- [Stewie] Brian
(head bangs)
(Jordan laughing)
- Today we are reacting to the medical scenes and injuries
of one of your all time favorites, Family Guy number eight.
And let's dive right in.
- I never told you this, but for years now
I've been planning on retiring at 45,
so I can work on finding a cure for ballzheimers disease.
- Ballzheimers disease.
Ballzheimers disease is not a disease,
but I'm assuming it's related to forgetting your testicles.
- Peter, are those testicles.
Where did you get those?
- I don't remember.
- You got Alzheimer's disease, which is a type of dementia.
Dementia is basically slowly losing your memory,
not able to form new memories.
There's multiple different kinds.
Oh, he is in the hospital.
First glance, these injuries are related to either,
car accident, a fight, riding a bicycle, or a skateboarder,
or scooter, and he fell on his face.
Those are kind of the first things that you think of.
- Mrs. Griffin I have some good news or some bad news,
depending on how you feel about your husband.
Do you love your husband?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Mrs. Griffin I have some bad news news,
your husband is brain dead.
- We don't present things this way.
You don't say good news, bad news,
you just say this is what we found.
- I'm afraid it's time for you to make your choice.
- What? - Make your choice?
- Are you telling me I should pull the plug.
- I'm afraid so.
- Typically, if there's no brain function
then you actually wouldn't have the function to breathe,
so should probably be on a ventilator.
Pulling the plug basically means
turning off the mechanical ventilation.
If their brain isn't functioning to tell them to breathe,
they will die pretty quickly right after that.
- Also, you might be getting a call
about the service you received here today.
Do you feel I've earned all tens?
(Jordan laughing)
- We as physicians are judged by the government
based on surveys that patients do,
it's called a press ganey score in the emergency department.
Did we address all the concerns?
Did we address your pain?
Basically just hits the things that we should do.
- I don't wanna go.
Hey. - Hey.
- That's a plug.
You pulled the plug on me?
(Jordan gasping)
- What?
Oh man.
Lois.
Actually sometimes things like this happen.
Usually it's from GHB,
the drug which people become totally unconscious,
and then once it's metabolized out of their system
they just all of a sudden wake up,
they rip their endotracheal tubes out.
- Peter it was a very difficult decision.
How could you do that, I'm alive.
- I'm here from the mortgage company.
Mr. Griffin, you're three months late on your payment.
(Peter beeping)
(Jordan laughs)
- So that is a tough conversation to have.
That flat line noise that you hear in movies
is most of the time just a fake idea.
You hear the,
(Jordan blooping)
We don't hear those at the hospital either,
it would just be a ton of different noises
all over the place.
He's got a pulse oximeter on his fingers.
And he's got an IV in his right arm,
and the antecubital fossa, so a good job.
(instrumental music)
At the hospital, obviously.
Lois you're freaking out.
- Don't worry Lois, I went blind for a while,
it was cool.
- Dr. Hartman, you said there was very little risk
to lay sick, but now I am blind.
- So Lois is blind after eye surgery.
Sometimes you can have a lot of edema and swelling
to the eye itself.
So that can cause temporary blindness.
At that point, anytime there's blindness
phone calls to an ophthalmologist.
Potentially get a CT scan of the head
to make sure there was no mass or no injuries.
And then the ophthalmologist needs to see these patients.
- Okay look, this isn't my fault,
it was take your cat to work day.
(cat meows)
(Jordan laughing)
- I love that the laser the cat was using to run around
to try to get.
So you wouldn't do it freehand like that.
Animals in the hospital, that doesn't happen.
We do have in certain hospitals therapy dogs,
but not a random bring your animal to work day.
- Get that cat outta here.
- They're not sterile, they're dirty.
- Until she gets used to her new life,
you'll need to take care of her.
Feed her, bathe her, drive her places.
- There are gone, aren't they?
- They left, yes.
- Wow.
There are times when we see family
dump their member into the emergency department
and we can't contact them, and then we have to figure out
what to do with these individuals,
and then that's when we actually get
law enforcement involved.
- Sorry to keep you, I was reading this highlights magazine
in the waiting room.
- Oh my gosh, I remember those highlight magazines.
We got some little baby x-rays up there.
We got a sternal notch all the way down to the pelvis.
- Doctor Hartman, were you able to tell anything
from Stewie x-rays.
- Oh yeah, little guy's got scoliosis.
- Oh my God.
- Scoliosis is basically lateral angulation of the spine.
You can actually just do an exam
where you put your feet together, you bend forward,
ribs basically will then rotate one way or the other.
So that's one way to do a quick assessment for scoliosis.
- Oh no, am I gonna be a big shoe small shoe guy.
(Jordan laughs)
- This doesn't typically have to do
with the leg length discrepancies.
It could a little bit if you're having pelvic shifting,
you need to build up a shoe,
a big difference versus like you need a little lift
in your shoe.
Those sorts of things.
- But don't worry, he'll be fine.
He just needs to wear this brace for a while to correct it.
- Oh dear.
- Now, does he have any school pictures coming up?
- Yeah, he actually does.
- Well then, this will not be a refrigerator door year.
(Jordan laughs)
- The braces that we use at the hospital that I see
are something called a TLSO brace,
and it has to do with different areas of your spine.
Typically it's used when there's like a fracture
versus misalignment.
(Stewie groans)
- What the doos.
Brian.
(head bangs)
(Jordan laughing)
- He has such a massive head
that the sound of his head hitting the stairs.
It was actually a really good job.
- It's gotta be from wearing that brace all the time.
Your neck must have atrophy so much
you can no longer support your head.
- There you go.
We do tell people with the soft cervical collars
not to put those on,
because you can actually cause muscle stiffness
and potential atrophy.
Say you have a shoulder sling,
you gotta make sure you take it out of there
and do gentle movements.
If you use it all the time
you can actually cause yourself frozen shoulder syndrome.
- You've gotta take me to the hospital.
- Absolutely.
Let me just watch Jennifer's body and we'll go right there.
- If you have neck laxity or you injure your neck,
make sure you stabilize it.
Wrap a towel at your house
and roll it up and put it until almost like a horseshoe,
and put it in that area.
You could tape the front.
(woman crying)
What the heck?
What the heck? - Oh my God.
- He had a heart attack. - I think Chris
is having a heart attack.
- We're not supposed to leave the table.
- Chris is having a heart attack.
Isn't Chris like a kid.
It's not impossible to have a heart attack at a young age,
typically it's due to like a congenital issue.
More commonly it's like forties, fifties, and sixties,
is when bad cardiovascular disease starts kicking in.
- You almost worked yourself right into the ground buddy.
- Oh, it's all our fault,
we never should have let you take on the pressure
of being an adult.
- It's okay mom.
Boy, I thought being a grownup would be easier
than being a kid, but it's turned out it was just as hard.
- Heart attack in general, is defined as a ruptured plaque
that causes a blockage and the heart can stop
or go into a cardiac arrhythmia.
If he doesn't have plaque development,
he shouldn't be having a heart attack.
But you can actually have,
something that has to do with broken heart syndrome,
which could present as a heart attack.
- I guess what we all learned is that no matter who you are
or where you come from room, life is a terrible thing.
- No, it's not.
Life is what you make of it.
But on the flip side, stress is a real thing
and it really does affect our bodies,
and our mental state and physical state.
- All right, we're just gonna take a quick cap smear.
- Don't you mean cap smear.
- No, at this hospital we obtain the sample
using beloved British comic strip browsed about Andy Capp.
- Oh my gosh.
I've never seen this or heard this episode,
what the heck.
- Hello love, let's have a smear.
- What?
Anybody having this type of exam will tell you,
it is awful.
They're both male, so nowadays
you actually have a female chaperone in the room.
- I'm not letting you do that, you can't even see.
- That's all right bird, I goes by smell.
- The emergency department has a plethora
of abnormal smells.
This nose right here has the ability
to pick up a lot of different smells.
The smell of marijuana, or the smell of regular alcohol
versus metabolized alcohol.
We have the ability to just like pick up these smells
just because we're around them so often.
Holy cow, Family Guy just never gets old,
I like this show,
I like the medical scenes that it has.
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and stay healthy my friends.
(bright upbeat music)