Doctor Reacts To Breaking Bad Medical Scenes
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- Breaking Bad is considered by many to be the greatest show in the history of television. While that is a bold claim and a juicy conversation, today we're focusing more on how accurate all the medical scenes were throughout this show. How realistic was Walter White's cancer diagnosis? Is ricin real and can it actually be used as an untraceable poison? Could Uncle Hank actually survive the shootout in the parking lot with the twins? There is so much to unpack here and I really hope you enjoy this as much as I did making it! Were there any other scenes you think I should have reacted to? Let me know down below.
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My mom is a cancer survivor and watched Breaking Bad for the first time recently, she said the scene in which Walter zones out and focuses on the mustard stain on the doctor's jacket after being told the news about his cancer is the most realistic portrayal she's ever seen of that situation
I zoned out when my sister told us she had cancer. I made a limp attempt at Googling what her cancer was and just stared at the monitor then went back to playing Call of Duty.
@@BrokenNoah God bless your sister hoping she recovers!🙏🏾
@@exoticethi5815 She passed away from AML 5 years ago
There’s another good one in Six Feet Under when Nate’s doctor has terrible bedside manner and I always thought it was very good, too.
When my first girlfriend told me she was diagnosed with ALL gave me the exact same reaction. Just completely zoned out staring at her necklace clip, it was pulled around the front and lodged against the pendant
Mike being proud of Tuco for knowing to do ''that thing''. I laughed.
@@AxxLAfriku what did you smoke
There was a failed attempt at CPR in that scene but White gave up quickly. That "Thing" included mouth to mouth resuscitation which White said they don't do anymore. I think the AHA had just recently switched to compression only CPR around the time the episode was filmed.
Poor homicidal maniac Tuco didn’t get very much positive feedback in the show, so let him have this one, OK? 😏
@@AxxLAfriku wtf bro? u okay?
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3:47 I like how he is more worried about tuco's knuckle than the guy that is literally being punched in the skull
Also I think he might have missed a detail on this, because you can see how Tuco lifts the guy up by his collar. I suspect that is specifically so the head of the guy moves and doesn't stay static so Tuco wouldn't hurt his hand as much.
But that's just an assumption, I might be wrong or have missed some other detail
@@SulfuRed13 maybe tuco learned from his mistakes
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@@turtlesrprettycool3379because iron man learned from his mistakes
@@SulfuRed13I feel like that’s just an easy way to hold someone
Interesting fact: in the original script for Jane's death (the one who choked to death on her vomit), Walt was written to have taken advantage of her unconscious state by intentionally overdosing her. It was later decided doing that would be too cold blooded for his character to still be liked by the audience. It was rewritten to him seeing her begin to vomit and intentionally rolling her from her side onto her back so she'd choke, and then rewritten again to the current version, where he accidentally moves her onto her back while shaking Jesse, and then intentionally chooses not to act when she begins to choke.
The scene was still extremely shocking for audiences at the time, but it went over a lot better than the original version would have.
that's interesting. From a story perspective I definitely like the final version the best as Walter was not yet evil so straight up intentional premeditated murder would've come from out of nowhere for his character at this point.
This last version also so beautifully points out the fact that most evil in this world is done by lack of action. Him just watching Jane choke is so brutal. What makes it truly devastating is that Walt's first reaction is to rush to help Jane, but then he stops himself and makes a choice Heisenberg would make, even though his essence at this point is still to rush and help.
It's because Walter struggles to not rescue Jane, and the shame mixed with relief when she's gone that really makes the scene hit harder. Because watching cold killers do horrible stuff is not as shocking as when it's someone empathetic choosing to hurt another. Because then we need to ask ourselves, are there specific circumstances where I would watch other people suffer, and do nothing?
It's kinda crazy how many small changes they made which led to the show being so much better. I recently just heard about some scrapped scene where walt was supposed to brutally torture a man and then make him kill himself, which somehow ended up in walt jr dying as well. Now you say he was supposed to intentionally kill jane, and i think jesse was also gonna be killed off in like the first season. Just imagine if they actually went through with all this and just immediately made walter into a stone cold murderer. Think about how differently brba would've been received. I'm glad vince is a genius and knows what's best for the series though, so we got the show we all know and love
@@patrykdabrowski1788 That scene was supposed to be about Tuco. In the original version Tuco was meant to kill Jesse in s1 and then Walter would imprison Tuco in the crawl space under his house and set up a rig so Tuco could kill himself at any time with a shotgun. Then walt jr would go down into the crawl space and Tuco would pull the trigger killing both of them
Yeah I know, i watched Vince talk about it, j just didn't know the details 2 months ago. Still, i absolutely can't imagine how they would've pulled this show off if it went in that direction.
It’s crazy how Bryan started crying. For people who do not know the story, when the scene was shot and Jane was choking on her vomit, Bryan said in an interview or something that her face started changing as he watched her choke on her vomit and he started to see his daughter’s face. Quite sad.
In fairness to his paramedic, he didn't necessarily know that Walt had cancer, he just knew that he had really bad lungs for a 50 year old non-smoker.
That's probably it, good catch.
Thats what I'm thinking.. because Walt literally got scans done directly after that with a check up at the hospital.. soo the paramedic didn't just assume he had lung cancer.
Exactly. His look just showed concern. So all that could mean was he was hearing noises he didn't like which led to the scan. I don't see this necessarily as unrealistic.
And him fainting and passing out,and his lungs sounding like that,he connected the dots and assumed something worst
Pretty sure that paramedic has been administering to other cancer victims in his ambulance, so he'd definitely at least be able to intelligently guess at what's wrong.
The idea of straightening his tie being the last thing Gus does before dying is to demonstrate that this act itself comes instinctively to him, almost like a defense mechanism. He's been obsessing over portraying a put together, perfectly inconspicuous businessman as long as he's been a criminal, this is the very persona that has enabled him to hide in plain sight. Therefore the actor thought it was only fitting for his death scene to reflect this innate part of his personality, to show that in a life or death situation where he's clearly in shock, the first thing Gus instinctively cares about is blending in, looking innocent, keeping up his charade.
Dude…spoilers…just…on…season…4…
@@Frog10827 Dude... the finale of the series aired 8 years ago. You can't expect not to see spoilers on a video about the show.
defense mechanism not mechanic
@@Frog10827 If you don't want spoilers, don't read TH-cam comments.
@@Frog10827 I don't know what you're talking about, I didn't spoil anything that wasn't already in the video😅
As unrealistic as Gus's death scene was, I still think it's fully in character for him to get up, walk out of the room like nothing's wrong to keep up appearances, and then realize "oh half my face is just gone" and die on the spot
Oh My God ! I love how he died, so classy... well, in a way.
His brain was acting on it's own and when he came back to his senses, he didn't even know where he was standing
Its said to not be unrealistic as its also based on the death of a passed real life scientist
Gus death, I think is based on how chickens can still move after being decapitated for a few seconds, and then their bodies drop
It's called shock
Honestly tuco in my opinion is so underrated. His performance was amazing and very genuine. He plays a perfect sociopath even down to the juvenile laugh. A lot of them are very juvenile. And the “do that thing!” Is so spot on for people like him lmao
iirc his actor didn't like the character because he was so deranged and violent
@@theredpanda00 then even more props to him for giving it his all despite it not being a role/character he enjoyed
I wouldn’t say he’s underrated. He’s extremely iconic for only being in 4 episodes
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The only reason he's underrated is that he's in the first season, and appears in a few episodes. Pretty sure everybody loved his insane character.
"Do that... do that thing!"
Mimes chest compressions.
And that's all that was needed to make Doctor Mike's day.
i love how mike said "he knows the thing"
Yup, Tuco was actually an intelligent guy. In BCS we see that he always had a quick temper, and it was made worse by his progressive meth addiction.
As a paramedic, I can confidently say that he heard absolutely nothing useful in the back of a moving ambulance driving lights and sirens 😂😂😂
I think, at most, he may have heard something that sounded like bronchitis/chest congestion.
But you’re right. No way did he hear anything that would’ve made him think lung cancer.
I love how nothing os rattling or swaying. Certainly Not My experiences of being in the back, even Not on lights & sirens. (Patient twice, accompanying patient several times.)
The lungs were shouting at him: "Help, we are dying here!" ;)
From a medical point of view you are absolutely right. But from a screenwriting perspective this scene anticipates the next one, giving us a hint of what to expect. It's good writing, but sometimes it doesn't match with reality 100%.
Yeah, it was always one of those things which screamed dramatic license for the sake of getting to the point because when have you ever met a paramedic (or anyone) who can hear someone with abnormal respiration and say "This is definitely serious - likely cancer - and not just you having a chest cold or a PE or a million other things."
Literally Gus walking out and fixing his tie is so ridiculous, but so iconic 😂
No it's not....
I loved the part where doctor Mike said "Im the one who reacts" and then proceeded to react all over the place. truly one of the medicine of all time.
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“That’s a needle”
Well gee, I sure am glad we have a doctor here who was able to clear that up for me
"... And a syringe"
Lmao
Lol, yeah I love how in some of his videos Mike says such obvious stuff, because he has to say something in reaction videos.
My favorite was the Final Destination one. Most of the causes of death were so obvious, he was reduced to explaining that a guy had a head when he was alive.
@@emordnilap4747 he’s like the guy from a thousand ways to die
green needle
The scene where Jane (black hair girl) overdoses and chokes on her vomit is actually one of the darkest scenes in BB. Earlier in the episode, Walter explains to his son how he places his infant daughter on her side so she doesn’t choke while she sleeps. Walt knows about the recovery position but deliberately chooses to let Jane die to teach Jesse a lesson.
not only teach him a lesson. She also blackmailed him and the death of her was the best resolution for walt
It wasn't to teach Jesse a lesson, it was to save him I think. She was the one who got him hooked on heroin and she was dragging him down.
It’s also devastating how one decision (Walt intentionally not helping Jane and leaving her to die) leads to so many other deaths with her father severely distraught where he could not concentrate on his work as an air traffic controller, thus not coordinating the pilots and causes a mid-air collision to occur. 😓
The parallels between the birth of holly and walt’s joy and the death of jane and mr margolis grief in the final episode of that season were heartbreaking
@@Fucisko that was still really messed up of Walter to let her die, because her father also offed himself.
Tuco be beating a guy down and when the guy he beats down is dying, he still complains "Why is he dying?"
The emt didn’t diagnose him with lung cancer just asked if he was a smoker he could’ve just wanted to narrow possible causes for the sound of that ripping cough.
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The title literally says it's a bad show
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10:34
Just to let you know, that's not ricin that Gus uses. It's an unknown poison but I believe someone said it was a powerful neurotoxin as it acted very quickly.
Also, Dr. Mike, you find out earlier that Gus ingested some unknown pills prior to drinking the poison, possibly to slow down how fast the poison gets absorbed into his body. However, he still became very ill a bit later on in the show, even after vomiting the poison out.
You beat me to it - why does Dr. Mike assume it was ricin just because it was the poison of choice for Walt?
@@Flampy1999 i don't remember anything about him ingesting pills to slow down the poison, nor I remember him getting sick after he was taken care of by the doctor. When did those things happen?
@@riogakun I think he IS thinking about whenthe doctors helped him, but he wrote this before he watched that far
@@riogakun He takes some pills while he is waiting for him at the pool. It happens just before this scene :)
Gus fixing his tie is because of the shock he goes into puts him into muscle memory, his appearance is a big thing for him and he always fixes his tie
@@amariajade255 You'd be surprised! There are many recorded times to prove that even with immediate fatal damage to the brain, some coordination, function, and movement is still possible. Albeit shortly. I'd argue it's not unrealistic because of the function/coordination, but because he wasn't thrown/hit with debris and knocked out.
@@eee-xd5bo It's a major misconception that explosions throw people and lots of stuff around. It's a wave of compression and decompression traveling through your body. It sends shrapnel from within centimeters of the device. Everything else is affected by the shock wave, causing a very violent back and forth movement.
The unrealistic part to me was the damage on Gus's face. He wouldn't have significant visible injuries like that other than small holes caused by shrapnel.
To... add some clarity to the scene where Walter's given his diagnosis, depending on how many spots they see they could say it's inoperable. My own dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and while they were able to remove it the first time, they found small nodules with a scan and once they'd done the biopsy to figure out if it was actually cancer they said a similar thing. What it might mean is, there could be an operation done but it would be like playing wack a mole (it could keep coming back) but that doesn't mean it's not treatable
Could also have something to do with where the tumor is in the lungs or how big it is. Or it could be along those lines where there are so many tumors that even if they're only in Walt's lungs removing them all would take too much of the organ. You can live with only one lung but if they can't save that then there wouldn't be much point in surgery.
“I watched Jane die. I could’ve saved her”
That scene was beyond brutal
even worse because she was already in a recovery position while she was hugging jesse and walt pushing him around trying to wake him pushed jane onto her back which is the reason she died
It's really hurting me.
Exactly
he killed her by putting her on her back when he shaked jesse
"I didn't"
Doc, in case you don't know, in the Salud episode, Gus swallowed three capsules of activated charcoal before he drank the poisoned tequila to give himself time to vomit it out later (and he still almost died). They also never specified what kind of poison he used.
Good catch.
Yes, I was hoping someone would point out these tidbits.
Definitely wasn’t ricin since ricin takes longer to activate
@@ciaranpatrick6859 Ricin poisoning also has some symptoms before death (like the flu) and the cartel people more or less dropped dead without feeling any ill effects beyond a short dizzyness
@@glennjanot8128 it was definitely a different poison. Ricin takes much longer to do the job.
at 9:30, Gustavo actually prepared beforehand with some kind of supplement or pill, presumably to absorb some of the poison and buy himself some extra time to vomit it up. And that was not ricin, in the earlier episode Walter made a point of talking about how ricin poisoning appears as a highly aggressive flu that would take up to 3 days to kill the victim, whatever Gus used was much faster acting. One of the theories I found suggests hemlock, or a concentrated constituent alkaloid of hemlock.
1:35 AEMT here. No, we’re not diagnosing anyone with cancer based on lung sounds, but I wouldn’t say it’s absolute fiction to find serious conditions based on lung sounds.
Absent lung sounds and SOB following significant trauma can indicate pneumothorax.
Auscultating rales is a positive finding in heart failure and AMI.
Stridor can indicate upper airway obstruction and is a positive finding in epiglottitis.
Wheezes is a positive finding in a patient with a history of asthma/COPD/bronchiolitis.
So yeah, lung sounds can be pretty helpful in DDx pre-hospital.
To go on further, the stethoscope can be used as a secondary means of confirming ET tube placement, listen to heart tones on patients with ROSC, and hear epigastric sounds. A lot of these findings can be critical on the ambulance.
This seems more medically accurate than most actual medical shows
Imagine doing actual research
@@suezuccati304 Imagine NOT doing research
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the mustard thing is not exxagerated at all. i'm in this mental state like 80% of the time cuz of ptsd and stress. i would probably react exactly like that
I remember when my mom told me my grandpa had 6 months to live. All I could focus on was a picture on the wall so I think it's very accurate
When my mom told me my grandad had passed, I reacted similarly. I was so focused on the fact that we didn't have ice cream in the house for some reason.
When my sister told me our uncle died i stared at my TV for a straight minute trying to process what happened
If I was in this situation the first thing I'd say would be "how expensive will this be?" Instead of paying attention to my life at steak
I need to stop hanging out with my father...
The mustard thing is an act of symbolism
11:51 , in fact they filmed this scene with real explosives so Gus fixing his tie was genuine. Rip
Man, Giancarlo is super method
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Respect to the actor for dying to make the scene more realistic RIP Giancarlo💀
@@ThatFL232 Lmao!!
And he came back to life every time until the shot looked right! Wow
It may have been extremely far fetched and extremely non realistic but the scene where Gus walks out after the explosion was one of the coolest moments in cinema that I’ve watched.
When I saw that scene and the ending scenes after it I fell in LOVE with that episode, Nvm both of season 3 and 4.
It’s an absolutely awesome scene and I love it so much :)
I agree. It was awesome and cool.
Oh my God I absolutely couldn’t stand it. I felt like I was watching an episode of Looney Tunes. I think it ruined the show for me.
Similar to Mission Impossible 3, where Tom Cruise flies to the side when the missile explodes behind him. If it's unrealistic, make it cool enough.
@@switchunboxingwhy? In real life people can survive short periods of time after recieving fatal injuries
@@troyklein6379 It reminded me of Saturday morning cartoons with the explosion and then slowly walking out to reveal only half is face was burned and then the delay of him falling. I thought it was goofy.
“This man needs help! This man pays my salary”
@@MrUssy101 Kiddo what
@@MrUssy101 What are you doing bashing at youtubers doing more good than yourself, shouldn’t you be having a life??
@@MrUssy101 He practises as a doctor, idiot. He does YT in his free time.
@@MrUssy101 really
@@MrUssy101 it's his job. Shouldn't he deserve a day off?
Jane's death scene really hit me hard. I think what I hated most about it is how she is actually mindful of lying down on her side when she shoots up because she knows this. She actually says it at the beginning of the episode. Walter doesn't just let her die by not putting her in the recovery position ; he is actually responsible for her choking in the first place as he pushes her onto her back while shaking Jesse. I just hate how everybody kind of just goes "meh she's a junkie she killed herself" but she was actually taking some precautions and they were broken by someone literally breaking and entering and they letting her die.
Of curse she would take precautions, no one wants to die. I don’t think that makes her death a bad way thing. I mean, if she lived, they both probably would’ve overdosed
still a junkie....
I don't know where you live, but in Europe, if you find yourself in an emergency situation and you don't help, you're imputable of missed helping even if you did nothing wrong.
Yup, its a small detail that most people seem to miss. As a former junkie I can concur.
She deserved she would have caused jesses death
That scene where Jane aspirates her vomit was very purposeful on Walter's part. He knew the recovery position but allowed her to die because it was better for his plans if she was out of the picture.
I reckon that what the doctor injected into Gus' tongue is probably suxamethonium (succinylcholine) to facilitate intubation. Intralingual/submental sux is a really weird but effective way of getting paralytic control quickly, when IV access isn't available. Most of the times that this technique is used (which is rarely) is when you need to break laryngospasm and don't have parenteral access, usually in kids. Typically nowadays protocol is to inject it IM, but because the tongue is so vascular the onset of intralingual sux is much faster.
Breaking Bad scene: "Beans"
Robot Doctor Mike: "You have my attention"
This is someone who’s been paying attention.
@@SamDonaldBowers we love Sam in this comment section
I wonder if it'd be possible for Robot Doctor Mike to do a reaction lol
10:05 ricin wasn't the poison in the drinks, it was an unstated poison, the only person killed by ricin was Lydia in the final episode.
why do you know this much about poison
@@nickryan4346 literally anyone who's watched the show knows
oh ok
@@nickryan4346 Very simple research. Ricin kills within a span of 48 hours, and gives flu-like symptoms before the victim dies. The poison which Gus uses killed the cartel leaders very quickly.
Yeah and you don't make ricin as by product from castor oil. It takes a lot more work to synthesize.
4:27 it makes him so happy when the guy talk about that thing.( chest compressions)🤣🤣🤣
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I think with the "Are you a smoker?" question it was more on the realm of seeing if it may have been something brought on by smoking itself. Rather than him knowing for certain it was a cancer or something like that. But I do agree they heavily imply that it was him going "Sorry bro you have lung cancer" like he could hear the cancer growing or something.
I read it as he heard something that sounded similar to a smoker's lungs and asked to disqualify that.
I think the intent was that his lungs sounded raspy and bad, but I would believe a doctor about whether or not you actually could hear that.
*puts stethoscope on back*
"WHAT UP, ALL YOU PARAMEDICS OUT THERE? IT'S YA BOI, LUNG CANCER!"
I think he is asking to judge how likely chronic CPD is as the diagnosis. That is the most likely cause of his breathing problems and if he isn’t a smoker then a scan is more necessary.
the initial assessment brought into light some sort of respiratory problem and pushed walter into diagnosing it
I felt that scene where Walter hears he has cancer.
I've had that emotionally zoned out but intellectually present reaction several times when I heard acutely bad news about my own or a family member's health.
I'm just glad that when there have been emergencies, the feeling hits after the need for action and clear head has passed.
Maybe in your family bless your heart.
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I appreciate the "Turn Down For What" shout out at 0:43.
The vomit scene is such a masterclass in writing. Especially for character work
They also have Walt teaching his son to make sure his newborn sister sleeps on her side, so the audience knows for sure that Walt is choosing not to help Jane. (Also in the original script he actually killed her by injecting her with more heroin, but they chose to make his involvement more ambiguous.)
@@SuzakuX yeah this was a way darker way for sure
"That is a needle....And a syringe" Mike demonstrating that 10 years of medical expertise
1:52 the guy never said he got cancer...he just asked if he is a smoker...just like every single doctor i've met always ask this question when they put that device into your chest to hear your lungs
7:05 I know Walt did a lot of terrible things in the show but for me letting Jane like this is really showing his darkest side
My late father had the same cancer as Walter White.
He visisted hospitals- the best in Pakistan i.e., Agha Khan University Hospital, but everytime he was discharged citing he had Tuberculosis and prescribed Tablets for that. But each time he came home taking the tablets worsned his condition. After 4 or 5 visits to Karachi, finally AKU doctors decided to Scan his Lungs from the backside instead of the chest and they found out 75% of the left lung has been completely eaten up by the cancer. Immediately he was shifted to OT and after 7 hours of operation the tumor was removed and my father lived for another 17 years.
did he die of the cancer or natural causes
He prolly has some money hidden away from his meth empire
@@yourweirduncle4441 nah bro his lawyer got it all
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@@BlackpowderAddict he died of Heart Attack but the cancer was back so he didn't had that long anyways.
Something for Dr. Mike to keep in mind, is the writers took the time to make sure things were scientifically inaccurate on purpose because they didn't want the viewers to learn how to actually cook meth
Lmaoo
i swear it tasted the same tho.
That has nothing to do with anything he actually reviewed though…
How does this have anything to do with the medical scenes? They intentionally made the meth scenes inaccurate not the necessarily the medical scenes
@@NoriMori1992 you must be fun at parties
6:48 is a scene that was interesting because Jane was making sure Jesse passed out on his side so he wouldn't choke on his vomit and that's what happened to her. And he let it happen.
That was stage 1 of Walter White being a complete psycopath.
the stethoscope scene always struck me as him realizing something isnt right, thats why the immediate next shot is the scan you say needs to happen. I have never met anyone who thought that paramedic was diagnosing him with cancer
10:09
They never state that the poison was ricin. The audience doesn't know what kind it is but assumed to be slow acting as seemingly several minutes go by before it kills anyone.
Nah, a few minutes IS a fast-acting poison. Slow-acting poison would probably be hours. A few minutes is pretty quick for a poison.
it's probably just cyanide according to a toxicologist that reviewed the scene
Only case I know of was the one where a diplomat was injected with a tiny amount on a London bridge, took him quite a while to die, heard it's not that effective with oral ingestion.
The tie straightening was an artistic liberty they took.
From what I know it was Giancarlo's idea (the actor who plays Gus), as a symbol of him "preparing to go".
12:36
The whole series played out as a modern day western. That theme carried over to El Camino.
So even the small things like that were very nice touches.
This can actually happen mostly cause of shock and andrenaline
@@tsarbomba827 I think to this extreme though most likely not mainly because he’s missing half his head and then some
@@creepercreed75 I mean, there was that one case where a person had been I think shot in the head while he slept, but he 'woke up' at the same time he always does before work, did most of the little chores, then just collapsed at his front door. He was already incredibly close to death, his body was just moving on autopilot
I love the humor and sarcasm you put into this!
thank you for the warning at around six minutes!! i can’t stand watching people be sick, sends me into panic attacks. it’s such an easy thing to warn people about but it really does help and doesn’t go unnoticed or unappreciated :) love your videos dr!!
The scene where Walter gets the news that he has cancer, really hit me differently, after I myself went through something traumatic.
As soon as I saw that scene the second time I watched the show, I immediately thought "that's what it feels like to dissociate!" For me, the first 4.5 month of my depression is just gone. I barely remember a single thing before being hospitalized. And I honestly don't know if I should feel thankful or scared. I still have moments where I dissociate, but normally not more than a few hours max. It's still very uncomfortable when it happens though. It's very hard to describe.
I used to read books where they described cases in neurology like that, maybe you should see a neurologist? I'm no expert
You’re healing please don’t be scared… Glad to know you made it through medical rough spots. keep on keeping on dude
Maybe you could consult with a mental health professional? There's no reason for you to be struggling mentally/emotionally like you are if there's some treatable reason for it. I wish you good luck.
The mustard was looking tasty
@@enderman5423 I have talked to neurologists. I was diagnosed with ADD and a comorbid panic disorder. Unfortunately, they comeoletely looked past my depression, so I wasn’t diagnosed or treated for my severe depression for 2.5-3 years. But I have been through several therapists, doctors and other professionals.
I still struggle a lot with depression and anxiety at times, but I’m lucky to have a good support system around me. But thank you all for your concern 🧡
One other thing to note, is that Gus did more than just throw up the poison, he also took something before he drank it, it did not show what, but I assume it was something to lessen the effect of the poison.
Charcoal. Charcoal makes u vomit
@@kennymccormick2489 I personally haven't heard that charcoal makes one vomit, but what I know is that it's used to absorb toxins from the stomach. "Toxins" is a specific work and I know that charcoal won't differentiate between toxins and non-toxins but you get the point.
Actually, I bought more Gus walking out of that hospital room with his half his brain, than him getting away with poison.
I know 2 ways to avoid poison :
1 To take it with something else, so it work on your body.
2 Take an anti-poison, quickly.
I learn that watching Dead Man's Gun, the black widow episode, and a famous wu xia pian movie, made around 2000 (I can't recall the title). Therefore, it must be right ! 🤣🤣
I guess in a way, it could be both, just like you suggested it.
The Jane scene is just amazing to me because they portray Walter White and “Heisenberg” as two WHOLE different personalities. At first sight of seeing Jane choke, the Real, sympathetic Walter White’s first instinct would to put her on her side. You can see this vividly when he even is about to put both his hands on her arm, ready to roll her over. But then, you see him pause. The Uncaring, and cruel “Heisenberg” realizes what she did to blackmail him, and how she was getting high with Jesse, and even how he was getting angry at the fact that Jesse was valuing her as his main priority at the time. He then just thinks: “look what she’s done to him and me. She shouldn’t live. Why am I trying to save her?” As he just stands there. Watching her choke.
Stop that.
Heisenberg is just as much the 'real' Walter. The original Jekyll and Hyde book showed this.
Yeah, Heisenberg and Walter aren't two different people, Walter White himself would've let her die because it was in his best interest
He needed Jesse no matter what, so her taking him to another country would've been bad for him.
Love all the videos Dr. Mike and all the amazing editors and production staff. I'd really appreciate a needle warning though
In the same episode where Jane overdoses, Walt is seen placing his baby on her side with back support in case of spit-up. So he knows about that recovery position.
We don't know what poison Gus used in the tequila. According to the show, ricin doesn't work that quickly. However he did also took some pills just before the meeting, I would have liked to see what those might have been or done.
This is the most Breaking Bad I've ever seen. Is Jane the person he was talking about with the patient confidentiality in the prior scene?
@@TalenynWren Jane is the woman who overdosed and choked on her own vomit
@@TalenynWren bit of a late reply, but if I remember correctly, he was asking the doctor about confidentiality because he had faked the whole "walking into a store naked and not remembering anything about it" (the "fugue state," as the show calls it.) The doctors wanted to do a bunch of things to rule out why he had this fugue state, but the whole thing was faked. He just didn't want his family to know about it because (again, if I remember correctly,) it was a cover-up for his illegal activities. The doctors keeping him in the hospital to do all these tests and such would have interfered with said activities, and he didn't want to waste his time. Also just wanna say, show is absolutely phenomenal. I watched it for the first time just recently and it's one of the best shows I've ever seen. I'd highly recommend it.
Cyanide has an effective antidote. It could have been hydroxocobalamin, sodium nitrite, or sodium thiosulfate. They're usually given intravenously, but I can definitely see it being effective when taken orally before being poisoned as the poison was also taken orally.
This show has everything
Physics chemistry math bio , business
, Sociology , psycology political science .
This show is an University within itself .
Don’t forget literature because the writing on this show is amazing.
@@Judo593 and cinematography
Even engineering if you count the M60 scene
Amen.
Fantastic video Mike! I really enjoyed this. Have you considered reacting to the medical scenes of Better Call Saul? That would be great
This video produced by Dr. Mike is 99.315% pure
I commend your work!
Inoperable: When BB started, a lot of targeted drugs didn't exist. When we did frozen sections on squamous cell carcinomas (though Walter probably has adeno) in LNs, if we found positive ones, the didn't resect the lung.
Even just in 11 years, so much has changed in diagnosing and treating cancer.
We also didn't check for ricin. Coroner run red state. They did the bare minunum. Didn't do cyanide either. Only time we went above and beyond was when something was weird. Our Wile Coyote suicide didn't have a clear cause of death, but the toxicologist able to write a paper on the cocktail of animal poisons he'd given himself.
Also stabbed himself in a lot of places and managed to miss anything vital.
When I received my 1st cancer dx, I was at work. They told me over the phone, I was a blubbering fool. My colleagues understood the nature of the situation and recommended that I go home. It was 5 years ago this coming December 21st. I went through all of my appointments alone. Not one of my doctors recommended that I bring in anyone nor did they offer a patient advocate. In just these short 5 years, much has changed when it comes to cancer dx. All doctors are more patient focus, with shared decision making. While the character in this show focused on mustard, I relied on what I know best as a quality engineer. Data, statistical data, numbers, patterns, etc.
I do just want to say that oncology doctors and nurses are the best I have ever dealt with but shout out to all healthcare workers.
Over the phone? That sounds heartless. I've never known of that happening to family or friends.
i just finished breaking bad today I've been waiting to watch this video. i actually never realized how important things that seemed small at first like the ricin was from the beginning of the show to the end
Commenting to say this show is amazing. I watched it in like 2 or 3 weeks I was so obsessed. I wanna rewatch it already because it was so good but I know I need to wait a while so I get that new show feeling again.
The people that dislike this video are upset Dr Mike didn't thoroughly explain to them how to cook crystal meth
From what I’ve heard a former DEA agent and chemistry professor say in interviews about this show, the process and ingredients they used was almost spot on. The only thing they took issue with was that it was blue, but agreed that it was a nice artistic touch.
Supposedly Brian Cranston worked with the feds when researching his character to learn how to make meth.
The inaccuracies are intentional, they didn't want to make the show "Meth Cooking 101".
He is a doctor not a chemist ! He has no idea
Bahahahaha!!!!!!!!
@@EmyrDerfel I certainly hope not! I was joking about Dr. Mike's commentary
It's been a bit since I watched the show again so correct me if I'm wrong, they never specified the type of poison used in the bottle of tequila and that gus threw up. I really woulda loved to hear dr mike's viewpoint if it was just people getting poisoned in general, but hey here we are. Still really interesting to see a professional medical opinion on all this, tho!
It was definitely not ricin. He also took some unspecified pills ahead of time to lessen the effects.
Why do you wanna know man ????
@@NithinAbraham29 he wants to know because in the video he said ricin, I don't like this video just because he hasn't seen the entire show, only the parts he reacted to which doesn't give full context
@@Doge_Owner Yo it was pun intended like why do you wanna know about the ricin you gonna kill somebody , like that .
@@NithinAbraham29 bro it wasn't even the ricin, they never mentioned it, we wanna know for entertainment purposes and to correct the video. That's all
9:51 IT was not a ricin
Fr bro I don’t mean to be rude to this guy but in every show he doesn’t know what is even going on so he gets everything wrong.
Oh man.. the editor let the "first I beat and I treat" go through? He must've laughed so hard and thought "maybe not, but lets let him be himself" xD. Keep at it! Great vids ~
He is the one who prescribes!
I am the prescription I am the pharmacy Skylar
Just wanna say the “axe to the head is incompatible” is technically false, I took an chopping axe to my head when I was 4 from my dad, it was on accident, got rushed to the hospital and only needed 5 or 6 staples. Tho my dads still a bit scared from that these 16 years later. That being said would not recommend😂
i mean technically what you're saying is not the same thing. theres a difference between someone swinging a sharpened axe near full force downwards with the added force of gravity acting on the axe straight to your head is not the same as getting a nick in the head from an old carpenters axe.
Dude, do you think that skulls are stronger then wood? 😅
@@BioTheHuman no. i said there is a difference between an accidental bit of extra force slipping and hitting you lightly on the head with an old and somewhat blunt axe and someone swinging a newly sharpened axe at you with full force with the added force of gravity pulling it down
@@wildafricanpot7360 My Friend, did I tag you in my comment? Obviously it was directed to OP 😅
TH-cam doesn't tag the user if you answer to the original first comment 🤷
@@BioTheHuman bone is stronger than many types of wood
dr mike really came in clutch with that vomit warning 😭😭 THANK YOU🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
My dad had colon cancer and said that this show’s depiction of cancer and especially chemo are the most accurate he’s seen on tv
I almost got alcohol poison once and my fiancé (boyfriend at the time) had to turn me on my side when I was throwing up. I guess I threw up on him, but he was scared to death of anything bad happening to me so it was okay. Definitely don't ever want to get that drunk again.
Same thing happened to my older sister after some family friends were over. She went to the bathroom and I heard her over the toilet but didnt hear anything after like 20-30 minutes so I checked on her. Passed out on the floor on her back laying face up. Spent a moment trying to wake her up but she would only ever open her eyes slightly and just mumble something. Rolled her over and within 20 minutes, she started throwing up while unconsious. Eventually after an hour of no throwing up, I got her to get into bed...where she threw up 5 minutes later. I stood in the hall until maybe 2:30am to make sure nothing else happened then went back to my room and played some morrowind to occupy myself while listening for signs of her falling ill again. Around 4:00am, I called it and got into bed. What followed the next day is what I can only describe as the most hellish looking hangover I have ever personally witnessed someone experience. Like full on zombie not waking up until 4:00pm or so. This happened on a friday night and she was hungover well into sunday
One time I got really drunk, passed out, and vomited a couple times. When I went to bed at night, I was extremely paranoid that I would throw up in my sleep. Thankfully, I didn’t
@@completelyroundoak Bring her to the hospital if she was in such a bad condition?
Also, when someone throws up, always give them water, they lose a lot of fluids.
I had to do this for a friend recently. Scariest thing ever. I don't think I slept at all that night, just fussing over them every time they moved or anything.
Jesus Christ loves you and died for your sins repent and turn to Christ and have a blessed day ,
Thank you for putting in the trigger warning for the vomit scene. This is the most difficult phobia to deal with for many people.
lmao okay
Very true, my brother has it. He says he’s constantly paranoid, as when someone falls sick and the first thought is them unexpectedly throwing up - I think it paints awful images in his head lasting for days. It’s really unfortunate because being exposed to vomit is often unavoidable and sudden.
It's also just an incredibly disturbing scene even without a vomit phobia. I've watched that scene once in my life and don't intend to watch it again any time soon. I muted the video, put on subtitles, and covered most of the screen with my hand.
When Walter coughed, I really felt that. Most relatable scene in the series.
That was so 😎 Cool. I enjoyed watching the refresher course with you.
Does anyone else feel like Dr Mike would be an amazing person to sit and watch anything with? The commentary is what I'm living for. 🤣😂 much love from Canada ♡♡
You would think that, but it would get old very soon. Its fiction for a reason, for entertainment. Having someone calling out every inaccuracy would take you out of "the zone". Maybe REwatch something, sure.
@@edgardomartin8299 Completely agree. My spousal unit throws out random info about actors, locations, backstories, directors, music, etc., whenever we watch something together. I’ve slowly burned up over it for 20+ years. Love’em soooo much, but not this small part.
I was about to say the same thing.
@Truth And Justice Imagine thinking being nice = hitting on them.
@@TheSwauzz just reverse the genders and you would have a feminist army attacking the poor guy
THANK YOU for the vomit warning! I was able to skip over that part without any issues. Sincerely appreciate that gesture ☺️
You scared of vomit?
@@ainz2579 there's a thing called emetophobia, it's a fear of seeing vomit or yourself vomitimg
@@neutralnadia5636 LMFAOOOOOO
@@neutralnadia5636 can’t be 😂😂😅
@@turtlemasterkaboom535
There's a phobia of the outdoors, a phobia of holes, a phobia of the outdoors. There's a phobia (and an allergy) for just about everything.
Doctor Mike I want to thank you for showing how to do basic medical stuff like chest compression cuz I saved my friends life by doing chest compression
also in the hospital explosion, look at his right and left eye, when he moves his eyes, the little vein moves around too
6:31 thank you for this revelation, I did not know this prior to your comment
Joking lol, congrats on 10mil :)
The Face Off explosion is simply my favorite scene of the entire series and I love the whole show.
I think that season 5 was honestly kind of a disappointment compared to season 4. The Neo-Nazis didn’t need to exist, it should have just been Walt and Jesse against the DEA and Jesse eventually siding with Hank to take down Walter. The point of the show may have been to show Walter’s fall from grace but I would have liked to have seen Jesse grow into a better person as well instead of just being turned into a slave by the Neo-Nazis.
In the cartel poisoning scene, the poison is never said to be ricin. Given Walt’s description of the minuscule dose of ricin needed to be fatal and how quickly it acts in the scene, I think it’s safe to assume Gus used some other poison
Maybe that was cyanide
What I found most unrealistic is that everyoe was affected by the poison at the same time. I'm not a medical professional but depending on age, weight and height the poison would be absorbsed at different times, yet they all seemd to pass out within 30 seconds of each other.
3:20 that's what happened when Gus when he got blown up despite the injury his brain wanted to act normal as if nothing happened
8:23 Too easy? What is he, an anime character?
Just finished my third watch through, I was thinking of recommending this to you!!! Glad to finally get an episode on the show. It's a heartbreaking masterpiece.
Thank you so much for V warning! I WISH more shows/channels would do that. It meant I could cover the screen for a few seconds and hold onto my lunch!
Literally!! & I have emetophobia so I appreciated that on a deep level
sedatedcourtney Same!
What's a V warning?
I've watched this video so many times just to see Mike's joy over tuco knowing about chest compressions
oh my god congrats on 10 mill I am usually on my other account I was with you since 2 mill
I'm a recovering addict. The heroin scenes, the ODs, all very accurate. I've had to resuscitate a couple people ODing on heroin and ODed myself (sober 4.5 years now) and the aspiration, all of it brutally real. Unfortunately.
Good luck on your jouney . Rooting for you 🤗
Except for that needle 🥴
@@shannonrickard8605 lol yeah. Perhaps it's ignorance on the props department, or maybe they just love making them as big and scary as possible, probably both. But I'm also a recovering addict (heroin) and it's pretty rare I see drug scenes in Hollywood where the needles actually look like the small 1ml insulin types that are ubiquitous IRL.
Hope you’re still sober!
good job being sober so long!!
Thank you for the video, and in general for all your content (:
About the Ricin, according to the show it takes a few days to kill (with flu-like symptoms). Gus used something else with the Cartel (don't think they say what it is).
I have a question about the boxing thing. how do you feel about punching and getting punched in the head? It is a consentual popular sport, and some (pretty mild) procautions are taken. Still it is obviously not good for you, and sometimes really dangerous. Also there could be damage in the long term from all the beating. Not judging, just interested how you see this as a doctor that promotes healthy life-style and avoiding self harm (like smoking, drinking excessively, junk food etc.).
Boxing definitely does damage to the brain, especially long term.
You don't have to look any further than Mike Tyson. The guy has a fairly prominent speech impediment, vision problems I believe and more.
And that is after "just" 58 fights.
Bro honestly thank you sm for the vomit warning, I have ematophobia and I was so happy I could close my eyes in that scene 😮💨
To be fair a medical professional having a mustard stain on their lab coat is extremely unprofessional
7:17 Detective Mike 🤣🤣🤣
Kid named finger 💀
Having only just discovered your channel, I'll now be binge watching all these videos, your personality is infectious (medical pun intended).
Thank you for the warning before jane‘s death scene. You are the first one that i came across who did this. As someone with severe emetophobia i appreciate this so, so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
In the clip 08:50 Guss takes some medication before drinking the Poi*on, when you watch the scene in Breaking Bad again you can see he has a small box with some (i guess) Medication inside. :)
4:40 Glad to see the editor is in touch with Gen-z
Hey Doctor Mike, thank you very much for the vomit warning. I have emetophobia and it was very helpful to know when to look away 😊 thanks for being awesome as always
I was so thankful for that! I have emetophobia as well + I was watching this while eating breakfast 😂
When my mom told me they had found an aneurysm behind her right eye, I just stared in the mirror and focused on my face for a bit and kind of zoning out on the dots on the mirror as well. I did more research that day but I was really scared and cried a lot. I think, even though I don’t have much experience with cancer I think this scene has a very realistic portrayal of that kind of situation.