This tales me back to residency. I taught my medical students to do lumbar punctures and I promised them a bottle of wine if they had a clear tap. One of the students had one so the last night of the rotation I brought in a bottle of white wine. We couldn't find a corkscrew and we couldn't get the bottle open but we found that if use take a 60 cc syringe with a needle, you can insert it through the cork, withdraw the wine, and inject it into paper cups. Of course, that was about 30 years ago and would never fly today. Still one of the only positive memories of residency.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 Or you could push the air IN and force the cork out. However, I'm not sure if the cork would seal it enough, but if cork could be pushed in, it could be pushed out.
For those not in the know, a perfectly clear lumbar puncture sample (with no red blood cells) is called a champagne tap. So getting red wine after a lumbar puncture... Well...
So the lumbar puncture had red blood cells? 😬 Sounds the opposite of unremarkable. No wonder Neurologist was mad… I’m assuming that’s bad though. I have no idea!
I'm not even in the medical field but I couldn't stop laughing. I'm that one person who got weird looks for saying I took a neuro-psychopharmacology course for fun though so 🤷😂
I got a champagne tap just once in my last year of residency (a sample of spinal fluid taken with no bleeding and zero red blood cells as a result), probably one of the highlights of my years in training. My attending and mentor got me a bottle of champagne the next day (was tradition to get champagne if you got a pristine clean non-bloody spinal tap and why Bill got red wine for a bloody one). I struggled often and was considered one of the weaker residents, basically the Bill of my class, so that meant a lot.
Ey rather a doctor that's had to struggle but got there eventually than a straight A never touched a book student that eventually kills someone with laziness and complacency in my opinion as a frequent flyer in the hospital :p Plus if you don't have a reputation you won't be too prideful to ask for help if you do fuck something up :') Rather hear my doctor admit they fucked up and call someone than stand there hands in hair like oh crap how do "I" fix this.
That’s interesting that neurology views LPs like that. I don’t think we give it much thought at all in radiology. Most of our taps are clear but if we get a trace amount of blood for the first second it’s whatever. Actual bloody taps are pretty uncommon but we also don’t think much of it just that they prob had a lot of scar tissue or bad osteophytosis/facet arthropathy requiring a lot of needle adjustment.
@reznovvazileski3193 x5 for nurses. I don't really care if you claim you've never made an error (med or otherwise) but I'm going to treat you as suspect if you do.
I had a lumbar puncture done, one of the newbies in records wanted to watch. All I heard when the first needle went in was "Oh my God," followed by a calm "Please don't say that."
"If I wanted no information, I'd just talk to the emergency physician.... Yeah, that's fair" As a board certified emergency physician of many years, this cracks me up! Well played Doctor!
I'm not a medicine guy but as accurate as it is, I think it's a little savage... Emergency docs have enough on their plate to deal... Literally everything that comes to them is critical priority, we are lucky we have them... Expecting detailed analysis from them is too much.
Red wine. That is just brutal! I hope no one has ever been that mean in real life. (FYI it a tradition for attendings to bring a bottle of champagne to an intern the first time they do a lumbar puncture without getting blood in the sample. Not an easy task considering you have to go through tissue which has blood. A small amount of blood doesnt cause much problem, but a crystal clear "champagne" tap is beautiful)
Sounds more like a lot of interns get no to bad supervision. Hadn't had a traumatic tap ever, but some nice turbid milky ones (managed to tap all the big meningitis causes). Then again, good supervision.
"I can watch the individual neurotransmitters traverse your synaptic cleft." "..." "They made it!" "Opening pressure was 35." I lol'd. I joke sometimes about being able to see the individual gears turning in someone's head, but this expansion and punchline where the description of brain activity was literally accurate was beautiful.
As a vascular neurologist... this is the BEST neurology skit ever! I have often had to ask residents: "is the LP negative for a NEUROLOGIST or just vaguely negative?"... The answer was always "vaguely negative"
Honestly Dr. Glauc I've watched your videos for a long time and as a person who's always hesitating in what I should pursue my residency in You inspire me to go to neurology. I can't help it. Nuerology is hands-down the best character(after jonathan) to ever exist .His tantrums his fine prickly attitude what's not to love about him..
This is all true. But do you really want to base your specialty and career on that? DrGlauc could do a video where Psychiatry compels Neurology to list all neurologic things that no other specialty cares about. It would run for hours. Neuro loves to play "find the lesion" on rounds. And it's a good mental exercise. But then the foolish med student says, "Okay, we found the lesion in the pons. What can be done about it?" and neurology says, "Oh, nothing can be done in neurology. Don't be silly."
@@NeuronToBrain 3 months later, you decide to respond with this? Really? I'm aware that he's "partially joking". All of his videos are at least partially joking. And my comment was partially joking too. Everyone except a few neurologists would understand this. Your extremely detailed, anal retentive response about neurology just confirmed every possible neurologist stereotype that DrGlaucomflecken ever portrays. I'll bet you're a hoot at parties. Do you know what a self-own is?
I send these to my nephew, an ER Doc. He thinks it’s hysterical that the ER Doc always is dressed to ride 🚴. (On a side note, he hikes and rock climbs 🧗🏼♀️)😆
My theory about Jonathan and Bill is that Jonathan is actually the future version of Bill who time traveled back after finishing residency to help himself out, but accidentally became a scribe. All the Jonathans are versions of Bill; he time traveled again and again to get out of being a scribe but failed.
I like this. I suspect after the first couple of timelines where he wound up as a scribe, he determined that it was the best and most powerful way he could accomplish his great works while remaining undercover even as an army of copied selves, so then it became more deliberate thereafter. I mean, if anyone could overcome a time travel problem and alter their tech so that the results suit their personal preferences, it's Jonathan!
A slightly more messed up idea I had: What if after time traveling for so long, Jonathan can no longer remember his life before? The Jonathan Nod(tm) is because he no longer remembers how to speak normally from being in so many timelines and meeting so many other Jonathans The ophthalmologist figures out that Jonathan can time travel after finding a time machine hidden and sends Jonathan back in time again and again to create enough copies of Jonathan for every ophthalmologist. It's all part of a master plan to make ophthalmology the best and most efficient specialty in medicine
@@sl33pl3ss9 This is shaping up to be quite the premise for an exciting and hilarious novel, or graphic novel. I'm getting Axe Cop vibes from the very dark, serious, extremely silly premise. I'd definitely read the dramatically illustrated adventures of Jonathan and his complex partnership with, and presumably his eventual great battle of good and evil with, the Ophthalmologist.
I would love it if Bill ends with “actually there were zero red blood cells. You owe me a bottle of champagne” I can imagine an anti-Bill. They just randomly say to no one “the LP was unremarkable”. Neurologist turns up and says “excuse me?” Anti-Bill goes “great. You’re here. I have a consult for you……..” Reels off a comprehensive history and examination with a differential the neurologist can’t pick holes in, LP results and Whatever other test the neurologist would recommend already having been done. Finishes by pointing out their LP had zero red cells so someone owes them champagne. Neurologist just stands attempting to talk. Anti-Bill asks what’s happening. Psychiatrist comes over and whispers “he’s having an existential crisis as there is nothing he can belittle you for, I’ll have to take him from here”. Neurologist goes to therapy
Legit solid sketch concept, would love to see Dr. G develop a character of this nature. Some either -elder resident or hospitalist attending- (EDIT: ANOTHER COMMENTER NAILED IT, THE PERFECT CHARACTER IS A BAMF VETERAN NURSE) who just puts every bully in their place in a way the med student mafia can't always do lol (Also edit, I also support making her OBGYN's sister as suggested below, and I vote Mrs. G reappears for this role as well. Or Doc Schmidt in a wig!)
(in awe) It's fascinating... I can actually see the individual neurotransmitters traversing your synaptic cleft... (slow motion parabolic tracing pause...)... They made it! OMG... Thank you for the laughs, from Australia. Gold!!! :)
Im a neurology resident, and I did my first LP the same day this video dropped. Mine's also a red wine tap though so don't beat yourself up too much Bill.
Oh heck yeah. I would absolutely watch just a wholesome music-backed compilation of Bill playing in a field with puppies or something lol. I really enjoy Dr. G's slow-motion dramatic work and visual storytelling, and I think this overall idea could be a cool playground for him to get to use that. Maybe he could make a hobby of visiting various cute animals and getting ice cream and stuff like that, in an occasional ongoing "Bill has a nice day" series. It would also be a good place to fit in messaging about self-care and turning off notifications for work-related things on a day off etc., so it can wholesomely resonate with his great narratives instead of just being a lighthearted break. Plus, what fun stuff to film!
@@ItsAsparageese I love this idea! Bill gets to lock up his pager(s) in some sort of vault for the day so he can really relax and enjoy the day before resuming the brutality of abusive hospital faculty and overwork. Poor Bill needs good days. Maybe he can bring Family Medicine along sometimes, too?
"Summarizing the results of a complex diagnostic technique simply as 'unremarkable'? When did you become a radiologist?" 🤣 As someone who codes radiology reports all day long, it's painfully true. Especially fun when "unremarkable" results are paired with no clear reason given for the exam so you have to try and figure out why they were doing it in the first place.
Every time I see Neurologist, I cannot help but be in awe in how he gets his hair so high. It's quite facinating. 🤓 One day, Doc G is going to have to show us all how it is done. We will all tune in for that hair tutorial video. 😂
Man the neurologist has a super power. He can hear anyone who talks about any neurology-related stuff and be there in no time. I love him so much ❤️ Dr. Glaucomflecken I really appreciate your effort to put a smile on people's faces ☺️ thanks a lot and wish you all the best
The two worst things you can hear as a med student: "What do you mean, the BMP was 'normal'?" and "I don't want all the numbers: just tell me if anything in the BMP was abnormal!" Bonus if it's the same doctor on two different days.
"I can actually see the neurotransmitters traversing your synaptic cleft.............. they made it!" And "You have expressive aphasia" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 have me rolling lol
Thank you sir. These videos of u give me a weird sense of comfort. Was thinking of quitting bcz of all the yelling and mean attitude of everyone. But as now I see it, it's just the pressure
🤣🤣🤣 I stan the neurologist! Hands down the best Dr. G character. His egotistical, passive aggressive jabs are true to form for that speciality and beyond amusing!
Having been in Bill’s position I can attest that the tendency of certain specialists to constantly belittle their juniors does not reflect best practice in HR or adult education.
I adore MY Neurologist! Thankfully he's nothing like this one, he's a well built, middle aged man with a white ponytail, looks like he could have been a Deadhead back in the day. He speaks to me as if we're on the same level without an ounce of arrogance. Wish I could say the same about my Neurosurgeon, but I don't need personality with him, just knowledge and steady hands.
The neurologist does look exactly like my Neurology attending in medical school except he wore a bow tie. Brings back such traumatic memories ... sigh.
Lol i love them both but I want to give Bill a hug. At least Neurology gave him a gift... A sarcastic gift but a gift non the less lol. Thank you and hope you are doing awesome and having a great weekend!!!
Bill sounds very much like the guy who did my lumbar puncture.; “Let me know if you have nerve pain down your legs because I’ll have to quit so I don’t cause nerve damage,” and then delayed listening. Ended up with permanent nerve pain since and a herniated disc diagnosed a week later after I had difficulty walking, sitting, and getting up. Fun times. Mine was “unremarkable” even though he had to quit due to too much pressure. Loved the referring physician’s: “Oh you can be up right away, at most in 30 minutes.” No one said a thing about not moving for 6-8+ hours minimum nor the likelihood of the horrendous spinal headache. God bless the anesthesiologist at the ER who did a blood patch for that thing.
That EPIC masterpiece of hairstyle MAKES the character!!!! The perfect ice cream 🍦 swirl in the center had to have taken blow dry with a rounded brush and products to keep it in place! Well done!!! 👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️
I showed this to my brother (neurologist): “Would you also be pissed off with the ‘unremarkable’ comment?” “Yes. I get annoyed with any incompetence. I expect perfection”. Spoken like a true neurologist. 😂
I'm a lab tech, so most of your video's technical lingo goes over my head. But working with CSF is always fascinating and scary. I had an outpatient clinic collect a sample from an 80+ year old patient. They took almost 30cc of fluid from him... I couldn't imagine how bad his headache must've been. But the worst part was I had to call him to get him to come to the hospital for a blood draw because the clinic didn't send blood with the CSF for one of the tests ordered. I felt so bad!
I am a patient who has had multiple lumbar punctures. When he didn't immediately know the opening pressure, I literally yelled "Dude!" at my computer 😆
my father is a neurologist and literally has these glasses and made the exact same opening remarks last week about an ROS noted only as "OK" on a chart
Got lectured by one doctor for not being more detailed. Then a week later I got lectured again by another doctor for not being more concise. Basically you can't win.
I’ve had several lumbar punctures in my life. The first time was awful. I was just 15 and loved my Ortho. Why he did the puncture, I don’t know, but he broke the needle off on the bone. I don’t remember much other than everyone trying to remain calm. The Dr worked feverishly to get the needle out. He was asked several times if they should call radiology, neurology or surgery in. I do remember having an awful headache that lasted several days! Thankfully the next 2 were done by a radiologist; no broken needles and no headache!
as a former cancer patient i can assure you that having chemo injected in your spinal fluid is a most unpleasent experiance it felt like citric acid being pumped from kidney to willy aka most of the urinari tract to me
I had a lumbar puncture done twice to test for meningitis, I was so sick I don’t remember the first one too well but the second one the next day was one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had!! They stuck me THREE times but couldn’t get it right so I finally told them to find someone else that could do it
Barely 25 years of age. Had seen one lumbar puncture and had to infuse chemo in the middle of the night via a lumbar puncture while an intern. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Both of us survived the night. That would never be allowed now. Those were the days. Forty years later I still think about that night! Divine intervention for sure!
"I can actually see the neurotransmitters traversing your synaptic cleft." **watches something go slowly across** I like how he says "they made it!" with enthusiasm. The sarcasm is next level. lol!
Sarcasm? Bill answered correctly the moment the neurotransmitters supposedly reached the other side, implying that the neurologist did saw something and wasn't just mocking Bill 🤣
This tales me back to residency. I taught my medical students to do lumbar punctures and I promised them a bottle of wine if they had a clear tap. One of the students had one so the last night of the rotation I brought in a bottle of white wine. We couldn't find a corkscrew and we couldn't get the bottle open but we found that if use take a 60 cc syringe with a needle, you can insert it through the cork, withdraw the wine, and inject it into paper cups. Of course, that was about 30 years ago and would never fly today. Still one of the only positive memories of residency.
there's a technique for tapping out a cork with momentum.
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If you draw enough wine out with a syringe, I would expect the air pressure to push the cork in. Then you can pour the rest of the bottle normally.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 Or you could push the air IN and force the cork out. However, I'm not sure if the cork would seal it enough, but if cork could be pushed in, it could be pushed out.
@@syriuszb8611 or if you could push some air inside the bottle using the same syringe and take out same amount of wine
@@syriuszb8611 not sure if a cork with a syringe sticking out flying through the room would be a good plan.
I love neurologist's hair, mouth shape and glasses. Whenever i see him i cant help but smile😁
I am smiling because I'm watching it happen, not dealing with it myself
He looks like a mad scientist
He looks just like my neurologist! 🤣
Ditto
But your mouth is the only part of your body that is joyful...
I love how the neurologist has the power to literally see neurotransmitters and, by extension, can predict the future.
I love the neurologist's wonder filled gaze as he "tracks" the Bill's neurotransmitters.
@@marylaughery5459 And how Bill remembers the information right when the neurologist says "They've made it!"
I'm start guessing that the neurologist has xNTJ personality.
Might be reading the expression and posture Bill is showing him, and thus speaking up when that changes into something less dejected/hapless.
What a long conduction it was tho 😂
For those not in the know, a perfectly clear lumbar puncture sample (with no red blood cells) is called a champagne tap. So getting red wine after a lumbar puncture... Well...
Ohhh. Thats what he meant with it
Thank You 👏🏼
i still don't get it 💀
So the lumbar puncture had red blood cells? 😬 Sounds the opposite of unremarkable. No wonder Neurologist was mad… I’m assuming that’s bad though. I have no idea!
Nice
My neurologist husband just asked me to pause the video cause he was laughing so hard he could barely breathe. So, I think.... You're good.
I'm not even in the medical field but I couldn't stop laughing. I'm that one person who got weird looks for saying I took a neuro-psychopharmacology course for fun though so 🤷😂
Pharma is a beautiful subject when taught properly
Put a hundred lines under "Taught Properly" Tho...@@XSemperIdem5
“Unremarkable? When did you become a Radiologist?!”
We have the next couples’ therapy pair right there!
That line was so good lol
As a radiologist I can confirm, unremarkable is the most commonly used word in my reports.
@@foxxygearreviews7754 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It’s so true!!
Radio with EM. Neuro with psych.
"Results compatible with normal. Cannot rule out disease. Clinical correlation recommended."
I got a champagne tap just once in my last year of residency (a sample of spinal fluid taken with no bleeding and zero red blood cells as a result), probably one of the highlights of my years in training. My attending and mentor got me a bottle of champagne the next day (was tradition to get champagne if you got a pristine clean non-bloody spinal tap and why Bill got red wine for a bloody one). I struggled often and was considered one of the weaker residents, basically the Bill of my class, so that meant a lot.
Ey rather a doctor that's had to struggle but got there eventually than a straight A never touched a book student that eventually kills someone with laziness and complacency in my opinion as a frequent flyer in the hospital :p Plus if you don't have a reputation you won't be too prideful to ask for help if you do fuck something up :') Rather hear my doctor admit they fucked up and call someone than stand there hands in hair like oh crap how do "I" fix this.
That’s interesting that neurology views LPs like that. I don’t think we give it much thought at all in radiology. Most of our taps are clear but if we get a trace amount of blood for the first second it’s whatever. Actual bloody taps are pretty uncommon but we also don’t think much of it just that they prob had a lot of scar tissue or bad osteophytosis/facet arthropathy requiring a lot of needle adjustment.
@reznovvazileski3193 x5 for nurses. I don't really care if you claim you've never made an error (med or otherwise) but I'm going to treat you as suspect if you do.
Neuro has the best burns, I felt attacked the moment he appeared on the screen XD.
I had a lumbar puncture done, one of the newbies in records wanted to watch. All I heard when the first needle went in was "Oh my God," followed by a calm "Please don't say that."
"If I wanted no information, I'd just talk to the emergency physician.... Yeah, that's fair"
As a board certified emergency physician of many years, this cracks me up!
Well played Doctor!
Absolutely accurate!!
I concur
Emergency, Ortho, and Neurosurgery are the high testosterone levels of medicine.
I'm not a medicine guy but as accurate as it is, I think it's a little savage... Emergency docs have enough on their plate to deal... Literally everything that comes to them is critical priority, we are lucky we have them... Expecting detailed analysis from them is too much.
Much truth in humor.
"If I wanted no explanation I would just talk directly to the emergency physician." Classic.
Red wine. That is just brutal! I hope no one has ever been that mean in real life. (FYI it a tradition for attendings to bring a bottle of champagne to an intern the first time they do a lumbar puncture without getting blood in the sample. Not an easy task considering you have to go through tissue which has blood. A small amount of blood doesnt cause much problem, but a crystal clear "champagne" tap is beautiful)
Thanks for the explanation! Would never have figured that one out myself.
Sounds more like a lot of interns get no to bad supervision. Hadn't had a traumatic tap ever, but some nice turbid milky ones (managed to tap all the big meningitis causes).
Then again, good supervision.
😐😐😐 seriously? U get blood in the samples? I didn't ever. I feel good. Thnx man. I needed it.
@@sciencefliestothemoon2305 Sounds like you've never had to tap a screaming, wiggling newborn with an inexperienced cruncher.
Wtf my attending never did that for me and my first taps were beautiful
As soon as I saw the emergency physician’s face I shouted “OH NO!!” and startled my wife. She thought I forgot to pay the mortgage or something 😂
😆😂🤣
“Unremarkable”
I KNEW what was coming
I legit said out loud "oh no, the neurologist" and sure as hell, there he was
😂😂😂😂
"I can watch the individual neurotransmitters traverse your synaptic cleft."
"..."
"They made it!"
"Opening pressure was 35."
I lol'd. I joke sometimes about being able to see the individual gears turning in someone's head, but this expansion and punchline where the description of brain activity was literally accurate was beautiful.
As a vascular neurologist... this is the BEST neurology skit ever! I have often had to ask residents: "is the LP negative for a NEUROLOGIST or just vaguely negative?"... The answer was always "vaguely negative"
What is LP?
@@jeffreyliang7709 lumbar puncture
My favourite part of the video is when the emergency medicine doctor doesn't even argue, he simply accepts the insult and gets going 😂
I keep forgetting that all the roles are played by just one person. That's Dr. Glaucomflecken for you.
Bill's interior frontal gyrus doesn't have any oxygen because you're making the poor man hyperventilate!
Honestly Dr. Glauc I've watched your videos for a long time and as a person who's always hesitating in what I should pursue my residency in You inspire me to go to neurology. I can't help it. Nuerology is hands-down the best character(after jonathan) to ever exist .His tantrums his fine prickly attitude what's not to love about him..
In my opinion, neurologists hardly ever fix anything; instead they diagnose then give the bad news.
This is all true. But do you really want to base your specialty and career on that? DrGlauc could do a video where Psychiatry compels Neurology to list all neurologic things that no other specialty cares about. It would run for hours.
Neuro loves to play "find the lesion" on rounds. And it's a good mental exercise. But then the foolish med student says, "Okay, we found the lesion in the pons. What can be done about it?" and neurology says, "Oh, nothing can be done in neurology. Don't be silly."
@@trailrider7046 apart from acute strokes, seizures, migraines lol
@@NeuronToBrain 3 months later, you decide to respond with this? Really? I'm aware that he's "partially joking". All of his videos are at least partially joking. And my comment was partially joking too. Everyone except a few neurologists would understand this.
Your extremely detailed, anal retentive response about neurology just confirmed every possible neurologist stereotype that DrGlaucomflecken ever portrays. I'll bet you're a hoot at parties.
Do you know what a self-own is?
I send these to my nephew, an ER Doc. He thinks it’s hysterical that the ER Doc always is dressed to ride 🚴. (On a side note, he hikes and rock climbs 🧗🏼♀️)😆
adrenaline junkies LOL
Totally on brand 😂
My theory about Jonathan and Bill is that Jonathan is actually the future version of Bill who time traveled back after finishing residency to help himself out, but accidentally became a scribe. All the Jonathans are versions of Bill; he time traveled again and again to get out of being a scribe but failed.
I like this. I suspect after the first couple of timelines where he wound up as a scribe, he determined that it was the best and most powerful way he could accomplish his great works while remaining undercover even as an army of copied selves, so then it became more deliberate thereafter. I mean, if anyone could overcome a time travel problem and alter their tech so that the results suit their personal preferences, it's Jonathan!
A slightly more messed up idea I had: What if after time traveling for so long, Jonathan can no longer remember his life before? The Jonathan Nod(tm) is because he no longer remembers how to speak normally from being in so many timelines and meeting so many other Jonathans
The ophthalmologist figures out that Jonathan can time travel after finding a time machine hidden and sends Jonathan back in time again and again to create enough copies of Jonathan for every ophthalmologist. It's all part of a master plan to make ophthalmology the best and most efficient specialty in medicine
@@sl33pl3ss9 This is shaping up to be quite the premise for an exciting and hilarious novel, or graphic novel. I'm getting Axe Cop vibes from the very dark, serious, extremely silly premise. I'd definitely read the dramatically illustrated adventures of Jonathan and his complex partnership with, and presumably his eventual great battle of good and evil with, the Ophthalmologist.
oh shit the glaucomfleckenverse is expanding
@@najmaht.a.1314 Glaucomflecking hell, man...
“Oh they made it” 🤣 and they he remembered. That killed me.
Like psychiatrists the neurologist is always listening. And ready to destroy at a moment's notice 🤣
But unlike psychiatrists, the neurologist actually (sometimes) helps people get better.
How to summon Jonathan: Call out his name
How to summon Neuro: just say the results were ‘unremarkable’
Or the words "delirium under evaluation"
Or "Altered mental status."
@@sandeepdavid846 "altered mental status"
Or say "altered mental status"
Altered mental status
I would love it if Bill ends with “actually there were zero red blood cells. You owe me a bottle of champagne”
I can imagine an anti-Bill. They just randomly say to no one “the LP was unremarkable”. Neurologist turns up and says “excuse me?” Anti-Bill goes “great. You’re here. I have a consult for you……..” Reels off a comprehensive history and examination with a differential the neurologist can’t pick holes in, LP results and Whatever other test the neurologist would recommend already having been done. Finishes by pointing out their LP had zero red cells so someone owes them champagne.
Neurologist just stands attempting to talk. Anti-Bill asks what’s happening. Psychiatrist comes over and whispers “he’s having an existential crisis as there is nothing he can belittle you for, I’ll have to take him from here”. Neurologist goes to therapy
Agreed!!
Legit solid sketch concept, would love to see Dr. G develop a character of this nature. Some either -elder resident or hospitalist attending- (EDIT: ANOTHER COMMENTER NAILED IT, THE PERFECT CHARACTER IS A BAMF VETERAN NURSE) who just puts every bully in their place in a way the med student mafia can't always do lol
(Also edit, I also support making her OBGYN's sister as suggested below, and I vote Mrs. G reappears for this role as well. Or Doc Schmidt in a wig!)
Amazing
Sounds like that character should be "The Golden Child"
😂
Me 1 week before starting my Neurology Rotation:
*chuckles*
"I'm in danger"
0:30 Neuro's rabbit-mouthedness 😂 Amazing nuance-development of each character, Dr G! 🙌👏
(in awe) It's fascinating... I can actually see the individual neurotransmitters traversing your synaptic cleft... (slow motion parabolic tracing pause...)... They made it!
OMG... Thank you for the laughs, from Australia. Gold!!! :)
"Are we talking about a lumbar puncture or your performance..." Lord, that was savage! 😆
i sincerely believe that the neurologist can see the individual neurotransmitters traversing my synaptic cleft.
Yeah, but with the right drugs, we *all* could see the neurotransmitters... traversing our *own* synaptic clefts.🤯
@@NorseForse maybe if we can see the neurotransmitters traversing our synaptic clefts we can all be happy
As a neurologist, I can say this interaction is….. hilarious
"They made it!" spoken with such childlike wonder
Im a neurology resident, and I did my first LP the same day this video dropped. Mine's also a red wine tap though so don't beat yourself up too much Bill.
I swear, he needs a day where he just gets to pet puppies in his backyard, no hospital or other doctors in sight. Poor Bill. 😂
Oh heck yeah. I would absolutely watch just a wholesome music-backed compilation of Bill playing in a field with puppies or something lol. I really enjoy Dr. G's slow-motion dramatic work and visual storytelling, and I think this overall idea could be a cool playground for him to get to use that. Maybe he could make a hobby of visiting various cute animals and getting ice cream and stuff like that, in an occasional ongoing "Bill has a nice day" series.
It would also be a good place to fit in messaging about self-care and turning off notifications for work-related things on a day off etc., so it can wholesomely resonate with his great narratives instead of just being a lighthearted break. Plus, what fun stuff to film!
@@ItsAsparageese I love this idea! Bill gets to lock up his pager(s) in some sort of vault for the day so he can really relax and enjoy the day before resuming the brutality of abusive hospital faculty and overwork.
Poor Bill needs good days. Maybe he can bring Family Medicine along sometimes, too?
@@AllTheHappySquirrels YES! Dragging Family Medicine along with him would be an absolutely spectacular special episode lol
This is one of my favorite Dr. G shorts ever! It just hit me how he's so spot on with his erratic hair for certain physician specialties🤣
Dr. G. How many times do you crack yourself up editing these because they just get funnier and funnier. Neurology’s face. I nearly died 💀………🤣🤣🤣
The “they made it” part makes me laugh out loud in a room by myself
🤣🤣🤣
@@DGlaucomflecken It was very funny!
@@DGlaucomflecken They were going soooooo slowly!
@@DGlaucomflecken outtake, please!
"Summarizing the results of a complex diagnostic technique simply as 'unremarkable'? When did you become a radiologist?" 🤣 As someone who codes radiology reports all day long, it's painfully true. Especially fun when "unremarkable" results are paired with no clear reason given for the exam so you have to try and figure out why they were doing it in the first place.
The neurologist following the neurotransmitters across the cleft got me 🤣
Every time I see Neurologist, I cannot help but be in awe in how he gets his hair so high.
It's quite facinating. 🤓
One day, Doc G is going to have to show us all how it is done.
We will all tune in for that hair tutorial video. 😂
I would show up for that tutorial!!!! 🤣
Totally agreeeee
Man the neurologist has a super power. He can hear anyone who talks about any neurology-related stuff and be there in no time.
I love him so much ❤️
Dr. Glaucomflecken I really appreciate your effort to put a smile on people's faces ☺️ thanks a lot and wish you all the best
The two worst things you can hear as a med student:
"What do you mean, the BMP was 'normal'?"
and
"I don't want all the numbers: just tell me if anything in the BMP was abnormal!"
Bonus if it's the same doctor on two different days.
"I can actually see the neurotransmitters traversing your synaptic cleft.............. they made it!" And "You have expressive aphasia" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 have me rolling lol
Thank you sir. These videos of u give me a weird sense of comfort. Was thinking of quitting bcz of all the yelling and mean attitude of everyone. But as now I see it, it's just the pressure
I love how he wasn't even sarcastic about seeing the neurotransmitters.
he could actually see them
"...turbid like your thought process right now." 😂😂😂
“When did you become a radiologist?”
Seriously this whole video had me rolling, especially the hair!
🤣🤣🤣 I stan the neurologist! Hands down the best Dr. G character. His egotistical, passive aggressive jabs are true to form for that speciality and beyond amusing!
Having been in Bill’s position I can attest that the tendency of certain specialists to constantly belittle their juniors does not reflect best practice in HR or adult education.
"I can actually see the individual neurotransmitters traversing your synaptic cleft" is my new favorite burn 🤣
“When did you become a radiologist?” As a radiologist, I appreciate the dig. 😂
I adore MY Neurologist! Thankfully he's nothing like this one, he's a well built, middle aged man with a white ponytail, looks like he could have been a Deadhead back in the day. He speaks to me as if we're on the same level without an ounce of arrogance. Wish I could say the same about my Neurosurgeon, but I don't need personality with him, just knowledge and steady hands.
These videos make me want to be a Neurologist. *Starts googling programs because being a college professor pays minimum wage*
I’d love to see a battle between Neurology, Cardiology, and Hematology.
If Cardiology is in a battle, then Nephrology will be there too, probably with a hand grenade
@@12jswilson *with salt grenade*
Cardio: “Nephrology, where’d you get a hand grenade?”
Neph: “I don’t know.”
Bill is my favorite! I just want to give him a hug, and tell him he's a good doctor! ️ ❤️👨⚕️
Turbid like your thought process!!!! EPIC!!!
As I watched this the crickets in my garage were chirping away while Neurologist followed the neurotransmitters. Was a bit extra funny
Anyone describing a lumbar puncture as 'unremarkable' should be on the receiving end of one immediately.
The neurologist does look exactly like my Neurology attending in medical school except he wore a bow tie. Brings back such traumatic memories ... sigh.
Lol look at his other neurology video . There's a bowtie wearing neurologist that shows up.
As an ER doc, "unremarkable" is one of the words I use most often. Almost as often as neuro says "MRI" when I consult them.
Lol i love them both but I want to give Bill a hug. At least Neurology gave him a gift... A sarcastic gift but a gift non the less lol. Thank you and hope you are doing awesome and having a great weekend!!!
The gift of shade.
Once again. Pure gold
😂❤😂 Bill: “he’s right behind me… isn’t he?…” 😅😂😂
I love this. As the recipient of a lumbar puncture, I appreciate The Neurologist clarifying.
Bill sounds very much like the guy who did my lumbar puncture.; “Let me know if you have nerve pain down your legs because I’ll have to quit so I don’t cause nerve damage,” and then delayed listening. Ended up with permanent nerve pain since and a herniated disc diagnosed a week later after I had difficulty walking, sitting, and getting up. Fun times. Mine was “unremarkable” even though he had to quit due to too much pressure.
Loved the referring physician’s: “Oh you can be up right away, at most in 30 minutes.” No one said a thing about not moving for 6-8+ hours minimum nor the likelihood of the horrendous spinal headache. God bless the anesthesiologist at the ER who did a blood patch for that thing.
“They made it!”😂🤣😂🤣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
I’m not in the medical field, and I get the dynamics of the situation. Will someone please assist Bill to the Burn Unit? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That EPIC masterpiece of hairstyle MAKES the character!!!! The perfect ice cream 🍦 swirl in the center had to have taken blow dry with a rounded brush and products to keep it in place! Well done!!! 👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️
I showed this to my brother (neurologist):
“Would you also be pissed off with the ‘unremarkable’ comment?”
“Yes. I get annoyed with any incompetence. I expect perfection”.
Spoken like a true neurologist. 😂
I'm a lab tech, so most of your video's technical lingo goes over my head. But working with CSF is always fascinating and scary.
I had an outpatient clinic collect a sample from an 80+ year old patient. They took almost 30cc of fluid from him... I couldn't imagine how bad his headache must've been. But the worst part was I had to call him to get him to come to the hospital for a blood draw because the clinic didn't send blood with the CSF for one of the tests ordered. I felt so bad!
I am a patient who has had multiple lumbar punctures. When he didn't immediately know the opening pressure, I literally yelled "Dude!" at my computer 😆
my father is a neurologist and literally has these glasses and made the exact same opening remarks last week about an ROS noted only as "OK" on a chart
He’s in your dreams, always listening.
🤣🤣 He's so funny! Him & Drew Talbert. TALENT! 👍🙂
3 champagne taps in residency, no bottles of champagne, or red wine, or anything for that matter…
Absolutely love the neurologist! He is always smiling with deadly scarcasm. 🤣 I want to see him interact with rad techs or radiographers. 🙏
>scarcasm
Gonna have to remember that one. I think it's used by mean relatives who use sarcasm but actually meant to cut someone with it n
Got lectured by one doctor for not being more detailed. Then a week later I got lectured again by another doctor for not being more concise. Basically you can't win.
I assumed when he said unremarkable he meant that there was no issue inserting a needle into someone's spine.
I’ve had several lumbar punctures in my life. The first time was awful. I was just 15 and loved my Ortho. Why he did the puncture, I don’t know, but he broke the needle off on the bone. I don’t remember much other than everyone trying to remain calm. The Dr worked feverishly to get the needle out. He was asked several times if they should call radiology, neurology or surgery in. I do remember having an awful headache that lasted several days! Thankfully the next 2 were done by a radiologist; no broken needles and no headache!
I think the neurologist might be my absolute favorite character of yours, Dr. G! I always die laughing with his witty insults. 🤣🤣
Another great video from the doctor. Thanks
as a former cancer patient i can assure you that having chemo injected in your spinal fluid is a most unpleasent experiance
it felt like citric acid being pumped from kidney to willy aka most of the urinari tract to me
"unremarkable?! did you mean your residency?" LMFAOOO i am dying now 😂😂😂😂😂
If we could just get this guy and Hugh Laurie in the same room HOLY H*LL it would be iconic 😂😂😂
The moment I saw the look of terror in Bill's face I knew Neuro was gonna come and I'm an Engineer.....
I had a lumbar puncture done twice to test for meningitis, I was so sick I don’t remember the first one too well but the second one the next day was one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had!! They stuck me THREE times but couldn’t get it right so I finally told them to find someone else that could do it
It thought they would make you feel sleep before that omg
@@eriz2371 - Nope totally coherent and 100% sober. It was awful
Your expressions are equally good as your content... U should get an Oscar for the neurologist....
When asked about the pressure, I was waiting for Bill to say "Medium?"
I just woke everyone in the house with the slow head turn while watching the neurotransmitter... "They made it!"
I like to call it a spinal tap. Gets more of a reaction out of people. U loved doing them...
“…they made it.” 😂
Happy Saturday!
The way he watched neurotransmitter conduction 😆😆" -Made it" and Bill remembered the answer
I JUST REALIZED!!! THE NEUROLOGIST KNOWS BILL'S NAME!!!!
I was not expecting that!
Poor Bill... How he braced himself for third degree burns 🔥
Which is unfortunate, because there's no burn specialist in the Glaucomflecken-verse...yet.
there was barely a split second between "unremarkable" and bills face going to panic...
Dr. G you are THE BEST 🙃
“When did you become a radiologist” - amazing line
Barely 25 years of age. Had seen one lumbar puncture and had to infuse chemo in the middle of the night via a lumbar puncture while an intern. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Both of us survived the night. That would never be allowed now. Those were the days. Forty years later I still think about that night! Divine intervention for sure!
That was absolutely fantastic. Damn neurologist!
"I can actually see the neurotransmitters traversing your synaptic cleft."
**watches something go slowly across**
I like how he says "they made it!" with enthusiasm. The sarcasm is next level.
lol!
Sarcasm? Bill answered correctly the moment the neurotransmitters supposedly reached the other side, implying that the neurologist did saw something and wasn't just mocking Bill 🤣
Dr. Glauc, I laughed OUT LOUD when Neuro showed up on screen. I'm not even a medical worker, I'm just a member of the Flock!
#JusticeForBill
And some anti-anxiety meds, STAT!!
I can actually see the individual neurotransmitters traversing through your synaptic cleft.
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They made it.