I have LOVED seeing Annie come back over the years. Her demeanour has changed and she seems so grounded and sure of her knowledge through experience. Thanks for letting us follow a tiny part of her journey!
I asked "What's the record for staying awake?". I immediately fell asleep after I asked the question and never got to hear the answer. I think it's safe to say I didn't break the record.
I was thinking who is asking these questions- I did wonder though when the surgeon said suck it up, I had minor surgery (femoral nail removal) and felt awful for 4 to 6 weeks, had loads of major surgery before it - turned out the wound was septic, and had formed an abscess- wondered why she assumed the person was being a wimp. Like maybe the person is unwell , I felt like I was being a soppy idiot and sucked it up. had no red Mark's obvious signs of infection except feel sick and being breathless. was mega infection
Smart doctor would have recommended the person who was still feeling bad post appendectomy to go for a followup visit instead of saying "suck it up" yikes. If you should feel better 24-48 hours after surgery, and they don't, could be an indicator of a surgery related issue.
@@Konarcoffee The tweet didn't specify how long ago the surgery was tho?? How are you sure it has been 2 days? Not to mention the tweet asked how long would it take to feel normal and she answered that. Dumb people should keep quite and let the professionals with degrees talk
@@melissagoldsmith1853 This is literally it. She just sounds like so many of the dismissive, arrogant docs I’ve had in the past. I have a hard time with people like this. Took me years to finally find a doc who finally discovered I have chronic kidney stones and not just dismiss me outright.
@@spiffocyte5238 she’s not a primary care doctor, she’s not the first doctor you’re going to see, if talk to at all, because she’s a surgeon. She looks like she has the assertive personality to lead an OR. She’s not the doctor you’re making your chief complaint to.
@@chseer then she shouldn’t be the Dr hired by Wired to be featured in a show meant to educate people. I can’t tell whether she’s a good surgeon. But I can tell she isn’t a good communicator
@@chseer I mean yeah she's not primary care but I think it's safe to say a primary care doctor is just as capable of thinking of the patient as uneducated, and then discounting their experience because they think they know best. I think it would be quite reasonable to give a patient some say in their care if they can literally feel it in their body and it isn't explained and or/treated well. It's an unfortunate attitude that is pretty widespread in the medical field.
Actually, I was the opposite of this ... I had a bad bicycle crash and the attendants didn't want to cut the skin-tight racing jersey off of me. The jersey was destroyed (lots of road rash), and I had a broken collar bone and some broken ribs so there was no way I could maneuver my arm/shoulder, but they still didn't want to cut it off. Moaning in pain, I had to be a bit firm ... and say: just f##ng cut it off!
Had a similar interaction when I got bit by a dog bigger than i was (prlly am. That dog was a a small horse) I was more worried about the dog getting my favorite shirt dirty than the fact that he just bit my elbow and scratched my chin
If your pee consistently smells of meat or has a strong foody smell in general then this can be an early sign of type 2 diabetes and so you should get yourself tested by your doctor.
Yessss! Pee smelling like meat is not normal! She was so dismissive of that and even questioned why the patient would smell her pee, as if the smell doesn't come to you right after 🤦🏻♀️
Yes, I thought she could have given an answer that would have helped a lot of people. But then again, she's a surgeon, not a doc that helps with these things. An holistic doc could have given more helpful answers in several of these questions.
@@RMBlake007 But if she's a surgeon then she would be a doctor as well? Either way I thought it was rather careless of her to blow those questions off like that.
@@splint3048 Yes, she is a doctor. Unfortunately, based on my vast experiences with doctors, they can often become "swallowed up" in their own specialties, and cannot see outside of the box they are in....which is why, IMO that this surgeon blew off so many questions...because she didn't have good answers for them.
the surgeon energy radiating off this woman is palpable. like if I met her in the wild, I would instantly know she was either a surgeon or a fighter pilot. they have the same vibes.
The “what are you gonna eat after surgery” thing was too real. I remember immediately upon waking up after my hysterectomy, I asked my parents to get me mozzarella sticks
McDonald’s pancakes. Every time. I don’t even have memories of eating them after one surgery, but I know I did because I woke up in my bed with a bit of pancake in my mouth.
Ok, former surgical technologist here. The reason most of the time that an instrument is left in a patient is that the counts are wrong. Before, during and after a surgery is completed all instruments and sponges are counted. If the count is off then the surgical team should NOT close the surgical wound until the count is in line with the initial count. In my experience it's often an arrogant surgeon that is dismissive of the count procedure that is the problem. ALL the members of a surgical team should be VERY concerned about a count being off. If a count of all surgical instruments and sponges is not the same and the wound has been closed then the team should have an X-ray technician scan the patient to make sure nothing was left in the patient.
She seems to be the arrogant surgeon type, not explaining about the counting and just saying this happens because there is a lot of space. You're comment is great!
@@stefanycarrasco6245 she’s not explaining in depth because she has a time limit. Also just FYI wired has obviously cut this interview down they always do
@@stefanycarrasco6245 Or she took the question a different way. She could have interpreted as being how does it even happen in terms of space. So she answered about the space. She is also on a clock and supposed to move through not spend 5 minutes on each question actually going into detail.
I had a pretty "routine" surgery a few years back and my surgeon was one of the top dogs in the hospital who had been in the business for 25+ years. He was very keen on asking me about how I felt and what sort of pain I was experiencing in our follow-up. The impression he gave me was that pain is obviously to be expected but if you are experiencing pain in unexpected areas or if your recovery is not progressing properly, it could be the sign of an issue that needs to be taken seriously. That just seems like common sense to me.
Yeah. Her attitude throughout this entire video is very “holier than thou”. It’s extremely concerning that people with such a lack of empathy are allowed to be medical professionals. I hope I never have to encounter such a person in the medical field.
@@matth227 Sadly whatever humanity she had was probably beaten out of her in her training to be a surgeon. It's inhumane what it takes to become a doctor, especially a trauma surgeon. That's why I became a PA instead.
@@matth227 She aint these people's surgeon therefore she doesnt actually know what's going on to say how to fix it. To call it lack of empathy when she doesnt actually know these people's medical history is such a 🤡 move. Sorry go to psychology if you want an empathic doctor lol you absolutely would not survive as a trauma surgeon and the horrors they go through with this, sorry, soft mindset about the world. I hope you do so you get a taste of reality where not everyone has to baby you when dealing with WAY more patients than just you. Going to twitter for a health problem instead of your actual doctor says more about the person than the lady in the video lmfao
Also not necessarily saying she's like those people, it's just anytime I meet another person who talks like this they literally are horrible or just trigger me. Being chronically physically and mentally ill is tiring, the medical field is supposed to be here to help us (and we pay them the most) but they're taught to treat us as less because we're not terminally or temporarily ill
I’m surprised when asked about why surgery cuts don’t bleed as much as normal cuts she didn’t mention the medical equipment. Scalpels and needles etc are manufactured to an incredible precision to be as sharp as physically possible so they are clean, neat cuts that break as few capillaries as possible. Normally cuts are made by objects with, at best, lots of small imprecisions that cause more serious damage
I've heard that scalpels aren't actually super sharp, because sharp cuts take much longer to heal, I've experienced that too, with razorblade cuts and fresh glass cuts.
@@nipunagunarathne4882 nah, surgical knives are extremely, extremely sharp. Sometimes you'll get a melon blade or your knife will have made one too many cuts and it's immediately evident. They're very very sharp, and they have to be. The sharper they are, the more precise the cut is on the microscopic level. This is a good thing for healing.
Well, she seems really patronizing in a number of ways actually, and seems to be everything that's wrong with the medical profession in terms of her lack of bedside manner. She definitely is knowledgeable, but very condescending which is not going to get her very far with actual patients.
@@KitC916 Surgeons don't really do the day to day, hands on, explain it to you, let you cry on their shoulder stuff. For most things, the first time you see them is right before surgery (sometimes, not always) so they can quickly re-explain what your regular doctor has already explained, during surgery, and sometimes after surgery when they come to check on their wor-I mean check on you. All that other stuff is your doctor, the doctor whose shift it is, the nurses.
EMT here. Totally get encouraging to get a normal tourniquet, however part of my training is how to make a makeshift one. Triangle bandage and a pencil, pen, sturdy stick, tie it once then tie in the stick, turn once past the person saying ow then tuck in.
The question should have been: "how to make a makeshift tourniquet in an emergency?" As flippant as the surgeon is here, she's right on the money with questioning why not buying one for a first aid kit you are making yourself.
That was her way of saying, "I don't know but I'm too arrogant to say I don't know, so I'm going to pretend no one would ever need a makeshift one in an emergency."
@@hbic3 The person asked, "I am putting together a First-Aid Kit", in that case she is still right, if you have the time to prepare a Kit, its better to get a real Tourniquet. I dont know what's your problem.
Not the same thing though. Just eating charcoal trend is stupid, but charcoal itself isn't the same as a Tidepod. Tidepods are just toxic, period. Charcoal though is an adsorbent, and can be used in a controlled way when you know what you're doing.
@Isabel T Activated Charcoal can still cancel out certain medications especially ones used for depression/anxiety, birth control, some heart related meds and steroids for asthma inhalers.
@Isabel T She's talking about activated charcoal pills as an emergency treatment for ingesting poison. It has been shown to reduce the amount of poison absorbed after ingestion by half if administered before or at 30 minutes after ingestion of the poison. Edit: "ingesting"
@Isabel T Uhh I can almost guarantee a surgeon knows more about dental hygiene and nutrition than the average person. In fact, it seems very ignorant and dangerous of you to compare the health knowledge of a surgeon to an uneducated person. Surgeons go through years and years of schooling to get where they are. This is not a new thing. Unbelievable.
So a person should feel pretty normal 24-48 hours after an appendectomy. The person asking about it seems like they may have been feeling like a corpse for some time. Maybe the right advise is "if you still fell terrible several days after the operation, seek medical attention".
I have to agree. I was basically told I was being over dramatic by my doctor when I was still in bad pain a week after I had mine out when I was 14 . Turns out I have a genetic condition that causes slower healing so I indeed was in the pain I was saying I was in.
I get that she's putting on a bit of a character for the video but why would she dismiss the person whose urine smells? That can be a sign of a UTI, an STI, kidney stones, diabetes, a yeast infection, etc. Shouldn't we avoid making patients feel embarrassed for asking questions about their health?
I think the question is a joke, but even if it wasn't I don't think your surgeon is the one who you would ask. I'm sure urinary issues are some of the less frequent thins that they have to deal with
I’m all for tough love but, I mean…when I had my appendix out and still felt sick a week later, my doctor kept telling me to “suck it up”…well I turned septic and I’ll spare you the rest of the details. If you’re coming on a show to give medical advice and you say “suck it up”, then maybe you shouldn’t be giving medical advice anymore since you clearly don’t have the patience for it.
sepsis! jfc I hope you're recovering well. Yeah when my ovary ruptured and up walks someone who I know doesn't have em..... 🙄 spare you the details but it started with tylenol and ended with a morphine drip
The thing is, this person in Twitter is asking for medical advice. If a medical professional tells them to "suck it up" they're probably gonna think "oh ok, must be nothing serious then". Twitter isn't the place to ask for medical advice, but if a doctor tells you to suck it up instead of telling you to bring it up with a medical professional IRL, chances are you're not gonna do that. So although this is not a professional setting, her attitude might potentially still do harm, because here she's speaking in a professional capacity.
as a medical student i try my best not to become a doctor who's dismissive of people's complain of pain even after a simple surgery like i have seen this culture of disregarding the patients mental health and complains considering them laymen among the docs its really sad 🙁
Being in the ER you see a lot of mental health crisis’s. I am a phlebotomist there right now hoping to go to med school one day. My vow is to treat them all with respect because it’s a scary time to have to go in because you are feeling out of control of your own thoughts. I know we deal with a lot of stuff on a daily basis but I find it upsetting when our main goal is to “just get them out of here” when it comes to that without thinking of the level of care they are receiving or how they are feeling at that given time
@@tannerwhelan5476 wishing you both the best with your medical studies! sadly I've been dismissed many times by doctors and know how bad it feels, but it gives me hope to see this many people complaining about the suck it up/smelling pee dismissive comments.
I also found that part inconsiderate. Also, if that person is unwell so long after a relatively small surgery, why not tell them to go see a doctor? There could be an actual problem
The last video I saw of Dr. Onishi she looked like she’d been through the war, on account of experiencing the pandemic as a doctor. Glad to see her seeming to be in better spirits, she’s great.
@@AmazingWolfGirl Idk why I said nurse. I definitely meant surgeon lol. I still think the same thing though. They're in a field that is healing people and taking care of them. In my head, healers are selfless and kind. But I wouldn't doubt that's how she started and then was hardened by how difficult the job is.
@@TheCarlos1135 , surgeons have the some of the highest psychopathy rates of any profession. So-in fact-I'd say that an awful lot of them _do_ lack compassion.
“You should feel fine in 24-48 hours” key word is SHOULD. Being a patient of a dismissive doctor is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Have more empathy and listen to your patients please.
@@td6460 the way the question was asked implies that it’s been a while since the appendectomy. The doctor was rude. They have a god-complex that makes them think they know best, when it’s truly the patient who knows how they feel. Doctor like this are why things are missed and people die.
dude she only had a tweet to go by, not a medical chart. The word "should" also implies that if you don't feel better, consult your doctor who has your medical chart instead of twitter.
There's a giant difference between being straightforward, and condescendingly arrogant. I'm not sure how a lot of people thought she's the former, considering she didn't even answer most of the questions and instead dismissed them entirely in favor of making fun of the person asking. Straightforward people would just actually answer the question properly and move on. Especially since a lot of the questions she dismissed weren't stupid to begin with. For example, urine smell can indicate a variety of health conditions, being familiar with your own secretions isn't abnormal, in fact you should be aware of them since you can pick up on something going on with your body. Be wary of dismissive doctors like her. I have had the misfortune of having to deal with a variety of doctors for a lot of different conditions throughout my life, and you never want a doctor that is dismissive of your pain. They always miss something. Be your own advocate and change doctors if yours is being dismissive. It could save your life.
I completely agree with you, she is very condescending and unsympathetic. Doctors like her messed up my health so much because I wasn’t taken seriously.
Well said, as a doula it’s my job to make sure doctors like her don’t push around clients, especially moms who are black,indigenous, women of color. also anyone that seems ghetto or hood (regardless of race) to the doctor turn into someone that doesn’t deserve the same standard of treatment as other patients
Every time I’ve had a doctor tell me to “suck it up,” it has ended badly. Just saying. I’m sure she’s a very talented doctor, but “suck it up,” is just one of those phrases you’re better off not using. It implies pain doesn’t matter which is a very isolating thing to do to somebody, even if it’s after minor surgery.
Exactly. Her dismissive nature towards people is going to get someone hurt. I’m sure that person has been experiencing pain much longer than they should have, and the reason she posted her question on Twitter is because another doctor told her the same thing this surgeon did.
The biggest lie is when surgeries say you should be back to normal after 24-48 hours after a surgery. It’s usually not the case. The body struggles with the anesthesia and trauma for a bit.
It depends on the kind of surgery you get. Typically after minor operations like an appendectomy, discomfort and lethargy go away pretty quickly, usually between 24-48 hours. The Lingering effects of Anesthesia go away pretty quickly as well.
I think this is a huge lie too. I would be very surprised if this was the case, it‘s probably rare that people feel fine 24-48 hours after surgery. I couldn‘t even stand up without help five days after my minimal invasive appendectomy! I felt violated as nobody told me how bad it was gonna be, they all just told me it‘s a standard procedure and that I‘ll feel good after two days. It‘s a standard procedure for THEM! Not for the patient! You can only have an appendectomy once, how could that ever be standard for the patient?
It's taken a while, but it looks like research is advancing on the long term effects of going under instead of the more myopic view that all that happens is limited to the immediate result of the surgery.
I love Annie’s character arc. We met her as a resident, were there with here when she had to deal with the COVID crisis, and now we’re here with her as a fully realized surgeon make videos AS A FULLY REALIZED SURGEON. We love ya Annie ❤️
The suck it up comment about post surgery really highlights the issue talking with most surgeons after an operation. People heal differently, people cope with pain differently. Thank god for nurses who can actually help with post operative care. I'm a fast healer, but know people who's laproscopic holes did not heal for 7 weeks. 7 weeks of a weeping, open soar, all the while the surgeon team refused to help in any way with managing the real, life stopping pain of their patent. It wasn't infected, just refused to heal.
someone who’s inch long laparoscopy incision doesn’t heal for seven weeks is 100% to blame for them not healing. they probably peeled off the skin glue. i had road rash so deep on my leg that it went nearly to the bone on top of other really bad injuries and it took about 7 weeks to heal. i can’t imagine someone’s inch long incision takes longer to heal than my four cm deep road burn. it was deep enough that i have a very noticeable indent where it is and i have zero feeling on that part of my leg. hope my leg nerves are living a good life smeared on whatever gave me that third degree friction burn
@@misseselise3864 Did you not read the person’s comment? They said everyone heals differently, and they do. Just because YOU can’t imagine it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. That’s why we never say things like “suck it up” because we just don’t know what that person is going through. You wouldn’t say it to someone who’s clinically depressed, bipolar, etc.
wow another comment about how hurtful this suck it up comment potentially is-- I hope wired can listen to this and maybe realize that people don't want ableism and patronizing in their videos.
@@KitC916 I don't really think they need to edit or ban people, when stuff like this can spark a conversation. It's a surgeons honest opinion or 'joke', it's going to exist in the world even if it's not in a video. Maybe the surgeon will see the comments and rethink her dismissive attitude a little bit.
@@misseselise3864 Or they might have an infection, or unrecognized immune compromise, or bad environmental/hygienic circumstances due to lack of privilege, or any of a number of other issues that are not in fact their fault and are literally a physician's responsibility to help root out and address. You're straight up wrong about this and the answer in the video was categorically inappropriate and irresponsible
"Suck it up". Exactly what my neighbor was told after a minor surgery to remove her gallbladder. She died of septicemia within 72 hours. It really makes no sense to me you go through all those years of training and schooling, to not listen to your patients or take their health concerns seriously.
That person was not her patient and twitter is not a place to ask medical advice. That person should preferably dicuss this with the doctor that operated on them.
@@neerajnongmaithem392Oh of course, it would be idiotic to assume Twitter is even remotely a source of medical advice. I merely bring it up to point out how that type of attitude in the medical field especially with something as serious as surgery, is insidious and harmful to those the system was created to aid.
@@oldankh those who have watched her on other videos know that she is really caring about her patients and she just meant this as a joke as the one who tweeted was obviously not really serious, we all know that no medical advice on surgeries can be given without knowing about the patients operating/medical history and their past and present condition. But would it not make the video boring if she keeps on saying 'I can't say anything for this particular case because I don't have the patients files'. On a side note majority of these minor operation don't lead to any complication and patients tend to recover really quickly, if the person who was tweeting was really serious than they would have not been wasting their time on twitter, it's social media for godsake, you gotta be able to see the humor.
This is the first one of these that I haven't finished watching. I feel like she's terribly condescending toward to people asking honest questions. "How do I make a makeshift tourniquet?" A simple answer of "If you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and bleeding take off your belt..." would have sufficed. He wasn't asking where to buy one online. "Why do they cut off our clothes?" How about a nice answer of "To prevent possibly injuring a broken body more we remove clothes as efficiently as possible at that time.". There's no need to go with "Your welcome...". I'm just saying these people are asking real questions. If I were being spoken to in this manner by a doctor in real life I would not go back to them. This is just sad.
She gave a perfectly reasonable answer the the ACTUAL question being asked...They asked what to put in a first aid kit to make a makeshift one, she said just go buy a real one instead
6:44 "There's no counting involved, you just kind of drift off to sleep" I've had to count backwards for anaesthetic before, so terms and conditions may apply.
This was the only response I had a quibble with. It's unlikely the person asking the question had been within 24 hours of the surgery, so there was likely some complication, in which case they should get it looked at.
Yea that statement upset me so bad. I had brain surgery and I was in considerable pain. My doctor did not take me seriously. I beg and pleaded for help. I had a plan and was ready to kill myself when I saw a different doctor and he took me seriously. A simple shot in my neck and my pain was gone. I will never forget how I was treated and the doctor who almost lead me to suicide. She’s terrible. 😔
@@bellamyhibler that’s awful. I too had an appendix rupture, but I was already in the ER. Glad you made it through. It’s as if most doctors are lacking empathy or something….
Ok so I’m sorry, but I had an emergency appendectomy several years ago and you are NOT back to normal after 24 hours. I was told to take a full week of rest. And I needed it. I felt ok after about 4 days, but that first bowel movement that happens after that, it was HORRIBLE. I was back 100% at about 3-4 weeks
I felt like the response given was rude and unnecessary. How does she know what that person is going through? Maybe they had complications with surgery. Maybe they had a preexisting health issue. It was a very insensitive answer. Thank you for sharing lived experience with us instead of being dismissive like that.
Yeah I found that answer appalling, it's not at all an appropriate example of how to respond to a patient expressing concern about feeling really unwell after a significant surgery. Best practices aren't about assuming everything is like most cases, they're about being alert to catching the edge cases, and also about taking patients seriously so that the communication channel with them stays open down the road. I'm all for clinicians being on social media and sharing information, and I get that there are certain kinds of shifts in tone/increased casualness that goes hand in hand with that. But showing respect and concern about patient complaints shouldn't be subject to that. When you're speaking online in the role of a care provider, it's important to model that role correctly and help teach people that their clinicians will hear them out and care for them with sincerity. This communicates the opposite of that. This communicates "clinicians don't care about how you feel, they're going to judge you if you complain about your pain or discomfort, better not trust them with your questions". That's already a perception that's all too common, especially in communities that have higher rates of poor medical outcomes. Content like this contributes to that cycle. I'm not saying this clip/doctor is directly responsible for patient noncompliance or vaccine hesitancy or anything, I'm really not. But this clip is one example of tone/rhetoric that does irresponsibly perpetuate mistrust in the healthcare system, and then things like vaccine hesitancy occur at higher rates because of that broken relationship between the industry and the public (again, especially marginalized groups that already have reason to mistrust providers). It's not okay. We all speak a little carelessly by accident sometimes, even the most well trained professionals, I'm not saying this doctor is a bad doctor or bad person. Nobody is a perfect science/medical communicator 100% of the time. But this should have been caught by the doctor or editors as something to reshoot with a different answer or cut before publication. I've always liked Wired's material like this but this is a shocking disappointment.
@@rcusick2465 exactly :/ like. there’s no evidence they’re still in that time frame and it would’ve made way more sense to say they may want to come back and get it checked out if it’s been a while past the surgery? that person could be a month past surgery for all she knows lol
She was pretty condescending there. Any surgery can cause infections or things going wrong. She should've asked what was still bothering her. Fever? Redness? They may need further medical attention.
Whenever I listen to this kind of bodily stuff, I become more and more self-aware that, I have organs inside me and it feels weird. I mean I have a neck...uggghh
Appendectomy isn't always so minor, mine left me hospitalized for a month because of how severe it was, most Appendectomys are minor but if your like me and wait too long to go in it becomes significantly more dangerous
@@nodistanceleft I'm fine with a suck it up attituede, surgery is always gonna hurt but taking up a bed over a non problem is a big deal when there's people who need that bed for real problems
yeahhhhh she clearly has never had her appendix removed, i did a couple months back and was prescribed something way stronger than tylenol and had pain for probably a little over a week, strong pain whenever i moved for like the first 4 days, i think it is very dumb when doctors don’t believe someone telling you how much pain they’re in
Watched a few of these and most of your guests are polite and have solid, explanatory answers. This is just 12 minutes of her being flippant. Sorry everyone's not as smart as you.
@@idek7438 honestly, it's an important trait. There can't be too much room for self doubt. Driven and hyperconfident. I wouldn't mind a surgeon that was very self assured
@@NadiaSeesIt actually, you never want a hyoerconfident surgeon. Statistics show that when they make mistakes, they're more unwilling to listen to patients' complaints & nurses' warnings or to do a corrective surgery if possible
@@NadiaSeesIt You should look up the case of Christopher Duntsch in Dallas. He paralyzed 31 patients and killed 2 with his overconfidence. Humility and care are undervalued because of this mythos of the "cowboy surgeon."
I worked in a Level 1 trauma center for 14 years and often was in surgery after they were stabilized... This doctor is more verbal than average but has the attitude of a trauma surgeon. And I trust her completely.
Maybe it’s just the way she is but this Surgeon felt really condescending to some of these questions. I mean yeah the paper cut ones are out there but the appendectomy could be serious depending how long after surgery. It’s almost like she forgets we are civilians and not trained as well.
@@jojosbabymama You'd be surprised by the amount of people that don't have common sense. I understand this is a lighthearted video, but a doctor that acts like this in a professional setting should be avoided at all costs. No matter how stupid a question might sound to a doctor, they have to answer. If someone asks me how to know if they need stitches, I'm not gonna make fun of their question. She wasn't straight forward. She answered like half of the questions, and made fun of pretty much all of them. She was condescending.
She was far less professional than other experts on this Wireded series I've seen. Condescending is indeed the word, although the person complaining about the shirt was pretty dumb.
Her reaction to the countdown question sounded really condescending. I've had a couple of surgeries throughout my life, and there are surgeons who ask you to count down. Not all surgeons do that, but she acted like nobody did that and Don'tMessWithPAPI was asking a stupid question.
@@Lian1286 agreed. In my experience, the times I've been put under anesthesia, they didn't ask me to count, but instead told me that I was going to start feeling very sleepy soon, and to relax and have a good nap. (even had a wonderfully hilarious doctor tell me "sweet dreams! dream something good, I'll see you later!" lolol). HOWEVER, my dad has had surgeries where they DID ask him to start counting back, and he still laughs about how he got to 9 then was OUT lol. Everyone has a different bedside manner, she shouldn't have answered for everyone as a resounding no, because some absolutely do have people count down.
@@otacogaming the reason i ask is that she says this in the video but you’re presenting it as if it’s new information. charcoal has a highly specific use (counteracting certain medications) but the health trend of like, charcoal lemonade and stuff is complete baloney
i haven’t even made it halfway through the video and i can’t watch anymore. i understand being a trauma surgeon has its own unique set of circumstances but this lack of empathy is something everyone should be wary of in their own doctors
Telling someone to "suck it up" when they are having an unusual reaction (extreme tiredness) after a routine surgery. Yup, that's an American surgeon. Go see your GP and get some blood tests if you are unusually tired after an appendectomy. That genius surgeon who told you to "suck it up" maybe left a sponge or a tool in there or something.
Oh, yeah. My grandpa had surgery (to remove gall stones, I think, but I’m not sure), and afterwards he had severe nerve pain for MONTHS-and the doctors weren’t taking him seriously about it at first, then settled on saying he had some kind of nerve condition they couldn’t diagnose, until finally they somehow figured out it had something to do with the surgery. Turns out they’d left a surgical sponge in him. They removed it and now he’s fine. My grandma (his wife, they’ve got really bad luck) also went in for eye surgery and the doctors somehow introduced some kind of infection into one during the surgery (which again took months for them to admit). She might lose an eye now. Sometimes American doctors have serious problems with not taking their patients’ concerns seriously-ESPECIALLY people like my elderly, low income grandparents with their thick Southern accents. It’s even worse for women and POC. You hear horror stories about doctors in the US military really screwing over female soldiers because they think they’re exaggerating the pain they’re in.
@@lbreplays4951 oh, didn't know that i always thought that men had more strength and that women had more pain tolerance since they have periods and experience childbirth
I'm not a huge of this doctor, she's okay but she started this when she was a med student or intern, so not super experienced. Regarding the guy asking about his strong-smelling urine, besides certain foods altering the odor of urine, odd or unusual odor of urine can be a significant sign of health problems, such as fruity odors beings signs of diabetes, or disease processes such as infection or cancer or negative effects of medications. So if your urine smells funny, see a doctor.
“Why are you smelling your own pee” because sometimes it can be a really strong smell when something is up??? Why did she dismiss that? I learned the scent was one of the steps to coming to a diagnosis when lab researching urine. No need to dismiss it like that.
because its twitter and not real medical evaluation, its just one question, not whole exam. Also she is a surgeon, not a urologist or first contact doctor, she might simply not remember all pee related diseases.
Exactly actually if your pee smells so much that you are concerned about it, it definitely means something, it's not normal for urine to smell too much or have a weird smell if your function is normal. Of course she's not going to diagnose a random person on Twitter but she could have said "well it can have various causes, you should consult it with your doctor if that worries you" or something like that instead.
Yeah as a nurse my nose is a HUGE tool. When we report stuff to the doc they often even ask us about smell. cdiff, GI bleed , UTI, wound infection, pseudomonas, all super distinctive smells
I appreciate the straight-forwardness, but 'suck it up' kinda sounds a little too dismissal? I mean, there could be an issue causing someone to feel like crap far longer than they should after a surgery. I've been there.
Could be a result of going through the pandemic as a medical professional--particularly one that's in high demand and almost always in extreme and stressful situations--but my impression of Dr. Onishi is that she has the attitude that has led to the stereotype of surgeons' arrogance and blase nature regarding anything that happens to a patient outside their OR.
Yeah the best doctors have a wider-scope of knowledge and will be open to treatment possibilities and/or diagnoses. Most doctors are highly specialized so I guess they tend to view things through their own career experience, which can hurt a patient that is experiencing something they aren't familiar with. It's a big deal to put trust in someone like that and it would be nice to see her act on that with clear explanations not interrupted with reminders of how ignorant I am when I didn't go to school for 12 years about it.
my favourite thing about this series is looking at when the original question was posted. like that tourniquet one could have been real useful 12 years ago
It's completely normal to not feel OK after a surgery. An appendectomy while relatively small in the scope of what surgeons do is still technically a major surgery and it will take a while to heal. Really in that situation you should give it a week and if you're not getting better go to your GP or immediately call the emergency services in your area if you have a temperature or other signs of infection. Don't feel bad if you're not completely better 2 days after having your abdomen cut open and an inflamed organ removed.
I most certainly was not okay for like 5 days. The gas they use to distend your abdomen makes everything extremely painful. I couldn’t stand up straight for days. Anything done to your abdomen is extremely painful imo because you don’t realize how much you use your core for really…well, everything.
Re: the "suck it up" comment Is it possible that the person could have an infection or some other complication? If so, that sounds like something that shouldn't be ignored.
yeah, as it turns out, being glib actually potentially hurts people. I really hope they actually issue a correction or redo the video instead of keeping in patronizing and ableist garbage.
Yeah, my mom had an appendectomy after a doctor dismissed her pain a year earlier and told her everything was fine. We later find out that she had an abcessed appendix for a year and something as small as hitting a pothole could have burst it and left my brother and me (11 and 8 at the time) without a mother. But yeah, totally minor and my mom should have just kept sucking it up after the surgery. I’m glad other people feel the same way about this doc. I thought I was just being overly sensitive…
I don't remember her saying that appendicitis isn't serious. She said that appendectomies are minor which, when looking at other surgeries and operations, is very true.
Any shirt is easily repeatable by a number of custom shops. You would much more mourn the money it did cost to save your life when you get the bill. These people should be left to die with their idiotic views. The more less stupid people are there the better.
Usually when you go through something traumatic like almost dying on the operating table you're extremely upset it general. It's easier to channel that into small things instead of "oh my god I could be dead"
Appendectomy isn’t always simple. I was in the hospital more than 48 hours after mine, and felt like a corpse for a month. It had ruptured and I needed IV antibiotics and drains. Her response comes across as unnecessarily condescending.
I don't think she's wrong. Appendectomy isn't a major surgery if the appendix is only infected. But in your case unfortunately it was ruptured (as you said) which can be life threatening. So, in short you had a bad luck. I hope you're fine now.
@@aster___4103 I am fine now, but how would she know whether the person asking the question had complications? For all she knows, they had issues like mine. Her answer did not need to be that condescending, and it would have only taken a few seconds to specify that its not major *without complications*. That attitude put me off the whole rest of the video.
@@aster___4103 Yes, that's the point, atypical recoveries happen and it's literally the physician's job to help be a resource for patient concerns and questions so that complications (and also just fears themselves) can be addressed. Her response irresponsibly communicates that patients shouldn't ask doctors questions about their worries because they'll just be condescended to and blown off. It's appalling. She reacted like a physician of some past century telling a woman with horrible period pain, indicative of underlying disease, to just suck it up. This isn't okay, it's bad modeling for both other clinicians and for the public, who already have bad enough mistrust in the medical community as it is. Especially people in marginalized groups who get blown off like this all the time already and already have disproportionately bad health outcomes.
4:50 wrong answer. Or - partially correct. A major factor is also that they use super super sharp scalpels that don't do nearly as much damage to tissue than your average knife.
i had a lot of post op issues after my appendectomy. it got infected again and i was back in the hospital for a week. it was because i wasn’t feeling good after 24-48 hours. her response was so unprofessional
This is my problem with this video. She just assumes people are being babies or weirdos (Ie pee question, apparently the smell of pee can be a sign of stuff like diabetes).
To answer the makeshift question, In case you don't have a first aid kit, rip off a piece of cloth, long enough to wrap above the wound like a bath towel, tie the two ends around a stick, twist the stick until the bleeding stops, then get a smaller piece of cloth to tie around the stick as to hold it in place.
@how did i get here? Annie did too. If you're planning ahead and making an emergency kit with a tourniquet, get a pre-made one that doesn't risk it breaking, but this fact is great if you weren't as well prepared
@how did i get here? the question was specifically on them putting together a first aid kit. (It would have been good if she also went into what to use if you weren’t as well prepared) but she answered the question she was asked
@@kenetabansi5016 yeah, technically she answered the question but let me overthink an emergency wilderness scenario for a second and say you needed more than one tourniquet but only stocked the one in your emergency kit.
you just had surgery suck it up?? idk if my patient was feeling awful still after 24-48 hrs maybe they should look into it to see if theres any complications
ah yes how lovely to mock someone for feeling off after surgery and belittling their experience. definitely feels very trust inspiring and professional. if someone complains about feeling bad maybe you should err on caution and tell them that they generally should NOT be feeling too unwell since it was a minor surgery in the great scheme of things and that if they DO, they should have a checkup to make sure everything went ok? assuming the patient is just being dramatic is unbelievable.
Exactly. Just because an operation is minor for a surgeon, it doesn’t mean it’s minor to the patient. I had a laparoscopic appendectomy, and thankfully had no complications and recovered quickly. But abdominal surgery is still traumatic to the body. You had your body cut open, and you’re supposed to be 100% back to normal 24-48 hours later? No. She is rude, dismissive, and full of herself, but I have heard that this is common with surgeons. I wouldn’t want her operating on me or advising me on anything.
Had a dentist when I was like 8 who traumatized me because he ignored me when I said I could feel during the procedure despite numbing. Until I fainted. I was not given care- not only did he chose not to notify my mom, he continued the procedure without pause. Also my mom was NOT allowed in the room. I have no idea why my mom liked that creep so much. So SO many red flags.
I like how she subconsciously added in the "an hour" before the "before you get here". Really shows how often she has these conversations about them lol.
Don‘t forget to write down the time when you put on a tourniquet, either on the tourniquet or the patient(possibly you). And once it was tight for some time, only open one under medical supervision.
If you should only open a tourniquet under medical supervision then I'd assume it's best to leave it to the medical personal to determine when the right time to remove it is.
@@hamletfisherman5740 My response was to the original comment, not you. I agree on why you should since he says the medical professionals will determine when to remove the tourniquet.
@@hamletfisherman5740 so the rest of the limb doesn't become necrotic - the tissue in the limb below the tourniquet will have less oxygen/nutrients because of no blood supply, therefore the tissue will eventually die. depending on how long it is until medical services/professionals, it is advised to loosen the tourniquet very slightly every 15 minutes or so, so the potentially hypoxic tissue receives some blood. every time the tourniquet is tampered with, write down the time so others are aware. hope that explains it :))
I totally get doctors being tired and impatient, but some of these questions aren't so outlandish that the asker needs to be insulted. People ask questions because they want to learn something, and nobody deserves to be belittled for desiring more knowledge. Tl;dr she spent a lot of this video punching down
its like the saying goes there's no such thing as a stupid question. It's like she thinks we should already know what she knows. It's one of the reasons I like Doctor Mike, if you asked him a question no matter how obvious everyone else thinks it is, he'd answer it with a smile knowing that you didn't know the answer and now you will.
@@jeffd8465 oh hello fellow doctor mike follower! I agree with you a lot. I actually raised my eyebrows whenever a seemingly obvious question was asked but he's so cheery and not judgemental!!
As a healthcare “professional” you probably shouldn’t be so flippant about people’s pain and concerns. I understand this is a silly fun video with Twitter questions but she is supposed to be educating isn’t she? The beef pee smell could actually have a variety of causes she could’ve explained such as dehydration, diabetes, etc. obviously you should always call a doctor if you’re concerned but hopefully it’s not someone as flippant as this one is :/
No, not particularly. If you suspect your pee smelling funny is serious enough that it could affect your health, you go to a doctor and don't start tweeting about it.
Maybe they don't do the counting at her place, but when I had oral surgery they had me count up to 10. I made it to 3, then next thing I know I was snapping awake and blearily shouting through a gauze-stuffed mouth "Fooour". So I think that it depends on the place of practice, and the counting (as far as the oral surgeons told me) was to give me something else to focus on and so they knew for sure when I was totally out/awake. Apparently picking up counting where you left off isn't that uncommon when the anesthesia works properly.
When I went under anesthesia when I was a very young child, I remember them telling me to count to 10 as well. I only made it to about 3 or 4 before I fell asleep. I don't think I continued counting when I woke up though, I just remember asking where my mom was lol
Out of the three times I've been under anesthesia, I haven't been told to count. Instead, the surgeons either made small talk with me or told me to take deep breaths as they went about their business.
Me too. She does not strike me as having good bedside manners. No man, they should do another one with a different surgeon. I don't think I learned much here.
The "suck it up" attitude is not always a good thing in doctors. When you're sick, you want sympathy, not to be told you're fine when you feel like dying. A little politeness can go a long way 🤷 just how I feel.
The thing is she hasn't even seen this person and she's dismissing them instead of telling them to go talk to their doctor about it. Tells you a lot about what doctors think about their patient if this doctor's immediate reaction to someone telling them they're not feeling well after surgery is dismissing them as wimps or whatever
@@user-mv1hv5ce3b the automatic assumption that everything is fine can be dangerous. There's definitely some babies out there who cry wolf, but we're better off safe than sorry, no?
Uhm, ma'am. PDS is one of the slowest dissolving sutures on the market. "There is minimal absorption by 90 days and absorption is not complete until 6-7 months after implantation."
How can I believe that all people are created equal when you got show offs like her running around, doing it all with such humor and grace that you can't even get mad? It's humbling. I just gotta keep pushing my little boulder knowing full well that the Dr. Onishis of the world moved so many boulders already that they've built a sweet castle and are living in it.
"In a tall guy I can get my whole arm inside his belly." I like how it's not "I could probably fit my whole arm inside..." or "sometimes it's necessary to put my whole arm..." it's "I can get my whole arm..." Well, here's hoping it was a cadaver.
lol. I love that though. Surgeons aren't actually evil or something, they're just a little cold sometimes.. If they didn't care, they wouldn't be surgeons
For the clothes, it's also usually frowned upon to start bending and contorting someone to get their clothes off if you suspect that they might have a neck or spine injury.
I honestly think it's such a struggle between trusting your doc because they have more medical knowledge and trusting yourself because you have more experiential knowledge of your personal condition. I've heard of so many cases of friends needing to self-diagnose and go through multiple doctors til they found one that was actually understanding of their condition I would think the best solution would be for docs to always remain open-minded and be humble enough to realise that they may not know everything and be able to admit that to the patient. But I also know that's difficult because of how many kinds of bad-mannered or unreasonable patients they see every day. Either way, I think both docs and the patient have a part to play in making sure the diagnosis and treatment goes smoothly
i've had multiple surgeries and never had to do the count - I think it's entirely up to the anesthesiologist. All of the ones I've had have just reassured me about what was going to happen and told me to take deep breaths
I really didn't expect the professional that reminded us about her being a professional so often to be objectively wrong multiple times. Really doesn't mix well with her blunt form of comedy.
This is the most underrated comment. I'm just a lowly neuroscientist but with my experience as a patient, student, and professional, I'm really bothered that this wasn't fact checked.
I wasn't aware of how some answers were incorrect... I assumed that though her blunt humor (which wasn't that funny) was there she at least answered the questions correctly so this is quite a surprise. I hope wired keeps medical videos like these fact checked more often.
@@molarity8322 it is unfortunately super easy for anyone to talk confidently and say they know what they are talking about. It takes a real professional to say, " I am not sure, let me research it and tell you."
I really hope she’s actually had an appendectomy and she’s not just saying to suck it up because she performs the surgery so often. Removing an organ is probably very easy(I’m not a surgeon so I wouldn’t know) to perform, but it’s not easy to deal with post-op. Yes, take your medications on time and all that, but I had my appendix removed and 6 weeks later my doctors are still telling me it’s normal to be in so much pain that I cry when I sneeze. “Suck it up” isn’t fair and absolutely not realistic, especially when every patient will have their own unique experience and to have a surgeon of all people not really care what you’re going through really sucks, I hope her patients get better follow up care than that.
Agreed. I also had an appendectomy and was in severe pain for weeks, I dreaded having to pee cause it hurt so bad. That comment "suck it up" definitely did not sit well with me.
Definitely agree! If someone says they are in more pain than is “normal” for that procedure something could have gone wrong and telling them to “suck it up can literally kill people. Really irked me when she said that.
To be fair, it’s more important for general doctors and nurses to have good bedside manner than it is for surgeons-most of the patients they see are unconscious. I’m sure she isn’t responsible for patients’ follow-up care at her hospital. Personality-wise, I did like her better when she was newer to the profession, though. I guess looking at people’s insides all day kinda makes you subconsciously forget that they’re people? 😕
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When I had surgery and was on an anaesthetic, I asked the surgeon "is this what dying feels like". He looked VERY nervous
lmao! Poor guy 😂
@@chlorhex6785 I didn't actually feel like dying, I just wanted to scare the living daylight out of him
@@chlorhex6785 or a panic attack...that happened to me and I didn't say anything cause social anxiety 🤡
@@sialoquent844 oh, I've had that when I was on laughing gas for a tooth thing, not fun
I asked "What's the record for staying awake?". I immediately fell asleep after I asked the question and never got to hear the answer. I think it's safe to say I didn't break the record.
“I’ve gotta say, I’m kinda worried about some of you out there.”
Fair
Lmao no comments
@@dewadewa8914 ikr it’s so weird lol
I was thinking who is asking these questions- I did wonder though when the surgeon said suck it up, I had minor surgery (femoral nail removal) and felt awful for 4 to 6 weeks, had loads of major surgery before it - turned out the wound was septic, and had formed an abscess- wondered why she assumed the person was being a wimp. Like maybe the person is unwell , I felt like I was being a soppy idiot and sucked it up. had no red Mark's obvious signs of infection except feel sick and being breathless.
was mega infection
TOO FAIR
0:14 finally we found that 1 out of 10 doctors who don't recommend the toothpaste
I love listening to smart people talk about things they're experts in
Smart doctor would have recommended the person who was still feeling bad post appendectomy to go for a followup visit instead of saying "suck it up" yikes. If you should feel better 24-48 hours after surgery, and they don't, could be an indicator of a surgery related issue.
who said she was smart? asking this as a question.
@@KeysConFuoco The colleges that gave her her degrees said she's smart.
@@Konarcoffee The tweet didn't specify how long ago the surgery was tho?? How are you sure it has been 2 days? Not to mention the tweet asked how long would it take to feel normal and she answered that. Dumb people should keep quite and let the professionals with degrees talk
@@KeysConFuoco because its obvious you dumbfck. she is a professional surgeon and she knows more than you ever do.
I love how half the comment section is loving how straight forward she is, and half are annoyed at how condescending she is
Separating people who have been talked down to by doctors and those who haven’t
@@melissagoldsmith1853 This is literally it. She just sounds like so many of the dismissive, arrogant docs I’ve had in the past. I have a hard time with people like this. Took me years to finally find a doc who finally discovered I have chronic kidney stones and not just dismiss me outright.
@@spiffocyte5238 she’s not a primary care doctor, she’s not the first doctor you’re going to see, if talk to at all, because she’s a surgeon. She looks like she has the assertive personality to lead an OR. She’s not the doctor you’re making your chief complaint to.
@@chseer then she shouldn’t be the Dr hired by Wired to be featured in a show meant to educate people. I can’t tell whether she’s a good surgeon. But I can tell she isn’t a good communicator
@@chseer I mean yeah she's not primary care but I think it's safe to say a primary care doctor is just as capable of thinking of the patient as uneducated, and then discounting their experience because they think they know best. I think it would be quite reasonable to give a patient some say in their care if they can literally feel it in their body and it isn't explained and or/treated well. It's an unfortunate attitude that is pretty widespread in the medical field.
Love how straight forward she is
@@shugo1047 dude
The "suck it up" was the best!
very New York
she's so pretty too
She's a surgeon. Gotta "cut" to it! 👍
"You cut up my favourite shirt!"
"I just saved your life, you're welcome"
Actually, I was the opposite of this ... I had a bad bicycle crash and the attendants didn't want to cut the skin-tight racing jersey off of me. The jersey was destroyed (lots of road rash), and I had a broken collar bone and some broken ribs so there was no way I could maneuver my arm/shoulder, but they still didn't want to cut it off. Moaning in pain, I had to be a bit firm ... and say: just f##ng cut it off!
Too relatable...EMT's sliced my favorite Nautica hoodie all bc my dumbass didn't have my alert card/bracelet on me
Yeah
sounds like a monty python premise
Had a similar interaction when I got bit by a dog bigger than i was (prlly am. That dog was a a small horse)
I was more worried about the dog getting my favorite shirt dirty than the fact that he just bit my elbow and scratched my chin
If your pee consistently smells of meat or has a strong foody smell in general then this can be an early sign of type 2 diabetes and so you should get yourself tested by your doctor.
Yessss! Pee smelling like meat is not normal! She was so dismissive of that and even questioned why the patient would smell her pee, as if the smell doesn't come to you right after 🤦🏻♀️
@@stefanycarrasco6245 plus knowing your own body and its smells helps you when there’s something wrong
Yes, I thought she could have given an answer that would have helped a lot of people. But then again, she's a surgeon, not a doc that helps with these things. An holistic doc could have given more helpful answers in several of these questions.
@@RMBlake007 But if she's a surgeon then she would be a doctor as well? Either way I thought it was rather careless of her to blow those questions off like that.
@@splint3048 Yes, she is a doctor. Unfortunately, based on my vast experiences with doctors, they can often become "swallowed up" in their own specialties, and cannot see outside of the box they are in....which is why, IMO that this surgeon blew off so many questions...because she didn't have good answers for them.
the surgeon energy radiating off this woman is palpable. like if I met her in the wild, I would instantly know she was either a surgeon or a fighter pilot. they have the same vibes.
wtf?
@@hazardeurIt's the arrogance and disregard for the little man
@@peachypet808it’s not arrogance at all
@@Annikidiary No? Then what would tip you off? I am very curious now!
@@peachypet808confidence in one's capability and a level head
The “what are you gonna eat after surgery” thing was too real. I remember immediately upon waking up after my hysterectomy, I asked my parents to get me mozzarella sticks
Oh lucky you! I threw up the whole following night bcs my surgery wasn't planned at all and I ate dinner like 3 hours before 🤐
How old were you when you got the surgery?
Haha, good choice for food though 😁
When you have someone who can get food for you .. is a blessing 🥰
McDonald’s pancakes. Every time. I don’t even have memories of eating them after one surgery, but I know I did because I woke up in my bed with a bit of pancake in my mouth.
as someone who works in the hospital....what a classic surgeon attitude
What's wrong with her attitude? She seems confident and likable to me
@@bharatgoel8809 condescending and ‘get over yourself’ and god like vibes
I mean 99% of the time someone is just being overdramatic maybe 1% of the time someone needs help
@@Thegreenpig22 But that 1% matters. Just dismiss them? What if something serious is wrong?
LOL! That's exactly what my husband said. But hey, as long as they're good at what they do, right?
Ok, former surgical technologist here. The reason most of the time that an instrument is left in a patient is that the counts are wrong. Before, during and after a surgery is completed all instruments and sponges are counted. If the count is off then the surgical team should NOT close the surgical wound until the count is in line with the initial count. In my experience it's often an arrogant surgeon that is dismissive of the count procedure that is the problem. ALL the members of a surgical team should be VERY concerned about a count being off. If a count of all surgical instruments and sponges is not the same and the wound has been closed then the team should have an X-ray technician scan the patient to make sure nothing was left in the patient.
She seems to be the arrogant surgeon type, not explaining about the counting and just saying this happens because there is a lot of space. You're comment is great!
@@stefanycarrasco6245 she’s not explaining in depth because she has a time limit. Also just FYI wired has obviously cut this interview down they always do
@@stefanycarrasco6245 Or she took the question a different way. She could have interpreted as being how does it even happen in terms of space. So she answered about the space. She is also on a clock and supposed to move through not spend 5 minutes on each question actually going into detail.
HAHAHAHA you have nowhere NEAR the amount of education and experience as a surgeon stfu
Based
I had a pretty "routine" surgery a few years back and my surgeon was one of the top dogs in the hospital who had been in the business for 25+ years. He was very keen on asking me about how I felt and what sort of pain I was experiencing in our follow-up. The impression he gave me was that pain is obviously to be expected but if you are experiencing pain in unexpected areas or if your recovery is not progressing properly, it could be the sign of an issue that needs to be taken seriously. That just seems like common sense to me.
Yeah. Her attitude throughout this entire video is very “holier than thou”. It’s extremely concerning that people with such a lack of empathy are allowed to be medical professionals. I hope I never have to encounter such a person in the medical field.
@@matth227 Sadly whatever humanity she had was probably beaten out of her in her training to be a surgeon. It's inhumane what it takes to become a doctor, especially a trauma surgeon. That's why I became a PA instead.
@@matth227 She aint these people's surgeon therefore she doesnt actually know what's going on to say how to fix it. To call it lack of empathy when she doesnt actually know these people's medical history is such a 🤡 move. Sorry go to psychology if you want an empathic doctor lol you absolutely would not survive as a trauma surgeon and the horrors they go through with this, sorry, soft mindset about the world. I hope you do so you get a taste of reality where not everyone has to baby you when dealing with WAY more patients than just you. Going to twitter for a health problem instead of your actual doctor says more about the person than the lady in the video lmfao
Also not necessarily saying she's like those people, it's just anytime I meet another person who talks like this they literally are horrible or just trigger me. Being chronically physically and mentally ill is tiring, the medical field is supposed to be here to help us (and we pay them the most) but they're taught to treat us as less because we're not terminally or temporarily ill
That’s right and the best drs, including surgeons, are not going to be dismissive of a patient expressing concerns.
“But in Grey’s Anatomy-“ ... it’s a show... some are shown accurate... most aren’t
For real.
Doc McStuffins is more accurate than Greg’s Anatomy. (I saw this on a video)
@@thatgirlwhodrawsiguess5409I know what video you’ve saw hahahahaha.
@@umloucobr4980 XD
Ayy Dr Mike?
"We don't wait for an ambulance, but maybe a chopper"
Chaotic cool
🚁
Stop saying "chaotic cool"
Just some friendly advice
What’s a chopper-
@@l4wleit635 I'm assuming it's a helicopter
There HAS to be a surgeon amped to say, "GET TO DA CHOPPA."
I’m surprised when asked about why surgery cuts don’t bleed as much as normal cuts she didn’t mention the medical equipment. Scalpels and needles etc are manufactured to an incredible precision to be as sharp as physically possible so they are clean, neat cuts that break as few capillaries as possible. Normally cuts are made by objects with, at best, lots of small imprecisions that cause more serious damage
I've heard that scalpels aren't actually super sharp, because sharp cuts take much longer to heal, I've experienced that too, with razorblade cuts and fresh glass cuts.
@@nipunagunarathne4882 nah, surgical knives are extremely, extremely sharp. Sometimes you'll get a melon blade or your knife will have made one too many cuts and it's immediately evident. They're very very sharp, and they have to be. The sharper they are, the more precise the cut is on the microscopic level. This is a good thing for healing.
Well, she seems really patronizing in a number of ways actually, and seems to be everything that's wrong with the medical profession in terms of her lack of bedside manner. She definitely is knowledgeable, but very condescending which is not going to get her very far with actual patients.
Not to mention cautery.
@@KitC916 Surgeons don't really do the day to day, hands on, explain it to you, let you cry on their shoulder stuff. For most things, the first time you see them is right before surgery (sometimes, not always) so they can quickly re-explain what your regular doctor has already explained, during surgery, and sometimes after surgery when they come to check on their wor-I mean check on you. All that other stuff is your doctor, the doctor whose shift it is, the nurses.
EMT here. Totally get encouraging to get a normal tourniquet, however part of my training is how to make a makeshift one. Triangle bandage and a pencil, pen, sturdy stick, tie it once then tie in the stick, turn once past the person saying ow then tuck in.
The question should have been: "how to make a makeshift tourniquet in an emergency?" As flippant as the surgeon is here, she's right on the money with questioning why not buying one for a first aid kit you are making yourself.
That was her way of saying, "I don't know but I'm too arrogant to say I don't know, so I'm going to pretend no one would ever need a makeshift one in an emergency."
@@hbic3 BINGO.
@@hbic3 yeah cuz she's a trauma surgeon not an emt.
@@hbic3 The person asked, "I am putting together a First-Aid Kit", in that case she is still right, if you have the time to prepare a Kit, its better to get a real Tourniquet.
I dont know what's your problem.
"It is not healthy to consume charcoal." Sounds a lot like when doctors kept telling people to stop eating Tidepods
Not the same thing though. Just eating charcoal trend is stupid, but charcoal itself isn't the same as a Tidepod. Tidepods are just toxic, period. Charcoal though is an adsorbent, and can be used in a controlled way when you know what you're doing.
@Isabel T Activated Charcoal can still cancel out certain medications especially ones used for depression/anxiety, birth control, some heart related meds and steroids for asthma inhalers.
@Isabel T She's talking about activated charcoal pills as an emergency treatment for ingesting poison. It has been shown to reduce the amount of poison absorbed after ingestion by half if administered before or at 30 minutes after ingestion of the poison. Edit: "ingesting"
Effectiveness drops drastically after 30 minutes.
@Isabel T Uhh I can almost guarantee a surgeon knows more about dental hygiene and nutrition than the average person. In fact, it seems very ignorant and dangerous of you to compare the health knowledge of a surgeon to an uneducated person. Surgeons go through years and years of schooling to get where they are. This is not a new thing. Unbelievable.
So a person should feel pretty normal 24-48 hours after an appendectomy. The person asking about it seems like they may have been feeling like a corpse for some time. Maybe the right advise is "if you still fell terrible several days after the operation, seek medical attention".
Clearly aftercare is not really not a surgeons forté
As a nurse - you are correct. She is not.
Said person is seeking help on Twitter. Hard to take them seriously.
was that the actual liz gillies though? like
I have to agree. I was basically told I was being over dramatic by my doctor when I was still in bad pain a week after I had mine out when I was 14 . Turns out I have a genetic condition that causes slower healing so I indeed was in the pain I was saying I was in.
Her attitude towards patients and their concerns is the reason why nurses exist.
I wouldn't disagree
Some nurses are this condescending, too. I put off seeing my GP every time because his nurse is awful. My doc is awesome, though.
No need to be salty
@@Finalleigh then why is there a comment section? You don’t like peoples opinions 😐
Be careful, your absolutely true and spot on comment will probably be deleted...
"they took a whole organ out of me"
that is amazing.
i had a friend who,as a child, swallowed a miniature harmonica but an entire organ? wow.
I would swallow nothing less than a grand piano.
@@lilyghassemzadeh flowers on the piano, tulips on the organ, etc., etc. Jokes being what they are :P
Mothers: they took a whole human out of me
This caught me off guard
I get that she's putting on a bit of a character for the video but why would she dismiss the person whose urine smells? That can be a sign of a UTI, an STI, kidney stones, diabetes, a yeast infection, etc. Shouldn't we avoid making patients feel embarrassed for asking questions about their health?
That question is a common meme.
I think the question is a joke, but even if it wasn't I don't think your surgeon is the one who you would ask. I'm sure urinary issues are some of the less frequent thins that they have to deal with
She's a surgeon. Not a urologist.
Even if it were a meme or joke, she got that "I'm a surgeon, pay me" vibe.
@@StatusQuo209 Surgeons are aware of these issues too.
I’m all for tough love but, I mean…when I had my appendix out and still felt sick a week later, my doctor kept telling me to “suck it up”…well I turned septic and I’ll spare you the rest of the details. If you’re coming on a show to give medical advice and you say “suck it up”, then maybe you shouldn’t be giving medical advice anymore since you clearly don’t have the patience for it.
sepsis! jfc I hope you're recovering well. Yeah when my ovary ruptured and up walks someone who I know doesn't have em..... 🙄 spare you the details but it started with tylenol and ended with a morphine drip
The thing is, this person in Twitter is asking for medical advice. If a medical professional tells them to "suck it up" they're probably gonna think "oh ok, must be nothing serious then".
Twitter isn't the place to ask for medical advice, but if a doctor tells you to suck it up instead of telling you to bring it up with a medical professional IRL, chances are you're not gonna do that. So although this is not a professional setting, her attitude might potentially still do harm, because here she's speaking in a professional capacity.
Haha "patience for it" I see what you did there (patient)
YES MAAM!!
as a medical student i try my best not to become a doctor who's dismissive of people's complain of pain even after a simple surgery
like i have seen this culture of disregarding the patients mental health and complains considering them laymen among the docs
its really sad 🙁
Being in the ER you see a lot of mental health crisis’s. I am a phlebotomist there right now hoping to go to med school one day. My vow is to treat them all with respect because it’s a scary time to have to go in because you are feeling out of control of your own thoughts. I know we deal with a lot of stuff on a daily basis but I find it upsetting when our main goal is to “just get them out of here” when it comes to that without thinking of the level of care they are receiving or how they are feeling at that given time
@@tannerwhelan5476 wishing you both the best with your medical studies! sadly I've been dismissed many times by doctors and know how bad it feels, but it gives me hope to see this many people complaining about the suck it up/smelling pee dismissive comments.
I also found that part inconsiderate. Also, if that person is unwell so long after a relatively small surgery, why not tell them to go see a doctor? There could be an actual problem
or people could be less whinny overall
Surgeons and family medicine doctors have different focus
Considering how she is treating everyone's questions and doubts she is Deffenitely a surgeon and the stereotypes of them being condesending are real
I didn't make it to the 3:30 mark and I came to complain. this is the first expert interview video I didn't like
I agree. She is very condescending.
@@pony3284 and some of her answers are ambiguous
To be fair, she probably gets a LOT of these questions very frequently
Chill out. She's just adding some humor.
The last video I saw of Dr. Onishi she looked like she’d been through the war, on account of experiencing the pandemic as a doctor. Glad to see her seeming to be in better spirits, she’s great.
Same, doctors have had it rough during this pandemic. She def looks livelier now, hopefully that continues.
may I know which video?
@@bellaPadme “diary of a trauma surgeon” on Wired’s page
@@NickHannula thank you
I think you missed her return earlier this month, here: ua-cam.com/video/yACYTPsAQNU/v-deo.html
I had an appendectomy and internal bleeding left me in the hospital for 9 days. Not everything is a simple matter of “sucking it up”
Agreed! That was a highly unprofessional answer to that question.
@@strawberryoes I think your right, if your feeling like a corpse and you are supposed to feel fine in 1-2 days you should probably get checked out
Her saying that caught me off guard. Aren't nurses supposed to be compassionate?
@@VARY78 she’s a surgeon, not a nurse, surgeons are usually more straight to the point and have less interaction with patients.
@@AmazingWolfGirl Idk why I said nurse. I definitely meant surgeon lol. I still think the same thing though. They're in a field that is healing people and taking care of them. In my head, healers are selfless and kind. But I wouldn't doubt that's how she started and then was hardened by how difficult the job is.
She sounds like shes had enough of stupid people crying that they are dying because of a paper cut
It makes sense. With all the serious things she's probably seen I'm sure those people sound ridiculous.
@@beautifulroses1420 Doesnt sound that cold to me
@@beautifulroses1420 doesn't seem like it. I mean why would she become a trauma surgeon in the first place if she lacked that. Its funny tho ngl
@@TheCarlos1135 , surgeons have the some of the highest psychopathy rates of any profession. So-in fact-I'd say that an awful lot of them _do_ lack compassion.
I mean they could have a papercut on there outter tigh or on there neck
“You should feel fine in 24-48 hours” key word is SHOULD. Being a patient of a dismissive doctor is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Have more empathy and listen to your patients please.
She wasn't dismissive. The advice of "seek help" was inherent in the advice telling you that you should be fine after two days.
@@td6460 the way the question was asked implies that it’s been a while since the appendectomy. The doctor was rude. They have a god-complex that makes them think they know best, when it’s truly the patient who knows how they feel. Doctor like this are why things are missed and people die.
dude she only had a tweet to go by, not a medical chart. The word "should" also implies that if you don't feel better, consult your doctor who has your medical chart instead of twitter.
literally.
@@K00lAidW0man did “call me in the morning” not get through your thick skull?
The editing has gotten less choppy and much better. Editors deserve raises. The series is much better than when it launched.
yeah but the audio is toaster quality
@Jordan Rouse are you the editor? 🤣
@@isen7 musst be you. For me the Audio is alright
@Jordan Rouse she's dead so technically yeah
There's a giant difference between being straightforward, and condescendingly arrogant. I'm not sure how a lot of people thought she's the former, considering she didn't even answer most of the questions and instead dismissed them entirely in favor of making fun of the person asking. Straightforward people would just actually answer the question properly and move on. Especially since a lot of the questions she dismissed weren't stupid to begin with. For example, urine smell can indicate a variety of health conditions, being familiar with your own secretions isn't abnormal, in fact you should be aware of them since you can pick up on something going on with your body.
Be wary of dismissive doctors like her. I have had the misfortune of having to deal with a variety of doctors for a lot of different conditions throughout my life, and you never want a doctor that is dismissive of your pain. They always miss something. Be your own advocate and change doctors if yours is being dismissive. It could save your life.
Super agree. I found her so arrogant, feel like she's riding in a high horse, looking down to people. She should be humbled.
I completely agree with you, she is very condescending and unsympathetic. Doctors like her messed up my health so much because I wasn’t taken seriously.
Well said, as a doula it’s my job to make sure doctors like her don’t push around clients, especially moms who are black,indigenous, women of color. also anyone that seems ghetto or hood (regardless of race) to the doctor turn into someone that doesn’t deserve the same standard of treatment as other patients
1000% agree. I just posted a comment saying basically this same exact thing. Straightforward =/= arrogant/condescending.
Thanks for calling it out. I would not want to have her near me if I were in a situation I needed a surgeon.
Every time I’ve had a doctor tell me to “suck it up,” it has ended badly. Just saying.
I’m sure she’s a very talented doctor, but “suck it up,” is just one of those phrases you’re better off not using. It implies pain doesn’t matter which is a very isolating thing to do to somebody, even if it’s after minor surgery.
Surgeons are not known for their bedside manner. That is better left to the Nurses, etc.
Exactly. Her dismissive nature towards people is going to get someone hurt. I’m sure that person has been experiencing pain much longer than they should have, and the reason she posted her question on Twitter is because another doctor told her the same thing this surgeon did.
Typical cocky surgeon attitude
@@a_grape_in_space1016 Hey, they have to be that way in order to do what they do all the time.
@@DS40764 I know that lol but outside an OR the cockiness/God complex tends to make them unpopular
The biggest lie is when surgeries say you should be back to normal after 24-48 hours after a surgery. It’s usually not the case. The body struggles with the anesthesia and trauma for a bit.
It depends on the kind of surgery you get. Typically after minor operations like an appendectomy, discomfort and lethargy go away pretty quickly, usually between 24-48 hours. The Lingering effects of Anesthesia go away pretty quickly as well.
I think this is a huge lie too. I would be very surprised if this was the case, it‘s probably rare that people feel fine 24-48 hours after surgery. I couldn‘t even stand up without help five days after my minimal invasive appendectomy! I felt violated as nobody told me how bad it was gonna be, they all just told me it‘s a standard procedure and that I‘ll feel good after two days. It‘s a standard procedure for THEM! Not for the patient! You can only have an appendectomy once, how could that ever be standard for the patient?
I really wonder if she's had an appendectomy herself
It's taken a while, but it looks like research is advancing on the long term effects of going under instead of the more myopic view that all that happens is limited to the immediate result of the surgery.
I love Annie’s character arc. We met her as a resident, were there with here when she had to deal with the COVID crisis, and now we’re here with her as a fully realized surgeon make videos AS A FULLY REALIZED SURGEON. We love ya Annie ❤️
yess i was just thinking that!!
same!!
Her character arc is better than some TV/movie characters, and she's a REAL person!
@@daisyallen4954 TOAD
Who tf is she
The suck it up comment about post surgery really highlights the issue talking with most surgeons after an operation.
People heal differently, people cope with pain differently. Thank god for nurses who can actually help with post operative care. I'm a fast healer, but know people who's laproscopic holes did not heal for 7 weeks. 7 weeks of a weeping, open soar, all the while the surgeon team refused to help in any way with managing the real, life stopping pain of their patent. It wasn't infected, just refused to heal.
someone who’s inch long laparoscopy incision doesn’t heal for seven weeks is 100% to blame for them not healing. they probably peeled off the skin glue. i had road rash so deep on my leg that it went nearly to the bone on top of other really bad injuries and it took about 7 weeks to heal. i can’t imagine someone’s inch long incision takes longer to heal than my four cm deep road burn. it was deep enough that i have a very noticeable indent where it is and i have zero feeling on that part of my leg. hope my leg nerves are living a good life smeared on whatever gave me that third degree friction burn
@@misseselise3864 Did you not read the person’s comment? They said everyone heals differently, and they do. Just because YOU can’t imagine it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. That’s why we never say things like “suck it up” because we just don’t know what that person is going through. You wouldn’t say it to someone who’s clinically depressed, bipolar, etc.
wow another comment about how hurtful this suck it up comment potentially is-- I hope wired can listen to this and maybe realize that people don't want ableism and patronizing in their videos.
@@KitC916 I don't really think they need to edit or ban people, when stuff like this can spark a conversation.
It's a surgeons honest opinion or 'joke', it's going to exist in the world even if it's not in a video. Maybe the surgeon will see the comments and rethink her dismissive attitude a little bit.
@@misseselise3864 Or they might have an infection, or unrecognized immune compromise, or bad environmental/hygienic circumstances due to lack of privilege, or any of a number of other issues that are not in fact their fault and are literally a physician's responsibility to help root out and address. You're straight up wrong about this and the answer in the video was categorically inappropriate and irresponsible
"Suck it up".
Exactly what my neighbor was told after a minor surgery to remove her gallbladder. She died of septicemia within 72 hours.
It really makes no sense to me you go through all those years of training and schooling, to not listen to your patients or take their health concerns seriously.
That person was not her patient and twitter is not a place to ask medical advice. That person should preferably dicuss this with the doctor that operated on them.
@@neerajnongmaithem392Oh of course, it would be idiotic to assume Twitter is even remotely a source of medical advice.
I merely bring it up to point out how that type of attitude in the medical field especially with something as serious as surgery, is insidious and harmful to those the system was created to aid.
@@oldankh those who have watched her on other videos know that she is really caring about her patients and she just meant this as a joke as the one who tweeted was obviously not really serious, we all know that no medical advice on surgeries can be given without knowing about the patients operating/medical history and their past and present condition. But would it not make the video boring if she keeps on saying 'I can't say anything for this particular case because I don't have the patients files'. On a side note majority of these minor operation don't lead to any complication and patients tend to recover really quickly, if the person who was tweeting was really serious than they would have not been wasting their time on twitter, it's social media for godsake, you gotta be able to see the humor.
@@neerajnongmaithem392 She had this type of attitude throughout the entire video, Really snarky and condescending
@@t.p.ggaming3884 cry some more
This is the first one of these that I haven't finished watching. I feel like she's terribly condescending toward to people asking honest questions. "How do I make a makeshift tourniquet?" A simple answer of "If you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and bleeding take off your belt..." would have sufficed. He wasn't asking where to buy one online. "Why do they cut off our clothes?" How about a nice answer of "To prevent possibly injuring a broken body more we remove clothes as efficiently as possible at that time.". There's no need to go with "Your welcome...". I'm just saying these people are asking real questions. If I were being spoken to in this manner by a doctor in real life I would not go back to them. This is just sad.
She gave a perfectly reasonable answer the the ACTUAL question being asked...They asked what to put in a first aid kit to make a makeshift one, she said just go buy a real one instead
I totally agree with you. She really is arrogant.
@@WarlockSpellcaster No, she's not. If it was a guy acting like this you wouldn't think twice about it.
@@iridescentraindrop Cringe twitter attitude
@@Zado19 No the responses weren't reasonable
6:44 "There's no counting involved, you just kind of drift off to sleep"
I've had to count backwards for anaesthetic before, so terms and conditions may apply.
Same
I've had 2 surgeries and count 1-10 but never made past 4
Every surgery I’ve had I’ve had to count backwards
Same every time
You don’t really have to count.
“A little can of suck it up” killed me
You need to seek help...oh you dead.
I died on how she delivered it
This was the only response I had a quibble with. It's unlikely the person asking the question had been within 24 hours of the surgery, so there was likely some complication, in which case they should get it looked at.
It was relatively rude and unnecessary not to mention unprofessional to deliver the response in the way she did.
@@CalypsoMTT That's fair, it was definitely more shock laughter for me since I did not expect that whatsoever
"Suck it up" can be the deadliest thing a doctor can say when they hear a health concern
Yea that statement upset me so bad. I had brain surgery and I was in considerable pain. My doctor did not take me seriously. I beg and pleaded for help. I had a plan and was ready to kill myself when I saw a different doctor and he took me seriously. A simple shot in my neck and my pain was gone. I will never forget how I was treated and the doctor who almost lead me to suicide. She’s terrible. 😔
@@rogerthomas3199 I know, it's awful, I'm sorry that happened, I'm glad you're better now
i was told to suck it up and then 12 hours after they discharged me my appendix blew up in my stomach.
@@bellamyhibler that’s awful. I too had an appendix rupture, but I was already in the ER. Glad you made it through. It’s as if most doctors are lacking empathy or something….
1:45 telling Jade West to suck it up can end in death... for the doctor.
She seems like the type of person who speaks louder when someone says they don't understand English.
😂
So.. basically all white person who only speak English?
Most of the people who actually do that are not intelligent, well-educated professionals.
@marlkalone7361: Hahaha!
@@SuzanneJen Wouldn't that be nice if it were true.
Ok so I’m sorry, but I had an emergency appendectomy several years ago and you are NOT back to normal after 24 hours. I was told to take a full week of rest. And I needed it. I felt ok after about 4 days, but that first bowel movement that happens after that, it was HORRIBLE. I was back 100% at about 3-4 weeks
I felt like the response given was rude and unnecessary. How does she know what that person is going through? Maybe they had complications with surgery. Maybe they had a preexisting health issue. It was a very insensitive answer. Thank you for sharing lived experience with us instead of being dismissive like that.
yep, I had a minor surgery and was out of commission for weeks. turns out I had an autoimmune disease and stage 3 kidney disease no one knew about 🙃
Yeah I found that answer appalling, it's not at all an appropriate example of how to respond to a patient expressing concern about feeling really unwell after a significant surgery. Best practices aren't about assuming everything is like most cases, they're about being alert to catching the edge cases, and also about taking patients seriously so that the communication channel with them stays open down the road.
I'm all for clinicians being on social media and sharing information, and I get that there are certain kinds of shifts in tone/increased casualness that goes hand in hand with that. But showing respect and concern about patient complaints shouldn't be subject to that. When you're speaking online in the role of a care provider, it's important to model that role correctly and help teach people that their clinicians will hear them out and care for them with sincerity. This communicates the opposite of that. This communicates "clinicians don't care about how you feel, they're going to judge you if you complain about your pain or discomfort, better not trust them with your questions". That's already a perception that's all too common, especially in communities that have higher rates of poor medical outcomes. Content like this contributes to that cycle.
I'm not saying this clip/doctor is directly responsible for patient noncompliance or vaccine hesitancy or anything, I'm really not. But this clip is one example of tone/rhetoric that does irresponsibly perpetuate mistrust in the healthcare system, and then things like vaccine hesitancy occur at higher rates because of that broken relationship between the industry and the public (again, especially marginalized groups that already have reason to mistrust providers).
It's not okay. We all speak a little carelessly by accident sometimes, even the most well trained professionals, I'm not saying this doctor is a bad doctor or bad person. Nobody is a perfect science/medical communicator 100% of the time. But this should have been caught by the doctor or editors as something to reshoot with a different answer or cut before publication. I've always liked Wired's material like this but this is a shocking disappointment.
@@rcusick2465 exactly :/ like. there’s no evidence they’re still in that time frame and it would’ve made way more sense to say they may want to come back and get it checked out if it’s been a while past the surgery? that person could be a month past surgery for all she knows lol
She was pretty condescending there. Any surgery can cause infections or things going wrong. She should've asked what was still bothering her. Fever? Redness? They may need further medical attention.
Whenever I listen to this kind of bodily stuff, I become more and more self-aware that, I have organs inside me and it feels weird. I mean I have a neck...uggghh
True ... but I think it's still probably better than not having a neck. Especially if you *suddenly* don't have a neck.
organs going sloosh sloosh inside us!
@@ace-of-bats _Big Ed has entered the chat_
Not for long
@@breazy832 What. Are you planning on stealing their organs or something?
Appendectomy isn't always so minor, mine left me hospitalized for a month because of how severe it was, most Appendectomys are minor but if your like me and wait too long to go in it becomes significantly more dangerous
Even if it is minor, the suck it up attitude is just ugh
@@nodistanceleft I'm fine with a suck it up attituede, surgery is always gonna hurt but taking up a bed over a non problem is a big deal when there's people who need that bed for real problems
L
She is the least empathetic doctor ive seen
@@jacob24-78 shes a surgeon, she saves lives, she just cares that you dont die and make a full recovery, she doesn't need bedside manners
Was gonna check the comments to see if I was the only one not liking her personality but glad I wasn’t the only one
yeahhhhh she clearly has never had her appendix removed, i did a couple months back and was prescribed something way stronger than tylenol and had pain for probably a little over a week, strong pain whenever i moved for like the first 4 days, i think it is very dumb when doctors don’t believe someone telling you how much pain they’re in
Watched a few of these and most of your guests are polite and have solid, explanatory answers. This is just 12 minutes of her being flippant. Sorry everyone's not as smart as you.
Surgeons normally have an ego the size of a major city so I'm not surprised
@@idek7438 honestly, it's an important trait. There can't be too much room for self doubt. Driven and hyperconfident. I wouldn't mind a surgeon that was very self assured
@@NadiaSeesIt Not ideal for follow ups, though.
@@NadiaSeesIt actually, you never want a hyoerconfident surgeon. Statistics show that when they make mistakes, they're more unwilling to listen to patients' complaints & nurses' warnings or to do a corrective surgery if possible
@@NadiaSeesIt You should look up the case of Christopher Duntsch in Dallas. He paralyzed 31 patients and killed 2 with his overconfidence. Humility and care are undervalued because of this mythos of the "cowboy surgeon."
Annie Onishi's segments are the absolute best content on all of WIRED's UA-cam. Please keep them coming!
That dialect coach is also awesome
Erik Singer and Annie Onishi are some of my favorite people in the world.
📠
Seriously I adore her
Not really, she couldn't even answer the first question lmao
I worked in a Level 1 trauma center for 14 years and often was in surgery after they were stabilized...
This doctor is more verbal than average but has the attitude of a trauma surgeon.
And I trust her completely.
"my dog's toys will sometimes get surgery". That's it. My heart just melted.
r u dead? omg
Maybe it’s just the way she is but this Surgeon felt really condescending to some of these questions. I mean yeah the paper cut ones are out there but the appendectomy could be serious depending how long after surgery. It’s almost like she forgets we are civilians and not trained as well.
She’s just straightforward & doesn’t waste time sugaring her words…..and half this stuff is common sense
@@jojosbabymama You'd be surprised by the amount of people that don't have common sense.
I understand this is a lighthearted video, but a doctor that acts like this in a professional setting should be avoided at all costs. No matter how stupid a question might sound to a doctor, they have to answer. If someone asks me how to know if they need stitches, I'm not gonna make fun of their question.
She wasn't straight forward. She answered like half of the questions, and made fun of pretty much all of them. She was condescending.
She was far less professional than other experts on this Wireded series I've seen. Condescending is indeed the word, although the person complaining about the shirt was pretty dumb.
Her reaction to the countdown question sounded really condescending. I've had a couple of surgeries throughout my life, and there are surgeons who ask you to count down. Not all surgeons do that, but she acted like nobody did that and Don'tMessWithPAPI was asking a stupid question.
@@Lian1286 agreed. In my experience, the times I've been put under anesthesia, they didn't ask me to count, but instead told me that I was going to start feeling very sleepy soon, and to relax and have a good nap. (even had a wonderfully hilarious doctor tell me "sweet dreams! dream something good, I'll see you later!" lolol). HOWEVER, my dad has had surgeries where they DID ask him to start counting back, and he still laughs about how he got to 9 then was OUT lol. Everyone has a different bedside manner, she shouldn't have answered for everyone as a resounding no, because some absolutely do have people count down.
"Activated charcoal as a health trend is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard" SAY IT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
i know the health fabs are stupid but wasnt charcoal used to treat actual poison?
@@otacogaming did you watch the video?
@@criemer2586 yes and i have also been told by doctors its an emergency treatment and google also says its used for drug overdoses
@@otacogaming the reason i ask is that she says this in the video but you’re presenting it as if it’s new information. charcoal has a highly specific use (counteracting certain medications) but the health trend of like, charcoal lemonade and stuff is complete baloney
@@kit-five-hundred-thousand yeah but shes acting like it has no medical use
i haven’t even made it halfway through the video and i can’t watch anymore. i understand being a trauma surgeon has its own unique set of circumstances but this lack of empathy is something everyone should be wary of in their own doctors
Imagine having a genuine concern after a surgery n being told to "suck it up"😥
Based on much of this comment section; that's not hard to imagine.
@@nephicus339 What do you mean, that many people have experienced the same thing?
Um, yeah, that's generally the healthcare system in the US. 🙃
@@sapphiresupernova bruh, no.
@@teo2157 thank you.
Telling someone to "suck it up" when they are having an unusual reaction (extreme tiredness) after a routine surgery. Yup, that's an American surgeon. Go see your GP and get some blood tests if you are unusually tired after an appendectomy. That genius surgeon who told you to "suck it up" maybe left a sponge or a tool in there or something.
A lot of surgeons r like that and aren’t American.
Oh, yeah. My grandpa had surgery (to remove gall stones, I think, but I’m not sure), and afterwards he had severe nerve pain for MONTHS-and the doctors weren’t taking him seriously about it at first, then settled on saying he had some kind of nerve condition they couldn’t diagnose, until finally they somehow figured out it had something to do with the surgery. Turns out they’d left a surgical sponge in him. They removed it and now he’s fine. My grandma (his wife, they’ve got really bad luck) also went in for eye surgery and the doctors somehow introduced some kind of infection into one during the surgery (which again took months for them to admit). She might lose an eye now.
Sometimes American doctors have serious problems with not taking their patients’ concerns seriously-ESPECIALLY people like my elderly, low income grandparents with their thick Southern accents. It’s even worse for women and POC. You hear horror stories about doctors in the US military really screwing over female soldiers because they think they’re exaggerating the pain they’re in.
@@maggieburkart907 my god, that's not bad luck, that's doctors being irresponsible
This is for entertainment. Take everything with some grains of salt.
Just like a surgeon to minimize someone’s pain right off the bat.
Just like a woman
I mean seeing folks dying versus having some temporary discomfort might jade any woman or man 🤷
@@breazy832 which makes sense since women are naturally born with pain tolerance way higher than men
@@realisthicc7102 It’s the exact opposite, studies show men have higher pain tolerance, and women are more sensitive to pain.
@@lbreplays4951 oh, didn't know that
i always thought that men had more strength and that women had more pain tolerance since they have periods and experience childbirth
Least favorite person on insider so far
I'm not a huge of this doctor, she's okay but she started this when she was a med student or intern, so not super experienced. Regarding the guy asking about his strong-smelling urine, besides certain foods altering the odor of urine, odd or unusual odor of urine can be a significant sign of health problems, such as fruity odors beings signs of diabetes, or disease processes such as infection or cancer or negative effects of medications. So if your urine smells funny, see a doctor.
Could be the most experienced doctor in the world but with that attitude I really wouldnt want to have to deal with her
This is honestly why a lot of people don't go. Just being honest.
She could've just told him to go see a doctor if she didn't want to explain. It wouldn't have taken a lot of effort to say it.
Funny smelling pee is a no brainer if you don’t think anything is wrong with that it’s just natural selection at that point
in my experience unusual urine scent was always caused by what I consumed. but definitely if in doubt get it checked out, I agree
“Why are you smelling your own pee” because sometimes it can be a really strong smell when something is up??? Why did she dismiss that? I learned the scent was one of the steps to coming to a diagnosis when lab researching urine. No need to dismiss it like that.
because its twitter and not real medical evaluation, its just one question, not whole exam. Also she is a surgeon, not a urologist or first contact doctor, she might simply not remember all pee related diseases.
that is complete BS they do not smell urine in the lab
Exactly actually if your pee smells so much that you are concerned about it, it definitely means something, it's not normal for urine to smell too much or have a weird smell if your function is normal. Of course she's not going to diagnose a random person on Twitter but she could have said "well it can have various causes, you should consult it with your doctor if that worries you" or something like that instead.
Yeah as a nurse my nose is a HUGE tool. When we report stuff to the doc they often even ask us about smell. cdiff, GI bleed , UTI, wound infection, pseudomonas, all super distinctive smells
It's a fun video. She has what's called a sense of humour...
I appreciate the straight-forwardness, but 'suck it up' kinda sounds a little too dismissal? I mean, there could be an issue causing someone to feel like crap far longer than they should after a surgery. I've been there.
I thought the same, even if it’s a minor surgery: if someone is feeling really sick a week later that could be infection or another complication
Could be a result of going through the pandemic as a medical professional--particularly one that's in high demand and almost always in extreme and stressful situations--but my impression of Dr. Onishi is that she has the attitude that has led to the stereotype of surgeons' arrogance and blase nature regarding anything that happens to a patient outside their OR.
Yeah the best doctors have a wider-scope of knowledge and will be open to treatment possibilities and/or diagnoses. Most doctors are highly specialized so I guess they tend to view things through their own career experience, which can hurt a patient that is experiencing something they aren't familiar with. It's a big deal to put trust in someone like that and it would be nice to see her act on that with clear explanations not interrupted with reminders of how ignorant I am when I didn't go to school for 12 years about it.
I suspect that Onishi is just a bad doctor. Her attitude could put patients at risk.
my favourite thing about this series is looking at when the original question was posted. like that tourniquet one could have been real useful 12 years ago
I didn't bother to look at the question posts until i scrolled past this comment... good lord, 2009?!?!
It's completely normal to not feel OK after a surgery. An appendectomy while relatively small in the scope of what surgeons do is still technically a major surgery and it will take a while to heal. Really in that situation you should give it a week and if you're not getting better go to your GP or immediately call the emergency services in your area if you have a temperature or other signs of infection. Don't feel bad if you're not completely better 2 days after having your abdomen cut open and an inflamed organ removed.
I most certainly was not okay for like 5 days. The gas they use to distend your abdomen makes everything extremely painful. I couldn’t stand up straight for days. Anything done to your abdomen is extremely painful imo because you don’t realize how much you use your core for really…well, everything.
Re: the "suck it up" comment
Is it possible that the person could have an infection or some other complication? If so, that sounds like something that shouldn't be ignored.
yeah, as it turns out, being glib actually potentially hurts people. I really hope they actually issue a correction or redo the video instead of keeping in patronizing and ableist garbage.
Yeah‚ that really rubbed me the wrong way. And here I was hoping she’d take the opportunity to address potential post-surgery complications. 😕
shes so arrogant
Yeah, my mom had an appendectomy after a doctor dismissed her pain a year earlier and told her everything was fine. We later find out that she had an abcessed appendix for a year and something as small as hitting a pothole could have burst it and left my brother and me (11 and 8 at the time) without a mother. But yeah, totally minor and my mom should have just kept sucking it up after the surgery.
I’m glad other people feel the same way about this doc. I thought I was just being overly sensitive…
She said appendectomies are minor… she never downplayed appendicitis
I don't remember her saying that appendicitis isn't serious. She said that appendectomies are minor which, when looking at other surgeries and operations, is very true.
Somebody: * Gets a emergency surgery that saves their life *
Also the person: tHaT wAs mY fAvOuRitE sHiRT
Until it happens to you though... 😂
Any shirt is easily repeatable by a number of custom shops. You would much more mourn the money it did cost to save your life when you get the bill.
These people should be left to die with their idiotic views. The more less stupid people are there the better.
@@happytomato1135 Lmao you’re allowed to be upset about different things at different levels.
Usually when you go through something traumatic like almost dying on the operating table you're extremely upset it general. It's easier to channel that into small things instead of "oh my god I could be dead"
@@noabinnendijk361 That's true and a smart way to think of it. But honestly I would be realy happy and thankfull I'm alive
Appendectomy isn’t always simple. I was in the hospital more than 48 hours after mine, and felt like a corpse for a month. It had ruptured and I needed IV antibiotics and drains. Her response comes across as unnecessarily condescending.
I agree. I have no idea what that surgery is but that was a terrible response and very condescending.
I don't think she's wrong. Appendectomy isn't a major surgery if the appendix is only infected. But in your case unfortunately it was ruptured (as you said) which can be life threatening. So, in short you had a bad luck. I hope you're fine now.
@@aster___4103 I am fine now, but how would she know whether the person asking the question had complications? For all she knows, they had issues like mine. Her answer did not need to be that condescending, and it would have only taken a few seconds to specify that its not major *without complications*. That attitude put me off the whole rest of the video.
@@aster___4103 Yes, that's the point, atypical recoveries happen and it's literally the physician's job to help be a resource for patient concerns and questions so that complications (and also just fears themselves) can be addressed. Her response irresponsibly communicates that patients shouldn't ask doctors questions about their worries because they'll just be condescended to and blown off. It's appalling. She reacted like a physician of some past century telling a woman with horrible period pain, indicative of underlying disease, to just suck it up. This isn't okay, it's bad modeling for both other clinicians and for the public, who already have bad enough mistrust in the medical community as it is. Especially people in marginalized groups who get blown off like this all the time already and already have disproportionately bad health outcomes.
Yes! I totally agree! Her answer was very inappropriate!
This surgeon typifies the reputation surgeons just being a people mechanic.
4:50 wrong answer. Or - partially correct. A major factor is also that they use super super sharp scalpels that don't do nearly as much damage to tissue than your average knife.
i had a lot of post op issues after my appendectomy. it got infected again and i was back in the hospital for a week. it was because i wasn’t feeling good after 24-48 hours. her response was so unprofessional
boohoo
@Either Or Alright whatever. Blow me
This is my problem with this video. She just assumes people are being babies or weirdos (Ie pee question, apparently the smell of pee can be a sign of stuff like diabetes).
@@cjonh808 people like you are genuinely what is wrong with the planet.
its a YT video based on Twitter posts. i woudlnt take it so seriously.
To answer the makeshift question, In case you don't have a first aid kit, rip off a piece of cloth, long enough to wrap above the wound like a bath towel, tie the two ends around a stick, twist the stick until the bleeding stops, then get a smaller piece of cloth to tie around the stick as to hold it in place.
The real MVP! Thank you!
Yes you can also use a pen to tighten it in an emergency
@how did i get here? Annie did too. If you're planning ahead and making an emergency kit with a tourniquet, get a pre-made one that doesn't risk it breaking, but this fact is great if you weren't as well prepared
@how did i get here? the question was specifically on them putting together a first aid kit. (It would have been good if she also went into what to use if you weren’t as well prepared) but she answered the question she was asked
@@kenetabansi5016 yeah, technically she answered the question but let me overthink an emergency wilderness scenario for a second and say you needed more than one tourniquet but only stocked the one in your emergency kit.
you just had surgery suck it up?? idk if my patient was feeling awful still after 24-48 hrs maybe they should look into it to see if theres any complications
These are the types of doctors I don't wanna deal with
ah yes how lovely to mock someone for feeling off after surgery and belittling their experience. definitely feels very trust inspiring and professional. if someone complains about feeling bad maybe you should err on caution and tell them that they generally should NOT be feeling too unwell since it was a minor surgery in the great scheme of things and that if they DO, they should have a checkup to make sure everything went ok? assuming the patient is just being dramatic is unbelievable.
Yep it could be a sign of an infection or even sepsis
Exactly. Just because an operation is minor for a surgeon, it doesn’t mean it’s minor to the patient. I had a laparoscopic appendectomy, and thankfully had no complications and recovered quickly. But abdominal surgery is still traumatic to the body. You had your body cut open, and you’re supposed to be 100% back to normal 24-48 hours later? No. She is rude, dismissive, and full of herself, but I have heard that this is common with surgeons. I wouldn’t want her operating on me or advising me on anything.
🤣🤣 I’m sorry but no one and I repeat no one will read this and care then way you think. Keep it to yourself next time 🤣🫵🏻
Or instead of asking Twitter, the patient should see a doctor.
Lmaoo 😂 that really was what she did 🙃 Her tone and her words were dogshit
If my doctor answered questions about health concerns like this Id find a new doctor.
Same lol. She’s so condescending and unsympathetic
I ddnt like her either
People are too sensitive.
highly doubt she talks to patients like this
Had a dentist when I was like 8 who traumatized me because he ignored me when I said I could feel during the procedure despite numbing. Until I fainted. I was not given care- not only did he chose not to notify my mom, he continued the procedure without pause. Also my mom was NOT allowed in the room. I have no idea why my mom liked that creep so much. So SO many red flags.
I like how she subconsciously added in the "an hour" before the "before you get here". Really shows how often she has these conversations about them lol.
I think the original tweet says that , the editors might have forgotten to add it in.
This person has no bedside manner whatsoever. I’m all for honesty but compassion and empathy is a good thing too
Don‘t forget to write down the time when you put on a tourniquet, either on the tourniquet or the patient(possibly you). And once it was tight for some time, only open one under medical supervision.
Why?
If you should only open a tourniquet under medical supervision then I'd assume it's best to leave it to the medical personal to determine when the right time to remove it is.
@@cjtrules1 yeah, I meant I was wondering why the time you applied it mattered, I wasn’t specific enough hehe
@@hamletfisherman5740 My response was to the original comment, not you. I agree on why you should since he says the medical professionals will determine when to remove the tourniquet.
@@hamletfisherman5740 so the rest of the limb doesn't become necrotic - the tissue in the limb below the tourniquet will have less oxygen/nutrients because of no blood supply, therefore the tissue will eventually die. depending on how long it is until medical services/professionals, it is advised to loosen the tourniquet very slightly every 15 minutes or so, so the potentially hypoxic tissue receives some blood. every time the tourniquet is tampered with, write down the time so others are aware. hope that explains it :))
I totally get doctors being tired and impatient, but some of these questions aren't so outlandish that the asker needs to be insulted. People ask questions because they want to learn something, and nobody deserves to be belittled for desiring more knowledge.
Tl;dr she spent a lot of this video punching down
For real!!!!
true
its like the saying goes there's no such thing as a stupid question.
It's like she thinks we should already know what she knows. It's one of the reasons I like Doctor Mike, if you asked him a question no matter how obvious everyone else thinks it is, he'd answer it with a smile knowing that you didn't know the answer and now you will.
@@jeffd8465 oh hello fellow doctor mike follower! I agree with you a lot. I actually raised my eyebrows whenever a seemingly obvious question was asked but he's so cheery and not judgemental!!
Yeah I was thinking this too. All the comments admiring how abrasive she is were really bugging me.
This was great, she was lively and enjoying herself and I'd love to see more of her!
She's done loads of videos for wired!
Disagreed. Came across incredibly arrogant and dismissive.
No
As a healthcare “professional” you probably shouldn’t be so flippant about people’s pain and concerns. I understand this is a silly fun video with Twitter questions but she is supposed to be educating isn’t she? The beef pee smell could actually have a variety of causes she could’ve explained such as dehydration, diabetes, etc. obviously you should always call a doctor if you’re concerned but hopefully it’s not someone as flippant as this one is :/
this guy also could have protein in his urine which is also a sign of something serious. This woman is irresponsible.
No, not particularly.
If you suspect your pee smelling funny is serious enough that it could affect your health, you go to a doctor and don't start tweeting about it.
Just a question, are you a practicing doctor?
Maybe they don't do the counting at her place, but when I had oral surgery they had me count up to 10. I made it to 3, then next thing I know I was snapping awake and blearily shouting through a gauze-stuffed mouth "Fooour". So I think that it depends on the place of practice, and the counting (as far as the oral surgeons told me) was to give me something else to focus on and so they knew for sure when I was totally out/awake. Apparently picking up counting where you left off isn't that uncommon when the anesthesia works properly.
When I went under anesthesia when I was a very young child, I remember them telling me to count to 10 as well. I only made it to about 3 or 4 before I fell asleep. I don't think I continued counting when I woke up though, I just remember asking where my mom was lol
Sounds wild, kinda freaky..
every surgery ive ever had they had me count too lmao
Out of the three times I've been under anesthesia, I haven't been told to count. Instead, the surgeons either made small talk with me or told me to take deep breaths as they went about their business.
But this woman knows everything. You probably halucinated. /s
She literally avoided a third of the questions with an overly brash and unprofessional answer. I'd hate to have her as my surgeon.
Me too. She does not strike me as having good bedside manners. No man, they should do another one with a different surgeon. I don't think I learned much here.
This is why nurses exist.. for proper bedside manner. (like how many med shows are wrong- they give doctors all the credit)
Most surgeons are not talkative or very friendly. To me she's fine comparing to the most ones I know.
@@jamesbundala4670 I’ve met and interacted with very nice, human, descent surgeons so to me her demeanor is just trash. Sorry your standard is so low.
The "suck it up" attitude is not always a good thing in doctors. When you're sick, you want sympathy, not to be told you're fine when you feel like dying. A little politeness can go a long way 🤷 just how I feel.
Couldn't agree more, I was looking to see if anyone else felt the same way.
Lmfao was thinking the same thing. Everyone here loving her for her “bluntness” and to me it’s just plain disrespect. She sucks.
The thing is she hasn't even seen this person and she's dismissing them instead of telling them to go talk to their doctor about it. Tells you a lot about what doctors think about their patient if this doctor's immediate reaction to someone telling them they're not feeling well after surgery is dismissing them as wimps or whatever
Yeah, but most people are literally fine. Surgery takes a lot out of you, you just need to take time to recover. You don’t have to baby people.
@@user-mv1hv5ce3b the automatic assumption that everything is fine can be dangerous. There's definitely some babies out there who cry wolf, but we're better off safe than sorry, no?
Uhm, ma'am. PDS is one of the slowest dissolving sutures on the market. "There is minimal absorption by 90 days and absorption is not complete until 6-7 months after implantation."
The video had multiple instances of dismissive, questionable, and wrong information.
@@emphasis20well just because you don't like her tone doesn't mean she's wrong and you're right. Most of her advice was on point
Just FYI: Annie is a super fast marathoner (like, barely above 3 hours at her best, which is great for an amateur woman). She's a superstar.
How can I believe that all people are created equal when you got show offs like her running around, doing it all with such humor and grace that you can't even get mad? It's humbling. I just gotta keep pushing my little boulder knowing full well that the Dr. Onishis of the world moved so many boulders already that they've built a sweet castle and are living in it.
3h is good for an amateur anything. She is pretty fast
@@jamesduncanlinch6322 Yes, having gone under 3 myself (and seen her in some races in NYC), I can say that I was good, and she was/is better.
"In a tall guy I can get my whole arm inside his belly."
I like how it's not "I could probably fit my whole arm inside..." or "sometimes it's necessary to put my whole arm..." it's "I can get my whole arm..."
Well, here's hoping it was a cadaver.
I imagined having to reach inside to fix something near the rear of the diaphragm, without removing half the organs.
As long as she doesn't *leave* her arm in there ...
It was not. Happens more than you think, esp in trauma surgery if they need a large laparotomy incision.
she’s kinda rude… suck it up? … i was told the same when i turned out to have a tumor 🙃 so wrong
This interview is proof that surgeons are a type of person
lol. I love that though. Surgeons aren't actually evil or something, they're just a little cold sometimes.. If they didn't care, they wouldn't be surgeons
@@JustShpigel Surgeons are actually known to have among the highest rates of sociopathy/psychopathy.
@@reinux Yeah, no probs, next time you get appendicitis they'll just leave it in you wouldn't they?
@@reinux Besides, you can say the same about salespeople, CEOs, chefs, lawyers and cops. It doesn't change anything.
@@JustShpigel ?? Right, because sociopaths are actively looking to be out of a job...
I had an appendectomy when I was 11 and it took me 4/5 days to be able to walk again…
For the clothes, it's also usually frowned upon to start bending and contorting someone to get their clothes off if you suspect that they might have a neck or spine injury.
Not WIRED answering this poor man's question 10 years after they posted it lmao
I honestly think it's such a struggle between trusting your doc because they have more medical knowledge and trusting yourself because you have more experiential knowledge of your personal condition. I've heard of so many cases of friends needing to self-diagnose and go through multiple doctors til they found one that was actually understanding of their condition
I would think the best solution would be for docs to always remain open-minded and be humble enough to realise that they may not know everything and be able to admit that to the patient. But I also know that's difficult because of how many kinds of bad-mannered or unreasonable patients they see every day.
Either way, I think both docs and the patient have a part to play in making sure the diagnosis and treatment goes smoothly
I’ve had a doctor do a count down when giving me anesthesia though. A few times, so that’s not a myth like she says.
Me too. Clearly she isn't a real surgeon.
Me too 😅 Maybe she doesn't do the countdown but the anesthesiologist did.
i've had multiple surgeries and never had to do the count - I think it's entirely up to the anesthesiologist. All of the ones I've had have just reassured me about what was going to happen and told me to take deep breaths
@@meagan5442 that’s the majority of my surgeries, but a couple I’ve gotten a countdown
@@dermathze700 shocker is that every doctor is different and has different experiences
I really didn't expect the professional that reminded us about her being a professional so often to be objectively wrong multiple times.
Really doesn't mix well with her blunt form of comedy.
This is the most underrated comment. I'm just a lowly neuroscientist but with my experience as a patient, student, and professional, I'm really bothered that this wasn't fact checked.
I wasn't aware of how some answers were incorrect... I assumed that though her blunt humor (which wasn't that funny) was there she at least answered the questions correctly so this is quite a surprise. I hope wired keeps medical videos like these fact checked more often.
@@molarity8322 it is unfortunately super easy for anyone to talk confidently and say they know what they are talking about. It takes a real professional to say, " I am not sure, let me research it and tell you."
What was she wrong about?
@@hallow_cat wait what was she wrong about?
I really hope she’s actually had an appendectomy and she’s not just saying to suck it up because she performs the surgery so often. Removing an organ is probably very easy(I’m not a surgeon so I wouldn’t know) to perform, but it’s not easy to deal with post-op. Yes, take your medications on time and all that, but I had my appendix removed and 6 weeks later my doctors are still telling me it’s normal to be in so much pain that I cry when I sneeze. “Suck it up” isn’t fair and absolutely not realistic, especially when every patient will have their own unique experience and to have a surgeon of all people not really care what you’re going through really sucks, I hope her patients get better follow up care than that.
Agreed. I also had an appendectomy and was in severe pain for weeks, I dreaded having to pee cause it hurt so bad. That comment "suck it up" definitely did not sit well with me.
Definitely agree! If someone says they are in more pain than is “normal” for that procedure something could have gone wrong and telling them to “suck it up can literally kill people. Really irked me when she said that.
Agreed! I hope other surgeons have more compassion than that, that was really horrible to say IMO.
To be fair, it’s more important for general doctors and nurses to have good bedside manner than it is for surgeons-most of the patients they see are unconscious. I’m sure she isn’t responsible for patients’ follow-up care at her hospital.
Personality-wise, I did like her better when she was newer to the profession, though. I guess looking at people’s insides all day kinda makes you subconsciously forget that they’re people? 😕
it’s a jokey video. she’s not giving actual medical advice or offering actual medical care in this instance.
Wish I never have a doctor like her
Annie, glad to see you're doing OK.
😂😂highly underrated comment
Annie are you okay
I love how matter of fact and blunt she is.
I've been watching Annie since she was a resident. Love her takes