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Today's video is going to be about what I used to think medicine was all about... so
TV shows, pop culture, compared to what it's actually like.
So we're going to talk about emergencies, CPR, flat lining, call rooms, paper work,
and is Dr. House right?
Are all patients really lying to us?
So comment below and let me know what you've seen in the media about medicine!
I thought everything was STAT, like, you order blood work STAT, you get a CT scan STAT and
if anyone is remotely ill...
STAT!
Turns out, things don't actually need to be stat and when things are stat, it's a really
big emergency and then people move super quickly.
Like things get done so fast when someone is bleeding to death, or can't breath, that's
when you see things move.
But otherwise, you are actually juggling a ton of people, so everything actually isn't
STAT.
So when a flat line happens and you see, beeeeeep, and then obviously they grab the paddles and
"boom" they bring someone back to life.
That's actually completely false.
So when you see that flat line, there's actually nothing you can do but do CPR, that's the
only thing... you actually can't shock that rhythm and it turns out, as I learned
shocking is actually stopping a person's heart and then allowing the heart to restart itself.
So this idea of shocking someone back to life, we're actually stopping their heart.
CPR in TV shows and movies, looks pretty easy.
One person going at it, basically just doing this.
No problem.
In reality, I am sweating when I'm the person doing CPR, like you actually will be drenching
through cloths, it's hard work!
People line up, so you have nurses, med students, residents, all of us lining up and every two
minutes, "bam" someone switches.
And it's hard, arms are locked, you are using your whole body... so it's definitely not
what they show in movies.
Well in Grey's Anatomy they have bunk beds in their call rooms.
I actually thought that's what I was going to find when I went to a hospital.
Turns out, that's not true and thank goodness because if everyone's pagers, beepers and
people were talking on the phone, like that would be terrible... and a little big awkward.
Doctor's wear white coats, right?
Ok I can see why I was mistaken there because a lot of doctors do, but actually there are
a lot of doctors who don't and I would say in the hospital I work at, probably most doctors don't.
In fact, most of the cities I have been to most don't.
And there are some different reasons, some people say it's so it's not as patriarchal
and I'm higher than you, i'm wearing a white coat. and others say that, you know, they
wonder how often do doctors actually wash that white coat and maybe it's not actually
as clean to be wearing this white coat from room to room each time.
You finish seeing someone, you write a prescription and you move onto the next person.
There's SO much paper work in medicine, seriously.
Like you do something good, you have to document.
You do something bad, you have to document.
You're totally confused and have no idea what's going on, you have to document.
When you finish medical school, you graduate, you're a doctor, you're a resident and you
know all the basics and you can just go in, you can operate, you can diagnose everyone,
you're good!
Dr. House always says that patients always lie, never trust what they say.
I guess I have no idea if that's true or not.
Honestly it feels like people open up, but maybe I'm being scammed this whole time.
I don't know, I like to think the best of people.
Luckily the important things about medicine are actually what I expected, so you do get
to make incredible connections with people and hear their stories and be there at an
incredibly difficult time in their life and you get to see people grow over time.
You get to learn, it's so fulfilling, so those important things are actually what I expected.
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