- Today we're back at it
reviewing your favorite web comic Cyanide and Happiness
for the second time.
We're going to be learning about
and breaking down some of the crazy
medical type situations and injuries
that happen in the dark comedy show.
- It's the craziest thing doc.
- And out.
- I put a mouse up my ass, you know
on account of it feels good.
(laughing)
- Surprisingly, people come to the emergency department
often enough to have a conversation
where things go up their, and for whatever reason
they don't appropriately think about
trying to get it out after.
- So I sent my cat in after it,
and an hour goes by and my cat's still up there
and I start to get worried.
I mean one little dead mouse.
- I love how the doctor just ignores him
after he says that comment.
- Shoulder.
- So I offer to take my neighbor's dog for a walk.
- And once more over my right shoulder.
- So I put a few slices of ham
and some spicy mustard on the old B-hole
and sure as shooting, he took the bait.
I was hoping the dog would like cause a ruckus
and scare my cat into coming out,
no such luck.
- So somebody comes in with a foreign body
in their rectum,
we get an X-ray, see what it is,
make sure we're not blindly sticking our fingers in there.
It could be sharp, it could have a needle,
and we don't want to poke ourselves.
We want to as ER doctors try to
get it out ourselves first
because if we don't, we have to go to the operating room.
- Which makes me worried about the chicks
I put up there earlier.
I mean the baby chickens, not the three hot girls.
- So what seems to be the problem?
Oh I got a little tickle in my throat.
- Here's a prescription for some cough drops.
- Thanks doc.
(laughing)
- You can have a doctor do an endoscopy,
a sigmoidoscopy, sometimes a colonoscopy,
and then sometimes literally
you just have to be knocked out
so they can actually stick their
not just a finger, but like a hand in your rectum
to be able to grab whatever's in there.
And then worst case scenario
you have to be opened up from the front side.
- You ever wonder why men have nipples?
- It is actually an interesting topic to be brought up.
Why do men have nipples?
There could be hormonal imbalances
or related to cancers
that can have a male potentially lactate.
It also has to do genetically in our chromosomes
having to do with specific ducts
that get turned on, off.
- Like they don't produce milk,
at least I don't think they do.
I guess men can lactate from hormone imbalances or whatever.
And they're definitely not like
evolutionary advantageous,
you know, like sexual selection.
Like no one's attracted.
(laughing)
The chest maybe, but not the nips.
And male animals have nipples too.
Dogs have like.
- oh my gosh, men go through puberty,
there is some structural changes that occur
and that has to do with hormonal changes.
- Hey are you even listening?
(laughing)
- Nipples are not speaker volume knobs.
- We need a medic here stat.
- Oh hold on sir.
No no no don't move.
You were in a terrible car accident,
you're at the hospital.
- Need some help over here.
- That's really good.
You get confused, you might get combative
because you don't know what's going on
your brain's been a little knocked around
in the sense that it's had trauma potentially.
So it's good that the paramedics are
trying to kind of reorient.
I know it's a show, didn't have a C-collar on
to protect the cervical spinal area
so yeah you don't get further injury if there's a fracture.
- All right, coming through.
- IV is open, how's his pulse?
Blood pressure?
- 85 over 40, pulse is 120 and steady.
Possible hypotension.
- Oh my gosh, so these are actually really good.
She had fluids going
because the patient is hypotensive and tachycardic.
So blood pressure low, heart rate up,
it's basically a sign of hemorrhagic shock.
- I'm here.
Let's save this man's life.
- If you're doing a sterile procedure,
then you'd actually need sterile gloves,
but even then, there's techniques
to put them on yourself.
- Oh, thank you doctor, all better.
Oh boy you saved my life, good job.
- Oh.
- Bye.
- What was that?
It's hard to tell,
but I'm assuming it's part of intestine and maybe stomach.
You have your rectum to your large intestine,
we're going backwards,
then your small intestine up to your stomach.
Probably a stomach that just came out.
Somehow that needs to be put back together.
- We couldn't find any more IV tubes.
But we did find these crazy straws from the cafeteria.
- Same thing in hospitals,
you can actually run out of supplies
related to IV tubing, IV needles,
manufacturers aren't keeping up with the demand
and there's no supply.
- That crazy straw idea just might be crazy enough to work.
- In this case you have to do
some sort of Macgyver movements,
Macgyver meaning like coming up creatively
with a way to deliver
what you need to deliver to the patient.
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- Live damn you.
- Oh it's not gonna make it.
- It'll make it.
- Here comes a loop, oh God.
- Holy (bleep) it did it.
- Look at it go.
- Oh baby yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Doctors] Go go go go.
- Yeah no, the straws obviously are not sterile
so that would be your first thing.
And then could it actually work?
Maybe, I think you'd probably have to tape the seals.
- Yeah, he's been dead for a few minutes.
- Now if a patient can actually take fluid by mouth
that's actually better than getting it intravenously,
just because you absorb it better into your body
and it stays in based on volume.
I don't think fluids were going to save the person's life.
Now you gotta do CPR,
and then see if there's a shockable rhythm.
Oh wait a minute, okay.
Real University, Doctor Realdoctor M.D., a real doctor.
There are a lot of doctors out there
that actually even have medical practices
that aren't supposed to be practicing medicine.
If you ever have a concern about your doctor
there is the National Practitioner Database,
you can look up a doctor,
you can pretty much find it anywhere you want
versus a certificate on the wall.
- I should know, I'm a real doctor.
- Oh my gosh.
- This is the police, open up.
We have a warrant for the arrest
of Doctor Lionel Realdoctor on six counts
of medical malpractice.
- The police wouldn't just barge in in that moment.
We get police officers that come into the hospitals
every now and then.
Most of the time in the emergency department
we get it when they either bring somebody
who's in custody and need medical clearance,
a DUI, or even like traumas, gunshots, stabbings,
those are all reports of police
and they need to come to the hospital
and start their investigation there.
- All right Doctor Realdoctor,
if that is your real name,
you're under a.
- Not there.
- Don't say a (bleep) word.
(laughing)
- Come on.
Hospitals though do vet the doctors.
Basically a process where they do background checks,
all this stuff, make sure your credentials are appropriate
and make sure you don't have any kind of shady background.
- Well Mister Watson, we have your lab results back,
and well,
♪ You've got norovirus, hepatitis, tendinitis, syphilis, ♪
♪ Salmonella, sickle cella, rash, we don't know what it is ♪
♪ Toxoplasm, super asthma, better go call make a wish ♪
♪ You haven't got much longer ♪
♪ And I haven't finished half my list ♪
- Holy cow a ton of diseases,
and infections and different processes.
There's a lot going on there.
So you've got norovirus.
So norovirus causes like diarrhea.
You've got hepatitis,
which deals with your liver.
It can be A, B, C, D, and E,
there's five different kinds.
Tendonitis, so you have inflammation of your tendons.
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease
that causes a painless ulcer.
♪ You poop is filled with lupus ♪
♪ All your shit is out of whack ♪
♪ Your heart's diseased and full of bees ♪
♪ A single breeze could end your measly life ♪
♪ And also measles, mecals, fecal beetles, ♪
♪ Fetal alcoholic syndrome ♪
♪ Chronic symptoms common to medieval people ♪
♪ Your nose is blown your back is thrown ♪
♪ Your cells have unknown chromosomes ♪
Wow, okay.
If I go over every single thing
that this doctor's talking about
we'll be here for weeks.
This is amazing, we're talking about lupus,
we're talking about issues controlling your urination,
it's just the list goes on and on.
I just don't know where to even begin
when it comes to this stuff.
♪ And kidney stones and losochrones ♪
♪ And toenail cheese and pubic fleas ♪
♪ And leaky knees and athlete's foot ♪
♪ And truckers butt ♪
♪ one twisted nut ♪
♪ With any luck you'll kick the bucket soon enough ♪
♪ Also you're deaf ♪
(applause)
- I didn't read all the way to the end
that the patient is deaf.
American sign language we have at the hospital
for people to use if they're deaf.
Sometimes family members come in
but we do have options for people who are deaf.
In this case you could also write things down
or give a piece of paper with the diagnosis
and go over things that way.
That was very intense.
Cyanide and Happiness, hilarious from a medical standpoint,
like the creators of this did a really good job, I love it.
So much always to dissect related to this.
I really enjoyed this, I want to do more,
let me know any scenes,
episodes that I need to check out.
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Thank you so much for watching,
and stay healthy my friends.
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