- "YouTube doctors aren't real doctors." Oh wow.
Default organ donation, pinatas are dumb
and YouTube doctors aren't real doctors.
- What?
- Today we are breaking down
some of the most thought-provoking medical hot takes
on the internet.
And just in case you're a little out of the loop
the hot take is basically one's unpopular opinion
on a topic.
And fair warning,
some of these are a little out there.
Alright, let's dive right in.
"Grey's Anatomy is actually
the most unrealistic medical show
and it's only popular
because an audience without a background in healthcare
liked the drama."
Yes, it is a dramatized show
but there are some good medical components to it.
Yes, not everything is real,
the way they have it set up,
that the interns and the residents
are in specialties all over the place
that don't make any sense
but some of the medical components are accurate.
Does it allow people
who are not in the medical world to get a little vision
into seeing what it's like?
Yeah, so I think it's okay.
I think if you use it as a hard fast rule
that this is how medicine is
then you're gonna be gravely disappointed
when you actually enter into the healthcare world.
If you want me to react to Grey's Anatomy
let me know in the comments.
"I see medicine as a job and not a lifestyle.
I want a nine to five, or close to it,
with five days per week at a clinic.
And then have two days off per week
where I have no thoughts of work."
Not possible because it's 24 hours a day.
You need to share the burden with your colleagues.
You need to share the shifts
so that everybody does get equal time off.
A full-time job in the emergency department
is typically 16 shifts.
If you're doing eight hour shifts,
you're just under 40 hours a week.
The positive of that
is you could potentially take a week off every month
if you wanted to,
as long as you got your shifts done
in those other three weeks.
There are positives and negatives to any schedule.
It just has to do with the lifestyle that you choose
versus the job that you choose.
"I feel this is pretty mild,
but I get a lot of pushback from people
I wouldn't expect it from when I say
Organ donation should be the default.
You should have to opt out if you don't want to donate."
It's tough to say
because then now you're actually saying like,
we own your body,
and it gets into that whole big conversation
about like it's your body, your choice versus not,
whole big conversation.
I think currently the way it is, it's pretty good.
Say you're not opt in and you unfortunately pass away,
your family members will potentially be asked
by the National Organ Donation Program
in that immediate time period
when your organs are still viable
to see if you would want that in that situation.
So, it's not a yes/no hard fast rule.
They'll still ask probably one more time.
"Pinatas are dumb,
give sugared up kids a blindfold and massive stick
and throw candy on the floor?
Just a bad idea for a birthday."
Pinatas are kind of fun.
Yes, I agree.
Giving a blindfolded child a bat
is probably not the smartest thing in the world
but I will say I've never seen a pinata injury
come to my emergency department.
We can fill it up with whatever we want.
It doesn't necessarily have to be sugary candies
that we give kids and get all hopped up
but you can actually put healthy food choices in there.
Protein bars or granola bars.
I mean people will probably be pissed at you
but you can do that so people aren't all sugared up.
"YouTube doctors aren't REAL doctors."
Oh wow. I'm a real doctor.
I have a full-time job in the emergency department.
I've actually sent in all my credentials to YouTube
that have been verified,
my medical degrees, my residency,
my licenses in the states that I work,
and you can actually Google and look up doctors
based on the state that they work and the medical board.
So if you do have any questions
about the YouTube doctor that you're watching, or following,
it's quite easily accessible.
"Mental illness is not an excuse for bad behavior.
It's an explanation, but you're responsible
for how you treat others and act."
That is a pretty involved hot take.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think.
Well, sure, I agree with that.
Bad behavior is bad behavior.
Blaming it on mental illness
is probably not the most appropriate way
to just make an excuse
or an explanation to get out of a situation.
People struggle every day.
There could be finances, there could be family problems,
there could be job problems, lots of different things.
So you never know what's going on,
one inside somebody's head or what's going on in their life,
just because they didn't tell you
doesn't mean it's not happening.
So be aware of that.
"Birth control is the biggest scam.
We're fertile like five days a month
and we're told we have to take a pill every day
and ignore all the horrible side effects.
Taking back control of your body
means ditching the birth control pill
and actually learning about your body's cycle."
Wow. I feel like learning about your body cycle
and understanding how your menstrual cycle
actually functions is huge.
So yes, I agree.
That is the primary thing we need to do.
To educate, educate, educate.
There are some individuals that are irregular
and they actually use birth control medications
to actually help regulate their menstrual cycle.
There are others that have
significantly heavy menstrual periods,
so that is another reason.
So there are other reasons to use birth control medications.
If you're just trying to prevent pregnancy,
yes, there are other ways to do that.
I don't think birth control is a scam
but I do know that there are some side effects to it.
There are always positives and negatives
to pretty much every medication that has been made.
"Non-binary people should have to check the sex box
for male and female on medical intake forms."
Okay, this is a very hot topic.
I'm just gonna come at it
from a medical doctor's perspective.
There are certain things that a doctor needs to know
relating to your body, right?
But there are certain things that,
yes, you want to address an individual
however they want to be addressed.
We do have a section where you have the sex
and then how the person wants to be identified
as a separate thing,
but it's a little bit deeper in their chart,
so it's a little bit harder to identify.
So then it gets confusing to staff members
when they're registering an individual.
Do they use the XY or the XX sex identifier
or do they use how the person wants to be addressed?
You just address it with them.
That individual just needs to share,
Hey, I was born a male, or a female.
And it has to do with how your body reacts,
the hormones that are going on in your body.
"No Nut November is over rated.
I don't celebrate No Nut November and find it dumb.
It's just another month.
Why do we stop doing something natural
for no reason other than for the memes?"
I don't get it either.
I have friends who are urologists that say,
"What are we doing?"
Maybe it's just a time to self-reflect,
to not give into your own indulgences.
Doesn't matter what month
if you choose not to do something for 30 days.
Where did this even start?
If you guys know, let me know in the comments.
I am interested to know.
"Personally I am annoyed with how many medical students
come from money and privilege and barely recognize it."
I was not one of those individuals.
I took out student loans
that by the time I went back into repayment
they were close to $400,000, that I pay off still.
Yes, there are some people that go to medical school
where their family members help them with their tuition.
That has nothing to do with you.
My job in medical school was to learn,
get as much education as I could.
Is it annoying that if you go out to a bar or go get pizza
and you're paying for it with your student loan money
and somebody who didn't have to take out loans
is asking you for help to get something?
Yeah, maybe. But at the end of the day it all comes around.
I'm very happy with my choice.
I continue to pay my student loans.
Alright, so surely
there are tons of medical hot takes out there.
Do you have an unpopular opinion about something?
Let me know in the comments
and maybe I'll use it in part two of this video.
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