- I asked 20 doctors
to give me their hottest take about medicine.
I'll go first.
Cold plunges are incredibly overrated
and bordering on useless.
There's no great real life data that shows benefit,
let alone if people actually
stick to these things long term.
All these podcast hosts and experts coming out
and talking about research,
they're talking about fringe research
that doesn't include real life examples of improvement
to justify spending three to $5,000
for these specialized cold tub plunges
when there's actually some research coming out
that's legitimate showing that cold water immersion
doesn't even help with sore muscles,
let alone all the other miracle promises out there.
- How's it going?
I'm Dr. Alok Patel, I'm a pediatric hospitalist,
so if a child is hospitalized,
count on me to coordinate care.
You want a hot take?
I've got a few.
We need to better understand and study medical marijuana,
climate change is the largest looming public health threat,
our healthcare system does not adequately value
pediatric mental health, regardless of what anyone says,
and there is no data-backed reason
for any child to ever see a chiropractor.
There, I said it.
Fight me.
- My name is Dr. Anthony Youn
and I'm a board certified plastic surgeon.
The scrotum is the ugliest part of the body.
There was a study in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology
where they surveyed men and women,
they had them look at various scrotum or scroti-
Is it scroti?
And they had them rank the scrotums
on a scale of negative three to positive three,
negative three being the least attractive
and positive three being the most attractive.
Well, every single scrotum was given a negative score
so none of them were actually considered attractive.
- Hi, my name is Alok Kanojia,
but the internet knows me as Dr. K.
I'm a psychiatrist, which means that I'm a medical doctor
that focuses on the mind.
My hottest medical take
is that meditation should be first line treatment
for just about any mental illness.
There are already studies that show
that mindfulness or meditation is effective
at improving symptoms of just about any mental illness.
But I think it's really important to understand
that the yogis basically figured out
how to use meditation to purify and even transcend the mind.
And if we think about where most mental illness exists,
it actually exists within your mind.
So the ability to shut off
or move completely beyond your mind
can be incredibly healing.
- My hottest medical take
is that probiotics are useless for the average person.
- Probiotics companies are taking advantage of people.
- It's more hype than health,
and if you're taking probiotics, there's a good chance
all it does is make your feces more expensive.
Now, there is some evidence that it does work
and provide some clinical benefit
for people with a narrow range of conditions,
but for this you'll still need medical grade probiotics,
it needs to have the right strains,
and a high enough concentration for it to actually work.
- But with the popularity of buzzwords like microbiome
and gut health, probiotics companies are doubling down
on convincing marketing efforts
to make billions of dollars off of unsuspecting Americans
who are just trying to be healthy.
- What's up, everyone?
My name is Jake Goodman
and I'm a psychiatry resident doctor
in my third year of residency training.
My hottest medical take is that in general,
resident doctors in this country are not given
an adequate time to sleep and recover in training,
and as a result, they suffer
and patient care can suffer too.
Today, it is still legal and accepted
for resident doctors to work up to 28 hours in a shift.
I mean, research has found that sleep deprivation can cause
physiological impairment in our bodies
that actually mimics the effect of alcohol intoxication.
Being awake for 24 hours straight
is similar to having a blood alcohol content of 0.1,
which is above the legal limit to drive.
If it's not safe for resident doctors to operate a vehicle,
why would it be safe for us
to operate on or treat a patient?
- I'm Dr. Danielle Jones.
Some of you may know me as MDJ and I am an OBGYN.
That means I take care of anything
having to do with periods, pregnancy,
and the female reproductive tract.
I believe that healthcare providers far too often dismiss
or ignore the concerns of women
and that this is incredibly detrimental to our health.
- Hi, I'm Dr. Siobhan Deshauer, also known as ViolinMD.
I'm an internal medicine and rheumatology specialist.
Our medical system is set up to fix problems
in the doctor's office or in the operating room,
but there's only so much that we can do
when we're living in an unhealthy society.
I believe people need to take more ownership of their health
and that society needs to enable them
to make healthy decisions.
- Hello, my name is Ed Hope.
I'm a doctor working in the emergency department
over in the UK.
My hottest medical take, okay, here it goes,
strap yourselves in because I believe, in a way,
you can live forever.
Forever.
This is my theory here.
Take a mouse who only has a tiny brain
and only lives for a couple of years, but to that mouse,
it experiences a lifetime.
Therefore, the smaller a brain size,
the slower an animal's experience of time.
Now, what happens in your last few moments of life?
Well, your brain cells die off.
Essentially, your functional brain is getting smaller.
Therefore, time in that moment as you experience it
will start to expand.
And so my theory is that you end up living forever
in this kind of dream-like state.
- My name is Ricky Brown
and I'm a board certified plastic surgeon
in Scottsdale, Arizona.
My hottest take is that everyone in the world thinks
that what we do as plastic surgeons is what is portrayed
by Hollywood or the Kardashians.
- Don't be (beep) rude!
- That could it be further from the truth.
People always forget, we also do tons of reconstructive work
like cleft palates and cleft lips and cancer reconstruction.
- My name is Dr. Sanjay Juneja.
I'm a hematologist and medical oncologist
basically specializing in blood disorders
as well as cancers and how to treat them.
I think there's almost an intentional
or not coming to the middle when it comes to integrating
diet, lifestyle, herbals, and natural products
into cancer care compared to research
and traditional pharmacologic drugs and industry.
- What up, My name is Dr. John Patton, docjb3,
and I'm a board certified anesthesiologist
and a regional anesthesia
and acute pain medicine specialist.
Medical hot take.
So acetaminophen or Tylenol, ibuprofen, or Motrin
can be very effective pain medications
and in some situations,
they may even be more effective than opioids.
- I'm Dr. Dana Brems and I'm a podiatrist,
which is a foot and ankle specialist and surgeon.
Speaking in too much medical jargon
is not good for patients.
(Steve Carrell speaking gibberish)
I think that if you can't explain things
in a way that people understand,
then maybe you don't understand it yourself.
- Hi, I am Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler and I'm an eye surgeon,
AKA ophthalmologist.
Never rub your eyes or put your fingers in your eyes
because you can actually get them stuck
and have a doctor have to pull it out,
which is not true of course,
but when you do rub your eyes, you can cause infections,
you can give yourself COVID, in fact.
And also if you have a eye disease called keratoconus
where the cornea is bulging like a hernia,
rubbing your eyes can make it worse.
- Hi, I'm Dr. Rena Malik, urologist and pelvic surgeon.
And a urologist is essentially a surgical and medical doctor
of the genital urinary tract.
My hot medical take
is that doctors don't learn enough about nutrition
in medical school.
We probably got less than a 30 minute lecture on nutrition,
and nutrition is the foundation of health.
If we knew more about nutrition,
I think we could help a lot more people.
- Here's your hottest medical takes
and my reactions to them.
Some of them are way wrong
and some are actually pretty sharp.
And as always, stay happy and healthy.
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