEMI, a stroke or other emergency, it’ll be the ER docs saving their lives
First time I’m commenting ❤
My dad is both a geriatric physician 👨🏾⚕️ and an ER (don’t ask me why…).
He called me yesterday to tell me that one of his patient almost died of a heart attack and internal bleeding, because Anaesthesia came to “quickly help”, thought that the patient already died, and then proceeded to make a swift exit from the ER 😂
Thankfully Dad 👴🏾 thought of making a scan, found the internal bleeding, and quickly called back Anaesthesia to prep him for surgery.
Last I’ve heard, the 69 years old was saved and is now sleeping soundly.
After watching your videos, I really can’t blame my dad’s colleague to bolt out of the ER as soon as possible, I’m just glad he came back 😂
Great video as always Doc, keep them coming.
Cheers from France 🇫🇷
this type of thing doesn't happen in the US
@@sachinvaikunth exactly. The patient would just die lmfao and we’d still charge insurance
@@emmettdonkeydoodle6230....... did you even read the comment?
@@hayleycakes3435 Yes, there was an incompetence of care, but due to the competency of the rest of the team, the patient was saved. I’m not sure you read it?
Yes, that's just HYSTERICAL...almost died from internal bleeding! Hilarious!
The ED docs in our hospital are famous for waiting until the end of their shift to call you with bullshit consults. So by the time you get there and evaluate the patient, they've gone home. When you go and try to find the original doc who called you to explain the dozen reasons why they should have never called you in the first place, they're nowhere to be found. And when you search for the ER doc they signed the patient out to, they say "Oh, I don't really know anything about the patient; Dr. X just told me you were coming in to admit the patient."
As an ED director, I never aloud such behavior!
Never aloud, only silently.
@@povilzem allowed. Damn auto correct!🫢
And the admitting docs at our hospital when called for an admission are famous for demanding some spurious additional test to be added before they will consult. So, near the end of your shift, you end up signing out what should have been a completed admission an hour ago to the next ER doctor who is completely disinterested in this being that they just showed up and are being bombarded with new patients. Therefore, they are not too knowledgable about it when the admitting doctor eventually rolls around and wants to discuss it. Finally, if it is a "bullshit" consult the simple and obvious thing to do is just discharge the patient instead of searching out someone else to talk to about the bullshit. Funny, despite all the complaints, that NEVER happens.
@@povilzem allowed! Damn autocorrect!🫢
How I handle going to the ER as a Pharmacy Tech. Go equipped with candy. You can always distract them with candy. Outside the door take a deep breath and assess posture; chin up, shoulders down and back. Show no weakness.Enter and head straight for the trackboard to discover the identity of the RN looking after the patient whose medicines I carry. I then locate the nurse and confirm that they are indeed who I seek. If they look hungry, distract with a single wrapped candy and light humour. When thus appeased, it is safe to physically and verbally pass on custody of the medication to the ER RN. Leave as fast as you can manage without looking like prey or an escaping patient.
I can't tell if the base jumping is a suicide joke or emergency docs really love outdoor activities.
They run on adrenaline.
If their heartbeat goes under 160 beats a minute, they will burn out and crash.
@@NathanWubs true facts!
My cousin's son is an ER doc and just finished an Antarctic expedition and is currently sailing to Capetown
@@TakeDeadAim woow, your cousin id a boss!
Best one yet.
Brilliant!🤣
The cap around the crash helmet!
with the amount of suspense and mystery and horror this should have been the Halloween episode!
TRAPPED!!!!!! Wow I needed that today. Hey, I think I am being triggered........ I actually AM a BASE jumper as well as a doc. Have I been trapped without knowing????? I was just "helping out" with a small facial laceration; anyone could have closed it. But I was flattered that they asked ME to close it. This blows my mind. I think I need to go to counseling now...........
Flattery is often a trap!
I’m an EM nocturnist at small community/ rural EDs, I’m the only doc in the hospital. This seems like a nice fantasy tho…
Maybe you should go visit another hospital-set some snare traps with sudoku puzzle books and crosswords.
Say “hi” to Texaco Mike for me!
@@bethelbethel845 don’t be ridiculous, we don’t have Texaco Mike!
We have Sunoco Sam…
@@greggae2735 Golden reply! 👏🤣🤣🤣
Feel for you. My nightmare would be severe pediatric trauma.
That’s why you always carry the OB phone with you when going to the ED. A fake obstetric emergency will get you out of “helping” with any central lines.
What a shitty attitude. Do something else besides healthcare please.
When I had my 4 wisdom teeth out with the maxophiliofacial surgeon, I was super nice to the man putting me to sleep / anaesthesia. He was such a great person. He was learning to ballroom dance at the time, with his lovely wife, and did a little demonstrated in the surgery room as the team were prepping the gear. I couldn't stop laughing to do the countdown from 10, and he said, "Don't worry, we'll know that you are out, when the maniacal laughing stops!" 😆😂🤣
Thanks anaesthesia, love you all!
Princess Holly of Australia🕊🌿🌴🌻🌳🌲🍀 hairdresser 🕊🌿🌻🌴🌲🍀
I guess this is how Emergency Medicine recruits people to work in their department
Not really! As an emergency medicine physician I did request help very few times but never left my patient to any consultant. But I must say that would be awesome to do!🤡👻👺😎🤣
@@billyrodriguez1878 I hope this wouldn’t be the case irl haha but would like to clarify I was referring to how in the last video about the ER (the one set up like a horror movie) that had the surgeon slowly become a trauma surgeon haha
In the UK anesthesia is very much part of ED as much as ED doctors - as most ED doctors are not trained to tube patients. They also put in lines.
Anesthesia also are the doctors on ICU/ITU departments.
In Australia the stereotype is all the Anaesthetists are cyclists
Same in UK. However, getting ditched by ED with a patient in resus remains the same.
same in mexico
They defs all take crazy amounts of breaks in the uk, and are always doing something thats not work lol. If the anaesthesiologist is actually paying attention it’s something to worry about. This is from an outsider, lil old xray over here
The scary movie atmosphere was amazing!
The last of us: Hospital edition
I can't believe he fell for the easiest trick in the book
Not a medical field person here but I've binge watched all your videos and got so excited to see a new one up :) keep up the good work!
I’d sooner go to the cafeteria and get a whole new coffee-nay, venture to Starbucks and procure a completely new mug and coffee than approach near the dreaded ER-adjacent call room. Godspeed, Anesthesia. Godspeed.
It must be heartbreaking for the anesthesiologist when the scrub cap starts peeling off revealing the helmet-y growth underneath and he comes to the realization that it's too late for him as well 😰
The genius of the video is that it transcends countries. As an anesthesiologist from Brazil, the accuracy of the video is not restricted to USA
If you haven’t you definitely need a book prop for anesthesia. We did a emergent IR case and after the proceduralist asked Anesthesia “were you reading a book?” And yes he totally was. Boring or emergent it makes no difference lol
Anesthesia's prop is a book of sudoku puzzles (with the easy ones already solved)
This is very good but, before I claim that this is in fact a documentary, I should be honest and say the the emergency physicians are usually wonderfully helpful and give give handovers during most crashes to theatre.
Keep up the great work!
"...Tell my wife and kids...I'm going base jumping this weekend..."
Bwahahaha! That had me laughing so hard I snorted my coffee.
Seriously, those ER people don't get enough praise. They are pure gold.
Honestly this is what it feels like as a patient in ER . . .there are no doctors coming and you are trapped in your curtained cubicle for what feels like an indefinite period of time.
Wow this one has an ensemble cast
The funny thing is that where I’m from, emergency medicine doesn’t exist as a stand-alone speciality. Out of all specialities, anesthesiology does the most emergency work
Same lol where are you from
Sounds like Germany
Idk for sure why but there is awesome humor in an anesthesiologist drinking coffew
I think if the various specialties spent a whole shift in the ED, we might get a little more respect for what we do. Guardian of the at-risk population, chief resuscitationist, and perceived second best at everything else. 😉
Exactly. Sometimes I just want to call a consultant or hospitalist and tell them they have no idea how much shit I protected them from last night. Not only on the patient end but how many times I told the admitting team it’s not necessary to wake the consultant up at 3am for a “possible non displaced patella fracture” on the patient I’m admitting for a potassium of 2.2
Every time I hear a doc say something like “don’t call this ward again cause they’re mad we’ve sent them too many patients tonight and have spent so long on the phone with us”. Like man, we don’t get to choose who or what wanders in the ED at any given time. As if we go out hunting for renal patients or cardiac patients or whatever just cause we want to be annoying. ED is such a crazy environment, and those docs are probably running away cause they’re getting called to like 8 other things lol.
OMG...being an anaesthetic doctor, I have been in this situation numerous times... totally corect description 😆😆😆..Love from UK.
sue in the UK, but this doesn't happen in the US
I love how I barely know where my liver is, but I can completely understand and identify with what's going on. 🤣
I love this series. Emergency turns into something of a paranormal being at night, luring and trapping his victims. I think OB/GYN NEEDS TO COME SAVE THEM! Everyone is scared of her because she’s: a) a female and b) handles parts of the body none of the others do. It’s her super power!!
No that just makes her more valued prey. The part B I mean.
this has eldritch horror vibes and I love it
Love the "Michael Myers stalking you pose" by Emergency medicine when Anesthesia first walks by. :)
I'm always fascinated how surgeons/cardiologists/misc will complain that all Anesthesiologists ever do is go on breaks and consume coffee, yet at the same time they happily and instantly dump every patient who might possibly require catecholamines or airway management in the not-so-distant future on anyone capable of holding a laryngoscope the right way around... ;)
The ICU gets dumped on a lot with many patients that could be possibly managed on the floor or at least stabilised. I've seen that from both perspectives and I guess surgeons tend to do it a bit more, because most patients that go from the floor to the icu have medical rather than surgical indications, and the surgeons will use that or will truly not be comfortable dealing with them. That being said, I don't know how medicine is practiced in your country, but in Germany you wouldn't see a patient that needs to be intubated or needs vasopressors outside the ICU. In my homeland Greece you see them everyday though, mixed with stable patients in the same room, mixed with MRSA positive patients and the intern is taking care of them along with thirty other patients. I find that suboptimal for patient care though.
YOu are mistaken and have been given a distorted view of reality. General surgeons spend a lot their training managing intuabted/ sick patients without help from other services. Plus, if the airway issue is so bad that anesthesia is unable to intubate, they call in the surgeon for a surgical airway, ENT or gen surg.
@@sachinvaikunth nah. If it is too difficult (failed VLS or Bronch) we will go for an emergency cricothyrotomy and then a percutaneous trach. Most of the trachs in our hospital are actually done by anesthetists. So no, we don't run and call the surgeons for airway management.
@@drhtum You obviously don't practice in the US. never heard of an American anesthesiologist putting in a surgical airway. That's not part of their training.
@@sachinvaikunth nope. I dont practice in the US.
I just love these videos!! As a biomed engineer I've seen the different types from an "outside" perspective the last 20 years 😉
The helmet under the scrub cap had me in stitches!! xD
That's the quietest least chaotic ED I've ever seen!
😂😂😂❤❤❤😂😂😂ALL of ur videos make me laugh out loud!!!😂😂 Everything you post is acutely accurate!!! Thanks.
As emergency I have never done this before. Even if I'm forced to call anesthesia it's the CRNA that shows up and they make everything more difficulty and time consuming than it should be....Now that I watched this video I wonder if that's by design........... my brain is exploding
Yup. CRNA truly makes everything so much more difficult. That’s what subpar training without a residency will get you
In all these videos I am struck and heartened by the fact that no one ever says no, or at least not for long. That the patient is an important duty to them even if terribly inconvenient. As a past and possibly future patient I take great comfort in that.
The creativeness and storytelling is just amazing. All the stories (vids) are so good, so pointed, and so beautifully executed
It’s like you’re an internist and you’re consulting surgical patients just to be left with them after surgery says “So he is yours now, right?” 😢
Happens all the time.
As someone who just SOAPed into EM from Anesthesia, this hit hard....still got a good smile from this thought. Thanks, Dr. G.
I just sent this to my 2 best friends, one is anesthesia and one is emergency in real life! I’ll let them duke it out in the group text😂
keep us updated on what happens lol
You just ended a friendship lmao
@@seapinkoyster they loved it! I also gave them each an Dr. Glauc poster for their specialites❤️
A new direction in comedy stylings! Nicely done! So funny.
I like to think there is a whole team of biking made entirely of emergency/trauma surgery doctors
One of your better skits recently!!
When Emergency was standing down the hallway, I thought he was shirtless for a second there 😂😭
He was! He was probably changing clothes to get outa there. 😅
Heartbreaking… great skit as always Doc!
This is so good I can't stop thinking about it. I've spent twenty years in the overworked, understaffed and unappreciated grocery industry, and there are so many interpersonal parallells here.
Pathologist walks through ER, tries to help with something, ER doc says "you know what..... we're good"
Ffs 🤣🤣🤣 the moment he was like can you help me for a second I was like bro it’s a flippen trap 🤣🤣🤣 worse if Obs asks you to come help with a tube only for you to end up spearheading the entire resus 😭 at least that’s how it is for me 😭
Having been a patient in the ER myself in that last 6 months… I feel this skit from an entirely different perspective
The hair net over the helmet. Love it.
🥳 The looks on each of their (your) faces are real! As a GI Nurse, would have to travel to a dark underground older OR...with minimal staff and the looks 😟. Well done, Doc
Love your videos! Thank you for inspiring people to peruse medicine ❤!!
The looking up from doing something in resus and finding the A+E team has vamoosed is completely true!! If your covering ICU and you get referred a patient that, after you've reviewed, you either don't need to bring/aren't appropriate to bring your next job is to hunt down the A+E team to let them know you aren't taking the patient, which can take as much time as the actual review.
So yesterday I had a endo & colonoscopy and after the paperwork, some chit chats, and that fun stuff I watched the anesthesiologist pace between me and two other people I knew he was taking care of that day and I just remembering your videos and made me giggle, I am sure my husband thought I was nuts
Okay, the end is just too real for Meemaw out...
I do both anethesia and emergency medicine and I must admit this is all true.
You are always the highlight of my TH-cam day
The beginning of the video is gold! By saying "You owe me an extra break," Anesthesia is cleverly accruing enough for a whole day off! I'm guessing the ER is karmic retribution then. AHAHAHA!
I spent 1 year, 10 months and 15 days in the ER 😭😭😭.... Same as purgatory.... I paid this life sins.....
But how many hours and minutes on that last day? 😂😂
I'm no doctor, just a regular person who sees doctors every now and then and this is eye-opening!!
Its not just anesthesia, the ER is a vortex that sucks you in. It makes you want to avoid it at all costs even if you need it for your own emergency.
I think various specialties becoming trapped in the ED Upside Down is my favorite Glaucomflecken genre
🤣🤣🤣 Great transition! That creeped me out!
it would be good if he add pharmacology to his list. Mugging up all the generations of the cephalosporins is breaking my brain
It's not just me? After years in ER I witnessed the same phenomenon.
Come to think of it, as a patient I saw staff magically appear and disappear.
I'll be damned if I'm letting anesthesia take away my tube
INCREDIBLE storytelling
In the UK some anesthetists are also emergency medicine consultants and they dual accredited in both specialities.
Dude looks like an off brand Ryan Reynolds, and I am here for it! Lol
Tell my wife and kids... I'm going base jumping this weekend. Lolol. Base jumping is what got me into medicine. I NEED the money.
Looks like Dr. G. Actually filmed this one in a clinic rather than his home. Very spooky late night hospital atmosphere.
😂 I work in the ED- I would love to see more videos about it!!!! 👍
He was doomed from the moment he stopped to look at the shirtless dude.
NOOOOO. NOT THE *BASE-JUMPING!*
It's like a zombie plague. They turn into emergency physicians and go on to trap and turn other physicians into emergency physicians.
"Tell my wife and kids..."
**puts on sports glasses**
"...I'm going base-jumping this weekend"
OSCAR material!
I wrote this in A and E (ED) at Easter.
“In the hushed and buzzing corridors of A and E,
I sit, not a worker today but a shadow, momentarily free. The beeps and murmurs, a symphony of urgency,
Clash with my heart's quiet, unspoken emergency.
Here, where time stretches and folds in peculiar ways,
I ponder the irony of these unplanned, idle days. Outside, the world hustles, breathless and alive,
Yet here I am, trying to find joy in a pause, and to thrive.
Surrounded by stories, each a universe of its own,
I'm reminded of the strength in vulnerability shown.
Yet, my hands itch to join the cast of the play.
To be playing “my part” in the rude day to day.
But this enforced break, a reminder so keen,
Teaches me to find happiness in scenes seldom seen.
In the smiles of relief, in the whispers of pain,
In this quiet strength, we all stand to gain.
So I embrace this pause, this unexpected rest,
A detour on my journey, perhaps for the best.
For even in stillness, there's growth profound,
And in the silence, my heart's purpose is found.
Some time, I'll return to the work I adore,
But today, I'll cherish this pause, and explore
the joy in being, in simply sitting here,
In A and E, where life's fragility draws us near.”
I knew it… as soon as he didn’t just walk faster… he was lost 😭
Another banger of a skit, Dr G how do you do it!?
I think he's a brilliant observer of human nature!
I've worked in the public school system and what helps is not making eye contact and walking briskly with purpose toward the parking lot door at the bell. Keep your head down, anesthesiology.
Carrying a clipboard that you glance at with concern also helps!
Carrying a clipboard that you glance at with concern also helps!
At my hospital, I’ve never once seen the face of an anesthesiologist.. they will never come to the ER to help out. I was desperately calling one to come in to do a nasopharyngeal intubation because this girl had so much tongue swelling you could not intubate her regularly.. they said well i don’t think I’ll be able to help.. ent also refused to come in. Basically all was left was me doing a cric on this girl. There I was left out to dry by everyone in the middle of the night doing my first cric on a real patient. Went pretty I must say
Love the suspense 🤣, looking forward to the first movie
Excellent and true!