I made a few as a nursing student. I passed out during a gallbladder removal. I’m only 5’5 so I was on a box and yep down I went. I remember the surgeon said “are you ok” and I said “I feel a bit hot” and then heard “she’s going dowwwwwn”.. I woke up on a bed in the recovery room. It was embarrassing. Apparently it wasn’t a good idea to start the day without food. So I was given food and made it for the rest of the surgeries for that day and the next. I’m 40 in two weeks and I was on a high school two week prac so I was 17! Now a days that would not fly! I still remember having a discussion with a patient who had a gridiron sized ovarian cyst removed and I was telling her all about it. I still remember it like it was yesterday. Now a days unfortunately I spend too much of my life on the bed and in the OR myself as the patient but I always allow students. My Professor always gets the first years to take my history as he knows how complex I am. They leave going omg omg. A few have come back days later during lunch breaks to learn more from Me.
Hi Dr. C. As an RN, I didn't make this mistake..(.but, I made tons of others), but I remember an intern who gave a patient KCL, IV but not in the bag. He gave it directly and the pt died on the spot. I can only imagine how he felt, and the consequences 😔
@@zacharywilliams8021 fer realz. i’m a nurse and just seeing the med students & residents getting chewed out publicly by their attendings is heart breaking cause you know these people worked so hard to get where they are only to be treated so harshly.
As a nursing student I neglected to notice in my pediatric patient's chart that the patient was blind. I proceeded to ask the mother how the patient's vision was doing during my assessment. Good times lol
During nursing school I was doing a clinical rotation in a pediatric clinic and shadowing the nurse. I didn’t know what she was doing with the patient exactly and the little girl raised her hand as if to wave (so I thought) and I excitedly waved back to her and smiled and said “hi!” too loudly. Yeah- the nurse was doing a hearing test and the little girl was raising her hand to let the nurse know she could hear. I’m an awkward human. Even to this day. Also during school I volunteered to be a patient at a PA school and the instructor extended her hand after the student did the exam and we were all done. I thought she was going to shake my hand so I went ahead and shook it. Nope, she was extending her hand for me to give back the gown she had given me for the exam. I’m still cringing at myself. We made some awkward eye contact until I realized what was going on, she looked confused as heck, and she “noodled” me as I shook her hand. I LOVED THIS VIDEO. Let’s normalize the awkward things we do through our education. And we are always learning anyway!!
I wish medicine was a little more forgiving on the flip side I understand the whole "1 mistake and someone could die" at the same time people hyped up on nervousness is a recipe for disaster too.
This is sooooo clutch for all Med students about to start clinicals. When you were talking about the wrist vain/intern vein brought back memories. As an ED Tech we use to help the Med students learn IV access. You’re not the only one who blew the vein. I’ve seen Med students blow beautiful ropes for veins on the forearms. Instead of berating them I nicely tell them how to adjust for the next time. But question. Did anyone ask if you were okay after you tripped 🤔??
@@Dr_Theatre Nope. What you should do is join the queue for the HCP doing CPR. You get into the middle of the action to see everything and have a role. Spectators are in the way. But if you do CPR you are part of the team and are no longer a hinderance.
As an intern I was doing a shift in a rural emergency med clinic and one time in the middle of the night (got just woken up of course lol) there was a need to prescribe an antibiotic for an outpatient kid. I did not usually work with pediatric population and I significantly miscalculated the dosage- underdosed them by a half or so for their weight. I realized it right after they had left to pick up the antibiotic from the pharmacy and I made the whole ruckus in alerting all the pharmacies in the vicinity on what had happened so I could track them down and rectify it. This was at like 3 am in a quiet little place where people usually sleep through their night shifts in pharmacies, they must have loved it 😬
As a nursing student, I was given the task of giving two different patients two different doses of insulin. I ended up giving the wrong dosage to the first patient. Lucky for him it was the lesser dose of the two. So I had to go back with my tail between my legs and explain to the patient that we needed to give him another shot because it was a lesser dose. I thought I was going to go to jail for this. Lesson learned double check patient dosage before administering and make sure that it matches with the appropriate patient. Thanks for this video makes me feel a whole lot better about being human.
Still not as bad as a story I heard of a super nervous medical student that went to an ophthalmology clinic, reached out to shake a 4 year old's hand, and said "hello sir how is your vision"
The OR is a humbling and somewhat soul crushing experience. Those nice scrub techs are rare but they are truly amazing. Most are grouchy and cruel who get high off of med student embarrassment.
My ED attending told me to do a digital block on a patient before repairing their finger laceration. When I asked if he was coming in to supervise, he said “I trust you.” With my head held high, I collected my supplies, drew up the lidocaine and walked in the patient’s room like a damn professional. When I stuck the needle into the patient’s finger I noticed more resistance than I had felt previously and the patient seemed like they were in a lot of pain. I pulled the needle out and was so confused when I saw a tube sticking out of the injection site. It took me a couple of seconds to realize but I had accidentally used a catheter needle for the digital block 🤦🏼♀️
This video has me laughing Dr. Cellini 😅 I’m a nurse so I can definitely say I’ve had my fair share of mistakes too, but my philosophy is make a mistake once, and you’ll never make the same mistake again lol. Thanks for sharing, another great video!
Awesome video! We all make mistakes that are embarrassing, but make great battle stories in years to come! I could see each of these scenarios unfolding. As an RN I had a med student in a labor room. The patient started abrupting, so I told the med student to go and get the attending STAT. A minute later, no attending. I went out to the hallway and ask the med student where the attending was. He said, "He yelled at me the last time I talked to him, so I didn't call him." (I called the attending, he came immediately, and all turned out well for the patient and baby.) The med student didn't have a good that day after the attending yelled at him again!
OMG, thank you so much for this video! This video and the comments made me feel so much better about my mistakes. I'm a second semester nursing students and had made mistakes and I felt so dumb and stupid about making them. I'm going to stop beating myself up. Everyone just expect you to be perfect and that is just not reality, especially when you are just getting started. Everyone makes mistakes!
I worked in a teaching hospital Interventional radiology department for over 7 years as an RN. Every 8 weeks or so we get new residents, it's so fun to watch them makes so many silly mistakes but by the end of the rotation they all are become pro at scrubing in and assisting fellows/attendings. I kinda miss it but don't miss the 3 am stroke/trauma calls.. lol 😆
I felt like every other day in nursing clinicals was just me bumble-fucking all over the place and making a fool of myself, soo its really nice to hear other people's stories of mistakes too
My first surgery case of third year (also obgyn), they asked me to keep my hands at my sides and tied the arms of the gown behind my back like a straight jacket 😅
Worst I ever saw (and this is BAD): a colleague from the dialysis unit, back in the early 80’s, who was dialyzing my ICU pt accidentally grabbed a vial of liquid KCL and reconstituted her post HD powdered Gentamycin with it 😳. You can imagine what happened next (and almost immediately!), especially since post dialysis meds are given push, not via gtt. Fortunately the pt recovered after being coded and then had an extra 2 hrs of HD on a 0 K+ bath. Soon after that incident, the hospital changed their policy of storing KCL vials along the sterile water and NaCl vials in the med room. I once dropped a two liter peritoneal dialysate GLASS bottle on the floor. Glass and PD solution all over the place! Fortunately it was new and hadn’t just drained from the pt 🤣. (This is dating me! It’s been a few years since glass bottles 😂) Love your tripping at the code story!
Thanks for making me laugh especially the OR part, cuz I really changed my mind from surgical to medical just to escape from scrubbing's nightmare! It's so crazy I can't imagine myself doing that 3 times a day!!! anyway I literally enjoyed watching this! Have a nice day :)
Omg this was hilarious. I'm definitely going to be more confident now thanks! I totally relate to the struggle of first scrubbing. I was a total mess and unfortunately never got to try it again
HATE scrubbing in! (the process). TT I've contaminated my gown/gloves too many times...The code story where you fell is HILARIOUS! (but I can't even imagine the embarrassment...)
I am an RN, I had a resident tell me to decrease pt to 20% O2. The patient wasn't on O2. I asked, you want me to smother him with a pillow? Then he realized what he ordered
Wow thanks for the laugh! I’m a couple days out from Level 2 so any chance to laugh is much appreciated 😅 I can’t believe you tripped during the code hahahahaha
I had a patient on a nitro drip. I accidently knocked over the pump because it was covered with the curtain. The glass bottled shattered onto the floor. I cleaned it up but told the patient not to go barefoot. He laughed. I forgot he was a double amputee.
This is my biggest recommendation to any HCP in training that has a chance to observe a code but doesn’t have a role. There will be a small collection of people that are there exclusively to do chest compressions. In my hospital usually they are NA’s. Join them. It will get you into the heart of the code to hear and see everything that happens but you will be helpful. You can let them know in a low voice that you want to join the queue,you won’t be interrupting any care, and they won’t mind a bit. CPR is very exhausting and they won’t mind a bit and you won’t feel out of place.
OT. I had a ultrasound guided neck lymph node biopsy. I must say the IR made me so comfortable and the team with him. IR did say if you swallow or move we will have problems. I did not breath or move. LOL. The experience was very nice, and he made me feel so comfortable, which went along way with me.
Literally every three years I have on enlarged left cervical lymph node that gets enlarged for 6-8 months at a time. They wouldn't take it when I had a partial thyroidectomy and never took a biopsy, but ultrasounds look fine, just enlarged. Just not sure what causes it to be 2cm for a few months at a time.
Pre-med undergrad here. Administered my first vaccine the other day. Unprepared for a spurt of blood that then dripped down the patient's arm a little. Other guy working with me grabbed some gauze, I cleaned it up quickly, and the patient was thankfully fine, but my mistake was not having the bandaid ready and on my glove and not having gauze within reach
I was in the RT program at my local college when this happened, was on a clinical rotation and we had a patient in isolation (beginning of the covid pandemic) well as I was undressing myself from all the PPE we had on, I made the mistake of taking off my mask last instead of first, luckily the lady I was shadowing was nice about it and told me that what I did wasn’t sanitary, and told me how to do it for the next time.
OMG Doc I know it wasn’t funny at the time but I had a huge laugh on your last coding story! LOL I wonder what kind of mess would I make once I’m on the floor .... God help me 🙏🏻
I am still in my first year as an ICU tech. My technical title is pca but I do so much more than that. One mistake I made was tripping over a patients only IV and ripping it from her body. I was one a floor I wasn't familiar with it was crazy busy. So I put on gloves grap paper towels and hold pressure while I press the call light and wait for someone to answer. Also I learned in one terrible weekend all the supplies to get to start a central line and an arterial line. Next I need to learn what to get for a chest tube.
Dr.Cellini Currently I am newly diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that has really shown me how interested I am into the medical field. I knew I was before but after being told that I was sick or I am sick then doing my research on my illness let’s just say to go to medical school will be an honor. For somebody who currently is trying to get on top of their disease who is low income if that What or how would you recommend to go about starting the process, I want to go to technical school six week course so I can start in phlebotomy just a little bit better wage and a foot in the door, I definitely want to stay local there is a really good university close to where I live but rheumatology or oncology is where I would love to be
RA in training here. I had to be taught to scrub in. I felt like a dummy. Also too please support MARCA by writing to ACR to support MARCA legislation. This bill will allow radiologists to bill Medicare for work done by a RA. Thanks
Just a quick comment....when I trained paramedics we referred to the cephalic vein as the "idiot" vein. Your ER resident was nicer in referring to it as the "intern" vein....I think. :)
my first clinical rotation (I live in a VERY small, rural area where everyone knows everyone) was in a LTC facility. My very first morning with my very first patient started off with a code brown. Not a problem, myself and another student went in, changed her and washed her up. I thought her "crack" was looking a little red so I grabbed the barrier cream, slathered her up really well and put the cream back but noticed the cream was still on the table beside her bed. I had just slathered her bottom with A535. Lol I could have perished right then and there. I got a warm pan of water and washed her VERY well, applied the CORRECT cream and went about my day. The students would have a meeting at the end of the day with our supervising teachers and I admitted my mistake to everyone FORGETTING my patient's granddaughter was taking the course with me. I could have crawled under a rock to die. Lol she was so good about it though, I will forever cringe and laugh at that rookie mistake. xD
in the early 1990s a patient coded on the ortho floor, the code team was running the code, over against the window was an older guy we ignored. we had multiple codes running in the hospital, and so we didn't have a doctor ( all the ICU doctors were on the other three codes being run), so the code team ran it by ACLS protocols ourselves. We got the patient back and then started to pack the patient for transfer to ICU and the team leader asked "did anyone call this guy's doctor?" and we heard a voice from the window. "I know"...It was the Ortho Attending! He had been evaluating the patient when the patient coded, and the ortho attending was who pushed the code blue button. we asked why he hadn't run the code and he shrugged, "I haven't run a code since I was an intern... you knew better what to do than I could remember..."
I got diagnosed with Crohns diseases my last semester of nursing school and had a big operation missed month of clinicals and almost had to push my last semester back a semester but lucky for me I was an A student and made up my missed clinicals on my own time and graduated with my class with honors but if I would have went to the doctor right away I wouldn’t have been in that mess. I pushed going to the doctor many times and I probably wouldn’t needed surgery but I was to involved with school and didn’t want to fall behind.
TH-cam has a way of making everyone make fools out of themselves, but if it’s all out there, it’s easy to see that people are just human. Reasonable humans are not looking down on our mistakes. Reasonable people help those who make mistakes and nobody beats anyone down. Cooperation is how anything gets done. Got to cooperate with yourself too. Medicine can be a shrewd and nerve-racking business, a big part of mistakes I hear about anyone making are due to duress and nerves and pressure. A good working environment is always worth promoting. Also, it’s good to try to branch out to find direction, but not if it keeps you from improving. The mistake I make switching between alot of things is usually dropping something when it gets tough and saying it’s about learning or doing something new. Switch things up if it’s going to help problems get solved but not if it avoids them altogether. Finding out what balance looks like to you seems to be a big growing pain in any profession. One big factor in making mistakes is also exhaustion. At a certain point anyone will become too overworked to actually function and that’s an important thing to look out for. Take care of yourself so you can take care in your work. Respect the responses you and others need as people. Have a wonderful day.
If it makes you feel any better, I am SUCH A HARD STICK, and there have been too many times to count when I tell them right off the bat that I'm a super hard stick because my veins are tiny and they roll. 9/10 times they're like, "Oh, I got it! No problem!" 4 people later from phlebotomists to nurses, the original person WHO I WARNED, is all like, "Dang! You weren't kidding!" I've been poked AT LEAST a couple hundred times in my lifetime. I dont kid about this stuff.
Same. My hands and arm hurt like hell right now (few days out of hospital). I have a surgery coming up soon and me and the nurses are gonna have a nice long talk, lol.
Vielen Dank, dass Sie mich zum Lachen gebracht haben, besonders über den OP-Teil, denn ich habe meine Meinung wirklich von chirurgisch zu medizinisch geändert, nur um dem Albtraum des Schrubbens zu entkommen! Es ist so verrückt, dass ich mir nicht vorstellen kann, das dreimal am Tag zu machen !!! Trotzdem habe ich es buchstäblich genossen, das zu sehen! Einen schönen Tag noch :)
Nurse here! I started in Med/Surg, of course, because that's where you have to if you want a specialty. I blew and went through so many "no miss" veins it wasn't funny! I laugh about it now but it was a disaster!
Every single one of us has a cringe story, and at least a few mistakes. I tell nursing students that if any nurse ever says she hasn't made a mistake, she's delusional! Be thakful you weren't seriously hurt when you tripped over the defibrillator cord. An anesthesiologist I worked with fell over a cord in the OR and broke her two front teeth😥
Lmaaao that last story, I can't imagine... Looking back on that experience was there anything you could've recognized at the time while talking to that patient to realize they were going to code?
@@jenniferwatts3777 I’m so sorry 🥺 I can’t imagine what you are going through. I pray peace and relief enter your heart and stay there forever ❤️ Hugs 🫂
I am a vet tech and I was calling an owner with the doctor's instructions for something. I was multitasking and I got distracted while it was ringing. The person answered and my mind went blank. I said "hello". He said "hello". Then I said something like "how can I help you?". And he kinda laughed and said "You called me! Want to figure that out and call me back?" Utterly awful.
ive called codes that were from me tripping on cables and not putting everything back right, but working it out before the teams arrived. which is kinda worse? ive left taps open on CTPA bore canns, done line up prep scans & gone back in to pools blood, arms above head. (ever tried to get blood out of a CT scan table edge runner w alcowipes? dont). in other news: how cheap are refurbished MRIs? i had no idea. gr8 vid. JC
During my gynecology rotation, we performed simulated deliveries using a model of a newborn and birthing canal. This was during the heart of COVID, so hand-sanitizer dispensers could be found everywhere, on tables, walls, etc. So, naturally, when I saw a pump dispenser on a table in the room, I went for it - collected several pumps and began to lather my hands even while my preceptor was pimping me because I thought it was no big deal. The preceptor who was pimling me immediately stopped and began laughing - I had just soaked my hands in the lubricant we were supposed to use on the model.
Nurses call it “The Med Student Vein” 😂😂😂😂 I would never be upset if this happened. I would never be upset if as a new med student you couldn’t get that stick or any other. That is not your area of expertise. I was pretty upset when a seasoned nurse put a unit of blood in the staff refrigerator instead of the med refrigerator (you are really supposed to hang it within 30 minutes of getting it) and our unit had to eat the cost of that unit of blood. $850.00. That procedure is written in our policy and procedures manual. Clinical “Prowess” is not.
Hmmm a very busy Brooklyn ER rotation .. lol there’s a very good chance I’ve run into you before as a emt or one of the million times I was in for SVT. I have to pull all my old Er records for VA stuff (increase of benefits) if you treated me that will be funny.
As a volunteer at the ER I was leading a patient into their room. On the way I saw that a crash cart with a bulky heart monitor on top of it was in the way of the entrance. As I was attempting to move the cart out of the way, I saw the monitor slip off and tumble onto the floor making the loudest noise I've ever experienced in my life haha. Everyone was staring at me and seconds felt like an eternity. Luckily one of the nurses helped me out but she couldn't stop grinning the whole time haha.
I had this intern in the ER use Us guidance bec my veins suck sooo bad. He forgot to bring all the attachments for the line (wasn’t in like the usual PICC package) So he gets a PICC in , leaves the catheter part that was threaded up into my chest w nothing attached to it, leaves the tourniquet on again not sure why it was even still on to thread the line up, leaves the room to get a nurse to get all the necessary stuff and I literally was pumping blood out EVERYWHERE !!! Not even sure why he was doing a picc to start 🤷🏼♀️ 🤔! From now on I make them send me to IR. EF THAT noise. And now in the boring patient you get you don’t want bec it’s too easy LOL 😆
I should’ve listened to the two minute and 50 second marker oh my god that was me at the local ER a year ago those people jabbed me eight times never got an IV they even called the paramedic to come in and try, she couldn’t she blew my vein and then I passed out😂😂😂😂
One thing I noticed is that medical students will use their mobiles in the middle of a procedure. As a nurse I considered that massively rude and hugely disrespectful. Thinking now maybe they were looking words up or something but it used to make me feel annoyed that they couldn’t concentrate on the procedure and patient.
I have a question doctor: why do some doctors get real short with nurses, hang up on them, call them names… YELL AT THEM.. ??? you know, asking for a nurse.
I was a new medical assistant at a fancy clinic with a very intimidating doctor. My first time opening, I was totally alone and needed to flip the OR for a lipo procedure. Sometimes she'd do procedures well past midnight and the OR wouldn't get flipped until morning. The manager left me a checklist so I felt pretty good about things. The patient was on the table, incisions were made, and I'd forgotten to put the freaking cannula on the tray! For a lipo procedure!! 🤦🏼♀️ To be fair to me, we had multiples of everything else on the tray, but only one cannula for some reason. I just forgot to double back and get it out of the autoclave when it was finished. I was like 😳, frozen, bracing myself for her dragonfire-like rage, but she just chuckled and said, "Heh heh. Well go get it. ?" And the rest of the procedure went fine. Whew! The next day everyone there made fun of me, individually. So that was nice, knowing she'd taken the time to pull each one aside to make fun of something so minor. Joke's on her though - she got shut down and is buried under sanctions, her house was foreclosed on and she's officiating weddings now. 🤭
Very funny.... though tripping in the middle of a code is not unusual 😆 Getting poke with a needle after poking the patient is a big deal 😲 Thanks for sharing
bro how you finna just be like "ima see myself out..." during a mf code??? and you fucking tripped over the cords for the aed too??? you lucky shit didn't unplug!!! i was literally holding my breath and my hand was physically over my mouth as i listened to you tell this story i can't
What’s your favorite IR procedure to perform? MS4 here and I didn’t see a ton during my radiology clerkship, but I really liked a PCNL I saw, esp with the urology collab!
I can’t be the only one who made silly mistakes like this, right!???
Thank you for commenting on doing too much, that's what I do all the time. I needed to hear this 🙌
Did the patient survive?
I made a few as a nursing student. I passed out during a gallbladder removal. I’m only 5’5 so I was on a box and yep down I went. I remember the surgeon said “are you ok” and I said “I feel a bit hot” and then heard “she’s going dowwwwwn”.. I woke up on a bed in the recovery room. It was embarrassing. Apparently it wasn’t a good idea to start the day without food. So I was given food and made it for the rest of the surgeries for that day and the next. I’m 40 in two weeks and I was on a high school two week prac so I was 17! Now a days that would not fly! I still remember having a discussion with a patient who had a gridiron sized ovarian cyst removed and I was telling her all about it. I still remember it like it was yesterday.
Now a days unfortunately I spend too much of my life on the bed and in the OR myself as the patient but I always allow students. My Professor always gets the first years to take my history as he knows how complex I am. They leave going omg omg. A few have come back days later during lunch breaks to learn more from
Me.
Ps I am in Australia.
Hi Dr. C. As an RN, I didn't make this mistake..(.but, I made tons of others), but I remember an intern who gave a patient KCL, IV but not in the bag. He gave it directly and the pt died on the spot. I can only imagine how he felt, and the consequences 😔
RN in OR here, these videos help me become more empathetic to med students. Thanks for sharing!
Are ye single?
@@firstlookpro7282 Ye sad fuck
@@daragh9472 hahaha 😝
Lol. It shouldn't take watching a video for you to be empathetic.
@@zacharywilliams8021 fer realz. i’m a nurse and just seeing the med students & residents getting chewed out publicly by their attendings is heart breaking cause you know these people worked so hard to get where they are only to be treated so harshly.
As a nursing student I neglected to notice in my pediatric patient's chart that the patient was blind. I proceeded to ask the mother how the patient's vision was doing during my assessment. Good times lol
During nursing school I was doing a clinical rotation in a pediatric clinic and shadowing the nurse. I didn’t know what she was doing with the patient exactly and the little girl raised her hand as if to wave (so I thought) and I excitedly waved back to her and smiled and said “hi!” too loudly. Yeah- the nurse was doing a hearing test and the little girl was raising her hand to let the nurse know she could hear. I’m an awkward human. Even to this day. Also during school I volunteered to be a patient at a PA school and the instructor extended her hand after the student did the exam and we were all done. I thought she was going to shake my hand so I went ahead and shook it. Nope, she was extending her hand for me to give back the gown she had given me for the exam. I’m still cringing at myself. We made some awkward eye contact until I realized what was going on, she looked confused as heck, and she “noodled” me as I shook her hand.
I LOVED THIS VIDEO. Let’s normalize the awkward things we do through our education. And we are always learning anyway!!
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I feel your pain.
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This was a hard read 😂😂 but I can’t judge I’ve had plenty of moments like these
It takes being humble to make a great doctor
I wish medicine was a little more forgiving on the flip side I understand the whole "1 mistake and someone could die" at the same time people hyped up on nervousness is a recipe for disaster too.
I love how you laugh at yourself and share your stories. I worked in a hospital setting for years and my heart went out to the medical students!!!
This is sooooo clutch for all Med students about to start clinicals. When you were talking about the wrist vain/intern vein brought back memories. As an ED Tech we use to help the Med students learn IV access. You’re not the only one who blew the vein. I’ve seen Med students blow beautiful ropes for veins on the forearms. Instead of berating them I nicely tell them how to adjust for the next time.
But question. Did anyone ask if you were okay after you tripped 🤔??
Haha nobody cared and I left as fast as possible lol
@@DrCellini Dang! So note to self, either stay in the corner or leave while avoiding all cords
@@Dr_Theatre Nope. What you should do is join the queue for the HCP doing CPR. You get into the middle of the action to see everything and have a role.
Spectators are in the way. But if you do CPR you are part of the team and are no longer a hinderance.
All about bevel and angle.
As an intern I was doing a shift in a rural emergency med clinic and one time in the middle of the night (got just woken up of course lol) there was a need to prescribe an antibiotic for an outpatient kid. I did not usually work with pediatric population and I significantly miscalculated the dosage- underdosed them by a half or so for their weight. I realized it right after they had left to pick up the antibiotic from the pharmacy and I made the whole ruckus in alerting all the pharmacies in the vicinity on what had happened so I could track them down and rectify it. This was at like 3 am in a quiet little place where people usually sleep through their night shifts in pharmacies, they must have loved it 😬
Please share with the premeds who think math isn't important since they want to be doctors 😂
jajaja nice !
@@alphaspartan I mean it’s not really math more of an awareness issue. No one is debating the use of basic arithmetic in medicine
I’m in pharmacy school. Love hearing these stories.
When in doubt, call pharmacy.
I’m about to start rotations tomorrow and this made me feel so much better thank you Dr. Cellini for being so honest and informative.
That the nurse got your attention (1st scrub in) without making a scene was really cool. And 1st codes are intimidating.
As a nursing student, I was given the task of giving two different patients two different doses of insulin. I ended up giving the wrong dosage to the first patient. Lucky for him it was the lesser dose of the two. So I had to go back with my tail between my legs and explain to the patient that we needed to give him another shot because it was a lesser dose. I thought I was going to go to jail for this. Lesson learned double check patient dosage before administering and make sure that it matches with the appropriate patient. Thanks for this video makes me feel a whole lot better about being human.
Still not as bad as a story I heard of a super nervous medical student that went to an ophthalmology clinic, reached out to shake a 4 year old's hand, and said "hello sir how is your vision"
No one:
4 year old: 👁👄👁
The OR is a humbling and somewhat soul crushing experience. Those nice scrub techs are rare but they are truly amazing. Most are grouchy and cruel who get high off of med student embarrassment.
Love it!!!
I think you need a “most memorable case/S” now you are out of your residency? Thank you again for your videos.
Oooh that’s a good idea!
@@DrCellini I second that! Would be awesome!
My ED attending told me to do a digital block on a patient before repairing their finger laceration. When I asked if he was coming in to supervise, he said “I trust you.” With my head held high, I collected my supplies, drew up the lidocaine and walked in the patient’s room like a damn professional. When I stuck the needle into the patient’s finger I noticed more resistance than I had felt previously and the patient seemed like they were in a lot of pain. I pulled the needle out and was so confused when I saw a tube sticking out of the injection site. It took me a couple of seconds to realize but I had accidentally used a catheter needle for the digital block 🤦🏼♀️
This video has me laughing Dr. Cellini 😅 I’m a nurse so I can definitely say I’ve had my fair share of mistakes too, but my philosophy is make a mistake once, and you’ll never make the same mistake again lol. Thanks for sharing, another great video!
Awesome video! We all make mistakes that are embarrassing, but make great battle stories in years to come! I could see each of these scenarios unfolding. As an RN I had a med student in a labor room. The patient started abrupting, so I told the med student to go and get the attending STAT. A minute later, no attending. I went out to the hallway and ask the med student where the attending was. He said, "He yelled at me the last time I talked to him, so I didn't call him." (I called the attending, he came immediately, and all turned out well for the patient and baby.) The med student didn't have a good that day after the attending yelled at him again!
7:50 " I think you touched your-" me dying inside from second hand embarrassment 😭 it's a relief she played it cool w/ ya
OMG, thank you so much for this video! This video and the comments made me feel so much better about my mistakes. I'm a second semester nursing students and had made mistakes and I felt so dumb and stupid about making them. I'm going to stop beating myself up. Everyone just expect you to be perfect and that is just not reality, especially when you are just getting started. Everyone makes mistakes!
I worked in a teaching hospital Interventional radiology department for over 7 years as an RN. Every 8 weeks or so we get new residents, it's so fun to watch them makes so many silly mistakes but by the end of the rotation they all are become pro at scrubing in and assisting fellows/attendings. I kinda miss it but don't miss the 3 am stroke/trauma calls.. lol 😆
I felt like every other day in nursing clinicals was just me bumble-fucking all over the place and making a fool of myself, soo its really nice to hear other people's stories of mistakes too
My first surgery case of third year (also obgyn), they asked me to keep my hands at my sides and tied the arms of the gown behind my back like a straight jacket 😅
Why?
Worst I ever saw (and this is BAD): a colleague from the dialysis unit, back in the early 80’s, who was dialyzing my ICU pt accidentally grabbed a vial of liquid KCL and reconstituted her post HD powdered Gentamycin with it 😳. You can imagine what happened next (and almost immediately!), especially since post dialysis meds are given push, not via gtt. Fortunately the pt recovered after being coded and then had an extra 2 hrs of HD on a 0 K+ bath. Soon after that incident, the hospital changed their policy of storing KCL vials along the sterile water and NaCl vials in the med room.
I once dropped a two liter peritoneal dialysate GLASS bottle on the floor. Glass and PD solution all over the place! Fortunately it was new and hadn’t just drained from the pt 🤣. (This is dating me! It’s been a few years since glass bottles 😂)
Love your tripping at the code story!
You watched….. them mix….the WRONG….solution…😱😱😱
@@froggybug nope. Not true. Had I seen it, it wouldn’t have happened.
I’m a RN and love hearing that docs make mistakes that they actually claim.
Thanks for making me laugh especially the OR part, cuz I really changed my mind from surgical to medical just to escape from scrubbing's nightmare! It's so crazy I can't imagine myself doing that 3 times a day!!! anyway I literally enjoyed watching this! Have a nice day :)
Omg this was hilarious. I'm definitely going to be more confident now thanks! I totally relate to the struggle of first scrubbing. I was a total mess and unfortunately never got to try it again
I'm in my second rotation in the ER internal medicine and I can relate so much especially about the situation with the coding patient .. thanks a lot
You're in good company. Oh my God, I can definitely add to that list😜
Every doctor in the room when he fell: 👁️👄👁️
LOL XD
HATE scrubbing in! (the process). TT I've contaminated my gown/gloves too many times...The code story where you fell is HILARIOUS! (but I can't even imagine the embarrassment...)
I’m a nursing student and helping the residents tie their gowns during clinical freaked me out, I’m sure it’s 5x more stressful for you all!
Also that nurse was so nice to be quiet about your mistake too!
I am an RN, I had a resident tell me to decrease pt to 20% O2. The patient wasn't on O2. I asked, you want me to smother him with a pillow? Then he realized what he ordered
Wow thanks for the laugh! I’m a couple days out from Level 2 so any chance to laugh is much appreciated 😅 I can’t believe you tripped during the code hahahahaha
Love the honesty, the stories and the humor.
I had a patient on a nitro drip. I accidently knocked over the pump because it was covered with the curtain. The glass bottled shattered onto the floor. I cleaned it up but told the patient not to go barefoot. He laughed. I forgot he was a double amputee.
The first few mistakes always stick to one's mind forever haha. Sometimes we need to learn the hard way xD
This is my biggest recommendation to any HCP in training that has a chance to observe a code but doesn’t have a role.
There will be a small collection of people that are there exclusively to do chest compressions. In my hospital usually they are NA’s. Join them. It will get you into the heart of the code to hear and see everything that happens but you will be helpful.
You can let them know in a low voice that you want to join the queue,you won’t be interrupting any care, and they won’t mind a bit. CPR is very exhausting and they won’t mind a bit and you won’t feel out of place.
Excellent suggestion!
Never clicked so fast!!! Thank you for making this Sunday the best Sunday ever🙏🔥. Your content never disappoints 🔥
Haha thanks so much!
@@DrCellini really funny video doc! 😂you should make more of these videos.
OT. I had a ultrasound guided neck lymph node biopsy. I must say the IR made me so comfortable and the team with him. IR did say if you swallow or move we will have problems. I did not breath or move. LOL. The experience was very nice, and he made me feel so comfortable, which went along way with me.
That’s what we’re here for 😎
Literally every three years I have on enlarged left cervical lymph node that gets enlarged for 6-8 months at a time. They wouldn't take it when I had a partial thyroidectomy and never took a biopsy, but ultrasounds look fine, just enlarged. Just not sure what causes it to be 2cm for a few months at a time.
Pre-med undergrad here. Administered my first vaccine the other day. Unprepared for a spurt of blood that then dripped down the patient's arm a little. Other guy working with me grabbed some gauze, I cleaned it up quickly, and the patient was thankfully fine, but my mistake was not having the bandaid ready and on my glove and not having gauze within reach
I was in the RT program at my local college when this happened, was on a clinical rotation and we had a patient in isolation (beginning of the covid pandemic) well as I was undressing myself from all the PPE we had on, I made the mistake of taking off my mask last instead of first, luckily the lady I was shadowing was nice about it and told me that what I did wasn’t sanitary, and told me how to do it for the next time.
OMG Doc I know it wasn’t funny at the time but I had a huge laugh on your last coding story! LOL I wonder what kind of mess would I make once I’m on the floor .... God help me 🙏🏻
I am still in my first year as an ICU tech. My technical title is pca but I do so much more than that. One mistake I made was tripping over a patients only IV and ripping it from her body. I was one a floor I wasn't familiar with it was crazy busy. So I put on gloves grap paper towels and hold pressure while I press the call light and wait for someone to answer. Also I learned in one terrible weekend all the supplies to get to start a central line and an arterial line. Next I need to learn what to get for a chest tube.
Dr.Cellini Currently I am newly diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that has really shown me how interested I am into the medical field. I knew I was before but after being told that I was sick or I am sick then doing my research on my illness let’s just say to go to medical school will be an honor. For somebody who currently is trying to get on top of their disease who is low income if that What or how would you recommend to go about starting the process, I want to go to technical school six week course so I can start in phlebotomy just a little bit better wage and a foot in the door, I definitely want to stay local there is a really good university close to where I live but rheumatology or oncology is where I would love to be
RA in training here. I had to be taught to scrub in. I felt like a dummy. Also too please support MARCA by writing to ACR to support MARCA legislation. This bill will allow radiologists to bill Medicare for work done by a RA. Thanks
LMAO this has to my absolute favorite video of yours. Being a med student is just a....journey to say the least but makes for some great stories.
Thanks for sharing! I look at mistakes as an avenue to help us to be better and wiser. Enjoy your Sunday.!!!! 😃
Thank you for posting this never regret anything :D you have gone places that is for sure!
Just a quick comment....when I trained paramedics we referred to the cephalic vein as the "idiot" vein. Your ER resident was nicer in referring to it as the "intern" vein....I think. :)
Is there a difference? J/K.
Ok here's another one from residency. I once used black sutures to repair a scalp laceration. On a patient with black hair. Yeah baby.
my first clinical rotation (I live in a VERY small, rural area where everyone knows everyone) was in a LTC facility. My very first morning with my very first patient started off with a code brown. Not a problem, myself and another student went in, changed her and washed her up. I thought her "crack" was looking a little red so I grabbed the barrier cream, slathered her up really well and put the cream back but noticed the cream was still on the table beside her bed. I had just slathered her bottom with A535. Lol I could have perished right then and there. I got a warm pan of water and washed her VERY well, applied the CORRECT cream and went about my day. The students would have a meeting at the end of the day with our supervising teachers and I admitted my mistake to everyone FORGETTING my patient's granddaughter was taking the course with me. I could have crawled under a rock to die. Lol she was so good about it though, I will forever cringe and laugh at that rookie mistake. xD
in the early 1990s a patient coded on the ortho floor, the code team was running the code, over against the window was an older guy we ignored. we had multiple codes running in the hospital, and so we didn't have a doctor ( all the ICU doctors were on the other three codes being run), so the code team ran it by ACLS protocols ourselves. We got the patient back and then started to pack the patient for transfer to ICU and the team leader asked "did anyone call this guy's doctor?" and we heard a voice from the window. "I know"...It was the Ortho Attending! He had been evaluating the patient when the patient coded, and the ortho attending was who pushed the code blue button. we asked why he hadn't run the code and he shrugged, "I haven't run a code since I was an intern... you knew better what to do than I could remember..."
I got diagnosed with Crohns diseases my last semester of nursing school and had a big operation missed month of clinicals and almost had to push my last semester back a semester but lucky for me I was an A student and made up my missed clinicals on my own time and graduated with my class with honors but if I would have went to the doctor right away I wouldn’t have been in that mess. I pushed going to the doctor many times and I probably wouldn’t needed surgery but I was to involved with school and didn’t want to fall behind.
TH-cam has a way of making everyone make fools out of themselves, but if it’s all out there, it’s easy to see that people are just human. Reasonable humans are not looking down on our mistakes. Reasonable people help those who make mistakes and nobody beats anyone down. Cooperation is how anything gets done. Got to cooperate with yourself too. Medicine can be a shrewd and nerve-racking business, a big part of mistakes I hear about anyone making are due to duress and nerves and pressure. A good working environment is always worth promoting. Also, it’s good to try to branch out to find direction, but not if it keeps you from improving. The mistake I make switching between alot of things is usually dropping something when it gets tough and saying it’s about learning or doing something new. Switch things up if it’s going to help problems get solved but not if it avoids them altogether. Finding out what balance looks like to you seems to be a big growing pain in any profession. One big factor in making mistakes is also exhaustion. At a certain point anyone will become too overworked to actually function and that’s an important thing to look out for. Take care of yourself so you can take care in your work. Respect the responses you and others need as people. Have a wonderful day.
If it makes you feel any better, I am SUCH A HARD STICK, and there have been too many times to count when I tell them right off the bat that I'm a super hard stick because my veins are tiny and they roll. 9/10 times they're like, "Oh, I got it! No problem!" 4 people later from phlebotomists to nurses, the original person WHO I WARNED, is all like, "Dang! You weren't kidding!"
I've been poked AT LEAST a couple hundred times in my lifetime. I dont kid about this stuff.
Same. My hands and arm hurt like hell right now (few days out of hospital). I have a surgery coming up soon and me and the nurses are gonna have a nice long talk, lol.
Vielen Dank, dass Sie mich zum Lachen gebracht haben, besonders über den OP-Teil, denn ich habe meine Meinung wirklich von chirurgisch zu medizinisch geändert, nur um dem Albtraum des Schrubbens zu entkommen! Es ist so verrückt, dass ich mir nicht vorstellen kann, das dreimal am Tag zu machen !!! Trotzdem habe ich es buchstäblich genossen, das zu sehen! Einen schönen Tag noch :)
I’m an ER RN and have never heard of the “intern” vein. Usually the AC is easiest to access?? Interesting. Lol
I love fast paced environments. I definitely will love to be a Pediatric EM doctor with no remorse. 😂
Wow, what a topic. I'm taking the MCAT in *August* and I'm nowhere near med school... but this has crossed my mind several times.
Look no further!
You’ll do well! Good luck 🍀 on the MCAT!!!
@@kathysedillos5108 Thank you Kathy! I'm studying like crazy... lol.
Nice !!! KEEP IT UP !!!
Nurse here! I started in Med/Surg, of course, because that's where you have to if you want a specialty. I blew and went through so many "no miss" veins it wasn't funny! I laugh about it now but it was a disaster!
Every single one of us has a cringe story, and at least a few mistakes. I tell nursing students that if any nurse ever says she hasn't made a mistake, she's delusional! Be thakful you weren't seriously hurt when you tripped over the defibrillator cord. An anesthesiologist I worked with fell over a cord in the OR and broke her two front teeth😥
The amount of times I spun the wrong way while scrubbing at first.....
Same same 😞
@@DrCellini or handing the nurse the string and I held onto the tag 😂🔫
Who doesn’t love ER medicine?! 👀 blowing through the vein is my worst fear
Finishing up M2! So excited yet terrified for all the mistakes and “pimping” thats yet to come haha
Lmaaao that last story, I can't imagine... Looking back on that experience was there anything you could've recognized at the time while talking to that patient to realize they were going to code?
Oh 100%. Back when you’re just starting out you can recognize things but not know what to do. Now you can do both
@@DrCellini Gotcha, that's true. Thanks for sharing some of your experiences, I won't feel as bad when I inevitably mess up lol.
My bff coded blue CPR was unsuccessful she died of covid
@@jenniferwatts3777 I’m so sorry 🥺 I can’t imagine what you are going through. I pray peace and relief enter your heart and stay there forever ❤️ Hugs 🫂
The mistake of doings a lot of things early is a real one. Biggest mistake I meant in the beginning of MS1
I am a vet tech and I was calling an owner with the doctor's instructions for something. I was multitasking and I got distracted while it was ringing. The person answered and my mind went blank. I said "hello". He said "hello". Then I said something like "how can I help you?". And he kinda laughed and said "You called me! Want to figure that out and call me back?"
Utterly awful.
I think he wants us to know he's drinking bubbly. I gotchyou doc
That bar looks inviting!
Enjoyed the vlog! Thanks for sharing!
ive called codes that were from me tripping on cables and not putting everything back right, but working it out before the teams arrived. which is kinda worse? ive left taps open on CTPA bore canns, done line up prep scans & gone back in to pools blood, arms above head. (ever tried to get blood out of a CT scan table edge runner w alcowipes? dont).
in other news: how cheap are refurbished MRIs? i had no idea. gr8 vid.
JC
I'm laughing so hard at the image of you tripping during a code LOL
oh Dr.Cellini these stories are hilarious
During my gynecology rotation, we performed simulated deliveries using a model of a newborn and birthing canal. This was during the heart of COVID, so hand-sanitizer dispensers could be found everywhere, on tables, walls, etc. So, naturally, when I saw a pump dispenser on a table in the room, I went for it - collected several pumps and began to lather my hands even while my preceptor was pimping me because I thought it was no big deal. The preceptor who was pimling me immediately stopped and began laughing - I had just soaked my hands in the lubricant we were supposed to use on the model.
Nurses call it “The Med Student Vein” 😂😂😂😂 I would never be upset if this happened. I would never be upset if as a new med student you couldn’t get that stick or any other. That is not your area of expertise. I was pretty upset when a seasoned nurse put a unit of blood in the staff refrigerator instead of the med refrigerator (you are really supposed to hang it within 30 minutes of getting it) and our unit had to eat the cost of that unit of blood. $850.00. That procedure is written in our policy and procedures manual. Clinical “Prowess” is not.
Love your videos and insight as a Nursing Instructor.
Thank you all for being there for all of us ❤👍
Hmmm a very busy Brooklyn ER rotation .. lol there’s a very good chance I’ve run into you before as a emt or one of the million times I was in for SVT.
I have to pull all my old Er records for VA stuff (increase of benefits) if you treated me that will be funny.
As a volunteer at the ER I was leading a patient into their room. On the way I saw that a crash cart with a bulky heart monitor on top of it was in the way of the entrance. As I was attempting to move the cart out of the way, I saw the monitor slip off and tumble onto the floor making the loudest noise I've ever experienced in my life haha. Everyone was staring at me and seconds felt like an eternity. Luckily one of the nurses helped me out but she couldn't stop grinning the whole time haha.
I like your makeshift bar in the background, btw. Essentials and all…
Thank you for being a normal but beautiful human
mike hollywood cellini you are a great setup for the malpractice scheisters
In EMT School, an elderly flu patient saw my nametag. She said "Oh, James, my father's name is James, too!" I said "Oh, that's my name too"
ALL of these sound like something I would do 🤣🤣🤣
I had this intern in the ER use Us guidance bec my veins suck sooo bad. He forgot to bring all the attachments for the line (wasn’t in like the usual PICC package) So he gets a PICC in , leaves the catheter part that was threaded up into my chest w nothing attached to it, leaves the tourniquet on again not sure why it was even still on to thread the line up, leaves the room to get a nurse to get all the necessary stuff and I literally was pumping blood out EVERYWHERE !!!
Not even sure why he was doing a picc to start 🤷🏼♀️ 🤔!
From now on I make them send me to IR. EF THAT noise. And now in the boring patient you get you don’t want bec it’s too easy LOL 😆
I rotated clockwise :'(
🤣🤣🤣 everyone’s done it
I should’ve listened to the two minute and 50 second marker oh my god that was me at the local ER a year ago those people jabbed me eight times never got an IV they even called the paramedic to come in and try, she couldn’t she blew my vein and then I passed out😂😂😂😂
One thing I noticed is that medical students will use their mobiles in the middle of a procedure. As a nurse I considered that massively rude and hugely disrespectful. Thinking now maybe they were looking words up or something but it used to make me feel annoyed that they couldn’t concentrate on the procedure and patient.
I have a question doctor: why do some doctors get real short with nurses, hang up on them, call them names… YELL AT THEM.. ??? you know, asking for a nurse.
I was a new medical assistant at a fancy clinic with a very intimidating doctor. My first time opening, I was totally alone and needed to flip the OR for a lipo procedure. Sometimes she'd do procedures well past midnight and the OR wouldn't get flipped until morning.
The manager left me a checklist so I felt pretty good about things. The patient was on the table, incisions were made, and I'd forgotten to put the freaking cannula on the tray! For a lipo procedure!! 🤦🏼♀️ To be fair to me, we had multiples of everything else on the tray, but only one cannula for some reason. I just forgot to double back and get it out of the autoclave when it was finished.
I was like 😳, frozen, bracing myself for her dragonfire-like rage, but she just chuckled and said, "Heh heh. Well go get it. ?" And the rest of the procedure went fine. Whew!
The next day everyone there made fun of me, individually. So that was nice, knowing she'd taken the time to pull each one aside to make fun of something so minor. Joke's on her though - she got shut down and is buried under sanctions, her house was foreclosed on and she's officiating weddings now. 🤭
that took a turn
@@desislavchi 😂 You're telling me!
Ok... Sooooooo.. I'm dying laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I promise during a code no one remembered you tripping lol. I've heard some dumb shit being said during codes, but never remember who said them lol 🤣
Very funny.... though tripping in the middle of a code is not unusual 😆
Getting poke with a needle after poking the patient is a big deal 😲
Thanks for sharing
Gosh that's embarrassing I think I would just quit medicine if this were to happen to me xD
Loved this video, very informative and interesting stories!
bro how you finna just be like "ima see myself out..." during a mf code??? and you fucking tripped over the cords for the aed too??? you lucky shit didn't unplug!!! i was literally holding my breath and my hand was physically over my mouth as i listened to you tell this story i can't
What’s your favorite IR procedure to perform? MS4 here and I didn’t see a ton during my radiology clerkship, but I really liked a PCNL I saw, esp with the urology collab!
I'm dying. This was so funny!!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Baha that code trip though! Did the monitor alarm initiate staff for the code to start or did you inform someone?