Funny story, my surgeon said "uh-oh" literally 2 seconds after cutting open my armpit for removing what he originally thought was a swollen lymph node. On the table he was like "okay so, change of plans, it's a lipoma" removed some of it, it hurt as hell when he was stitching me, because the local numbing sedation thing was gone and I cried like a baby, because imagine how sensitive an armpit is. The lump was still huge and there was no improvement of the quality of my life. It hurt when I wore bra, backpacks, when I slept on my side and it was freaking huge and ugly and confidence killer. So two years after that first surgery I went to the same surgeon, he opened it again and his words were "honey, there was never a lipoma here" so I'M CONFUSED AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. There was no result, my GP said that it was just a cosmetic issue and I should leave it as it is. I went to another surgeon and he immediately told me that is was a polymastia, I basically had a third brest with the size of a tennis ball under my armpit. He removed all of it now it's all gone. Unfortunately I had nerve complications and had to go to physiotherapy and thee other doctors and now I also have a 3 inch scar. Sooo.. moral of the story.. choose your surgeons well! Thank you for all who read my story.
@@manasas868 there is a prehistory to this story as the timeline is 10 years wide, but that was my second opinion. The first option was that it's nothing and I should leave it. So when the second opinion said "this is actually something that had to be operated years ago" I thought I finally found a good doctor.
Something I saw recently: remember if you’re ever on an alien planet and you get sick, don’t go to the doctor, go to the vet. The doctor will only know how to treat the local dominant species, but a vet will have knowledge of a wide array of species specific care.
Hopefully I remember this on my next journey to Jupiter ae9. Last time I went, I almost got my feet chopped off because I went to a doc for a little cold
have you ever seen The Onion's companion site Literally Unbelievable? It's just screen shots of people commenting on posts who think the articles are real. The best are the ones reacting to the article "8 billion dollar abortionplex being built" people actually thought that was a real thing.
6:51 I've actually had to do this before. My skin was falling off in chunks. The first time I went in to dermatology, I got some cream. Skin got worse. I tried to tell my dr that it wasn't helping, they said "I'm going to up the dosage" it got worse yet. I asked if I was allergic to the medication, they asked if I believed "everything I saw on TV?" when I told them about the side effects mentioned in the patient sheet and in the commercial. I finally stopped using the medication, my skin kinda healed up, but I was labeled "med non-compliant" and later I found out the person was getting kickbacks from the medication company. I wasn't the only one with permanent skin damage (and a bit of a deflated sense of self) I now look like a spotted animal on one side from all the skin loss from blistering and such. No one ever cared to take "medication non-compliant off my record, so now I get that "are you going to take this correctly?" every time I get a new medication! UGH.
@@Jade-pf3ke I wish I could, but there's no true evidence that the medication itself caused the reaction, even though my skin lesions started when I started the medication, and abruptly stopped once I stopped the med.
I’m a nurse in longterm care. A couple months ago, I was talking to the pickup guy from a funeral home who told me their place did have someone "come back to life." It was a little girl who had been under palliative/hospice care because of a chronic condition which included severe bradycardia. At home, her heart rate had gone undetectable, and she was otherwise non responsive. She was pronounced dead and taken to funeral home. A bit later, one of the workers heard a knocking on the morgue door. The little girl was alive and wanting out.
6:55 is only too true. My wife had been bleeding "down there" for over a year straight and docs always blew off our concerns about it, even when she had ended up hospitalized with COVID and the nurses saw what was happening. Turns out, she had to be on death's door due to critically low blood count before finally a doctor looked into the cause: Uterine cancer stage 3. Still dealing with the spread of that cancer as they couldn't get it all with a hysterectomy. If only a doctor would have looked into it when we started to raise concerns, it could have been caught before it spread.
@@ClementineCreative she is doing better with the help of Prozac, because obviously this has been taking a toll on her mentally, and a different chemotherapy in this second round that isn't near as harsh as the first set of chemo meds.
The “waiting to become sick enough to get the right treatment” title hits so hard. I may not be female but I’ve literally been turned away in a hospital more than once because my vitals were too good when I was actively internally bleeding and nearly died. I literally had to puke up litres of blood (obviously nearly died) for them to believe me.
I've been told my whole adult life that my monthly pain + diarrhea +generally feeling sick is normal and I should instead focus on my mental health (I'm asexual)
@@tatiana4050 yeah, I heard painful periods are not normal, which makes sense because if people thousands of years ago had severe cramps every month the ooga booga people might not have survived for multiple reasons.
@@LinktheHylianChampion117 I was told by my doctor that my period was just normal for me and couldn't be considered "too heavy" Turns out it wasn't normal at all and I could have been getting help all along.
If a doctor refuses to look into an issue, tell them to put in in your chart that they refuse. Usually that puts them in their place, because if they document their refusal, and your symptoms get worse later, then there’s proof that they’re at fault.
But you also have to ask for a printed copy of your chart---that is your legal right---right then, to make sure what was said was put into it. An ethical doctor, which most of them are, will not make such a decision, of course, and will at least attempt to find out what's going on (or, at least, all my doctors have done that). An unethical doctor/healthcare provider, if you don't take a written copy of your chart, will simply have that statement deleted once you leave the office, and there would be no proof that he/she ever refused to check out the issue.
@@jb6712 that’s a good point and I forgot to mention that. Thank you for adding that. Unfortunately, I have met more unethical doctors than ethical ones…. I had to go three hours out of my way to find someone even half decent. Women’s reproductive health is a joke to most doctors.
Not true. Revisions to notes are tracked. Even if you deleted the whole note and started over, the system will record that you did that and they can dig in and retrieve it if they have to.
Hi Dr. Mike, I just wanted to express my appreciation for the subtitles. I have congenital hearing loss and the vast majority of creators don't take the time to add captions to their videos, which obviously makes it more difficult to understand what's going on. I'm sure you won't see this comment but I love your videos and hope you will continue making more.
About the coming back to life thing.... It reminds me of a prank my co-workers pulled back in the day. I used to work as a transporter at a hospital, and one of our tasks was to transport the recently deceased down to the morgue. On your first day they bring you to the morgue, the job isn't for everyone, and we want you to know what to expect. Al, one of my co-workers, brought this new guy down there, guy was visibly nervous because dead bodies. They walk into the cooler where the dead are kept on gurneys in levels, think narrow, 6 level bunk beds. You often see their feet sticking out because someone didn't wrap them properly. So Al pulls out one of the dead, just showing the new guy where we put the identification tag, how to wrap... The corpse BOLTS UP flailing their arms, screaming bloody murder. The new guy fainted on the spot. Al had wrapped up another of my co-workers to spook the new guy, who quit the next day. They have since put up several regulations prohibiting this sort of behavior.
Properly trained and unflappable morgue staff are the first line of defence against a zombie outbreak. You need to weed out unsuitable candidates a.s.a.f.p. Citizen: don't let your town or city become Zombie Ground Zero just because "we don't allow pranks".
One of my favourite real life stories is one my father retells from a doctor friend; someone called his assistant asking where if he is free, they reply “Monday he’s in the hospital, Tuesday in rehabilitation, Wednesday in the morgue, should be free on Thursday” only later did they realise the person calling didn’t know he was a doctor…
as a kid, I stepped on a toothpick and it went clean through. The doctors ordered an Xray. My mom spent 20 years saying they did it just to bill her since wood doesn't show up on xrays. Suddenly she realized (20 years later) that they were checking it the bones had been scratched or damaged since the toothpick went all the way through.
It’s sad, but that joke about patients not going in for medical care until their disease is progressed enough to be taken seriously is 100% true in the case of eating disorders. Most people with eating disorders delay treatment for months or even years because they don’t feel they’re sick enough to be worthy of treatment. This is largely perpetuated by healthcare professionals who often invalidate these sufferers, telling them they’re fine.
Then there are cases where people with legitimate digestive disorders get misdiagnosed as having eating disorders because the doctors don't listen to them
The one about waiting to be sick enough for the right treatment hit me so hard. It took until I was bleeding out from a hemorage in my uterus, for them to realize I wasnt just complaining about "normal" menstral cycle pain.💜
I defecated solid blood at age 9 after surgery and they kept trying to turn us away saying it was just my period. It took 3 hours and a man with a nosebleed refusing to go before me for me to be seen. I almost died that day (diagnosed with a beeding disorder) and didn't start menstruating for another two years.
The number of injuries I've had become permanent when they could've been treated early just because a doc didn't believe it was serious enough is ridiculous. We need better training in patient care, theory is not enough.
My local hospital made a billboard with just an image of a pillow and the words "HEART MEDICATION." on it. Apparently it's supposed to be saying that sleep is the best heart medication.
That theory about babies smelling something yummy and then deciding to come out makes sense 🙈😁. All three my kids started their labour while I was cooking dinner, including my first who came at 24 weeks.
Would love for Dr Mike to talk about ‘hidden’ disabilities and how hard it is to not only get a diagnosis but find a doctor that believes that you have a disability. I have both ME and Fibromyalgia it took 8 years for a fibro diagnosis and an additional 4 to get a ME one too. Still meet doctors who say that they are not real
Oof yeah those two both get so much gaslighting from so many medical staff. It’s wild to me how many people have one or both and how many doctors somehow still think it’s imaginary.
@@rev.rachel I had to have extra testing too because ‘you can’t have both’ 🤦🏼♀️ I feel doctors want to see something so something on a scan or blood test and conditions where there isn’t a test and you get diagnosed by not having something else means that some doctors think your doing it for other motives ie disability benefits.
I was just diagnosed with Loeys-Dietz syndrome, which is like a cross between Marfan's and Ehler's-Danlos. I've been having symptoms since I was six. I'll be 40 this year. I could have died at any moment from aortic dissection.
I saw a story about a woman who arrived at the morgue alive. The mortician knew the difference between a dead body and a living person, so the woman was transferred to a hospital. If memory serves, the woman had a chronic illness and was being cared for by family. A nurse was in the home and couldn't find a pulse and the woman was sent to the morgue with out being pronounced dead by a doctor. I saw the story on Caitlin Doughty's channel, Ask a Mortician
In a conversation with an OLD medical examiner, where I was finding out you could get the job with only a High School Diploma, so long as you were willing to get through the training for Hazmat and Bio-hazard protocols... I found out a simple test he used from some 30 years ago when he ran into such a situation... "Dead people do NOT bleed." He explained... "Even a very slow, undetectable heart rate has enough pressure to bleed a little, so you stick 'em somewhere you KNOW they'd bleed if alive... like the lip or tongue. The mouth is very vascular, and if no bleeding, no harm and no visible damage..." Apparently, as the story goes (what I was told)... He got a body to examine one afternoon... Wasn't too obviously unnatural, but a little dubious, so the police were covering bases (read "covering their asses")... AND as he started the Y, blood ebbed almost immediately and in short order (at about 4 inches of the first cut) the body sat bolt-upright and started screaming and swearing at him... It only got "covered up" because it was mid-60's and even the local media had "bigger things" to report on than some rando' scaring the bejeezus out of the morgue personnel over questions of self induced drug OD or possible homicide... even accidental... SO for around a decade after that, he'd make a point of his first step being a little nick somewhere about the mouth that he could clamp or brace "to be visible" and watch for a minute or so... JUST to be sure... Of course, keep in mind, he was an older guy (retired) and FULL of stories... He's one of a few who worked the medical examiner job for upwards of 50 years with ONLY a high school education under his belt along with the routine training on handling chemicals, avoiding contaminations, biohazards, and other new tech and science involved... He still enjoyed "breaking the new-guys in" with some horribly disturbing and shocking "prank" that would either prepare them for their new career or send them running (literally) home in tears to lay in their showers in the fetal position... SO the story is "just a story"... haha... ...AND it's always kinda fun to share with people of culture! ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 You might enjoy the movie, Dracula Dead and Loving It. It has a great scene of a medical profeser played by Mel Brooks, trying to freak out his medical students. Leslie Nielsen plays Dracula. I enjoy the story that you shared
@@Ona1979 Yeah... You're right... I did.... Might help that I grew up with Mel Brooks as a main-stay of entertainment... Nielsen also did a parody of "The Exorcist" called "Repossessed" if you haven't seen it... AND it is what it sounds like... haha... Glad you liked the story. I rather enjoyed hanging out with the old guy... At the time I was on a crew for landscaping, and he and his wife were always a good stop... AND as O.P. and others in the thread have acknowledged, Caitlyn Doughty's channel "Ask a Mortician" is equal parts comedic wit and quality explanations and answers about the modern grieving and cultural funerary traditions and processes... a worthwhile investment of time whether you struggle, yourself, or you just want to know how to help someone else or "just be there" as it were. ;o)
The woman refusing to go until she's sick enough to believe is so accurate.... it's infuriating... and it's not just women it's anyone with a mental health diagnosis, children, disabled individuals 🙄 it's so hard to actually get proper care
I was once refferred to a doctor by the school nurse because I couldn't see the board and was throwing up from headaches, and the doctor told me he wasn't going to give me my perscription because I had lied on the test and just wanted a "fashion accessory" my dad said that it took all the will in his body not to punch him. Probably should have sued in retrospect because that was probably pretty cut and dry Malpractice.
@@angrynoodletwentyfive6463 I started being ill at 4, would often have to go home at lunch break and back than kindergarten was only Monday Wednesday and every other Friday... Migraines, seizures, temporary paralysis, Anemia, Asthma attacks and just other just sucky things like not being sble to even digest water for a month (in this case got iv fluids but they still said there was nothing wrong with me) after 25 years of searching and fighting for them to look at me I finally got a diagnosis but it doesn't explain everything and now I'm fighting for them to keep looking
Lucky for me, my country's health system is so abysmal that you're better off just accepting your demise instead of paying a doctor to legally murder you 🙂
@@a.w.e.5263 I swear that this is my story, only I’m 25 and currently fighting tooth and nail for a diagnosis. I’ve been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and my episodic seizures as PNES… it feels like I’m written off before I even walk into an appointment and yet my symptoms just keep getting worse. I show up with photos of bruises that show up out of nowhere and won’t heal for weeks, deep painful skin rashes, and pictures of what I “used” to look like. I started doing the later because of the side looks and “discreet” questions about eating disorders after severe weight and muscle loss over the past two years. I’ve literally broken down in a doctors office trying to make them understand, I was healthy looking! I was strong! I could do farm work all day every day and not bat an eye! I want that person back- I’m not making myself sick for gods sake. I even go to therapy because they actually convinced me it actually *was* all in my head. Therapy is great and all, but shockingly- I’m still sick!
I know YOU'RE the doctor, but my mom finally forced my dad to see a derm about his dry, cracked heels. 40% urea cream, slathered over the area and covered, let it sit as long as you feel is reasonable, and repeat until healed. It's worked wonders for him and is something cheap and easy you could try.
6:55 I didn’t realize the Onion interviewed my mom. She’s been told it’s nothing for serious injuries so many times and so many places that she refuses to go unless she’s dying, and even then she says “I’ll just die at that point, maybe they’ll finally acknowledge my problems at the morgue!”
These are hilarious, but man 6:52 hit hard - We as doctors need to have an open mind, we NEED to believe patients and their symptoms BEFORE it gets that bad. There is no place for medical gaslighting and we gotta work hard to change the culture
fun fact for the first one: my great aunt actually came back to life in the morgue after being crushed by 2 trucks and pronounced dead on entry. turns out she wasnt dead and they just didnt check because of her state, and they had to rush her back to the hospital for multiple operations, stitches, and they said she wouldnt walk again. she is now in her late 70s, maybe 80s and is very healthy and still walking, although she was infertile after that and never had children. im pretty sure they do check now if a patient is alive, even if theyre pronounced dead on entry, but this was like the late 50s or something and she was about 7, and it was the north of ireland where we were already suffering, so a lot of factors didnt work in her favour
I’ve had older male doctors not believe my pain. It happened with the TMJ disorder I have and when my gallbladder went bye bye. The latter being most dangerous, I needed emergency surgery for it. For my jaw, I saw 3 older male doctors and 1 female doctor. It was the female doctor that gave me temporary strong pain relief to help the acute pain from exacerbating my jaw condition. The first 3 blew me off. I got in the car and cried after seeing the female doctor. Because she believed me. As for the gallbladder, I saw a male GP, told him my symptoms and that they are getting worse. It was a ‘see how it goes, it’s prob gastritis’. Nope yah jerk, biliary colic + a roided looking gallbladder according to the surgeon. I will now only see older male GP’s for routine things. If I have a problem, I will see either a female or younger male doctor. This shouldn’t be a problem, but it is. Medical literature backs that up too.
Honestly the advice at 8:00 seems like a really good idea. I have horrible insomnia and I've found that I start getting anxiety around bedtime bc I fear not being able to fall asleep. There was even a time just seeing my bed would give me anxiety.
Ever seen that Mythbuster's episode? They proved that even just laying down and getting your heartrate down is good for you, even if you can't fall asleep. And I find absolutely anything by Ray Lynch peaceful and soothing if you need some wind-down music.
Literally can't get my doctor to order tests and I've been losing weight and vomiting for almost a year and a half, I'd take the one to confirm I had feet at this point 💀
Find a new doctor. Also, if you are in the US, you can get comprehensive blood tests quite cheap if you find the right website. I won't advertise them here but check around and find the best price. Note that some are cheap for a while, then gradually become more expensive as they accumulate repeat customers. I have high iron levels if I don't do anything about it (give blood occasionally), and it's cheaper and easier for me to get tested that way then getting a doctor to order tests each time.
@@jmodified nobody's accepting new patients right now but I have a plan to just go around every practice in my area and beg until someone hears me. Also I contacted a charity that helps with medical complaints etc. I'm in the UK so not sure the online blood test thing is available to me but might be worth looking into, thank you!
that reminds me of something similar that happened to my sister. though it was not so much vomiting and moreso diarrhoea, and weight loss. she got sent from one doc to the next and no one was able to figure out what was causing it. turns out her contraceptives were the culprit and she had to basically figure it out on her own... i hope you can get the medical attention you need soon and they're actually able to help you!
Props to you, many people will never understand how hard it is to overcome an addiction and how much work and energy one has to put into the healing process and all the struggles that one has to endure. It's totally controlling every aspect in your life, so you, dear sir or Madame, are a real fighter and you should be very proud of you for the fact that you've never stopped believing in yourself, a better future and your strength. I totally am💪❤
6:52 was too real. I did that with my knees. I waited 10 years until it was difficult to stand for short periods. 6 months of physio, and I'm at 90% again.
Thank for that sleep tip! I never thought to just get out of bed for a little bit instead of just lying there for up to 2 hours, desperate for the black void
1:10 as a guy who was born prematurely i can definetely confirm i smelled a fresh baked apple pie at 7 months of me being in my moms womb ( jokes apart i was actually born in 7 months instead of 9)
was born a 8 months. my mom said her craving was in-n-out when she was pregnant of me and that also happens to be my favorite restaurant....coincidence? i think not.
@@DARKENINGTIMES my in laws are really cruel, they made her work when she was pregnant with me, so she ate mostly nothing, and one day her water broke.
AFAB here, but this might have nothing to do with my sex. I was on a medication which my psychiatrist told me could potentially lead to some heart problems, especially if I ingested caffeine at the same time. I was told to watch out for elevated heart rates and chest pain. In the middle of one of my classes, the left side of my chest began to hurt very badly and I was suddenly short of breath. I have asthma, but it didn't feel anything like an asthma attack. I wasn't wheezing or coughing, I just couldn’t breathe. The nurse at school said my heart rate was elevated so my aunt called my doctor and was told to bring me to the walk in clinic. The pain slowly subsided and I returned to breathing normally while I was in the waiting room. I was still aching a little and I felt like I had just ran a mile when I went in to see the doctor. I don't know if my primary care physician wasn't available or if I had just gotten a new one or something because I had never met that doctor before. But I had explained to him exactly what happened, he took my heart rate and told me I was fine. He suggested I had a panic attack but I told him that I had had panic attacks and anxiety attacks before. I know what they're like. I definitely wasn't panicking because I had the presence of mind to think that I might be having complications with my new medication and brought myself to the nurse. If I'm having a panic attack I freeze up and cry. He then suggested I was having an asthma attack, but I have those every time I exercise more than just walking (depending on the season walking for awhile can do it too) I'm very familiar with them considering I was a power lifter and did light cardio five days a week before and after lifting. I can also get triggered by heavily perfumed products or aerosols. I carried an inhaler on me every day. I tried to explain to him that I wasn't wheezing and wasn't panicking and that emotionally I felt fine, and the second those words left my mouth he accused me of saying it to get out of school (hadn't missed a day of school that year) and reprimanded me for wasting the hospital resources. I decided to quit taking the medication on my own until I could talk to my psychiatrist and she agreed that I should no longer take it. I just hope someone else doesn't go to that same doctor and end up continuing to take a medication that has the potential to hurt them.
As a woman I know for a fact that I have to absolutely "show" something when I go a hospital. Even if I might get a female doctor, i do not want to take that trip twice after being given paracetamol and waiting for it to get worse anyway. It has happened since I was a kid, till in college I got tired of it. The demeaning looks I always got... And I had it aaaaall when I was a kid, small hospital af. You would think I would get some credit after all those years in their beds...
Dr. Mike talking about his foot makes me wonder if it's true that doctors make terrible patients. The surgeon saying "oops" is classic. The other one is the patient is about to go under and at an attempt at humor, says “Be gentle doc, it's my first time." The doctor replies, "Oh, really? Mine, too." And that's the last thing the patient hears before going under.
Thats fine. You don't dream while under. It will be only a second or two of panic. It's worse when you go for a small procedure and something happens or comes up during surgery and you wake uo without your leg.
@@tatiana4050 the dutch onion made a story that amputation of a limb was a great way to lose weight within a day you could loe 5 to 10 kilos. The amputee soccerteam replied: great advice! We need more members! It was hilarious.
I was having a cervical biopsy once and the doctor says, "Oops." Me: "Ooops?! Ooops what!?" She had dropped one of the tools. (Tip:When doctors say, "uncomfortable" they mean painful.)
But the difference is that he was saying "stop making promises" to healthcare providers ("I promise this will cure your issue...") as opposed to his tour, where he planned (since I'm seeing this in August, I'm assuming the tour has already happened) to make it fun and interesting. He wasn't promising anything on a medical or health-related level.
Doctor Mike, I found your channel a few days back and I have been binge watching your videos ever since... I have been feeling low for a while now but your videos make me feel happy somehow, and I learn new things too! Thank you for making my day :)
Had a CPR + first aid recertification training the other day, and had your voice in my head the whole time we were reviewing the CPR section( "Chest compressions")
The interdimensional one made me think of Star Trek and how it's absolutely LOADED with medical scenes from McCoy, Crusher, the EMH, Bashir and Phlox (along with the newer series too). That would make a really cool reaction video, maybe even several.
The weirdest healthcare billboard I ever saw was a cute puppy saying "ARE YOU DTF?! (down to floss)" for a family dental clinic. I feel like someone had that explained to them after it went out and they were like "Oh dear lord..."
You should do a review of, "This is gonna hurt". It's about working for the NHS as a doctor in the UK. Very gory and designed for adults but worth a watch
As someone with multiple chronic illnesses I have lost count of how many times I've waited to go to the doctor until I'm 'sick enough' to be believed, and I'm often still not.
About the first one with the mortician. There are several stories of health professionals wrongly declaring people dead and sending them to a funeral home where they wake up/were awake in the body bag. It seems like most of the times, it has been people with some sort of disability/chronic illness, but it doesn't excuse the malpractice. You should look up Timesha Beauchamp (20), who died from complications after. The paramedics that declared her dead, only had to take their certification again, while the family was left with the loss of their daughter :(
I swear, ever since I started watching Dr. Mike videos consistently during my lunch hour at work, my mood has been improving and I'm overall just a bit more optimistic than I already usually am lol. I think it's due to how pure and similar the humor is to what I normally like. Plus his laugh improves anyone's day tenfold, so there's that. Thank you good Sir. 😂
Doctor reacts to onion articles is prbly my third favorite series, behind meme review and reacting to tv shows and movies. I wish we got more onion videos.
I'd like to say I really appreciate you and your videos. I've actually learned not just stuff I'll never need, but a lot of good info that has actually bettered my life. Thank you
Myself and a friend have dried cracked skin on our feet as well on the outside of the ankle. A common factor we realized which could be leading to more of a callous is we sit at home with our foot tucked under our thigh, so could be caused from sitting on your feet.
Huh. I have had really bad cracks for about a year, never had them before in my life. And I do the same thing too, tucking my feet under my leg. I'll have to break that habit and see if it helps.
This is kind of strange, but this youtube video has actually improved my life. I've been having a lot of difficulty falling asleep lately, and I would usually have panic attacks as I lay in bed trying to sleep. At 7:44, Dr. Mike mentions it's a good idea to not spend more than 15-20 minutes in bed if you can't fall asleep. Since I first watched this video when it came out, my sleep schedule has gotten a lot more regular and I've been having far fewer incidents with stress and anxiety when I try to sleep. I definitely have a ways to go (and should probably see a medical professional about it) but just that little bit of advice has made a huge difference for me. Thank you, Doctor Mike!
That advice has been around for decades; my parents, both of whom died 16 years ago this month, told all of us, their children, to get out of bed and just quietly sit in the living room and read if we couldn't fall asleep within 15 minutes. Considering we were all kids in the mid to late 50s and 60s, I know the advice is older than that because my maternal grandmother used to tell that to Mom and her siblings, too, and Mom was 74 when she died in 2006.
Actually the "mortician keeps a hammer at tableside just in case" bit actually happened to my uncle. He got into a car crash, went into a coma, they asked he was dead, signed the death certificate and everything, and on the way to the morgue he woke up. He spent 5yrs trying to prove he wasn't dead to the government (since the dearh certificate was signed and all)
7:43 Thank you. This helped a lot in explaining why I struggle to bed, cause when I get into bed, I'm filled with so much anxiety and it takes me hours to fall asleep.
We actually had a book from onion about different facts around the world but had really creative bullshit that only made sense when you actually think about it ,in our school library from like a few years ago until just recently. Some students actually complained to the librarian about book saying it had swears and such, but since it was written like a genius , going through it swiftly , it just looks like a normal world facts book. It has been quite a legend in our school library since almost every students wants to read it that it’s always shuffled around throughout the entire school lol.
Sorry but the funniest thing to me in this video was Dr. Mike laughing at messing up HIPAA again lmao it's like he's like EVERY TIME I get it wrong again! Lol it was adorable
It would be great if you did a video describing the differences between type one and type two diabetes. I’ve had doctors tell me there is no difference, even though me, a type 1, knows that they are literally not the same disease. Also nobody knows anything about it, which is so frustrating.
"I think it's an issue of training and the lack of experience to working with a diverse patient population." Yes, there's a massive issue with doctors ignoring their female patients-- a problem that gets many women killed. This isn't a matter of diversity, or doctors unused to dealing with a small niche group. Women make up half the population!
I meant more so in a diversity of clinical trials (female based research) and medical education (more coverage of female linked conditions and more female physicians as well).
I agree, their arrogance in some cases certainly plays a part in this. Since this is an issue that is known I can't help but wonder and am interested in what actions are being followed up in order to rectify this. We instil a lot of trust in our Doctors when it comes to our well being and lives, it is quite unsettling to think many people male and/or female have experience with a Doctor/s which has left them humiliated, unheard, misdiagnosed and mistreated. As someone whose life and well being has been seriously impacted due to doctors lack of education, transparency and personal beliefs I know all too well of the trauma, anxiety and consequence of this. I can only hope that this continues to be addressed and dealt with, that the possible causes of why this is occurring will be investigated and that actions are taken to prevent future occurrences, if it is so that further education and support is much needed for medical professionals I sincerely hope that everything that can be done is provided to them so that they can be of better assistance and provide high quality of care to their patients.
check the case of Timesha Beauchamp. Just heartbreaking. She was taken to the morgue in a bodybag but it was discovered that she was still alive. she died a few months later due to the damage she sustained through lack of oxygen during the incident
It's a bit of a mystery what triggers birth in general. My personal theory is that something causes the babies body (correctly or incorrectly) to believe that the mom can't satisfy the baby's need any more. The resulting distress to the baby triggers birth. Hunger could be a trigger. We don't know!
I’m pretty sure my daughter was born early in response to hearing “All I want for Christmas is you” over and over again lol. She came out 2 days before Christmas, a month early.
It's actually very simple---it's how God designed the human body, to carry the baby for approximately nine months/40 weeks, and then it's time for the baby to be born because all components are ready. Of course, there are times when the baby comes much too soon, but who knows what the mother ingested during her pregnancy, or what the father had prior to creating that baby? But as a general rule, it's nine months and then both the mother's body and that of the baby are ready to part ways, so to speak.
We had a hospital billboard in one city I lived in that was for the new trauma center, but it looked like the Halloween guy hanging off a house, but ON THE BILLBOARD, visible from a bridge. People almost had car accidents due to that sign. I wondered if they were trying to drum up business.
Loved this video it was hilarious 😂😂 thanks for all the positive content Doctor Mike your amazing 🤩🤩 and i only wish I could meet you in person 💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😢😢
Hi Mike, I've been watching your videos for 2 years now and I have recently discovered a problem and I don't know what to do. Sometimes I randomly enter a state where I feel like I have too much energy to contain and feel angrier than I ever have and that I need to hit something. What I normally do is get my pillow and a baseball bat then hit it untilI feel calm but I feel there is a better way to deal with it, along with an explanation for why this is happening. Thanks so much :)
Question Dr Mike, or anyone: you mentioned in the video that biohackers give you a huge headache - can you evaluate a little more on the 'why' of that point? Specifically on nutrigenomics and piracetam. Its something I've noticed Ive been doing for almost a year without knowing the term " biohacking". Questions aside, I deeply admire and appreciate your work as a doctor on UA-cam spreading awareness on the actuality of internet facts, and efforts to debunk as many misconceptions on health as possible. Your passion and knowledge for the subject floods through every single video and no words can describe the respect your viewers hold for your work.
Hey Doctor Mike! I love the vids! I have a few question I hope you can answer: How many times does it take to hit your head before you suffer brain damage or a serious injury, Why does your nose bleed during season changes, and Lastly I have seen videos of people staying under water for a very long time.. Is that ok for your lungs or is it slowly hurting you?
Fun fact about sumo wrestlers: Chanko nabe is one of their main food sources 🍲 I really hope I can teach Dr. Mike something he actually doesn’t know for once 🤞🏽🤣
I'm not a doctor, but when I was told I had to eliminate caffeine because of what it was doing to me, I just plain and simply stopped. It was easy for me, but I went by what my mother said about her own need to stop eating certain things, which was: "I ask myself if this (favorite) food is worth losing my life over? There isn't a food in this world worth giving up my life for, so I just won't eat (or drink) it anymore," and that was that, she was done with it. Even if it was something Dad liked, she wouldn't touch it, and he would have to buy and prepare it for himself. She never ingested it again---there were several things she had to give up---and it helped her a lot. Now I have had to do the same thing, and giving up foods that can harm one's health is a lot easier when (I) can see that being without them means I feel a lot better than I ever did when consuming them. My longwinded way of saying that it can be done, you CAN give up whatever "dependency" you need to in order to protect and improve your health. I'm an elderly woman, almost 70 now, and have had to do this with a number of foods and beverages over the last 3 1/2 years. If you're a lot younger than me, it should be a lot easier for you.
8:39 _Honestly,_ some state control over the media would help with that, such as pushing these statements ad verbatim to the headlines when these changes are made or perhaps even before, to make the whole process more transparent and keep people up-to-date with what decisions are going to be made.
I used to listen to the onion podcast, I don’t think they release it anymore, but it was really good when they did. I love your videos so much, keep up the amazing work.
Funny story, my surgeon said "uh-oh" literally 2 seconds after cutting open my armpit for removing what he originally thought was a swollen lymph node. On the table he was like "okay so, change of plans, it's a lipoma" removed some of it, it hurt as hell when he was stitching me, because the local numbing sedation thing was gone and I cried like a baby, because imagine how sensitive an armpit is. The lump was still huge and there was no improvement of the quality of my life. It hurt when I wore bra, backpacks, when I slept on my side and it was freaking huge and ugly and confidence killer. So two years after that first surgery I went to the same surgeon, he opened it again and his words were "honey, there was never a lipoma here" so I'M CONFUSED AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. There was no result, my GP said that it was just a cosmetic issue and I should leave it as it is.
I went to another surgeon and he immediately told me that is was a polymastia, I basically had a third brest with the size of a tennis ball under my armpit. He removed all of it now it's all gone. Unfortunately I had nerve complications and had to go to physiotherapy and thee other doctors and now I also have a 3 inch scar.
Sooo.. moral of the story.. choose your surgeons well!
Thank you for all who read my story.
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And also second opinion is always the best when it comes to going for surgery . It's better to take two doctors advice
Damn, that sucks. Hopefully your doing a bit better now?
@@jonathankhuzkian6419 yes, thankfully I am.
@@manasas868 there is a prehistory to this story as the timeline is 10 years wide, but that was my second opinion. The first option was that it's nothing and I should leave it. So when the second opinion said "this is actually something that had to be operated years ago" I thought I finally found a good doctor.
Something I saw recently: remember if you’re ever on an alien planet and you get sick, don’t go to the doctor, go to the vet. The doctor will only know how to treat the local dominant species, but a vet will have knowledge of a wide array of species specific care.
Legitimately solid advice
Thanks for the info lol
Hopefully I remember this on my next journey to Jupiter ae9. Last time I went, I almost got my feet chopped off because I went to a doc for a little cold
@@Jimothyjohns LOL
@@Jimothyjohns Same man!! Dr. Monopocoluatusply needs some bedside manner training!
Some of these Onion articles make you wonder what's going on inside someone's minds as they write these. They're actually creative.
Shut up bot
@@NemesisFromResidentEvil wat?
@@NemesisFromResidentEvil this is not a bot lmao
they wonder that too
have you ever seen The Onion's companion site Literally Unbelievable? It's just screen shots of people commenting on posts who think the articles are real. The best are the ones reacting to the article "8 billion dollar abortionplex being built" people actually thought that was a real thing.
6:51 I've actually had to do this before. My skin was falling off in chunks. The first time I went in to dermatology, I got some cream. Skin got worse. I tried to tell my dr that it wasn't helping, they said "I'm going to up the dosage" it got worse yet. I asked if I was allergic to the medication, they asked if I believed "everything I saw on TV?" when I told them about the side effects mentioned in the patient sheet and in the commercial. I finally stopped using the medication, my skin kinda healed up, but I was labeled "med non-compliant" and later I found out the person was getting kickbacks from the medication company. I wasn't the only one with permanent skin damage (and a bit of a deflated sense of self) I now look like a spotted animal on one side from all the skin loss from blistering and such. No one ever cared to take "medication non-compliant off my record, so now I get that "are you going to take this correctly?" every time I get a new medication! UGH.
Not a lawyer but that sounds like something you could sue over to me.
@@Jade-pf3ke I wish I could, but there's no true evidence that the medication itself caused the reaction, even though my skin lesions started when I started the medication, and abruptly stopped once I stopped the med.
@@pmbluemoon Assuming you're still allergic, it'd be something provable - all that'd be needed is an allergen test for the med in question.
@@electrowave114 I wish they would actually test me instead of just think I'm making it up, I like proof, and I like it documented.
I’m a nurse in longterm care. A couple months ago, I was talking to the pickup guy from a funeral home who told me their place did have someone "come back to life." It was a little girl who had been under palliative/hospice care because of a chronic condition which included severe bradycardia. At home, her heart rate had gone undetectable, and she was otherwise non responsive. She was pronounced dead and taken to funeral home. A bit later, one of the workers heard a knocking on the morgue door. The little girl was alive and wanting out.
6:55 is only too true. My wife had been bleeding "down there" for over a year straight and docs always blew off our concerns about it, even when she had ended up hospitalized with COVID and the nurses saw what was happening. Turns out, she had to be on death's door due to critically low blood count before finally a doctor looked into the cause: Uterine cancer stage 3. Still dealing with the spread of that cancer as they couldn't get it all with a hysterectomy. If only a doctor would have looked into it when we started to raise concerns, it could have been caught before it spread.
Hope she is doing well ❤️
This is so sad 😢 How is she doing now?
@@ClementineCreative she is doing better with the help of Prozac, because obviously this has been taking a toll on her mentally, and a different chemotherapy in this second round that isn't near as harsh as the first set of chemo meds.
Hang in there Hopefully she will win this fight and get well soon.
Wishing you guys the best of luck and hoping she gets better soon x
The “waiting to become sick enough to get the right treatment” title hits so hard. I may not be female but I’ve literally been turned away in a hospital more than once because my vitals were too good when I was actively internally bleeding and nearly died. I literally had to puke up litres of blood (obviously nearly died) for them to believe me.
That's horrible. The Healthcare system is just disgusting
I've been told my whole adult life that my monthly pain + diarrhea +generally feeling sick is normal and I should instead focus on my mental health (I'm asexual)
@@v3ru586 wait it isn't? That's just me on my period. I *LOVE* that i am always leaking from as many holes as possible (with hay fever)
@@tatiana4050 yeah, I heard painful periods are not normal, which makes sense because if people thousands of years ago had severe cramps every month the ooga booga people might not have survived for multiple reasons.
@@LinktheHylianChampion117 I was told by my doctor that my period was just normal for me and couldn't be considered "too heavy" Turns out it wasn't normal at all and I could have been getting help all along.
As a German it wasn't too hard to know, what "rinderpest" means: "Rinder" means cattle/cows and "pest" is the plague.
so funny that they use the german term tho, never knew that. xD
@@MsAnzoe 'Cause the Germans got some sick cows (in a groovy way of course)
Both rinderpest and smallpox have been eradicated! Hence the grouping of the two in the joke.
So madcow desase?
@@laurenlunamar4729 No, they’re not the same thing. Mad cow is a prion disease. Rinderpest was a virus.
If a doctor refuses to look into an issue, tell them to put in in your chart that they refuse. Usually that puts them in their place, because if they document their refusal, and your symptoms get worse later, then there’s proof that they’re at fault.
You also try "so if I get a second opinion and they prove what I'm saying does that mean you'll take full responsibility for lack of procedure"
@@xy3951 that works too. I said “put it in my chart” because it’s good to have a paper trail.
But you also have to ask for a printed copy of your chart---that is your legal right---right then, to make sure what was said was put into it. An ethical doctor, which most of them are, will not make such a decision, of course, and will at least attempt to find out what's going on (or, at least, all my doctors have done that). An unethical doctor/healthcare provider, if you don't take a written copy of your chart, will simply have that statement deleted once you leave the office, and there would be no proof that he/she ever refused to check out the issue.
@@jb6712 that’s a good point and I forgot to mention that. Thank you for adding that. Unfortunately, I have met more unethical doctors than ethical ones….
I had to go three hours out of my way to find someone even half decent. Women’s reproductive health is a joke to most doctors.
Not true. Revisions to notes are tracked. Even if you deleted the whole note and started over, the system will record that you did that and they can dig in and retrieve it if they have to.
Hi Dr. Mike, I just wanted to express my appreciation for the subtitles. I have congenital hearing loss and the vast majority of creators don't take the time to add captions to their videos, which obviously makes it more difficult to understand what's going on. I'm sure you won't see this comment but I love your videos and hope you will continue making more.
No joke I have hearing loss to and yeah the captions are amazing! - Aubrie hill on fathers phone
geez most video must be a pain, auto-translate is wack, i know since im french and sometime weird accents make it so i try captions...
Dr.Mike with the glasses today! You know these reactions are going to be good 😂😂
Brainy Doc in the house!
I’m ready to laugh hella hard cause of this comment. You have my gratitude
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what kinda superastion isd this
About the coming back to life thing.... It reminds me of a prank my co-workers pulled back in the day. I used to work as a transporter at a hospital, and one of our tasks was to transport the recently deceased down to the morgue. On your first day they bring you to the morgue, the job isn't for everyone, and we want you to know what to expect. Al, one of my co-workers, brought this new guy down there, guy was visibly nervous because dead bodies. They walk into the cooler where the dead are kept on gurneys in levels, think narrow, 6 level bunk beds. You often see their feet sticking out because someone didn't wrap them properly. So Al pulls out one of the dead, just showing the new guy where we put the identification tag, how to wrap... The corpse BOLTS UP flailing their arms, screaming bloody murder. The new guy fainted on the spot. Al had wrapped up another of my co-workers to spook the new guy, who quit the next day.
They have since put up several regulations prohibiting this sort of behavior.
I mean... If they can't react properly to raising dead, i dont think they should work at a morgue.
That is messed up... and funny as hell... but also really messed up.
Properly trained and unflappable morgue staff are the first line of defence against a zombie outbreak.
You need to weed out unsuitable candidates a.s.a.f.p.
Citizen: don't let your town or city become Zombie Ground Zero just because "we don't allow pranks".
One of my favourite real life stories is one my father retells from a doctor friend; someone called his assistant asking where if he is free, they reply “Monday he’s in the hospital, Tuesday in rehabilitation, Wednesday in the morgue, should be free on Thursday” only later did they realise the person calling didn’t know he was a doctor…
as a kid, I stepped on a toothpick and it went clean through. The doctors ordered an Xray. My mom spent 20 years saying they did it just to bill her since wood doesn't show up on xrays. Suddenly she realized (20 years later) that they were checking it the bones had been scratched or damaged since the toothpick went all the way through.
It’s sad, but that joke about patients not going in for medical care until their disease is progressed enough to be taken seriously is 100% true in the case of eating disorders. Most people with eating disorders delay treatment for months or even years because they don’t feel they’re sick enough to be worthy of treatment. This is largely perpetuated by healthcare professionals who often invalidate these sufferers, telling them they’re fine.
Then there are cases where people with legitimate digestive disorders get misdiagnosed as having eating disorders because the doctors don't listen to them
The one about waiting to be sick enough for the right treatment hit me so hard. It took until I was bleeding out from a hemorage in my uterus, for them to realize I wasnt just complaining about "normal" menstral cycle pain.💜
I defecated solid blood at age 9 after surgery and they kept trying to turn us away saying it was just my period. It took 3 hours and a man with a nosebleed refusing to go before me for me to be seen. I almost died that day (diagnosed with a beeding disorder) and didn't start menstruating for another two years.
"a surgeon saying oops is the last thing you want to hear" I honestly disagree. I dont want this to be the last thing I hear.
The number of injuries I've had become permanent when they could've been treated early just because a doc didn't believe it was serious enough is ridiculous. We need better training in patient care, theory is not enough.
My local hospital made a billboard with just an image of a pillow and the words "HEART MEDICATION." on it. Apparently it's supposed to be saying that sleep is the best heart medication.
I would never understand that without an explanation
...so youre saying im not supposed to eat my pillows as meds?
That theory about babies smelling something yummy and then deciding to come out makes sense 🙈😁. All three my kids started their labour while I was cooking dinner, including my first who came at 24 weeks.
24 weeks 💀 you must be one hell of a chef 😂
Would love for Dr Mike to talk about ‘hidden’ disabilities and how hard it is to not only get a diagnosis but find a doctor that believes that you have a disability. I have both ME and Fibromyalgia it took 8 years for a fibro diagnosis and an additional 4 to get a ME one too. Still meet doctors who say that they are not real
My sister has Fibromyalgia too, it looks and sounds like depression or insomnia, but it’s really a hidden struggle. I hope Mike sees your comment!
@@chinmustache6420 people go ‘oh that pain thing’ but it’s so much more than people realise
Oof yeah those two both get so much gaslighting from so many medical staff. It’s wild to me how many people have one or both and how many doctors somehow still think it’s imaginary.
@@rev.rachel I had to have extra testing too because ‘you can’t have both’ 🤦🏼♀️ I feel doctors want to see something so something on a scan or blood test and conditions where there isn’t a test and you get diagnosed by not having something else means that some doctors think your doing it for other motives ie disability benefits.
I was just diagnosed with Loeys-Dietz syndrome, which is like a cross between Marfan's and Ehler's-Danlos.
I've been having symptoms since I was six. I'll be 40 this year. I could have died at any moment from aortic dissection.
I saw a story about a woman who arrived at the morgue alive. The mortician knew the difference between a dead body and a living person, so the woman was transferred to a hospital.
If memory serves, the woman had a chronic illness and was being cared for by family. A nurse was in the home and couldn't find a pulse and the woman was sent to the morgue with out being pronounced dead by a doctor.
I saw the story on Caitlin Doughty's channel, Ask a Mortician
Hello fellow deathling
In a conversation with an OLD medical examiner, where I was finding out you could get the job with only a High School Diploma, so long as you were willing to get through the training for Hazmat and Bio-hazard protocols... I found out a simple test he used from some 30 years ago when he ran into such a situation...
"Dead people do NOT bleed." He explained... "Even a very slow, undetectable heart rate has enough pressure to bleed a little, so you stick 'em somewhere you KNOW they'd bleed if alive... like the lip or tongue. The mouth is very vascular, and if no bleeding, no harm and no visible damage..."
Apparently, as the story goes (what I was told)... He got a body to examine one afternoon... Wasn't too obviously unnatural, but a little dubious, so the police were covering bases (read "covering their asses")... AND as he started the Y, blood ebbed almost immediately and in short order (at about 4 inches of the first cut) the body sat bolt-upright and started screaming and swearing at him...
It only got "covered up" because it was mid-60's and even the local media had "bigger things" to report on than some rando' scaring the bejeezus out of the morgue personnel over questions of self induced drug OD or possible homicide... even accidental...
SO for around a decade after that, he'd make a point of his first step being a little nick somewhere about the mouth that he could clamp or brace "to be visible" and watch for a minute or so... JUST to be sure...
Of course, keep in mind, he was an older guy (retired) and FULL of stories... He's one of a few who worked the medical examiner job for upwards of 50 years with ONLY a high school education under his belt along with the routine training on handling chemicals, avoiding contaminations, biohazards, and other new tech and science involved... He still enjoyed "breaking the new-guys in" with some horribly disturbing and shocking "prank" that would either prepare them for their new career or send them running (literally) home in tears to lay in their showers in the fetal position... SO the story is "just a story"... haha...
...AND it's always kinda fun to share with people of culture! ;o)
@@rtcameron1 Thank you for saying hello. It's nice to hear from another fan of Ask a Mortician 😁
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 You might enjoy the movie, Dracula Dead and Loving It. It has a great scene of a medical profeser played by Mel Brooks, trying to freak out his medical students. Leslie Nielsen plays Dracula. I enjoy the story that you shared
@@Ona1979 Yeah... You're right... I did.... Might help that I grew up with Mel Brooks as a main-stay of entertainment...
Nielsen also did a parody of "The Exorcist" called "Repossessed" if you haven't seen it... AND it is what it sounds like... haha...
Glad you liked the story. I rather enjoyed hanging out with the old guy... At the time I was on a crew for landscaping, and he and his wife were always a good stop...
AND as O.P. and others in the thread have acknowledged, Caitlyn Doughty's channel "Ask a Mortician" is equal parts comedic wit and quality explanations and answers about the modern grieving and cultural funerary traditions and processes... a worthwhile investment of time whether you struggle, yourself, or you just want to know how to help someone else or "just be there" as it were. ;o)
The woman refusing to go until she's sick enough to believe is so accurate.... it's infuriating... and it's not just women it's anyone with a mental health diagnosis, children, disabled individuals 🙄 it's so hard to actually get proper care
I was once refferred to a doctor by the school nurse because I couldn't see the board and was throwing up from headaches, and the doctor told me he wasn't going to give me my perscription because I had lied on the test and just wanted a "fashion accessory" my dad said that it took all the will in his body not to punch him. Probably should have sued in retrospect because that was probably pretty cut and dry Malpractice.
@@angrynoodletwentyfive6463 I started being ill at 4, would often have to go home at lunch break and back than kindergarten was only Monday Wednesday and every other Friday... Migraines, seizures, temporary paralysis, Anemia, Asthma attacks and just other just sucky things like not being sble to even digest water for a month (in this case got iv fluids but they still said there was nothing wrong with me) after 25 years of searching and fighting for them to look at me I finally got a diagnosis but it doesn't explain everything and now I'm fighting for them to keep looking
Lucky for me, my country's health system is so abysmal that you're better off just accepting your demise instead of paying a doctor to legally murder you 🙂
@@a.w.e.5263 I swear that this is my story, only I’m 25 and currently fighting tooth and nail for a diagnosis. I’ve been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and my episodic seizures as PNES… it feels like I’m written off before I even walk into an appointment and yet my symptoms just keep getting worse. I show up with photos of bruises that show up out of nowhere and won’t heal for weeks, deep painful skin rashes, and pictures of what I “used” to look like. I started doing the later because of the side looks and “discreet” questions about eating disorders after severe weight and muscle loss over the past two years. I’ve literally broken down in a doctors office trying to make them understand, I was healthy looking! I was strong! I could do farm work all day every day and not bat an eye! I want that person back- I’m not making myself sick for gods sake. I even go to therapy because they actually convinced me it actually *was* all in my head. Therapy is great and all, but shockingly- I’m still sick!
@@OpalBees has anyone mentioned FND to you? Assuming you've had some type of neuro work up with the seizures but no results....
7:02 When the onion isn't actually the onion and is horrifyingly accurate
As a chronically ill woman, not making an appointment till she's sick enough to be believed is way too accurate...
I know YOU'RE the doctor, but my mom finally forced my dad to see a derm about his dry, cracked heels. 40% urea cream, slathered over the area and covered, let it sit as long as you feel is reasonable, and repeat until healed. It's worked wonders for him and is something cheap and easy you could try.
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6:55 I didn’t realize the Onion interviewed my mom. She’s been told it’s nothing for serious injuries so many times and so many places that she refuses to go unless she’s dying, and even then she says “I’ll just die at that point, maybe they’ll finally acknowledge my problems at the morgue!”
Kind of like the one headstone that's on UA-cam: "I told you I was sick."
These are hilarious, but man 6:52 hit hard - We as doctors need to have an open mind, we NEED to believe patients and their symptoms BEFORE it gets that bad. There is no place for medical gaslighting and we gotta work hard to change the culture
Tell it! Cos for some diseases,timely detection and intervention is what makes a difference between life and.... incompatibility with life.
fun fact for the first one: my great aunt actually came back to life in the morgue after being crushed by 2 trucks and pronounced dead on entry. turns out she wasnt dead and they just didnt check because of her state, and they had to rush her back to the hospital for multiple operations, stitches, and they said she wouldnt walk again. she is now in her late 70s, maybe 80s and is very healthy and still walking, although she was infertile after that and never had children. im pretty sure they do check now if a patient is alive, even if theyre pronounced dead on entry, but this was like the late 50s or something and she was about 7, and it was the north of ireland where we were already suffering, so a lot of factors didnt work in her favour
I’ve had older male doctors not believe my pain. It happened with the TMJ disorder I have and when my gallbladder went bye bye. The latter being most dangerous, I needed emergency surgery for it. For my jaw, I saw 3 older male doctors and 1 female doctor. It was the female doctor that gave me temporary strong pain relief to help the acute pain from exacerbating my jaw condition. The first 3 blew me off. I got in the car and cried after seeing the female doctor. Because she believed me. As for the gallbladder, I saw a male GP, told him my symptoms and that they are getting worse. It was a ‘see how it goes, it’s prob gastritis’. Nope yah jerk, biliary colic + a roided looking gallbladder according to the surgeon. I will now only see older male GP’s for routine things. If I have a problem, I will see either a female or younger male doctor. This shouldn’t be a problem, but it is. Medical literature backs that up too.
Honestly the advice at 8:00 seems like a really good idea. I have horrible insomnia and I've found that I start getting anxiety around bedtime bc I fear not being able to fall asleep. There was even a time just seeing my bed would give me anxiety.
Ever seen that Mythbuster's episode? They proved that even just laying down and getting your heartrate down is good for you, even if you can't fall asleep. And I find absolutely anything by Ray Lynch peaceful and soothing if you need some wind-down music.
Literally can't get my doctor to order tests and I've been losing weight and vomiting for almost a year and a half, I'd take the one to confirm I had feet at this point 💀
How about I offer you a discount. Pay me 10% of what you would pay your doctor. And i will send you a letter confirming you have feet.
@@tatiana4050 I'm in the UK so go for it mate sounds like a bargain to me
Find a new doctor. Also, if you are in the US, you can get comprehensive blood tests quite cheap if you find the right website. I won't advertise them here but check around and find the best price. Note that some are cheap for a while, then gradually become more expensive as they accumulate repeat customers. I have high iron levels if I don't do anything about it (give blood occasionally), and it's cheaper and easier for me to get tested that way then getting a doctor to order tests each time.
@@jmodified nobody's accepting new patients right now but I have a plan to just go around every practice in my area and beg until someone hears me. Also I contacted a charity that helps with medical complaints etc. I'm in the UK so not sure the online blood test thing is available to me but might be worth looking into, thank you!
that reminds me of something similar that happened to my sister. though it was not so much vomiting and moreso diarrhoea, and weight loss. she got sent from one doc to the next and no one was able to figure out what was causing it. turns out her contraceptives were the culprit and she had to basically figure it out on her own...
i hope you can get the medical attention you need soon and they're actually able to help you!
As an ex-opioid addict, i loved the joke lmao. Humor heals all wounds! Thanks Dr. Mike!
Congrats on your recovery!
Props to you, many people will never understand how hard it is to overcome an addiction and how much work and energy one has to put into the healing process and all the struggles that one has to endure. It's totally controlling every aspect in your life, so you, dear sir or Madame, are a real fighter and you should be very proud of you for the fact that you've never stopped believing in yourself, a better future and your strength. I totally am💪❤
@john wallace?
7:54 so.. lying in bed and sobbing softly to myself for an hour every night isn't healthy? hmm... who knew?
6:52 was too real. I did that with my knees. I waited 10 years until it was difficult to stand for short periods. 6 months of physio, and I'm at 90% again.
Thank for that sleep tip! I never thought to just get out of bed for a little bit instead of just lying there for up to 2 hours, desperate for the black void
Yup! Definitely taking that advice.
1:10 as a guy who was born prematurely i can definetely confirm i smelled a fresh baked apple pie at 7 months of me being in my moms womb ( jokes apart i was actually born in 7 months instead of 9)
I was born at 8 months it's good to see someone with the same thing going on
was born a 8 months. my mom said her craving was in-n-out when she was pregnant of me and that also happens to be my favorite restaurant....coincidence? i think not.
@@DARKENINGTIMES my in laws are really cruel, they made her work when she was pregnant with me, so she ate mostly nothing, and one day her water broke.
@@shivambhattacharya3039 how are they ur in laws?
@@DARKENINGTIMES OOP- MY MOTHERS IN LAWS PLEASEE💀
The one about women waiting to go to the dr is legit “facts no post office”
Also, SO excited for your Boston show! Got my VIP ticket ready to go!!
AFAB here, but this might have nothing to do with my sex. I was on a medication which my psychiatrist told me could potentially lead to some heart problems, especially if I ingested caffeine at the same time. I was told to watch out for elevated heart rates and chest pain.
In the middle of one of my classes, the left side of my chest began to hurt very badly and I was suddenly short of breath. I have asthma, but it didn't feel anything like an asthma attack. I wasn't wheezing or coughing, I just couldn’t breathe.
The nurse at school said my heart rate was elevated so my aunt called my doctor and was told to bring me to the walk in clinic. The pain slowly subsided and I returned to breathing normally while I was in the waiting room. I was still aching a little and I felt like I had just ran a mile when I went in to see the doctor. I don't know if my primary care physician wasn't available or if I had just gotten a new one or something because I had never met that doctor before.
But I had explained to him exactly what happened, he took my heart rate and told me I was fine. He suggested I had a panic attack but I told him that I had had panic attacks and anxiety attacks before. I know what they're like. I definitely wasn't panicking because I had the presence of mind to think that I might be having complications with my new medication and brought myself to the nurse. If I'm having a panic attack I freeze up and cry.
He then suggested I was having an asthma attack, but I have those every time I exercise more than just walking (depending on the season walking for awhile can do it too) I'm very familiar with them considering I was a power lifter and did light cardio five days a week before and after lifting. I can also get triggered by heavily perfumed products or aerosols. I carried an inhaler on me every day.
I tried to explain to him that I wasn't wheezing and wasn't panicking and that emotionally I felt fine, and the second those words left my mouth he accused me of saying it to get out of school (hadn't missed a day of school that year) and reprimanded me for wasting the hospital resources.
I decided to quit taking the medication on my own until I could talk to my psychiatrist and she agreed that I should no longer take it. I just hope someone else doesn't go to that same doctor and end up continuing to take a medication that has the potential to hurt them.
As a woman I know for a fact that I have to absolutely "show" something when I go a hospital. Even if I might get a female doctor, i do not want to take that trip twice after being given paracetamol and waiting for it to get worse anyway. It has happened since I was a kid, till in college I got tired of it. The demeaning looks I always got... And I had it aaaaall when I was a kid, small hospital af. You would think I would get some credit after all those years in their beds...
2:15 Everybody always asking ‘What is HIPAA?’, nobody asking ‘How is HIPAA?’
Why is hipaa
Dr. Mike talking about his foot makes me wonder if it's true that doctors make terrible patients.
The surgeon saying "oops" is classic. The other one is the patient is about to go under and at an attempt at humor, says “Be gentle doc, it's my first time." The doctor replies, "Oh, really? Mine, too." And that's the last thing the patient hears before going under.
Yes, some doctors make terrible patients. Nurses sometimes too.
Thats fine. You don't dream while under. It will be only a second or two of panic.
It's worse when you go for a small procedure and something happens or comes up during surgery and you wake uo without your leg.
@@tatiana4050 the dutch onion made a story that amputation of a limb was a great way to lose weight within a day you could loe 5 to 10 kilos. The amputee soccerteam replied: great advice! We need more members! It was hilarious.
7:44 "and the number one sleep thing that I tell people all the time.."
me: *to replace their blood with antifreeze?*
I was having a cervical biopsy once and the doctor says, "Oops." Me: "Ooops?! Ooops what!?" She had dropped one of the tools. (Tip:When doctors say, "uncomfortable" they mean painful.)
Dr. Mike: Stop making promises!
Also Dr. Mike: You’re going to have a blast, I guarantee it.
But the difference is that he was saying "stop making promises" to healthcare providers ("I promise this will cure your issue...") as opposed to his tour, where he planned (since I'm seeing this in August, I'm assuming the tour has already happened) to make it fun and interesting. He wasn't promising anything on a medical or health-related level.
Onion articles are always so concise yet there's that one thing that gives it away
Doctor Mike, I found your channel a few days back and I have been binge watching your videos ever since... I have been feeling low for a while now but your videos make me feel happy somehow, and I learn new things too! Thank you for making my day :)
Had a CPR + first aid recertification training the other day, and had your voice in my head the whole time we were reviewing the CPR section( "Chest compressions")
1:13 AYO WHO NEW?!?! My dad said “come out and I’ll get you tacossssssssssss” when I was well y’all know and it crake’s me up 🤣😂
The interdimensional one made me think of Star Trek and how it's absolutely LOADED with medical scenes from McCoy, Crusher, the EMH, Bashir and Phlox (along with the newer series too). That would make a really cool reaction video, maybe even several.
The weirdest healthcare billboard I ever saw was a cute puppy saying "ARE YOU DTF?! (down to floss)"
for a family dental clinic. I feel like someone had that explained to them after it went out and they were like "Oh dear lord..."
You should do a review of, "This is gonna hurt". It's about working for the NHS as a doctor in the UK. Very gory and designed for adults but worth a watch
I was thinking this the other day.
Awh, I was going to comment this hahaha
I agree x
Yes definitely this, it's a very good show
Your reactions are always hilarious 😂
As someone with multiple chronic illnesses I have lost count of how many times I've waited to go to the doctor until I'm 'sick enough' to be believed, and I'm often still not.
6:10 That’s why my mom had to be induced. I guess I knew what was out in the big scary world and didn’t want to leave! 😂
I cannot believe that in only 5 mins, he has more than 5K views and 1K likes . He is sooo popular and people love him 🙂🙂
Exactly, he is an amazing man and an amazing doctor. By the way, you have the same name of Aishwarya and Abishek's daughter😍
He has over 9 million subs. That's not that hard to believe with those numbers!
*edit* I'm not trying to be mean
@@norah4892 IKR?
@@imdonewithyall neh! no offense taken
About the first one with the mortician. There are several stories of health professionals wrongly declaring people dead and sending them to a funeral home where they wake up/were awake in the body bag. It seems like most of the times, it has been people with some sort of disability/chronic illness, but it doesn't excuse the malpractice.
You should look up Timesha Beauchamp (20), who died from complications after. The paramedics that declared her dead, only had to take their certification again, while the family was left with the loss of their daughter :(
I swear, ever since I started watching Dr. Mike videos consistently during my lunch hour at work, my mood has been improving and I'm overall just a bit more optimistic than I already usually am lol. I think it's due to how pure and similar the humor is to what I normally like.
Plus his laugh improves anyone's day tenfold, so there's that. Thank you good Sir. 😂
0:10 my grandpa woke back up from the dead on a ship in ww2
Dr. Mike at 6:02: "Is this like a play on spankx?"
Me: "yeah, you can spank me!"
Help what 💀👹
Doctor reacts to onion articles is prbly my third favorite series, behind meme review and reacting to tv shows and movies. I wish we got more onion videos.
I'd like to say I really appreciate you and your videos. I've actually learned not just stuff I'll never need, but a lot of good info that has actually bettered my life. Thank you
Myself and a friend have dried cracked skin on our feet as well on the outside of the ankle. A common factor we realized which could be leading to more of a callous is we sit at home with our foot tucked under our thigh, so could be caused from sitting on your feet.
Yep I have the same thing!
I have had that in the past, and had to quit that habit.
Huh. I have had really bad cracks for about a year, never had them before in my life. And I do the same thing too, tucking my feet under my leg. I'll have to break that habit and see if it helps.
@@faolan2174 In my case it was on the outside of the foot where it contacted the chair (I was generally barefoot).
Maybe from reducing circulation.
This is kind of strange, but this youtube video has actually improved my life. I've been having a lot of difficulty falling asleep lately, and I would usually have panic attacks as I lay in bed trying to sleep. At 7:44, Dr. Mike mentions it's a good idea to not spend more than 15-20 minutes in bed if you can't fall asleep. Since I first watched this video when it came out, my sleep schedule has gotten a lot more regular and I've been having far fewer incidents with stress and anxiety when I try to sleep. I definitely have a ways to go (and should probably see a medical professional about it) but just that little bit of advice has made a huge difference for me. Thank you, Doctor Mike!
That advice has been around for decades; my parents, both of whom died 16 years ago this month, told all of us, their children, to get out of bed and just quietly sit in the living room and read if we couldn't fall asleep within 15 minutes. Considering we were all kids in the mid to late 50s and 60s, I know the advice is older than that because my maternal grandmother used to tell that to Mom and her siblings, too, and Mom was 74 when she died in 2006.
Actually the "mortician keeps a hammer at tableside just in case" bit actually happened to my uncle. He got into a car crash, went into a coma, they asked he was dead, signed the death certificate and everything, and on the way to the morgue he woke up. He spent 5yrs trying to prove he wasn't dead to the government (since the dearh certificate was signed and all)
Biohackers? Sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie! I'd love to hear a rant on biohackers haha
Did you know that Dr Mike is the best doctor…ever…a legend…a hero…writing history…true story🙌🏻
I can tell you what a rinderpest virus is, because "Rinder" literally means cattle in german, lol.
7:43 Thank you. This helped a lot in explaining why I struggle to bed, cause when I get into bed, I'm filled with so much anxiety and it takes me hours to fall asleep.
7:13 , "Diverse pot patient population", SAY WHAA?
Surgical comedy that brings you to tears 🤪
I love the advice you gave for falling asleep if you can't do it for a certain amount of time. I'll make sure to try that out next time!
We actually had a book from onion about different facts around the world but had really creative bullshit that only made sense when you actually think about it ,in our school library from like a few years ago until just recently. Some students actually complained to the librarian about book saying it had swears and such, but since it was written like a genius , going through it swiftly , it just looks like a normal world facts book. It has been quite a legend in our school library since almost every students wants to read it that it’s always shuffled around throughout the entire school lol.
Sorry but the funniest thing to me in this video was Dr. Mike laughing at messing up HIPAA again lmao it's like he's like EVERY TIME I get it wrong again! Lol it was adorable
"How do you treat an alien when you don't even know what's inside of them?" I love how you asked this seriously 😂😂
Doctor Mike makes videos on random topics so interesting. Appreciate the hard work. 🤗👏
It would be great if you did a video describing the differences between type one and type two diabetes. I’ve had doctors tell me there is no difference, even though me, a type 1, knows that they are literally not the same disease. Also nobody knows anything about it, which is so frustrating.
"I think it's an issue of training and the lack of experience to working with a diverse patient population." Yes, there's a massive issue with doctors ignoring their female patients-- a problem that gets many women killed. This isn't a matter of diversity, or doctors unused to dealing with a small niche group. Women make up half the population!
I meant more so in a diversity of
clinical trials (female based research) and medical education
(more coverage of female linked
conditions and more female
physicians as well).
I agree, their arrogance in some cases certainly plays a part in this. Since this is an issue that is known I can't help but wonder and am interested in what actions are being followed up in order to rectify this. We instil a lot of trust in our Doctors when it comes to our well being and lives, it is quite unsettling to think many people male and/or female have experience with a Doctor/s which has left them humiliated, unheard, misdiagnosed and mistreated. As someone whose life and well being has been seriously impacted due to doctors lack of education, transparency and personal beliefs I know all too well of the trauma, anxiety and consequence of this. I can only hope that this continues to be addressed and dealt with, that the possible causes of why this is occurring will be investigated and that actions are taken to prevent future occurrences, if it is so that further education and support is much needed for medical professionals I sincerely hope that everything that can be done is provided to them so that they can be of better assistance and provide high quality of care to their patients.
@@DoctorMike Thanks for clarifying! And you're absolutely right-- those things would go a long way to improving the quality of care!
Dr mike: Don’t be on your phone before bed
Me: Watching this video before I fall asleep
check the case of Timesha Beauchamp. Just heartbreaking. She was taken to the morgue in a bodybag but it was discovered that she was still alive. she died a few months later due to the damage she sustained through lack of oxygen during the incident
You could say the only detox tea Dr. Mike drinks is honest-TEA
It's a bit of a mystery what triggers birth in general. My personal theory is that something causes the babies body (correctly or incorrectly) to believe that the mom can't satisfy the baby's need any more. The resulting distress to the baby triggers birth. Hunger could be a trigger. We don't know!
I’m pretty sure my daughter was born early in response to hearing “All I want for Christmas is you” over and over again lol. She came out 2 days before Christmas, a month early.
It's actually very simple---it's how God designed the human body, to carry the baby for approximately nine months/40 weeks, and then it's time for the baby to be born because all components are ready. Of course, there are times when the baby comes much too soon, but who knows what the mother ingested during her pregnancy, or what the father had prior to creating that baby? But as a general rule, it's nine months and then both the mother's body and that of the baby are ready to part ways, so to speak.
I thought it was health information too and even “corrected” someone on IG 😂 and I worked YEARS in medical records. Embarrassing lol
We had a hospital billboard in one city I lived in that was for the new trauma center, but it looked like the Halloween guy hanging off a house, but ON THE BILLBOARD, visible from a bridge. People almost had car accidents due to that sign. I wondered if they were trying to drum up business.
My friend went to a number of doctors. They told her "cheer up, loose some weight, and all your systemic issues will magically disappear"
6:40 I'm pretty sure they used something simmilar tothat in really old healthcare, maybe do some more research on that.
Everybody say it with me: Doctor Mike is the Revolution!
these are some great videos doc thanks for making me laugh 😂
i appreciate your effort in these videos 💖💖
Hospital billboards should just put Dr Mike's picture on them with his saying! "Stay happy and healthy!"
People be comming!😂😂😂
7:38 Who knew I'd get actual helpful suggestions from a video on Onion headlines. 😂
Loved this video it was hilarious 😂😂 thanks for all the positive content Doctor Mike your amazing 🤩🤩 and i only wish I could meet you in person 💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😢😢
7:30 Why have the biohackers really made you mad Dr. Mike? 🤔❓❓
Hi Mike, I've been watching your videos for 2 years now and I have recently discovered a problem and I don't know what to do.
Sometimes I randomly enter a state where I feel like I have too much energy to contain and feel angrier than I ever have and that I need to hit something. What I normally do is get my pillow and a baseball bat then hit it untilI feel calm but I feel there is a better way to deal with it, along with an explanation for why this is happening.
Thanks so much :)
8:01 "Getting tired elsewhere" Homie, taking a nap gives me sleep paralysis, it's already bad enough when I have to resist exhaustion.
Question Dr Mike, or anyone: you mentioned in the video that biohackers give you a huge headache - can you evaluate a little more on the 'why' of that point? Specifically on nutrigenomics and piracetam. Its something I've noticed Ive been doing for almost a year without knowing the term " biohacking".
Questions aside, I deeply admire and appreciate your work as a doctor on UA-cam spreading awareness on the actuality of internet facts, and efforts to debunk as many misconceptions on health as possible. Your passion and knowledge for the subject floods through every single video and no words can describe the respect your viewers hold for your work.
Hey Doctor Mike! I love the vids! I have a few question I hope you can answer: How many times does it take to hit your head before you suffer brain damage or a serious injury, Why does your nose bleed during season changes, and Lastly I have seen videos of people staying under water for a very long time.. Is that ok for your lungs or is it slowly hurting you?
I'm no doctor, but I would think it would be a matter more of how hard your head is hit. not how often it's hit.
Yes, I would mean like if you got punched really hard in the head multiple times, how hard or how many times, before damage
@@itachi_uchiha3052 depends on a billion factors.where in the head?how strong is the head?
Fun fact about sumo wrestlers: Chanko nabe is one of their main food sources 🍲 I really hope I can teach Dr. Mike something he actually doesn’t know for once 🤞🏽🤣
Hey Doctor Mike, how would someone go about removing caffeine from their diet after being dependent on it for a long time?
I'm not a doctor, but when I was told I had to eliminate caffeine because of what it was doing to me, I just plain and simply stopped. It was easy for me, but I went by what my mother said about her own need to stop eating certain things, which was: "I ask myself if this (favorite) food is worth losing my life over? There isn't a food in this world worth giving up my life for, so I just won't eat (or drink) it anymore," and that was that, she was done with it. Even if it was something Dad liked, she wouldn't touch it, and he would have to buy and prepare it for himself. She never ingested it again---there were several things she had to give up---and it helped her a lot.
Now I have had to do the same thing, and giving up foods that can harm one's health is a lot easier when (I) can see that being without them means I feel a lot better than I ever did when consuming them.
My longwinded way of saying that it can be done, you CAN give up whatever "dependency" you need to in order to protect and improve your health.
I'm an elderly woman, almost 70 now, and have had to do this with a number of foods and beverages over the last 3 1/2 years. If you're a lot younger than me, it should be a lot easier for you.
8:39 _Honestly,_ some state control over the media would help with that, such as pushing these statements ad verbatim to the headlines when these changes are made or perhaps even before, to make the whole process more transparent and keep people up-to-date with what decisions are going to be made.
I used to listen to the onion podcast, I don’t think they release it anymore, but it was really good when they did. I love your videos so much, keep up the amazing work.