Every time I heard someone saying they can do someone’s else job, not matter what it is, it tells me they don’t really understand what the other job is really about. Every job has it’s unique challenges.
As a president of a residents union here in India I approve this message! We formed a union, negotiated hard and got a 25% stipend increase for all residents. The last raise was 8 years ago!
the phrase "form a union" is weird to me. in germany it would be "joined a union" as there are already unions a lot of fields - and unions are nationwide mostly, not confined to a single workplace. the concept of a single workplace union feels extremly alien to me mh. BUT nontheless, good for you. i'm a firm believer that unions improve the work place performance overall - not just for the employes but for the companys as well.
@@another_blacktomcat Welcome to for-profit medicine in a capitalist society where CEOs are ruthlessly greed-driven psychopaths who sleep just fine at night. companies here deny necessary medical treatment all the time, and people die from those denials. Remember this is a country that elected Donald Trump, the closest the US has ever come to having a malignantly narcissistic Hitler leader in its history. That is not hyperbole. The man admires and does business with Putin. The US is a country with super f'ed up moral values where psychopaths, malignant narcissists, and narcissists run most aspects of society, and THAT is why US business...including the business of medicine...is so f'ed up. In the US, medical treatment is not a basic human right. No, that would be ethical. It's a business to exploit the sickest and most vulnerable so the psychopathic CEOs and the narcissistic procedural-driven physicians and surgeons can live privileged lives.
The only way to work crazy hours and high stress jobs constantly is if you reeeeally love the job, and something tells me Neurosurgery loves criticizing others more than the actual job.
Reminds me of the mother-in-law in my country. Just bcz they had terrible life, they want their daughter-in-law to have same. Happened with my mother, too.
Story time: A few years back all the residents and fellows refused to round on or write orders for a certain spine surgeon at our hospital ( the guy was a total asshole). First he tried to bully, threaten, and shout his way out of the situation. However, once he could see that the housestaff wasn’t going to cave in, it was amazing how quickly he unlearned 35 years of malignant behavior and changed the way he was treating his colleagues and trainees.
Unfortunately spinal surgeons really do seem to be set up to be the most arrogant. It makes sense with neurosurgery being one of the most inaccessible fields of medicine. Even if you can get through all of the years leading to actually becoming a physician, you get to deal with a terrible work/life balance. All of the neurosurgeons I work with seem stressed tf out all the time. But I honestly have very few complaints about them. There's plenty who are remarkably nice even when it's obvious they haven't stopped moving in 38 hours. 😂 I'm sorry that you had to deal with this asshole, though. Definitely not making excuses for someone like that
A word of caution to medical students/residents: the abuse doesn't end when residency is completed. Life as a practicing physician can still be GREAT, but employers, from private practices hospitals and/or health care systems will still do everything in their power to take advantage of you. To paraphrase Terry Wall, MD, JD who has lectured to residents, myself included, "NO ONE wants to make new physician rich." His advice: Hire a competent attorney and have them review any employment agreement BEFORE you sign.
@@arno7163 exploitation of workers in general is a worldwide issue. Capitalist system inherently incentivises employers to exploit their employees.It's just much worse in america than in a lot of Europe because America is extremely hostile towards unions thanks to a century of lobbying and propaganda.
I agree with this sentiment, and think we could extrapolate a bit here: No one in any commodified field wants to make new members of said field wealthy enough to have control over their career prospects. This version I gave is less catchy, but still true in law, different levels of medicine, retail, accounting, marketing, and the list goes on.
As a surgery resident who just worked 95+ hours this past week and it's okay because "it averages to 80 hours/week for the month", dangerous hours is an appropriate phrase.
Residents in my country just returned from a five day warming strike. It was hell because we had emergency surgeries and had to prepare the patients and do all the heavy lifting ourselves. After the first day, I had to inform ER to stop admitting patients for my unit. Residents are very important to the system.
@@yenjayhu7728 No and Yes, Raising wages is not the communist mode of production but since a communist is someone who wants to abolish wage slavery, and help raise wages along the way and have unions, then this is relevant
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yj Communism explicitly demands all means of production to become state/govt owned and managed centralistically. As a consequence of that, the implementation of changes has to go through the political system, which will have an apparatus with lots of bloat and inertia. Corruption becomes very easy in such a structure aswell. If all you want to do is to abolish wage slavery and make health care accessible to everyone, then regular 'social democracy' is enough. If, on top of that, you want all means of production to be democratically organized and owned in equal parts by the people who work there, socialism it is.
from personal experiences of the uk junior doc strikes, the wards go to shit but A&E is actually fine because the consultants that are left have been there too long to give a shit about potentially being taken to court over someones 4 week cough and just keep telling people to go home and contact their GP lmao. Its very bizarre
@@katierasburn9571 Yep, they just nonchalantly let the hospital descend into completely unsafe conditions. Though I'm not sure if they just don't care or if they have completely forgotten about all of the important jobs usually done by their underlings.
Fair pay and benefits are great but it's also important to push for safe working hours. Junior doctors in my country had a successful strike a while ago that was mostly around that. No amount of pay will make 80 hour work weeks less dangerous for both patients and doctors, so it's gotta be both!
That's amazing! As an American, I'd GLADLY pay what I already am, if the $ cut out all the middleman bullshit and inflated CEO pay, and went toward increased medical staffing, and fair and safe labor practices - including 40 hour work weeks, shift maximums of 10 hours, fair wages and benefits for medical and support staff including residents...bc they're people too.., and safe staffing ratios. Alllllllso increasing acceptance into med school, and fixing the match program so otherwise good, qualified people weren't shut out. C'mon bro-lings around the world, stand up ✊
❤ Always a good time to stand up for residency unions. Many of the hospitals pay large union busting law firms very high sums just to avoid unionization but as someone who gained benefits from my residency union, everyone should have them!
Man, it's almost like instead of paying huge sums of money to law firms to avoid unionization, they coulda just... paid the residents instead. Good on the residents for unionizing!!
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yj At this point, your repetitious comments are just spam. Unionizing means shifting a little bit of power away from the employer, hopefully enough power to get a fair employment deal. An HR director once told me that a company has to work awfully hard at it to get a union in it. Hospitals seem to work very hard indeed at abusing their power over residents, so good on them, those who choose to unionize!
I love this video because it so important for senior physicians to use their positions of power to advocate for residents. Divided we beg united we bargain.
Speaking as a resident (who just fell asleep curled in a ball at the foot of the bed where I dropped fresh out of the shower after finishing a long overnight coverage and admit shift), your support is much appreciated.
Hang in there broling. I hope you finally get the pay and conditions you deserve. It is ridiculous that any "health care" environment would actively harm their employees, but that is essentially what they do just for profit 😠
As a nurse, I try my best to support residents. They work very hard and are paid little for their effort. Also love the joke about eating spare bags of TPN 😂😂
Coming from the UK, we healthcare providers could join the union, CoHSE - the Confederation of Healthcare Service Employees. It encompassed all in the healthcare environment. It gave us bargaining power for doctors down to the orderlies. Great power in numbers of like minded people. All for one and one for all. I came to the US and was appalled at the lack of power anyone in the healthcare environment had. I left and went into law representing MDs. I’m experiencing lacrimal stenosis and am being treated by my great ophthalmologist. I told him about you and now he’s a addict. Thank you for you content, especially the challenges that rural MDs face. I love Texaco Mike and his MRI.
That "and I turned out just fine" was both perfectly accurate in every way AND personally triggering. It just felt too real to be made up 😅 Well done Dr Glauc!
My dad knew four people who crashed their cars falling asleep at the wheel during the course of his residency, since everyone was working 100+hours a week for 22k a year He also knew a guy who was outed as having falsified his med school records once the Soviet Union collapsed, and the hospital could actually check them. Also, their chief resident for internal med mever finished his last year of med school because he bribed an administrator in the Dominican Republic the early 90s were nuts
A second year resident in my program fell asleep driving home and broke his neck. No one said a word. Call just went from every fourth to every third night.
... I once spent like a month working 70 hour weeks and thought I was going to die. How... how?? And we expect people with such awful sleep deprivation to make life-and-death decisions??
@@safaiaryu12 Im a flight attd (unionized) and my husband is police (not union)…. I have FAA regulatory rest and he does not. Many industries need strong unions to protect the very people they are expected to be helping.
Loma Linda hospital said they were exempt from union rules because they are a “religious hospital” lmao. Yeah they lost that in court. Yet I bet they told all the residents about the great program during their residency interviews
Honestly it's about time. All medical professionals (not just doctors) should be compensated fairly for their work (in my country the medical field is paid shit)
We just did this at REI and won the vote- with months of hard work and everything… it’s a lot. Thanks for making this. So glad this is happening in the healthcare system, it’s insane.
Happy for the REI stores that have unionized; hoping the union is successful in the Seattle store. I'll go back once they're a union shop, and meanwhile we can agree not to mention the climbing rock to Ortho...
A combination of low coffee levels and the preview image led me to read this as 'the residents form a unicorn.' I hope for their sake they have far more real and helpful outcomes than a unicorn would imply. ❤️
Great timing. I am from Bangladesh. right now there is a movement and protest going on about how much underpaid the Residents are and a demand for increased Payments. Glad to see Dr. Glaucomflecken is on board.
Having worked in a family medicine practice where the doctors, NPs and PAs led the union effort, and were successful, I applaud the residents. Currently working at a facility where hospital nurses are union, clinical are not (I am clinical). The “do more with less staffing” is a real contributor to provider and support staff burnout. Thank you Dr. G for bringing these issues to light.
Being a junior resident who is currently posted in a periphery hospital...this strikes so much hard that literally tears coming to my eyes...but here no one to protest..no one cares..our principal has given us multiple threats to deduct our salaries which is not even a salary but a minimal stipend...she even refused to give us hostels...have to travel 100kms up and down every week to stay 3 days in a duty room...not a adjustment disorder but every f time i regret taking mbbs as my career...
I had the fortune to be part of an Interns and Residents union during my training. Thank goodness. We still got abused, don’t get me wrong, but not as badly as many of my friends who went to different programs. It was a good union, so we got better pay and more vacation than average, and someone to turn to when the administration tried playing dirty tricks. It has made me very pro-union (with the understanding that some unions are better than others).
As someone considering going to med school but hesitating due to the widespread abuse/underpay/overwork, I only hope unionization and reform of the academic medical system keeps on rolling, for those who are in it and those who are yet still to come
Keep on hesitating, for your life balance sake, it's the same all around the globe, sadly... the abuse continues after residency, but by then, most people have spouses/babies to support, and they know it....
I'm in the same position. The suicides, the working conditions, the pay, mental and physical health down the drain. I read story after story and it just brings me down. I expect the process of becoming a MD a to be hard one, not a life threatening one. I pray that all current medical students,residents, and attendings turn this around,before the healthcare system finds itself in a place it can't bounce back from.
@@carloswilliams5670 we are already bouncing, just medical authorities don't know it, in this case, we're the falling soldiers, generals are letting us drop like flies...
@@beckahalvarez702 I'm such at a crossroads. The future looks bleak. the only thing that keeps me going is seeing people get accepted,but I know it's short-lived. Would you do it again?
@@carloswilliams5670 noooooo, hell no, wish there was someway I could show little Beckah her nasty future.... I even did two specialties: Internal medicine and Nephrology, I was certain at first I did study my calling so to speak, it was truly fulfilling but at least, in my 3rd world country, that being México, practicing in a government hospital is sooo depressing because of overwork/underpay, but you have at least free medical attention and other stuff, and can't be called past your checkout....and to skip that, the other option is practicing in private hospitals, meaning one must be on entire availability on weekends, holidays and you get the picture, you pay your own medical attention, I'm not sure which one is worse....
I’m in clerkship now, And we don’t even get paid. I had an OB attending ask me once why she had no externes and she was falling behind in her notes. She was used to having two patients scheduled at the same time and having us write the whole note for her so she could be more efficient. Just goes to show the students do contribute 😅
All my life all ive heard is how bad unions are.. i never had a union job. Until last year. I got into the steel union of ohio, and it was the best job i ever had. Due to personal reasons i had to find a new job that didnt work midnights (i had to work a rotating swing shift there) but if those issues never happened id probably be there the next 30+ years. The benefits were amazing, a pension fund and up to 6% match on a 401k, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, they even had gym membership, and rec center discounts for the area just for having the job. They even had a pet insurance program! (This wasnt included in our benefits, but we got a massive discount which was like 15 bucks a month with free check ups and everything) then to go along with ALL of those benefits was the guaranteed pay increases. They have a set 10% raise every year to combat inflation, and then ontop of that there is a performance raise as well as a performance quarterly bonus based on how we do overall as a plant. We got paid double time for every hour after 8 hours worked (in our contract we are only to work 8 hour shifts but if understaffed we will make up those hours and get double pay for it) and triple pay for any hour after 13 hours worked. There was a bunch of other little bonuses as well, like we were allowed on our phones if we our work was done and waiting on a roll to finish or couches and chairs to sit at while waiting. Jist of it... unions are very important. This isnt even mentioning the MINIMUM 80 hours of vacation time per year and the fact you earned your vacation time back based on the hours you worked that week.
I worked for grief manufacturing paper mill in ohio by the way. Theyre apart of the Steel union of ohio and yoy can find most of the information I provided online in their employee handbook! Some of my information may be slightly off as the union was having meetings just prior to me leaving the company to make some changes to the benefits but I don't think they were major changes from what I remember.
The doctors I see at SLU are both residents with a supervising physician, and I love them! They do a great job and I hope they have a decent work life balance
As a resident who is a member of my union and on the contract bargaining committee (we haven’t had a contract since July 2022), thank you for highlighting this.
Glad that Ortho is sticking up for the little brolings. Hope he can get a gym membership included in their compensation package, and time off for exercise.
I feel like the ending is a sort-of-dig at a particular CT surgeon at MGH who literally said the same thing on twitter. Said he'd just move faster without residents. He's part of the reason why residents form a union in the first place
Residents get unionized? Right on! How about all the other physicians? Health care worker unions can stand up up to the for profit health care industry to improve their own lives and the lives of their patients.
The union will cheer and consider it a win when the residents get a 60 cent hourly pay bump because the hospital had only intended on a 40 cent hourly pay bump this year. Meanwhile it took 6 months of negotiating and everyone hates each other now - My hospital in a nutshell
I mean, that's hardly the union's fault, everyone would hate each other anyway over an only 40 cent pay increase, and that was a battle that needed to be fought. Really sucks that they only got up to 60 cents though
@@innocuoushappenstance6259 A step increase usually doesn't cause "unrest" in the workplace since it's written and expected, but a lot of negotiations and battles between admin and staff for a net 20 cent raise definitely does. I don't directly blame the union for the poor negotiations, but I am surprised at how proud our reps were.
"Brolings"?!? I didn't even know how incomplete my life was until Ortho Bro enlightened me! I've finally found my purpose in life - To incorporate "Brolings" (& it's humble, equally stellar, singular tense "Broling") into my daily casual conversations! 🤣😂🤣
Having drank Jevity 1.2 before (enteral feed solution, typically given via G tube - tastes like liquid chalk with chemical overtones) I try very, very hard not to imagine what leftover TPN solution tastes like. 😵💫
I remember when the 80 hour max duty hours kicked in. It was crazy. The hospital lost about 40 hrs a week per resident for over 100 residents. Keep fighting.
I am very glad that TH-cam made sure to clarify that this video was produced by a licensed doctor in the US and thus can be trusted as a source of information about how our healthcare system functions.
*company posts double digit profits the past 3 quarters. "We have to cut bonuses and raises for all employees due to economic circumstances." I don't care if the ceo cut his multimillion dollar salary by the same margin. That's not how money works. Someone making 60k/year is gonna feel a 15% cut a lot more than someone making 2 million/year
When i was a resident almost 20 yrs ago there was a federal lawsuit about our pay that apparently we didnt win 😐. Someone calculated what we were paid an hour based on the hours we worked a week and it was less than $3 an hour! Mind you this was when the 30 shit rule went into effect (so we weren’t supposed to work more than 30 hrs straight 🙄. Neurosurgery was the worst at violating the work hours (i.e. making residents lie about their hours). As physicians are being phased out the US is headed for a rude awakening 🥺
So, at minimum Neurosurgery worked 20 hours a day, assuming he didn't get any days off. Or he had one day off and worked pretty much 24 hours a day for the rest of the week.
My grandfather and a few friends formed a union for aircraft engineers back in the day (1960s I think) at his funeral the current president and a previous president attended to thank him. He was the president for years and even remortgaged his house to keep it afloat post embezzlement by someone at one stage. I like the idea of the little brolings unionising and campaigning for their basic rights.
With the thumbnail I read the title as "the residents form a unicorn" and I was excited for all the paeds residents in unicorn headbands, but I'll settle for the union
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"All the little brolings just wanna live" was immensely wholesome
Right!! I love Ortho
We all need an Ortho Bro in our lives...and a Jonathan
It's something I would wear on a t-shirt.
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@Dr.GlaucomFleckenHey, I reported you.👍
Surgery thinks he's Jonathan, but has no idea what the job actually entails.
Jonathan doesn't speak because he is too busy for words
Every time I heard someone saying they can do someone’s else job, not matter what it is, it tells me they don’t really understand what the other job is really about. Every job has it’s unique challenges.
wait... isn't Jonathan a resident? oh god the entire industry will grind to a halt
As they all do ....After 2 - 3 years.
@@rebecaanderson1935There are absolutely exceptions but in general, yeah.
As a president of a residents union here in India I approve this message!
We formed a union, negotiated hard and got a 25% stipend increase for all residents. The last raise was 8 years ago!
Unions are so important, way to represent and take care of your colleagues!
the phrase "form a union" is weird to me. in germany it would be "joined a union" as there are already unions a lot of fields - and unions are nationwide mostly, not confined to a single workplace. the concept of a single workplace union feels extremly alien to me mh. BUT nontheless, good for you. i'm a firm believer that unions improve the work place performance overall - not just for the employes but for the companys as well.
@@another_blacktomcat Welcome to for-profit medicine in a capitalist society where CEOs are ruthlessly greed-driven psychopaths who sleep just fine at night. companies here deny necessary medical treatment all the time, and people die from those denials.
Remember this is a country that elected Donald Trump, the closest the US has ever come to having a malignantly narcissistic Hitler leader in its history. That is not hyperbole. The man admires and does business with Putin.
The US is a country with super f'ed up moral values where psychopaths, malignant narcissists, and narcissists run most aspects of society, and THAT is why US business...including the business of medicine...is so f'ed up.
In the US, medical treatment is not a basic human right. No, that would be ethical. It's a business to exploit the sickest and most vulnerable so the psychopathic CEOs and the narcissistic procedural-driven physicians and surgeons can live privileged lives.
@@another_blacktomcatYeah cause America sucks ass lmfao.
Awesome! I support unions!
“….Neurosurgery you are NOT fine” 😂😂
Psych always coming in clutch with that reality check ❤
If you want others to endure hardship solely because you did, you in fact did not turn out “just fine”.
The only way to work crazy hours and high stress jobs constantly is if you reeeeally love the job, and something tells me Neurosurgery loves criticizing others more than the actual job.
Reminds me of the mother-in-law in my country. Just bcz they had terrible life, they want their daughter-in-law to have same. Happened with my mother, too.
This!! 😂😭
I'm glad Bill is standing up for himself.
Bill was part of the resistance all along.
bill is going to be a murderer not a doctor
he's a resident?
@@HisameArtwork yes, aka future incompetent doctor.
@@qwp1026 He is sleeping
Let's never call residents anything other than little brolings ever again! Who's with me? 😂❤
what will you call the residents who identify as female?
@@cleementine They can also be little brolings, bro is a gender neutral kinda like dude.
@@cleementine call them all broalings.
Lady Brolings
I like this one.
"all the little brolings just wanna live"
Awww, good for them :)
Seriously, these videos have taught me it's not a given.
Story time: A few years back all the residents and fellows refused to round on or write orders for a certain spine surgeon at our hospital ( the guy was a total asshole). First he tried to bully, threaten, and shout his way out of the situation. However, once he could see that the housestaff wasn’t going to cave in, it was amazing how quickly he unlearned 35 years of malignant behavior and changed the way he was treating his colleagues and trainees.
Unfortunately spinal surgeons really do seem to be set up to be the most arrogant.
It makes sense with neurosurgery being one of the most inaccessible fields of medicine. Even if you can get through all of the years leading to actually becoming a physician, you get to deal with a terrible work/life balance. All of the neurosurgeons I work with seem stressed tf out all the time.
But I honestly have very few complaints about them. There's plenty who are remarkably nice even when it's obvious they haven't stopped moving in 38 hours. 😂
I'm sorry that you had to deal with this asshole, though. Definitely not making excuses for someone like that
Interesting, I kind of expected him to rage quit and go to another hospital that hasn't heard of his reputation.
He deserved it , those guys can be absolute Monsters ....
@@Zosio getting operated in by a person who is awake more than 20 hours sounds like a health hazzard to me. 😮
@@leza4453 it's only your spine, you've got two of them right?
As a nurse, I wholy support a union for the little brolings
Good Nurse 👍
A word of caution to medical students/residents: the abuse doesn't end when residency is completed. Life as a practicing physician can still be GREAT, but employers, from private practices hospitals and/or health care systems will still do everything in their power to take advantage of you. To paraphrase Terry Wall, MD, JD who has lectured to residents, myself included, "NO ONE wants to make new physician rich." His advice: Hire a competent attorney and have them review any employment agreement BEFORE you sign.
Is this only in America or all over the world? And I'm referring to the exploitation of medical workers
@@arno7163 exploitation of workers in general is a worldwide issue. Capitalist system inherently incentivises employers to exploit their employees.It's just much worse in america than in a lot of Europe because America is extremely hostile towards unions thanks to a century of lobbying and propaganda.
I agree with this sentiment, and think we could extrapolate a bit here:
No one in any commodified field wants to make new members of said field wealthy enough to have control over their career prospects. This version I gave is less catchy, but still true in law, different levels of medicine, retail, accounting, marketing, and the list goes on.
@Anon When op said "private practices hospitals" what they ment was private hospitals.
@@coolestgyever531 Sad, but true. We need to keep watching out for each other.
Psyche telling neurosurgery he isn't fine is too perfect
As a surgery resident who just worked 95+ hours this past week and it's okay because "it averages to 80 hours/week for the month", dangerous hours is an appropriate phrase.
Remember, residents: They need you more than you need them.
Communists Rejoice! 🫡 Glad they’re getting better pay 😃
Seriously. Academic hospitals would collapse without residents. The whole schedule goes to poo if one of us is even sick.
unfortunately, they can also kick you out anytime. And because of the high debt everybody is carrying, no one can afford quitting residency.
@@sophiasu5885 That's why student loans exist... So you don't get any smartass ideas... like standing up for yourself.
That's definitely not true. It's way easier for a program to get a new resident than for a resident to get a new program
Residents in my country just returned from a five day warming strike. It was hell because we had emergency surgeries and had to prepare the patients and do all the heavy lifting ourselves. After the first day, I had to inform ER to stop admitting patients for my unit. Residents are very important to the system.
Communists Rejoice! 🫡 Glad they’re getting better pay 😃
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yj Communism is hell
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yj that’s not really communism…
@@yenjayhu7728 No and Yes, Raising wages is not the communist mode of production but since a communist is someone who wants to abolish wage slavery, and help raise wages along the way and have unions, then this is relevant
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yj Communism explicitly demands all means of production to become state/govt owned and managed centralistically. As a consequence of that, the implementation of changes has to go through the political system, which will have an apparatus with lots of bloat and inertia. Corruption becomes very easy in such a structure aswell.
If all you want to do is to abolish wage slavery and make health care accessible to everyone, then regular 'social democracy' is enough. If, on top of that, you want all means of production to be democratically organized and owned in equal parts by the people who work there, socialism it is.
Man, Resident Evil just became real
It only becomes real when big pharma tries to play virally transmitted Dr. Frankenstein for the military industrial complex.
LMFAO
LMAO
That was brilliant!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"all the little brolings just wanna live"
That sounded heart warming and sad at same time for some reason
I need this to be an ongoing series for a while: I would like to see how all the doctors manage with Residents on strike.
from personal experiences of the uk junior doc strikes, the wards go to shit but A&E is actually fine because the consultants that are left have been there too long to give a shit about potentially being taken to court over someones 4 week cough and just keep telling people to go home and contact their GP lmao. Its very bizarre
@@katierasburn9571 I didn’t need to go to an A&E or visit a ward in that time so thanks for the insight.
@@katierasburn9571 Yep, they just nonchalantly let the hospital descend into completely unsafe conditions. Though I'm not sure if they just don't care or if they have completely forgotten about all of the important jobs usually done by their underlings.
This! We need this!!!
TBH, Anesthesia will be fine.
Fair pay and benefits are great but it's also important to push for safe working hours. Junior doctors in my country had a successful strike a while ago that was mostly around that. No amount of pay will make 80 hour work weeks less dangerous for both patients and doctors, so it's gotta be both!
That's amazing!
As an American, I'd GLADLY pay what I already am, if the $ cut out all the middleman bullshit and inflated CEO pay, and went toward increased medical staffing, and fair and safe labor practices - including 40 hour work weeks, shift maximums of 10 hours, fair wages and benefits for medical and support staff including residents...bc they're people too.., and safe staffing ratios. Alllllllso increasing acceptance into med school, and fixing the match program so otherwise good, qualified people weren't shut out.
C'mon bro-lings around the world, stand up ✊
❤ Always a good time to stand up for residency unions. Many of the hospitals pay large union busting law firms very high sums just to avoid unionization but as someone who gained benefits from my residency union, everyone should have them!
Communists Rejoice! 🫡 Glad they’re getting better pay 😃 One big unionnnnn 👁️👁️
Man, it's almost like instead of paying huge sums of money to law firms to avoid unionization, they coulda just... paid the residents instead.
Good on the residents for unionizing!!
@@DemonicNightmare employers never have money for wage increases for endless money for union busting 👁️👁️ hmmmm, interesting
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yj At this point, your repetitious comments are just spam. Unionizing means shifting a little bit of power away from the employer, hopefully enough power to get a fair employment deal. An HR director once told me that a company has to work awfully hard at it to get a union in it. Hospitals seem to work very hard indeed at abusing their power over residents, so good on them, those who choose to unionize!
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yjgo live in Russia or China or Neverland or any of the other places with communism....
I love this video because it so important for senior physicians to use their positions of power to advocate for residents. Divided we beg united we bargain.
Speaking as a resident (who just fell asleep curled in a ball at the foot of the bed where I dropped fresh out of the shower after finishing a long overnight coverage and admit shift), your support is much appreciated.
Hang in there broling. I hope you finally get the pay and conditions you deserve. It is ridiculous that any "health care" environment would actively harm their employees, but that is essentially what they do just for profit 😠
If I'm in a situation where I need a doctor, I don't want one who hasn't slept. Get the fuck off the ward and my case and get some shut eye.
As an incoming intern, I cried from watching this, especially after seeing a neurosurgeon's rap
Don’t worry, you have a patient load cap now, and limited hours per week, thanks to the RRC rules imposed in the mid-2000’s. You’ll be just fine.
How are things ?
I am also gonna be an inturn in July
As a Union nurse who has always worked at teaching hospitals, I support the Residents!!!
As a nurse, I try my best to support residents. They work very hard and are paid little for their effort. Also love the joke about eating spare bags of TPN 😂😂
I have had to slip a protein bar and a glass of water to a starving resident before. I try to help if I can.
Im a new nurse and am learning how to be supportive of my Dr. bros.
as a resident i have to say, a nurse yesterday surprised me after an awful day with an empanada and i almost cryed... thank you
Coming from the UK, we healthcare providers could join the union, CoHSE - the Confederation of Healthcare Service Employees. It encompassed all in the healthcare environment. It gave us bargaining power for doctors down to the orderlies. Great power in numbers of like minded people. All for one and one for all. I came to the US and was appalled at the lack of power anyone in the healthcare environment had. I left and went into law representing MDs. I’m experiencing lacrimal stenosis and am being treated by my great ophthalmologist. I told him about you and now he’s a addict. Thank you for you content, especially the challenges that rural MDs face. I love Texaco Mike and his MRI.
Doing the Lord's work, you are❤
"I turned out just fine" is only ever said by people who are CLEARLY not fine.
Signed,
I used to believe that "I turned out just fine"
That "and I turned out just fine" was both perfectly accurate in every way AND personally triggering. It just felt too real to be made up 😅
Well done Dr Glauc!
How wholesome of Pediatrics 😊 he’s always been my fave
My dad knew four people who crashed their cars falling asleep at the wheel during the course of his residency, since everyone was working 100+hours a week for 22k a year
He also knew a guy who was outed as having falsified his med school records once the Soviet Union collapsed, and the hospital could actually check them. Also, their chief resident for internal med mever finished his last year of med school because he bribed an administrator in the Dominican Republic the early 90s were nuts
I didn't crash my car until I was an attending hospitalist getting off a 24 hr shift.
A second year resident in my program fell asleep driving home and broke his neck. No one said a word. Call just went from every fourth to every third night.
... I once spent like a month working 70 hour weeks and thought I was going to die. How... how?? And we expect people with such awful sleep deprivation to make life-and-death decisions??
@@safaiaryu12 Im a flight attd (unionized) and my husband is police (not union)…. I have FAA regulatory rest and he does not. Many industries need strong unions to protect the very people they are expected to be helping.
@@BunnyTree Yikes. Very pro union here. This is just insane.
Loma Linda hospital said they were exempt from union rules because they are a “religious hospital” lmao. Yeah they lost that in court. Yet I bet they told all the residents about the great program during their residency interviews
Honestly it's about time. All medical professionals (not just doctors) should be compensated fairly for their work (in my country the medical field is paid shit)
The little Brolings 😭❤️🙏🏻 protect him. He’s so pure.
We just did this at REI and won the vote- with months of hard work and everything… it’s a lot. Thanks for making this. So glad this is happening in the healthcare system, it’s insane.
Ahhhhh congratulations!! I have an acquaintance working to unionize the Boston store
Happy for the REI stores that have unionized; hoping the union is successful in the Seattle store. I'll go back once they're a union shop, and meanwhile we can agree not to mention the climbing rock to Ortho...
A combination of low coffee levels and the preview image led me to read this as 'the residents form a unicorn.' I hope for their sake they have far more real and helpful outcomes than a unicorn would imply. ❤️
The fact that they _might_ get a living wage, safe hours, and basic respect? From what I've learned about US 'Healthcare', that IS a Unicorn! 😉
@@msshellm8154 This is why I said 'hope'. 😁
we literally had our union vote last week here in MA and it passed!!!
Great timing. I am from Bangladesh. right now there is a movement and protest going on about how much underpaid the Residents are and a demand for increased Payments. Glad to see Dr. Glaucomflecken is on board.
I absolutely love that ortho calls residents "Brolings'
Ortho is my favorite because he's so wholesome. I've started calling my dogs bro because of him
Having worked in a family medicine practice where the doctors, NPs and PAs led the union effort, and were successful, I applaud the residents.
Currently working at a facility where hospital nurses are union, clinical are not (I am clinical).
The “do more with less staffing” is a real contributor to provider and support staff burnout.
Thank you Dr. G for bringing these issues to light.
Being a junior resident who is currently posted in a periphery hospital...this strikes so much hard that literally tears coming to my eyes...but here no one to protest..no one cares..our principal has given us multiple threats to deduct our salaries which is not even a salary but a minimal stipend...she even refused to give us hostels...have to travel 100kms up and down every week to stay 3 days in a duty room...not a adjustment disorder but every f time i regret taking mbbs as my career...
Brilliant timing there! Residents and trainees in my country are just going to strike soon against the horrendously low pay here! This needs to happen
As a resident, this is the best one yet
I had the fortune to be part of an Interns and Residents union during my training. Thank goodness. We still got abused, don’t get me wrong, but not as badly as many of my friends who went to different programs. It was a good union, so we got better pay and more vacation than average, and someone to turn to when the administration tried playing dirty tricks. It has made me very pro-union (with the understanding that some unions are better than others).
UPS is about to kick off a new wave of union action in all sectors and I am LIVING for it
As someone considering going to med school but hesitating due to the widespread abuse/underpay/overwork, I only hope unionization and reform of the academic medical system keeps on rolling, for those who are in it and those who are yet still to come
Keep on hesitating, for your life balance sake, it's the same all around the globe, sadly... the abuse continues after residency, but by then, most people have spouses/babies to support, and they know it....
I'm in the same position. The suicides, the working conditions, the pay, mental and physical health down the drain. I read story after story and it just brings me down. I expect the process of becoming a MD a to be hard one, not a life threatening one. I pray that all current medical students,residents, and attendings turn this around,before the healthcare system finds itself in a place it can't bounce back from.
@@carloswilliams5670 we are already bouncing, just medical authorities don't know it, in this case, we're the falling soldiers, generals are letting us drop like flies...
@@beckahalvarez702 I'm such at a crossroads. The future looks bleak. the only thing that keeps me going is seeing people get accepted,but I know it's short-lived. Would you do it again?
@@carloswilliams5670 noooooo, hell no, wish there was someway I could show little Beckah her nasty future.... I even did two specialties: Internal medicine and Nephrology, I was certain at first I did study my calling so to speak, it was truly fulfilling but at least, in my 3rd world country, that being México, practicing in a government hospital is sooo depressing because of overwork/underpay, but you have at least free medical attention and other stuff, and can't be called past your checkout....and to skip that, the other option is practicing in private hospitals, meaning one must be on entire availability on weekends, holidays and you get the picture, you pay your own medical attention, I'm not sure which one is worse....
As a grad student solidarity and vive la révolution
Revolution in what exactly 👁️👁️
Keep fighting for what you deserve residents and med students
For those who don’t know, neurosurgery and general surgery said what a real cardiothoracic surgery chair said on twitter a few days ago.
Oh wow, for real? Big yikes and thanks for informing us of the reference lol
Lol thank you I looked it up, George toils deleted his tweet after the backlash
Yep! Glad Dr. G incorporated that into his skit. Where does real life end and satire begin? Is Dr. G writing for the Onion yet?
@@DianneGerrity oops typo *tolis
And lol right??
It never fails, I've seen it plenty of times. "Back in my day I was abused, so you should take it too".
The excitement radiating off of Pathology is heartwarming.
Hell yeah! Power to the workers! 🎉
Communists Rejoice! 🫡 Glad they’re getting better pay 😃
I stand with Bill. And I agree with Psychology about Neurosurgery.
" ate nothing but leftover bags of TPN" 🤣🤣🤣
HELL YEAH good to see bill stand up for the workers
Communists Rejoice! 🫡 Glad they’re getting better pay 😃
I’m in clerkship now,
And we don’t even get paid.
I had an OB attending ask me once why she had no externes and she was falling behind in her notes.
She was used to having two patients scheduled at the same time and having us write the whole note for her so she could be more efficient.
Just goes to show the students do contribute 😅
Yea I love going home to write notes (work) for my preceptors instead of studying for boards.
Only a matter of time before the whole healthcare team is unionized in my opinion.
Communists Rejoice! 🫡 Glad they’re getting better pay 😃
As a Union Rep for a union that represents health care workers, I am cheering this one!!!
Looks like family medicine needs to form a union!
Communists Rejoice! 🫡 Glad they’re getting better pay 😃
The left over bags of TPN got me😂😂😂😂
All my life all ive heard is how bad unions are.. i never had a union job. Until last year. I got into the steel union of ohio, and it was the best job i ever had. Due to personal reasons i had to find a new job that didnt work midnights (i had to work a rotating swing shift there) but if those issues never happened id probably be there the next 30+ years. The benefits were amazing, a pension fund and up to 6% match on a 401k, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, they even had gym membership, and rec center discounts for the area just for having the job. They even had a pet insurance program! (This wasnt included in our benefits, but we got a massive discount which was like 15 bucks a month with free check ups and everything) then to go along with ALL of those benefits was the guaranteed pay increases. They have a set 10% raise every year to combat inflation, and then ontop of that there is a performance raise as well as a performance quarterly bonus based on how we do overall as a plant. We got paid double time for every hour after 8 hours worked (in our contract we are only to work 8 hour shifts but if understaffed we will make up those hours and get double pay for it) and triple pay for any hour after 13 hours worked. There was a bunch of other little bonuses as well, like we were allowed on our phones if we our work was done and waiting on a roll to finish or couches and chairs to sit at while waiting. Jist of it... unions are very important. This isnt even mentioning the MINIMUM 80 hours of vacation time per year and the fact you earned your vacation time back based on the hours you worked that week.
I worked for grief manufacturing paper mill in ohio by the way. Theyre apart of the Steel union of ohio and yoy can find most of the information I provided online in their employee handbook! Some of my information may be slightly off as the union was having meetings just prior to me leaving the company to make some changes to the benefits but I don't think they were major changes from what I remember.
The doctors I see at SLU are both residents with a supervising physician, and I love them! They do a great job and I hope they have a decent work life balance
British junior doctors are going on strike, and have widespread support from other healthcare professionals.
“Neurosurgery, you are not fine.” 🤣 😂
As a resident who is a member of my union and on the contract bargaining committee (we haven’t had a contract since July 2022), thank you for highlighting this.
Glad that Ortho is sticking up for the little brolings. Hope he can get a gym membership included in their compensation package, and time off for exercise.
Dear, positive Pathology. Tabitha really keeps his spirits up.
@Dr.GlaucomFlecken Oooooh! Do I get my own Jonathan?
I feel like the ending is a sort-of-dig at a particular CT surgeon at MGH who literally said the same thing on twitter. Said he'd just move faster without residents. He's part of the reason why residents form a union in the first place
The soft "oh my god"... at the end. Nice
The day has come when the surgeon's ego has been shattered. Even the ISS is in danger because of this.
I agree with the TH-cam Physician's findings and have personally watched a substantive portion of the video.
Residents get unionized? Right on! How about all the other physicians? Health care worker unions can stand up up to the for profit health care industry to improve their own lives and the lives of their patients.
The union will cheer and consider it a win when the residents get a 60 cent hourly pay bump because the hospital had only intended on a 40 cent hourly pay bump this year. Meanwhile it took 6 months of negotiating and everyone hates each other now - My hospital in a nutshell
I mean, that's hardly the union's fault, everyone would hate each other anyway over an only 40 cent pay increase, and that was a battle that needed to be fought. Really sucks that they only got up to 60 cents though
@@innocuoushappenstance6259 A step increase usually doesn't cause "unrest" in the workplace since it's written and expected, but a lot of negotiations and battles between admin and staff for a net 20 cent raise definitely does. I don't directly blame the union for the poor negotiations, but I am surprised at how proud our reps were.
For exactly this video I foresee many more PAs and NPs popping up in the next few years
"Brolings"?!?
I didn't even know how incomplete my life was until Ortho Bro enlightened me!
I've finally found my purpose in life - To incorporate "Brolings" (& it's humble, equally stellar, singular tense "Broling") into my daily casual conversations!
🤣😂🤣
"Can I have a union"
Yes, you can.
I totally support unions! Go residents go!!! KEEP FIGHTING FOR YOURSELVES!!!
Facts
You need more Doctors.
Apparently even the Convenience MD only has Nurses 😮
Eating leftover bags of TPN is next level struggle
I had to stop and think about that for a minute. That's worse than saltine crackers and ketchup.
Having drank Jevity 1.2 before (enteral feed solution, typically given via G tube - tastes like liquid chalk with chemical overtones) I try very, very hard not to imagine what leftover TPN solution tastes like. 😵💫
I remember when the 80 hour max duty hours kicked in. It was crazy. The hospital lost about 40 hrs a week per resident for over 100 residents. Keep fighting.
The residents should strike! Great video as always, eye bro!
I am very glad that TH-cam made sure to clarify that this video was produced by a licensed doctor in the US and thus can be trusted as a source of information about how our healthcare system functions.
*breathes in*
SOLIDARITY FOREVER, SOLIDARITY FOREVER, SOLIDARITY FOREVER
FOR THE UNION MAKES US STRONG!
"Neurosurgery, you are not fine"
I wonder how long psych has been waiting for an excuse to say that.
Bold of them to mistreat the people who will be responsible for the persistence of their mortal coil...
This needs to be a series for a while along with the Jonathan uprising lore. Still waiting for it 😊
*company posts double digit profits the past 3 quarters. "We have to cut bonuses and raises for all employees due to economic circumstances."
I don't care if the ceo cut his multimillion dollar salary by the same margin. That's not how money works. Someone making 60k/year is gonna feel a 15% cut a lot more than someone making 2 million/year
When i was a resident almost 20 yrs ago there was a federal lawsuit about our pay that apparently we didnt win 😐. Someone calculated what we were paid an hour based on the hours we worked a week and it was less than $3 an hour! Mind you this was when the 30 shit rule went into effect (so we weren’t supposed to work more than 30 hrs straight 🙄. Neurosurgery was the worst at violating the work hours (i.e. making residents lie about their hours). As physicians are being phased out the US is headed for a rude awakening 🥺
So, at minimum Neurosurgery worked 20 hours a day, assuming he didn't get any days off. Or he had one day off and worked pretty much 24 hours a day for the rest of the week.
I love the congregation of the specialities in this video. Glad to see that MOST of them are reasonable.
My grandfather and a few friends formed a union for aircraft engineers back in the day (1960s I think) at his funeral the current president and a previous president attended to thank him. He was the president for years and even remortgaged his house to keep it afloat post embezzlement by someone at one stage. I like the idea of the little brolings unionising and campaigning for their basic rights.
Finally someone who recognizes the nutritional value of leftover TPN. Thanks Neurosurgeon!
And then their self esteem will ARISE ABOVE NEUROSURGERY NOOOOOOOO😮😮😮😮
Should have ended with "Pay them. Pay them now!"
Just let them get paid fairly CE Bro
Communists Rejoice! 🫡 Glad they’re getting better pay 😃
Yeah! Stop being so stingy, CE Bro!
@@ItBePatYo It’s his class interest bro 👁️👁️ Lower wages, higher exploitability, FASTER EXPANSION OF CAPITAL 👁️👁️ must outcompete other employers
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yj Oh, I know.
@@ItBePatYo Mmmhmmm, another one has destroyed cultural hegemony 👁️👁️ One by one we break the mental chains 🫡
General Surgery. Truly a General in his own mind. 🧐🧐
I just love how some specialties are super supportive.
Yay resident bros! I'm rooting for you! Signed mental health counselor
"All the Little Brolings Just Wanna Live" could have been the title of this episode
The horror is worse than I thought. The residents don't have even a union and they have to live there. Imagine never leaving the workplace!
With the thumbnail I read the title as "the residents form a unicorn" and I was excited for all the paeds residents in unicorn headbands, but I'll settle for the union