- Medicine has changed a lot over the last few decades.
So for today's video, I'm not gonna be reacting
to a medical drama but instead
to some old-school medical films.
I think this one's gonna be a blast.
Let's see if we can learn something
and let's see if they're accurate.
Let's get started!
- [Narrator] One day, Johnny was running over
to see his friend Stubby.
His dog, Mr. Do-Right, was running along behind.
- Who names their dog Mr. Do-Right?
Can you imagine if instead of 'Bear',
I called him 'Mr. Bear', or 'Dr. Bear'?
Actually, Dr. Bear's not bad.
- [Narrator] Stubby suggested a game of tag.
"Swell!", said Johnny, and the game was on.
Stubby chased Johnny all around the yard.
Then, Mr. Do-Right chased them both.
But Mr. Do-Right puffed, "Enough's enough!
I'm tired, and you guys must be too".
- Is that really what dogs talk like?
- [Narrator] "Ah, what do we care?", they yelled
as they hopped on their bikes
and rode off toward the playground.
Later, when Johnny came home he was too tired
to eat his dinner and too tired to do his homework,
and he could also feel a cold coming on.
So, take a tip from Mr. Do-Right.
Don't get over-tired!
- What?
Boy, have times have changed.
Now, we flipped completely the other way
where we have to have Play 60 organizations
'cause kids aren't playing enough.
And I've also never heard a child
play so much sports and have so much activities
that they get a cold.
False scientific accuracy! False!
Mr. Do-Right here is Mr. Do-Wrong.
Oh, the United States Army presents T.F. 8-1665.
No idea what that is.
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Soap and water make you ♪
♪ Cleaner than you used to be ♪
♪ Soap and water make you ♪
♪ Cleaner than you used to be ♪
♪ Make you fresh and clean ♪
- Hold on, did the US military really need a PSA
to wash themselves with soap and water?
- You know, Mike, those were pretty good lyrics.
Got any more?
- Sure, but you gotta get in here with us!
(inaudible)
- Come on in, the water's fine!
- What is it, a pool?
- Hey, fellas, turn it off! Hey, it's cold!
- You can't show this. There's six naked guys
in the shower washing another guy.
And they're doing it against his will.
I think Sam has lost his mind.
- [Narrator] It's fun to eat supper with your family,
especially when there is good food on the table.
Aren't you feeling well, Bill?
Aren't you hungry? What can be the matter?
Yes, Bill. You're getting a stomachache.
Now, why does Bill have a stomachache?
- H-why?
- [Narrator] Oh, Bill got to the table
and he ate his breakfast, gobbled down the cereal.
- That's cereal? Ugh.
- [Narrator] But what about Bill's eating habits?
Into his mouth went some egg,
right away a big bite of toast.
And there was some bacon.
- Where is this going? I have no idea.
This is the most intense speculation I've ever
had watching a 50's health film.
- [Narrator] After school, of course, Bill was hungry.
He was hungry and he had some money.
- What a statement! "He was hungry and he had some money."
- [Narrator] He emptied that pop bottle as fast as he could.
He gobbled down all his candy.
You rushed through your meals
and didn't eat enough good food.
And then, in the afternoon, all those sweets!
- Oh my God, like, that soda pop looked
like a nightmare coming into the screen.
Like, what is happening?
- [Narrator] In fact, Bill,
you mistreated your stomach all day long.
No wonder you have a stomachache.
- That was the most anticlimactic ending ever
to a five-minute skit.
This is them just saying "you ate quickly in the morning
and you had a soda, which
that's why you have abdominal pain". What?
My man here probably has a viral gastroenteritis
and he's gonna wake up vomiting
and having diarrhea in the morning.
And the narrator is gonna be like,
"Oh, looks like it wasn't that soda pop
that did you in, Billy. It was the bug."
- Mom, guess what?
- I don't know, what?
- Mom, I started my first period.
- Okay.
- Well, what do you know?
- Golly, at first I thought,
well, I didn't know what to think.
And now I remembered when we talked
about menstr...
- [Mother] Menstruation.
- Menstruation and stuff.
- That's interesting.
My nephews also had trouble with that word.
- Menstrual.
- Yeah, menstrual cycle.
- Say- Use your- Stop going...
(mumbles)
- Menstrual cycle.
It's a menstrual cycle.
- Use your mouth!
- Interestingly enough, if you are a fan
of the show "Queen's Gambit", which I am,
that is the scene that they're watching
in the first pilot episode of Queen's Gambit.
See if you could find it yourself.
- You see, honey, menstruation is perfectly normal.
It happens every month.
- Good advice. Also, not unusual for someone starting
their menstrual cycle to have
some irregularities once it starts up.
Of course, right at first,
you probably won't be very regular.
Most girls don't settle down for a year or so.
- I've actually talked about, on this channel, PCOS,
which can happen with abnormal periods,
abnormal hair growth in a male pattern on a female patient.
Also, it oftentimes happens with obesity, diabetes,
and as a result PCOS really needs
to be treated like the syndrome it is,
and not just focusing on the menstrual irregularities
and the infertility.
There's much more to this condition
that oftentimes goes overlooked.
- Mom, can I go swimming with Peggy tomorrow after school?
- No, it's not a good idea the first two
or three days of your period.
You might get chilled and catch a cold.
- Not medically accurate.
Your immune system doesn't lower when you have a period.
Like, I just can't see how that even is connected.
- Peggy, of course I can't go swimming.
You know, I've got the curse.
- I've never heard of it referenced as the curse.
This is perhaps a sign of the times back then.
- I've often wondered why it is that some women
still call menstruation the curse.
- I don't know. Peggy calls it that
and it is kind of a nuisance, isn't it?
- I suppose it is sometimes.
Just that it sounded sort of old-fashioned
to hear you say it.
- It sounds old-fashioned to me,
and we're watching this, what, 60 years later?
- Ms. Jansen, how often should you change napkins
when you're menstruating?
- Well, that depends on the amount of flow,
but probably five or six times a day.
- Wow, they were doing it five or six times a day.
How technology has changed.
Actually, I've seen a lot of great videos
from Mama Doctor Jones on this subject.
I'm gonna link some of them down below
if you're curious to learn more.
- But you should be more careful
than ever about personal cleanliness.
Change your underwear more often
and pay more attention to your hair and your nails
and plan to wear your prettiest dress.
In other words, be your most attractive self.
- "Be your most attractive self."
Man, that was a sexist time.
Yeah, I just think it's important to watch this,
not only to see how far we've come, but to see how
women were mistreated back then and how it was, like,
labeled a curse and the fact that they were expected
to do certain things that just seem totally irrational now.
It's crazy how times change, but appropriate.
And we still have a long way to go.
That's an understatement.
Does that say D. O.?
- [Narrator] Before a student may enter a college
of osteopathic medicine, he must first spend
from three to four years
in a liberal arts college or university.
- Interesting that they go with "he" instead of "they".
- [Narrator] It is costly, too.
The average student who is aiming
for a career as a doctor spends
from $5,000 to $7,000 on his education.
- What? $5,000 to $7,000?
I'm not saying that that's expensive.
I'm saying that's cheap.
My God, the average education when I was finishing,
most folks were spending around a quarter million dollars.
Add on college, add on cost of living.
It quickly adds up to perhaps half a million dollars.
And if you're taking out loans for all of this,
which I had to do, you're going out with that amount
of debt and beginning your professional career.
And remember, as a doctor you don't start earning great sums
of money when you first start practicing
because you're a resident.
That can be as long as, like, 7 to 10 years.
It's pretty incredible.
- [Narrator] All of these subjects are taught
from the viewpoint of the osteopathic concept of body unity,
the inter-dependence of all parts of the body.
- That's actually one of my favorite principles
of osteopathic medicine. The core principle
of being a D.O. is not only thinking
about the patient as a whole,
but understanding the interconnectedness of all
of the organs, bones, their relationships with one another.
The idea that if someone's ankle isn't functioning properly,
it's gonna reflect poorly on their knees,
their hips, lumbar spines.
That type of thinking really does go a long way
in helping diagnose and treat ailments.
- [Narrator] Now he begins to learn by doing.
- Those are some fancy scrubs.
I don't know. I don't know. I kind of dig them.
- [Narrator] He is introduced to all the modern facilities
for diagnosis and treatment and becomes expert in their use.
- Have you guys heard that, "expert"?
- [Dan] "Expert" is a noun.
"Expert" is an adjective, I would think.
- Look at Dan.
- [Sam] Wow, big brain over here.
- Yeah.
- [Narrator] The bull session is a time-honored institution
amongst students.
- I love that one of the doctors is smoking a cigar
and the other doctor is smoking a cigarette.
That does not happen anymore.
- [Narrator] The course of study during these years
is broad and intensive.
General osteopathic medicine, pharmacology, materia medica.
- What's materia medica? I don't even know what that is.
- [Narrator] Gynecology.
- "Jena-cology"? I thought it would be gynecology.
"Jena-cology" sounds like a Friday night
with a little bottle of gin.
- [Narrator] One cold afternoon...
- Oh, Mr. Do-Right comes with medical advice number 2.
- [Narrator] Johnny and Stubby were inside the house,
working on their model airplane.
- Who named these children? Johnny and Stubby?
Stubby?
- [Narrator] "Let's turn the heat up," said Johnny,
"it's getting cold in here".
"Good idea," shivered Stubby.
- Is Stubby smoking?
Is that a cigarette?
Sam, fact check, is that a cigarette?
- [Sam] He's got...
Fire. They're building their model planes,
so would you use a flame on a model plane at all,
for like glue or something?
- Okay, I'm gonna be not judgmental
and assume it's not a cigarette.
- [Narrator] "I'll close these windows too," said Johnny.
Meanwhile, Johnny's dog, Mr. Do-Right,
was hurrying home to get in out of the cold.
Johnny sleepily opened the door.
"What's wrong with you?" barked Mr. Do-Right,
running into the house.
"Johnny and I don't feel well," said Stubby.
"Oh, no wonder. You've got the heat on full blast
with all the windows shut. Get a window open.
Lucky for you guys, I came home when I did,"
growled Mr. Do-Right angrily,
"or you would have been goners".
So, take a tip from Mr. Do-Right.
Always keep a window open in a heated room.
- Hashtag hot-take, hashtag fresh-take, hashtag what?
Okay. Maybe, maybe, because this is so long ago,
they had a furnace to keep their heated room warm.
And as a result, there was potential
for carbon monoxide poisoning, because they were sleepy
and maybe that's what was going on.
And the way they negated carbon monoxide poisoning
was opening a window because they didn't
yet have carbon monoxide detectors.
Speaking of carbon monoxide poisoning,
there is on average 400 deaths per year
in the United States as a result
of carbon monoxide poisoning, not related to fires.
So make sure that you have
a functioning carbon monoxide detector
in your home, especially during the winter time
when the heat is on full blast.
And you do not run your car indoors
Some of these are absolutely wild.
Click on it for a laugh and some education.
As always, stay happy and healthy.
I love that sound.