NO. It's protocol not give a patient with appendicitis painkillers because if it bursts (because basically your appendix is so inflamed that it could burst). And once it bursts, the number one symptom is suddenly the pain is gone. And that signals an emergency open appendectomy, otherwise they will die of infection.
The eye check was measuring your internal eye pressure. Typically done when one has to wear think lenses, or if you a diabetic or had eye surgery. High pressure can cause your retina to separate from the eye wall...
The eye test (OCT scan) where they take a picture to check the health of your eye is something offered at most, if not all, opticians in the UK. It is an extra charge, though I do think those at risk of glaucoma or other degenerative eye issues get it free like the rest of their eye test. Last time I had it done I think Specsavers charged £10 for it. The puff test though is a separate test that is just part of a normal eye test and helps measure the pressure inside your eye.
Kinda surprising Japan doesn't do thyroid treatments well considering hashimoto's thyroiditis is named after a japanese physician. Also urosepsis can be fatal, that's really bad negligence on their part.
I clean the Endo and Colon scopes at the hospital where I work. The length of the scopes ranges from three to five feet. The Endoscope is about the thickness of your thumb, while the Colon one is about two thumbs. Most of the scopes are made by Olympus out of Japan. They are expensive at $50,000 to $75,000 depending on resolution, i.e. 1080p or 4K. And, yes it is quite disgusting seeing blood, lubricant and feces come out of the scope or it is coated in.
Every time Connor mentions his hemophilia I start worrying how he doesn't wear a hemophilia bracelet. It can be pretty dangerous if something unfortunate happens and no one is aware. That's just sheer medical negligence atp, healthcare systems in most developed nations add too many unnecessary steps and complications imo. Just help your patients!
omfg that story is traumatizing.... when I had stomach problems and got endoscopy/colonoscopy I was put to sleep and never was awake during it (America)
Not sure if its still the same, but Google Translate used to actually translate ningen dokku as "Human Dog". I'm guessing its still the same and thats probably where Connor's doctor's "Human Dog" for the english name came from. They probably just ran it through google translate.
Referrals for over a year? Not so different to the USA when they don't understand you have a chronic invisible disease. I spent years to finally figure out I have a nerve disease that is more common for women and VERY little is understood for men. Also found out I have arthritis that went unchecked and I likely had it for over a decade because they don't expect it in your 20s or even as a child.
Glad you were able to find out what happened, but in the referral hell that Connor was talking about he had an already known condition and was just trying to get documentation and treatment, so bit of a different situation and still ended up getting twisted. The exploratory process in Japan is even worse.
@@themadmallard I've known about one of my nerve conditions for about 5 years. It's uncurable and treatment is like playing hopscotch with different medicines because the pains are random and medicines only target certain things. Insurance certainly isn't going to pay for a chiropractor or any alternative approaches. It locks me out of a lot of options. Arthritis is the only new one I found out about after hurting my lower back 3 years ago by slipping on the stairs. That particular fall I am still recovering from and it's been a slow and painful hell. It hurts for me to sit in regular chairs when I used to be able to sit in wooden chairs for hours with no problems. It's been a journey for well over a decade now for me with other issues dating back to my childhood. Not going to burden everyone with my history but my experience through the US health system is pretty crap filled with doctors telling me I am too young to be in chronic pain all the way back to my childhood and my struggle to get diagnosed.
@@trawrtster6097 That is certainly true. I've been set back 6 months to a year because the specialist is that packed and then you have to try remembering everything you went through in order to tell the specialist. It gets very depressing.
I worked and did rotations in hospitals in Canada, the US, thailand, SK, and settled in the Philippines. The problem with places where everything is avaliable like CAN, US, UK, EU, JP etc, everything they know is based on protocol, guidelines, and books. They won't ever go above and beyond for patients. They will never think outside the box or be innovative like they are in other asian countries.
True, but if I have to choose between a doctor who treats me by the book, or a doctor that gives me life ruining debt? I know what I'll choose everytime
? I have worked at hospitals as well in the US and have seen many people go above and beyond in US hospitals. Like healthcare in the US isn’t perfect but people are able to go above and beyond.
It's supposed to be 'dock' as in ships to go into port and dock to have a full thorough check-up. The human version of that. It also sounds like doc as in doctor, so it made sense to call it that. I believe the hospital messed up with translation, as the Japanese word is 人間ドック, not ドッグ. It was probably a typo.
I've been in Japan for 8 years and I've never really had experiences like this. I think they're going to run down old school clinics or something, lol. I even had an endoscopy and was given plenty of anesthesia
The best thing about japanese medical is they do not give you pain meds and if you do and you are not going to it will be like 25gs max. They understand that pain heals you better and faster. Plus they have a none existent opioid problem.
and the west would kickout patients after surgery or pregnancy within a day unlike japan and japan has the highest life expectancy in the world go cry more
I did the barium thing like Connor. I couldn't help myself from burping. Then they gave me more to drink and hoped that the x-ray still worked. He's right. They made me roll around to coat my stomach. I guess it turned out OK. I don't remember what the results were.
00:20 Typical Connor, insisting that he's right about something ridiculous (with full confidence) until the proof of him being wrong is shoved into his face 🤦🏻♂️
Moral of the story for me: Eat healthier when I decide to move to Japan and if anything bad does happen, come back to India and get it checked out from a reputed doctor lmao
Japan is also known for sexual allegations it’s just the laws don’t recognize or do anything about it. Also the life expectancy is more connected to poverty which many people in India are in, so that doesn’t really say anything about their healthcare
@@jonathanphilip4776 as if the us or eu is better in terms hiding SA and unreported SAs. Japan tops the world in life expectancy even compared to less populated 1st world countries I know you hate to admit it cuz your racist but if you don’t think the Japanese healthcare system has anything to do with it you deserve to have a shorter life expectancy😂
I feel like it’s a language barrier problem. Living in Japan since my childhood, I’ve never encountered anything like they say. You just have to know where to go and who to ask. For example if you are having a mental health problem, there will be institutions run by every local government that gives you advice for free. If you don’t know what to do, just call them and ask which medical facility you should go and all that. The quality of the service depends on the city though. If you’re picking randomly from google maps of course you’re going to draw a bad doctor. I also suspect that their doctors are requiring referrals because it being hard to communicate with them not speaking fluent Japanese. There is no way that happens within the same hospital. Get someone who speaks fluent Japanese to go with you
You can easily avoid something like that smoking doctor if you did a one minute google search. They’ll be at least one review about the doctor that insane. The episode shows how they are clueless of what they’re doing
It’s very varied. You can have the best healthcare or a bad joke of one depending on where you go. Also not dependent on how pricey it is. Shop and test around as the best ones might not be close by.
I’ve also heard of someone (living in Mexico) going to Japan for thyroid operation. They definitely can do those surgeries. It sounds like they went to a bad doctor America is good for very cutting edge medical technology and for treating very rare problems, but removing parts of the thyroid isn’t anything new or super uncommon
NO. It's protocol not give a patient with appendicitis painkillers because if it bursts (because basically your appendix is so inflamed that it could burst). And once it bursts, the number one symptom is suddenly the pain is gone. And that signals an emergency open appendectomy, otherwise they will die of infection.
"It's your oesophagus desu ne"
I've had both an endoscopy and colonoscopy. Trust me endoscopy is far far worse.
lmafo Chris is such a funny story teller im dying
Chris? thats connor in white
@@xtr.7662all white guys look the same tbf
The eye check was measuring your internal eye pressure. Typically done when one has to wear think lenses, or if you a diabetic or had eye surgery. High pressure can cause your retina to separate from the eye wall...
Yeah i figured it was a non contact tonometer
hearing Sonografie described as "that pregnant thing" lol
7:30 chris "what age is it mandatory?
Joey "40?"
Chris "I'll be gone by then"
Me 'hey me too'
Chris "I'll be on the first flight out"
Me 'never mind'
The eye test (OCT scan) where they take a picture to check the health of your eye is something offered at most, if not all, opticians in the UK. It is an extra charge, though I do think those at risk of glaucoma or other degenerative eye issues get it free like the rest of their eye test. Last time I had it done I think Specsavers charged £10 for it. The puff test though is a separate test that is just part of a normal eye test and helps measure the pressure inside your eye.
Kinda surprising Japan doesn't do thyroid treatments well considering hashimoto's thyroiditis is named after a japanese physician. Also urosepsis can be fatal, that's really bad negligence on their part.
17:29 medieval chemistry lol
I clean the Endo and Colon scopes at the hospital where I work. The length of the scopes ranges from three to five feet. The Endoscope is about the thickness of your thumb, while the Colon one is about two thumbs. Most of the scopes are made by Olympus out of Japan. They are expensive at $50,000 to $75,000 depending on resolution, i.e. 1080p or 4K. And, yes it is quite disgusting seeing blood, lubricant and feces come out of the scope or it is coated in.
16:54 I think Connor doesn't realise how bad the NHS has got in the past few years...
Isn’t it dock as in “dock inspection”?
Exactly, this!
Every time Connor mentions his hemophilia I start worrying how he doesn't wear a hemophilia bracelet. It can be pretty dangerous if something unfortunate happens and no one is aware. That's just sheer medical negligence atp, healthcare systems in most developed nations add too many unnecessary steps and complications imo. Just help your patients!
omfg that story is traumatizing.... when I had stomach problems and got endoscopy/colonoscopy I was put to sleep and never was awake during it (America)
Not sure if its still the same, but Google Translate used to actually translate ningen dokku as "Human Dog". I'm guessing its still the same and thats probably where Connor's doctor's "Human Dog" for the english name came from. They probably just ran it through google translate.
Referrals for over a year? Not so different to the USA when they don't understand you have a chronic invisible disease. I spent years to finally figure out I have a nerve disease that is more common for women and VERY little is understood for men. Also found out I have arthritis that went unchecked and I likely had it for over a decade because they don't expect it in your 20s or even as a child.
Glad you were able to find out what happened, but in the referral hell that Connor was talking about he had an already known condition and was just trying to get documentation and treatment, so bit of a different situation and still ended up getting twisted. The exploratory process in Japan is even worse.
At least they can see a specialist without having to wait a year or more.
@@themadmallard I've known about one of my nerve conditions for about 5 years. It's uncurable and treatment is like playing hopscotch with different medicines because the pains are random and medicines only target certain things. Insurance certainly isn't going to pay for a chiropractor or any alternative approaches. It locks me out of a lot of options. Arthritis is the only new one I found out about after hurting my lower back 3 years ago by slipping on the stairs. That particular fall I am still recovering from and it's been a slow and painful hell. It hurts for me to sit in regular chairs when I used to be able to sit in wooden chairs for hours with no problems.
It's been a journey for well over a decade now for me with other issues dating back to my childhood. Not going to burden everyone with my history but my experience through the US health system is pretty crap filled with doctors telling me I am too young to be in chronic pain all the way back to my childhood and my struggle to get diagnosed.
@@trawrtster6097 That is certainly true. I've been set back 6 months to a year because the specialist is that packed and then you have to try remembering everything you went through in order to tell the specialist. It gets very depressing.
I worked and did rotations in hospitals in Canada, the US, thailand, SK, and settled in the Philippines. The problem with places where everything is avaliable like CAN, US, UK, EU, JP etc, everything they know is based on protocol, guidelines, and books. They won't ever go above and beyond for patients. They will never think outside the box or be innovative like they are in other asian countries.
True, but if I have to choose between a doctor who treats me by the book, or a doctor that gives me life ruining debt? I know what I'll choose everytime
You have uttered the forbidden P-word. They...will come...
@@littlecat1727Phosphorous? Or, pregnant?
@@sporeham1674 The pee noise. The one I'm in right now, somewhere in South East Asia
? I have worked at hospitals as well in the US and have seen many people go above and beyond in US hospitals. Like healthcare in the US isn’t perfect but people are able to go above and beyond.
3:28 I put my earbuds back in, and I hear this no context 😭
I think Chris actually went to Jigsaw
It's supposed to be 'dock' as in ships to go into port and dock to have a full thorough check-up. The human version of that. It also sounds like doc as in doctor, so it made sense to call it that.
I believe the hospital messed up with translation, as the Japanese word is 人間ドック, not ドッグ. It was probably a typo.
Connor is a pigeon confirmed
Damn, it really is like Canada over there. Only difference is the good culture.
Can’t live in Canada, the US, Australia, Japan, or the UK. Is there not a single country that doesn’t completely fuck up an entire sector of society?!
Where do you live then
@@chineseman6580Welcome to humanity. As long as there are humans involved, fuck ups will follow.
sounds way better than Canada lol
@@chineseman6580 what do you mean, Australia's health care is great?
Dock! Like ship dock
I had 2 Endoskopies (1 was bad because no anastethic spray) and 1 Colonoscopy. Not really that bad honestly.
endoscopy like the tentacle experience
18:38 lmao even the medical science in Japan is very Japanese
Why wouldn't it be?
I've been in Japan for 8 years and I've never really had experiences like this. I think they're going to run down old school clinics or something, lol. I even had an endoscopy and was given plenty of anesthesia
The best thing about japanese medical is they do not give you pain meds and if you do and you are not going to it will be like 25gs max. They understand that pain heals you better and faster. Plus they have a none existent opioid problem.
20:34 yeah also saw a lot people glazing Japan’s delivery for not using pain killers or in other words pharmacological interventions
it's probably the Americans, cause the doctors would be super frivolous with prescribing opioids in the 90s, and that just royally fucked the country
and the west would kickout patients after surgery or pregnancy within a day unlike japan and japan has the highest life expectancy in the world go cry more
Nice one Connor 😂
LOL they bombed me for my endoscopies...best sleep I ever had. The filled me up with Propofol and the next thing I knew it was all over.
I did the barium thing like Connor. I couldn't help myself from burping. Then they gave me more to drink and hoped that the x-ray still worked. He's right. They made me roll around to coat my stomach. I guess it turned out OK. I don't remember what the results were.
its been a minute but I keep thinking about human doggu now
Every healthcare system has issues some more than others
00:20 Typical Connor, insisting that he's right about something ridiculous (with full confidence) until the proof of him being wrong is shoved into his face 🤦🏻♂️
Moral of the story for me: Eat healthier when I decide to move to Japan and if anything bad does happen, come back to India and get it checked out from a reputed doctor lmao
Never gonna step on India with all the sexual allegations there. No
theres a literal 12 years diffrence in life expectancy between india and japan lmao
Japan is also known for sexual allegations it’s just the laws don’t recognize or do anything about it. Also the life expectancy is more connected to poverty which many people in India are in, so that doesn’t really say anything about their healthcare
@@jonathanphilip4776 as if the us or eu is better in terms hiding SA and unreported SAs. Japan tops the world in life expectancy even compared to less populated 1st world countries I know you hate to admit it cuz your racist but if you don’t think the Japanese healthcare system has anything to do with it you deserve to have a shorter life expectancy😂
Can confirm Barium swallow - awful :/
I feel like it’s a language barrier problem. Living in Japan since my childhood, I’ve never encountered anything like they say. You just have to know where to go and who to ask.
For example if you are having a mental health problem, there will be institutions run by every local government that gives you advice for free. If you don’t know what to do, just call them and ask which medical facility you should go and all that. The quality of the service depends on the city though.
If you’re picking randomly from google maps of course you’re going to draw a bad doctor.
I also suspect that their doctors are requiring referrals because it being hard to communicate with them not speaking fluent Japanese. There is no way that happens within the same hospital. Get someone who speaks fluent Japanese to go with you
You can easily avoid something like that smoking doctor if you did a one minute google search. They’ll be at least one review about the doctor that insane. The episode shows how they are clueless of what they’re doing
16:56 yeah, this is Japan. Wake up weebs
bro was so early he went back in time and comented 4 days before the video came out
@@Irregulargremlinfirst time? Not smart?
It’s very varied. You can have the best healthcare or a bad joke of one depending on where you go. Also not dependent on how pricey it is. Shop and test around as the best ones might not be close by.
I’ve also heard of someone (living in Mexico) going to Japan for thyroid operation. They definitely can do those surgeries. It sounds like they went to a bad doctor
America is good for very cutting edge medical technology and for treating very rare problems, but removing parts of the thyroid isn’t anything new or super uncommon