I was sent a few website threads and statements
where doctors from all over the world
were anonymously spilling the beans
on medical and health secrets
that they don't want you to know.
So in today's video,
I thought we'd put these deep
dark doctor secrets to the test
and figure out whether they are true or not
fair warning you may find out some things
that the medical community
had been trying to keep secret for a long time.
But before we get into it,
I am Dr. Jordan Wagner.
I'm an emergency room doctor.
I've created this video series
to help answer some of your medical questions
and the questions that I get from patients
each and every day.
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All right, let's dive right in.
What I don't ever want you to know
is that sometimes you or your parent or your child
or your loved one would be better off dead.
Okay out of context that sounds horrible.
As an ER, doctor, I deal with this in a different setting.
So somebody comes in, they go into cardiac arrest,
we get them back
and then they keep going into cardiac arrest.
We get them the heart restarted
because of the medications
that we're giving like epinephrin,
and then a minute later
they can't sustain their own heartbeat and they die again.
And we keep going back and forth.
Then we have a conversation with the families
With the next of kin
that this person is probably
not going to survive this.
Should we continue to do this
versus should we withdraw care
and let nature take its course.
And most of the time when you watch these events happen,
you're doing CPR and cracking ribs
during a lot of these rural techniques
to get the person right back where they were
most people say please stop
that patient will pass away right then and there.
And it's our job to present
all of the medical information to the
family, patient, everybody
so that there can be an educated decision
at the end of the day
what will the quality of life be for that individual?
Oh yeah remember that Seinfeld episode
where Elaine tries to steal her chart
because it says that she's difficult.
Do doctors have that sort of thing?
I worked in the ER,
our charts are all electronic medical records
that actually all patients have access to.
There are things that pop up will tell us
if somebody has been there 24 hours before
or 48 hours before two hours before,
they'll also tell us if they're a frequent flyer.
If they've been there multiple times,
there are different codes that can be placed on the
kind of the grease board so
speak in the emergency department,
having to do with a psychiatric patient or stroke patient.
But sometimes it's actually valuable for the doctors
that way they know what they're walking into
and not blindsided as well.
Eat a God (beep) apple every day.
Okay abstractly, eating healthy,
eating fruit will optimize your body potentially
to stay away from the doctors.
Now you should have a doctor,
even if you're healthy
in case you become ill with an infection
or something like that.
But there's so many diets out there.
The biggest thing is not necessarily eating an apple a day,
but don't eat crappy food, fast food, fried food.
All of these things are not good for you.
We should be eating fresh produce, fresh vegetables,
meats, fish, some breads,
you know all of these different things.
So yes a healthy diet keeps the doctor away.
Doctors are moody because they disliked the public
doctors are human beings.
You have no idea if literally
I walked out of a room where somebody just died
and I walked into another room
where somebody is yelling at me for pain medications
yes it's potentially a consumer business
in the sense of I'm providing a service,
but I'm also do not need to be taken advantage of
or abused verbally or physically
many documented nurses and staff members
are actually physically assaulted by patients
so they can get their way.
All of my colleagues, no matter what,
try to put on the best happy face and clean slate.
Every time they walked into a room
to address a new person, a new patient.
The medical textbooks are out dated.
So by the time a textbook is actually published yes,
some of the things could be outdated.
Sometimes the treatment modalities are more updated.
You go through residency trainings,
which then you learn all the updated information.
Last year of your residency,
you take your board certification.
You take you're board exam.
Now it used to be that the board exam
was recertified every 10 years
to be up to date on information
now they're actually changed it
to where they actually do it every year.
You're also required to hold your state medical license
to do continuing medical education hours.
Some states are up to 50 hours
year of extra medical education
that you have to document and send in
that you're learning all the new updated information,
just because textbooks might be a little bit out of date.
Your doctor's not out of date.
Doctors sometimes deal with substance abuse problems
or even worse.
Doctors are human beings
and there's always a part of a population of human beings
that have to deal with substance abuse and depression,
anxiety physicians don't have any access to
the medications actually the nurses do.
And the only time I've actually ever handled drugs are
depending on hospital policies.
There are times when I do conscious sedation
in the emergency department
where I have to push the medications whatever is unused
I have to give it right back to the nurse
so she can document everything.
Most doctors don't want you to know that placebos work.
What is a placebo?
A placebo is believing
that you're getting something that's going to work
or believing in something that will work
even though maybe it's just water.
So it is against the law and illegal for me to pretend
to give you something that I said I'm giving
and I can't document that I'm giving you anything
that I'm not giving you.
If I say everything is great,
everything looks wonderful and you feel perfectly fine.
You will potentially feel that you're giving reassurance,
but that's the extent of what I can do as a doc.
But think about it.
You have research studies out there.
If somebody truly believes
that the placebo is going to work,
it does work a lot of the times.
And how can you explain that?
It's very hard to explain it,
but it's the power of mind, body and spirit
in the sense of being able to heal itself
and get back to homeostasis.
They don't have time for you.
I can only speak for myself.
My job is to treat patients
who come into the emergency department who are ill,
but it's also my job to educate the patient,
teaching somebody what the medical problem is,
what the medications are for and why
it makes a huge difference
as my time living in the emergency department.
Yes, if somebody is in cardiac arrest
and we're doing CPR
and then somebody who's coming in because
they have a laceration through their skin,
unfortunately the person with the lacerations get away
because they will survive.
If you wait on the person that doesn't have a heartbeat,
they really won't have a heartbeat
if you don't get to them fast enough
think a lot of times people misunderstand the time
that a doctor has.
I wish I could have (mumbles)
so I can just like fly around the ER.
Doctors can tell you we're alive.
We're pretty good at,
this does happen often,
we get all the time where
patients are not upfront with us about their problem.
It's our job is to treat your medical issues
and make sure that you're okay.
Can't tell you how many times
I literally have to tell somebody like
just talk to me.
I just need to know what happened,
what you're feeling what's going on.
So I can treat you appropriately.
If you don't tell me these things,
we can actually go down
the wrong road of treatment and therapies
and actually cause more harm.
If somebody overdosed on an opiate
and they got woken up by Narcan
and they were like I didn't do anything.
Well no you had an opiate
because Narcan doesn't do anything
other than reverse and opiate.
So there are certain things where you're just like,
what's the point of lying.
And some people stick to their guns.
Doctors pretend they're okay even when you are not.
I think that's just the technique of a specific doctor
not all doctors.
If somebody comes in we find a mass,
if it is red or documented
or shown that it could be potential say cancer,
I'm going to discuss that with the patient.
I'm going to discuss that it is potentially cancer,
but we don't know definitively
until we get more tests and more biopsies.
I always then comfort the patients
and rest assure the patients
that we will do everything that we can.
Because a lot of times,
if you just give the news and then you ditch the patient,
yes that puts him in a bad situation.
But if you tell the patient the bad news and then you say,
hey this is what we're going to do.
It sets a plan in motion of future thinking
and in positivity to get things going and done
versus oh you have cancer
okay goodbye up with your doctor.
That's not right.
That puts patients in a situation where they feel alienated
and they don't know what to do.
I think doctors nowadays are pretty darn honest.
You have to have some skill in delivering that honest news
to somebody without being dreadful of doubt.
These are really good
I think a lot of them most people know
somethings are based on
doctors as individuals but
these are really good throw in the comments,
any weird secrets or things that you've heard
from other people about doctors what we do or not do.
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