Rural Medicine: Both our GP's were General Surgeons. Both owned ranches and worked them. They birthed you. They were your pediatrician. They were your gynecologist and then your obstetrician. They helped your parents in their last days. Then they were the pallbearers at their funerals. There are no adequate ways to communicate how important and gracious these two men were in our tiny little town.
We have a buddy that was a heck of a mechanic. He remembered everything. We said Bubba you should be a doctor. He became one. Bought an HK MP5 with some of the grant money. Worked all around. Landed at the local VA. Oddly enough I too was one of many Americans forced out of work by NAFTA and ended up a nurse. I too landed at the VA. It was an honor to work with Dr Bubba. Oh. Did I mention he’s also a great electrician. His actual passion. Will hard wire in your generator if you’re into prepping. Cheers
Sounds like they serve the same niche as cartel/gang doctors. Everyone listens to their orders without question and anyone who attempts to even try hurting them gets shot by the community.
@@DeathnoteBB until there's too much of it. Or it came too early, so you couldn't sow without burying equipment. Or it came too late, so you couldn't harvest without burying equipment. There's never perfect weather
The nod and laugh was the answer. I wouldn't say I'm fluent in rural, but I get by. That was "Yeah, but more like being afraid for him than afraid of him."
@@Amigo21189Nono. As a former rural (Australia not America) it was absolutely more of a "yes you should, just stay on his good side and don't bring up politics with him and you won't have problems" Man will absolutely go to jail for someone elses argument if he likes the person they're arguing with enough, so everyone is in agreement that everyone is his friend so he never picks a side.
I can see "Rural Medicine goes to Therapy" in which the Psychiatrist discovers that Rural Medicine is the only one who is well adjusted with a good sense of reality.
I love this idea, especially if the therapist had to drop in on his fishing trip vacation, as rural medicine doc never has time to travel to the big city 🤣
@@carolyncopeland2722 "Hey Rural your appointment was today. Why didnt you show up?" Rural flicks his rod "Oh sorry I thought you said I had therapy today"
Rural medicine is my favourite character of yours. From a comedy perspective, but also he's such a good example of how to work with communities to build that trusting and mutually respectful relationship without judgement.
@@talithasuya8908 a Nähkästchen is the sewing box. And plaudern aus dem Nähkästchen means telling inside stories, stories that would normaly not be told.
I went for my yearly physical last week, and as we pulled up around the back of clinic there was a trailer with some imaging equipment. My husband said “Look! A Texaco Mike Franchise!”.
@@mckayleepugmire9947 Mhmm. My father worked through a heart attack, didn’t even know he had one until some other issues came up well after it. Happened during haying season and he was moving hand lines, man’s so beat up from all the other farm related injuries that figured it was just another injury.
@@gandalf_thegrey pretty much. The whole joke in my house growing up was “Is a bone sticking out, does it require stitches, is your arm or leg in a weird angle? No. Then you’re fine.”
Rural doc here, just lost a patient after 8 long hours of trying our best to keep her alive. Just sat down to have my lunch at 11pm and saw your video. Thanks for the laughs, specially on such tough days. You're awesome!
True rural story: My dad would pick up Chinese food in the "big town" a county over. (40 min drive. Population 8,000). He'd stop by after work, so he'd still be in a suit and tie. At some point mid-90s the owner started handling his orders personally, and would always call him "Doctor Lastname," and was particularly courteous to him. The first couple times, my dad didn't think he heard him quite right. By then, there was no turning back. The owner was SO nice. My dad didn't have the heart to correct him. He was a school principal. I guess it was the combination of suit, his physical presence at 6ft+ tall, respectful demeanor, he ordered frequently enough, and tipped well. Idk. Protip: there is NOTHING like smalltown, rural Chinese food or Mexican food. The ones around where I grew up were all run by hard working first gen families. All had/have such a warm, friendly atmosphere. So, if any of you are aspiring rural docs, definitely seek out restaurants that have authentic cuisine run by local first-gen families. It might be a bit of a drive. But everything is lol.
If the Mexican place isn't being run by a grumpy couple with their kids playing translator while ringing the gringo up, all while her parents yell the most awful things at each other (learned so many new phrases that way) as the jukebox blairs mariachi, don't even bother
Best Chinese food I've ever had was at a place in a town of about 10,000 people. Their orange chicken was nothing like any I've ever had since, it had chunks of orange peel in it that were candied or something. Absolutely phenomenal.
We've got a phenomenal Thai place run by a first generation Thai that's got a picture of the Thai royalty on the wall and everything, it's almost as good as the fancy place I went to in D.C. for half the price
Don’t forget Rural American burgers! In my town, which had a population of about 200 total, the only place to go(literally) if you are hungry and don’t wanna drive for 30 minutes is “The Bar.” Yes. There was so little competition that you could just call it “The Bar.” Anyway, The Bar is run by some nice people who get the meat locally and has some AMAZING recepies and cooks. I myself don’t like coleslaw, but everyone in the nearest 500 miles and liked coleslaw says that theirs is the best. But yeah, steaks, sliders, burgers, basically anything with beef they can cook it up for you. And it’s ALWAYS perfectly done, never burned. I once had a cousin who had his first time in the town ask for his to be “REALLY Well Done.” The chef had managed to somehow keep all the juices on it while blackening it like a hockey puck- and after you bit through the charcoal outside, it was still so juicy inside. Idk man, rural food in a farming/ranching place is always top of the line.
I think rural medicine has to be my favorite character of the lot. Despite all the eccentricities that come with working in an isolated area with limited resources, he seems very down to earth and genuinely friendly compared to the city doctors
As someone who lives in rural Montana, I can confirm the accuracy of this video. Perfectly detailed down to calving season, continuing with farm chores after an "incident," and getting called "Doc" if you refer to cuts as "lacerations." LOL 😂
@@FineFlu 😂😂😂 I regret to say Bozeman and it’s now 5-lanes of traffic no longer can be considered “rural” (as well as Kalispell, Missoula, Billings, several others) 🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗
@@prairieN that may be the case sometimes, but back in my day (shakes finger like a curmudgeon), we didn't have the internet, we had almanacs and were grateful for it!
@@WxBuggin for sure! I don't live that far away from where I grew up and 9 times out of 10, if you mention the weather to an elderly person, you get a really cool conversation from it.
If I'd gotten paid in eggs during the shortage I'd have traveled to the nearest big city & sold them out of my trunk/truck bed for only $4-5 a dozen. Might even bring along a few of the ladies as a petting zoo too. $1 to pet a chicken. No refunds when she pecks you but for $2 I'll let you pick her up. For another $5 I'll even how you how to hold her with getting beaten up by wings or scratched by feet. For $25 I'll give you the freshest chicken you've ever gotten in your life. Just uh give me a moment or 10 to walk around the truck & get it. No I'm not carrying a knife to butcher the chicken. That's just a pocketknife. My butchering knife is over there.
That last part about repaying student loans is so true. Even in Australia, if you work for the equivalent of half the length of your degree, in a rural town, the government just absolves the remaining money you owe for your university degree, like it’s just gone. Defintely planning on going rural out of graduation now
In the US groups in some smaller towns and rural areas will also help to subsidize mortgages for new docs who live & work in the area. The pitch is that it may not be the big city, but it's a safe and great place to raise a family with a high standard of living
@@tanja-k nope. For a while there the Victorian Government where covering the expense of university for nurses but it was short lived. The course fee is capped though and was around a quarter of the price of my Paramedicine degree.
You know sometimes I think about becoming a gp and this has kind of convinced me into looking at it much more seriously. I already live in the middle of nowhere, Queensland (nearest town is 1hr 30 away) so I have the rural student box ticked already
I think we had several Texaco Mike’s in the town that I grew up!! We had many, many Jaspers too! In fact, at 14, I was working the breakfast shift in my parents restaurant. I got burned badly with boiling water. My older brother and the WW2 vets(our regular customers) sprang into action. They wrapped me in tablecloths packed with ice and saved my skin! The WW2 vets got me to the hospital faster than the ambulance!! I am forever grateful!!
Hmm I dunno whether he'll have much time for porch sitting! I've been working rurally for the last 6 months and have had a cumulative 45 seconds or so where I haven't been working. Very common to have your porch set up all ready for a session and then get a call just as you're sitting down that Suzie got kicked by a horse again and you need to come in.
"Calving, planting, worrying about the weather, and harvest." is absolute perfection the cattle/row crowd. We were straight row crop so we had "Fixing (broken tractors, combines, trucks, and implements), planting, fixing (broken tractors, combines, trucks, and implements), worrying about the weather, fixing (broken tractors, combines, trucks, and implements), and harvest" seasons.
I only have a little garden, so my seasons are: Weeding, sowing, weeding, planting, weeding, watering, weeding, binding, weeding, watering, weeding, harvesting, weeding, cleaning, weeding, weeding, weeding and weeding.
In the farm areas I have lived in (corn, soybeans), harvest season does not begin until you have crops that are dry enough to harvest. So, if it has been a wet fall, you might be into November and the corn is still to wet to harvest (the drying costs would eat up any profit). If the fall is dry enough, one may begin combining corn in September. It depends on the moisture content. Once the moisture content is low enough, everything is secondary to the harvest. Often you start early in the day and go until late at night. A close eye is kept on the weather and every good day is in the fields harvesting. No time to worry about the weather, only time to make sure the equipment is in the next field to harvest. Finally, as to fixing equipment--only the absolute minimum to keep equipment running. You might fix a broken belt on your combine, however you do not care about the condition of your planter or sprayer. During harvest season, everyone pitches in to get the crops out of the field. If you don't get the crops out of the fields before the first snowstorm, the crops will rot under the blanket of snow. In the high plains, that snow can easily come in October or even earlier. And by snow, I am talking about several inches of snow. When my uncle harvested, my aunt would drive trucks until close to meal time. She would drive to the house and whip up a meal to bring back with her. Usually food that she had prepared a couple of days before harvest began. She brought the food back to the field and everyone ate on the run as they had the chance. Time was not to be wasted on coming back to the house for a meal. You might take the time on Sunday to go to church and then go back out into the fields Sunday afternoon. If it is a really tight time to harvest, trying to get the crops out before a storm forecast to hit the area in the next couple of days, you may even skip church that week. At least that has been my experience living in the corn belt.
@@ankavoskuilen1725 harvest time is the most important time of the year and everything else is just the lead up to then. Everything was fixed earlier or jerry rigged so it'll last until after harvest when you have time to fix it while worrying about the weather.
This hits hard. My father was one of a handful of college educated people they could find in his rural town back in the 70s, so they got him to look after the kids in the local middle school a few times. Everyone including his brothers still call him "teacher" ever since.
I think my favorite part of this is that he knew about the seasons and how to coax people to come in, but not to wear a fancy suit. Everyone’s got something to learn!
"Worrying about the weather" got me laughing. I come from a family of orchardists and have listed to my father's complaints about having to check his wind machines in the middle of the night because it dropped bellow freezing, and cussing out the sky for raining and giving the cherries Fire Blite or swelling to the point they split for most of my life.
Nothing makes someone take a job faster than saying you will help pay off their student loans. I am not in the medical field but even I would have taken that job. Student Loans are the bane of all. Great video as always doc.
*laughs in 700€ university tuition per year + plus all year free public transport* It blew my mind that one of the richest societies in the world has such a third world problem
@@gandalf_thegrey we didn't, until corporations took the role of financial support for collegegoers and then bent all the rules way the hell out of line to make college debt as profitable as possible. You can't even bankrupcy out of it and no other kind of debt works that way.
Being from a rural town in central Oregon.... This is 💯 accurate. This was 30 years ago. But my dad accidentally cut a toe off with the lawn mower. He casually went and got the car keys and drove himself to the docs office (not the hospital), before he left he found mom, asked her to go find his toe and have the neighbor bring her to the doctor's office when she found it. Just another day for them.
No kidding. Saw a FM doc remove a basal cell carcinoma from a nose for the first time. Patient refused to go to general ENT 30 miles away or 130 miles to University Dermatology. Pt refused any other treatment "you removed it from my arm last year, just do the nose."
Ideally you end up in a team of people with different interests and skills that complement each other. But you at least need to be competent in primary care/family medicine plus emergency (but without any of the expensive toys)!
THIS. THIS ONE IS MY NEW FAVORITE!!! I'm from a rural area and I help at the church (so I know who got hurt everyday bcs they will text our prayer group asking to pray for them or the family member who got hurt). The number of times I had to drive to a farm to force people to go to the hospital or take the doctor to a farm to treat stubborn patients just from January till March is absurd. The men and the old folks are the worst because you have to "blackmail" them to get them on the car. They now think that I'm a nurse or that I work with the doctor.
I grew up rural in Ireland. Your local doctor was always one of the most respected figures in our community and he and doctor wife (honestly the better doctor) were so beloved. In Ireland everyone is only a couple hours from a city so I can only imagine how revered they'd be in rural America. Big up to the lads.
You are the bomb! Working as an NP in as a PCP in New Hampshire I appreciate these as well as the Primary Care and ER segments. You nail it. Granted I am only an NP, but I manage a 1500+ patient panel... I feel your Primary Care's constant look of shell shock & "can't make this stuff up" reality of rural medicine. I have a "Virtual Jonathan" (virtual scribe) I so want to put Jonathan's face on my tablet...
I felt screwed when years ago they shut down the local hospital thus forcing everyone to commute the extra 45 minutes to a larger city. The people out there are not exactly wealthy and most worked trade jobs alongside their usual rural occupations. Not only do they have a higher injury rate than the local white collar crowd but they go to work earlier and usually had family squarely resting on them, logistically, to fix/transport them to said hospital. Calling EMS isn't a thing when you know how much the bill is (even with insurance) AND that some frequent flier city bum is going to clog up the system so that true emergencies get seen later because it takes time to restock the truck&clean it.
As someone who has always lived rural, rural med is my favorite. We have had to learn how to do a lot of our own vetting/doctoring over the years and only recently got a doctor in our area who actually gets it. He doesn’t get offended when we take care of ourselves, is there if we have questions and, when we do need him to do his job, he does it without being a supercilious jerk that believes medical school made him omniscient. Love you Dr. Matos!
I can't; I just watched the first joke ("he's not with the government") five times and don't even know yet what happens in the rest of the sketch. I love Rural medicine to pieces.
As someone who works in a rural hospital (though maybe not this rural - our MRI machine is separate from CT and comes in a truck!) I love this part of the series so much! Everything is just too accurate. I love Jasper, that was great.
That student loan line was perfect! Slam dunk! Even I would agree to a job on that one I'm still paying student loans from 20 years ago This video is so relatable when growing up country
I'm in the hospital right now binge watching. One of my Hospital Docs came in and we watched a few videos, she loves them. Laughter really is great medicine, Thanks Doc, she loved the student loan line!
Brilliant! About forty years ago in the UK. There was a television series. It was a comedy called The Rural RM. Meaning A Rural Magistrate. Who dealt with infringements of the law, and if the case was serious, he could commit it for hearing in a higher court. It was hilarious, and your clip reminded me of the show. Thank you.
this is perfect, I was just referencing your rural medicine pain scale video earlier because we had a farmer come in for a laceration. The doctor knew exactly what video I was talking about too! lol "I'm here, ain't I?"
Owning egg farms is right on. I remember hearing that my uncle had just finished up in the surgery and was heading off to plow his back field before the afternoon patients came in.
my grandparents were a medical team (doctor and nurse) in a rural logging camp after WW2. after grandfather managed to save a loggers eye, he went back to specialize in opthomology!
Love the Rural Medicine crew! The Texaco Mike Imaging Center is classic! LOL Glad to know they are getting more help. Keep up the great work Dr Glauc, healthcare desperately needs to laugh every so often.
I love that the farming seasons do line up and are in order. Calving = Winter, when most cattle farmers time their cows to calve. Planting = Spring, when most the frost stops and allows most crops to be planted for late summer / fall harvest. Worrying About the Weather = Summer, when droughts are more common and put both crops and animals at risk. Harvest = Fall, when most crops were harvested prior to the advent of greenhouses and high tunnels.
That interview lasted a lot longer than I expected. What I expected... New Doctor: "Knock, knock. Hi, I'm here for my interview". Rural Medicine: "Here's your onboarding packet. W2s, benefits, salary, our inclement weather policy, time off policy, and information on ALL the insurances. Welcome to the team." New Guy: "What." Rural Medicine: "You show up, you're hired." New Guy: "But I havent even told you my name."
@@gandalf_thegreyI think theyre trying to weed out rural d0cs+ any d0cs over the age of 50 which sucks. Ive had my best care with older docs and docs from rural india. Best docs ever. Its like the healthc4re system wants all the d0cs to treat all the patients the same and all h0spitals want to treat all d0cs the same. Thats not good for anyone. The field has become even more money driven than it was.
I lived about an hour drive from the nearest hospital as a kid in the '90s, and I feel as though a unique thing about living in a rural area is having to know how to triage your own injuries to a degree that city folk don't. My mom once had a pregnant mare who, when not pregnant, was a show jumper. She decided to jump the fence and... well, let's just say Mom had to stitch her up before calling the vet. 😬 I'm grateful she never had to stitch me up and drive me to a hospital because I feel like if she'd do it to a quarter horse, she wouldn't hesitate to do it with a kid. 😂
One of my early calls involved a kid who got torn up in the barbed wire. I was told to stitch him up and refused because I had no idea how to stitch up anything that big or small strictly speaking. So instead I got yelled out to fetch the tape, and so we used that to basically bind the kid’s abdomen shut for driving him to the hospital. In the back of a patrol car.
Felt that, when I was 12, we lived about 45min from the nearest ER. I remember my dad coming home with an army survival basics book n an emergency kit, handing em to me. He said "read up on the emergency procedures section, never know when you might have to stitch, splint or use a tourniquet in order to make it back to the house. If you get seriously injured out in the back 40, there's a chance we won't be able to find you till it's too late. Better to know what to do in a worst case scenario than become food for the coyotes." Might sound a bit morbid, but he was right, myself n a couple buddy's are still around today thanks to my dad's foresight.
I love this so much! Also I am glad Texaco Mike is an off screen character so far, it adds to the mystery, let the lore build up I enjoy it! With how the machines were pieced together, I feel like it is a rural Doctor Who tinkering about.
So much greatness.....I supervise rural community service offices, I never wear dress pants or jackets out there. Jeans and a nice sweater is professional.enough. 😃
Moving to a small rural town I gotta say I absolutely love that the doctor's office knows me. One doctor gave me his cell number in case I had questions about my kids. One made sure to check on me when I had my gallbladder out and another just had to be told my husband was having similar symptoms and he sent another Rx uptown without him having to be seen. They may all know your business but it's nice to be cared for.
omg, your rural medicine content is hilarious. loved the inclusion of the seasons; my dad got out of jury duty because of calving season lol. Is there a rural version of Jonathan? Or maybe that would be...Texico Mike? It would be side-splitting if the rural doctor went to counseling :) Great work, love your content, and hope you have great vibes today!
‘We’ll help you repay your student loans’ is the best line to get someone to accept a position instantly
@@FungusGenerator "We'll give you a fat paycheck" works everywhere
I actually snorted at that one.
@@FungusGenerator It means no money going to student loans so you actually get to use what you earn for other things, like food.
@@FungusGenerator You can send Jasper
@@FungusGenerator this just sounds better
Rural Medicine:
Both our GP's were General Surgeons.
Both owned ranches and worked them.
They birthed you. They were your pediatrician. They were your gynecologist and then your obstetrician. They helped your parents in their last days. Then they were the pallbearers at their funerals.
There are no adequate ways to communicate how important and gracious these two men were in our tiny little town.
❤❤❤❤❤
Omfg! My grandparents grew up in a town just like that! Heck, the GP also stood in AS THE PREACHER /DENTIST
Certified legends, i tell ya
We have a buddy that was a heck of a mechanic. He remembered everything. We said Bubba you should be a doctor. He became one. Bought an HK MP5 with some of the grant money. Worked all around. Landed at the local VA. Oddly enough I too was one of many Americans forced out of work by NAFTA and ended up a nurse. I too landed at the VA. It was an honor to work with Dr Bubba. Oh. Did I mention he’s also a great electrician. His actual passion. Will hard wire in your generator if you’re into prepping. Cheers
Sounds like they serve the same niche as cartel/gang doctors. Everyone listens to their orders without question and anyone who attempts to even try hurting them gets shot by the community.
Love how Jasper's always there to protect ur rural doc from the government.
I didn't get that part why is the government a threat to rural docs?
@@holyknight9507 well according to Jasper the government is a threat to everyone.
A lot of government run programs don’t look out for people in rural communities, so there’s a lot of distrust
@@holyknight9507 the government is just generally seen as an unwanted interference in the farming life.
Or just life in general.
And if the choice is…concert feds into pig feed or lose the doctor.
What choice would you make?
"calving, planting, worrying about the weather, and harvest" Sounds about right
There is no good weather…
@@suzannemartini9973 Pretty sure rain is great weather if you wanna grow something
@@DeathnoteBB until there's too much of it. Or it came too early, so you couldn't sow without burying equipment. Or it came too late, so you couldn't harvest without burying equipment.
There's never perfect weather
@@crinkly.love-stick sunny and 80 degrees after getting an inch of rain the night before, you can practically hear the corn grow.
@@DeathnoteBB just my impression after listening to farmers during 27+ years of rural family medicine….
As a Radiologist, I guarantee that our hospital admins would buy a Texaco Mike CT/MRI combo if it would improve throughput.
As a patient, I'd be willing to climb in.
No more specialists arguing over which type to order first, then forget to follow-up with the second.
All you have to do is design a CT machine with zero diamagnetic parts in it lmao how hard could that be /s
@@theendofmyropemydude ... or an MRI with just little fridge magnets....
You'd have to get accustomed to very messy images.
@@theendofmyropemydude
Conveyor belt between two rooms. EZPZ.
"Do I need to worry about Jasper?"
"Haha."
"...?"
No actual answer is the best answer 😆
The nod and laugh was the answer. I wouldn't say I'm fluent in rural, but I get by. That was "Yeah, but more like being afraid for him than afraid of him."
@@Amigo21189Nono. As a former rural (Australia not America) it was absolutely more of a "yes you should, just stay on his good side and don't bring up politics with him and you won't have problems"
Man will absolutely go to jail for someone elses argument if he likes the person they're arguing with enough, so everyone is in agreement that everyone is his friend so he never picks a side.
I can see "Rural Medicine goes to Therapy" in which the Psychiatrist discovers that Rural Medicine is the only one who is well adjusted with a good sense of reality.
I love this idea, especially if the therapist had to drop in on his fishing trip vacation, as rural medicine doc never has time to travel to the big city 🤣
Yep with some mudain injury.
Fly to the ear or something like that.
@@carolyncopeland2722 "Hey Rural your appointment was today. Why didnt you show up?"
Rural flicks his rod
"Oh sorry I thought you said I had therapy today"
Good sense of reality. Not for me tho 😅
Yes that's about how it goes after all
I hope one day we meet Texaco Mike
Actually if Texaco Mike and Johnathan teamed up, they could take care of the entire community all at once
They'll save the world 🤣🤣🤣
I think the universe can't handle this much efficiency and competence in one spot, it will collapse on itself if these two would meet
I think Texaco mike is best left as an off screen character. no one could properly portray him.
We need this.
@@skellious I'm thinking a Charlie Barrens cameo 🤪
Rural medicine is my favourite character of yours. From a comedy perspective, but also he's such a good example of how to work with communities to build that trusting and mutually respectful relationship without judgement.
It reminds me of the Andy Griffith show!
You're still judging just through lenses that also contain understanding, compassion and kindness
You prefer Rural Medicine over Jonathan?!
Family medicine makes me very sad :(
It might be worth judging those who judge... every time.
My mom was a doctors assistant in rural Germany of the 1970s...
She laughed so hard because of this video and said you nailed it.
Kann Deine Mama vielleicht einen eigenen Kanal machen und aus dem Nähkästchen plaudern? :)
I live in a rural area in the United States and it's exactly the same.
@@sisuguillam5109 I was able to figure out everything up until und. Google says "chat out of the box" for the rest of it? What is it really?
@@talithasuya8908 a Nähkästchen is the sewing box. And plaudern aus dem Nähkästchen means telling inside stories, stories that would normaly not be told.
@@sisuguillam5109 So interesting!! Thanks!
I went for my yearly physical last week, and as we pulled up around the back of clinic there was a trailer with some imaging equipment. My husband said
“Look! A Texaco Mike Franchise!”.
😂😂😂
I love how you made the much-neglected rural medicine specialisation seem a warm, competent place to work in this sketch!
Tortuously rewarding!
They have to be competent, someone's gonna die of stubbornness if they aren't
@@mckayleepugmire9947 Mhmm. My father worked through a heart attack, didn’t even know he had one until some other issues came up well after it. Happened during haying season and he was moving hand lines, man’s so beat up from all the other farm related injuries that figured it was just another injury.
@@TheSequimKid Me: *cries at all time, because of every pain, always*
Farmers getting split in half: *Tis but a scratch!*
@@gandalf_thegrey pretty much. The whole joke in my house growing up was “Is a bone sticking out, does it require stitches, is your arm or leg in a weird angle? No. Then you’re fine.”
Rural doc here, just lost a patient after 8 long hours of trying our best to keep her alive. Just sat down to have my lunch at 11pm and saw your video.
Thanks for the laughs, specially on such tough days. You're awesome!
I’m sorry about your patient. Such a hard day. As someone who now lives in a rural area and who is blessed with good doctors, thank you.
In a rural area 35+yrs - bless you ♥️
I'm sorry for your loss. Thanks for putting in a strong effort.
Thank you for your work! ❤
Good vibes or hugs your choice. You did what you could. I am sorry you had to go through that.
True rural story: My dad would pick up Chinese food in the "big town" a county over. (40 min drive. Population 8,000). He'd stop by after work, so he'd still be in a suit and tie. At some point mid-90s the owner started handling his orders personally, and would always call him "Doctor Lastname," and was particularly courteous to him.
The first couple times, my dad didn't think he heard him quite right. By then, there was no turning back. The owner was SO nice. My dad didn't have the heart to correct him.
He was a school principal. I guess it was the combination of suit, his physical presence at 6ft+ tall, respectful demeanor, he ordered frequently enough, and tipped well. Idk.
Protip: there is NOTHING like smalltown, rural Chinese food or Mexican food. The ones around where I grew up were all run by hard working first gen families. All had/have such a warm, friendly atmosphere. So, if any of you are aspiring rural docs, definitely seek out restaurants that have authentic cuisine run by local first-gen families. It might be a bit of a drive. But everything is lol.
If the Mexican place isn't being run by a grumpy couple with their kids playing translator while ringing the gringo up, all while her parents yell the most awful things at each other (learned so many new phrases that way) as the jukebox blairs mariachi, don't even bother
Best Chinese food I've ever had was at a place in a town of about 10,000 people. Their orange chicken was nothing like any I've ever had since, it had chunks of orange peel in it that were candied or something. Absolutely phenomenal.
We've got a phenomenal Thai place run by a first generation Thai that's got a picture of the Thai royalty on the wall and everything, it's almost as good as the fancy place I went to in D.C. for half the price
"First Gen" can GTFOH. They have a homeland they messed up and ran away from.
Don’t forget Rural American burgers!
In my town, which had a population of about 200 total, the only place to go(literally) if you are hungry and don’t wanna drive for 30 minutes is “The Bar.” Yes. There was so little competition that you could just call it “The Bar.”
Anyway, The Bar is run by some nice people who get the meat locally and has some AMAZING recepies and cooks.
I myself don’t like coleslaw, but everyone in the nearest 500 miles and liked coleslaw says that theirs is the best.
But yeah, steaks, sliders, burgers, basically anything with beef they can cook it up for you. And it’s ALWAYS perfectly done, never burned.
I once had a cousin who had his first time in the town ask for his to be “REALLY Well Done.”
The chef had managed to somehow keep all the juices on it while blackening it like a hockey puck- and after you bit through the charcoal outside, it was still so juicy inside.
Idk man, rural food in a farming/ranching place is always top of the line.
I think rural medicine has to be my favorite character of the lot. Despite all the eccentricities that come with working in an isolated area with limited resources, he seems very down to earth and genuinely friendly compared to the city doctors
His patients don't have time for BS, neither does he.
As someone who lives in rural Montana, I can confirm the accuracy of this video. Perfectly detailed down to calving season, continuing with farm chores after an "incident," and getting called "Doc" if you refer to cuts as "lacerations." LOL 😂
There are other parts of Montana? 😂❤
@@FineFlu 😂😂😂 I regret to say Bozeman and it’s now 5-lanes of traffic no longer can be considered “rural” (as well as Kalispell, Missoula, Billings, several others)
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Grew up in a farming community, you nailed it with the farming seasons. Pro tip: You can start any conversation by mentioning the weather.
Just be careful who you start it with bc my dairy uncles would end it by railing against global warming conspiracies and go to anti vaccine rants
@@prairieN that may be the case sometimes, but back in my day (shakes finger like a curmudgeon), we didn't have the internet, we had almanacs and were grateful for it!
It's true. It's not just idle smalltalk there either. It's honest to god conversation. (Source: am from tornado alley)
@@WxBuggin for sure! I don't live that far away from where I grew up and 9 times out of 10, if you mention the weather to an elderly person, you get a really cool conversation from it.
🇨🇦 God invented the weather so 99% of people would have something to talk about. Farm raised.
lol @ "it was expensive but fortunately we have several egg farms around here..."
Love how you incorporate current events into your skits!
Ooh, I'd thought it was just a reference to a previous skit where he mentioned getting paid in eggs. I didn't even think about the egg shortage!
If I'd gotten paid in eggs during the shortage I'd have traveled to the nearest big city & sold them out of my trunk/truck bed for only $4-5 a dozen.
Might even bring along a few of the ladies as a petting zoo too. $1 to pet a chicken. No refunds when she pecks you but for $2 I'll let you pick her up. For another $5 I'll even how you how to hold her with getting beaten up by wings or scratched by feet.
For $25 I'll give you the freshest chicken you've ever gotten in your life.
Just uh give me a moment or 10 to walk around the truck & get it. No I'm not carrying a knife to butcher the chicken. That's just a pocketknife. My butchering knife is over there.
As someone currently applying to rural hospitals, this video is exactly what I needed right now 😂
Good luck!
@@sisuguillam5109 Thank you so much!
@@ericlynch8095 😃
Make sure to buy your formal bib overalls. (They can tell if they’re rented 😉)
Just a note: Some large hospitals are located near rural areas, if you'd like to have rural patients and access to specialty and other advanced care.
That last part about repaying student loans is so true. Even in Australia, if you work for the equivalent of half the length of your degree, in a rural town, the government just absolves the remaining money you owe for your university degree, like it’s just gone. Defintely planning on going rural out of graduation now
In the US groups in some smaller towns and rural areas will also help to subsidize mortgages for new docs who live & work in the area. The pitch is that it may not be the big city, but it's a safe and great place to raise a family with a high standard of living
Is this true for AU nurses as well?
@@tanja-k nope. For a while there the Victorian Government where covering the expense of university for nurses but it was short lived. The course fee is capped though and was around a quarter of the price of my Paramedicine degree.
You know sometimes I think about becoming a gp and this has kind of convinced me into looking at it much more seriously. I already live in the middle of nowhere, Queensland (nearest town is 1hr 30 away) so I have the rural student box ticked already
@@queencinna9076 JCU would love you. It's a good move - I'm in NW QLD, just took the Julia Creek GP job
I think we had several Texaco Mike’s in the town that I grew up!! We had many, many Jaspers too! In fact, at 14, I was working the breakfast shift in my parents restaurant. I got burned badly with boiling water. My older brother and the WW2 vets(our regular customers) sprang into action. They wrapped me in tablecloths packed with ice and saved my skin! The WW2 vets got me to the hospital faster than the ambulance!! I am forever grateful!!
Hmm I dunno whether he'll have much time for porch sitting! I've been working rurally for the last 6 months and have had a cumulative 45 seconds or so where I haven't been working. Very common to have your porch set up all ready for a session and then get a call just as you're sitting down that Suzie got kicked by a horse again and you need to come in.
Problem is Texaco Mike runs that CT/MRI off the front PTO of his John Deer
So during planting season you got to catch him in the field
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Big plus is that he can do house calls.
This one. This comment right here! 😂😂😂😂😂
540 or 1000 rpm??
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"Calving, planting, worrying about the weather, and harvest." is absolute perfection the cattle/row crowd.
We were straight row crop so we had "Fixing (broken tractors, combines, trucks, and implements), planting, fixing (broken tractors, combines, trucks, and implements), worrying about the weather, fixing (broken tractors, combines, trucks, and implements), and harvest" seasons.
And de-tassling corn season!
So at harvest season the weather is fine and there is nothing to be fixed?
I only have a little garden, so my seasons are: Weeding, sowing, weeding, planting, weeding, watering, weeding, binding, weeding, watering, weeding, harvesting, weeding, cleaning, weeding, weeding, weeding and weeding.
In the farm areas I have lived in (corn, soybeans), harvest season does not begin until you have crops that are dry enough to harvest.
So, if it has been a wet fall, you might be into November and the corn is still to wet to harvest (the drying costs would eat up any profit).
If the fall is dry enough, one may begin combining corn in September. It depends on the moisture content.
Once the moisture content is low enough, everything is secondary to the harvest. Often you start early in the day and go until late at night. A close eye is kept on the weather and every good day is in the fields harvesting. No time to worry about the weather, only time to make sure the equipment is in the next field to harvest.
Finally, as to fixing equipment--only the absolute minimum to keep equipment running. You might fix a broken belt on your combine, however you do not care about the condition of your planter or sprayer. During harvest season, everyone pitches in to get the crops out of the field.
If you don't get the crops out of the fields before the first snowstorm, the crops will rot under the blanket of snow. In the high plains, that snow can easily come in October or even earlier. And by snow, I am talking about several inches of snow.
When my uncle harvested, my aunt would drive trucks until close to meal time. She would drive to the house and whip up a meal to bring back with her. Usually food that she had prepared a couple of days before harvest began. She brought the food back to the field and everyone ate on the run as they had the chance. Time was not to be wasted on coming back to the house for a meal.
You might take the time on Sunday to go to church and then go back out into the fields Sunday afternoon. If it is a really tight time to harvest, trying to get the crops out before a storm forecast to hit the area in the next couple of days, you may even skip church that week.
At least that has been my experience living in the corn belt.
@@ankavoskuilen1725 harvest time is the most important time of the year and everything else is just the lead up to then. Everything was fixed earlier or jerry rigged so it'll last until after harvest when you have time to fix it while worrying about the weather.
This hits hard. My father was one of a handful of college educated people they could find in his rural town back in the 70s, so they got him to look after the kids in the local middle school a few times. Everyone including his brothers still call him "teacher" ever since.
That was back when a college education meant you actually knew something.
The interviewee must have rural roots.... He is nigh on perfect. So blase about the realities of rural folk. Loved this one.
I think my favorite part of this is that he knew about the seasons and how to coax people to come in, but not to wear a fancy suit. Everyone’s got something to learn!
lol, farmer boy who went to med school but don't know about the rural doc life.
A big part of rural medicine is relating to farmers and you nailed it. All the rural videos make me excited for my career.❤
Not a doc, but did grow up in a small town and yes- two of my favorite activities are sitting on the front porch & knowing everyone's business
"Worrying about the weather" got me laughing. I come from a family of orchardists and have listed to my father's complaints about having to check his wind machines in the middle of the night because it dropped bellow freezing, and cussing out the sky for raining and giving the cherries Fire Blite or swelling to the point they split for most of my life.
If I don't get a Texaco Mike face reveal, I'm gonna hire jasper.
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@@DGlaucomflecken please do a cameo with Charlie Barrens as Mike 🤣
@@SilentlyContinue Omg yes! But does the Midwest have airboats?
@@ferretyluv yes yes we do, mostly on rivers and lakes
@@derekninabuck5359 Huh. I always associate airboats with the southern swamps.
Nothing makes someone take a job faster than saying you will help pay off their student loans. I am not in the medical field but even I would have taken that job. Student Loans are the bane of all. Great video as always doc.
*laughs in 700€ university tuition per year + plus all year free public transport*
It blew my mind that one of the richest societies in the world has such a third world problem
@@gandalf_thegrey we didn't, until corporations took the role of financial support for collegegoers and then bent all the rules way the hell out of line to make college debt as profitable as possible. You can't even bankrupcy out of it and no other kind of debt works that way.
Glad to see rural medicine got another doctor to help out!
Being from a rural town in central Oregon.... This is 💯 accurate.
This was 30 years ago. But my dad accidentally cut a toe off with the lawn mower. He casually went and got the car keys and drove himself to the docs office (not the hospital), before he left he found mom, asked her to go find his toe and have the neighbor bring her to the doctor's office when she found it. Just another day for them.
My mom cut her toe pretty bad with a lawnmower. Still got the 4 girls dressed, dropped at the babysitter before going to the hospital. 😂
@@Questfinder1 .... Your mom is definitely a supermom! I hope her foot didn't give her grief from the injury in the years that followed.
Just bent over in the front lawn looking for toes😂
@@riverstyx7251 .... My mom said that she always figured if anyone saw her that she probably looked like an adult hunting Easter eggs..
Did he finish mowing the lawn first?
A rural medicine residency should probably be 15 years long because you have to basically be every specialty all combined
It’s on the job learning!
In Australia a Rural Generalist would normally have at least one other formal sub specialty.
We call that an apprenticeship
No kidding. Saw a FM doc remove a basal cell carcinoma from a nose for the first time. Patient refused to go to general ENT 30 miles away or 130 miles to University Dermatology. Pt refused any other treatment "you removed it from my arm last year, just do the nose."
Ideally you end up in a team of people with different interests and skills that complement each other. But you at least need to be competent in primary care/family medicine plus emergency (but without any of the expensive toys)!
Your timing is so perfect. My girlfriend is about to leave for her rural medicine rotation and she found this hilarious.
Rural medicine continues to be my favorite character, and I'm still convinced one of his parents is a large animal veterinarian.
I work in rural medicine and I can say that being a part of the community is absolutely key to providing good care.
THIS. THIS ONE IS MY NEW FAVORITE!!!
I'm from a rural area and I help at the church (so I know who got hurt everyday bcs they will text our prayer group asking to pray for them or the family member who got hurt).
The number of times I had to drive to a farm to force people to go to the hospital or take the doctor to a farm to treat stubborn patients just from January till March is absurd.
The men and the old folks are the worst because you have to "blackmail" them to get them on the car.
They now think that I'm a nurse or that I work with the doctor.
Texaco Mike needs to make an appearance!
im gonna bet that he's a relative of Jonathan
Gonna bet he IS Jonathan lol
@@kekale9506 always with a frown and only shaking his head
This please! Mike should be a Charlie Barrens cameo 👍
@@hyperDarklord13 Jonathan with a lathe
"Let's get started" That part got me
Especially knowing there’s 3 unattached fingers heading in later
Especially since all of a sudden he’s wearing the other guy’s jacket 😆
I grew up rural in Ireland. Your local doctor was always one of the most respected figures in our community and he and doctor wife (honestly the better doctor) were so beloved. In Ireland everyone is only a couple hours from a city so I can only imagine how revered they'd be in rural America. Big up to the lads.
You are the bomb! Working as an NP in as a PCP in New Hampshire I appreciate these as well as the Primary Care and ER segments. You nail it. Granted I am only an NP, but I manage a 1500+ patient panel... I feel your Primary Care's constant look of shell shock & "can't make this stuff up" reality of rural medicine. I have a "Virtual Jonathan" (virtual scribe) I so want to put Jonathan's face on my tablet...
NP or not, you do such a lot. 1500 that's almost a full practice here.
You should see if you can stick a bobblehead's head to your tablet. That way it'd always be nodding its head at you 😹
@@merlinbrother1177 You haver no idea how your reply makes me feel like I make a difference. THANK YOU! John
My rural hospital went down the tubes getting prepped to be taken over by Banner or HH so these videos always give me some painful nostalgia 💔
I felt screwed when years ago they shut down the local hospital thus forcing everyone to commute the extra 45 minutes to a larger city. The people out there are not exactly wealthy and most worked trade jobs alongside their usual rural occupations. Not only do they have a higher injury rate than the local white collar crowd but they go to work earlier and usually had family squarely resting on them, logistically, to fix/transport them to said hospital. Calling EMS isn't a thing when you know how much the bill is (even with insurance) AND that some frequent flier city bum is going to clog up the system so that true emergencies get seen later because it takes time to restock the truck&clean it.
It makes me so happy to see Rural Medicine get a comrade out in the field!
As someone who has always lived rural, rural med is my favorite. We have had to learn how to do a lot of our own vetting/doctoring over the years and only recently got a doctor in our area who actually gets it. He doesn’t get offended when we take care of ourselves, is there if we have questions and, when we do need him to do his job, he does it without being a supercilious jerk that believes medical school made him omniscient. Love you Dr. Matos!
This warms my heart! This is what medicine should be like, not a mirror image of the industrial war machine we currently have.
with that level of ability I'm pretty sure texaco mike is an escaped jonathan clone
I can't; I just watched the first joke ("he's not with the government") five times and don't even know yet what happens in the rest of the sketch. I love Rural medicine to pieces.
I just realized that I thumbs-up these videos before I watch them. And I'm never wrong.
ditto!!
“Calving, planting, worrying about the weather, and harvest.” Brilliant!
As someone who works in a rural hospital (though maybe not this rural - our MRI machine is separate from CT and comes in a truck!) I love this part of the series so much! Everything is just too accurate. I love Jasper, that was great.
Fancy!
I'd love to see the adventures of Rural Doc and his sidekick, Student Debt Doc.
That student loan line was perfect! Slam dunk! Even I would agree to a job on that one I'm still paying student loans from 20 years ago
This video is so relatable when growing up country
I'm in the hospital right now binge watching. One of my Hospital Docs came in and we watched a few videos, she loves them. Laughter really is great medicine, Thanks Doc, she loved the student loan line!
Brilliant! About forty years ago in the UK. There was a television series. It was a comedy called The Rural RM. Meaning A Rural Magistrate. Who dealt with infringements of the law, and if the case was serious, he could commit it for hearing in a higher court. It was hilarious, and your clip reminded me of the show. Thank you.
this is perfect, I was just referencing your rural medicine pain scale video earlier because we had a farmer come in for a laceration. The doctor knew exactly what video I was talking about too! lol "I'm here, ain't I?"
New Hire: Should I worry about Jasper
Rural Doc: *laughs*
Absolutely gold.
Texaco Mike & Jasper- what a hoot!!
Just watched this again for the third time. This is one of my favorites.
Owning egg farms is right on. I remember hearing that my uncle had just finished up in the surgery and was heading off to plow his back field before the afternoon patients came in.
Good old Texaco mike never a dull moment with him around
I bet scorpion bite actually gets to be part of the differential list for pancreatitis for rural med
Lol, just learned about this in my physiology class
Read the title and immediately broke into loud laughter.
Edit: it was as amazing as I thought it would be!
The countryside is another world entirely. An armed, scary world held together by the innovative madness of Texaco Mike.
my grandparents were a medical team (doctor and nurse) in a rural logging camp after WW2. after grandfather managed to save a loggers eye, he went back to specialize in opthomology!
I love how one comment created one of the best unseen characters in this series.
It should be illegal to be this funny. I love rural medicine skits with a passion
Love the Rural Medicine crew! The Texaco Mike Imaging Center is classic! LOL Glad to know they are getting more help. Keep up the great work Dr Glauc, healthcare desperately needs to laugh every so often.
Center of EXCELLENCE:-)
I love that the farming seasons do line up and are in order.
Calving = Winter, when most cattle farmers time their cows to calve.
Planting = Spring, when most the frost stops and allows most crops to be planted for late summer / fall harvest.
Worrying About the Weather = Summer, when droughts are more common and put both crops and animals at risk.
Harvest = Fall, when most crops were harvested prior to the advent of greenhouses and high tunnels.
That interview lasted a lot longer than I expected.
What I expected...
New Doctor: "Knock, knock. Hi, I'm here for my interview".
Rural Medicine: "Here's your onboarding packet. W2s, benefits, salary, our inclement weather policy, time off policy, and information on ALL the insurances. Welcome to the team."
New Guy: "What."
Rural Medicine: "You show up, you're hired."
New Guy: "But I havent even told you my name."
That was Family Medicine.
@@ferretyluv But its also rural medicine, these poor lads are a dying breed :(
@@gandalf_thegreyI think theyre trying to weed out rural d0cs+ any d0cs over the age of 50 which sucks. Ive had my best care with older docs and docs from rural india. Best docs ever. Its like the healthc4re system wants all the d0cs to treat all the patients the same and all h0spitals want to treat all d0cs the same. Thats not good for anyone. The field has become even more money driven than it was.
The Rural Medicine episodes are my favorites. And this is just about the best of them.
To be honest, this and Pediatrics sound not bad to me and Jonathan knows, we need more people in the countryside...
The only problem with rural medicine is you get paid in eggs but the loan companies expect payment in cash...
@@danielles6896 It balances out if you don't need to buy eggs and can sell some of them.
I lived about an hour drive from the nearest hospital as a kid in the '90s, and I feel as though a unique thing about living in a rural area is having to know how to triage your own injuries to a degree that city folk don't. My mom once had a pregnant mare who, when not pregnant, was a show jumper. She decided to jump the fence and... well, let's just say Mom had to stitch her up before calling the vet. 😬 I'm grateful she never had to stitch me up and drive me to a hospital because I feel like if she'd do it to a quarter horse, she wouldn't hesitate to do it with a kid. 😂
One of my early calls involved a kid who got torn up in the barbed wire. I was told to stitch him up and refused because I had no idea how to stitch up anything that big or small strictly speaking. So instead I got yelled out to fetch the tape, and so we used that to basically bind the kid’s abdomen shut for driving him to the hospital. In the back of a patrol car.
She'd be more careful with the quarter then you. Let's be honest here
That does explain my mother's reactions whenever we get hurt when we were kids... She grew up in a rural area.
Felt that, when I was 12, we lived about 45min from the nearest ER. I remember my dad coming home with an army survival basics book n an emergency kit, handing em to me. He said "read up on the emergency procedures section, never know when you might have to stitch, splint or use a tourniquet in order to make it back to the house. If you get seriously injured out in the back 40, there's a chance we won't be able to find you till it's too late. Better to know what to do in a worst case scenario than become food for the coyotes."
Might sound a bit morbid, but he was right, myself n a couple buddy's are still around today thanks to my dad's foresight.
@@williambrown319 ROFL you're absolutely right.
Another great video! I'm always impressed by how it really seems like each character is played by a different person.
I love this so much! Also I am glad Texaco Mike is an off screen character so far, it adds to the mystery, let the lore build up I enjoy it! With how the machines were pieced together, I feel like it is a rural Doctor Who tinkering about.
So much greatness.....I supervise rural community service offices, I never wear dress pants or jackets out there. Jeans and a nice sweater is professional.enough. 😃
Moving to a small rural town I gotta say I absolutely love that the doctor's office knows me. One doctor gave me his cell number in case I had questions about my kids. One made sure to check on me when I had my gallbladder out and another just had to be told my husband was having similar symptoms and he sent another Rx uptown without him having to be seen. They may all know your business but it's nice to be cared for.
The rural medicine ones are always so wholesome.
“One hole straight through!” Texaco Mike’s CT-MRI sounds like a GI tract 😂
The dry laugh and change of subject after “do I need to worry about jasper” made me burst out laughing harder than I have in a long time
I think this one is my favorite so far! Desperate need in the community, familiar with the farm life, and help repaying soul crushing debt!
Rural medicine is one of my favourite characters of yours. He is so different from the rest and he adds a different flavour of comedy.
I love how the suit immediately changed into a jacket once "we'll help you repay your student loans" was said
I think the rural medicine skits are the BEST!! (You forgot hunting season, though😄).
Great timing Dr G, I'm starting my nursing clinicals in rural Australia today ^^
Yyyeeeaaahhh new rural medicine helper god i love rural medicine and their community so much
Family medicine is hands down my favorite character, never ceases to make me laugh 😂
You mean Rural Medicine?
I love the rural stuff. Texaco Mike sounds awesome. Please feature him so we can meet the guy!
Are the egg farms the ones pay off his student loans?!?!
I knew the suit was a problem! Lmao Texico Mike needs a Nobel prize for innovation.
I'm not a med student or anything but the CT and MRI scanner joke made me cry laugh, thank you
I have so much respect for rural medicine!
That quick change of attire at the end is GOLD
Man, you’re hilarious and these are so entertaining. You just keep um coming too!
Rural Doc seems like the only doc who doesn't care about the size of his house or how many cars he has. He took the Hippocratic oath to heart.
Always enjoy the rural medicine skits.
The "porch sitting and knowing everybody's business" sounds like all my aunts growing up! 😂😂😂
omg, your rural medicine content is hilarious. loved the inclusion of the seasons; my dad got out of jury duty because of calving season lol. Is there a rural version of Jonathan? Or maybe that would be...Texico Mike? It would be side-splitting if the rural doctor went to counseling :) Great work, love your content, and hope you have great vibes today!
"It was expensive but fortunately we have several egg farms around here"
"Yeah one hole straight through"