- Osmosis Jones,
meet Dr Mike.
It's time to see how accurate this movie was
that I watched as a child.
Bee-whoop!
- See, he's friendly. C'mon.
- Dad. Dad, stop! What are you doing?
- Hey! That's my egg. Gimme that!
(Frank grunting)
- Why is he fighting with the monkey?
Leave the monkey alone.
Did the egg land in poop?
Cause I'm sensing an E. coli infection incoming.
- Dad, that's filthy!
- Honey, 10-second rule.
- My guy, it's the five-second rule.
And even that's not accurate.
- Ugh!
(liquid slurping)
- All right, primary digestion happens in the mouth.
Mechanically, chewing, chemically, saliva.
It has salivary amylase.
Amylase.
It breaks down the sugars in your mouth.
- Uh oh. Looks like we've got some germs on that egg.
- Mm, baby, it's acid time!
- I don't know if white blood cells
are just hanging out in the mouth.
I don't think that's quite right.
They hang out within the blood.
White blood cells live in the blood.
Hence the word "blood" cell.
- [Blood cell] You got plans for the weekend, kid?
- Oh, yeah. Me and my girlfriend
are going down to the kidneys to see the stones.
- Ha-ha, to see the stones. Oh my God.
I would've liked the joke better if it was the gallbladder
and they were gonna see gallstones. They're more benign.
That's the only reason I say that.
I think kidney stones cause a lot more pain and problems
like blockages and stuff. Like gallbladder stones
can be a problem, but a lot of times, if they're small,
they sometimes can pass on their own.
It's not that big of a deal.
Kidney stones. I've had one. Wow!
- [Radio] All units down to the stomach,
be on the lookout for illegal organisms.
(siren blares)
- Osmosis Jones to dispatch. We got multiple germs!
I repeat, multiple germs coming down the windpipe
and if these bad boys hit the blood,
then we're gonna be ill.
- Oh, I'm assuming that's an artery
and they're traveling in the bloodstream.
(shot whizzes)
Oh, he just shot something at it
and missed.
(shot clatters)
Oh, he hit the nerve.
Oh!
Bill Murray is gonna feel that.
- Yeah-ow!
(Frank screams)
- Dad, dad what's wrong? What's wrong?
Oh, my god, what's wrong? - It's a cramp!
- That's not exactly how a cramp works, but that's fine.
The important part is to show that your immune system,
if it causes enough of a response,
it actually causes more inflammation,
more pain than it needs to.
And therefore, breaks down surrounding tissues.
- Careful, I'm contagious.
- Ooh.
(tissue screams)
See, I can't tell if he's a bacteria
and he's causing all this toxicity around him
or is he a virus, infecting surrounding cells?
I think probably a bacteria, cause a virus would essentially
recruit the other cells to become virus-like,
to create more of itself. And he's not really doing that.
He's just in destruction mode.
- [Frank] I just needed some sodium.
- No, not chicken wings.
- I think that's what made me cramp up.
- I love that she's massaging his bone.
That's gotta feel uncomfortable.
(Frank coughs) - Heads up,
chicken going down rough. - Ah.
- Ah.
- See, he's gotta stick his tongue out and then say "ah"
to raise his airway or to lower the soft palate.
- Definitely red.
(phone dialing)
- Are, are you ordering out?
- No. I'm making you an appointment to see the doctor.
- Smart.
- How do you think you get sick?
- Germs.
- It's the way you eat.
- It's your genetics plus your lifestyle factors.
And if we really look at it, it's about 50-50.
- I feel a little flu-ey.
- You know what they say,
starve a cold,
drown the flu.
- Wrong!
- There you go.
- And not with beer.
- [Frank] Drixenol?
- [Body] Now arriving with some milk,
a cold pill with a pleasant flavor.
- I love that there's a "Danger, ulcer repair" sign
because he has acid reflux
and they're trying to fix this poor guy's ulcer.
- Special Agent Drixo-Benzo Metapetramine.
- Okay. That's not a medical term,
so don't worry about that.
- Warning. Do not exceed recommended dosage. If symptoms
persist, consult a physician. May cause drowsiness.
Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery.
Pregnant women should not handle broken tablets.
- It's so, so, so important
that you do not take
NyQuil,
Tylenol PM,
Advil PM,
Benadryl,
during the day. You will get drowsy, you will get sleepy
and God forbid you operate heavy machinery or drive a car.
Wow. It's just a recipe for disaster.
So be really careful with those medications.
(hissing)
- Did the foot fungus pay up yet?
- Nah, that guy's getting flaky on us.
- Why is this dude chilling in the armpit
when there's a tinea pedis hanging on the foot? Huh?
Or is it an onychomycosis?
O-NEE-KO-MY-KO-SIS.
- I'm looking for volunteers, yo.
Some nasty germs who want in on a big score.
- Look who thinks he's the Ebola virus. Huh!
- Let me tell you something about Ebola, baby.
Ebola is a case of dandruff compared to me!
- Well, not really.
Ebola is quite dangerous actually. And very lethal.
- Hypothalamus.
Controls the temperature for the entire body.
We are gonna march right in there
and we are going to take the prize.
Then my man, Frank's,
gonna heat up like a sidewalk on a summer day.
- It's not exactly how it works.
The body has a set temperature point that does go up
based on you having an infection.
And if you have an infection,
you want that set temperature point to go up
because it gives your body the best chance
to fight off this guy.
So like, what's happening here is almost counterintuitive.
This dude is setting up Frank's body to fight him
in the best way possible without even knowing.
(electronic zapping)
(explosion)
(Frank groans)
(Thrax cackles)
See, this makes absolutely no sense.
Because in certain infections, like if you get malaria,
you get a really high fever, but you get a really high fever
so your body actually recovers. In fact, back in the day,
when we didn't have antibiotics, we used to infect people
with malaria in order to give them a high fever,
cure them of whatever they were infected with
and then, treat the malaria
with the treatments we had available, like Quinine.
Fevers are good for you.
Fever would actually be killing this bad pathogen.
So the fact that he's hacking it to make the body hotter
is like him self destructing.
- [Medic] What's the story on this one?
- I dunno. I don't know what it is. The guy's burning up.
- Well, if he's burning up, that means he has an infection.
- What's his temperature?
- [Nurse] 106.2-
- Oh, 106.2 is extremely, extremely high.
You need to lower that with antipyretic medications
like this, whatever that pill is.
- We're losing him!
Breathe!
- Why is no-one doing chest compressions?
Like just breathing into his mouth with the Ambu bag
doesn't actually help the situation.
It sure, maybe brings some oxygen to the lungs,
but then, you gotta circulate that oxygen
with a beating heart. And if his heart's not beating,
you gotta beat it for him by doing chest compressions.
(machine beeps) - Okay. He's flatlining.
Don't bring out the paddles.
My guy, please do some chest compressions.
Just do the chest compressions, chest compressions!
You didn't even try!
- That's it.
- No! You know that's it! Epinephrine! There's stuff to do!
- Okay, I'm calling it.
- Maybe don't call it before you try chest compression.
"Worst doctor" award goes to this guy.
- Now, let her go.
(blood cell grunts)
- Why? So you can "ice" me again?
- No! So I can!
(Osmosis grunts)
- Virus concedes!
(Thrax grunts)
- Literally, not how it works.
Over-the-counter medications don't fight viruses
or bacteria.
- Wait a minute. He's got a pulse.
- It's coming back.
- Yeah. Without you guys even trying.
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Cause this is a really scary story, like really scary story.
But not being alarmist.