- Stupid crows.
Shoo, shoo, shoo.
(crow cawing) - Whoa, bird attack.
(Homer screams) (crows cawing)
- [Homer] That is not a worm.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
- Poor Homer.
Oh, my gosh.
Fire breathing gone awry, radiation exposure,
and the best tonic is chronic.
What?
Get ready to laugh
because today we are back at it
breaking down all of the absurd medical scenes
and ridiculous injuries
from one of our faves, "The Simpsons."
Alright, let's dive right in.
(Bart laughs)
- Why... (fire crackles)
you... (fire crackles)
little... (fire crackles)
(fire crackles)
- Holy cow.
When we have somebody who comes to the hospital
who has any type of burn to basically your face,
we always look for these like, singed hairs,
soot in your nose, soot in your posterior pharynx,
so the back of your throat,
'cause then that gives us an indication
that it actually went into your airway.
Increased risk of swelling,
increased risk of basically losing your airway.
- So will be in that cast for a few weeks.
It may put something of a cramp in your lovemaking.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
- I don't think I've ever wrapped somebody's tongue
in bandages like that.
It's really hard to keep on.
The moisture still stays around.
It doesn't stick.
- No it won't.
If he wants me to do something, he'll just write it down.
(Homer moans)
(saw buzzes) - Oh my gosh, that sound.
The sound of the cast-cutting saw.
It looks scary.
It looks crazy.
You think it goes in a circle.
Really it vibrates in like, a very specific way.
- Got it.
(Homer screams) - Oh.
Was aggressive and ripped it off.
But you can actually see on the cast
that there was a cut on the top and a cut on the bottom.
- Well, at least I can eat again.
Cherry.
- So I would definitely not,
after having a massive injury to your tongue
or the oral pharynx,
jump right into eating something, even just sugar.
- Fire burned off your old taste buds exposing new ones.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
- It's almost like peels that we do to our face, right?
When people get chemical peels to the face
to remove like, a layer of the tissue on top.
Kind of the same idea here.
When it's relating to injury to the tissue of the tongue
that then it wasn't a deep enough burn
to cause permanent damage,
but deep enough to where now
it required new cells to regrow.
(device trilling)
Is that a Geiger counter?
What is that? Is that like, for radiation?
- Can't lift arm or speak at normal rate.
- Well, I'm afraid you have a case
of acute radiation poisoning, Mr. Scioscia.
- When somebody says they can't move
one side of their body
or they behave in such a way,
the first thing we always think about
is a stroke, obviously.
Now, radiation exposure?
Very rarely do we ever see types of radiation exposure
but it can wreak havoc on your body.
- Be able to play softball tomorrow?
(doctor laughs)
- It's never good when you actually have a really
bad medical experience or a diagnosis
and the doctor is laughing.
Especially if you're not laughing
and it's a not laughable moment.
- No, by tomorrow you'll barely be able to breathe.
- Oh, my gosh.
So if that's actually the case,
in certain circumstances we would actually intubate early
to prevent you from stopping breathing
and work on figuring out
how this radiation poisoning is affecting your body.
It could definitely be deadly.
You can have symptoms within a few hours ruining your DNA.
It's breaking it down.
- Ken Griffey Jr. needs to see you immediately.
- The other thing that they don't really address here
is this person had radiation exposure.
That individual needs to be decontaminated
so then everybody around the patient does not
subsequently get further radiation exposure.
- We think it's an overdose of nerve tonic.
- Good lord.
- Whoa.
- Gigantism.
- So gigantism is what I know it as acromegaly
and it typically occurs more
in the pediatric adolescent population.
And it has to do with pituitary abnormality
and pituitary tumor
where growth hormone is basically being secreted.
- Stupid crows.
Shoo, shoo, shoo.
(crow cawing) - Whoa, bird attack.
(Homer screams) (crows cawing)
- [Homer] That is not a worm.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
- Poor Homer.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay, you gotta worry about different birds
could potentially harbor different types of microorganisms,
pathogens that you have to worry about
that can cause infections.
- Ow, I hate getting stitches in my eyes.
Stupid crows.
- Don't be mad at the crows, Homer.
They weren't trying to blind you.
They were just trying to drink your sweet, sweet eye juices.
- Sweet, sweet eye juices, aka aqueous vitreous.
The fluids of the eye.
Isn't this doctor just a normal regular doctor?
I would not touch anybody's eyeball
when it comes to sewing it back together.
You want an eye surgeon,
like a specialist related to the eye.
The eye is so complex.
So no, we wouldn't even mess with that.
Even if the eyelid is lacerated
there's so many complications that could occur
that you want a specialist to take a look at.
- Well, there is medication,
although it's a little controversial.
- Does it go in the butt?
- I'm talking about medicinal marijuana
prescription pot, Texas THC.
- Look man, I don't do drugs.
- The taboo conversation of THC.
I have worked in California,
so it's a a little bit more open to talk about.
There's actually medication that has actually been made
for people who have certain types of epilepsy
relating to THC and CBD.
- But isn't marijuana or "dope" illegal?
- Only for those who enjoy it.
- Dope, marijuana,
we actually just pretty much call it cannabis.
Cannabis is still a Schedule 1 substance
on a federal level in the U.S.
but every country is different
and even states are different.
Oh, my gosh.
- Okay, let's see.
Toke as needed.
Caution objects may appear more edible
than they actually are.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
- Cannabis, it increases the possibility of having
what we call the munchies or wanting to eat food.
And that is actually why one of the major reasons
they use it in medicine is it helps with nausea
as well as stimulation of eating food
for people specifically like cancer patients
because of the medications that they're given.
- Do ya, huh? Do ya?
(Homer grunts) (Krusty screams)
- Oh.
(swing set clinks)
(spinner swooshes)
(spring squeaks)
Oh!
(wood chipper whirring)
No!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's like a horrible nightmare.
You worry about just a swing.
The swing you can get caught on.
A lot of times more there's like fractured dislocations
are the most common, and then you're thinking trampoline.
Trampoline injuries.
They're mostly like ankle fractures, dislocations.
We see those all the times,
especially with all these trampoline parks
that are out there.
But it's horrible that we're seeing
like, a river of blood coming out the other end.
We're not seeing any tissue, thank goodness.
(Krusty screams) (blood sloshes)
Oh, I spoke to soon.
There's tissue coming out like slices of a ham
where there's the bone in the middle.
Oh, my gosh.
- One, two, three.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
- There's different types of CPR
depending on your skill level and where you are.
But the first go-to is hands-only CPR.
But if it's just the heart, it's not gonna work.
But I will tell you, I've done CPR many times
where the heart is exposed
because we've cracked open the chest
and literally somebody's heart is in my hands
and we're actually doing CPR.
- It's no use.
- Oh, okay, Homer.
That was kind of nice.
So we actually do close the eyes
not just when somebody actually dies.
If I'm doing say, an intubation
or any type of procedure and I'm sedating an individual,
we'll actually do our best to close your eyes.
And even in the operating room,
they may put a piece of tape on your eyes
to keep them closed.
It really serves a couple purposes,
keeping your eyes from getting dry, which can cause issues,
and then making sure that they're shut
so you don't actually get a cut to your eye.
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