The rats like him, they probably come and beg him to tell them more about all this diseases, because they like to be the bad and tough guys that can survive the city jungle of New York.
And that's after they developed antibiotics. Before they'd even out figured bacterial transmission vectors New York had the highest per capita incidence of Malaria in the United States and it's territories and that was including Hawaii and the Philippines.
@@laurensplompen well, we have pizza rat (ua-cam.com/users/shortsUPXUG8q4jKU), we have the city hall park rats, which have learned from squirrels how to be cute and get food.
As a New Yorker, I am cackling and wheezing at Infectious Disease "enjoying" the City That Never Sleeps 🗽. Sounds like he is ready for everything anf anything he may come across here. 😂😂😂
I don't work in the medical field but I've been aware of pigeons and psittacosis (parrots too) for many years, and I'm horrified when I see laughing children run through a flock of pigeons as they fly up around them, stirring up the dust from bacteria laden dried droppings!
@@judew.5872 You should avoid the Australian videos about the sulfur crested cockatoos hanging out in urban areas. I don't know if they carry psittacosis but there are a lot of them so they must be carrying something.
I moved to NYC a few years ago and recently my family came to visit. Everyone got multiple little hand sanitizers, lysol wipes a plenty, strict instructions on indoor and outdoor shoes, and I wouldn't let anyone sit on the bed until they changed from their outdoor (ie dirty bus/subway) clothes. They probably now think I'm insane, if I am then this city is for me 😅
@@lilbatz I’m a paramedic and used to work the streets in New Orleans. I can’t begin to tell you how many visitors I picked up wearing sandals on Bourbon Street. It hasn’t rained in days! That’s not water in the gutter! It’s used beer!
All the research regarding the other specialties must have turned you into the ophthalmologist with the biggest non-eye-related knowledge in the world!
"You should be glad I brought the doxycycline!" ROTFLMAO! Doxy is never the first-line drug for ANYTHING......but it's the second-line drug for EVERYTHING!!!!!
It's first line for stage 2 hidradenitis suppurativa. "Patients with more invasive HS may benefit from systemic antibiotics. First-line treatment is oral tetracyclines: 100 mg doxycycline once or twice daily, 100 mg minocycline once or twice daily, or tetracycline 500 mg twice daily." source: A concise clinician’s guide to therapy for hidradenitis suppurativa
I thought you were joking but it seemed a little too specific so I looked it up and YES, it really exists. The site has a searchable map that you can zoom in to find out where inspections have been done (or not) and where rats are active. Cripes! Glad I haven't been there or expect to be.
This is very tangential, but I remember the time I was on my way back to the hotel in London and saw a cat, so I tried calling to it. Then it ran away and I realized it was a fox. Possibly the most British thing I ever saw.
I have a 3 1/2 lb Chihuahua and people have teased me for years, "Are you sure they didn't say you a hamster or a rat and just _tell_ you it was a dog?" It's so unoriginal a joke that there have been urban legends about chihuahuas for years. But I never anticipated that last year she would actually get mistaken for a SQUIRREL. Evidently she slipped out somehow, and when the doorbell rang, my mother and I opened the door to a couple who explained that they spotted her when the wife said to her husband, "Aw, honey, look at that squirr- STOP THE CAR! It's a _dog_ !"
Dr., I would love to hear this to sung to 'Modern Major General' by Gilbert and Sullivan. Welcome to NY, we have diseases galore---but have you tried the bread?
I was just a lowly biology major when I visited NYC, and I didn't want to touch anything! Or smell anything! It was horrific! I'm surprised I didn't catch something.
Lol, I am a lifelong New Yorker When I was little, my mom would let me have chewing gum, so I would pick gum off the sidewalk and chew that. Which freaked my mom out. The upside is I very rarely get sick!
Every day of medical school that goes by, I learn more and more how accurate these videos actually are 😂. My classmates and I were talking about your videos at a restaurant and when we were talking about the nephrologist with the salt we discovered the guy next to us was one and he also loves your videos (and said the war with cardiologists is accurate :D). Thanks for all of the laughs!
Look, post pandemic this is me, but leaving my house. Like a panic attack if I forget to bring hand sanitiser in my purse. Think I need to book an appointment with a Feelings Bro.
I’ve seen rats steal a whole sandwich in front of the owner. They don’t play around, and after all these years riding the subway and using CBGBS restroom when it was around, my immune system is quite strong. 😅
Wow! Thank you for reminding me how, when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, the school I was in brought a very enthusiastic service member who worked in our 4 person base clinic to tell us about infectious diseases. He was my introduction to water-born parasites, nematodes (dracunculus), and the reason to this day I cant swin in fresh water lakes. So yeah. This episode was uhm... very familiar. The only difference was he was just smiling and super exciting and this doctor has just Seen Too Much and it shows. Great episode though! Absolute love it!
That reminds me of a great book called "Bellevue" by David Oshinsky. It's about Bellevue Hospital and how it has evolved to treat common symptoms as infectious diseases due to their place as a safety net hospital and the volume of patients they see on a daily basis presenting with such symptoms. The one Ebola case in NYC was at at Bellevue Hospital and the first doctor to treat Lincoln's gunshot wound was trained there too! I don't have a medical background but I thought the book was amazing! It was the first book I sat down and read excitedly in a long time!
I can't decide which is funnier: picturing the "kids" as literal children he's singlehandedly taking on a nyc trip, or like, adult medical students who are still singing three blind mice etc
Meanwhile the other chaperones are conflicted, because on one hand, potential trauma and futures as hypochondriacs for the kids, but on the other, Infectious Disease is handling the kids and is a doctor in case of an emergency. Could do an episode of a PTA meeting debating that lol. Or Internal Medicine and Ortho chaperoning a field trip together, or Nephrology and Cardiology. Oooh I bet Emergency Medicine, Dermatology and Opthamology would be a fun chaperoning combo. Or could do an episode where the doctors are doing a health presentation to the school to get out of bake sales and stuff and they're sassing each other on stage.
AND also got the kids to stop doing that stupid meme of licking everything that that dumbass Bobby started on Wednesday. Linda is still harping that she ate a sandwich that "some little miscreant slobbered over" before someone told her. The PTA meetings have been tense lately.
I studied the evolution of LCMV the virus that causes lymphocytotic chloromeningitis for my PhD. The see it mentioned outside academia in a UA-cam video is astounding. Thank you so much.
Those New York rats are really on another level. One time my friends and I turned down an alley and found ourselves in pitch-black darkness. We kept walking as we started to turn on the flashlight on our phones. The moment the lights went on... *shudders*... All we saw was a big massive wave of black shapes ripple away from our feet. We has been walking through a sea of rats without realizing it. With the lights on, we saw them EVERYWHERE, they had just been quietly staying out of our way as we walked through the valley of death lol.
Plenty of diseases out in the hinterland-eg. racoons, with baylisacaris proycyonis, rabies, etc. Varmints everywhere. Although racoons are living the life in cities, too ...
I'm very sleepy and at first interpreted this as an actual disease visiting new york with all his little disease pathogen students and somehow it still worked most of the time
A friend’s young child got Lasa fever without ever leaving the US-apparently, he was playing on some luggage that friends had brought back from Africa and that was contaminated by rat excrement. I hope his physicians wrote that case up, because how much of a zebra is that!
When I was in Infectious Diseases Rotation in Europe we were so astonished by a Patient who came in with Malaria 😂 welp… after listening to this I am more astonished by how many diseases one city can bring…
Fun part of the Plague Doctor reference is that I bought the costume mask for Halloween. I was going to wear my costume, but either 2020 or 2021, things were closed down. 🤔 However, the following year, I enjoyed dressing up as a Plague Doctor in honor of Covid! 🎭➡️😷/ 🥳🎉 Also, loved the puns! 👍 😷🙅♀️🐀🐁
"Except these mice don't run. This is their city" 😂🤣😂 I'm in PA school now on clinical rotations, and if I had more electives, I totally would do infectious disease. Just seems so interesting... and relevant. Thanks for the videos, as always!!
Having grown up in Queens and worked in Manhattan for some years, yes, it’s all true. He didn’t mention the shared subway poles of disease transmission. I love to see what a microbiologist could culture from them. Those poles make every subway rider a potential disease vector.
Cheer up chum, the more you learn about infectious diseases the more you realize you're really not all that safe anywhere these days. Any good sized city has a rat population and most have an airport too.
A lot of noise is made about it, but relative to the US intentional homicide rates in NY (S and C) are actually pretty decent: around 4.8 the state is around 35th and below US average of 6.4 (per 100000), and city has a similar rates.
The per 100,000 people murder rates are higher in Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Mississippi are all higher than New York.
Infectious Disease can not compete with me the caregiver to a husband who just had a double lung transplant last May, followed by 4 rounds of chemotherapy as they found stage 3 cancer in one of his explanted lungs post transplant, and he is a 34 year HIV+ survivor. We have to travel 860 miles every 6-8 weeks for his care (denied transplant without even an evaluation locally in MN due only to HIV status). I make sure we both wear masks literally everywhere! Constant hand washing, avoiding crowds where possible, very very careful with food, rarely eat out. Airports are the worst! I stopped hanging out the bird feeders when we moved back home (spent 5 months in Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic). I would have a heart attack before allowing him to go to NYC. By the way, he is doing amazingly well by some miracle. Despite chemo he sailed through recovery and lung function continues to improve.
"Reminds me of the time my girlfriend and I attempted a romantic bike ride through Central Park, thinking it'd be all scenic and lovely. Instead, we found ourselves in a real-life game of 'Avoid the Giant Rats' and 'Outrun the Unvaccinated.' New York, the city that turns your love story into a survival tale!
Funny thing is, the listing of very rare infections does happen nearly everyday on rounds. 😂Glad to hear the murine typhus mention, that’s actually more common these days!
As a public health communicable disease control chief, thank you 🙏 Wait til the kids find out there’s a whole other catalog for the things that use rats’ mites, ticks, fleas, and worms as hosts…
"Can someone get the weirdo talking to himself in Central Park to stop filming himself? It's upsetting the rats"
Which weirdo? Can you be more specific? It’s Central Park after all 😂
The rats like him, they probably come and beg him to tell them more about all this diseases, because they like to be the bad and tough guys that can survive the city jungle of New York.
@dr.floridamanphd the one with the weird jacket.
@@redpandamurphywhich one? 😂
@@LexYeen with the crazy looking hair.
"Do not underestimate this city's ability to murder you." God *DAYUM*
As someone who's living in the exburbs of NYC, I approve this message.
It is america after all.
Any death stats you look into are surprising and depressing for anyone who hasnt looked into them before.
And that's after they developed antibiotics. Before they'd even out figured bacterial transmission vectors New York had the highest per capita incidence of Malaria in the United States and it's territories and that was including Hawaii and the Philippines.
Perfect meme template right there!
@@silverjohn6037- if memory serves, I believe WashDC used to have lots of mosquitoes. Swampy lands? Perhaps NY too.
The background barking while running from the rat, absolute genius timing
I know that was a complete accident 😂
That doesn't sound like any rat I've ever heard. Very diverse city!
@@laurensplompenthat was Capt Meth rat
@@DGlaucomflecken ... or _was it?_
@@laurensplompen well, we have pizza rat (ua-cam.com/users/shortsUPXUG8q4jKU), we have the city hall park rats, which have learned from squirrels how to be cute and get food.
"Oh, kids we're not going down there. I don't care if the subway is how people travel in NYC. Have you seen Ninja Turtles? Led by a rat."
Still not the biggest rat in NYC, mind you.
❤😂👏🏽
@@web4639 You mean Giuliani is the biggest?
As a Manhattan resident, I can confirm there's nothing odd abt a man talking to multiple imaginary friends while filming himself
In Detroit, I wouldn't even look up from my phone.
Same for San Francisco.
I am not identifying as imaginary.
It's the same here in Cologne, Germany
NYC definitely hosts EVERY INFECTIOUS DISEASE known to humankind
You could make a song about the sicknesses rats can cause. And the best part is it wouldn’t be the first one
Oooo~ fleas on rats, fleas on rats
I remember that song. Nugent did it I think. Rat Scratch Fever 😂
For bonus points, do it to the tune of Tom Lehrer's Elements.
@@rockets4kids I LOVE that idea.
Like ring around the rosy?
"I dressed up as a plague doctor? That wasn't a costume" WRECKED.
yeah that one got me 😂
Just wait until Infectious Disease finds out about street hot dogs
Papaya dog FTW 😋
Hahaha and GI along with Psych! Might as well drag in Cardiology.
Infectious Disease does not need to put on PPE because he's already immune to every known illness. As part of his residency program.
One of the core competencies, after all
Nah, if anyone is a stickler for PPE it's infectious disease. I don't doubt their immunity but they also don't take chances.
How did Infectious Disease get sterile immunity to SARS-CoV-II?
@@wilfriedklaebethey just wake up with it when it's viral outside
It’s their superpower!
As a New Yorker, I am cackling and wheezing at Infectious Disease "enjoying" the City That Never Sleeps 🗽.
Sounds like he is ready for everything anf anything he may come across here.
😂😂😂
He's not the father we wanted, he's the father we needed.
The comment I wanted to write. Also the husband I'd like and need.
@@beatrice948
Daaaaamn girl, Beatrice
NY rats can grow to the size of cats. So, yeah, that puppy joke wasn't an exaggeration 😅
_800 pound tiger has entered the chat_
OMG! I was hoping you'd cover pigeons and psittacosis!!! Thank you! (Infectious disease epidemiologist here).
I don't work in the medical field but I've been aware of pigeons and psittacosis (parrots too) for many years, and I'm horrified when I see laughing children run through a flock of pigeons as they fly up around them, stirring up the dust from bacteria laden dried droppings!
@@judew.5872 You should avoid the Australian videos about the sulfur crested cockatoos hanging out in urban areas. I don't know if they carry psittacosis but there are a lot of them so they must be carrying something.
honey wake up, the ophthalmologist is on his 4th vacation this month
"which diseases do rats cause?"
Waltuh voice: It'd be quicker to mention the diseases they don't
I moved to NYC a few years ago and recently my family came to visit. Everyone got multiple little hand sanitizers, lysol wipes a plenty, strict instructions on indoor and outdoor shoes, and I wouldn't let anyone sit on the bed until they changed from their outdoor (ie dirty bus/subway) clothes. They probably now think I'm insane, if I am then this city is for me 😅
Yeah, it appears Sheldon was right about "bus pants"
💯 agree and practice the same.
I have the same rule for not outside clothes on the bed. Public transportation in L.A. is also, well eww.
@@kohakuaiko he really was.
Relatable. Outside clothes do _not_ go on the bed.
Closed-toed shoes on the street!
Fr???
@@kristianaquillen7931 Soooo many piles, puddles, and patches of unidentifiable and highly questionable substances.
Nah I've seen New Yorkers take the subway bare foot in the summer.
@@lilbatz I’m a paramedic and used to work the streets in New Orleans. I can’t begin to tell you how many visitors I picked up wearing sandals on Bourbon Street.
It hasn’t rained in days! That’s not water in the gutter! It’s used beer!
All the research regarding the other specialties must have turned you into the ophthalmologist with the biggest non-eye-related knowledge in the world!
I imagine they greet him at conferences like "Bruh, you only need to know about the eye teeth!"
As long as he stays away from teeth and feet, he's safe from retaliation.
Optho gives him the downtime to actually learn about other stuff. And produce these fantastic videos!
"You should be glad I brought the doxycycline!" ROTFLMAO! Doxy is never the first-line drug for ANYTHING......but it's the second-line drug for EVERYTHING!!!!!
It's the first line for tick bite. BTDT.
It's first line for stage 2 hidradenitis suppurativa. "Patients with more invasive HS may benefit from systemic antibiotics. First-line treatment is oral tetracyclines: 100 mg doxycycline once or twice daily, 100 mg minocycline once or twice daily, or tetracycline 500 mg twice daily." source: A concise clinician’s guide to therapy for hidradenitis suppurativa
In India it is recommended as a prophylactic for people who have to work outside in Rainy season.
the NYC Rat Information Portal has an interactive map. good times.
👀. 👀. 👀.
The rats have their own news channel in New York? 🙂
@@red.aries1444No...the rats have *all* the news channels, they're just kind enough to lease some of them to the silly humans.
I thought you were joking but it seemed a little too specific so I looked it up and YES, it really exists. The site has a searchable map that you can zoom in to find out where inspections have been done (or not) and where rats are active. Cripes! Glad I haven't been there or expect to be.
Rat Portal. Their free online classes are genius. Very helpful and universally applicable. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
This is very tangential, but I remember the time I was on my way back to the hotel in London and saw a cat, so I tried calling to it. Then it ran away and I realized it was a fox. Possibly the most British thing I ever saw.
Okay, now you absolutely have to look up Joe Lycett's video about a lost cat. You will see why when you get there.
@@tejaswoman That was great!
Im a NYer and the last comment about confusing a rat for a dog is sooo spot on. Hope you enjoy my city Dr. G
I have a 3 1/2 lb Chihuahua and people have teased me for years, "Are you sure they didn't say you a hamster or a rat and just _tell_ you it was a dog?" It's so unoriginal a joke that there have been urban legends about chihuahuas for years. But I never anticipated that last year she would actually get mistaken for a SQUIRREL.
Evidently she slipped out somehow, and when the doorbell rang, my mother and I opened the door to a couple who explained that they spotted her when the wife said to her husband, "Aw, honey, look at that squirr- STOP THE CAR! It's a _dog_ !"
3 million seems a drastic underestimate for the number of rats in a city like New York
I guess that depends on how many stray cats there are 😂
There might be 3 million in a single block.
I’m glad plague got a shout out. Yersinia pestis is my favorite rat vector disease.
That may be the most unexpected sentence I've ever read.
Doing this detailed research on something outside of the Orbital bone is something I command you on Sir.
commend*
"Here they don't run, this is ~their city."
Dr., I would love to hear this to sung to 'Modern Major General' by Gilbert and Sullivan. Welcome to NY, we have diseases galore---but have you tried the bread?
I thought the exact same thing! I practically had the tune playing in my head when he started listing off the diseases.
Same! It would fit so well.
I was just a lowly biology major when I visited NYC, and I didn't want to touch anything! Or smell anything! It was horrific! I'm surprised I didn't catch something.
Lol, I am a lifelong New Yorker
When I was little, my mom would let me have chewing gum, so I would pick gum off the sidewalk and chew that. Which freaked my mom out. The upside is I very rarely get sick!
New York has the Rodents of Unusual Size, do be wary
The Mayor has declared war on them. I don't think he's going to win.
And WARY
ROUSes ? I'm not convinced they exist. (as a NYer anything smaller than a cat is just usual size )
@@Joy21090 oops
I just love the idea of people walking by hearing him rant about all the diseases rats carry. They now live in constant fear! 😅
Another classic. Thanks for stimulating my smile during a Wednesday in family practice sameday clinic.
In the Bronx a cat jumped out of the apartment window to escape when a giant rat appeared. 1:45
Every day of medical school that goes by, I learn more and more how accurate these videos actually are 😂. My classmates and I were talking about your videos at a restaurant and when we were talking about the nephrologist with the salt we discovered the guy next to us was one and he also loves your videos (and said the war with cardiologists is accurate :D). Thanks for all of the laughs!
Soooo excellent! I spent 35 years at HHS (NIH & FDA) & this was just perfect!
Upon reading the title: "This will not go well."
Flashbacks to my graduate school Parasitology, Medical Microbiology, and Clinical Immunology courses...lol!
The answer often was doxycycline.
Look, post pandemic this is me, but leaving my house. Like a panic attack if I forget to bring hand sanitiser in my purse. Think I need to book an appointment with a Feelings Bro.
Literally thinking of Hantavirus when you mentioned the diseases rodents carry! I audibly yelled YES as I was watching
Poor man spent so much time on the rats he missed out on recounting all the different ways the hot dogs can kill you.
NYC street food are just detox opportunities.
Thanks for mentioning hantavirus. Although I live in California now, I know everything is possible in NYC.
I’ve seen rats steal a whole sandwich in front of the owner. They don’t play around, and after all these years riding the subway and using CBGBS restroom when it was around, my immune system is quite strong. 😅
If you licked the floor at CBGB, you have total immunity against ANYTHING XD
@@lilbatz truth!!!!
Wow! Thank you for reminding me how, when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, the school I was in brought a very enthusiastic service member who worked in our 4 person base clinic to tell us about infectious diseases. He was my introduction to water-born parasites, nematodes (dracunculus), and the reason to this day I cant swin in fresh water lakes. So yeah. This episode was uhm... very familiar. The only difference was he was just smiling and super exciting and this doctor has just Seen Too Much and it shows. Great episode though! Absolute love it!
Infectious Disease would likely be somewhat comforted by the long list of vaccines everyone has to get to go to public school.
Except the adult illegals pouring in don't have to have ANY vaccines or screening.
Unless you're illegal.
Yeah, but what about the private ones?
@@bemusedbandersnatch2069 Most require a bunch of vaccines too, except for the religiously-affiliated ones, which are few and far between.
@@nyssfairchild2244 considering that measles outbreak a few years back, not few enough
That reminds me of a great book called "Bellevue" by David Oshinsky. It's about Bellevue Hospital and how it has evolved to treat common symptoms as infectious diseases due to their place as a safety net hospital and the volume of patients they see on a daily basis presenting with such symptoms. The one Ebola case in NYC was at at Bellevue Hospital and the first doctor to treat Lincoln's gunshot wound was trained there too! I don't have a medical background but I thought the book was amazing! It was the first book I sat down and read excitedly in a long time!
Toxoplasmosis from the pigeons too; yeah get replay close to feed them, they look so cute! And as you do that take deep breaths!
I can't decide which is funnier: picturing the "kids" as literal children he's singlehandedly taking on a nyc trip, or like, adult medical students who are still singing three blind mice etc
The plaque with leptospirosis, classic 👏👏
Meanwhile the other chaperones are conflicted, because on one hand, potential trauma and futures as hypochondriacs for the kids, but on the other, Infectious Disease is handling the kids and is a doctor in case of an emergency.
Could do an episode of a PTA meeting debating that lol.
Or Internal Medicine and Ortho chaperoning a field trip together, or Nephrology and Cardiology. Oooh I bet Emergency Medicine, Dermatology and Opthamology would be a fun chaperoning combo.
Or could do an episode where the doctors are doing a health presentation to the school to get out of bake sales and stuff and they're sassing each other on stage.
😂😂😂 Love the ideas!
AND also got the kids to stop doing that stupid meme of licking everything that that dumbass Bobby started on Wednesday. Linda is still harping that she ate a sandwich that "some little miscreant slobbered over" before someone told her. The PTA meetings have been tense lately.
I'm outside of Portland ME. No baked goods allowed. Only bakery and grocery store prepackaged. At least in elementary.
😂
Kind of like my Dr dad in the Sixties in big cities. Oh yeah, we learned!! Tetracycline was the standby then.
You look so handsome with all those tones of grey! Love the stylish!
I studied the evolution of LCMV the virus that causes lymphocytotic chloromeningitis for my PhD. The see it mentioned outside academia in a UA-cam video is astounding. Thank you so much.
That sounds like a cool dissertation. Any chance you can share the cliffnotes version?
perhaps autocorrect, it reads "chloro"
Time to re-watch that 1983 Peter Weller classic "Of Unknown Origin"
Those New York rats are really on another level. One time my friends and I turned down an alley and found ourselves in pitch-black darkness. We kept walking as we started to turn on the flashlight on our phones. The moment the lights went on... *shudders*... All we saw was a big massive wave of black shapes ripple away from our feet. We has been walking through a sea of rats without realizing it. With the lights on, we saw them EVERYWHERE, they had just been quietly staying out of our way as we walked through the valley of death lol.
Thank you for reminding me of the dangers of not sleeping. It is 5 AM and I haven't slept yet.
😢
"These Mice don't run...this is their city" 😂
I just came back from NYC and now my butt is being kicked by influenza A. 😭 Listen to infectious disease, kids.
Plenty of diseases out in the hinterland-eg. racoons, with baylisacaris proycyonis, rabies, etc. Varmints everywhere. Although racoons are living the life in cities, too ...
The delivery is hard on these. Thanks for looking so much like John Lennon! -Your fan
I'm very sleepy and at first interpreted this as an actual disease visiting new york with all his little disease pathogen students and somehow it still worked most of the time
A friend’s young child got Lasa fever without ever leaving the US-apparently, he was playing on some luggage that friends had brought back from Africa and that was contaminated by rat excrement. I hope his physicians wrote that case up, because how much of a zebra is that!
“You guys are lucky I brought doxycycline on this trip.” DEAD 😂😂😂
As a New Yorker who literally just got out of the ER due to the latest infectious virus that mugged me, I approve this video...
Hope you’re having a good time in NYC, Doc.
Don't forget Spirillum minus and rat-bite fever....always my favorite from Clinical Microbiology!
I’m now starting to think that Doc Glauc bought his own copy of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine just for his skits lol
When I was in Infectious Diseases Rotation in Europe we were so astonished by a Patient who came in with Malaria 😂 welp… after listening to this I am more astonished by how many diseases one city can bring…
What i learned here is
Rats - deadly
NY rats - next level deadly
Fun part of the Plague Doctor reference is that I bought the costume mask for Halloween.
I was going to wear my costume, but either 2020 or 2021, things were closed down. 🤔
However, the following year, I enjoyed dressing up as a Plague Doctor in honor of Covid! 🎭➡️😷/ 🥳🎉
Also, loved the puns! 👍 😷🙅♀️🐀🐁
I love informing drs that they need their NYS Infectious Diseases certification
I know it’s their favorite too
"These mice don't run. This is their city." DARN RIGHT. 🐀🖖
"Except these mice don't run. This is their city" 😂🤣😂
I'm in PA school now on clinical rotations, and if I had more electives, I totally would do infectious disease. Just seems so interesting... and relevant.
Thanks for the videos, as always!!
Having grown up in Queens and worked in Manhattan for some years, yes, it’s all true. He didn’t mention the shared subway poles of disease transmission. I love to see what a microbiologist could culture from them. Those poles make every subway rider a potential disease vector.
I think Bubble Boy was clearly on to something. “It’s MOOPS”. Still makes me laugh. 😂
I might be going to New York this year so this was very helpful, thank you
Evolution works a little differently here😂
Dr. Glaucomflecken wouldn’t last 2 seconds in New Orleans during Mardi Gras 🤣
3 million rats in NYC, lol. Forget whatever study said that, there are 3M in a subway tunnel alone.
So much for my bucket list visit to NYC! Thanks Dr. G for the heads up! 🐀🐿🦇🕊🐦🔥🐲🐜🕷🪳🦟🪰🪱🦠🦠🦠🦠
Cheer up chum, the more you learn about infectious diseases the more you realize you're really not all that safe anywhere these days. Any good sized city has a rat population and most have an airport too.
0:20 umm, whilst Polio sure is worrying, I don’t quite think of that when I think of New York and murder
That's how they trick you....
A lot of noise is made about it, but relative to the US intentional homicide rates in NY (S and C) are actually pretty decent: around 4.8 the state is around 35th and below US average of 6.4 (per 100000), and city has a similar rates.
The per 100,000 people murder rates are higher in Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Mississippi are all higher than New York.
@@Bob-nc5hzfunny. Most of the Europe is under 1. What do you do there in USA?
@@Morfeusmmurder is our #1 export.
I need Infectious Disease to meet Pharmacy with his constant use of doxycycline 😂
As a native New Yorker, I gotta say you got it absolutely right!
It’s really Jurassic Park for the rats alone - Central Park just sounds better.
2 decades ago, New York had a rabies outbreak. A raccoon was smuggled in and released in Central Park
As a New Yorker, I approve of this message.
All small dogs are large rats. The ones in NYC have bigger teeth.
Infectious Disease can not compete with me the caregiver to a husband who just had a double lung transplant last May, followed by 4 rounds of chemotherapy as they found stage 3 cancer in one of his explanted lungs post transplant, and he is a 34 year HIV+ survivor. We have to travel 860 miles every 6-8 weeks for his care (denied transplant without even an evaluation locally in MN due only to HIV status). I make sure we both wear masks literally everywhere! Constant hand washing, avoiding crowds where possible, very very careful with food, rarely eat out. Airports are the worst! I stopped hanging out the bird feeders when we moved back home (spent 5 months in Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic). I would have a heart attack before allowing him to go to NYC. By the way, he is doing amazingly well by some miracle. Despite chemo he sailed through recovery and lung function continues to improve.
Wow so much vigilance to keep him safe. I am glad he is doing well.
Best wishes to you both!
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Best wishes for you and your husband. ❤
"Reminds me of the time my girlfriend and I attempted a romantic bike ride through Central Park, thinking it'd be all scenic and lovely. Instead, we found ourselves in a real-life game of 'Avoid the Giant Rats' and 'Outrun the Unvaccinated.' New York, the city that turns your love story into a survival tale!
Funny thing is, the listing of very rare infections does happen nearly everyday on rounds. 😂Glad to hear the murine typhus mention, that’s actually more common these days!
Wouldn't it be a bad idea to take doxy for the trip, incase it promotes the develoment of resistant strains?
"Are you're singing Three Blind Mice?
Heh. Except these mice don't run.
...This is THEIR city." 😂😂😂
I recognize a surprising number of those rat-borne infectious diseases.
You uttered the word "polio" and now I need a Glaucomflecken/ Jarrod Benson crossover.
See that dog… oh that’s a rat
My main question is "Why was he looking up?"
Best part of my trip to NYC was the hard hat tour at the Ellis Island infectious disease hospital
"Well, I made a powerpoint for later, but I guess we can go through it now" 🤣🤣🤣
The fact that you never saw the rat(s) you were scoping for, is too funny.
As a public health communicable disease control chief, thank you 🙏 Wait til the kids find out there’s a whole other catalog for the things that use rats’ mites, ticks, fleas, and worms as hosts…
It¨s a good thing his children can show this video to their therapist to explain the root of their anxiety
Hey, don’t forget about us here in LA!!
I’ve lived here for 28 years and never once come down with hantavirus or leptospirosis….yet.
I called the scribe at my moms' retina docs appointment, and dude *lost it*