He’s adorable because he’s really Dr. Glaucomflecken. Real Orthos are not adorable, believe me…well, not unless you’re a patient whose bone they repaired. But only let them do bone stuff - that’s the takeaway of this UA-cam post.
Thanks bro ortho is like my brofamily full of brozifs bro for real and like bones are the best for supporting that fleshy insulation i appreciate you totally thinking we are cute bro
I really love the fact that he keeps the clichees up a bit while still highlighting the skill and competence of ortho bros. Anyone who's ever needed them really appreciates what they do!
Agree. It's a good balance. But that's probably why his humor in relation to other doctors comes off as poking fun as opposed to insulting: He respects the skills at the same time as laughing at all the little things.
Yeah, showing the doofy bros suddenly rattling off a hyperspecific description of a tool or the attending putting his foot down surprisingly firmly over a glaring mistake in the consult request definitely added some respect and depth to the character. Props.
Reminds me a little of when I worked out at a serious bodybuilding gym many years ago. You had a lot of guys who kinda lived up to the stereotypes 90% of the time. But if they got to talking about joints, muscles, or nutrition, they'd suddenly become med students.
My dad taught me names of various bones as a pre-school aged child because it was his idea of important knowledge for a 3-4 year old. My dad was not an ortho bro, but I feel like it's something Ortho would do.
Totally. But I also bet a little kid would eat it up if he gave him a skeleton puzzle and had him put all the bones in the right places while learning the names, or something like that. I used to have a map of the US as a puzzle and would take it apart and put it back together when really small.
Can confirm, as a daughter of an ortho bro muscles and bones were something he taught us early. That and not allowing us on trampolines, horses or downhill skiing.
@@ttfun4421 oh so it’s not just my internist?? Sometimes the nurses fill a whole tray with all the blood tubes 😅 This makes me feel better… kinda (20 lab tests is a conservative number though)
When my spouse graduated from psychiatry residency, the group right ahead of them alphabetically was phys rehab/Ortho. It was really funny to watch the big, buff Ortho guys doing manly shoulder grabs with their attendings, followed by all the obvious nerds in psychiatry. Up until that point I thought Dr. G was exaggerating about Ortho bros. 🤣
@@pipp972 That would be hilarious, but he actually looks 95% like a US family member's orthopedic surgeon, whom also does regular orthopedic visits. It makes me laugh remembering him.
Orthos have to keep themselves really strong because a lot of bone stuff has to do with both manual placement as well as eternally holding a leg in a specific position because there's no way to rig it so it actually works. so you end up holding on to some little old ladies eight leg for 7 hours while bones get put together... You got to be fit and strong .
The funny thing is that ortho is an extremely competitive residency to get. Lots of residents were at the top of their class in medical school. No one know what happens between graduation and the start of residency but somehow they lose all their general medical knowledge. It is one of the great mysteries of the universe.
You kinda forget the fluff. As an intern I was a god with ECGs. As a Senior resident in Gen Surgery, I can barely detect arythmias much less classify and treat them
It's like any other career! I'm an especialist lawyer and for the love of God I can't help anyone with stuff that's outside my LLM, even after spending years in university on it. I guess when you get into such a complex, specialist field, your mind just forgets the rest bc it's not efficient
i scrub a lot of ortho surgeries and the 5th year residents who are about to graduate atleast 3 of them were valedictorians at their med schools and undergrad.
Ha. I had a super random emergency surgery on my left arm done by an ortho bro. Should have been a simple 45 min procedure but took 3 hours. When I had my post surgical appointment my doc was so jazzed about it. Pulled out his cell phone and showed me pictures of the inside of my arm. He then thanked me. “Dude… thanks for the cool problem. I was stoked to have something out of the ordinary to work on!” Then he gave me a high-five.
Having watched so much of Dr. G's since having a catastrophic wrist injury I now understand why my ortho surgeon was seemingly not super annoyed about being called in for this operation on a saturday early morning what was probably an even earlier phone call.
Might have been the ortho drs best case but hell for the surgery staff, he probably drilled multiple holes into your bone before he actually got it right, lol, usually not the best doc if it took that long,hmmmm
The ortho bro who took care of my shoulder caught me sitting on his rolling exam stool caroming around the large exam room, pushing off each wall as I zoomed at it, while waiting for him. He gave me a thumbs up for using my time appropriately by doing something physical. No matter that I am 67…who can resist a Rollie stool?
I was with an ortho bro intern on my med school trauma surg rotation. Everyday he was so sad whenever the patient didn’t have bone problems. But mentioning a pelvic fracture would make his day. A golden retriever ortho bro.
Ortho Bro is Ortho Bro, knows it, and is honest about it. "We're not good with stethoscopes and ophthalmologists aren't good with bone drills, so we don't use the others' tools" has never been said more eloquently.
Why is this so accurate? I’ll say it again. Best note I ever saw as a med student was on ortho rotation. “Hospital day #278. No change(except used a delta for change)” It wasn’t just that the note was three characters, it was the fact that the past hundred or so notes were the same. As an internist, I should be offended at “tibular pain” but it seems about right. I do appreciate that on my orthopedic rotation I did learn how to hot-wire a bovie, which is a skill I am still searching for an occasion to use.
It's actually kind of depressing to think about the patient being in the hospital for 9 months with no change to his condition. Those bones need to heal faster!
Last year my mum was treated by an ortho bro. Funny guy. He checked in on my mum the next day. "How're you doing?" "Good" "Then what are you still doing here? Go home." That was it. The whole post op check in. He was really capable, young, handsome, charismatic. Main character energy. All the ladies in the ward loved him.
whoa whoa, I thought it was established in other Dr. G vids that all bros are bros regardless of gender/identifier. So bro-ette is unnecessary and kinda wastes time in ortho rounds.
When I was an intern, the ortho death rates were so bad (from medical complications) that they had a geriatrician/internist doing a daily round to make sure that all the bone patients had their soft bits taken care of.
Much of orthopaedics is taking care of geriatric patients with all their hip Fxs, etc. They tend to be a very sick group of people, whose body is deteriorating, and thus wind up breaking bones. A few weeks ago, while on weekend call, I had to operate on 4 pts. their average age was 89...all ASA 3-4.
Tibula and fibia are two very important anatomic landmarks to me as radiologist. Whenever those two words appear on my report, it's a sign that I must be very tired or sleepy and it's better to go get some rest.
@@mattrobinson22 Here in Brazil we say that you shouldn't make any important decisions or text your ex between midnight and 6 am for obvious reasons, but night shifts unfortunately do exist. In defense of my colleague, he got the liquid right, he just got confused with the place.
Still remember one of the orthopedists borrowing my stethoscope and asking: "Which end am I supposed to put in my mouth? " Always up for a joke is Ortho Bro.
@Avarren S oh yes when the testosterone flowed, and in dealing with other types of Dr's and staff, not always the team players. I ran into them as a CNS/advanced NP in a teaching hospital when they did bilateral total knee replacements on a 90yr old farmer, and by day 4 he wasn't up doing a jig. So they wanted me to admit him to geriatric rehab. Ohhh noooo. First I gave a lecture on why are you doing bilateral knee replacements on a 90yr old? So yes the ortho bros were mad, and I kept firm but polite. We arranged for a regular rehab stay for the man where he did well and went back to his farm work, but he needed time. So to soothe the angry beast docs I asked if they had any other geriatric patient issues. And then managed 2 elderly hip replacements along with social work, and the one they wouldn't see because she spat at them, all we needed was a Portuguese translator, a priest, a dash of antipsychotics, and the ortho bros fixed her hip finally, and social work found her a Portuguese nursing home to go to. So yes they were the older orthos, now retired but not always fun back then.
As a med student I was on rounds with Ortho resident and the patient started talking about her htn and diabetes. The resident interrupted her and said “Ma’am, I don’t do sick, I only do hurt.”
Regarding the barely abnormal lab values but someone I know spotted alkaline phosphatase was barely off, decided to follow up, and ended up finding cancer. IMs do amazing work.
I watched your videos then went into ortho for a follow up for a broken collarbone. It was the first time I realized the whole ortho team are all bros (and lady bros) and all heavily jacked (and lady jacked). The anesthesiology team really does just sit in the corner and scowl sometimes lmao
As a med student, we had an internist teaching us part of the physical exam. He mentioned that ortho docs use the triple point. We all chuckled and then he said “turns out they’re right. It works.”
It's a tribute to your acting and storytelling that Ortho is probably my favorite character despite the fact I'm very much on the geek part of the geek vs. jock struggle.
Haha, I think it also in part has to do with Ortho Bro being an aggressively positive and supportive jock. X) But agreed! Awesome acting, storytelling, and just general content. :)
Same! I think it’s because Ortho is so genuine and heartfelt. As a geeky PhD student, I very much appreciate and relate to people who openly display unironic enthusiasm for the subject they love. For me that’s planets; for Ortho it’s bones.
@@brittanyolenick2252 True. If he were constantly giving shade to people he thinks "don't exercise enough" or "the right way", he wouldn't be the Ortho Bro we know and love.
For sure Ortho Bro is the kind to see a nerd being bullied and go put his arm around the bully, lead him a bit off to the side and has a deep meaningful conversation about why they shouldn't bully and the physical, emotional and mental health issues that can result from it, and if they don't stop, Ortho Bro knows which bones heal the slowest.
Had a talus fracture last summer. Orthopedic surgeon assigned to my case originally ended up calling a colleague who specializes in foot and ankle surgery to take it because he had a long hip replacement surgery the morning after I got admitted. The way he came into my ER room with this energy like "hey what's up, so here's the deal, my Ortho colleague bro is doing me a solid on this one so we can get you taken care of sooner, sorry about your ankle but we'll get that fixed up" it was everything I expected from Ortho 😆 (not actually he said but like that was basically the energy he brought)
My mom (retired urology PA) claims that if you ask Ortho or show Ortho anything not bone related, they respond thusly: What is this?? BONES! I DO BONES!!
My dad is an Orthopedic surgeon. These guys seriously have bone fascination issues I swear. My dad likes to learn about other areas of medicine as well but. I mean. Bones. They just love ‘em. One time we found a dead hawk and the first thing my dad says is “I’m gonna reconstruct it’s skeleton.” Homie did it. Bought flesh eating beetles off the internet and now we have a hawk skeleton. Ortho drs certainly are something special
You could be having a full on totally invested conversation with them about anything and as soon as they realize it’s not ortho related it’s like the switch goes off and back to notes they go
Ortho being actually very smart regarding all things bone is both keeping completely in character, and also very interesting. Very well done on all counts.
Ortho docs are some of the smartest docs around. They are so smart they make every other specialty think they are dumb so they can focus on just what they want to do.
Our hospital has a mix. Most are genuinely fun and just like these bone bros. But the few that aren’t are the exact opposite. I mean extremely opposite. I feel your pain.
I'm so sorry! Most orthos I know (including my husband, lol) are super nice guys. But for what I gather, there are some MAYOR JERKS in his team...I guess a testorone-prone ambience lends itself for allowing some prick behaviour in some men
@@franug Well there’s really just one and while he is talented there’s more to the talent the deeper you dig. He was discussing some metrics from CMS and he actually said “I would never work on that patient, his BMI is too high “. While I understand the outcomes it’s also true that everyone deserves a chance and it’s not all about the outcomes. But that is why his numbers are good while dragging everyone else down. Plus he is very rude behind closed doors but, ummm maybe not as rude in public. Believe how people are behind closed doors. Anyway, luckily we have an abundance of great ortho bros!😃
I had to do an ortho rotation as an intern and everything about this is 100% spot on, except the underlings would never be allowed a moment to grab any weights! I once timed our ward round and we spent, on average, 70 seconds per patient. I never had enough time to write in the patient's chart - I scribbled everything in shorthand on a single piece of paper, and then went back to write in the chart later. Now that I work in pediatric oncology, I'm not gonna lie, part of me misses having all the decisions made by no later than 7:45am every day. 😅 I also really enjoyed that the hospital had enough insight to recognise that some patients 100% were not safe to be admitted under ortho - if you were 65 years or older and you came in with a broken hip, you were automatically admitted under the geriatricians post-op, and they'd come remind us when it was Day 7 and time for a wound review!
My best ortho bro experience: in anesthesia training I had a young ortho attending come in, ask if the patient was asleep yet, then proceed to blare Gucci Mane’s ‘I Get the Bag’ over the OR sound system, it was awesome 😂
They "borrow" a nurse's when they are the primary/admitting service and do need to use one. have had 2 come back with mine when they realized they still had it. I keep their shears from walking away and they bring back my stethoscope. It works out.
Of course...my husband's an ortho and his stethoscope has been tucked in a random drawer in our house since 2016, when he started the residency😂 even when he wants to hear our daughter's lungs when she's ill (he did 4 years at general/rural medicine before ortho, he still remembers some stuff) he doesn't use it, just puts his ear on her chest😂😂
I never thought I’d miss ortho as much as I do once I left the hospital but the lighthearted conversations with the ortho before his pager starts going off was actually kinda therapeutic for me during too many brutal shifts. The morbid compassion and irony in these guys is definitely unique
😂😂😂 Loved horrified ‘Bro …’ when Ortho was informed that the femur fracture was admitted to their team and they’d be responsible for all ‘soft fleshy parts’!! 😂😂😂
LOL so true. Speaking as an ortho, thanks for the laugh. Great that whether you're laughing with or laughing at, it's all good. It helps that ortho is the best place to be haha
I wouldn't mind betting that through doing all these videos Glaucomflecken has inadvertently become the most broadly medically knowledgeable ophthalmologist in the world
The authenticity in all of your skits in a skillful, rare light hearted truly funny is absolutely fascinating. I don’t know how anyone could be so talented. You are so incredibly rare in this world. A special thank you to your wife for saving your life and allowing us to experience this awesomeness that is you.
Ahahaha so accurate! My husband did general medicine for a few years in rural areas so it was weird to him to leave his stethoscope at home when he started his orthopedic residency. He's now a full ortho bro🤣 Ps: I actually think those years made him a way more complete doctor, especially in the ER, but don't tell him that!
Flashbacks to intro osteology. Our first test visibly aged the professor. “There is no such bone as a tibula. Next person who writes that down fails the class.”
I don't know if there's a situation where Ortho would ever have to interact with a gynecologist but the thought of him calling them a 'lady parts bro' makes me chuckle.
Dr Glauc did a video where he introduced the new gynecologist (aka Mrs Glauc) to some of the other specialists including Ortho. You're close...Ortho referred to her as lady bro and asked if there were any pregnancy related bones he needed to be aware of.
As someone that works in ICU I can attest to the simple note “As per ICU” 😂 Neuro may write “With thanks, as per ICU”, very polite. 😂😂 Our ICU system may be a bit different, admitting teams round and consult as to their plans or wishes when their pt is with us, they are not allowed to chart or change anything they let the ICU team know and they will either follow that direction or not. 😂😂 We micromanage the pt with ‘input’ from others until they leave and hand them back to their primary team. 😊
Can I ask what “per ICU” means, and why it’s funny here? I tried googling it but only got a bunch of stats on ICU staffing rates and costs. I’m usually able to follow or figure out most things in these videos, but as someone who doesn’t work in healthcare, there’s always going to be a few things that just go over my head, and this was one of them. Another was that I had to watch it twice to notice anything wrong with “tibula” 😂
I’ve recently interacted with a pediatric ortho. She wasn’t this cute, nor was she a bro, but she helped my kid heal and keep growing after a fractured growth plate.
@@Francis-rs7zu But its a femur fracture on an 18 year old with no past medical history! They don’t take a single medication, all their labs are fine, and all four chambers of their Ancef pump are working at peak performance.
Best part about ortho is, you don't even need to call them for a consult. They always have somebody constantly watching all new x-rays and intervene whenever there's anything wrong with the bones.
Rumor has it that you can hear Ortho's bone-chilling breathing (as if he just finished an intense workout) nearby whenever you are playing football, climbing a ladder, skiing down a black diamond, walking over ice, crashing a car---oh, and when someone mistakenly assigns Ortho as the primary care team! 🤣
I love the Ortho bros so much. My mom has broken both her wrists several times now, and she’s always had amazing ortho docs that put her back together again. Especially the last time- those X-rays made even made me nauseas, and I know almost nothing about reading X-rays.
the weather was cold and wet one morning and my tibula was acting up, but i still needed to see all my patients before rounds, i only made it on time because i learned about the triple point, ortho bros always coming thru for another bro
I love that every single specialty has a special anecdote about why some other group/subspecialty has hassled them in the past and no longer feel too bad for them
The ortho who did my tib-fib foot break off (yeah, it broke off) graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins med, had a PhD in chemistry AND ...... did his first ortho residency in Hawaii so he could surf. (I asked him.) Surgeries were great and he was wonderful.
I had a Lisfranc of the mid-foot and was told by the admitting medical team at a rinky-dink community hospital outside Chicago (was travelling at the time, thought it was just a broken ankle and I'd get strapped up and sent home where I could see my own docs) that they'd have to amputate. They chose not to do so, and then I got shipped home to Boston and the foot and ankle ortho specialty team at MGH were like "yeah, we don't do that." "But, all of my bones are pulverised and basically goop there and I see a bunch of fractures in the ones that even look remotely repairable?" "We got this." Seven years and three surgeries later, I still have an entire foot! Even is basically the same size as my other foot so I don't need to buy shoes in two different sizes! (It's a little funky in shape but nothing anyone but, like, Quentin Tarantino would notice.)
I worked in pediatric specialties as a PAS, and Ortho was one of my favorite specialties to visit whenever I had to relay messages to them. The energy and smiles were contagious, and not just because they were in the back hallway with infectious disease
As a relatively normal kid, two of my earliest hospital visits were for broken bones, so I met plenty of ortho bros! Both arm and leg had to be reset too, fun 😁
I am in Berlin, Germany, not a doctor at all,but I have been watching this videos and oh my God...I went to an Ortho and I swear, the guiy was SO FIT. He was a silver fox. My husband, who does sports and is twenty years younger than the doctor, told me the guy made him look bad and weak and I did not believe it. But yeah!
As a doc I find these vignettes hilarious! I’ve NEVER worked with an orthopedic doc who had a stethoscope. Just watch any sports such at the Olympics. The athletes are all going to med schools to be orthopods!
Ah, I'm happy my Glaucomflecken universe crush finally gets the spotlight! You know where you stand with Ortho, all cards on the table, simple and clean.
I'm convinced that all Ortho Drs are ADHD folks using exercise as a coping mechanism to feed their brains the dopamine it needs to give them the modivation for all the amazing stuff they do. Love my ortho docs. Keep it up! 😁
Last spring I got hired at the local hospital as a central processing technician (we clean and process the surgical instruments for anyone unfamiliar). As soon as Ortho Bro said "Stryker" I smiled ear to ear because I am very familiar with a lot of Stryker drills and products. X) Our Ortho surgeons love them quite a bit!
Why is Ortho so adorable? I wish him nothing but fulfillment and fun in all of his bone-healing endeavors.
He needs headpats and chinups, stat.
He’s adorable because he’s really Dr. Glaucomflecken. Real Orthos are not adorable, believe me…well, not unless you’re a patient whose bone they repaired. But only let them do bone stuff - that’s the takeaway of this UA-cam post.
@@carmencortelyou9463 Truth!
I knew 1 Ortho resident who was adorable, and he knew his medical sh!t too. On second thought, he was probably a one-off…
Thanks bro ortho is like my brofamily full of brozifs bro for real and like bones are the best for supporting that fleshy insulation i appreciate you totally thinking we are cute bro
I really love the fact that he keeps the clichees up a bit while still highlighting the skill and competence of ortho bros. Anyone who's ever needed them really appreciates what they do!
Agree. It's a good balance. But that's probably why his humor in relation to other doctors comes off as poking fun as opposed to insulting: He respects the skills at the same time as laughing at all the little things.
Yeah, showing the doofy bros suddenly rattling off a hyperspecific description of a tool or the attending putting his foot down surprisingly firmly over a glaring mistake in the consult request definitely added some respect and depth to the character. Props.
@@jenniferhanses It also helps that he pokes fun at his own profession to the same, or maybe even greater, degree
That was the bit that made me smile the most, there is respect here.
Just Satire as well, and ... respectful Satire is some of the best Satire.
Reminds me a little of when I worked out at a serious bodybuilding gym many years ago. You had a lot of guys who kinda lived up to the stereotypes 90% of the time. But if they got to talking about joints, muscles, or nutrition, they'd suddenly become med students.
My dad taught me names of various bones as a pre-school aged child because it was his idea of important knowledge for a 3-4 year old. My dad was not an ortho bro, but I feel like it's something Ortho would do.
Totally. But I also bet a little kid would eat it up if he gave him a skeleton puzzle and had him put all the bones in the right places while learning the names, or something like that. I used to have a map of the US as a puzzle and would take it apart and put it back together when really small.
Can confirm, as a daughter of an ortho bro muscles and bones were something he taught us early. That and not allowing us on trampolines, horses or downhill skiing.
Your dad was a wannabe orthodox bro, hoping to fulfill his dreams through you.
@Insomniac Interestingly a spinal surgeon I know allowed his children a massive trampoline
@@jgw9990 he wanted guinea pigs to practice on!
The mention of Med Bro micromanaging barely abnormal lab values - yep, felt that. Love ortho and his bros.
... while taking care of the squishy covering of the skeleton. That made me laugh!
Hilarious 😂
Best line in the video
why is the platelet count lower than last month ? let's do 20 lab tests and a bone marrow exam and go through 10 ddx
@@ttfun4421 oh so it’s not just my internist?? Sometimes the nurses fill a whole tray with all the blood tubes 😅
This makes me feel better… kinda (20 lab tests is a conservative number though)
When my spouse graduated from psychiatry residency, the group right ahead of them alphabetically was phys rehab/Ortho. It was really funny to watch the big, buff Ortho guys doing manly shoulder grabs with their attendings, followed by all the obvious nerds in psychiatry. Up until that point I thought Dr. G was exaggerating about Ortho bros. 🤣
In hospitals we Nurses would tell newbies oh look for the football players in scrubs, most likely orthos!
Dr G needs himself a muscle suit for perfect ortho acting
@@pipp972 That would be hilarious, but he actually looks 95% like a US family member's orthopedic surgeon, whom also does regular orthopedic visits.
It makes me laugh remembering him.
I love Ortho
Orthos have to keep themselves really strong because a lot of bone stuff has to do with both manual placement as well as eternally holding a leg in a specific position because there's no way to rig it so it actually works. so you end up holding on to some little old ladies eight leg for 7 hours while bones get put together... You got to be fit and strong .
The funny thing is that ortho is an extremely competitive residency to get. Lots of residents were at the top of their class in medical school. No one know what happens between graduation and the start of residency but somehow they lose all their general medical knowledge. It is one of the great mysteries of the universe.
You kinda forget the fluff.
As an intern I was a god with ECGs. As a Senior resident in Gen Surgery, I can barely detect arythmias much less classify and treat them
Nothing better than playing dumb so you don't have to deal with all the sucky parts of managing inpatients.
They know it, but they have ORs to catch, and for a lot of the times, their consultants/attendings request it for medicolegal purposes
It's like any other career! I'm an especialist lawyer and for the love of God I can't help anyone with stuff that's outside my LLM, even after spending years in university on it. I guess when you get into such a complex, specialist field, your mind just forgets the rest bc it's not efficient
i scrub a lot of ortho surgeries and the 5th year residents who are about to graduate atleast 3 of them were valedictorians at their med schools and undergrad.
Ha. I had a super random emergency surgery on my left arm done by an ortho bro. Should have been a simple 45 min procedure but took 3 hours. When I had my post surgical appointment my doc was so jazzed about it. Pulled out his cell phone and showed me pictures of the inside of my arm. He then thanked me. “Dude… thanks for the cool problem. I was stoked to have something out of the ordinary to work on!” Then he gave me a high-five.
Then he had you do 5 push-ups?
Having watched so much of Dr. G's since having a catastrophic wrist injury I now understand why my ortho surgeon was seemingly not super annoyed about being called in for this operation on a saturday early morning what was probably an even earlier phone call.
which arm did you do the high-five with?
Cuuuuuute
Might have been the ortho drs best case but hell for the surgery staff, he probably drilled multiple holes into your bone before he actually got it right, lol, usually not the best doc if it took that long,hmmmm
every sentence in this skit is pure gold, including and especially the maximally efficient “👍”
It's the surgical digital rounding, the patient is either 👍🏻 or 👎🏻, no in between stages to complicate the system
This was epic. Not only do we have three characters simultaneously, but we have “the soft fleshy part that insulates the skeleton.” Pure art.
Yeah that last bit broke me :-)
I'm not even medical (carpenter) but I love these and can understand almost everything they say. I loved that quote too!!
Yeah, I was surprised Ortho didn't call the medical doctor "flesh bro".
That is pure art
As if the soft fleshy part serves the skeleton and not the other way around 😂🤣😆
Oral legends of the triple point are being taught in dark rooms in med school in every country. Didn't know it was actually a quad point, thank you
It could be even a penta point as you can sometimes hear the disappointment of some med bros
As a nurse I’m not too worried about auscultating pancreas sounds but I’ll definitely be using tri point for the other 3
The ortho bro who took care of my shoulder caught me sitting on his rolling exam stool caroming around the large exam room, pushing off each wall as I zoomed at it, while waiting for him. He gave me a thumbs up for using my time appropriately by doing something physical. No matter that I am 67…who can resist a Rollie stool?
Med Bro reading pocket medicine backwards and gaining more information than reading it forwards.....Classic Med Bro!
And upside down
I was with an ortho bro intern on my med school trauma surg rotation. Everyday he was so sad whenever the patient didn’t have bone problems. But mentioning a pelvic fracture would make his day. A golden retriever ortho bro.
I’m glad that the med student with a stethoscope wasn’t bringing up “danger squiggles” during ortho rounds. 😂
Ortho bro attending didn’t let him get that far! He was just about to mention them!
😂😂😂😂 Loved that ‘danger squiggles’ comment!!!
The heart is not attached to the skeleton, therefor it doesn't matter.
@@johannageisel5390 without the heart, how will the ancef get distributed throughout the body?
@@zirconiumdiamond1416 Oh, damn, I haven't thought of that.
"Tibula". A word which has crossed all our lips. It's only fuction is triggering the roast centre in the brains of anatomy teachers.
Nope, it’s tibia and tibular. Or at least in my country, I’m a doctor though 😊
Fibia**
Truly it is a cruel thing that we do to anatomy students.
@@fcturner I've had two surgeries for a "tibular plateau fx" - USA 🤷
@@punchkitten874 nah, that would have been tibial plateau, as in "of the tibia". That or a typo/mispeak
Ortho Bro is Ortho Bro, knows it, and is honest about it. "We're not good with stethoscopes and ophthalmologists aren't good with bone drills, so we don't use the others' tools" has never been said more eloquently.
Lasix bro is Cardiology.
@@MV-gr9xw Diuretic for CHF, not the eye surgery? Ugh. Still works either way.
@@woodysmith2681 Indeed! Lasik is the eye zaps, Lasix is the piss pill
I once overheard a nephrologist telling an intensivist, "if you don't want me touching your vent, don't touch my CRRT"
@@lawrencetchen...but CRRT is an intensivists therapy. PD and intermittent HD are renal territory.
Why is this so accurate? I’ll say it again. Best note I ever saw as a med student was on ortho rotation. “Hospital day #278. No change(except used a delta for change)” It wasn’t just that the note was three characters, it was the fact that the past hundred or so notes were the same. As an internist, I should be offended at “tibular pain” but it seems about right. I do appreciate that on my orthopedic rotation I did learn how to hot-wire a bovie, which is a skill I am still searching for an occasion to use.
Okay, hot-wiring the bovie is cool!
... Maybe Texaco Mike needs to learn this skill!
Best I've read: "Patient alive, body OK, repeat orders"
It's actually kind of depressing to think about the patient being in the hospital for 9 months with no change to his condition. Those bones need to heal faster!
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As an internist, how’d you get here? Shouldn’t you be pounding PICO phrases into NEJM?
Last year my mum was treated by an ortho bro. Funny guy. He checked in on my mum the next day.
"How're you doing?"
"Good"
"Then what are you still doing here? Go home."
That was it. The whole post op check in.
He was really capable, young, handsome, charismatic. Main character energy. All the ladies in the ward loved him.
As a Medicine Bro-ette, I do so love micromanaging the barely abnormal lab values.
Do you also Double Steth like Med Bro?? 😆
👍
I will borrow bro-ette! 🏵️
Tolvaptan for asymptomatic hyponatremia.
whoa whoa, I thought it was established in other Dr. G vids that all bros are bros regardless of gender/identifier. So bro-ette is unnecessary and kinda wastes time in ortho rounds.
When I was an intern, the ortho death rates were so bad (from medical complications) that they had a geriatrician/internist doing a daily round to make sure that all the bone patients had their soft bits taken care of.
Much of orthopaedics is taking care of geriatric patients with all their hip Fxs, etc. They tend to be a very sick group of people, whose body is deteriorating, and thus wind up breaking bones. A few weeks ago, while on weekend call, I had to operate on 4 pts. their average age was 89...all ASA 3-4.
Tibula and fibia are two very important anatomic landmarks to me as radiologist.
Whenever those two words appear on my report, it's a sign that I must be very tired or sleepy and it's better to go get some rest.
Took me a second to see what you did 👍😅
Were you the radiologist that read my patient’s hip ultrasound as “small pleural effusion”? It was 4am so I totally get it.
@@mattrobinson22 Here in Brazil we say that you shouldn't make any important decisions or text your ex between midnight and 6 am for obvious reasons, but night shifts unfortunately do exist.
In defense of my colleague, he got the liquid right, he just got confused with the place.
Still remember one of the orthopedists borrowing my stethoscope and asking: "Which end am I supposed to put in my mouth? " Always up for a joke is Ortho Bro.
"the soft fleshy parts that insulate the skeleton" 🤣
Skeleton= sun and everything else just revolves around it
Med bro with two stethoscopes is such a flex!
He stole on from the nurse
No dude the ortho bros donate them to him. It helps with his confidence
They really are the nicest bunch of bro-surgeons in real life
The ones who will actually tell patients jokes !
yup, in my experience it's a tie between ortho and urologists. awesome bedside manner, awesome jokes.
Not in my experience! Some of the ortho trauma bros at my previous job were huge jerks.
@Avarren S oh yes when the testosterone flowed, and in dealing with other types of Dr's and staff, not always the team players. I ran into them as a CNS/advanced NP in a teaching hospital when they did bilateral total knee replacements on a 90yr old farmer, and by day 4 he wasn't up doing a jig. So they wanted me to admit him to geriatric rehab. Ohhh noooo. First I gave a lecture on why are you doing bilateral knee replacements on a 90yr old? So yes the ortho bros were mad, and I kept firm but polite. We arranged for a regular rehab stay for the man where he did well and went back to his farm work, but he needed time. So to soothe the angry beast docs I asked if they had any other geriatric patient issues. And then managed 2 elderly hip replacements along with social work, and the one they wouldn't see because she spat at them, all we needed was a Portuguese translator, a priest, a dash of antipsychotics, and the ortho bros fixed her hip finally, and social work found her a Portuguese nursing home to go to. So yes they were the older orthos, now retired but not always fun back then.
Hell no. Just last year, a consultant threw an artery forceps on the floor roaring and shouting because his drapes were given in the "wrong direction"
As a med student I was on rounds with Ortho resident and the patient started talking about her htn and diabetes. The resident interrupted her and said “Ma’am, I don’t do sick, I only do hurt.”
Every line of this is gold! The "triple point" sent me, followed by the casual delivery of "we're already 3 minutes into rounds"
I've been exposed to too much physics to want the terms "triple point" and "bones" to be anywhere near each other!
Regarding the barely abnormal lab values but someone I know spotted alkaline phosphatase was barely off, decided to follow up, and ended up finding cancer. IMs do amazing work.
I watched your videos then went into ortho for a follow up for a broken collarbone. It was the first time I realized the whole ortho team are all bros (and lady bros) and all heavily jacked (and lady jacked). The anesthesiology team really does just sit in the corner and scowl sometimes lmao
The orthopedic surgeon who fixed my shoulder runs ultra-marathons and has a blog about longevity through exercise.
As a med student, we had an internist teaching us part of the physical exam. He mentioned that ortho docs use the triple point. We all chuckled and then he said “turns out they’re right. It works.”
The “triple point” got me! 😂
It’s an actual thing and also used by gen surg. Almost as much as “examined from doorway”
Oh my gosh, that would be the two specialties to use the tri point
It's a tribute to your acting and storytelling that Ortho is probably my favorite character despite the fact I'm very much on the geek part of the geek vs. jock struggle.
Same!
Haha, I think it also in part has to do with Ortho Bro being an aggressively positive and supportive jock. X) But agreed! Awesome acting, storytelling, and just general content. :)
Same! I think it’s because Ortho is so genuine and heartfelt. As a geeky PhD student, I very much appreciate and relate to people who openly display unironic enthusiasm for the subject they love. For me that’s planets; for Ortho it’s bones.
@@brittanyolenick2252 True. If he were constantly giving shade to people he thinks "don't exercise enough" or "the right way", he wouldn't be the Ortho Bro we know and love.
For sure Ortho Bro is the kind to see a nerd being bullied and go put his arm around the bully, lead him a bit off to the side and has a deep meaningful conversation about why they shouldn't bully and the physical, emotional and mental health issues that can result from it, and if they don't stop, Ortho Bro knows which bones heal the slowest.
The "bro🥺" was personal 😂😂 loved it! 😅
Had a talus fracture last summer. Orthopedic surgeon assigned to my case originally ended up calling a colleague who specializes in foot and ankle surgery to take it because he had a long hip replacement surgery the morning after I got admitted. The way he came into my ER room with this energy like "hey what's up, so here's the deal, my Ortho colleague bro is doing me a solid on this one so we can get you taken care of sooner, sorry about your ankle but we'll get that fixed up" it was everything I expected from Ortho 😆 (not actually he said but like that was basically the energy he brought)
“We’re already 3 minutes into rounds. Let’s wrap this up!” 😂😂😂
Tibula pain 💀
For those who don't get it
There is no bone called tibula
There is tibia and fibula
Currently recovering from a broken ankle, this is exactly what my doctor is like. Makes me smile
Do you call your doc an Ortho bro?
how's your recovery going? i'm two months into mine and finally on my feet
Tib and or fib?
@@SugarandSarcasm the first day I did because I was so out of it on meds
@@bottomthor good. Finally able to walk again so I’m happy
My mom (retired urology PA) claims that if you ask Ortho or show Ortho anything not bone related, they respond thusly: What is this?? BONES! I DO BONES!!
😂😂😂😂
My dad is an Orthopedic surgeon. These guys seriously have bone fascination issues I swear. My dad likes to learn about other areas of medicine as well but. I mean. Bones. They just love ‘em. One time we found a dead hawk and the first thing my dad says is “I’m gonna reconstruct it’s skeleton.” Homie did it. Bought flesh eating beetles off the internet and now we have a hawk skeleton. Ortho drs certainly are something special
You could be having a full on totally invested conversation with them about anything and as soon as they realize it’s not ortho related it’s like the switch goes off and back to notes they go
"Little brolings" is so adorable!
Also how does he manage to make something that's usually a punishment actually seem like a reward??
Ortho being actually very smart regarding all things bone is both keeping completely in character, and also very interesting. Very well done on all counts.
They’re exceptionally smart but the stereotype exists for a reason 😂
Ortho docs are some of the smartest docs around. They are so smart they make every other specialty think they are dumb so they can focus on just what they want to do.
just a group of glorified carpenters.
😏
@@PlaynDoc lol yes 🤣 best guys to assamble IKEA furniture AND also fix a bone
@@PlaynDocmy ortho bro brother actually does carpentry as a hobby
Ortho is so honest and friendly, nothing like the Ortho and trauma surgeons I mostly work with.
My sympathies 🥀
Our hospital has a mix. Most are genuinely fun and just like these bone bros. But the few that aren’t are the exact opposite. I mean extremely opposite. I feel your pain.
I'm so sorry! Most orthos I know (including my husband, lol) are super nice guys. But for what I gather, there are some MAYOR JERKS in his team...I guess a testorone-prone ambience lends itself for allowing some prick behaviour in some men
@@franug
Well there’s really just one and while he is talented there’s more to the talent the deeper you dig. He was discussing some metrics from CMS and he actually said “I would never work on that patient, his BMI is too high “. While I understand the outcomes it’s also true that everyone deserves a chance and it’s not all about the outcomes. But that is why his numbers are good while dragging everyone else down. Plus he is very rude behind closed doors but, ummm maybe not as rude in public. Believe how people are behind closed doors.
Anyway, luckily we have an abundance of great ortho bros!😃
I had to do an ortho rotation as an intern and everything about this is 100% spot on, except the underlings would never be allowed a moment to grab any weights! I once timed our ward round and we spent, on average, 70 seconds per patient. I never had enough time to write in the patient's chart - I scribbled everything in shorthand on a single piece of paper, and then went back to write in the chart later. Now that I work in pediatric oncology, I'm not gonna lie, part of me misses having all the decisions made by no later than 7:45am every day. 😅 I also really enjoyed that the hospital had enough insight to recognise that some patients 100% were not safe to be admitted under ortho - if you were 65 years or older and you came in with a broken hip, you were automatically admitted under the geriatricians post-op, and they'd come remind us when it was Day 7 and time for a wound review!
The soft chuckle and page turn reading pocket medicine was gold. “Oh Sabatine, what will you think of next?”
As a practicing emergency physician of 30 years, this is the truest thing I've ever seen.
My best ortho bro experience: in anesthesia training I had a young ortho attending come in, ask if the patient was asleep yet, then proceed to blare Gucci Mane’s ‘I Get the Bag’ over the OR sound system, it was awesome 😂
I love how they're all "best bros" to each other!!
I never paid attention to that fact all these years...Ortho team never carry stethoscopes ...mind blowing 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
Bro you can't hear bones, why Bone-Bro need listening noodle for?
Their PA's try to "borrow" a nurse's steth and never come back with it...which is why I carry mine on a holster, well below eye level.
They "borrow" a nurse's when they are the primary/admitting service and do need to use one. have had 2 come back with mine when they realized they still had it. I keep their shears from walking away and they bring back my stethoscope. It works out.
Why is it mind blowing? You wouldn’t build a house and expect the carpenter to install your carpet or furnace? But they all work on the same house.
Of course...my husband's an ortho and his stethoscope has been tucked in a random drawer in our house since 2016, when he started the residency😂 even when he wants to hear our daughter's lungs when she's ill (he did 4 years at general/rural medicine before ortho, he still remembers some stuff) he doesn't use it, just puts his ear on her chest😂😂
I'm not even in the medical field but when he said tibula pain...yeah even I felt that one
" Bone marrow dysfunction? I missed the part where that's my problem"
- Ortho
Get blood bro
Ortho-bros hate marrow - when it gets all over the drill and makes the chuck slippery, marrow is the enemy.
That's the soft part INSIDE the bones. Also not relevant, like the soft part OUTSIDE the bones!
@Jordan Rodrigues I'm gonna send this comment to my Reuma 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I will call her swelling bro from now on 🤣
"You can't hear bones healing" That is wonderful and so true!
I never thought I’d miss ortho as much as I do once I left the hospital but the lighthearted conversations with the ortho before his pager starts going off was actually kinda therapeutic for me during too many brutal shifts. The morbid compassion and irony in these guys is definitely unique
😂😂😂 Loved horrified ‘Bro …’ when Ortho was informed that the femur fracture was admitted to their team and they’d be responsible for all ‘soft fleshy parts’!! 😂😂😂
This is awesome! Gem after hilarious gem! I heard of the legendary triple in medical school. Only ortho bros are allowed to use it, though.
LOL so true. Speaking as an ortho, thanks for the laugh. Great that whether you're laughing with or laughing at, it's all good. It helps that ortho is the best place to be haha
Ortho isn't just strong and cute, he is so nice to everyone. I like him...
This absolutely sent me, I'm impressed the consultant actually even turned up!
I took a first year university anatomy course as an arts student just to understand these jokes. Well worth the investment if you ask me
I wouldn't mind betting that through doing all these videos Glaucomflecken has inadvertently become the most broadly medically knowledgeable ophthalmologist in the world
Ortho bro is by far my favorite. As a physiotherapist who deals with a ton of them, this is as spot on as it gets.
The resident who just did a thumbs up for Mrs Brown is kind of the Johnathan of Ortho-bros
The authenticity in all of your skits in a skillful, rare light hearted truly funny is absolutely fascinating. I don’t know how anyone could be so talented. You are so incredibly rare in this world. A special thank you to your wife for saving your life and allowing us to experience this awesomeness that is you.
My favorite trauma surgeon taught me about the orthopedic triple point my 4th year of medical school. Have never forgotten it.
Ahahaha so accurate! My husband did general medicine for a few years in rural areas so it was weird to him to leave his stethoscope at home when he started his orthopedic residency. He's now a full ortho bro🤣
Ps: I actually think those years made him a way more complete doctor, especially in the ER, but don't tell him that!
Flashbacks to intro osteology. Our first test visibly aged the professor. “There is no such bone as a tibula. Next person who writes that down fails the class.”
1:55 Med Bro is so tuned in he’s gotta run TWO STETHOSCOPES ❤
i love that he calls the med student 'school bro'
I don't know if there's a situation where Ortho would ever have to interact with a gynecologist but the thought of him calling them a 'lady parts bro' makes me chuckle.
Dr Glauc did a video where he introduced the new gynecologist (aka Mrs Glauc) to some of the other specialists including Ortho. You're close...Ortho referred to her as lady bro and asked if there were any pregnancy related bones he needed to be aware of.
Tibula pain 😆. We feel your pain ortho, sincerely, radiology.
As someone that works in ICU I can attest to the simple note “As per ICU” 😂
Neuro may write “With thanks, as per ICU”, very polite. 😂😂
Our ICU system may be a bit different, admitting teams round and consult as to their plans or wishes when their pt is with us, they are not allowed to chart or change anything they let the ICU team know and they will either follow that direction or not. 😂😂
We micromanage the pt with ‘input’ from others until they leave and hand them back to their primary team. 😊
Can I ask what “per ICU” means, and why it’s funny here? I tried googling it but only got a bunch of stats on ICU staffing rates and costs.
I’m usually able to follow or figure out most things in these videos, but as someone who doesn’t work in healthcare, there’s always going to be a few things that just go over my head, and this was one of them. Another was that I had to watch it twice to notice anything wrong with “tibula” 😂
Per ICU means “as per ICU” ie whatever the ICU plan is, that’s the plan haha
Nice one video bro!
This portrayal of Ortho Bros is so accurate, yet so very wholesome.
I’ve recently interacted with a pediatric ortho. She wasn’t this cute, nor was she a bro, but she helped my kid heal and keep growing after a fractured growth plate.
hey that "tibula" was the most proffesionalism I could manage
As a PT… have legit seen “tibula” on a past script. 😂
@@IceBass29it must be hard to help people with TIBULA issues.
I adore the Ortho bros with every bone in my body (was gonna say 'with every fibre of my being', but I figured they'd appreciate this more)
Mad respect for the bone bros!
And for the eye bros who respect them enough to poke fun at them while highlighting their importance.
ngl, I was half expecting a room full of ortho bros broing it up with brocronyms, but the workout bit was a nice touch
It’s always a wonderful and joyous occasion when I can admit someone directly to Ortho.
Don't you put that evil on me!!!
@@Francis-rs7zu But its a femur fracture on an 18 year old with no past medical history! They don’t take a single medication, all their labs are fine, and all four chambers of their Ancef pump are working at peak performance.
My mom had her knee replacement surgery 5 weeks ago, and every time I interact with the ortho folks I laugh. SO accurate.
Best part about ortho is, you don't even need to call them for a consult. They always have somebody constantly watching all new x-rays and intervene whenever there's anything wrong with the bones.
Rumor has it that you can hear Ortho's bone-chilling breathing (as if he just finished an intense workout) nearby whenever you are playing football, climbing a ladder, skiing down a black diamond, walking over ice, crashing a car---oh, and when someone mistakenly assigns Ortho as the primary care team! 🤣
Come to think of it... never seen an stethoscope on ortho doc ever....This skit is GOLD.
we occasionally have them , and mostly use them to check reflexes
I love the Ortho bros so much. My mom has broken both her wrists several times now, and she’s always had amazing ortho docs that put her back together again. Especially the last time- those X-rays made even made me nauseas, and I know almost nothing about reading X-rays.
“What up, little bro-lings?”
Ortho is the himbo of the glaucomverse and nothing will convince me otherwise
the weather was cold and wet one morning and my tibula was acting up, but i still needed to see all my patients before rounds, i only made it on time because i learned about the triple point, ortho bros always coming thru for another bro
"Micromanaging barely abnormal lab values."
I'm howling here.
Incorrect IV orders make the bean buddies sad. Gotta go with med bro💪
Lol “bean buddies”
"Bean buddies"😂😂🤣🤣
I love that every single specialty has a special anecdote about why some other group/subspecialty has hassled them in the past and no longer feel too bad for them
I think we get just the right amount of Ortho content. It's rare, but when it comes, it hits every time. Love it. Edit: Bro
The ortho who did my tib-fib foot break off (yeah, it broke off) graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins med, had a PhD in chemistry AND ...... did his first ortho residency in Hawaii so he could surf. (I asked him.) Surgeries were great and he was wonderful.
I had a Lisfranc of the mid-foot and was told by the admitting medical team at a rinky-dink community hospital outside Chicago (was travelling at the time, thought it was just a broken ankle and I'd get strapped up and sent home where I could see my own docs) that they'd have to amputate. They chose not to do so, and then I got shipped home to Boston and the foot and ankle ortho specialty team at MGH were like "yeah, we don't do that." "But, all of my bones are pulverised and basically goop there and I see a bunch of fractures in the ones that even look remotely repairable?" "We got this." Seven years and three surgeries later, I still have an entire foot! Even is basically the same size as my other foot so I don't need to buy shoes in two different sizes! (It's a little funky in shape but nothing anyone but, like, Quentin Tarantino would notice.)
Ortho is the most wholesome bro
I worked in pediatric specialties as a PAS, and Ortho was one of my favorite specialties to visit whenever I had to relay messages to them. The energy and smiles were contagious, and not just because they were in the back hallway with infectious disease
As a relatively normal kid, two of my earliest hospital visits were for broken bones, so I met plenty of ortho bros! Both arm and leg had to be reset too, fun 😁
I am in Berlin, Germany, not a doctor at all,but I have been watching this videos and oh my God...I went to an Ortho and I swear, the guiy was SO FIT. He was a silver fox. My husband, who does sports and is twenty years younger than the doctor, told me the guy made him look bad and weak and I did not believe it. But yeah!
As a doc I find these vignettes hilarious! I’ve NEVER worked with an orthopedic doc who had a stethoscope. Just watch any sports such at the Olympics. The athletes are all going to med schools to be orthopods!
Ah, I'm happy my Glaucomflecken universe crush finally gets the spotlight! You know where you stand with Ortho, all cards on the table, simple and clean.
Ortho are the Marines of medicine. Might not be as book smart as Neuro, but by God they *will* complete that spinal fusion!
I'm convinced that all Ortho Drs are ADHD folks using exercise as a coping mechanism to feed their brains the dopamine it needs to give them the modivation for all the amazing stuff they do.
Love my ortho docs. Keep it up! 😁
Last spring I got hired at the local hospital as a central processing technician (we clean and process the surgical instruments for anyone unfamiliar). As soon as Ortho Bro said "Stryker" I smiled ear to ear because I am very familiar with a lot of Stryker drills and products. X) Our Ortho surgeons love them quite a bit!
The fact that I know an ortho resident with this kinda energy makes this whole sketch even better.