For sure. If you look up his life hacks video where he makes a hot glue gun, he busts out some serious knowledge about how stupid the idea is. Smart people who act goofy often are perceived as stupid.
Glad you liked Osmands safety, he has been having a rough time lately with toxic youtube and reddit trolls so I'm really glad you gave credit where credit is due
@@MasterhpIke he did not reveal any non public information, and masked most public data on the guy. You could make an argument for maybe bullying, but doxing is not what he did.
6:50 he explicitly explained in his video that the high voltage doesn't make the x-rays, that's what the second power supply is for! William pretends to be dumb for his videos, but he really does know what's going on and he is an engineer
He's a goddamn genius. I wish internet people weren't such trash. He quit making videos because of people saying shit about his wife online. And now we have one less brilliant person making videos that are actually fun to watch. I keep checking in regularly to see if he's come back. But he hasn't yet. I hope he does.
@@since1876 yeah. He was acting,that he is dumb. But actualy he is not dumb. Its just acting to get More attention and views time. So people wouldn't just skip the video. He made video more interesting. But the assss oles. Just doesn't understand that. Stupid stupid troll people.
@@since1876 If you're missing his content, you should check out the podcast he does with NileRed and TheBackyardScientist. It's called "Safety Third" and I definitely think it's worth checking out!
@@JonBrk I wish this guy I work for would put safety third.... I've driven every tractor there is and run a chainsaw for my entire life and he won't let me do either when I work for him 😂 Anyway, yeah, of course I know about S3 but it's not the same as the build videos lol
And more than that, nothing is more youtube thumbnail applicable than an image of you x-raying your own hand. Sometimes you gotta get those views, else you won't pay off your medical debt.
It’s not even that he pretends to be dumb, it’s that if you wait a couple of seconds he actually explains it instead of having a commentator talking responding to every statement instead of waiting till the sentence is finished
@@LithiumPB Yeah Just a friend who he is on the medical insurance of, and sleeps in the same bed as, while co-parenting their 15 year old son Michael Reeves.
Thanks for saving me ten minutes. I was prepared to be annoyed but was pleasantly surprised to see that the real doctor trusts the real engineer to not become one of his patients.
Hahahaha yeah not a biased opinion or anything right?! It's a "small portion" of a hugely inflated amount. This doctor has clearly chosen to not educate himself on *why* everything is so insanely overpriced in the medical world. This doctor is a douche.
@@LunarEleven I think it’s just a situation in which they get caught up in their own world and forget the realities for everyone that walks in those doors. They likely hold their own beliefs because they’re probably dealing with debt from college and med school and they think “I deserve to put other people into poverty because I am working hard to pay back my loans that are 20 times that.” So, if we’re going to address health care, we also need to address college tuition as they go hand in hand. They neglect those with chronic health issues-which is 40% of the US population.
is it? i thought it was because there's no critical organ in the hands so its more tolerant to radiation. even if there's mutated cell, it wont cause any problem unless it was bone marrow cells
Not so much, as sunburns still affect the hand, so X-ray dosage rule still applies. That's because X-rays evict the electrons from atoms and that obviously results in free radicals which destroys organic compounds such as DNA, which is pretty much what sunburns also do (sunburn is essentially a form of radiation burn).
"or he was admitted to the hospital for a day or two." - HOW can we speak so casually about this? It's insane how people actually have their lives destroyed either by not seeking medical help or by ending up deep in debt - for just wanting to survive and be healthy. I do appreciate you acknowledging the craziness of the system though. My family is part Swedish and part American. My cousins live in N.Y and me and my family in Sweden , two times I've witnessed the US health system completely obliterate my uncles life savings. It pains me so much...
Your family is paying for the same cost in Sweden too, but it is perceived lower because it gets "shared" by everyone via taxes. A medical procedure costs a fixed amount, and it doesn't matter if you are paying for it in full or in taxes. Either way you pay for the treatment. For example, in the UK you get the NHS which covers medical expenses...except the tax in the UK is crazy high.
@@infinitepower6780 I never said otherwise. However I personally find the "crazy" high taxes give me far more than they take. Especially comparing to what my American relatives get. I pay 800$ in taxes each month, for that my family of humble origin has gotten higher education, healthcare treament for Diabetes, Cancer and stroke. I got a year paid parental leave with my daughter. Could taxes be lower -YES! It's a burden some months, but as we say in Sweden. You can't both keep the cake and eat it.
@@infinitepower6780 Did you miss the part where US medical costs are inflated 1000+% because everybody knows that Insurance companies refuse to pay the full cost?
@@infinitepower6780 and it's not the "same" cost. The price that Swedish healthcare pays buying e.g. insulin is lower than what a person would pay for insulin in the US. It's because the government and the EU has negotiated the price. My father has diabetes type 1 and is also allergic to the needles (crazy but that's life). His treatment would have cost 3500$ in the US each month. He pays 230$/year in Sweden. The price isn't the same. It's part of the deception told in countries without universal healthcare. I know from personal experience it's hard to wrap ones head around (my uncle will probably never understand this), but at the end of the day I am glad we are taxed more heavily in Sweden.
@@infinitepower6780 fun fact, universal healthcare is both cheaper and higher quality on average than the current american healthcare system because the american system is clunky and bloated and spends a crazy amount of money supporting the insurance industry where other places with universal healthcare just put all the money into actual healthcare and treatment. It's time to trim the fat off our country and the insurance industry is a great place to start.
As a physicist, small correction: the electrons actually don't shoot out of the x-ray head, it's the Bremsstrahlung created by the electrons being rapidly decelerated when they move through the tungsten (or similarly electron dense metal).
@@Kadjius Basically, if you change a charged particle's speed, it emits electromagnetic radiation. If you shoot electrons at a dense metal such as lead, it's slowed down, and emits X-rays. That's the simplest explanation.
You skipped his whole section talking about how, unlike you said, hospitals do charge that full inflated price to customers without insurance not just customers with insurance. That's where the main issue is with our current system. Cuz I'll tell ya right now, there is no way I can afford insurance at all with where I'm at, even though I'm paid decently and also work full-time. And so the loaning threat of getting too sick, or injured, or some other event outside of my control, is terrifying. I get you don't want to stir emotions, or get political. But this is not a political issue, it's a human rights issue. Health should be a right not a privilege.
I built a small 50kv x-ray machine for analyzing sealed circuit board failures but the beam was focused using lead and concrete shielding using old TV rectifiers and works very good.
“Or he was admitted into the hospital for a day or two.” (In reference to the cost of Will’s medical bill) The fact that a radiologist says this and doesn’t even bat an eye at the number just goes how ridiculously expensive it is to be healthy in America…
@@matthewcombs4930 I mean that’d be the cost without insurance which is absolutely wild to think about because it actually costed less than 1/6 of the amount charged total before insurance. And that only exists because insurance wanted to make itself necessary by having hospitals charge huge amounts only so insurances get the normal prices.
No see he was billed 69,000 dollars for some antibiotics and a short hospital stay because hospital have to overbill insurance companies to make the money the projected they should make from this procedure. He really only owed 2,500 dollars for some antibiotics and a short hospital stay, see? Not as bad. It's convoluted and confusing but but let's not talk about that. Meanwhile in most other first world countries: "It's free, no really. It's free."
@@MarioMonte13 This is such a confusing take I see. I guarantee any taxes you pay for a universal healcare system that benefits everyone, including you will still be significantly cheaper than a 69,000 hospital bill and your current insurance that I'm sure Costa hundreds of dollars a month
I love that the majority of your feedback is "Ya, he's mostly right." Way to not buy into the overreaction of people on the youtube comment section and twitters and actually give William Osman is due
People tend to collectively lose their fucking mind every time rAdIaTiOn is involved. Everyone views it as this incredibly scary boogeyman that will kill you instantly no matter how small the amount. The amount of radiation Will absorbed from this x-ray project is probably less than the cumulative yearly dose from simply having a granite countertop in your kitchen. Granite emits around 1.5kBq of gamma radiation per kg of material (roughly - depends on the exact type of granite).
My dentist is serving 6 months in Federal prison for tax evasion. Shoutout to Dr. Jeffrey Blanford in Ohio! He also has to pay back nearly one million dollars. Random I know. But you mention how doctors mark up procedures to insurance companies, kinda reminds me of fraud. Can they get in trouble for doing that?
Doctors don't mark up procedures. Hospital administrations do. It's not fraud though as hospital administrations are allowed to say their procedure is valued at whatever they value it at.
@@i798 it's a scam, your government makes it legal as they benefit from them lobbying the government. the fact that's allowed when there's no real other option for the patient makes it a scam and a disgrace, thank god I don't have to deal with that
At least with private practice dentistry, there’s usually an already negotiated price between the provider and the different insurance company’s for all the services that they offer…
I found it funny when you didn’t believe it was that easy to create equipment like this for this cheap especially when in reality, you can build something like say a nuclear reactor for $326
@@softstone6066 what do you mean "Strangely specific" so doesn't everyone play with all the fun stuff you can find on eBay and other fun places just like the nuclear boy scout that used americium from smoke detectors to make a reactor in his shed lol. check him out
You most definitely cannot "build a nuclear reactor" for 326$, especially if we're talking about a fission reactor. You can definitely get your hands on radioactive material for crazy cheap (I bought some 30kBq Am-241 sources for like 2$ a pop), and coupled with some lighter elements you _could_ generate some neutrons with it, enough to activate some atoms and detect them if you have a decent gamma spectrometer, but you could hardly do anything else. You certainly couldn't generate any power with it (not even a couple W of heat). You could make a fusor for about a grand, which _could_ be classified as a nuclear reactor I guess, but it's not what people _imagine_ when you say "nuclear reactor".
@@sebastiansanchez375 Yeah, he did exactly what I was talking about (got his hands on some alpha sources and used them to make neutrons). In his case he managed to get a hold of a crazy amount of radium paint - he just happened to stumble across an antique clock with an entire vial of touch up paint inside it by _detecting the radiation from outside the store,_ which anyone who's got a geiger counter knows is absolutely batshit crazy. My Am-241 sources already blend into the background as soon as you get like 10cm away, even using a highly sensitive SBT-10A probe. He then tried to use the neutrons to fertilize some Th-232 into U-233 (fissile). However he was working with shitty jerry rigged equipment so he predictably just ended up making a fairly highly radioactive mess and got in some serious trouble for it (which eventually led to his subsequent depression and death by overdose). Making a radioactive mess is easy. Making something you could call a "reactor" (in the commonly understood sense of making at least some measurable power) is very, very hard.
Wow the only doctor I’ve seen react to things that is actually super reasonable what the heck, didn’t tear will apart? Did I find the only good UA-cam doctor
Exactly. I had to get an x-ray once for a broken rib and it took me like an hour from getting to the hospital to getting it done, and was completely free.
So if I have to have a $3000 procedure, and the hospital charges $40,000, let's say the insurance company pays 50% at $20000. Then I pay my $3000 deductible? I'm confused 🤔. What was the point of paying the insurance company to low-ball the hospital's outrageous bill? Was it so that both the insurance company and the hospital can rob the American people? Or was the point to further worsen the situations of those with the audacity to find themselves unable to purchase health insurance? Somebody please help me out here I'm having a hard time understanding.
I thought you were gonna be a safety nerd two feet into William's butt! I'm happy you were not haha William Osman is like ElectroBOOM, they are smart as hell, but they don't fear the jank that's for sure
Since its the standard procedure is for hospitals to overcharge insurance companys what happens to people who cant afford insurance? They get over charged for no reason. Hospitals need to charge people without insurance a different rate
I don’t understand why people go off at William in his video for the safety of it when here we have a PROFESSIONAL RADIOLOGIST saying that William was safe and knew what he was doing.
The insurance was crap any way. I had the same issue during the pandemic so I avoided another bill. Took longer to recover but at least there wasn't another $7000 PT bill!
I got billed a thousand dollars for a covid test because they thought I might have strep at a walk in covid testing place (hospital). Went to a pharmacy and it was free. Exact same tests administered. Shits ridiculous.
I'm in an interventional radiology department right now as a patient, and I'm sitting here wishing I lived on the East Coast so you could be my doctor!! I'd feel a lot less nervous!
I always wanted to be an interventional radiologist since I was 12yrs old. I am now about to start my 4th year of medical school. When I found your channel I fell in love, subscribed, and watched basically all your vids. I guess it’s because it’s nice to hear someone who enjoys the same specialty as I do!! ❤️😁
The radiation dose of this is miniscule compared to everyday background radiation, air pollution, a dental xray, or worse yet a ct scan which is an extremely high radiation dose.
Flying actually gives over twenty times the amount of radiation expelled from William’s X-Ray. People are so quick so get so upset when they think something is done wrong, yet have absolutely no clue what the right way is. It makes me genuinely sad because electromagnetism and the physics behind these machines is amazing, yet they would sooner berate and shame a qualified engineer DIY rather than just learn something new.
Hospital billing is absolutely disgusting. You just paper right over it, and Osman flexed on you with his knowledge honestly 😹 I wouldn’t have uploaded this.
William: "...Well I say to you, pound sand! I have health insurance and my will to do science is significantly stronger then my will to live!" Dr. Cellini: "I like his style! I like where his head's at :)"
Today I learnt 2491 dollars is considered small portion for something Im paying aroung 100 (its premium price btw, you cound find something 4 times cheaper) dollars in my country totally private without using any kind of medical insurance (since its scam here welp)
Imagine not having insurance then having to pay the same amount you would for a shitty house, that's still pretty fucked dude and there's no defending that
I don't have health insurance and I have chronic pancreatitis and been hospitalized 5 times this year I'll have to file bankruptcies just for hospital bills. I got a bill for 8 hours in the hospital for 6000$ it's ridiculous
oh my... USA is crazy, never understood why such decently rich country has such a bad health and education systems compared to european countries and also lot of asian ones
I’d love to learn more about the billing process and how insurances/hospitals barter over that stuff. Also, if you’re willing, I’d like to know what type of options you think America has for expanding public healthcare beyond just Medicare/medicaid. Not suggesting replacing private healthcare, just expanding public options if you have any thoughts. Thanks!
As someone who worked doing billing for insurance companies… I can tell you these companies are making a tremendous amount of money from patients, and not even the doctors are compensated enough in comparison to how much money they make.
no idea why you wouldn't be suggesting replacing private healthcare, it just allows you americans to get completely scammed by insurance companies exploiting patients because they never get properly put in check. then there's a monopoly which stifles a true "free market". lots of other countries that you have to pay for medical bills don't cost nearly the much insurance companies charge, in Shanghai I could get an MRI for around £30-50
@@HelloMoto_ Not true, they make money from companies that purchase insurance, unless it's an individual plan, which don't make much money individually. And physician reimbursement is agreed to by the physician, it's not dictated by the insurance companies, so the physicians are in fact making money, and usually lot of it. I've worked in health insurance for over 20 years, specifically in the physician and hospital contracting area, so I know what I'm talking about with regards to this topic.
@@oight You may be able to get an MRI for that price, but the costs of an MRI are being covered in another way, such as taxes. Health insurance companies DO NOT have a monopoly in the US, there's a lot of competition from both national and regional companies. Insurance companies aren't scamming anyone, in fact most people are covered by plans where the employer takes on all the risk, so the insurance company just administers the benefits the employer wants. It's employers who dictate a person's costs and benefits, not the insurance company. Finally, you can get rid of private health care in the US, but you'll sacrificing innovation and research. The United States is the undisputed leader in medical and scientific innovation and research and that funding comes from having private insurance.
I went to the hospital with sever pain because of gall stones and had to have emergency surgery to remove my gall bladder. It was laparoscopic and required a two day stay in hospital. My total bill? With no personal health insurance? $0.00. Cos I live in Iceland where taking care of your citizens is the responsibility of the government. Universal Healthcare for the win.
In Cambodia a chest xray on big sheet of B/W film costs $9.00 incl. work, film, development and radiologist evaluation. In the US $300. I think: what a racket.
It shouldn't be that hard to recreate at home with the right gear. Some ridiculously high voltage, a lot of copper wire from maybe a scrapyard or spare wiring, and a good arc setup (see tazers for inspiration) should be a plenty good setup.
@@cupofjitters4501 Nice. I just take and test general wiring, strip apart things I don't need or want and tada, I have a shit ton of electrical wiring and have almost died like twice. I couldn't count the amount of times I've been electrocuted if I had 10 hands, however I haven't been electrocuted in like 6 months because I now have an actual setup and realized how it was effecting my mind and body, taking safety precautions after like 3 years. The most fun things I've made are a large Tesla coil that me and a friend mapped out and coded to play All Star by Smash Mouth, a capacitor that could literally explode your heart if it went off wrong, and a giant battery (which was incredibly expensive, time consuming and ridiculously dangerous) that we did some dumb shit with and nearly killed ourselves with.
So the hospitals fraudulently overcharge because they assume in bad faith being underpaid by the insurance companies? I feel contempt and wonder whether this counts as a crime of fraud and a criminal report should be filed.
In the state of MD, all payers give the hospitals 99% of charges (yes even Medicare and Medicaid) no matter what…for the reason of ‘that’s the rule’. Also, hospitals can bill whatever they want per procedure, as there are no laws to limit excessive billing (only laws against unnecessary or false grouping/additional billing). Welcome to America!
3:48 views don’t necessarily = money that was an assumption and a bad one at that there are a million different factors when getting paid on the internet especially with things like UA-cam tiktok etc
Ben from Applied science didn't x-ray a single part of himself with all of his experiments with x-ray tubes and even make a CT scanner. He even took mesaures to prevent back-scatter as much as possible while still being in the same room as it. The craziest thing he did was CT scan a chicken carcass.
7:08 the electrons don't bounce off the metal. The moving electron excites the electron that is in orbit of the heavy metal. When the electron in orbit falls back to its original energy level a high-energy photon is emitted. The specific energy of the photon determines what we call it. This energy is called x-ray.
When I was in elementary school in the 70's. I built an X-Ray machine from a article in Scientific American magazine. It used an old rectifier tube as the emitter, and a television flyback transformer for the high voltage power supply. The shield was a water bucket. We X-Rayed everybody's hands, fish, anything we thought interesting Since we did this in the school's darkroom, we inadvertently fogged all the school's positive paper. I think the Statute of Limitations is probably up, so I can admit my terrible crimes!
It’s sad people in America don’t have things like nhs. I understand that medical equipment is expensive but the nhs has been working well for so long saving so much lives.
We lived in Germany from 90-94 w US Army- MY Mom needed an urgent Mammogram and had to go to the local German hospital- we never did get a bill for it!
I was da IT fella for an orthopedic practice for a big Chicago practice that had offices in WIS, ILL , INN and MI.. Dude - I loved fixing x ray equipment.. Never had an education in it.. Just lobed taken it apart n fixen it...
Ok, i’m French, and i’m so chocked buy the amount of money that you need to spend for the health. How can you survive ? (It’s a real question, because I seriously don’t seeing how it’s possible)
wow he is smarter than most of our first year x-ray students I'm a rad tech that does MRI CT and x-ray and I was very impressed with how much he knew he could probably pass his registry now
Btw, the last guys are just crazy, they go to chernobyl like 3 times a year living there for a few days etc etc, I don't think they care much about their health :/
The $69k thing is a joke, but it's also not. These practices are archaic, just as the people that implemented them. These types of practices with insurance should be done away with, as well as a lot of backwards thinking laws and regulations we still follow to this day.
Loved your reaction. Honestly would love to see the full reaction to the video, but the parts you showed and the clarifications added, really made it a good video. Congrats and have a good one
I am surprised a US radiologist actually knows what an anode is. With the insane overcomplication and overspecialization of the labor in the West I would expect you would need to study one degree for a radiologist and a separate degree to know what the anode is and a separate degree to know what the cathode is and a separate degree for the filament and then you make a whole life career specialized for example talking only about the anode and if there is a problem with the cathode the hospital would call another specialist whose career would be focused on the cathode only.
To answer your question about the blueprint, it's very easy to find data sheets on parts and equipment as long as you have the part number and manufacturer of whatever you're looking for
That's what makes these react formats sort of weird, because half the the old mate doc would end up being like "oh nevermind, he explained it in the next sentence". But at least this handsome doc got the vibe of Williams videos and had a very positive response at the end
Thanks for the fair assessment of his safety. People tend to lean more towards either extreme in judging these things, especially if they don't know jack
I think people get confused with his jokes and everything, he’s just doing it for science, if your stupid enough to believe he’s actually saying that you should just build your own machine instead of going to the doctor than you should build one cause it’ll be better for the gene pool. Love William!
Instead of criticizing people for seeking to diy a fairly substantial portion of their medical care, maybe we should address the significant financial incentive there is to do so. I'm a chemist and have often considered investing in some used HPLC equipment and making my own meds.
I would like to make my own X-ray machine, I won't, of course because of the safety issues, but if someone could make a video or a document with all the procedure I could consider to do it. It's not for taking a picture of my hands but to do non-destructive testing and inspection of composite structure. It would be way more "visual" than ultrasound testing and a lot cooler. For now it's not possible to buy a professional x-ray machine if you're not a big aerospace company but they exist, so why not make my own !
The most expensive out of my 21 ortho surgeries was my L5/S1 fusion with a 4 day hospital stay. In 2017 it was 103K. I have another one in a month. I'm sure its going to be 117K or 120K with the inflation. The cheapest was a carpal tunnel I just had done at 400$
Bruh $103k?! Open heart surgery used to cost $250k. I hope thats before insurance. If not, go to Mexico, Europe, or something. I'd be in debt for the next 30 years.
if they only over bill insurance companies does that mean it's better to not have that insurance? you're paying the same ammount on the bill (as i understand it) but you wouldnt have to pay any insurance company
It's not even insurance that's crazy, other countries have medical insurance systems like the Netherlands but I'm pretty sure x-rays don't cost 69000 euros. I have no idea why Americans put up with this.
I’m 17 and rarely rarely get X-rays but they make me extremely nervous and uneasy when I get one. Nowadays I’m aware the exposure is much lower than 50 years ago. How dangerous are they nowadays? Also Srry if I act like a chicken
I'm worried now. Over the course of about 18 months, I had seven CTs of my abdomen, some with and some without contrast. I had this other "gut motility" study done where I had to eat radioactive scrambled eggs and lay still for 3 or 4 hours. Then I had probably a dozen x-rays of my chest and shoulder. I've also had a bunch of MRIs but those don't involve radiation, right? That's just electromagnetism... I think. But the CTs worry me. I had pancreatitis which was confirmed by elevated lipase levels (no I'm not a drinker, they couldn't explain why I had pancreatitis). After I got over that, I was having these stomach migraines bad enough to hospitalize me over and over. They did three endoscopies and a couple colonoscopies trying to find ulcers or something. Those were all good. So they started doing all the imaging. I was in and out of the hospital for a week here, 10 days there, because the pain would come and go. I never figured it out and I still have bad digestive pain. I digress. Are CTs really that bad for you? Because I've had bunches of them. Add that to all the X-rays from a broken shoulder. Oh, yeah, and I have epilepsy on top of all this so I broke my shoulder twice during seizure. Then all the chest X-rays they did... I'm probably going to get cancer.
Correction. I pulled out my medical files from the closet and checked. It was 9 CTs at 6 different hospitals over a 19 month period. Crikey. I'm going to die.
@@xliquidflames I hear what you're saying and I guess between the lines you're going through hell trying to get a proper diagnosis, that is not get just a cursory glance each time at CT imaging doing pattern matching and arbitarily choosing a detected condition to offer treatment for. You're right to be concerned about total dose exposure to helical scan radiography, I'm no expert but I guess you're now put off asking a doctor in case they respond by ordering full body CT scan to assess effects of exposure to CT scans. I wish you well.
Has to be a real hand. Making a vid like this, the smooth brains will give Will shit for any reason they think of as if they understand any of the info. Everyone is a doctor and engineer on Yt. People would’ve complained
@@PNolandS I watched it, in fact it was actually the first video of his I saw. I went back to the first video after. I was explaining why I believe it had to be a real hand
William is more intelligent than 99% of his audience and people are so triggered by his video because they can't understand the satire.
william osman testing torture device on himself (this is a satire video you just don't understand)
He's legit brilliant!
@Luis the video where he responds to comments on that video is hilarious. Especially Evan's comment. Evan is my favorite.
99.9%
For sure. If you look up his life hacks video where he makes a hot glue gun, he busts out some serious knowledge about how stupid the idea is. Smart people who act goofy often are perceived as stupid.
Glad you liked Osmands safety, he has been having a rough time lately with toxic youtube and reddit trolls so I'm really glad you gave credit where credit is due
Oh he has had hard time doxxing a viewer, he deserves all the hate
@@MasterhpIke I agree that was pretty bad, can't fight toxicity with more toxicity. Not his best moment.
@@MasterhpIke he did not reveal any non public information, and masked most public data on the guy. You could make an argument for maybe bullying, but doxing is not what he did.
@@MasterhpIke nah fuck that welder dude. Osman is a walking W
@@MasterhpIke Except he didn't really doxx anyone, drama creators just spin the story to claim that...
6:50 he explicitly explained in his video that the high voltage doesn't make the x-rays, that's what the second power supply is for! William pretends to be dumb for his videos, but he really does know what's going on and he is an engineer
Thanks
He's a goddamn genius. I wish internet people weren't such trash. He quit making videos because of people saying shit about his wife online. And now we have one less brilliant person making videos that are actually fun to watch.
I keep checking in regularly to see if he's come back. But he hasn't yet. I hope he does.
@@since1876 yeah. He was acting,that he is dumb. But actualy he is not dumb. Its just acting to get More attention and views time. So people wouldn't just skip the video. He made video more interesting. But the assss oles. Just doesn't understand that. Stupid stupid troll people.
@@since1876 If you're missing his content, you should check out the podcast he does with NileRed and TheBackyardScientist. It's called "Safety Third" and I definitely think it's worth checking out!
@@JonBrk I wish this guy I work for would put safety third.... I've driven every tractor there is and run a chainsaw for my entire life and he won't let me do either when I work for him 😂
Anyway, yeah, of course I know about S3 but it's not the same as the build videos lol
11:40 "Why does everyone have to xray their hand?"
Historical accuracy. That's how Roentgen did it. Except for safety's sake he used his wife's hand.😆
That’s the manly way to do it. Say “I am so excited to do this thing,” then tell the wife to go first 😅
And more than that, nothing is more youtube thumbnail applicable than an image of you x-raying your own hand.
Sometimes you gotta get those views, else you won't pay off your medical debt.
It’s not even that he pretends to be dumb, it’s that if you wait a couple of seconds he actually explains it instead of having a commentator talking responding to every statement instead of waiting till the sentence is finished
@@LithiumPB Yeah Just a friend who he is on the medical insurance of, and sleeps in the same bed as, while co-parenting their 15 year old son Michael Reeves.
That's where women and children first come from... True Story - Barney Stinson
lol
"My will to do science is greater then my will to live" That's actually how some of our greatest discoveries were made!
Yeah, Marie Curie...
and then some of them literally off themselves after ahahhaahhahaha.....ugh
I can see why William Osman's wife was upset to hear him say that, but also it's one of my favorite quotes of all time
$2500 is still expensive for some antibiotics and a day or two in the hospital.
It fucking insane. My friend payed out of pocket here in eu because he was not insured and for the same thing he was charged 300 €.
Evan Erginger does a video on how much it costs the NHS for bed stays etc. I’d recommend it. People are being ripped off in america
You’d be charged 10$ in india.
When you have to pay more to live then a vehicle to get to work... then that is when you ask what life is worth.....
You would have to pay for parking here, and that is all. $2500 with insurance is insane especially seeing how expensive insurance is
I love how so many people came here to see the doctor be mad at Will, and instead he just says “yeah he’s right. That was cool.”
Thanks for saving me ten minutes. I was prepared to be annoyed but was pleasantly surprised to see that the real doctor trusts the real engineer to not become one of his patients.
“A very small portion.” Says a doctor. That copay is still ridiculous.
Hahahaha yeah not a biased opinion or anything right?! It's a "small portion" of a hugely inflated amount. This doctor has clearly chosen to not educate himself on *why* everything is so insanely overpriced in the medical world. This doctor is a douche.
@@LunarEleven I think it’s just a situation in which they get caught up in their own world and forget the realities for everyone that walks in those doors. They likely hold their own beliefs because they’re probably dealing with debt from college and med school and they think “I deserve to put other people into poverty because I am working hard to pay back my loans that are 20 times that.” So, if we’re going to address health care, we also need to address college tuition as they go hand in hand. They neglect those with chronic health issues-which is 40% of the US population.
Still a very small portion. 2,500 is 3% of 69,000.
Hands are actually more radiation resistant than almost any other part of our body so I’d prefer people are x-raying their hands than say their heads
The guys from Kreosan are still fine over a years after their X-ray experiment.
That's why your hands never get sunburned.
is it? i thought it was because there's no critical organ in the hands so its more tolerant to radiation. even if there's mutated cell, it wont cause any problem unless it was bone marrow cells
@@georgewatrous3710 I still got hand burn, although as not severely as other part like my feet.
Not so much, as sunburns still affect the hand, so X-ray dosage rule still applies. That's because X-rays evict the electrons from atoms and that obviously results in free radicals which destroys organic compounds such as DNA, which is pretty much what sunburns also do (sunburn is essentially a form of radiation burn).
"or he was admitted to the hospital for a day or two." - HOW can we speak so casually about this? It's insane how people actually have their lives destroyed either by not seeking medical help or by ending up deep in debt - for just wanting to survive and be healthy. I do appreciate you acknowledging the craziness of the system though.
My family is part Swedish and part American. My cousins live in N.Y and me and my family in Sweden , two times I've witnessed the US health system completely obliterate my uncles life savings. It pains me so much...
Your family is paying for the same cost in Sweden too, but it is perceived lower because it gets "shared" by everyone via taxes.
A medical procedure costs a fixed amount, and it doesn't matter if you are paying for it in full or in taxes. Either way you pay for the treatment.
For example, in the UK you get the NHS which covers medical expenses...except the tax in the UK is crazy high.
@@infinitepower6780 I never said otherwise. However I personally find the "crazy" high taxes give me far more than they take. Especially comparing to what my American relatives get.
I pay 800$ in taxes each month, for that my family of humble origin has gotten higher education, healthcare treament for Diabetes, Cancer and stroke. I got a year paid parental leave with my daughter. Could taxes be lower -YES! It's a burden some months, but as we say in Sweden. You can't both keep the cake and eat it.
@@infinitepower6780 Did you miss the part where US medical costs are inflated 1000+% because everybody knows that Insurance companies refuse to pay the full cost?
@@infinitepower6780 and it's not the "same" cost. The price that Swedish healthcare pays buying e.g. insulin is lower than what a person would pay for insulin in the US. It's because the government and the EU has negotiated the price.
My father has diabetes type 1 and is also allergic to the needles (crazy but that's life). His treatment would have cost 3500$ in the US each month. He pays 230$/year in Sweden.
The price isn't the same. It's part of the deception told in countries without universal healthcare.
I know from personal experience it's hard to wrap ones head around (my uncle will probably never understand this), but at the end of the day I am glad we are taxed more heavily in Sweden.
@@infinitepower6780 fun fact, universal healthcare is both cheaper and higher quality on average than the current american healthcare system because the american system is clunky and bloated and spends a crazy amount of money supporting the insurance industry where other places with universal healthcare just put all the money into actual healthcare and treatment. It's time to trim the fat off our country and the insurance industry is a great place to start.
I love that the actual doc thinks he's safer than the armchair docs who complained about that vid. Love to see it
As a physicist, small correction: the electrons actually don't shoot out of the x-ray head, it's the Bremsstrahlung created by the electrons being rapidly decelerated when they move through the tungsten (or similarly electron dense metal).
Hi! Do you mind explaining what a Bremsstrahlung is?
@@Kadjius Basically, if you change a charged particle's speed, it emits electromagnetic radiation. If you shoot electrons at a dense metal such as lead, it's slowed down, and emits X-rays. That's the simplest explanation.
You skipped his whole section talking about how, unlike you said, hospitals do charge that full inflated price to customers without insurance not just customers with insurance. That's where the main issue is with our current system. Cuz I'll tell ya right now, there is no way I can afford insurance at all with where I'm at, even though I'm paid decently and also work full-time. And so the loaning threat of getting too sick, or injured, or some other event outside of my control, is terrifying.
I get you don't want to stir emotions, or get political. But this is not a political issue, it's a human rights issue. Health should be a right not a privilege.
It's 100% a political issue lmao which side wants to keep it that way and which side doesn't?
@@zachanator55599 It's only political because there's a whole party of bastards whose only policy stance is "fuck your human rights"
I built a small 50kv x-ray machine for analyzing sealed circuit board failures but the beam was focused using lead and concrete shielding using old TV rectifiers and works very good.
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Interesting - I never knew x-rays could be focused, I knew that they can be reflected by dense materials at a shallow angle though.
@@Chris47368 i dont think he meant focused probably just isolated...
“Or he was admitted into the hospital for a day or two.” (In reference to the cost of Will’s medical bill) The fact that a radiologist says this and doesn’t even bat an eye at the number just goes how ridiculously expensive it is to be healthy in America…
Watching the video a few minutes forward, I’m eating my words a little but hey he told me to talk about it 🤷🏼♂️
@@matthewcombs4930 I mean that’d be the cost without insurance which is absolutely wild to think about because it actually costed less than 1/6 of the amount charged total before insurance. And that only exists because insurance wanted to make itself necessary by having hospitals charge huge amounts only so insurances get the normal prices.
No see he was billed 69,000 dollars for some antibiotics and a short hospital stay because hospital have to overbill insurance companies to make the money the projected they should make from this procedure. He really only owed 2,500 dollars for some antibiotics and a short hospital stay, see? Not as bad. It's convoluted and confusing but but let's not talk about that.
Meanwhile in most other first world countries: "It's free, no really. It's free."
That's a lot for antibiotics and 2 days.
Fear tactics and extortion for people in need
Free isn't free when you're extorted by the government to pay for it with your taxes.
@@MarioMonte13 This is such a confusing take I see. I guarantee any taxes you pay for a universal healcare system that benefits everyone, including you will still be significantly cheaper than a 69,000 hospital bill and your current insurance that I'm sure Costa hundreds of dollars a month
@@johnchestnut5340 it's not just the antibiotics, it's all the expertise and education needed to make sure he is actually safe.
I love the nonchalant "69 thousand? Sounds like he was admitted to the hospital for a day or two"
USA! USA!
I love that the majority of your feedback is "Ya, he's mostly right." Way to not buy into the overreaction of people on the youtube comment section and twitters and actually give William Osman is due
People tend to collectively lose their fucking mind every time rAdIaTiOn is involved. Everyone views it as this incredibly scary boogeyman that will kill you instantly no matter how small the amount. The amount of radiation Will absorbed from this x-ray project is probably less than the cumulative yearly dose from simply having a granite countertop in your kitchen.
Granite emits around 1.5kBq of gamma radiation per kg of material (roughly - depends on the exact type of granite).
Will Osman has that humor that makes regular folks think he’s not that smart but makes smart people realize he’s a genius
Having a doctor try to rationalize the ABSURDITY of American health insurance and medical billing is beyond amusing 🤦🏻♀️
I dunno he was more like "Yeah it sucks, but let's not think about that."
@@peoplewhoplaygames IKR?
It's a long story with secret manuscripts of billing info and scummy practices. I recommend the Adam Ruins Everything about the topic.
Honestly yeah, I can't believe how a so financially developed country as America let the government get away with that, French medicine student btw
My dentist is serving 6 months in Federal prison for tax evasion. Shoutout to Dr. Jeffrey Blanford in Ohio! He also has to pay back nearly one million dollars. Random I know. But you mention how doctors mark up procedures to insurance companies, kinda reminds me of fraud. Can they get in trouble for doing that?
Doctors don't mark up procedures. Hospital administrations do. It's not fraud though as hospital administrations are allowed to say their procedure is valued at whatever they value it at.
@@i798 it's a scam, your government makes it legal as they benefit from them lobbying the government. the fact that's allowed when there's no real other option for the patient makes it a scam and a disgrace, thank god I don't have to deal with that
At least with private practice dentistry, there’s usually an already negotiated price between the provider and the different insurance company’s for all the services that they offer…
cyberpunk 2021
@@i798 > which is why US healthcare is the most expensive in the world.
I found it funny when you didn’t believe it was that easy to create equipment like this for this cheap especially when in reality, you can build something like say a nuclear reactor for $326
Strangely specific my dude
@@softstone6066 what do you mean "Strangely specific" so doesn't everyone play with all the fun stuff you can find on eBay and other fun places just like the nuclear boy scout that used americium from smoke detectors to make a reactor in his shed lol. check him out
You most definitely cannot "build a nuclear reactor" for 326$, especially if we're talking about a fission reactor. You can definitely get your hands on radioactive material for crazy cheap (I bought some 30kBq Am-241 sources for like 2$ a pop), and coupled with some lighter elements you _could_ generate some neutrons with it, enough to activate some atoms and detect them if you have a decent gamma spectrometer, but you could hardly do anything else. You certainly couldn't generate any power with it (not even a couple W of heat).
You could make a fusor for about a grand, which _could_ be classified as a nuclear reactor I guess, but it's not what people _imagine_ when you say "nuclear reactor".
@@demoniack81 if I’m not mistaken there was a Boy Scout who tried to make a reactor from the americium from smoke alarm detectors.
@@sebastiansanchez375 Yeah, he did exactly what I was talking about (got his hands on some alpha sources and used them to make neutrons).
In his case he managed to get a hold of a crazy amount of radium paint - he just happened to stumble across an antique clock with an entire vial of touch up paint inside it by _detecting the radiation from outside the store,_ which anyone who's got a geiger counter knows is absolutely batshit crazy.
My Am-241 sources already blend into the background as soon as you get like 10cm away, even using a highly sensitive SBT-10A probe.
He then tried to use the neutrons to fertilize some Th-232 into U-233 (fissile).
However he was working with shitty jerry rigged equipment so he predictably just ended up making a fairly highly radioactive mess and got in some serious trouble for it (which eventually led to his subsequent depression and death by overdose).
Making a radioactive mess is easy. Making something you could call a "reactor" (in the commonly understood sense of making at least some measurable power) is very, very hard.
Wow the only doctor I’ve seen react to things that is actually super reasonable what the heck, didn’t tear will apart? Did I find the only good UA-cam doctor
what is crazy is that WITH an insurrance you still have to pay 2000$, it would have been free in my country
it would have been about 20 bucks with my current health plan, from which i pay 50 bucks a month
Exactly. I had to get an x-ray once for a broken rib and it took me like an hour from getting to the hospital to getting it done, and was completely free.
So if I have to have a $3000 procedure, and the hospital charges $40,000, let's say the insurance company pays 50% at $20000. Then I pay my $3000 deductible? I'm confused 🤔. What was the point of paying the insurance company to low-ball the hospital's outrageous bill? Was it so that both the insurance company and the hospital can rob the American people? Or was the point to further worsen the situations of those with the audacity to find themselves unable to purchase health insurance? Somebody please help me out here I'm having a hard time understanding.
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I thought you were gonna be a safety nerd two feet into William's butt! I'm happy you were not haha
William Osman is like ElectroBOOM, they are smart as hell, but they don't fear the jank that's for sure
Yeah but Mehdi is a big boy.
Since its the standard procedure is for hospitals to overcharge insurance companys what happens to people who cant afford insurance? They get over charged for no reason. Hospitals need to charge people without insurance a different rate
I don’t understand why people go off at William in his video for the safety of it when here we have a PROFESSIONAL RADIOLOGIST saying that William was safe and knew what he was doing.
Even if you use 100k to build MRI machine, why would it cost 60k for each person who use it?
I am paying on a $6,892 PT bill. The entire bill was over $11,000. Pretty ridiculous since I had insurance!
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The insurance was crap any way. I had the same issue during the pandemic so I avoided another bill. Took longer to recover but at least there wasn't another $7000 PT bill!
I got billed a thousand dollars for a covid test because they thought I might have strep at a walk in covid testing place (hospital).
Went to a pharmacy and it was free.
Exact same tests administered.
Shits ridiculous.
@@travisdelee8647 That is ridiculous!
I'm in an interventional radiology department right now as a patient, and I'm sitting here wishing I lived on the East Coast so you could be my doctor!! I'd feel a lot less nervous!
Fun fact, the xrays scatter in all directions, just like the light fro the hot cathode, that it why the enclosure of the xray assembly is shielded.
I always wanted to be an interventional radiologist since I was 12yrs old. I am now about to start my 4th year of medical school. When I found your channel I fell in love, subscribed, and watched basically all your vids. I guess it’s because it’s nice to hear someone who enjoys the same specialty as I do!! ❤️😁
What is interventional radiology? I know what radiology is.
Still, medicine mindset in America is quite bad, from a French medical student
The radiation dose of this is miniscule compared to everyday background radiation, air pollution, a dental xray, or worse yet a ct scan which is an extremely high radiation dose.
Flying actually gives over twenty times the amount of radiation expelled from William’s X-Ray. People are so quick so get so upset when they think something is done wrong, yet have absolutely no clue what the right way is. It makes me genuinely sad because electromagnetism and the physics behind these machines is amazing, yet they would sooner berate and shame a qualified engineer DIY rather than just learn something new.
Hospital billing is absolutely disgusting. You just paper right over it, and Osman flexed on you with his knowledge honestly 😹
I wouldn’t have uploaded this.
William: "...Well I say to you, pound sand! I have health insurance and my will to do science is significantly stronger then my will to live!"
Dr. Cellini: "I like his style! I like where his head's at :)"
Today I learnt 2491 dollars is considered small portion for something Im paying aroung 100 (its premium price btw, you cound find something 4 times cheaper) dollars in my country totally private without using any kind of medical insurance (since its scam here welp)
A radiologist here: this William guy is a genius.
Imagine not having insurance then having to pay the same amount you would for a shitty house, that's still pretty fucked dude and there's no defending that
I don't have health insurance and I have chronic pancreatitis and been hospitalized 5 times this year I'll have to file bankruptcies just for hospital bills. I got a bill for 8 hours in the hospital for 6000$ it's ridiculous
damn yall gotta revolt lmao thats fucking insaaane. grateful im not in america. good luck man, god bless.
oh my... USA is crazy, never understood why such decently rich country has such a bad health and education systems compared to european countries and also lot of asian ones
I’d love to learn more about the billing process and how insurances/hospitals barter over that stuff. Also, if you’re willing, I’d like to know what type of options you think America has for expanding public healthcare beyond just Medicare/medicaid. Not suggesting replacing private healthcare, just expanding public options if you have any thoughts. Thanks!
I'd also be curious to hear his thoughts on this!
As someone who worked doing billing for insurance companies… I can tell you these companies are making a tremendous amount of money from patients, and not even the doctors are compensated enough in comparison to how much money they make.
no idea why you wouldn't be suggesting replacing private healthcare, it just allows you americans to get completely scammed by insurance companies exploiting patients because they never get properly put in check. then there's a monopoly which stifles a true "free market". lots of other countries that you have to pay for medical bills don't cost nearly the much insurance companies charge, in Shanghai I could get an MRI for around £30-50
@@HelloMoto_ Not true, they make money from companies that purchase insurance, unless it's an individual plan, which don't make much money individually. And physician reimbursement is agreed to by the physician, it's not dictated by the insurance companies, so the physicians are in fact making money, and usually lot of it. I've worked in health insurance for over 20 years, specifically in the physician and hospital contracting area, so I know what I'm talking about with regards to this topic.
@@oight You may be able to get an MRI for that price, but the costs of an MRI are being covered in another way, such as taxes. Health insurance companies DO NOT have a monopoly in the US, there's a lot of competition from both national and regional companies. Insurance companies aren't scamming anyone, in fact most people are covered by plans where the employer takes on all the risk, so the insurance company just administers the benefits the employer wants. It's employers who dictate a person's costs and benefits, not the insurance company. Finally, you can get rid of private health care in the US, but you'll sacrificing innovation and research. The United States is the undisputed leader in medical and scientific innovation and research and that funding comes from having private insurance.
i'd forgotten about this video. then saw this reaction video, remembered, and now want to make one again
I went to the hospital with sever pain because of gall stones and had to have emergency surgery to remove my gall bladder. It was laparoscopic and required a two day stay in hospital. My total bill? With no personal health insurance? $0.00. Cos I live in Iceland where taking care of your citizens is the responsibility of the government. Universal Healthcare for the win.
In Cambodia a chest xray on big sheet of B/W film costs $9.00 incl. work, film, development and radiologist evaluation. In the US $300. I think: what a racket.
That arc in there, me as an electrical engineer, that's cool I love it
It shouldn't be that hard to recreate at home with the right gear. Some ridiculously high voltage, a lot of copper wire from maybe a scrapyard or spare wiring, and a good arc setup (see tazers for inspiration) should be a plenty good setup.
@@RandomInternetStranger My go to for tesla coils used to be old Neon Sign power modules. Sadly these are quite expensive/rare now.
@@cupofjitters4501 Nice. I just take and test general wiring, strip apart things I don't need or want and tada, I have a shit ton of electrical wiring and have almost died like twice. I couldn't count the amount of times I've been electrocuted if I had 10 hands, however I haven't been electrocuted in like 6 months because I now have an actual setup and realized how it was effecting my mind and body, taking safety precautions after like 3 years. The most fun things I've made are a large Tesla coil that me and a friend mapped out and coded to play All Star by Smash Mouth, a capacitor that could literally explode your heart if it went off wrong, and a giant battery (which was incredibly expensive, time consuming and ridiculously dangerous) that we did some dumb shit with and nearly killed ourselves with.
You didn't bother to address the fact that it cost less for him to be uninsured and get a scan, than to be insured and pay the deductible.
So the hospitals fraudulently overcharge because they assume in bad faith being underpaid by the insurance companies? I feel contempt and wonder whether this counts as a crime of fraud and a criminal report should be filed.
You go in 1 h to a wedding and don’t wear a suit? I would be killed.
Violin MD is good. You should colab on a video with her
Love Violin MD!! She is excellent!!
In the state of MD, all payers give the hospitals 99% of charges (yes even Medicare and Medicaid) no matter what…for the reason of ‘that’s the rule’.
Also, hospitals can bill whatever they want per procedure, as there are no laws to limit excessive billing (only laws against unnecessary or false grouping/additional billing).
Welcome to America!
3:48 views don’t necessarily = money that was an assumption and a bad one at that there are a million different factors when getting paid on the internet especially with things like UA-cam tiktok etc
Ben from Applied science didn't x-ray a single part of himself with all of his experiments with x-ray tubes and even make a CT scanner. He even took mesaures to prevent back-scatter as much as possible while still being in the same room as it. The craziest thing he did was CT scan a chicken carcass.
7:08 the electrons don't bounce off the metal. The moving electron excites the electron that is in orbit of the heavy metal. When the electron in orbit falls back to its original energy level a high-energy photon is emitted. The specific energy of the photon determines what we call it. This energy is called x-ray.
It's funny that a "small fraction" is still a lot of money for what he said could be a day or 2 in a hospital, the US is insane.
When I was in elementary school in the 70's. I built an X-Ray machine from a article in Scientific American magazine. It used an old rectifier tube as the emitter, and a television flyback transformer for the high voltage power supply. The shield was a water bucket. We X-Rayed everybody's hands, fish, anything we thought interesting Since we did this in the school's darkroom, we inadvertently fogged all the school's positive paper. I think the Statute of Limitations is probably up, so I can admit my terrible crimes!
It’s sad people in America don’t have things like nhs. I understand that medical equipment is expensive but the nhs has been working well for so long saving so much lives.
We lived in Germany from 90-94 w US Army- MY Mom needed an urgent Mammogram and had to go to the local German hospital- we never did get a bill for it!
"Unless you don't have insurance" THAT's THE POINT
I was da IT fella for an orthopedic practice for a big Chicago practice that had offices in WIS, ILL , INN and MI.. Dude - I loved fixing x ray equipment.. Never had an education in it.. Just lobed taken it apart n fixen it...
Ok, i’m French, and i’m so chocked buy the amount of money that you need to spend for the health. How can you survive ? (It’s a real question, because I seriously don’t seeing how it’s possible)
wow he is smarter than most of our first year x-ray students I'm a rad tech that does MRI CT and x-ray and I was very impressed with how much he knew he could probably pass his registry now
X ray students is a thing?
@@gokul0565 Radiologic Technologist, yep can work CT, MRI, x-ray, vascular lab, cardiac lab, radiation therapy
Btw, the last guys are just crazy, they go to chernobyl like 3 times a year living there for a few days etc etc, I don't think they care much about their health :/
"Or he was admitted to a hospital for a day or two" that's a financial death sentence right there.
The $69k thing is a joke, but it's also not. These practices are archaic, just as the people that implemented them. These types of practices with insurance should be done away with, as well as a lot of backwards thinking laws and regulations we still follow to this day.
This is the second x-ray machine video I've seen where the person had a $70,000 medical bill
Loved your reaction. Honestly would love to see the full reaction to the video, but the parts you showed and the clarifications added, really made it a good video. Congrats and have a good one
I am surprised a US radiologist actually knows what an anode is. With the insane overcomplication and overspecialization of the labor in the West I would expect you would need to study one degree for a radiologist and a separate degree to know what the anode is and a separate degree to know what the cathode is and a separate degree for the filament and then you make a whole life career specialized for example talking only about the anode and if there is a problem with the cathode the hospital would call another specialist whose career would be focused on the cathode only.
To answer your question about the blueprint, it's very easy to find data sheets on parts and equipment as long as you have the part number and manufacturer of whatever you're looking for
10:00 10 mSv for a CT scan !!! what ! this is half of what we are allowed to take when working in a nuclear power plant in France per YEAR !!
I enjoy that the doc likes Williams style but like let him finish a scene before pausing
That's what makes these react formats sort of weird, because half the the old mate doc would end up being like "oh nevermind, he explained it in the next sentence". But at least this handsome doc got the vibe of Williams videos and had a very positive response at the end
Thanks for the fair assessment of his safety. People tend to lean more towards either extreme in judging these things, especially if they don't know jack
X-ray and medical imaging procedures are being paid by insurance either fee for services or by-annually depending on insurance to hospital agreement.
America needs universal healtcare, and we can afford it. This is not a point of debate or controversy. :D
I think people get confused with his jokes and everything, he’s just doing it for science, if your stupid enough to believe he’s actually saying that you should just build your own machine instead of going to the doctor than you should build one cause it’ll be better for the gene pool. Love William!
Instead of criticizing people for seeking to diy a fairly substantial portion of their medical care, maybe we should address the significant financial incentive there is to do so. I'm a chemist and have often considered investing in some used HPLC equipment and making my own meds.
Doctor : No. Unsafe.
William : Arc go zap, radiation go brrrrr
Brings back memories of working on tigerview xray equipment!!❤
😂 this is one of my favourite videos you have made your reactions are priceless !
now you should react to his "i made an x-ray machine and people are mad" video lol
7:13 all this data always has been freely available, before the internet published in a public library
I would like to make my own X-ray machine, I won't, of course because of the safety issues, but if someone could make a video or a document with all the procedure I could consider to do it. It's not for taking a picture of my hands but to do non-destructive testing and inspection of composite structure. It would be way more "visual" than ultrasound testing and a lot cooler. For now it's not possible to buy a professional x-ray machine if you're not a big aerospace company but they exist, so why not make my own !
5:25 Dr. Cellini, this is what you are dealing with everyday
Wiliam is really smart and I'm happy that you give credits to him, because he has been going through a tough time with UA-cam and reddit toxicity
"Usually you get these insanely high bills"
Its funny how this is just acceptable
Jesus Christ, now I understand why malpractice insurance costs $68,000 on a set of x-rays.
The most expensive out of my 21 ortho surgeries was my L5/S1 fusion with a 4 day hospital stay. In 2017 it was 103K. I have another one in a month. I'm sure its going to be 117K or 120K with the inflation. The cheapest was a carpal tunnel I just had done at 400$
Next time come in France, in a few year I will officially be able to help you, for 103K less than what you had to pay in America
Bruh $103k?! Open heart surgery used to cost $250k.
I hope thats before insurance. If not, go to Mexico, Europe, or something. I'd be in debt for the next 30 years.
William got a better deal. For $67000, they cured him on the first try.
if they only over bill insurance companies does that mean it's better to not have that insurance? you're paying the same ammount on the bill (as i understand it) but you wouldnt have to pay any insurance company
I'm glad you liked William! And hope you watch his other videos, theyre so enjoyable and how fun I always thought science was when I was a kid
It's not even insurance that's crazy, other countries have medical insurance systems like the Netherlands but I'm pretty sure x-rays don't cost 69000 euros. I have no idea why Americans put up with this.
I’m 17 and rarely rarely get X-rays but they make me extremely nervous and uneasy when I get one. Nowadays I’m aware the exposure is much lower than 50 years ago. How dangerous are they nowadays? Also Srry if I act like a chicken
You’re completely fine. No need to worry
If you've ever been in a plane, you've probably been exposed to more radiation than you ever will by getting xrays done
Video starts at 1:10
"You dont have to pay $69k unless you dont have insurance" 😂😂😂
Being a French medicine student these words sicken me out quite a bit
I'm worried now. Over the course of about 18 months, I had seven CTs of my abdomen, some with and some without contrast. I had this other "gut motility" study done where I had to eat radioactive scrambled eggs and lay still for 3 or 4 hours. Then I had probably a dozen x-rays of my chest and shoulder. I've also had a bunch of MRIs but those don't involve radiation, right? That's just electromagnetism... I think. But the CTs worry me. I had pancreatitis which was confirmed by elevated lipase levels (no I'm not a drinker, they couldn't explain why I had pancreatitis). After I got over that, I was having these stomach migraines bad enough to hospitalize me over and over. They did three endoscopies and a couple colonoscopies trying to find ulcers or something. Those were all good. So they started doing all the imaging. I was in and out of the hospital for a week here, 10 days there, because the pain would come and go. I never figured it out and I still have bad digestive pain. I digress. Are CTs really that bad for you? Because I've had bunches of them. Add that to all the X-rays from a broken shoulder. Oh, yeah, and I have epilepsy on top of all this so I broke my shoulder twice during seizure. Then all the chest X-rays they did... I'm probably going to get cancer.
Correction. I pulled out my medical files from the closet and checked. It was 9 CTs at 6 different hospitals over a 19 month period. Crikey. I'm going to die.
@@xliquidflames I hear what you're saying and I guess between the lines you're going through hell trying to get a proper diagnosis, that is not get just a cursory glance each time at CT imaging doing pattern matching and arbitarily choosing a detected condition to offer treatment for. You're right to be concerned about total dose exposure to helical scan radiography, I'm no expert but I guess you're now put off asking a doctor in case they respond by ordering full body CT scan to assess effects of exposure to CT scans. I wish you well.
Teacher`s train us as kids to use our own hands and paint to make pictures. Just a guess as to why, as adults, x-raying the hand is a goto.
You think this was bad you need to see Electrobooms video on cathode rays
In the other countries you still pay for your insurance, it is just it is not private, it is managed by the state
My mom is a radiologist and ive been around x-ray machines my whole life and I didn't think Willam was super unsafe at any point in his video.
"IF you have insurance"
Has to be a real hand. Making a vid like this, the smooth brains will give Will shit for any reason they think of as if they understand any of the info. Everyone is a doctor and engineer on Yt. People would’ve complained
They still did, he made a follow up video *exclusively* on the comments
@@PNolandS I watched it, in fact it was actually the first video of his I saw. I went back to the first video after. I was explaining why I believe it had to be a real hand
He isn't jokeing.