- There was an accident at the fencing academy.
(laughing)
- Touché
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- From the legendary creator
who brought us The Simpsons, Matt Groening.
Today we're diving in
and reacting to another one of his hilarious shows, Futurama
and this is actually the second time we'll be learning about
and breaking down some of the crazy medical type situations
and injuries of the show.
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All right, let's dive right in.
- Dr. Zoidberg is my friend.
And though a woman has come between us,
I say we'll always remain friends.
And you know why? One reason-
(laughing)
- Oh, man, he just took off his arm.
Right mid humerus.
There is one bone they're doing a good depiction,
got to tourniquet that quick,
get that arm right to the hospital,
hurry up so you can reattach it (laughing).
- Ow, ow, ah.
- Got some morphine for pain right into the arm,
that's good, it can go straight through clothes
if you really, really needed to.
Maybe put that arm on a little bit of cold ice,
not directly on the ice, to preserve it as long as possible.
- Especially after I made a complete eel out of myself
(laughing)
- No biggie.
- Where did he put it back?
- I pronounce the operation a success.
- Nice.
- Hurray! (all cheering)
- Yes, it works.
- I may not know for emotions but when it comes to medicine,
forget about it.
- I love it.
- I don't mean to nitpick.
- What happened? (laughing)
- But do you think maybe you could
take one more whack at this?
- For you...
- Oh my gosh. I love it.
This is not uncommon to do accidental surgeries.
At the hospitals,
the surgeon will come in and actually give you a marker
to mark the body part or the area
that they're going to do surgery so they don't screw up
when you're passed out and sleeping.
Wonder what it would be like to have two arms
on the same side,
it'd be kind of weird.
- I'm afraid these suction cups are merely
the first phase of a process called squidification.
(all gasp)
- Squidification, ah.
We don't have things like squidification.
But we do have really rare conditions,
like say elephantiasis, where the tissue gets hard,
it fibrosis, is enlarge, is an edema
and there's really not any specific treatment,
unfortunately, kind of have to live with it.
- Sometimes I don't wash my hands for years at a time.
- We're definitely in an era
where we're washing our hands a lot, right?
We're actually losing the normal amount of bacteria
that we have.
So we are covered in bacteria, on our skin,
which helps us defend against other bacteria.
It's almost like catch 22 in certain situations.
Using antibacterial soap,
it's probably not the best for our skin and for our health.
- I'm afraid it's a genetic condition
that sometimes affects Mutants.
- So genetic disorders.
So sometimes later in life,
genetic disorders will kind of rear their ugly head.
Or there could be like genetic mutations
that occur from like environmental things, the food we eat,
those sorts of things.
- Your limbs will gradually transform into
a slithering mass of tentacles.
- Oh God.
- So how many cures are there for this disease?
- I'm afraid none.
- Sometimes sadly in medicine there aren't any options
and you just have to live with whatever's going on.
- The only treatment is an incredibly expensive operation
that just delays the symptoms for a few months.
Oh, I wish I'd never been born.
- The reaction to the doctor is so sympathetic,
I think it's almost a little too much, obviously.
Oh, we got some tools of the trade.
- Oh.
- Ah, I think it's noble of you to give Maryann a new nose.
- True, our relationship will end when she smells my odor.
- I got a donor nose.
There was an accident at the...
- Oh no.
(laughing)
- Touché.
- Yep, donor noses, you're just getting tissue
so the question is, do you have good tissue
that you can use and is compatible?
It potentially could work.
She has a nice nose.
- It'll all be over soon, my love.
May I have one last kiss?
- Oh, there will be lots more.
- Okay. He's so worried.
He's so worried that she's going to smell him
with a new nose after.
- Nurse Amy, the anesthesia.
- Whoa, cool.
- Smell you later.
- Typically you go the other direction
with the IVs that we use, we'd go up towards the body.
So you're going this way, not this way.
It has to do with the flow of the vein.
Anesthesia, we have so many different options
when it comes to IV anesthesia.
The medication is basically to knock you out,
to make it seem like,
"Oh my gosh, I don't know what just happened."
And that's really what you want to experience.
- Then let's begin this delicate procedure.
(laughing)
- Nice, I love the delicate procedure.
I have a friend of mine who's a plastic surgeon,
a burn surgeon who's fantastic
and I saw him once putting somebody almost like
hand, arm connected to their side
where it was sewn into the tissue
so it was getting nutrients
as they were waiting to harvest more tissue,
to be able to cover the hand.
It was really, really impressive.
So the same idea can happen with different,
other types of tissues.
Clip number four, whoa.
- Yetism...
- He's got Yetism.
- He was scratched by a Yeti.
- Oh no.
- I've never heard of Yetism.
- It mimics the symptoms of hypermalaria exactly.
- I don't think there's anything called hyper-malaria,
but malaria spread by mosquitoes is a bloodborne disease
basically where kind of like a parasite gets into your
system it causes it's like flu like symptoms.
More common medications that were used for malaria,
Chloroquine or Malarone.
It all depends on different areas of the world,
which one that you use.
Very rarely is it deadly, but it could be.
- Except for the part where instead of dying,
you turn into a Yeti.
- Whoa.
- Hold him down while I prepare the antidote.
- Go, go, go, go, go.
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- Another Yeti?
- Yes, now who's getting his pineal gland extracted.
- Whoa. In humans the pineal gland,
deep inside of the brain,
has to do with like melatonin,
has to do with awake, sleep patterns,
circadian rhythm patterns.
It's pretty cool we're using anatomy that humans have
with the Yeti and trying to stop this Yetism.
- Won't it just make him a double Yeti?
- Don't lecture me about alien physiology Conrad.
(laughing)
- The pineal neurotoxin neutralizes the adrenal neurotoxin.
- Oh, but the pineal gland in the Yeti
is the neurotoxin.
- That's why Yeti's don't drive themselves mad.
(growling)
- Whoa, get it in him.
(growling)
- What is happening?
Whoa.
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- The Doc knows best how to treat it.
Holy cow, it's huge.
- [Zoidberg] It did make him a double Yeti.
- It's a double Yeti.
Doctors do make mistakes sometimes,
but you got to go after it.
You make a decision, you commit to it and you do it
and then if you're wrong, you own up to it.
But we're also trying to do the best thing for the patient.
So this doctor tried to do the exact same thing
for this patient that it'll cure it.
Obviously it didn't, it made it worse.
So I don't know what the cure is for Yetism,
but we don't have anything like that in human.
Oh my gosh. No, little crash.
(screaming)
Okay, hopefully they're wearing their seat belts.
A little head injury.
Yep a little facial contusion head injury.
- My head is...
- Got to worry about C spine precautions too
so anytime we have head injuries,
you potentially slam forward,
you always have to worry about spinal cord injury,
cervical fractures.
So a lot of times, if you get picked up by an ambulance,
they're going to put a C collar.
They typically don't use a long board anymore
because those have been shown to be detrimental
and could potentially cause skin breakdown.
- What happened was anybody hurt?
- Nobody, but you.
I'm afraid your body was badly damaged in the crash.
- Let's see what the trauma is.
- That's it over there?
- Oh no, his head is functioning.
- Don't worry, I managed to keep your head alive
with some quick surgery.
- Love it.
- There.
- Looks like we'll be spending a lot more time together.
- There it is. I love it.
So if he was able to do a super cool crazy surgery
to reconnect the nervous system,
now you have two different things going on.
The question ends up being, are they actually connected?
Do they understand what's going on?
That's pretty cool.
- Don't worry Fry, we'll have your body all-
- I love it.
I love it, his body's just hanging there on a coat rack.
- Ooh.
- A human being is actually quite heavy.
The amount of trauma from when somebody falls
from a standing position that the body incurs, it's a lot.
You can fracture your skull, snap your neck,
there's all these different things
so you actually got to be aware this
be really cognizant
that we don't miss something at the hospital
or that you're like, oh, "I'm fine."
But you actually might've like really hurt yourself
so you've got to get checked out.
- Well Amy, I'll try not to
interfere with your life too much.
- Fry?
- Oh, sorry. I guess I control that arm.
(laughing)
- So we don't know potentially
which brain is interacting with which body part,
body functioning.
Pretty impressive but when you actually start
really breaking down to it,
I understand that it's a show,
this is like cool alien stuff
but when you actually nerd out
and you think about the connectivity
of somebody else's brains to somebody's body,
how does it work, what's the function, really cool.
Futurama-
It's always a little different to react to Futurama
because it's alien medicine and I'm a human medical doctor,
but it's really cool to try to correlate the two together
and seeing like different ways that they apply medicine.
Do you have a favorite TV show
that features medical situations
that you want me to break down further and explain?
Let me know which show or episodes in the comments below.
And if I missed any Futurama scenes
that I should check out for another video.
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All right. Thank you so much for watching
and stay healthy my friends.
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