Seriously. My mom used to work the NICU too, and some of the stories I've heard from her are haunting. Fortunately, she was damn good at her job, and she helped save a lot of kids. She still gets Christmas cards and updates from 2 families whose now-adult children she saved when she worked there. She's amazing, and incredibly strong. She's a hero. All good doctors and nurses are. Because of her having been a nurse and telling me about what it was like, I have a huge level of respect and thankfulness for people working in the medical field, especially nurses. They do like 70-80% of the actual physical work to help you, but we tend to give them like 10% of the credit. Long story short, any time you have to interact with medical professionals, make sure to be as respectful, kind, understanding and thankful as possible, and listen to what they tell you, because 99% of the time, they're just trying to help you as best they can. If everyone did that, we'd get better help quicker by not taking up their time bitching and complaining at them for things that aren't their fault, and hopefully help to drop their stress level massively.
Why? Isn't it up to the patient to make such judgments? Your mom might be able to say what something might lead to, but whether or not that outcome is good or bad or how to weigh that against other factors is a value judgement.
I was born prematurely, kept alive by machines for a short time, and grew up very short (5'2" as an adult) with various health conditions (allergies, acne, dandruff, back pain, occasional random nosebleeds a few times a year, currently headaches, etc.) probably because my mom smoked while she was pregnant with me and both parents smoked indoors during my childhood until finally moving at 13. I also had bad nutrition, very little exercise, and was mostly kept inside.
In college I was in a dorm that had a special housing project for pregnant students or students with kids. Two of them didn't want to stop the student party life just because they're pregnant and got really angry, when people told them to stop drinking/smoking. It's my choice, all that talk about alcohol is SO exaggerated, what's one can of beer gonna do, get the stick out of your ass.... Well, guess whose babies were premature and way too thin at birth?
It's quite easy to spot those who fake it in all fairness. What's more difficult is when you know someone has genuine pain but are milking it for time off work. Or as is more common here in the UK, for a sick note they can use to get the Department of Work and Pensions off their backs so they don't have to look for a job!
Backpain is almost impossible to prove if it's real or not. So many possible injuries can cause it from muscle, nerve, spine, bone, etc. And it can be as a result of issues in the legs, joints, brain, organs, etc. That's why it's the #1 condition treated with pain killers.
+Phantomwhite The hard part with figuring out addiction is how to help people who actually have real pain but now are ALSO addicted to pain pills. You have to figure out how to ease their pain while also controlling the pills. No matter why you take pills they will eventually stop working and you have to take more or voluntarily go through a week or two of pain until the persons tolerance drops and can take the pills again.
derek larsen Cracked gives misinformation and shit lying statistics then slaps a graph next to it so people believe it. Use your mind. Do not be a sheep and listen to everything people say just because of their sub and such.
Pontine glioma kills children, mostly between ages 5-10. It's a horribly ruthless disease. I feel for any doctor that has to deal with it daily. I watched my son slowly die over 9 months, and I'll never get over that.
I know words probably mean nothing to you, but I hope you're getting help, professional help for that. Even if you don't suffer from chronic depression, a loss that heavy... I can't even wrap my mind around that. I really do hope that you're doing well.
Ignatz71 buy professional I meant see a therapist or something. Not someone trying to prescribe you pills, but just to hear you out and suss out your feelings. Regardless, I'm glad that you're doing okay, seriously.
My doctor, was the best I've ever had in my life. He was young, attractive, and took the time. He went OUT OF HIS way to help me. And he killed himself.
the solution is Pairing with clinical pharmacists , especially for family medecine and the icu . Studies have proved it decreases doctors burnout rates and improves care for the patient . Give community pharmacists time and resources to teach patients don't overwhelm them for the sake of cooperates . Increase their role , a track to earn licence to independently prescribe like in the UK . repeat certain prescribtions for chronic ilness . Canada is also a great example . It would really revolutionise health care at a fraction of the cost.but mostly it would save lives if doctors and patients.
@@ELQUITO12 When you work 14 hour days doing what doctors do, a Tesla is a small consolation. I know most people don’t see it that way because they just want more money and shiny things because they’ve been told that will make them happy. It won’t.
Well this made me feel super warm and fuzzy inside. I’m currently about to apply to medical school. I’ve taken all the classes i need, I’m continuing to take additional classes that teach things I will learn in medical school, and I take the MCAT soon. I think the absolute worst part about the mental health crisis surrounding doctors is that they are discouraged from getting help. If they admit they are suicidal, they risk losing their license that they literally sold their soul for. This HAS to be fixed. Immediately. I’d like to be one of the people that fixes that shit. Because that’s what it is. Shit. Thanks for listening.
I'm in med school now, bloody hell, this video did not help, at this rate I'll consider to let go of part of my sanity to stay strong or become stronger, I want into medical reasearch cause the man hours are inhuman, we need a lot more doctors, the system is truly messed up.
@@JemXem doctors usually don't have that much time as they probably can't take a day off and also the routine that doctors like the person in the video usually have
I work for the Post office and I would absolutely love for cracked to do one on the postal service and system because it is full of myths and false information that people have been told over many decades and I as a young informed person spend most of my days as a customer service representative trying to clear up and debunk these things
SrA Gaming If you've got a knack for writing, or a friend who does, Cracked is one of those websites that outsources a lot of its content to other creators. Meaning, you could write your own article or produce your own video, submit it to them, and they'll post it and pay you for it. Just a suggestion.
I'm on a lot of meds, one night I took my night meds, then later forgot I did so and took another set. I realized my mistake only after I swallowed them. Tried to throw them up, then called poison control when I told her I tried to force them back up the woman laughed and said 'well that won't get you anywhere' we then went of over the meds and it turns out I was fine. I couldn't imagine going to the doctor for it, would have taken hours. Poison control people are great.
when my daughter was little she ate a flower I picked from my yard (I didn't plant it, so idk what it was exactly) and she started puking so I called poison control and they were super helpful. those guys and gals are great.
Evil Snail that's not true for all medicine some like medicine that stops your blood from clotting ( sorry I studied in french an I don't know how to translate medical stuff) loses it's effect after several hours so you should not skip a dose.
omaima el fidha I really think the only blood thinners that would lose their effect after hours would be heparin type blood thinners that they give you through an IV in the hospital. With warfarin, which is the most common blood thinner, it takes 5 days to get your clotting time back to normal after taking it. I think the newer ones only last 24 hours, but I would talk to a pharmacist or a doctor before deciding wether to skip a dose or take the next dose on time after taking a double dose.
As a mental health counselor, I can relate to the long hours of documentation. On another note, doctors, take care of yourselves, come see us. Health professionals have a specialty for a reason, don't forget we are here to support you, just as you support us with our bodies.
Probably teachers. They are expected to be many things, and thousands of them are probably staying proffessional by hiding their depressions or anger they feel because of all the immature students that make their jobs a living hell.
Simple-Commentator-not-really my parents are both teachers, and I can’t tell you the number of times my mom has ranted to me about how her students are getting 30s and 40s for not turning in work, but then expecting her to grade 3 dozen essays in a night at the end the grading period because they turn it in late. My dad’s a coach and he’s had to sit through far too many parents speeches about how their precious little boy isn’t on varsity or didn’t get on the field at least three times even though he hardly comes to practice.
For the most part, parents are FAR worse than students. Far, far worse. I work in special ed. Dealing with the various needs and tantrums and whatnot of my students isn't the hard part. Honestly. It's dealing with a parent who refuses to acknowledge that their kid needs support or who gets mad that we had to restrain their precious little angel who was BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF ANOTHER KID and demands a two-hour meeting with the administrator. Then there is the parent of that kid who wants to know why a student was "allowed" to hit theirs... So yeah. Parents are the worst part, followed by the stupid paperwork. The students don't usually bother me.
Your doctor is supposed to show you how to use your inhaler. When I got tested for asthma they slowly went through it like ten times even though I insisted I already knew how to use it. Guess they have to so stupid people don’t use it as perfume lmao
why don't you be a doctor in naturopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic care, acupuncture, physical, or massage therapy? why kill people with McDonalds non foods do you just HAVE to take part in poisoning people?
30 years ago, my toddler niece drank some kind of chemical while my brother (her father) was supposed to be watching her. He called Poison Control in a panic, but found that the tiny amount she ingested wasn't a problem. He was glad his wife was at work so she'd never know what happened. The moment she came home, the phone rang. It was Poison Control doing follow-up. She answered and a man with a thick Middle Eastern accent said, "How is your daughter?" She thought he said "WHERE is your daughter, and she went into full panic mode! Her 1st thought was that her baby had been kidnapped, and this stranger was going to ask for ransom.
"I'm allergic to Tylenol, I can only take Percocet" This is extra hilarious because Percocet is just a small amount of oxycodone mixed with a much much larger amount of Tylenol. Percocet is like 95% Tylenol
Regarding dug addicts: the doctor failed to mention the many addicts that started because a doctor put them on pain pills for a month and then once they were physically addicted cut them off. Never preparing them for the additional pain they will feel from withdrawal. Doctors prescribing pain pills for more then 3 weeks should gradually lower the dose to prevent this. It's a hell of a feeling when your whole body is in physical pain, you don't know why and you realize the only way to instantly make it go away is a pill.
My dad is a doctor, and I have actually heard him explaining this before actually. I'll try summarizing it. Around the mid 90s, more people were arguing for the legalization of opioids and weed. So "studies" were done that showed that opioids weren't addictive when people were in pain. And a ton of people were liberally prescribed drugs up until around 2010, when parma industries, doctors, and hospitals found out that 1. these "studies" were funded by opiate drug companies and 2. people became addicted. As a result, doctors have been much more strict now, giving lower doses for a more limited set of physical pains. And the addicted will go through any lengths to get more drugs, which has caused them to become extremely tricky by (eg. asking doctor associates for drugs rather than the doctor for the drugs when the doctor is away) So now, the common patient blames either the doctor or the hospital for this problem when in reality, the burden of the guilt is equally on the pharma, the doctor, and the patient. This is also a really big reason why my dad doesn't trust the recent claims that weed has essentially no negative effects for people over 21.
+ Radi Bear I totally agree with you and your dad. I heard the same thing about the pharma companies misleading the doctors with studies. On top of that they offered really nice incentives (like free vacations and stuff) to doctors that choose to prescribe their products (like Perdue's 30mg blue roxycotin) to patients. Of course SOME doctors knew their patients didn't need the pills and the doctors were just making bank by charging the clients to keep coming back. But they are usually the one's who got arrested and make up the minority. Part of the blame is on the government. The DEA admitted that they knew once they cracked down on pain pills there would then be a surge in heroin use. Especially since the drug cartels jumped on this opportunity and managed to get cheap and pure heroin into the country. So pure and cheap it could be sniffed instead of injected which appealed more to middle class kids who were afraid of needles but okay putting stuff up their nose. I live in New York, which is the main hub where most of heroin comes in that then filters out to the rest of the USA. It hit us hard here, especially on Long Island which is all suburban house holds. A bag of heroin that cost $20-30 anywhere else cost less then $10 here and is more pure. Almost everyone here knows at least one person who has overdosed in the last 10 years. There's no excuse of a patient/doctor in present time to "accidentally" get someone hooked on pain pills. There is too much information about it now. However there should be more empathy put towards patients that got hook on this several years ago when doctors/patients didn't know better. At least make it easier to put patients on maintenance drugs like Suboxone so they can slowly be weened off.
+TissuePaperGamer Sorry, that was bad phrasing. I changed it. And what do you mean by sources? The studies that I said? The change in mentality of doctors? The potential harms of weed? Because my source is my dad, who is a practicing doctor that has experienced the mentality change in the medical environment from 1990 to now. Is this not a good enough source to explain a doctor's point of view of this situation? and fyi, I do have sources for all my other claims. Just hit me up on some and I'll post
Shortfall of teachers too. Several occupations are having extreme shortfalls. I have a friend who is a teacher who bought her student a jacket because his mother didn’t have the money to buy him one, and my friend pretended to find it for him as an extra in the lost and found pile. She loves her students and pays out of her own paycheck for school supplies that the school doesn’t provide. While politicians cut school funding in their tax cuts to the wealthy and then have the audacity to blame teachers for why schools struggle.
That's because kids these days are spoiled shitty know it alls that record you while teaching to send to the news and have your shit go viral for doing something that hurt their little shitty feelings and all the world will somehow say it's the teachers fault that they are a bunch of pussies and should jump off a bride....THATS WHY :P
AmethystEyes I'm studying Astronomy, a relatively small field. In all of my classes, even my astronomy classes, it seems like 60% of students are studying computer science, and 20% are studying psychology. We're going to see a massive amount of people entering in tech fields, while we're also seeing a decrease in plumbers, roofers, sanitation workers, etc. The tech market is getting flooded while we'll be waiting weeks to get a plumber to come check out a leaking pipe. Hell, even NASA is dying for astrophysicists. We need people to do the nitty gritty work whether my generation wants to or not. And unfortunately, a lot of people with computer science degrees are going to have to get those kinds of jobs.
Spills51 I said it when I was five, I said it when I was ten, I said it when i was fifteen, I said it when I was 20, Im saying it now Suck it the fuck up and do not become a teacher if you cant deal with teens/children. You signed up to be a teacher. As much as you want to coddle yourself, comfort yourself, rock back in forth in the fetal position while attempting to convince yourself its "kids these days", for a few seconds of feeling like you didnt get what you signed up for, this is not the case. You simply forgot what kids and teens are like and have a selective memory. Boohoo your Job has drawbacks, welcome to adulthood MANY Teachers can get away with being lazy as shit, verbally abusive, and bringing in there personal/political/relationship issues into the classroom and taking out on young children and pubescent adolescents instead of FUCKING TEACHING.
God rest his soul. I wish that Hollywood would remember men such as he, before filming nonsense such as "Lorenzo's Oil." Yeah, I'll believe that two parents, with positively no medical or pharmaceutical training, discover how to cure their terminally ill son by mixing olive and rapeseed oil in their kitchen!
Last following Sorry for your loss. My brother a straight A student took his life. Western medicine KILLS, Where as Holistic Healing Cures. When V.A. kicked me to the curb, I took my Health Into My Own Hands.
Went to the ER after I'd fallen on some ice came in with a very severely fractured arm (right angles on arms are a good sign it's broken), and was complaining about back pain too. The refused to give me any pain medication, even when they were setting my broken arm. Heard the doctor talking later to a nurse about 'the lengths addicts will go to get drugs' in reference to me (don't do drugs, don't drink, don't smoke and was going to school for Astrophysics) but because I was wearing dingy house clothes when I was taken to the hospital they treated me like shit.Months later I was still having back pain, and they finally did an MRI, boy was it great to see the smug look on the doctors face disappear when he had to admit that I'd fractured my back and had legit reason to be in pain. Simple x-ray back when I first injured myself would have proved it, but many doctors simply judge people based on appearance.
Oh I feel bad for you. My mom kinda went the same procedure, while she was pregnant with me she suddenly felt bad and went to the hospital to check up with a doctor. And the doctor said that she was just "nervous" about having a child, she kept coming back saying that she still feels the pain and the doctor would repeat the same thing over and over again. Saying she was just nervous. she even called my mom crazy at one point. my mom decided to check up in another hospital and turns out she had a kidney stone. The doctor didn't even bother to have a check up with her.
This happened to my dad when I was a kid. The nurse that attended my dad for lower abdominal pains told my mom "he just has a fever" when his eye whites were sun yellow. Went back the next week and the nurse said the same thing, my mom basically had to demand an ultrasound/x-ray (can't remember as it was years ago) and she finally said "oh, you have appendicitis". The doctors informed us that had he arrived 5 minutes later to the hospital he would've been dead.
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Guess some say that but can't remember when I've heard it and I work with good doctors every day in one of the largest medical centers in the country. Patients with chronic pain need meticulous accurate diagnoses (something they only occasionally get) and expert treatment by specialists, including legitimate pain specialists.
My stepdad went to the ER complaining that his side hurt after he fell and hit a table. They assumed he was there for drugs. He went back home went to sleep thinking that Doctors knew best. He woke up later that night in Unspeakable Pain and had to call an ambulance cause he couldnt move. They did XRays and realized that he had 4 Broken Ribs and 2 Cracked. Also you guys do a terrible job of keeping my Sister away from your Drugs.
UNDERSTAND THAT! How is it the doctor's fault? You're arguing they aren't doing a good enough job keeping people away from drugs in the same breath you're arguing they hold the drugs away too much.
UNDERSTAND THAT! In that situation, it was actually bst they didnt give him the meds, otherwise no one would've known he was that severely hurt for a long time. I must say however, in the case of any potential bone break, IE, any fall, they are meant to do an XRay to make sure.
once went in to get tested for Strep throat, when my mom asked the doctor if we could get tested, he said "you don't look sick enough to have the strep go home" went to another hospital later tested strep positive Edit: the edit in this comment is this and changing strep throat from flu because i had a brain fart and said i had the flu
Doctor knew you were full of shit because if you had real flu you wouldn't be walking about. A real flu as opposed to man flu knocks the crap out of your body and can potentially kill you.
Flu nowadays generally doesn't kill people unless they're super-young or elderly. This isn't the Spanish Flu of 1918. (I'm currently studying medical microbiology, and my professor said that in the next few weeks we'll discuss WHY strong, healthy young adults aren't dropping dead from the flu like they were 99 years ago).
Not a doctor, but I've worked as a clerk at an ER for four and a half years. This kind of stupidity affects anyone with patient interactions. I've had homeless people come in faking being sick just to try to get a place to sleep, drug addicts come in because they were trying to get a quick fix, and even once a psych patient I signed in ended up, (after my shift was over), stealing a security guard's gun and fired off several rounds in the ER, (though no one was hurt), and found out that instead of facing any consequences he was released to go home a couple of days later with a refilled prescription. These kind of things will really drive your sanity through the ground, and that's not even mentioning how many patients will fight you essentially over getting basic paperwork information. Though, out of everything, my personal pet peeve is the sheer amount of people who go to the Emergency Room for minor things like a mild fever or upset stomach they've had for a week, instead of going to a clinic. Particularly when those same people complain about other, actually serious, patients going back before them.
If you've been shot or stabbed, an ER is a good place to go. For routine medical problems or medical enigmas, it's not. The abbreviation usually used for "insertions" is FBR (foreign body in rectum). Yes, lightbulbs are surprisingly common and very unwise. I don't think much of docs who prescribe Percocet because it's really a poor analgesic combination. I'm surprised that it's worth much on the street, but there are a huge number of addicts and their knowledge of pharmacology usually isn't very good.
After having my csection I was given Percocet during my remaining 9 days in the hospital, and upon discharge was given a ibuprofin Norco mix, and aday or so after discharge started experiencing withdrawal symptoms from the Percocet. They lasted a few days and I felt awful. I was taking the max allowed dosage the entire 9 days after my csection, and note for anyone else who may comment to my comment, I wasn't getting high, it was just barely taking the edge off of my pain
@@NyraBrowniez exact thing happened to me just not a c section. but a really rough vaginal birth which many who had both say is worst than a c section (not knocking c sections just saying many that had both say vaginal is more painful but easier to keep infection free compared to c sections)....I won't go into detail other than I was stuck in the hospital longer than the normal 2 days and the doctor asked my mother to stay with me cause of the major lost of blood and trauma down there. Over 20 hours in labor and etc I earned my drugs after the birth of my kid. screw everyone else also tbh sinus pain, nerve pain in my teeth, and just teeth pain is the fucking worst pain worst than child birth and I went through an extreme child birth that at least not many go through
@@NyraBrowniez The simple fact is that C-sections are often far more surgically traumatic than they really have to be. Choose your surgeon (obstetrician in this case) carefully.
@@NyraBrowniez withdrawals after only 9 days? I think a lot of that was mental and left over birth stuff. I was a SERIOUS heroin addict for years. When I first started, I used oxycontin(stronger than Percocet) I used to go on week long benders and then just stop with no problem. It wasn't until I went on a good month long, multiple hits a day run that I started to get sick.... And my life fell apart. Ten again .... Everybody's body is different. Maybe your body metabolizes differently, or your just genetically predisposed to addiction. Hell, anything's possible.
@@wholeNwon it was an emergency C-section, I didn't have a choice in surgeon as I had went into shock, as had my baby and we both nearly died, he wasn't breathing, and I lost massive amounts of blood, I was an unhealthy papery pale
Mr. Mute, No. This shit is *NOT* funny. Don't you know in a democracy, millions of people just that stupid, get a vote on the decision to surrender our rights to the government. People are so stupid they even laugh at the shit that should terrify them...
The battle is definitely tough in the medical field. I'm aiming to become an Assistant Physical Therapist but I acknowledge you as more honorable than I. SALUTE to you, comrade.🇺🇸 🇮🇱👍
So, quit? If you're already about to become insane, which you should be able to diagnose instead of exaggerate about, then it's your fault if you carry on. Noone's forcing anyone to be a doctor.
I live in the country with a highly underpaid doctors and the government cutting the investment into medicine yearly. Not only regular people suffering from not getting the desperately needed quality medical supplies, but also doctors who do not have neither good equipment, nor perfectly regular stuff like non-reusable gloves. Once I got hospitalized and saw first-hand how the doctors, nurses and orderlies managed to keep the facility going against all odds - and felt huge respect for those fellas. While everybody around was whining, I saw how impossible it was to just get the job done. Those people have balls!
Not sure about Vee, but I witnessed public health care in Manila, Philippines (among a few other less populated islands) and it was absolutely insane those doctors must see so many patients a day and their ability to laugh and make jokes about my boyfriend being a foreigner while he's dying of dehydration and the ER doctor was upstairs doing surgery and resuscitating someone back to life, while my mom is running back and fourth to the drug store because the hospital(s?) don't carry IV bags just kinda symbolizes how important it is to be able to laugh and keep your head on, even with literally dire situations. The nurse apologized because the whitest sheets they had were stained from someone who gave birth and they only got 20 new sheets from the government every year.
True. Although, more people are going to med school than ever, but get this. THERE ARE NO NEW RESIDENCY POSITIONS. So we have a bunch of med students who can't get training, and therefore cannot practice medicine. They just have MDs for nothing It's insane.
Well, you see by hearting is a tradition in my country. I've seen children by heart a whole subject without trying understand anything. This applies to for IT, commerce, EVERYTHING. Though they pass with flying colors, 80% of them are not qualified to even clean a toilet, or write a text program or give a cpr. In my country passing exams is everything. It doesn't matter if you're interested in any of it. Oh and.....India, is my country btw.
"Please call poison control, even if your problem is hilarious" One time I was doing calligraphy naked and accidentally spilled ink containing lead on my lady parts so I called them. They thought it was a prank call. :') I wanted to die
I have a heart condition and I was dehydrated and had chest pain. I went to the ER they treated me like shit and asked me what meds i wanted. The options they gave me were pain killers. I told the RN if i could just have ibuprofen. She looked pissed and ran an EKG. She realized i wasnt lying. I get it. But damn i hate being mistaken for a drug addict when I'm having chest pain! ITS CHEST PAIN!!! LOL
An EKG will never tell you if chest pain exists per se, it's to look for possible causes of chest pain. So she wouldn't know if you were lying or not just by doing an EKG. So what did the EKG show?
@@disenchanted987 Clearly she ran the ECG to see if there was an abnormal rhythm from damage to the muscle. it's not designed to diagnose every possible cause of chest pain, but it is one test that is frequently done for suspected heart attacks. So, obviously, are blood tests and other tests.
My mom went cliff jumping when she was in the navy and messed up her back. She is in basically constant pain, to this day like 30 years later. The VA however stopped perscribing opiates because a large number of vets are selling their pills. Well my mom actually needed them, she ended up getting disk injections (dont know actual procedure name) so shes alright now, but the point to my rambling is opiate epidemic shouldn't punish the people that use them for legitimate reasons. The responsible people who use them when they need them and wont sell to easily make a buck. She had oxycodons, and even then sometimes the pain was there, just dulled.
Elaina M DO NOT USE KRATOM. And do not start smoking weed for pain. Topical formulations or less powerful edibles are the route. Do not try that without consulting a physical therapist who will fix your problems 90% of the time if you actually give a damn and listen.
Elaina M I didn’t bother reading all of that. Smoking weed is a gateway. Medical is fine but not smoking medically. KRATOM has given me super bad pains in my stomach and is not known by the FDA as being safe. You do you all natural mom medication person 👋
@@joshuahhhhhh actually Kratom is good all those lies the fda r spewing about it is not true😡😡 they just want it banned so everyone wont leave big pharma and stop using their crap😡😡
That was one the best videos I've ever seen in my life, in every aspect, writing and narration, witty humour, information, brilliant animation, kudos to the makers of this video.
I work in a hospital and I can tell you that I see tons of patients on a regular basis that all they want is Morphine or Percocet or something. I'll be transporting or transferring a patient from one part of the hospital to another, and they'll be jolly, talking to me and joking around. Until they get to their room and see the doctor and floor nurse. Then they start acting the part. Then I'm like, jeez, you know I'm going to give them a hand-off right?!?!
@Susan Mason I was in a car crash this year and I was strapped to the ambulance mac and I was laughing with the medic while in pain Yeah, depends on the person..
I am a medic too and can say, I laughed and cried a little when I saw this, but they say the truth. You know... The part of the child and the tumor is damn true. One gets to know the patients and then, sometimes they die and you can't stop it... it's really hard to deal with that, a lot of responsibility and expectations go over your shoulders, so depression and stress problems are not that weird... You got to keep your mind healthy, first priority to all my colleagues! And please, please read the instructions on the recipes we gave you!... Pretty please.
Hey if your serious about that.. and you are a doctor. can pontine glioma actually not be treated..? like people with it will die cause.. My boyfriend has pontine glioma or..atleast a brain tumor with a simular name and I'm actually sorta worried now..
Kasai Eien No a pontine gliaoma has a very bad prognosis meaning most patients will die in a matter of months. There different types of brain tumors that can be treated if discovored early like astroma or meningeal glioma
it is true, but more than the hospital, the main blameworthy is the use of antibiotics in farm animals, 80% of antibiotics are used on animals in the US consumersunion.org/news/the-overuse-of-antibiotics-in-food-animals-threatens-public-health-2/
skitty Just because I'm not vegan, doesn't mean I drink the oil I use to fry my steak. I try to maintain a balanced diet with both animal products and vegetables, and I'm healthy as a horse.
I'm a med student& still a long way to go becoming a proper full fledged doctor and honestly just a single breakdown away from insanity. Most doctors have it rough. Sad but true...
the sweat looks like faces melting instead of sweat. Awesome video tho Also, whoever says "I'm allergic to Motrin and Tylenol. I can only take Percocet." must be too lazy to take literally 1-3 minutes to look up what's in Percocet. APAP(Tylenol) is in Percocet.
Acetamenophen does nothing for a lot of people, but will destroy your liver, especially when mixed with alcohol. Ibuprofen (NSAID) is hard on kidneys, especially if you're diabetic. Neuropathic pain is treated with anti-seizure medication (gabapentin or pregabalin), both minimally effective and VERY addictive. This anti-opioid hysteria, and gullible doctors, are leaving people in pain. "I can't prescribe narcotic pain relief because you might get addicted," says the doctor who believes the CDC instead of what they were taught in medical school. Less than 3% of people taking prescribed narcotics for pain relief become addicted. Many become dependent, but there's a big difference between dependence and addiction.
@@THE1andONLYHairfish so true about the liver stuff like find a better alternative before taking shit people need. my favorite is we consume the most opiods..... Um yeah what do you expect when we are the biggest 1st world country? 3rd or even second world countries that can't even afford to eat let alone see a doctor and get meds? Are we seriously not gonna use ground breaking needs like opiods that are supposed to be used to make life as normal as possible for those in chronic pain? And they wonder why people are willing to try anything for pain like kratom so they don't kill themselves. I've been there with the worst teeth pain of my life and disgusted with them treating me like a drug addict when a good look of my face and inside my mouth proves my pain along with me begging for antibiotics and whatever they got before I lose my mind. Like how many are really trying to score drugs from a doctor anyways compared to people in real pain? I doubt it's that high when it's cheaper and easier to get them off the street. Doubt it's that high like so called kratom deaths that are always mixed with 3 other prescription drugs like Xanax. Even if it did kill someone all by itself I have to be more careful with aspirin! Anything can kill you at the end of the day
@@THE1andONLYHairfish The levels of pain relief that paracetamol offers is really not worth the work your liver required to break the crap down. I read an article recently that said that paracetamol even at the daily dose of no higher than 4 grams could be a lot more damaging to the liver than first known. I treat my back pain with MST but you have to be dying here to get that on script.
Trust me guys, you do not wanna end up in a hospital. The food is tasteless, the beds are hardly comfortable, you have procedures . Some people: I'm sure it's not THAT bad. To all those, yeah, it kinda is. I was diagnosed with leukemia. (don't get too worried, treatment is going really well, and my doctor and nurses say I'll live) when I was 14. I'm 7 months into treatment, and let me tell you. Not. Fun. Please, everyone do yourselves, and me, a favor. Take care of yourselves. No one deserves cancer, and yet at the hospital I go to has mostly kids. I don't think you wanna get stuck there. Thank you for reading...
Ariana Augustine in holland it would be heaven if you weren't there for a reason, you have a whole fucking list of foods you can chose from and shit like that, it's kinda great tbh
Ariana Augustine Americanhospital* Here in sweden and austria we have extremly comfy beds, fresh restaurant quality food and its free (like we realy dont have to pay for anything that is an medical necasity ie. woubd treatmant ambulance operations pain killers etc
Depends on which hospital. The food has no additives so it tastes bland, it's designed to be more nutritious, Some hospitals make it feel like a home. Pets, Books, Toys, etc. It's about where, and why.
While I agree patients could do a little bit to improve the lives of doctors, I think most of the issues are systemic. A profession looking after the health of people that pushes people to live schedules that are not in line with our biology. Something is going to give.
@ Yeah, a business where people's lives are at stake. The Increase cost comes from not the doctors, but hospital executives, big pharmaceutical corporations , and the insurance companies themselves. There are some good doctors out there that do oppose shitty price gouging. They know people might die if they don't get the drugs and treatment they need. Doctors see death as often as a police officer or soldier, and it mind F*%&$! them just the same. I recommend watching Dirty Money the Drug Short episode on Netflix.
If you guys want the truth without having to scour the internet and libraries then simply watch this video because they did it for you. ua-cam.com/video/9tl32qbvCj8/v-deo.html If you want to cross check all the facts then be my guest. If you're happy being ignorant then don't be upset if you find truth.
Last time I went in to the ER was for an infection I had cleaned myself I needed antibiotics and was in extreme pain doc asked if I wanted pain killers? I said no doc I just need the antibiotics as long as you agree that it's a need. I was written a scrip for the antibiotics and was out of the ER in 15 min flat. He asked me a few other questions about what I was doing to clean it, he saw that I cut the infection out said I was nuts and was happy to give me the antibiotics. He said he was surprised that I not only didn't ask for pain killers I refused when offered. It's days like that, when I know I made their moment, and even for a few seconds restored their faith in humanity.
People tolerate pain differently. Suffering through it on principle isn't admirable or commendable. It's stupid and dangerous and sets a very dangerous expectation for people who are not you but are then judged by your self flagellation. Unmanaged pain causes a crapton of problems all by itself (physical and psychological). Doctors exist to relieve suffering, not to encourage it.
Aaron Layes dear God, I sincerely hope that showing up at the ER having CUT the infection out didn't actually "make" anyone's day. I suspect it made *your* day and you were oblivious to the consternation it caused to ER staff and doc. If I were a doc and you showed up like that... I'm sorry to say that I would file it alongside of those with the shop modified dildos impaled in the backside. Because dude... in 2017 there's no reason to cut infection out yourself. Unless you just can't afford a doc visit. Or If You are of the older generations I can understand it, because in their day you actually did sometimes have to do things like that. But otherwise you are not doing something you should be proud of. You should re evaluate your actions and reasoning, and change your behavior accordingly.
Yeah, but with a lot of these drugs it's a short term help for possible long term harm. If it hurts, that sucks, but in a lot of situations the pain will go away eventually, but it's possible you could get an addiction, which then causes you, and the health systems HUGE problems.
I can't imagine what is like for doctors now that want to treat patients and are told no by ridiculous insurance companies or even worse government mandates that interfere with the doctor's care. It's literally sick.
...um I highly doubt that the high depression amongst med students are *solely* because of silly patients. Maybe the intense pressure and unrealistic expectations is part of it?
I think what the video was trying to get across is there wouldn't be so much pressure if people would use common sense and treat their bodies with some respect. Then they wouldn't have to go see a doctor leaving that doctor open to tend to someone else. If 100 people did this that's 100 less people the doctors have to deal with, which means less pressure.
You would be surprised. I used to work at a hospital and just WATCHING doctors having to deal with some of these jerks on the reg was depressing enough. I can only imagine how soul crushing it is when you have to deal with all of this first hand, including all the shit people talk about doctors when they turn out not to be pill passing miracle machines.
+FlashMan the depression, suicide, and drug abuse rate is also just as high in the veterinary profession. We have the same pressures as doctors, and care just as much about saving the lives of our patients, but instead of having to deal with jerk patients, we deal with jerk owners. Plus, we always have PETA and other fake animal rights organisations clambering down our throats for animal abuse when we do more for them then they do
People come to a doctor because they are suffering, and THEY ARE NOT FUCKING DOCTORS! They have pain and/or fear, that's about all. Asking them to have correctly acted is FUCKING ARROGANT. Even if they could have correctly acted they don't have diagnostic equipment or prescription pads. But these myopic prejudices should make you fit right in to North American medicine.
Well, then we can just hope that AI can diagnose us all at home correctly soon. Going to the doctor isn't fun either. So many ill people, and such a long time in the waiting room...
Sir, I just want you to know that there still folks like us that not only appreciates your work but you're a hero in the eyes of the community. But IF you ever decide to find another career, we understand. GOD BLESS YOU and GOD send His angels to watch over you doc.🇺🇸 🇮🇱👍
Former Army and I do security for a Medical Clinic and I can tell you it's not just Dr's its the M.A's the Optometrist the Radiologist,House Keeping and the P.A.R's even Security ect ect..Its The whole place.!. we all know How ridiculously bad it can be and how Amazing it can be. We all have to do paper work at sometime and Sweet Honey Ice Tea it can be long. So please be patient while your a patient, We know you hurt and can be scared/upset but we can't help you if you cant help us help you.
I was a good student so my parents heavily encouraged me to go to medical school; I refused because I felt like it wasn't really worth all the time you need to spend in school, especially considering the grueling schedule which oftentimes doesn't allow you to work. I knew I'd have to take up student loans to pay for med school, so I tried to calculate how long it would take me to pay them back. Considering most doctors don't break the 100k threshold (unless they're an orthopedic or plastic surgeon), and that an engineer makes about the same amount with much shorter schooling, I figured that was a better choice. I don't regret my choice at all... Being a doctor is really tough in terms of scheduling, emotional investment, and the pay is not THAT great that it compensates for all of it. I wouldn't advise my kids to go into that field either.
I don't know where you get your salary figures but you are wrong. I live in a small Midwestern town and when I was in the medical field doctors in family practice were starting at $165,000/yr. twenty-five years ago.
You should not be a doctor for the money. I believe that for all the efforts, energy and time you put in the payment isn't worth it. You should do it because you like helping people and saving lives.
This video reminded me of a horrible hospital stay I went through. So I went through surgery a few weeks ago and when I woke up I was in excruciating pain. They decided to give me dipyrone and it wasn't helping at all (what the hell, I don't have a headache, my flesh was cut open). I had to start screaming for help for a long time until they decided to speak to a doctor on call (who took a long time to respond) and authorize giving me some morphine, so I managed to get some sleep. I went to the room and soon the morphine wore off and the pain came back. They insisted in giving me dipyrone while I insisted it wasn't helping and I was still in a lot of pain. After a sleepless night from the pain and a lot of insisting the nurses went to the doctor on call and I was authorized to take tramadol in case of emergency, while they continued to give me dipyrone every 6 hours. I've seen vets go straight to prescribing tramadol for surgery recovery patients, why do medical doctors and nurses insist on goddamn dipyrone?
That drug has been completely banned in most countries! I don't know where you live, but you need to move to a country that has joined the modern world.
Opioid abuse is a problem but it's being villanized lately to the point that people who really need them are suffering. The worst part is that abusers are more able to jump through hoops and get them than people who are in constant pain. I'm close to someone who's life is a living hell because she can't get the medication she desperately needs due to the politically fueled crackdowns and jaded doctors. Edit: She just dropped below 90 pounds and might genuinely be close to death. And I just saw another add by a f***ing politician in front of my video talking about our state's opiod abuse problem.
Lawrence Lentini I completely understand. I have fibromyalgia and It's an absolute nightmare disease to have. There is no better options for it. Nope just pain killers. And if I take just one or two over than I'm supposed to. The doctor is like " Oh you're addicted. Time to take your drugs away!"
amanda woolum If you get opioids for your fibromyalgia, you're being mistreated. Lots of non-addictive painkillers are more effective and don't carry the risk of developing addiction
I used to have bad fibromyalgia problems. It turned to be EMF sensitivity. Electro Magnetic Fields. Wifi, cell phones, Bluetooth, etc all triggered pain. I have less rashes and less pain now that all that junk is unplugged. Electricity and nerves are linked... After years of suffering and superstition, I finally bought an EMF meter (Trifield 100) to prove what I was feeling. Life is much better with less pain, and less arguing with the people that cant feel elektrosmog.
It kills me as somebody who needs a painkiller, but won’t ask for it because of the stigma of being accused of being someone who doesn’t need it but someone who has had multiple surgeries and has a auto immune disease
So if I go to the doctor and tell him that something's stuck in my butt because I didn't read the instructions carefully and now I need Percocet to deal with resulting pain, will their head explode immediately, or once they get home and start charting?
I misread "Charting" as "chanting"... I was imagining some kind of altar with a squat green statue in the corner of a doctor's home and the doctor taking to speaking long forgotten tongues... >.>'
Docter: so what's going on sir? *Patient: G I B P A I N P I L L S !* Docter: pain pill machine broke. *Patient:understandable, have a very good rest of the day doc*
Have you used the NHS? It's dog shit for anything other than very simple things, and generally better for simple physical things, whilst being very poor for mental illness. $1,000 is the insurance cost. A lot of countries with socialised medicine bill in high numbers for ambulance trips, it's just covered by public or private insurace. The NHS still bills the Government for your trips, you just don't see it. I lived in Australia, and they charge for ambulance trips, too.
1000 is a steal for an ambulance ride in most of America. Last time I had an ambulance I was charged around 3,700 for a 3 mile drive where they picked me up, checked my vitals, and dropped me off at the hospital.
It's nothing to do with easy access to effective medications to commit suicide with, or just an increase in the number of doctors? Any other external factors? I'd love to see your sources...
Pxndx Lunx you can't always do that. For instance, if you are incapacitated and not able to consciously make that decision. I was knocked out in a car accident last year, and I had to be cut out of my car. I was life flighted to a random hospital. I had no say in the matter; I merely woke up and that's where I was. I was so out of it, I barely realized what was going on and didn't know what happened to me. Even if I could've made those choices myself, I would've potentially died if I tried to drive myself to the hospital because I was in critical condition and would not have been able to make it there in time. Sometimes you just have no choice. And if it's your life in danger, you either die or pay.
Dylan t you go into debt and it gets sent to collections if you can't make payments on it. Then it ruins your credit score for 7 years making it impossible to rent a decent home, and a single ride can easy cost 20,000$
8523wsxc You'd have to check back in about 7 years. But I'll just answer you now anyways. No! Lol. But really I hope the whole stress and suicide thing is a lot better by then.
Lucas Peder I'm an RN. 20 years of experience. You wouldn't believe how many physicians have told me that if they had any idea what they were getting into, they would NEVER have become a doctor. One of them even "ran away", and last any of us heard, he was working on a fishing boat. Do what you want, but do it with open eyes. There is no such thing as a "healthcare" system anymore - it is a sick care system, and all those years of training aren't going to mean spit if you think you will do anything other than follow insurance company algorithms. Once you're on the hook for the massive debt of medical school, you're stuck. Having seen what it really is, I thank God I didn't opt for that track. I don't recommend nursing either. It's still the same dysfunctional system. If you *genuinely* want to help people, look into chiropractic or a naturopathic program. If you are just gunning for a big salary, there are plenty of other options.
When I crushed a vertebra, I couldn't believe how much concern the ER docs (and other staff) showed. It was like they could feel my pain. I really expected that people who worked in an ER would become hard and disconnected. I don't know how they do it.
I dont know about the us but in brazil we have benzethacil, an injection that is really painfull but made a really terrible back pain i had go away in a blink. Your legs get stiff, your butt(the site of the injection) gets hard as a block of wood and a moderate to extreme pain shoots through your leg from you butt for the next 2 hours. The us should start using those when suspecting addiction, cuz if the person is willing to endure the pain for 2 hours straight, that person is really sick
My brother had some dental work done, and had severe pain, so he went back to the dentist office and told them. He ended up waiting for over two hours, and decided to leave and went to a different dentist, and the second dentist said he had the worst abscess he had ever seen, and that it could have killed him. My brother called the first dentist office to tell them, and vent his anger, and they said, "Oh, we thought you just wanted drugs." I personally am upset about this, because the dentists' office assumed, and didn't investigate, and their plan was to not see him, making him wait until he left or they closed. Personally, I think he should sue the first dentists' office, but then, I don't know if he could win. Either way, it may be difficult to tell who's lying, but doctors shouldn't assume everyone is.
What's wrong with our government and healthcare system is more like it. And we don't *choose* to pay for it. Last time I went to the ER they *forced* me to go in an ambulance just so they could charge us (even though the hospital was LITERALLY around the corner and we could have easily driven)
You pay for ambulances too, just through taxes. Insurance companies in the US will pay for some ambulance costs, but not all, and most people don't pay the full bill if they qualify as low income. Honestly unless it is a legitimate life or death situation you shouldn't use an ambulance, as it takes up resources for those who actually need them.
CodeDarkBlue I fail to see how they forced you. Did you call 911 first? If so then they sent out the ambulance to cover their ass. If you weren't bad enough that they needed to send an ambulance why didn't you just go straight to the hospital yourself without calling 911? I know it seems easy in retrospect and having time to reflect, but if you're as close as you said why didn't you just go? It's not like a doctor is going to take the risk of putting you in his personal vehicle and taking you to the hospital so you can avoid an ambulance trip.
Doctors are working wayyyy too many hours. My surgeon saw 76 patients in one clinic day. Residencies are usually 80-100 hours a week, and some surgical residencies go up to 136 (out of 168) hours/week. It's outrageous. A danger to doctors and a danger to the public from incompetency from overtired doctors. I've almost died several times because of incompetent doctors. We need to train incredibly more doctors, and spread the load among them, and stop overburdening the ones we already have. Medical schools need to become larger and produce more students. Or do they? Enormous amounts of skilled graduates are unemployed and no hospitals will hire them. We need bigger and more hospitals then. Or do we? The hospitals already meet patient demand. What we really need to more people being hired and all the doctors working less hours. But then arises the problem of their student debt and demand for compensation for basically sacrificing their entire 20s for brutal education and low-no pay. So how can we make sure doctors get adequately large salaries while giving them less hours to work? Doctors, at least high level specialists, and especially surgeons could stand to earn a little less, but not too much less. So thus is the problem. Not enough money. I hope someone will figure out an answer one day.
Nick Kraw In the US, residents and med students only work 80 hours a week though. They don't experience the kinds of work and exhaustion and patient volume most doctors and even students experience in other countries.
It's quite simple really, you must remove profit from healthcare. All students with the drive to heal their fellow man and the aptitude for it, get educated for free. Payed for by taxes, our taxes. Insurance cost would evaporate as it will no longer be necessary to pay a middle man, whose job it is to pay as little as possible to amass the most profit. Doctors could work as much as the rest of us, and specialize according to their interests, instead of profit.They would be paid through the same system that gave them the education, Our taxes. Or, Doctors could choose to go independent, and compete in a capitalist fashion (since socialism scares America), they could charge for services that they themselves have rendered. They could compete. A competition of healing, can you imagine? The influx of Doctors entering society in just fourteen years, could end our healthcare rot.
The effects on the doctor is actually the reason I decided to not persue an education or job in the medical field. If I didn't value myself as much as I did and still do, I would be in medical school now
I was pre-med. I switched because I worked in a pharmacy during school and realized there was absolutely no way I could tolerate caring about half of the low lives that exist in the world today. I saw the addicts coming in every day screaming for their pills. No thank you.
Wander With Purpose Did you go into research instead, then? Addiction is a serious issue that can affect anyone. Oxycodone led to huge numbers of addictions and deaths, which is why they are being sued up the backside. If we could find out ways to successfully prevent/treat addiction... The world could be one hell of a better place for everyone.
This video left out a few things: 1) in some states, a doctor can lose their license to practice medicine if they have a mental illness. 2) drug companies spent billions of dollars to get people addicted to their pain killers. 3) a lot of the health problems Americans face are a result of poverty. Doctors can't do much about that. That's partially why they're overwhelmed. People come to the ER because they can't afford regular doctors visits.
Since so many people are criticizing restraint of prescribing pain pills, think about this. Every year, 15,000 people die in the US from overdose of prescribed pain medications. 2.4 million people get addicted to pain pills every year in the US. How many people die from back pain? Very few. Pain isn't a symptom of disease, it's a sign. If a doctor says, let's hold off on narcotics and try to fix this first, he's thinking of your HEALTH and well being. Aka a doctor's job. He's not always calling you a liar. (And when like 70% of these people are lying, you can't blame them) If a patient turns down Motrin, or other non narcotic pain pills, it's fairly obvious why. Being a Doctor is one of the toughest jobs on this planet. Witnessing death weekly. Getting yelled at for denying addicts drugs. Working 60+ hours a week with very little vacation. If a doctor says "Here's a prescription for Motrin, if it persists after a week, come back in and we can perform some tests." Say thank you and take further action if needed. Cuz in reality that doctor is losing money by not having you regularly come in for refills of narcotics..
That's only deaths from overdose of their prescription you're considering, SixTough. No other addiction-related deaths factor into that percentage, and you're ignoring the fact that chemical dependency itself is a terrible thing which can often lead to suicide. Suicide that may be committed by say, overdosing on your prescription...but for some reason you don't think those deaths count.
Capnsensible80 other addiction related deaths like tobacco? they are not relevant here. Addiction does not equal harm. Human body is simply not harmed by medical opiates other than an overdose. Suicide does not mean a drug is harmful as paracetamol or TCAs are also used in suicide, while otherwise being a safe drug
There's a difference between restraint and treating people like they're drug seekers the minute they say the word "pain." I have Crohn's and came very close to a having perforated bowel (emergency surgery was required), because an er doc decided I was lying and drug seeking without reading my full chart. I had to drive to another Hospital the next day to get proper attention. Restraint: good. Poor treatment and accusation: bad.
What I as a patient want to tell my doctor; If I woke up with sudden pain in my shoulder and it hasnt gone away after taking anti inflammatorys like Naproxen, maybe just maybe I need an actual painkiller
My mom is a nurse who works in NICU
Word of advise, when they tell you not to drink, smoke, take certain drugs while pregnant
They mean it
Seriously. My mom used to work the NICU too, and some of the stories I've heard from her are haunting. Fortunately, she was damn good at her job, and she helped save a lot of kids. She still gets Christmas cards and updates from 2 families whose now-adult children she saved when she worked there. She's amazing, and incredibly strong. She's a hero. All good doctors and nurses are. Because of her having been a nurse and telling me about what it was like, I have a huge level of respect and thankfulness for people working in the medical field, especially nurses. They do like 70-80% of the actual physical work to help you, but we tend to give them like 10% of the credit. Long story short, any time you have to interact with medical professionals, make sure to be as respectful, kind, understanding and thankful as possible, and listen to what they tell you, because 99% of the time, they're just trying to help you as best they can. If everyone did that, we'd get better help quicker by not taking up their time bitching and complaining at them for things that aren't their fault, and hopefully help to drop their stress level massively.
Why? Isn't it up to the patient to make such judgments? Your mom might be able to say what something might lead to, but whether or not that outcome is good or bad or how to weigh that against other factors is a value judgement.
I was born prematurely, kept alive by machines for a short time, and grew up very short (5'2" as an adult) with various health conditions (allergies, acne, dandruff, back pain, occasional random nosebleeds a few times a year, currently headaches, etc.) probably because my mom smoked while she was pregnant with me and both parents smoked indoors during my childhood until finally moving at 13. I also had bad nutrition, very little exercise, and was mostly kept inside.
In college I was in a dorm that had a special housing project for pregnant students or students with kids. Two of them didn't want to stop the student party life just because they're pregnant and got really angry, when people told them to stop drinking/smoking. It's my choice, all that talk about alcohol is SO exaggerated, what's one can of beer gonna do, get the stick out of your ass.... Well, guess whose babies were premature and way too thin at birth?
LeaderofChickens
You also shouldn't eat animal products while pregnant
Back pain is no joke, shame on those who fake it!
A lot of back pain can be fixed by exercising and stretching the back. Weak muscles that can't support you properly ache a lot.
Iamyouonlydifferent exactly 100% true!
It's quite easy to spot those who fake it in all fairness. What's more difficult is when you know someone has genuine pain but are milking it for time off work. Or as is more common here in the UK, for a sick note they can use to get the Department of Work and Pensions off their backs so they don't have to look for a job!
Backpain is almost impossible to prove if it's real or not. So many possible injuries can cause it from muscle, nerve, spine, bone, etc. And it can be as a result of issues in the legs, joints, brain, organs, etc. That's why it's the #1 condition treated with pain killers.
+Phantomwhite The hard part with figuring out addiction is how to help people who actually have real pain but now are ALSO addicted to pain pills. You have to figure out how to ease their pain while also controlling the pills. No matter why you take pills they will eventually stop working and you have to take more or voluntarily go through a week or two of pain until the persons tolerance drops and can take the pills again.
I wouldn't mind if cracked decided to do a series of this, but with each episode talking about a different occupation.
Reminds me of Horton's advertisements.
derek larsen teachers next. parents can be fucking nightmare to deal with
So can students. And employers. Yeah, great topic overall.
derek larsen Cracked gives misinformation and shit lying statistics then slaps a graph next to it so people believe it. Use your mind. Do not be a sheep and listen to everything people say just because of their sub and such.
they could do an entire series just about the various workers at a grocery store.
I've always wondered about the sanity of doctors, working so hard for such long days sounds really crazy.
Is it really worth it?
@@face1159 you save people I guess
anyone who pays a quarter mil just because they want sosoooooooo badly to be called "DDDOOCCTTTOORRR" is already insane and stupid and insecure. :)
Legal Fiction Natural Fact not just about that lol
It's not worthy. Trust me.
Pontine glioma kills children, mostly between ages 5-10. It's a horribly ruthless disease. I feel for any doctor that has to deal with it daily. I watched my son slowly die over 9 months, and I'll never get over that.
Ignatz71 My heart goes out to you. I am sorry for your loss.
I know words probably mean nothing to you, but I hope you're getting help, professional help for that. Even if you don't suffer from chronic depression, a loss that heavy... I can't even wrap my mind around that. I really do hope that you're doing well.
"Professional" help is no help at all. I'm doing well enough. Thanks for the concern. It means a lot.
Ignatz71 buy professional I meant see a therapist or something. Not someone trying to prescribe you pills, but just to hear you out and suss out your feelings. Regardless, I'm glad that you're doing okay, seriously.
Thank you.
My doctor, was the best I've ever had in my life. He was young, attractive, and took the time.
He went OUT OF HIS way to help me.
And he killed himself.
Well that got dark...
I am so sorry that happened
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the solution is Pairing with clinical pharmacists , especially for family medecine and the icu . Studies have proved it decreases doctors burnout rates and improves care for the patient .
Give community pharmacists time and resources to teach patients don't overwhelm them for the sake of cooperates . Increase their role , a track to earn licence to independently prescribe like in the UK . repeat certain prescribtions for chronic ilness . Canada is also a great example .
It would really revolutionise health care at a fraction of the cost.but mostly it would save lives if doctors and patients.
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Of course, there is little hope for that. So let us do as they suggested, take care of ourselves.
I'm a doctor and I approve of the butt stuff.
Surprisingly , every case I've seen so far are married men in their early 30s
Anton Paulson odd
Duke very
Anton Paulson what do you think about the other stuff said in this vid?
Tell them to buy the appropriate sex toys.
Lol my mom was a CNA turns out the one guy who she seen come in for that his wife put it there lol.
Especially now, with the Coronavorus issue, I really want to thank any doctors watching. You are so important and we all appreciate you.
My wife works 14 hrs a day
And she thanks 🙏 you for your gratitude
@@Jim-gy5vf do you drive a tesla?
@@ELQUITO12 When you work 14 hour days doing what doctors do, a Tesla is a small consolation. I know most people don’t see it that way because they just want more money and shiny things because they’ve been told that will make them happy. It won’t.
And dentists, too! Just in case they weren’t already included.
I dont, specially when they're dancing around like clowns when victims die from this horrible and vicious disease
Well this made me feel super warm and fuzzy inside. I’m currently about to apply to medical school. I’ve taken all the classes i need, I’m continuing to take additional classes that teach things I will learn in medical school, and I take the MCAT soon. I think the absolute worst part about the mental health crisis surrounding doctors is that they are discouraged from getting help. If they admit they are suicidal, they risk losing their license that they literally sold their soul for. This HAS to be fixed. Immediately. I’d like to be one of the people that fixes that shit. Because that’s what it is. Shit.
Thanks for listening.
I'm in med school now, bloody hell, this video did not help, at this rate I'll consider to let go of part of my sanity to stay strong or become stronger, I want into medical reasearch cause the man hours are inhuman, we need a lot more doctors, the system is truly messed up.
You sound like an idealistic premed that I know too much about.
Medical school? Turn back while you still can. Go into health care management.
Protip: have time for yourself to keep your sanity.
@@JemXem doctors usually don't have that much time as they probably can't take a day off and also the routine that doctors like the person in the video usually have
I work for the Post office and I would absolutely love for cracked to do one on the postal service and system because it is full of myths and false information that people have been told over many decades and I as a young informed person spend most of my days as a customer service representative trying to clear up and debunk these things
SrA Gaming mind naming a few? sounds interesting
they def need to see this.
SrA Gaming "Going Postal" is not a myth. Lol
SrA Gaming If you work in the UPS, I feel incredibly sorry for you.
SrA Gaming
If you've got a knack for writing, or a friend who does, Cracked is one of those websites that outsources a lot of its content to other creators. Meaning, you could write your own article or produce your own video, submit it to them, and they'll post it and pay you for it. Just a suggestion.
I'm on a lot of meds, one night I took my night meds, then later forgot I did so and took another set. I realized my mistake only after I swallowed them. Tried to throw them up, then called poison control when I told her I tried to force them back up the woman laughed and said 'well that won't get you anywhere' we then went of over the meds and it turns out I was fine. I couldn't imagine going to the doctor for it, would have taken hours. Poison control people are great.
KT Greer You don't have a pill reminder box? I'd have a tough time remembering which meds I'd taken without mine.
when my daughter was little she ate a flower I picked from my yard (I didn't plant it, so idk what it was exactly) and she started puking so I called poison control and they were super helpful. those guys and gals are great.
YO show up at the er and say you've been poisoned, you get bumped to the top.
Evil Snail that's not true for all medicine some like medicine that stops your blood from clotting ( sorry I studied in french an I don't know how to translate medical stuff) loses it's effect after several hours so you should not skip a dose.
omaima el fidha I really think the only blood thinners that would lose their effect after hours would be heparin type blood thinners that they give you through an IV in the hospital. With warfarin, which is the most common blood thinner, it takes 5 days to get your clotting time back to normal after taking it. I think the newer ones only last 24 hours, but I would talk to a pharmacist or a doctor before deciding wether to skip a dose or take the next dose on time after taking a double dose.
As a mental health counselor, I can relate to the long hours of documentation. On another note, doctors, take care of yourselves, come see us. Health professionals have a specialty for a reason, don't forget we are here to support you, just as you support us with our bodies.
I would cite excessive documentation as THE most regrettable feature about being a nurse. If I had known beforehand … smh
This video helped me get through washing dishes.
AndyDrew Twitter AndysPixels wtf you only take 6 min?!?!?
Lol I didn't have that many to do!
AndyDrew Twitter AndysPixels I am lazy and take 3 hours to do them
I used to do that 😂😂it took me forevvvvvvver to do like 3 plates
🙋Well actually I'm 🤠Canadian🍁Gosh 😤😤😤😂
Can this become a series?
"What ____ wanted to tell you but can't"
Probably teachers. They are expected to be many things, and thousands of them are probably staying proffessional by hiding their depressions or anger they feel because of all the immature students that make their jobs a living hell.
Simple-Commentator-not-really my parents are both teachers, and I can’t tell you the number of times my mom has ranted to me about how her students are getting 30s and 40s for not turning in work, but then expecting her to grade 3 dozen essays in a night at the end the grading period because they turn it in late. My dad’s a coach and he’s had to sit through far too many parents speeches about how their precious little boy isn’t on varsity or didn’t get on the field at least three times even though he hardly comes to practice.
For the most part, parents are FAR worse than students. Far, far worse.
I work in special ed. Dealing with the various needs and tantrums and whatnot of my students isn't the hard part. Honestly. It's dealing with a parent who refuses to acknowledge that their kid needs support or who gets mad that we had to restrain their precious little angel who was BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF ANOTHER KID and demands a two-hour meeting with the administrator. Then there is the parent of that kid who wants to know why a student was "allowed" to hit theirs...
So yeah. Parents are the worst part, followed by the stupid paperwork. The students don't usually bother me.
I vote for Massage Therapists.
@@simple-commentator-not-rea7345 actually the skool system is broke , and remember , everyone has been to skool b4 , well at least 96% of us all ...
It reminds me of that clip from House MD where a woman uses her inhaler by spraying it on her neck like perfume!
Omg please put the link to that video here
ua-cam.com/video/nvwR74XpKUM/v-deo.html
Your doctor is supposed to show you how to use your inhaler. When I got tested for asthma they slowly went through it like ten times even though I insisted I already knew how to use it. Guess they have to so stupid people don’t use it as perfume lmao
Omg. Thank you for posting the link!!!! Made me laugh again just like the first time I saw it!
Oh, yeah! I remember that!
$1000 for an ambulance?! America, go home
And another additional 700 for the lights and siren and more depending on what state for running traffic light I'm not joking
Where I live we have an all volunteer ambulance service supported by donations. It's free and wait time is about 3 mins.
2 grand in my area.
Tsuka 2104 i thought it was 5k?
Facts I paid 1500 for 1 mile drive
Don't go to the doctor when you want to get high. Go to the coke dealer, like your doctor does.
Not Sure you deserve a million subs
Not Sure exactly lol
Not Sure Just smoke a bowl.
Not Sure you could always make your own shit but I don't think the average person knows what chemistry is in the usa.
russzim43
I don't wanna be a doctor no more. Find me at your local MacDonald's
Chris Bautista you gonna study Graphic Design?
why don't you be a doctor in naturopathy, osteopathy,
chiropractic care, acupuncture, physical, or massage
therapy? why kill people with McDonalds non foods
do you just HAVE to take part in poisoning people?
Yo give me a Big Mac. And uh, I'm having double vision, headaches, and I'd be stumbling all over the place. Give me a diagnosis too.
MaxemilianMus
Chris Bautista lol right. I quit 🤷🏼♀️ there goes all my school down the drain
"Please call poison control, even if your problem is hilarious"
As a student of human medicine, this makes me want to reconsider my career choice.
30 years ago, my toddler niece drank some kind of chemical while my brother (her father) was supposed to be watching her. He called Poison Control in a panic, but found that the tiny amount she ingested wasn't a problem. He was glad his wife was at work so she'd never know what happened.
The moment she came home, the phone rang. It was Poison Control doing follow-up. She answered and a man with a thick Middle Eastern accent said, "How is your daughter?" She thought he said "WHERE is your daughter, and she went into full panic mode! Her 1st thought was that her baby had been kidnapped, and this stranger was going to ask for ransom.
"I'm allergic to Tylenol, I can only take Percocet"
This is extra hilarious because Percocet is just a small amount of oxycodone mixed with a much much larger amount of Tylenol. Percocet is like 95% Tylenol
I've always said it's like mixing filet mignon with pink slime.
Then just take 3 tylenol
I heard doctors have to be knowledgable in chemistry.
LOL I know I always do a cold water extraction
Regarding dug addicts: the doctor failed to mention the many addicts that started because a doctor put them on pain pills for a month and then once they were physically addicted cut them off. Never preparing them for the additional pain they will feel from withdrawal. Doctors prescribing pain pills for more then 3 weeks should gradually lower the dose to prevent this. It's a hell of a feeling when your whole body is in physical pain, you don't know why and you realize the only way to instantly make it go away is a pill.
My dad is a doctor, and I have actually heard him explaining this before actually. I'll try summarizing it.
Around the mid 90s, more people were arguing for the legalization of opioids and weed. So "studies" were done that showed that opioids weren't addictive when people were in pain. And a ton of people were liberally prescribed drugs up until around 2010, when parma industries, doctors, and hospitals found out that 1. these "studies" were funded by opiate drug companies and 2. people became addicted.
As a result, doctors have been much more strict now, giving lower doses for a more limited set of physical pains. And the addicted will go through any lengths to get more drugs, which has caused them to become extremely tricky by (eg. asking doctor associates for drugs rather than the doctor for the drugs when the doctor is away) So now, the common patient blames either the doctor or the hospital for this problem when in reality, the burden of the guilt is equally on the pharma, the doctor, and the patient.
This is also a really big reason why my dad doesn't trust the recent claims that weed has essentially no negative effects for people over 21.
+ Radi Bear I totally agree with you and your dad. I heard the same thing about the pharma companies misleading the doctors with studies. On top of that they offered really nice incentives (like free vacations and stuff) to doctors that choose to prescribe their products (like Perdue's 30mg blue roxycotin) to patients. Of course SOME doctors knew their patients didn't need the pills and the doctors were just making bank by charging the clients to keep coming back. But they are usually the one's who got arrested and make up the minority.
Part of the blame is on the government. The DEA admitted that they knew once they cracked down on pain pills there would then be a surge in heroin use. Especially since the drug cartels jumped on this opportunity and managed to get cheap and pure heroin into the country. So pure and cheap it could be sniffed instead of injected which appealed more to middle class kids who were afraid of needles but okay putting stuff up their nose.
I live in New York, which is the main hub where most of heroin comes in that then filters out to the rest of the USA. It hit us hard here, especially on Long Island which is all suburban house holds. A bag of heroin that cost $20-30 anywhere else cost less then $10 here and is more pure. Almost everyone here knows at least one person who has overdosed in the last 10 years.
There's no excuse of a patient/doctor in present time to "accidentally" get someone hooked on pain pills. There is too much information about it now. However there should be more empathy put towards patients that got hook on this several years ago when doctors/patients didn't know better. At least make it easier to put patients on maintenance drugs like Suboxone so they can slowly be weened off.
Radi Bear You lost most credibility when you called Marijuana an opioid. You lost the rest when you didn't cite any sources.
+TissuePaperGamer Sorry, that was bad phrasing. I changed it.
And what do you mean by sources? The studies that I said? The change in mentality of doctors? The potential harms of weed?
Because my source is my dad, who is a practicing doctor that has experienced the mentality change in the medical environment from 1990 to now. Is this not a good enough source to explain a doctor's point of view of this situation?
and fyi, I do have sources for all my other claims. Just hit me up on some and I'll post
I don't think there's a big marijuana, do you?
The lady arguing for the pills to sell part was hilarious! Who's rambling in the background! It's effective.
Unfortunately, it's very accurate, and a major part of why legitimate pain patients get to suffer.
STUPID TABLET it’s life
@Brian The Explorer we could legalize them all, provide clinics for free therapy, problem solved.
Shortfall of teachers too. Several occupations are having extreme shortfalls. I have a friend who is a teacher who bought her student a jacket because his mother didn’t have the money to buy him one, and my friend pretended to find it for him as an extra in the lost and found pile.
She loves her students and pays out of her own paycheck for school supplies that the school doesn’t provide. While politicians cut school funding in their tax cuts to the wealthy and then have the audacity to blame teachers for why schools struggle.
That's because kids these days are spoiled shitty know it alls that record you while teaching to send to the news and have your shit go viral for doing something that hurt their little shitty feelings and all the world will somehow say it's the teachers fault that they are a bunch of pussies and should jump off a bride....THATS WHY :P
AmethystEyes I'm studying Astronomy, a relatively small field. In all of my classes, even my astronomy classes, it seems like 60% of students are studying computer science, and 20% are studying psychology. We're going to see a massive amount of people entering in tech fields, while we're also seeing a decrease in plumbers, roofers, sanitation workers, etc. The tech market is getting flooded while we'll be waiting weeks to get a plumber to come check out a leaking pipe. Hell, even NASA is dying for astrophysicists.
We need people to do the nitty gritty work whether my generation wants to or not. And unfortunately, a lot of people with computer science degrees are going to have to get those kinds of jobs.
Spills51 I said it when I was five, I said it when I was ten, I said it when i was fifteen, I said it when I was 20, Im saying it now
Suck it the fuck up and do not become a teacher if you cant deal with teens/children. You signed up to be a teacher. As much as you want to coddle yourself, comfort yourself, rock back in forth in the fetal position while attempting to convince yourself its "kids these days", for a few seconds of feeling like you didnt get what you signed up for, this is not the case. You simply forgot what kids and teens are like and have a selective memory.
Boohoo your Job has drawbacks, welcome to adulthood
MANY Teachers can get away with being lazy as shit, verbally abusive, and bringing in there personal/political/relationship issues into the classroom and taking out on young children and pubescent adolescents instead of FUCKING TEACHING.
HK Just wanted to drop in and say I agree, sack up and do your fucking job. The caveat is the low pay. The shockingly low pay.
AmethystEyes no wants 2 become a baby sitter with a college degree
My father was a doctor and ended his life his braking point was watching a child die he felt like he could do nothing doctor have it ruff
Last following my condolences
God rest his soul.
I wish that Hollywood would remember men such as he, before filming nonsense such as "Lorenzo's Oil."
Yeah, I'll believe that two parents, with positively no medical or pharmaceutical training, discover how to cure their terminally ill son by mixing olive and rapeseed oil in their kitchen!
pure souls.. as a doctor you need to see patients as a walking human anatomy when your on dity
Last following Sorry for your loss. My brother a straight A student took his life. Western medicine KILLS, Where as Holistic Healing Cures. When V.A. kicked me to the curb, I took my Health Into My Own Hands.
@Lost Following, I send my deepest sympathy in your tragic loss.
Went to the ER after I'd fallen on some ice came in with a very severely fractured arm (right angles on arms are a good sign it's broken), and was complaining about back pain too. The refused to give me any pain medication, even when they were setting my broken arm. Heard the doctor talking later to a nurse about 'the lengths addicts will go to get drugs' in reference to me (don't do drugs, don't drink, don't smoke and was going to school for Astrophysics) but because I was wearing dingy house clothes when I was taken to the hospital they treated me like shit.Months later I was still having back pain, and they finally did an MRI, boy was it great to see the smug look on the doctors face disappear when he had to admit that I'd fractured my back and had legit reason to be in pain. Simple x-ray back when I first injured myself would have proved it, but many doctors simply judge people based on appearance.
Tia D. If i had heard that i would of probably said something. Loudly
You should of sued for malpractice.
Oh I feel bad for you. My mom kinda went the same procedure, while she was pregnant with me she suddenly felt bad and went to the hospital to check up with a doctor. And the doctor said that she was just "nervous" about having a child, she kept coming back saying that she still feels the pain and the doctor would repeat the same thing over and over again. Saying she was just nervous. she even called my mom crazy at one point. my mom decided to check up in another hospital and turns out she had a kidney stone. The doctor didn't even bother to have a check up with her.
Tia D. I dont believe a word of thing. If you badly break your arm they will give you painkillers. You probably forgot
This happened to my dad when I was a kid. The nurse that attended my dad for lower abdominal pains told my mom "he just has a fever" when his eye whites were sun yellow. Went back the next week and the nurse said the same thing, my mom basically had to demand an ultrasound/x-ray (can't remember as it was years ago) and she finally said "oh, you have appendicitis". The doctors informed us that had he arrived 5 minutes later to the hospital he would've been dead.
*when patient lives* : IT'S A MIRACLE!!!
*when patient dies* : it's the doctor's fault
Ysaack Franco me me big boy
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Depression Expression Do you actually hear people blaming doctors? Because I don't.
SomeGuy 0000 Do you actually think this isn't a joke? Because I do.
I donf think ive rver heard of a doctor being blamed for a patients death
FINE I've finally watched the video. Happy youtube algorithm?
There are three dots in a vertical row right at the edge of the thumbnail on the right hand side. Click that, then click "not interested". May have to do it a few times (or a lot of times if it's a specific channel popping up), but it does eventually work.
Seen it 4 times becase of that
No, now you have to watch this buzz feed video about periods
Or you could just tap not interested
Now they'll think it worked and start showing you more similar videos.
I think I’m gonna contact my medical school friend and see how she’s doing
Do it after the internship starts
@@oplay4funn658 no one asked you, honey. :)
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 She doesn't need to ask you to make a comment.
@@kinoko87_b right, and i don't need you to like my comment for me to make a comment.:) goes both ways, hon.
people who go to med school pay a quarter mil to become drug dealers. lol.
I should've picked another video to watch while on the toilet
Currymeister11 I’m also on the toilet
Wtf I'm on the toilet too lmao
@@fayenotfaye when your bored
Holy shit I’m actually on the toilet
The doctor said I might have a tumor that’s not something I wanted to hear
And because of this I can't get medication when I'm actually in pain.
Seriously!
Yea im sure.
Yup. That's becoming an issue that legitimate physicians are concerned about.
Doctors' new favorite phrase is "You'll have to learn to live with it." Chronic pain patients are FAR more likely to commit suicide than any doctor.
Guess some say that but can't remember when I've heard it and I work with good doctors every day in one of the largest medical centers in the country. Patients with chronic pain need meticulous accurate diagnoses (something they only occasionally get) and expert treatment by specialists, including legitimate pain specialists.
I'm a doctor, if you need drugs or anything, meet me by the Valero and Walgreens.
Super Saiyan Batman this comment is underrared xd
Super Saiyan Batman meh
Super Saiyan Batman all i need is ur soul
reply=accepting to give me ur soul
xd
are you the guy from Popeye's too
Bat man got the gas
"Please call poison control, even if your problem is hilarious."
What a great nugget of wisdom.
My stepdad went to the ER complaining that his side hurt after he fell and hit a table. They assumed he was there for drugs. He went back home went to sleep thinking that Doctors knew best. He woke up later that night in Unspeakable Pain and had to call an ambulance cause he couldnt move. They did XRays and realized that he had 4 Broken Ribs and 2 Cracked. Also you guys do a terrible job of keeping my Sister away from your Drugs.
UNDERSTAND THAT! How is it the doctor's fault? You're arguing they aren't doing a good enough job keeping people away from drugs in the same breath you're arguing they hold the drugs away too much.
doctors are dicks.
Shut up.
Andrea Bentlers Irony upon irony. How ironic.
UNDERSTAND THAT! In that situation, it was actually bst they didnt give him the meds, otherwise no one would've known he was that severely hurt for a long time. I must say however, in the case of any potential bone break, IE, any fall, they are meant to do an XRay to make sure.
or maaaaaaybe not force them to work 72 hour shifts back to back to back to back?
Ben McBeen medical community is understaffed
Ben McBeen it is nowhere near as easy as you think
This is inhumane. How can we make a system so that doctors can work without being worked to death?
longtail4711 We could try by LISTENING TO THE VIDEO AND NOT ABUSE THE SYSTEM..
AND stop being stupid degenerates in general.
> _and_ maaaaaaaybe not force them to work 72 hour shifts back to back
FTFY
once went in to get tested for Strep throat, when my mom asked the doctor if we could get tested, he said "you don't look sick enough to have the strep go home" went to another hospital later
tested strep positive
Edit: the edit in this comment is this and changing strep throat from flu because i had a brain fart and said i had the flu
Doctor knew you were full of shit because if you had real flu you wouldn't be walking about. A real flu as opposed to man flu knocks the crap out of your body and can potentially kill you.
Strep throat not the flu
i meant strep throat apologies
Flu nowadays generally doesn't kill people unless they're super-young or elderly. This isn't the Spanish Flu of 1918. (I'm currently studying medical microbiology, and my professor said that in the next few weeks we'll discuss WHY strong, healthy young adults aren't dropping dead from the flu like they were 99 years ago).
hey that's really good for you, good luck!
Not a doctor, but I've worked as a clerk at an ER for four and a half years. This kind of stupidity affects anyone with patient interactions. I've had homeless people come in faking being sick just to try to get a place to sleep, drug addicts come in because they were trying to get a quick fix, and even once a psych patient I signed in ended up, (after my shift was over), stealing a security guard's gun and fired off several rounds in the ER, (though no one was hurt), and found out that instead of facing any consequences he was released to go home a couple of days later with a refilled prescription.
These kind of things will really drive your sanity through the ground, and that's not even mentioning how many patients will fight you essentially over getting basic paperwork information. Though, out of everything, my personal pet peeve is the sheer amount of people who go to the Emergency Room for minor things like a mild fever or upset stomach they've had for a week, instead of going to a clinic. Particularly when those same people complain about other, actually serious, patients going back before them.
If you've been shot or stabbed, an ER is a good place to go. For routine medical problems or medical enigmas, it's not. The abbreviation usually used for "insertions" is FBR (foreign body in rectum). Yes, lightbulbs are surprisingly common and very unwise. I don't think much of docs who prescribe Percocet because it's really a poor analgesic combination. I'm surprised that it's worth much on the street, but there are a huge number of addicts and their knowledge of pharmacology usually isn't very good.
After having my csection I was given Percocet during my remaining 9 days in the hospital, and upon discharge was given a ibuprofin Norco mix, and aday or so after discharge started experiencing withdrawal symptoms from the Percocet. They lasted a few days and I felt awful. I was taking the max allowed dosage the entire 9 days after my csection, and note for anyone else who may comment to my comment, I wasn't getting high, it was just barely taking the edge off of my pain
@@NyraBrowniez exact thing happened to me just not a c section. but a really rough vaginal birth which many who had both say is worst than a c section (not knocking c sections just saying many that had both say vaginal is more painful but easier to keep infection free compared to c sections)....I won't go into detail other than I was stuck in the hospital longer than the normal 2 days and the doctor asked my mother to stay with me cause of the major lost of blood and trauma down there. Over 20 hours in labor and etc I earned my drugs after the birth of my kid. screw everyone else also tbh sinus pain, nerve pain in my teeth, and just teeth pain is the fucking worst pain worst than child birth and I went through an extreme child birth that at least not many go through
@@NyraBrowniez The simple fact is that C-sections are often far more surgically traumatic than they really have to be. Choose your surgeon (obstetrician in this case) carefully.
@@NyraBrowniez withdrawals after only 9 days? I think a lot of that was mental and left over birth stuff. I was a SERIOUS heroin addict for years. When I first started, I used oxycontin(stronger than Percocet) I used to go on week long benders and then just stop with no problem. It wasn't until I went on a good month long, multiple hits a day run that I started to get sick.... And my life fell apart. Ten again .... Everybody's body is different. Maybe your body metabolizes differently, or your just genetically predisposed to addiction. Hell, anything's possible.
@@wholeNwon it was an emergency C-section, I didn't have a choice in surgeon as I had went into shock, as had my baby and we both nearly died, he wasn't breathing, and I lost massive amounts of blood, I was an unhealthy papery pale
I'm a street pharmacist
ᴇᴀssʏ.ᴍ i'm a licenced drug dealer
You’re doing God’s work.
ᴇᴀssʏ.ᴍ you mean drug dealer?
nobadvibes god doesnt exist
clap trap I have no idea what gipsy (I think it's spelt 'gypsy') tears are...
I literally *cracked* to death when I heard that the woman drank an enema bottle. Funniest shit ever.
Mr. Mute i need my drones fam, please just wait an extra 10 secinds before you place dem jammer PLEEEEEZZZ
Literally? To death? Literally? Then who reanimated your corpse so that you could post your comment? Or maybe you're dictating from beyond?
It was nice of him not to tell the lady about the poison help line cracking up for 20 minutes.
Mr. Mute, No. This shit is *NOT* funny. Don't you know in a democracy, millions of people just that stupid, get a vote on the decision to surrender our rights to the government. People are so stupid they even laugh at the shit that should terrify them...
Judge G shut up. stop trying to bring politics into this. and america is a republic
Doctors are hanging to their sanity by the fingernails.
Am a medical intern about to become a doctor. Can totally relate.
Tell me, what is the absolute worst part about every stage of becoming a doctor?
The battle is definitely tough in the medical field. I'm aiming to become an Assistant Physical Therapist but I acknowledge you as more honorable than I.
SALUTE to you, comrade.🇺🇸 🇮🇱👍
@@invaderzim1265 Why the jew flag
So, quit?
If you're already about to become insane, which you should be able to diagnose instead of exaggerate about, then it's your fault if you carry on.
Noone's forcing anyone to be a doctor.
@@AndrooUK He can't pay back loans selling plasma, not even yours your family's and your neighbors.
I live in the country with a highly underpaid doctors and the government cutting the investment into medicine yearly. Not only regular people suffering from not getting the desperately needed quality medical supplies, but also doctors who do not have neither good equipment, nor perfectly regular stuff like non-reusable gloves. Once I got hospitalized and saw first-hand how the doctors, nurses and orderlies managed to keep the facility going against all odds - and felt huge respect for those fellas. While everybody around was whining, I saw how impossible it was to just get the job done. Those people have balls!
dang, what country do you live in? respect for everyone there
Not sure about Vee, but I witnessed public health care in Manila, Philippines (among a few other less populated islands) and it was absolutely insane those doctors must see so many patients a day and their ability to laugh and make jokes about my boyfriend being a foreigner while he's dying of dehydration and the ER doctor was upstairs doing surgery and resuscitating someone back to life, while my mom is running back and fourth to the drug store because the hospital(s?) don't carry IV bags just kinda symbolizes how important it is to be able to laugh and keep your head on, even with literally dire situations.
The nurse apologized because the whitest sheets they had were stained from someone who gave birth and they only got 20 new sheets from the government every year.
sounds like venezuela
Your profile pic was in someone's butt in the video...
that's why it is so dirty ;)
Shortage of medical staff?
Well if it wasn't so fucking expensive to go to school as a med student.........
True. Although, more people are going to med school than ever, but get this. THERE ARE NO NEW RESIDENCY POSITIONS. So we have a bunch of med students who can't get training, and therefore cannot practice medicine. They just have MDs for nothing It's insane.
Still love america?
Jonas Busano well in my country there are actually too many med school graduates that most of them are jobless
Well, you see by hearting is a tradition in my country. I've seen children by heart a whole subject without trying understand anything. This applies to for IT, commerce, EVERYTHING. Though they pass with flying colors, 80% of them are not qualified to even clean a toilet, or write a text program or give a cpr. In my country passing exams is everything. It doesn't matter if you're interested in any of it.
Oh and.....India, is my country btw.
Graves I would refer you to TheFabulousMD .
ie is there too many med school graduates or are there too few grad positions?
"Please call poison control, even if your problem is hilarious"
One time I was doing calligraphy naked and accidentally spilled ink containing lead on my lady parts so I called them. They thought it was a prank call. :') I wanted to die
Given how ridiculous this is, it's reasonable to assume that.
But thanks for the laugh.
Eric Johnson Yeah, just a suggestion.
Rule number 1: When using dangerous materials- always wear appropriate safety equipment. In this case that would have been some trousers.
JupiMeow "i wanted to die"
bleach is the anwser
Why do I find that hilarious ,omg hahaha
I have a heart condition and I was dehydrated and had chest pain. I went to the ER they treated me like shit and asked me what meds i wanted. The options they gave me were pain killers. I told the RN if i could just have ibuprofen. She looked pissed and ran an EKG. She realized i wasnt lying. I get it. But damn i hate being mistaken for a drug addict when I'm having chest pain! ITS CHEST PAIN!!! LOL
LOL does not fit in here , i would rather be like " Why ? " .
An EKG will never tell you if chest pain exists per se, it's to look for possible causes of chest pain. So she wouldn't know if you were lying or not just by doing an EKG. So what did the EKG show?
@@disenchanted987 Clearly she ran the ECG to see if there was an abnormal rhythm from damage to the muscle. it's not designed to diagnose every possible cause of chest pain, but it is one test that is frequently done for suspected heart attacks. So, obviously, are blood tests and other tests.
Christie Salas Sorry to hear about your horrible experience. No one should be treated that way.
@LOONA STANNER 27 The video explained pretty clearly why they don't. Doctors get treated like shit pretty much.
My mom went cliff jumping when she was in the navy and messed up her back. She is in basically constant pain, to this day like 30 years later. The VA however stopped perscribing opiates because a large number of vets are selling their pills. Well my mom actually needed them, she ended up getting disk injections (dont know actual procedure name) so shes alright now, but the point to my rambling is opiate epidemic shouldn't punish the people that use them for legitimate reasons. The responsible people who use them when they need them and wont sell to easily make a buck. She had oxycodons, and even then sometimes the pain was there, just dulled.
rexpwnzer kratom
Elaina M DO NOT USE KRATOM. And do not start smoking weed for pain. Topical formulations or less powerful edibles are the route. Do not try that without consulting a physical therapist who will fix your problems 90% of the time if you actually give a damn and listen.
Elaina M I didn’t bother reading all of that. Smoking weed is a gateway. Medical is fine but not smoking medically. KRATOM has given me super bad pains in my stomach and is not known by the FDA as being safe. You do you all natural mom medication person 👋
Yes, and legitimate physicians are very concerned about this swinging pendulum of public opinion and government actions.
@@joshuahhhhhh actually Kratom is good all those lies the fda r spewing about it is not true😡😡 they just want it banned so everyone wont leave big pharma and stop using their crap😡😡
he needs an napkinman
The white gaming lynx Preferably named Roger Horton.
I just watched the video lol
*a
I just finished watching that lol
We all need a napkin man in our lives, speaking of which, I may or may not be an illegal napkin dealer
I was misdiagnosed with a brainstem glyoma tumor at aged 21. Thankfully it's a benine cavanoma but holy hell was that a scary time for me!
Puddinghead 3434 I love u
Puddinghead 3434 💜💜
I call bullshit. No one can go through being misdiagnosed and then getting a real diagnosis without knowing how to spell benign
Generic Name maybe he/she speaks a different language?
Little did you know, you actually died, and this is hell.
I don't know if I should laugh or cry but I never knew about the suicide part. That gives me chills
Why would you laugh???
That was one the best videos I've ever seen in my life, in every aspect, writing and narration, witty humour, information, brilliant animation, kudos to the makers of this video.
Robert Evans he dose podcasts about the bastards of history
My mother's friend (who also was a doctor as well as my mom) once had a patient who stuck a freaking pistol up his butt.
*_How_*
WHY.
*mk*
... hoplophilia (I only know that word because of the trixie & katya show lmao)
Wow...... there has to be a story there
I work in a hospital and I can tell you that I see tons of patients on a regular basis that all they want is Morphine or Percocet or something. I'll be transporting or transferring a patient from one part of the hospital to another, and they'll be jolly, talking to me and joking around. Until they get to their room and see the doctor and floor nurse. Then they start acting the part. Then I'm like, jeez, you know I'm going to give them a hand-off right?!?!
@Susan Mason true that!!
Susan Mason I think they mean, they’ll act fine until someone else comes into the room
Maybe you should read the chart. I know if you saw my chart you would be amazed that I can still stand with all the issues I have with my spine
@Susan Mason I was in a car crash this year and I was strapped to the ambulance mac and I was laughing with the medic while in pain
Yeah, depends on the person..
I am a medic too and can say, I laughed and cried a little when I saw this, but they say the truth.
You know... The part of the child and the tumor is damn true. One gets to know the patients and then, sometimes they die and you can't stop it... it's really hard to deal with that, a lot of responsibility and expectations go over your shoulders, so depression and stress problems are not that weird... You got to keep your mind healthy, first priority to all my colleagues!
And please, please read the instructions on the recipes we gave you!... Pretty please.
"Please Doc, just some drugs" that had me dying, LMFAO
I am actually a doctor and I'm watching this
Hey if your serious about that.. and you are a doctor. can pontine glioma actually not be treated..? like people with it will die cause.. My boyfriend has pontine glioma or..atleast a brain tumor with a simular name and I'm actually sorta worried now..
Kasai Eien No a pontine gliaoma has a very bad prognosis meaning most patients will die in a matter of months. There different types of brain tumors that can be treated if discovored early like astroma or meningeal glioma
OK Dr Nick
Kasai Eien No brain tumour is the last sort of tumour you want
Okay thank you for an actual answer.. I'm pretty sure it's probably a different brain tumor and I got it mixed up.. thanks for the information though
That's good and all, but the problem that trumps everything else is the antibiotics resistance crisis. That's worth dedicating a whole video to.
it is true, but more than the hospital, the main blameworthy is the use of antibiotics in farm animals, 80% of antibiotics are used on animals in the US consumersunion.org/news/the-overuse-of-antibiotics-in-food-animals-threatens-public-health-2/
Which is caused by Pharma halting nearly all R&D into antibiotics, for about a decades. It's finally gearing back up.
Fuck off.
Enjoy your stillborns and malnutrition, m8.
skitty Just because I'm not vegan, doesn't mean I drink the oil I use to fry my steak.
I try to maintain a balanced diet with both animal products and vegetables, and I'm healthy as a horse.
I'm a med student& still a long way to go becoming a proper full fledged doctor and honestly just a single breakdown away from insanity.
Most doctors have it rough. Sad but true...
well it has been 5 years, any update?
the sweat looks like faces melting instead of sweat. Awesome video tho
Also, whoever says "I'm allergic to Motrin and Tylenol. I can only take Percocet." must be too lazy to take literally 1-3 minutes to look up what's in Percocet. APAP(Tylenol) is in Percocet.
They are (former pharmacy technician)
Lol I mean.... hydromorphone. My bad. They sound so similar.
Acetamenophen does nothing for a lot of people, but will destroy your liver, especially when mixed with alcohol. Ibuprofen (NSAID) is hard on kidneys, especially if you're diabetic. Neuropathic pain is treated with anti-seizure medication (gabapentin or pregabalin), both minimally effective and VERY addictive.
This anti-opioid hysteria, and gullible doctors, are leaving people in pain. "I can't prescribe narcotic pain relief because you might get addicted," says the doctor who believes the CDC instead of what they were taught in medical school. Less than 3% of people taking prescribed narcotics for pain relief become addicted. Many become dependent, but there's a big difference between dependence and addiction.
@@THE1andONLYHairfish so true about the liver stuff like find a better alternative before taking shit people need.
my favorite is we consume the most opiods..... Um yeah what do you expect when we are the biggest 1st world country? 3rd or even second world countries that can't even afford to eat let alone see a doctor and get meds? Are we seriously not gonna use ground breaking needs like opiods that are supposed to be used to make life as normal as possible for those in chronic pain? And they wonder why people are willing to try anything for pain like kratom so they don't kill themselves. I've been there with the worst teeth pain of my life and disgusted with them treating me like a drug addict when a good look of my face and inside my mouth proves my pain along with me begging for antibiotics and whatever they got before I lose my mind. Like how many are really trying to score drugs from a doctor anyways compared to people in real pain? I doubt it's that high when it's cheaper and easier to get them off the street. Doubt it's that high like so called kratom deaths that are always mixed with 3 other prescription drugs like Xanax. Even if it did kill someone all by itself I have to be more careful with aspirin! Anything can kill you at the end of the day
@@THE1andONLYHairfish The levels of pain relief that paracetamol offers is really not worth the work your liver required to break the crap down. I read an article recently that said that paracetamol even at the daily dose of no higher than 4 grams could be a lot more damaging to the liver than first known. I treat my back pain with MST but you have to be dying here to get that on script.
Trust me guys, you do not wanna end up in a hospital. The food is tasteless, the beds are hardly comfortable, you have procedures .
Some people: I'm sure it's not THAT bad.
To all those, yeah, it kinda is. I was diagnosed with leukemia.
(don't get too worried, treatment is going really well, and my doctor and nurses say I'll live) when I was 14. I'm 7 months into treatment, and let me tell you. Not. Fun. Please, everyone do yourselves, and me, a favor. Take care of yourselves. No one deserves cancer, and yet at the hospital I go to has mostly kids. I don't think you wanna get stuck there. Thank you for reading...
Ariana Augustine in holland it would be heaven if you weren't there for a reason, you have a whole fucking list of foods you can chose from and shit like that, it's kinda great tbh
Ariana Augustine Americanhospital*
Here in sweden and austria we have extremly comfy beds, fresh restaurant quality food and its free (like we realy dont have to pay for anything that is an medical necasity ie. woubd treatmant ambulance operations pain killers etc
Depends on which hospital. The food has no additives so it tastes bland, it's designed to be more nutritious, Some hospitals make it feel like a home. Pets, Books, Toys, etc. It's about where, and why.
Ariana Augustine best of luck to you man
Ariana Augustine i had a sandwich in a hospital, it's fucking delicious what you talking about?
While I agree patients could do a little bit to improve the lives of doctors, I think most of the issues are systemic. A profession looking after the health of people that pushes people to live schedules that are not in line with our biology. Something is going to give.
Seriously, you only know enough to worry about their.... "schedules"?.......
@ Yeah, a business where people's lives are at stake. The Increase cost comes from not the doctors, but hospital executives, big pharmaceutical corporations , and the insurance companies themselves. There are some good doctors out there that do oppose shitty price gouging. They know people might die if they don't get the drugs and treatment they need. Doctors see death as often as a police officer or soldier, and it mind F*%&$! them just the same. I recommend watching Dirty Money the Drug Short episode on Netflix.
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@tingleswithflybyASMR
Wow someone with some sense! Why are we allowing this?
Insurance bureaucracy takes more time and energy than actually helping people.
And?
@@AndrooUK potato
100%. Itd probably be cheaper overall without insurance if health insurance was never invented
that suicide statistic broke my heart. i think i figured out what i want to do with my life. .
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mortician
abortedphoenix you'll have steady work
abortedphoenix it will be a bit stiff to start out with :')
Noctes Rebellionem lmao
Noctes Rebellionem Oh no! The puns! XD
abortedphoenix You mean medical examiner, right?
Well this makes me not wanna be a doctor anymore
It actually made me want to be a doctor.
I think ill just become homeless instead
goddess b that suicide chart is quite convincing and making me want to be one again.
Good, less competition.
Madalin, how do doctors differ in the USA from the rest of the world to the point of higher suicide rates?
I've heard nobody ever 'loses' their amoxicillin presctiption and needs a replacement.
I accidentally knocked my bottle of 8 antibiotic pills down the sink drain in the kitchen while trying to take one ...
Do people do recreational antibiotics? I'm genuinely so confused.
@@raphaeldean5801 Not exactly but erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=58462
I have.
LOL, I have a new respect for my Doctor.
Last time I went in to the ER was for an infection I had cleaned myself I needed antibiotics and was in extreme pain doc asked if I wanted pain killers? I said no doc I just need the antibiotics as long as you agree that it's a need. I was written a scrip for the antibiotics and was out of the ER in 15 min flat. He asked me a few other questions about what I was doing to clean it, he saw that I cut the infection out said I was nuts and was happy to give me the antibiotics. He said he was surprised that I not only didn't ask for pain killers I refused when offered. It's days like that, when I know I made their moment, and even for a few seconds restored their faith in humanity.
Do you, like, want a cookie or something?
Sure lol
People tolerate pain differently. Suffering through it on principle isn't admirable or commendable. It's stupid and dangerous and sets a very dangerous expectation for people who are not you but are then judged by your self flagellation. Unmanaged pain causes a crapton of problems all by itself (physical and psychological). Doctors exist to relieve suffering, not to encourage it.
Aaron Layes dear God, I sincerely hope that showing up at the ER having CUT the infection out didn't actually "make" anyone's day.
I suspect it made *your* day and you were oblivious to the consternation it caused to ER staff and doc. If I were a doc and you showed up like that... I'm sorry to say that I would file it alongside of those with the shop modified dildos impaled in the backside. Because dude... in 2017 there's no reason to cut infection out yourself. Unless you just can't afford a doc visit. Or If You are of the older generations I can understand it, because in their day you actually did sometimes have to do things like that. But otherwise you are not doing something you should be proud of. You should re evaluate your actions and reasoning, and change your behavior accordingly.
Yeah, but with a lot of these drugs it's a short term help for possible long term harm. If it hurts, that sucks, but in a lot of situations the pain will go away eventually, but it's possible you could get an addiction, which then causes you, and the health systems HUGE problems.
Pre-med here. In for one hell of a ride.
lol
lol wait for medical school
you dead yet?
good luck dude
Same, see ya there
Sad part is that stupidity kills, literally.
Kai Swift ohhhhhhh kaaaaaaaaai. If only you knew what was coming.
I can't imagine what is like for doctors now that want to treat patients and are told no by ridiculous insurance companies or even worse government mandates that interfere with the doctor's care. It's literally sick.
...um I highly doubt that the high depression amongst med students are *solely* because of silly patients. Maybe the intense pressure and unrealistic expectations is part of it?
And the student loans!
Vicky Likes This it is because of the lifestyle. Silly patients dont help.
I think what the video was trying to get across is there wouldn't be so much pressure if people would use common sense and treat their bodies with some respect. Then they wouldn't have to go see a doctor leaving that doctor open to tend to someone else. If 100 people did this that's 100 less people the doctors have to deal with, which means less pressure.
You would be surprised. I used to work at a hospital and just WATCHING doctors having to deal with some of these jerks on the reg was depressing enough. I can only imagine how soul crushing it is when you have to deal with all of this first hand, including all the shit people talk about doctors when they turn out not to be pill passing miracle machines.
+FlashMan the depression, suicide, and drug abuse rate is also just as high in the veterinary profession. We have the same pressures as doctors, and care just as much about saving the lives of our patients, but instead of having to deal with jerk patients, we deal with jerk owners. Plus, we always have PETA and other fake animal rights organisations clambering down our throats for animal abuse when we do more for them then they do
I’m training as a doctor and a lot of people come in with stupid reasons.
I am hanging my sanity on a string, and I’m not even an official doctor yet.
Any INSERTIONS! LOL
People come to a doctor because they are suffering, and THEY ARE NOT FUCKING DOCTORS! They have pain and/or fear, that's about all. Asking them to have correctly acted is FUCKING ARROGANT. Even if they could have correctly acted they don't have diagnostic equipment or prescription pads. But these myopic prejudices should make you fit right in to North American medicine.
Well, then we can just hope that AI can diagnose us all at home correctly soon.
Going to the doctor isn't fun either. So many ill people, and such a long time in the waiting room...
Sir, I just want you to know that there still folks like us that not only appreciates your work but you're a hero in the eyes of the community. But IF you ever decide to find another career, we understand.
GOD BLESS YOU and GOD send His angels to watch over you doc.🇺🇸 🇮🇱👍
How are you doing now
Have never been to the hospital since I was born, so I'm doing my part.
Hoss Cartwright Same, hopefully I am dying
Good for you. They are dangerous places!!
Former Army and I do security for a Medical Clinic and I can tell you it's not just Dr's its the M.A's the Optometrist the Radiologist,House Keeping and the P.A.R's even Security ect ect..Its The whole place.!. we all know How ridiculously bad it can be and how Amazing it can be. We all have to do paper work at sometime and Sweet Honey Ice Tea it can be long. So please be patient while your a patient, We know you hurt and can be scared/upset but we can't help you if you cant help us help you.
I was a good student so my parents heavily encouraged me to go to medical school; I refused because I felt like it wasn't really worth all the time you need to spend in school, especially considering the grueling schedule which oftentimes doesn't allow you to work. I knew I'd have to take up student loans to pay for med school, so I tried to calculate how long it would take me to pay them back. Considering most doctors don't break the 100k threshold (unless they're an orthopedic or plastic surgeon), and that an engineer makes about the same amount with much shorter schooling, I figured that was a better choice. I don't regret my choice at all... Being a doctor is really tough in terms of scheduling, emotional investment, and the pay is not THAT great that it compensates for all of it. I wouldn't advise my kids to go into that field either.
The vast majority of doctor's make well above 200k. You may be thinking about a nurse practitioner, they generally start at 90-100k
I don't know where you get your salary figures but you are wrong. I live in a small Midwestern town and when I was in the medical field doctors in family practice were starting at $165,000/yr. twenty-five years ago.
You should not be a doctor for the money. I believe that for all the efforts, energy and time you put in the payment isn't worth it. You should do it because you like helping people and saving lives.
@@evangeliamintzai6302 okay..
Doctors get quite a lot more money than 100k and more than engineers
This video reminded me of a horrible hospital stay I went through. So I went through surgery a few weeks ago and when I woke up I was in excruciating pain. They decided to give me dipyrone and it wasn't helping at all (what the hell, I don't have a headache, my flesh was cut open). I had to start screaming for help for a long time until they decided to speak to a doctor on call (who took a long time to respond) and authorize giving me some morphine, so I managed to get some sleep.
I went to the room and soon the morphine wore off and the pain came back. They insisted in giving me dipyrone while I insisted it wasn't helping and I was still in a lot of pain. After a sleepless night from the pain and a lot of insisting the nurses went to the doctor on call and I was authorized to take tramadol in case of emergency, while they continued to give me dipyrone every 6 hours. I've seen vets go straight to prescribing tramadol for surgery recovery patients, why do medical doctors and nurses insist on goddamn dipyrone?
That drug has been completely banned in most countries! I don't know where you live, but you need to move to a country that has joined the modern world.
Opioid abuse is a problem but it's being villanized lately to the point that people who really need them are suffering.
The worst part is that abusers are more able to jump through hoops and get them than people who are in constant pain. I'm close to someone who's life is a living hell because she can't get the medication she desperately needs due to the politically fueled crackdowns and jaded doctors.
Edit: She just dropped below 90 pounds and might genuinely be close to death. And I just saw another add by a f***ing politician in front of my video talking about our state's opiod abuse problem.
Lawrence Lentini I completely understand. I have fibromyalgia and It's an absolute nightmare disease to have. There is no better options for it. Nope just pain killers. And if I take just one or two over than I'm supposed to. The doctor is like " Oh you're addicted. Time to take your drugs away!"
amanda woolum If you get opioids for your fibromyalgia, you're being mistreated. Lots of non-addictive painkillers are more effective and don't carry the risk of developing addiction
Exantius E I would love that. But my insurance won't cover those types of treatment. So this is all I have at the moment.
grow your own pain medicine. Medical marijuana
I used to have bad fibromyalgia problems. It turned to be EMF sensitivity. Electro Magnetic Fields. Wifi, cell phones, Bluetooth, etc all triggered pain. I have less rashes and less pain now that all that junk is unplugged. Electricity and nerves are linked... After years of suffering and superstition, I finally bought an EMF meter (Trifield 100) to prove what I was feeling. Life is much better with less pain, and less arguing with the people that cant feel elektrosmog.
It kills me as somebody who needs a painkiller, but won’t ask for it because of the stigma of being accused of being someone who doesn’t need it but someone who has had multiple surgeries and has a auto immune disease
So if I go to the doctor and tell him that something's stuck in my butt because I didn't read the instructions carefully and now I need Percocet to deal with resulting pain, will their head explode immediately, or once they get home and start charting?
I would watch my back at night if I were you...
TheWhovian&Batman Can't tell if that's concern for my safety or a threat... Oh shit, you're not a doctor are you?
I misread "Charting" as "chanting"... I was imagining some kind of altar with a squat green statue in the corner of a doctor's home and the doctor taking to speaking long forgotten tongues... >.>'
Katrina Payne Damn. Typo. I totally meant chanting. Where do you think they get their magical doctoring powers? Books? Pfft...
Magic books.
...
Duh
Docter: so what's going on sir?
*Patient: G I B P A I N P I L L S !*
Docter: pain pill machine broke.
*Patient:understandable, have a very good rest of the day doc*
Id be like OH YEAH!? WELL THEN THE INSURANCE MACHINE BROKE TOO SO FUKK UR MONEY U AINT GETTIN NOOONE😂😂
Bloody Hell! $1000 for a ride in an ambulance? NHS for life
Also a graduation class of dead doctors is terrible
Have you used the NHS? It's dog shit for anything other than very simple things, and generally better for simple physical things, whilst being very poor for mental illness.
$1,000 is the insurance cost. A lot of countries with socialised medicine bill in high numbers for ambulance trips, it's just covered by public or private insurace. The NHS still bills the Government for your trips, you just don't see it.
I lived in Australia, and they charge for ambulance trips, too.
1000 is a steal for an ambulance ride in most of America. Last time I had an ambulance I was charged around 3,700 for a 3 mile drive where they picked me up, checked my vitals, and dropped me off at the hospital.
@@AndrooUK the NHS is amazing
@@thomasmitchell4128 that's so crazy! Everything is taxpayer paid already so it's free, if chronically underfunded
H1: Dr. Suicide Rates are directly correlated with MBAs turning medicine into an industry.
It's nothing to do with easy access to effective medications to commit suicide with, or just an increase in the number of doctors? Any other external factors?
I'd love to see your sources...
managed care has really been the death of medicine.
Look around, policy change looks more and more attractive
What happens if you cant afford a ambulance.
Dylan t Debt. Lots of it.
Dylan t drive your ass up there
Capitalism and healthcare doesn't really match
Pxndx Lunx you can't always do that. For instance, if you are incapacitated and not able to consciously make that decision.
I was knocked out in a car accident last year, and I had to be cut out of my car. I was life flighted to a random hospital. I had no say in the matter; I merely woke up and that's where I was. I was so out of it, I barely realized what was going on and didn't know what happened to me. Even if I could've made those choices myself, I would've potentially died if I tried to drive myself to the hospital because I was in critical condition and would not have been able to make it there in time.
Sometimes you just have no choice. And if it's your life in danger, you either die or pay.
Dylan t you go into debt and it gets sent to collections if you can't make payments on it. Then it ruins your credit score for 7 years making it impossible to rent a decent home, and a single ride can easy cost 20,000$
I'm starting med school in 10 days... God help me.
...really? Dude, I've got pretty bad back pain and I'm allergic against all conventional pain medicactions. Can you give me prescription for LSD?
8523wsxc You'd have to check back in about 7 years. But I'll just answer you now anyways. No! Lol. But really I hope the whole stress and suicide thing is a lot better by then.
Lucas Peder I'm already started 2 years ago and classes is pretty hard
Lucas Peder
I'm an RN. 20 years of experience. You wouldn't believe how many physicians have told me that if they had any idea what they were getting into, they would NEVER have become a doctor. One of them even "ran away", and last any of us heard, he was working on a fishing boat. Do what you want, but do it with open eyes. There is no such thing as a "healthcare" system anymore - it is a sick care system, and all those years of training aren't going to mean spit if you think you will do anything other than follow insurance company algorithms. Once you're on the hook for the massive debt of medical school, you're stuck. Having seen what it really is, I thank God I didn't opt for that track. I don't recommend nursing either. It's still the same dysfunctional system. If you *genuinely* want to help people, look into chiropractic or a naturopathic program. If you are just gunning for a big salary, there are plenty of other options.
Lucky bastard i am going to the 68w in 2 years
Guess who's not going to med school now
Heroprime haha yea I’m sure this is why
Me
As a medical professional, i found this episode extremely satisfying and awesome
When I crushed a vertebra, I couldn't believe how much concern the ER docs (and other staff) showed. It was like they could feel my pain. I really expected that people who worked in an ER would become hard and disconnected. I don't know how they do it.
ER doctors are actually the best -it's the ones that you have to see through managed care that are terrible.
You were lucky.
"Lovecraftian abdominal cramps" 😄😂😂💀💀💀
Only you toilet, will know the extent of my failings.
My respect to the doctors.
I own one my life.
please let them go
I dont know about the us but in brazil we have benzethacil, an injection that is really painfull but made a really terrible back pain i had go away in a blink. Your legs get stiff, your butt(the site of the injection) gets hard as a block of wood and a moderate to extreme pain shoots through your leg from you butt for the next 2 hours. The us should start using those when suspecting addiction, cuz if the person is willing to endure the pain for 2 hours straight, that person is really sick
The main point, ladies and gentlemen, is that your doctors take care of you. So make sure to take care of your doctors. Please.
My brother had some dental work done, and had severe pain, so he went back to the dentist office and told them. He ended up waiting for over two hours, and decided to leave and went to a different dentist, and the second dentist said he had the worst abscess he had ever seen, and that it could have killed him. My brother called the first dentist office to tell them, and vent his anger, and they said, "Oh, we thought you just wanted drugs."
I personally am upset about this, because the dentists' office assumed, and didn't investigate, and their plan was to not see him, making him wait until he left or they closed. Personally, I think he should sue the first dentists' office, but then, I don't know if he could win. Either way, it may be difficult to tell who's lying, but doctors shouldn't assume everyone is.
This was funny, interesting (learned a lot), and sad all at once. I respect my drs more. I have an amazing oncology team. 😃
Praying everything's getting better for you!
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"Doctors are holding onto their sanity by their fingernails"
2020: Watch this.
Wait. Americans pay for their ambulance?
Christ. What is wrong with you people?
What's wrong with our government and healthcare system is more like it.
And we don't *choose* to pay for it. Last time I went to the ER they *forced* me to go in an ambulance just so they could charge us (even though the hospital was LITERALLY around the corner and we could have easily driven)
You pay for ambulances too, just through taxes. Insurance companies in the US will pay for some ambulance costs, but not all, and most people don't pay the full bill if they qualify as low income.
Honestly unless it is a legitimate life or death situation you shouldn't use an ambulance, as it takes up resources for those who actually need them.
zack israel don't speak for all of us I want free healthcare
CodeDarkBlue
I fail to see how they forced you. Did you call 911 first? If so then they sent out the ambulance to cover their ass. If you weren't bad enough that they needed to send an ambulance why didn't you just go straight to the hospital yourself without calling 911? I know it seems easy in retrospect and having time to reflect, but if you're as close as you said why didn't you just go? It's not like a doctor is going to take the risk of putting you in his personal vehicle and taking you to the hospital so you can avoid an ambulance trip.
Sarcasm. Learn it. Love it.
Doctors are working wayyyy too many hours. My surgeon saw 76 patients in one clinic day. Residencies are usually 80-100 hours a week, and some surgical residencies go up to 136 (out of 168) hours/week. It's outrageous. A danger to doctors and a danger to the public from incompetency from overtired doctors. I've almost died several times because of incompetent doctors. We need to train incredibly more doctors, and spread the load among them, and stop overburdening the ones we already have. Medical schools need to become larger and produce more students. Or do they? Enormous amounts of skilled graduates are unemployed and no hospitals will hire them. We need bigger and more hospitals then. Or do we? The hospitals already meet patient demand. What we really need to more people being hired and all the doctors working less hours. But then arises the problem of their student debt and demand for compensation for basically sacrificing their entire 20s for brutal education and low-no pay. So how can we make sure doctors get adequately large salaries while giving them less hours to work? Doctors, at least high level specialists, and especially surgeons could stand to earn a little less, but not too much less. So thus is the problem. Not enough money. I hope someone will figure out an answer one day.
The problem is health insurance which is a fucking scam and solely responsible for the ridiculous cost of healthcare
Yeah, people suffer both ways
Nick Kraw In the US, residents and med students only work 80 hours a week though. They don't experience the kinds of work and exhaustion and patient volume most doctors and even students experience in other countries.
Nick Kraw to long didn't read
It's quite simple really, you must remove profit from healthcare. All students with the drive to heal their fellow man and the aptitude for it, get educated for free. Payed for by taxes, our taxes. Insurance cost would evaporate as it will no longer be necessary to pay a middle man, whose job it is to pay as little as possible to amass the most profit. Doctors could work as much as the rest of us, and specialize according to their interests, instead of profit.They would be paid through the same system that gave them the education, Our taxes. Or, Doctors could choose to go independent, and compete in a capitalist fashion (since socialism scares America), they could charge for services that they themselves have rendered. They could compete. A competition of healing, can you imagine? The influx of Doctors entering society in just fourteen years, could end our healthcare rot.
The effects on the doctor is actually the reason I decided to not persue an education or job in the medical field. If I didn't value myself as much as I did and still do, I would be in medical school now
I went the opposite way (currently 4th yr med student) and you made the right call
some fangirl
On the bright side you didn't waste your parent's money pursuing a career in which you would have washed out with the other 80%.
I was pre-med. I switched because I worked in a pharmacy during school and realized there was absolutely no way I could tolerate caring about half of the low lives that exist in the world today. I saw the addicts coming in every day screaming for their pills. No thank you.
Wander With Purpose Did you go into research instead, then?
Addiction is a serious issue that can affect anyone. Oxycodone led to huge numbers of addictions and deaths, which is why they are being sued up the backside.
If we could find out ways to successfully prevent/treat addiction... The world could be one hell of a better place for everyone.
Legalize marijuana federally and start holding big pharma and medical lobbies accountable would do wonders for the opioid addiction epidemic.
This video left out a few things: 1) in some states, a doctor can lose their license to practice medicine if they have a mental illness. 2) drug companies spent billions of dollars to get people addicted to their pain killers. 3) a lot of the health problems Americans face are a result of poverty. Doctors can't do much about that. That's partially why they're overwhelmed. People come to the ER because they can't afford regular doctors visits.
Since so many people are criticizing restraint of prescribing pain pills, think about this.
Every year, 15,000 people die in the US from overdose of prescribed pain medications. 2.4 million people get addicted to pain pills every year in the US.
How many people die from back pain? Very few. Pain isn't a symptom of disease, it's a sign. If a doctor says, let's hold off on narcotics and try to fix this first, he's thinking of your HEALTH and well being. Aka a doctor's job. He's not always calling you a liar. (And when like 70% of these people are lying, you can't blame them) If a patient turns down Motrin, or other non narcotic pain pills, it's fairly obvious why.
Being a Doctor is one of the toughest jobs on this planet. Witnessing death weekly. Getting yelled at for denying addicts drugs. Working 60+ hours a week with very little vacation.
If a doctor says "Here's a prescription for Motrin, if it persists after a week, come back in and we can perform some tests." Say thank you and take further action if needed. Cuz in reality that doctor is losing money by not having you regularly come in for refills of narcotics..
That is 0.62% deaths per total addicted population a year. That sounds actually really safe
Plus a portion of those deaths are going to be deliberate suicide so the real number is even lower
That's only deaths from overdose of their prescription you're considering, SixTough. No other addiction-related deaths factor into that percentage, and you're ignoring the fact that chemical dependency itself is a terrible thing which can often lead to suicide. Suicide that may be committed by say, overdosing on your prescription...but for some reason you don't think those deaths count.
Capnsensible80 other addiction related deaths like tobacco? they are not relevant here. Addiction does not equal harm. Human body is simply not harmed by medical opiates other than an overdose. Suicide does not mean a drug is harmful as paracetamol or TCAs are also used in suicide, while otherwise being a safe drug
There's a difference between restraint and treating people like they're drug seekers the minute they say the word "pain." I have Crohn's and came very close to a having perforated bowel (emergency surgery was required), because an er doc decided I was lying and drug seeking without reading my full chart. I had to drive to another Hospital the next day to get proper attention. Restraint: good. Poor treatment and accusation: bad.
What I as a patient want to tell my doctor; If I woke up with sudden pain in my shoulder and it hasnt gone away after taking anti inflammatorys like Naproxen, maybe just maybe I need an actual painkiller
well if you're a woman they'll just tell you to exercise more.
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Red_Milk Your profile picture matches your statement.
I really hope that this helps make life easier for future generations of Doctors by spreading awareness of these issues