Dr. Chris here, orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician and
today, I am reacting to funny medical memes. I saw this video the other day dr. Mike was reacting to
some of the funniest medical memes so I thought hey that's pretty cool I might give that a try
shout out to dr. Mike for the great idea so my wife thought she picked some medical memes that
relate to the specialty in which I work cuz I hadn't really seen them and I'm gonna react to
them now and tell you whether they be accurate or inaccurate close to being truth or whatever
let's get to it number one here and then I said the doctor will be with you in a minute
if you see my other video about why you wait in the doctor's office you'll know that this is so
true although we try to schedule appointments and get patients seen in timely fashion there
are little things that occurred which throw our timing out the window we meet being a specialist
the wait times are often quite a bit longer than they are to see a general practitioner
often they'll be waiting in the office one two sometimes even three hours meme number two tell
me everything you told the nurses five minutes ago this is so true while we may get the basic
gist of the story from the nurse from the medical students or from the resident we always want to
hear it directly from the horse's mouth I've been up for an hour shouldn't we get riding in order to
keep those the flow of things flowing so that we can have multiple patients being assessed at the
same time we'll send in one of the junior staff to kind of get the nuts and bolts because this
allows us to triage the situation so that we can go to see more important things first but once
we've triage the patient using the junior staff or the nurse and then we've got to see the patient
ourselves probably know what the gist of the story is we want to find all exact details and so we're
going to ask the patient again what their story is I think it's really accurate and this is the
reason why it happens okay so this next one here surgeon or a physician put the glove on you won't
feel a thing except my fingers interestingly enough we do have put on gloves because we
do have to do the rectal exam if that's something that's common in medicine whether you're a family
physician or surgeon or other types of positions one of the things that I was happy about when I
when I went into orthopedics is the thought that oh my god I'm not gonna have to do rectal exams
however I discovered during my residency that when you are on the spine service which is part
of the orthopedic surgery department patients come in and they have spinal injury or suspected
spinal injury then we do not do rectal exam so that we can assess the rectal tone or the rectal
motor which allows us to know information about whether there is a spinal cord injury present and
or the severity of the spinal cord injury if it is indeed there trust me doing a record exam is
not fun for anybody but it's something that must be done in certain cases so this one here today I
stand there and he says yeah if my doctor could not use Google and Web MD in front of me that'd
be great these days there is so much information that is impossible and keep it all in your head
and to be on top of everything the piece of change to information as more and more studies
are done and as we find out more and more things about the body and more and more things about
our its interactions with medications and with the environment it's impossible for us to have
all that information in our head all the time furthermore every position walks around with one
of these a smartphone with that we can access information instantaneously and sometimes you
go clean I'm not sure about this I don't know about this the dosage for this medication this
is something new that I haven't seen or unusual presentation and you'll look it up I still try
not to do this in front of patient it does create a sense of doubt and even though I am
a sports medicine physician with a subspecialty in arthroscopy and I still don't know everything
about arthroscopy and I still don't know anything about work piece one thing that I will say though
is that when we get information we like to do so from peer-reviewed sources that means that we're
just not going to any website where people are talking about this medical problem we're going
to websites where all the data that's been put on there has been peer-reviewed it's a research paper
that has been put out to the academic population for further scrutiny and people have been able
to comment on that to say whether they think it's the real deal inaccurate or whether it's
hocus pocus mumbo jumbo bullcrap I don't want to be politically correct here at the end of
the day I'm all about trying to help teachers get back but I do think that this next one is
really accurate sometimes we have to find very gentle ways of saying this to people in this one
I may have a doctor there he's auscultate in the patient's chest to listen to reading sound kind
of looking off in the distance there and he says seems like you have a case of being a little I'm
prescribing you a heavy dose of men but I get it you know if something happens to you and you
are unsure about what is going on the lack of knowledge can be associated with a high level
of anxiety you may get really nervous and really worked up and really freaked out about something
but from a mountain perspective we may think that it is a relatively minor thing so yeah sometimes
I say that we don't typically say it that way but sometimes we're thinking it next one here
says doctors be like go bites this unfortunately is his troops guys are right to stuff down and it
pretty much looks like a stroke things are moving fast and you don't have time to make sure that
you have great penmanship again I'm going to put on my political correct hat there are good
physicians in there bad positions there are some positions that I would like to touch me in there
others that I would not okay so this one here it says if I collapse at work here's a list of
doctors that I don't want working on me the true gold standard for me is whether another physician
would voluntarily come to me for treat they know whether your care has been good or not whether
your result will be good or not whether you had conference a lot of complications or not so they
know all that information if the physician comes to me then that to me is the seal of approval
having said that there are physicians where if I need something done I have list in my head
of people that I would go to up but any hesitation no problems but then there is also another list of
my head where it is what it is I'm sure everybody tries their best we are not all created equal okay
so this next one this is super true my wife can attest to this anybody who's been in the hospital
for will know this it's got a cat look it up and to the side and it says when you're on call and
the phone rings all conditions we have a new card that's one of the requirements particular if you
have a hospital based practice you could just sit in the hospital and wait for something to
happen or you could go about your life and hope the phone doesn't ring I fed them both and when
I was young it first started working I would be in the hospital all the time as I start to get older
and realized I didn't have much of a life because I was in the hospital seven days a week all the
time all the time I stopped doing that and so now when you're on call and the phone rings don't know
is it something simple or they just wanna ask you a question or is it something more complex where
you gotta stop what you're doing whatever it is and go into the hospital I know that looks very
well as does any other physician who has covered call so this one says patient up top my pain is 10
out of 10 down the bottom we have a physician or nurse whatever they say you keep using that word
I do not think it means what you think it means if you want to know what I think about pain and how I
think that impacts patients then you can check out my blog post I'll leave a link in the description
down below and again this goes back to people not having an understanding of medical situations also
maybe not having a high degree of body awareness generally we have a pain scale to medicine it is
usually at zero ten where zero is no pain tennis and worst you ever felt this is what I say to my
patient on a scale of zero to ten zero is no pain ten is where you would pay me money out
of your pocket right now to cut that thing off in other words you would not be able to tell me that
your pain is ten out of ten because you will be so wrapped by that pain that you would be a quivering
mess on the floor but when you say to us my pain is a 10 out of 10 it doesn't mean what you think
it means keep that in mind next time doctor asked to read your pain that's the last one thanks for
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