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- A couple of weeks ago, I reacted to medical scenes
from Family Guy and got an overwhelming response
from you guys, wanting me to react to more TV shows.
That's why today I'm reacting to some dare I say,
medical situations that have occurred
on the highly popularized show, The Simpsons.
So The Simpsons have been airing on TV since 1989.
But for those who aren't sure what The Simpsons is.
It's an animated series on Fox
that follows a satirical depiction of American life.
Epitomized by the Simpson family.
It's actually the longest running cartoon ever.
But before we get into that.
My name is Dr. Jordan Wagner.
I'm an ER doc that deals with every medical situation
that you can think of.
Gunshot wounds, COVID, broken hips, firework mishaps.
I created this channel to answer the medical questions
that I get from people every single day.
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All right, ready to watch some funny medical clips?
Let's react to this Simpsons.
All right, let's check out clip number one.
- Doctor, I want you to test me for everything.
Every disease on this chart.
- Okay, love it.
First thing he says is, doctor
I want you to test me for everything.
We get this so often in the emergency department,
in primary care doctor's office.
Unfortunately there's not enough time
and resources to be able to do that for everybody.
So typically it is a primary problem focused visit
in the emergency department,
as well as primary care doctor's office.
- Fine, let's start by drawing some blood.
(laughing)
- Oh my gosh.
I don't think I've ever had someone poke through
an arm all the way that bad, but that is hilarious.
It just goes underneath the skin.
The veins are just underneath the skin, like barely.
- Come on, keep blowing.
- Oh, nice.
Trying to do something called a pulmonary function test
to see how well you're breathing
with a crazy old school apparatus.
Ancient, but very cool.
(laughing)
- Okay 12 centimeters, excellent.
- The monitor test does not measure
how far your face gets sucked into the hose.
It has to do with the function
of how much you can breathe out and in.
Got some treadmill tests.
- I am a big boy.
- I like this medical office.
I've never seen these type of stairs going up and down
and circling around.
Don't realize that the electrodes will probably get stuck
and caught everywhere.
(siren wailing)
- Clear body jam.
(laughing) - There's the problem.
- I feel like patients have a fear
when they go into like a CT scan machine.
That they're gonna go into this room
and this tunnel of death.
It's not.
A CT scan machine, just a cylindrical type
of doughnut appearing with a hole in the middle.
And it's only about yay wide, it's not very long.
An MRI totally different, that is a scary tube.
But a normal test, no, it doesn't happen that way.
That was funny.
Let's check out clip number two.
- Now what you see here is a radioactive dye we injected.
Flowing through your husband's circulatory system.
- All right, that's super cool.
The radioactive dye.
We never get to see it this way, kind of in live function.
It's very rarely.
You can do a bone scans
where you get radioactive isotopes injected into your body
and then you can see where there's injuries.
A PET scans, do the same sort of thing
where they're having these type of images,
as well as even the HIDA scan for your gallbladder.
So multiple different types of images in medicine
that use radioactive markers
that light up on a scan to see active cells going on.
So here with the vascular system, it's actually pretty cool.
You could see the couple chambers of the heart.
You can see basically the main blood vessels
and all the offshoots.
So pretty awesome.
- But doctor, I haven't injected the dye yet.
(laughing)
- So they haven't even injected the dye yet.
Of course, Homer had some sort of abnormality going on.
- Homer this is a new body fat analysis test.
I start the jiggling and measure how long it takes to stop.
(laughing)
- So a body fat analyzation does not occur
by smacking someone's fat
and seeing how long it takes before it stops jiggling, no.
So at the doctor's office, you use calipers.
Calipers pinch the skin at your tricep, your hip
and your buttocks.
Then you average those numbers together
and you get a percentage of body fat.
Let's keep going.
- Oh my gosh, it's still rolling.
- Yes.
- Oh man.
Nuse, cancel my one o'clock.
(laughing)
- Yeah, so no, the only time actually in medicine
where we might push on an abdomen.
We're checking for what's called a fluid wave.
And that happens when somebody has acidic fluid
or something called ascites in their abdomen.
Typically this happens with liver failure
and we can see if there's actually fluid in the abdomen.
And you can actually tell if it's moving.
Let's check out a clip number three.
- Hi, everybody. - Oh jeez.
- Surgical scene.
Super cool.
Before we even start.
Old-school operation theater.
This is super cool.
They actually still have these in some hospitals
and you can see an old school movies
but I trained to did some rotations
at Massachusetts General Hospital.
And they still have their old school
surgical operational theater.
And it's actually called the ether-dome.
We have modern medicine now, but they actually used
a type of ether basically to knock somebody out
so they can operate on.
Pretty crazy back then.
- Let's not get the law involved.
- So it's not for nonmedical people.
So he's got to get sterile.
You gotta scrub.
You're in there for a couple of minutes.
Specific way, everybody in medicine
is trained to clean themselves
to go into the operating room, every single time.
You need to be sterile for that patient
to reduce risk of infection.
- These gloves came free with my toilet brush.
- The gloves should not be free from your toilet brush.
You get surgical gloves that are sterilized
and you put them on in a very specific way
when you're in the operating room.
And Homer just got knocked out by gas.
So modern day medicine.
Now we inject you with a sedative, knock you out that way.
And then we keep somebody sedated and tightly monitored.
That way we can control how deep you're sleeping
and then be able to take it off
and you can wake right back up.
All right, the doctor's sweating a crazy amount,
you don't want that sweat dripping in there.
- Doctor what's wrong?
Don't you know where to make the incision?
- All right, Nick.
Don't panic. Think back to med school.
- So med school is like college, right?
There are people who party hard.
But if you can party hard
and still get everything done, perfect.
But hopefully you're not in the middle of an operation
and having to think back on how to actually do a procedure.
- Seriously baby, I can prescribe anything I want.
- Oh jeez.
- I know am supposed to cut something,
but what and where?
- Okay, you don't want that kinda doctor,
not even knowing where he's supposed to cut
or what he's supposed to cut.
And then to make everything worse,
he pulls down his non-sterile face mask
with his sterile glove.
Now his right hand is not sterile anymore.
He needs to re-sterilize that side.
That's crazy.
I don't want that doctor operating on me,
any of my friends or family, crazy.
Let's check out clip number four.
- Hi everybody.
- Oh, it's the same surgeon.
- Now there are many options available for...
- Dr. Nick.
- Underweight individuals like yourself.
I recommend a slow, steady gorging process combined
with assal horizontology.
- Of course.
- What?
- You'll have to focus on the neglected food groups,
such as the whipped group, the congealed group
and the chocotastic.
- What can I do to speed the whole thing up doctor?
- Be creative.
Instead of making sandwiches with bread, use Pop-Tarts.
Instead of chewing gum, chew bacon.
- So, Homer obviously is not underweight.
He's a way overweight.
Probably has a BMI greater than 35 body mass index.
But now he's got a food pyramid
that's all sweets and candies and grease, not so good.
Do not make a sandwich with Pop-Tarts.
I mean, it maybe sounds tasty, but I wouldn't do that.
You really need to watch what we eat
and keep our bodies as healthy as possible.
And even now the food pyramid is changing
because we're discovering and finding out
that there are certain amount of foods that we need
and not need actually in our diet.
- You could brush your teeth with milkshakes.
- Bart, great idea.
Let's brush our teeth with milkshakes.
I mean, if I could have a chocolate peanut butter milkshake
every day, I'd be one happy dude.
But I also want to live as long as possible.
And that's definitely not one way to get there.
- Hey,
did you go up to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too?
And remember, if you're not sure
about something rub it against the piece of paper.
If the paper turns clear is your window...
- Oh gosh, that's horrible.
Rubbing food on paper to get all the grease
to show that it's that horrible for you.
It's pretty funny, but that's horrible.
Okay, don't do that.
Fried chicken, bad idea.
It's made with different oils
that you shouldn't even be ingesting to begin with.
Let's check out clip number five.
- Homer I'm afraid you've torn out
your anterior cruciate ligament.
- Did you say anterior?
- Yes.
(screaming)
- Oh no.
Anterior cruciate ligament.
Okay, ACL.
Everybody knows about this right there.
You have one in each knee
and it basically connects the top part of your leg
to the bottom part of your leg.
The femur to your tibia.
So if you tear it,
sometimes you can have it surgically repaired
by putting it back or you actually might need a cadaveric
or another animals.
There's all different ways that you can actually get
a new ACL.
But you really need to have a good functioning active knee
to be able to do all different movements.
- Now, how did this happen?
- Maybe a little morphine would refresh my memory.
- All right, morphine, yes.
It feels good to some people.
Because it doesn't actually affect the pain
in a limb, or an arm or skin.
It actually affects the receptors in your brain
to tell you not to care about the pain.
You have to be careful 'cause morphine
as well as any other opiate, reduces your respiratory drive.
And unfortunately that's how people die.
It reduces their respiratory drive so much
that they literally just stopped breathing on their own.
So be careful.
- I don't know, I'm still a little hazy.
- Oh my gosh.
This is a horrible that this is on a cartoon.
- Now I remember it like it was yesterday.
- Oh my gosh.
- It happened today.
- Hey man, you're hushing my buzz...
- He's talking about being buzzed.
- It all started when...
- Oh my gosh.
Playing basketball, nice.
- You go Homer.
- Oh my gosh.
(laughing)
- All right.
I love The Simpsons, this is hilarious.
Obviously, he's not going to dunk on a planet.
Very funny and yes, morphine, Dilaudid, fentanyl,
any of these IV drugs will take you to another planet.
Basically, that's what The Simpsons are trying to tell you.
All right, those clips were a little far fetched,
but for a comedic animated show,
it was super funny and amusing to comment on.
Great job to the creator and the rest of the team
who created the show.
Super entertaining to watch.
Although not entirely medically accurate
and Dr. Nick and Dr. Hibbert
may need their medical license revoked possibly just saying.
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