- Some sort of... Oh!
(laughing)
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Today we are reacting to some medical situations
that occurred on the highly popular show Family Guy.
Not sure what Family Guy is?
Well, it's an animated show on Fox
that follows the Griffin family
and tends to be pretty funny.
According to the Fox website,
Family Guy is also endearingly ignorant.
Not sure what that means for the clips,
but I'm excited to watch.
I hear it's really hilarious.
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All right, ready to watch some funny medical clips?
Let's react to Family Guy.
(engine revving)
Oh, some sort of... Oh!
Man!
- No, I'm not all right!
- That was horrible.
Holy cow.
Whatever he ran over, it shot out of the lawnmower
straight into Quagmire's head.
Horrible. It's good at least he's pushing pressure on it.
- Take your hand away.
- Oh, it's stuck in there.
Ah!
Okay. Don't pull it out.
Okay, don't pull it out!
Make sure that you go to the hospital right away.
'Cause if you pull it out and you've severed something
or you've punctured something, and now you remove it,
it could get even worse.
Let a doctor remove it in a setting that an emergency
then can be taken care of if it gets even worse.
- Oh my God, a piece of your brain came out.
- Oh my gosh. Don't do that.
- Maybe it's not so bad.
I can feed it to my pet zombie.
(laughs)
- Well, I guess brain is tasty to pet zombies
but that's horrible.
Don't pull anything out that is impaled into your body.
Go to the closest emergency department right away.
Stabilize whatever is impaled in your body.
So if it's this huge fence or a big stick, stabilize it
so it's not bending all over the place as well.
Moral of the story, do not pull any impaled object
out of your body.
Even if your friends try to convince you.
All right, number two clip.
- Mrs. Griffin, it's a good thing you brought this child in.
- Why, is he okay?
- I'm afraid he's very sick.
In fact, his lab work shows
he's suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Oh no.
- Are you saying Scotty has cancer?
- I don't know, I didn't read the whole Wikipedia entry-
(record scratch)
- Okay. Hold on.
Okay. We'll talk about Hodgkin's lymphoma in a moment.
But when the doctor says he looked it up on Wikipedia,
I think you want to turn and run in the other direction.
Wikipedia is not a medical source.
Yes, we look things up on medical sites.
Not Wikipedia, that anybody can add information to.
(coughs)
That's horrible!
Doctors never do this.
Oh my gosh, he backed away and has a tip jar there.
This is absurd and non-professional.
- Do you have any idea how expensive medical school is?
- No, I don't.
- Well, it's probably pretty expensive.
- Oh my gosh.
Okay. Let's break this down for a second.
Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has to do with
a type of cancer relating to your lymph nodes.
The white blood cells of your body
are being made inappropriately and it is type of cancer.
You'd have different therapies that you do.
Radiation and chemotherapy.
Most of them are treatable and people do really well.
But then, this doctor goes into describing
his medical school debt.
Yes. After 12 years of education and schooling
doctors have a lot of student debt
but never in my career have I ever heard or seen
of a doctor pulling out a tip jar.
That's horrible.
Let's check out video clip number three.
- My stomach, I think my hernia ruptured.
- Oh my God.
- It's bad.
(laughing)
- A hernia ruptured?
We get patients in the emergency department all the time
that are worried that the hernia is gonna rupture and burst.
Typically, the hernia won't rupture and burst.
It'll actually get closed off and tightens.
And we actually have to try to push this back in.
And we actually end up putting it back in,
majority of the time in the ER,
by just deep, hard compression to that area.
And eventually the body just sucks the intestines
back into the abdomen.
- No, she can't.
Thanks to you, I don't have insurance anymore.
- What are we going to do? I'll get the gun.
- That's a real concern when people don't have insurance,
they don't go to the emergency department for emergencies.
Don't ever do that.
Please come to the emergency department
even if you don't have insurance,
or you're an unknown status of insurance, okay?
- Just look it up on your phone or something.
- Ugh, hold on, I've got to update iOS.
(laughing)
Okay, okay. Got it.
It says I have to make an incision inside the hernia sac.
- Oh my gosh.
- And then suture the abdominal lining.
How am I supposed to do that?
- Grab my tool belt.
- Okay. Do not perform home surgeries, okay?
This is hilarious.
But if it is incarcerated or strangulated,
the hernia itself,
that is actually when you do have emergency surgery
that is performed by a surgeon
where they actually do the incision,
they pull the intestines back through that hole,
and then close that defect.
Most of the time they actually use a piece of mesh,
and then they have to close back the skin.
But let's check this out.
- Sharpening linoleum blade.
(Brian screams)
And then hold the incision open with a vice grip
and use the slip joint pliers
to get the muscle back in position.
(laughing)
- Okay. Okay.
- Okay. This is pretty good.
He's doing it without any anesthesia.
I do not recommend that.
- Now it's saying I have to suture it.
I've got some monofilament line you can use.
It's from aisle eight, above the chains and cables.
- Monofilament lines?
- Actually, that's pretty impressive.
- I've gotta say, Brian-
- Monofilament lines, slip joint pliers.
That's pretty impressive, right?
Even Stewie says it's impressive.
But monofilament line, like,
we use different types of nylon type materials
or even dissolving materials
that are different sizes like that.
But we definitely use some sterile, you know, tools
and sterile fields and all that stuff
so we can prevent infections.
- It seems like you really did learn something-
- His bloody hand.
- I guess I did. But please, stitch me up.
Just be careful and take your time.
This is the delicate part, because-
- Yeah, I'm gonna just use the staple gun.
(laughs)
- Okay. The staple gun.
We actually do use a medical stapler
in the emergency department, and sometimes during surgeries.
But this one is hilarious.
Pretty much, that was really good and pretty accurate.
I just wouldn't do it in the home of the Family Guy setting.
Obviously we need a sterile field,
but even more obviously, probably a child shouldn't be
operating on their own dog.
So, hernias is when an organ pushes through an area
that it shouldn't.
Typically, the most common is, like, your intestines,
where the small intestines pushes through,
and, like, your groin, through the muscle wall
and it's protruding out.
Increases the risk of having an injury to that tissue
by decreasing blood flow.
So you need to put it back in.
Otherwise, if it's left out too long,
decreased blood flow causes ischemia or dead tissue
to that area, and it needs to be operated on.
All right, clip number four.
- Excuse me.
- Looks like the pharmacy setting.
- I have been waiting for my prescription for 25 minutes.
- Oh, I'm really sorry, Ms. Dumont.
We'll have that filled for you right away.
Guys, what the hell is going on back there?
Remember, each pill has to go into the correct bottle.
- Eh, this ain't so hard.
(laughs)
- Oh, Nelly. Okay.
Oh...
What?
I don't think they're watching anything that they're doing.
(laughing)
Okay.
This scene takes place at a pharmacy.
Sometimes pharmacies take a long time
to process your medications.
They have to count it out,
make sure it's going in the right bottle, right label.
In this setting, they're just getting random pills
on a conveyor belt.
Going through different bottles and just putting in and...
They can't keep up, so instead they're just
trying to eat it all.
Bad idea. Could be mixing different types of medications
and can have very serious consequences.
It is not like this in a normal pharmacy.
Things are set out appropriately, very sterile and clean.
And they're counting them with specific devices
and making sure that the label is matched up
with the medication and the appropriate number
so the patient gets exactly what is on the outside
of the bottle.
Let's check out video clip number five.
- Thank God. I really dodged a bullet there.
I don't know what the hell I was thinking.
- Eh, everybody makes mistakes. Even doctors.
- Happens.
(splats)
Oh! (laughs)
I'm sorry for laughing.
Wasn't expecting that.
Yes, doctors make mistakes,
but I've never seen a doctor blow up a patient.
Typically, those are the paddles that we use
for defibrillation and CPR,
or when somebody's heart is in a funky rhythm
that we need to shock it out of.
It is very controlled.
And the only thing that we really, really worry about
is making sure the patient doesn't feel any pain
and that nobody else is touching the patient,
because if somebody is touching the patient or the bed
that electrical charge energy can actually be transferred
to somebody who's still touching
either the patient or the bed.
But, I've done this procedure many times
and I've never had a patient explode on me yet.
Hilarious. All right, those clips were a little farfetched.
But for a comedic animated show,
super funny and amusing to comment on.
Great job to Seth McFarland and the rest
of the team who created the show.
Super entertaining.
Although, not entirely medically accurate.
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that you want me to react to?
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All right, thank you so much for watching
and stay healthy, my friends.
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