The worst part of practicing rural medicine is when you get a bag of wheat, a chicken and a fox and you need to figure out how to get all of those things to your house
Greek doctor here. One of our health system peculiarities is that upon finishing medical school (and usually before residency, but it varies), you are required to do a year of "rural service" in a village or a group of villages as the local state-paid GP. My posting was OK, but the everyday immersion in such close knit communities was priceless. Within a month, I knew all the gossip in the village (old folks love to talk). I frequently received "gifts" for services rendered in the form of eggs, fresh vegetables, pies, etc. Initially, i tried to decline them because I was still wet behind the ears, until my nurse advised me that it would be considered an insult to not accept them. Long story short, my mother was very sad when I finished my year, because she got used to fresh village eggs!
We peruvian doctors have the same system. It's called the SERUMS and we laso have to go to the countryside or very poor areas to work for a year. I loved the apples the old folks brought as a gift or the cheese ! The cheese was excelent paired with the bread they made!
My mother is a physiotherapist and we don't even live in a rural area and her patients literally bring her meat and stuff as gifts. One time a patient of her literally have her halg a goat. It was quite tasty This is also from Greece
"I mean, I got the time, I got the crane and the welding gear, and I have plenty of extra siding from when I tore down that warehouse outside town...I'll be back in a couple of days to throw on a coat of paint." That's half my family tree.
I casually told one of my patients (ag farmer) that I loved sweet corn. One month later, there was a 45lb box filled to the brim with hand-picked sweet corn from his field dropped off at the front desk of my office. Also the call schedule bit is 100% accurate.
This just makes me want a "small town girl goes to the big city" type crossover where rural medicine works in a big city hospital. He's terrified at the poor quality food the patients get, is drowning in the whirlwind of constantly changing staff he's unfamiliar with, gets lost bc the building is so big, and goes out to drinks with family medicine at the end of the day, the one he most closely relates to.
They made that show about 20 years ago. It was just called "Doc," and it starred Billy Ray Cyrus (i.e. the guy who sang Achy-Breaky Heart, and who is Miley Cyrus's dad).
At some point Texaco Mike shows up on the airboat to bring a farmer to see him on the basis that the farmer stopped working to see the doctor. How Texaco Mike navigated the airboat through a city to get there is unclear but the farmer who was declared legally dead by the big city doctors half an hour ago jumpstarts himself with cables from the airboat and grumbles that he has a crop to harvest. Rural convinces him to let the big city doctors put in a pacemaker because it's already happened three times and he doesn't have time for any more dirt naps this time of year. The farmer asks Rural how the livestock he gifted the last time is doing, much to the chagrin of the other doctors operating in his chest cavity at the time. Later in the film a crisis that will require many doctors occurs but when they arrive Rural has already resolved it by himself because "it needed doing" and he had all this free time from having all the other doctors around to swing over there on the airboat. Again how Texaco Mike navigated an airboat there is unclear but it's much faster than everyone else, and they airboat off into the sunset to go back home.
Jokes aside, usually payments in kind are indeed considered to be a form of taxable income (by the IRS, for example). Iirc the tax is calculated taking the 'fair market value' of the goods or services received.
@@pascalausensi9592 They're gifts of gratitude for the doctor's charity work. I'd say the doctor should be writing off all these patients as charity to offset any income paid in cash.
Yep. Once saw someone being 4 huge cases of eggs to a physical therapist. I once paid a veterinarian by baking enough cupcakes for an entire fundraiser, and one of our local doctors ended up a beekeeper because a beekeeper patient paid him in honey for gallbladder removal and then gifted him a whole hive after a bout of kidney stones that required surgery.
We had a neurosurgeon who was gifted a half side of beef from a rural rancher. This was in the 1980s. Of course everyone laughed like hell. That was until he told us it was the best meat he ever had in his life. Said the sausages were phenomenal. You know the best calf was selected and fed primo stuff for that guy.
@@lilbatz I've raised cattle and grew crops my entire life. A little known trick that us smarter farmers keep in our back pocket is to plan ahead and designate certain animals and certain vegetables to be apart of the "gift" pile. I usually plan ahead and specifically put my best looking vegetables aside to give as gifts but I also keep an eye out on my heard for which animals I think would make the best cuts with. I'll steadily feed a handful of my cows the "good stuff" that way when I have an opportunity to give someone a gift of beef I know they'll be getting the best of what I have to offer. A person's generosity really is a true measurement of the quality of that person, especially in rural areas. Plus... I know that people I gift some of my meats and crops to will be talking to everyone in town about how good it all was, which is a bonus feature to my generosity. It really helps me keep the other farmers in line around here. I might be the best farmer this world has EVER SEEN. I am the pinnacle of mankind's ingenuity and efficiency and I genuinely might be the most powerful farmer this world has ever known, sincerely.
@@thomasmitchell4128 Ah of course, Mr. Mitchell - What an honor, your exploits have been legendary. I have heard tales of your superior livestock and supreme produce halfway across the world. I would offer you my life's savings in exchange for a single ear of corn from your next harvest.
I once asked my dad why there were so many old chairs in odd places around my grandparents' house. He explained that when you are the only lawyer around in the rural south during the Great Depression and WWII, you often get paid in kind. Some of those payments were handmade chairs, apparently.
The heart attack bit got me laughing. My dairy farmer grandfather was scooping snow years ago, had a minor heart attack so he sat down on the step for a while till he felt better, then got up and kept going. They discovered it months later.
Man people of that age/generation were just built different. My grandfather was a longshoreman and he had several heart attacks over the course of his life. never got any treatment for them and he ended up being fine.
A woman that lived next to my grandmother, never saw a doctor in her life until ~ 83 when she needed 2 hip replacements. She did gardening, had some chickens, bunnies and earkier some goats , she killed and cooked herself. She ate the fattest meat, intestines and all and did garden work for other people 15 years younger , cutting down trees way up until in her 70 ies , riding her bike with a skirt and no long underwear , leggings etc in - 5 degrees, rain or 40 degrees sunshine, she even rode her bike on a highway for 20 miles to get to a job - once we saw her passing by car and my jaw almost hit the floor... After her double hip replacement , she was on her bike 5 weeks after I swear ! Good bless her. She was quite a character , no husband, alcoholic son who built his house on half her ground , but never cared for her. SHE OUTLIVED HIM 30 YEARS ! These people don't exist anymore. My grandmother lost her mother aged 15 , she was watching as they were pressing down on something, cutting up something and her arm was caught.... maybe 1930 ? Well she went to be a maid as soon as she could and married the first good looking soldier she met. Big mistake . Lost an arm , became a violent alcoholic, four generations of unspoken trauma later I was born and decided to blow the lid off by starving to death age 14 . Still here decades later , but don't ask what it costed. I still don't know if it was worth it. And that is why mankind is doomed. Look at all the generations of trauma we created in 91 , 2001, 1995, 1997, and still now in Africa, Europe , EVERYWHERE !
So familiar. My mom had a heart attack while we we were working together out at the barn. She sat down for a while, taking a break from moving livestock. I tried to get her to go to the hospital because a farmer taking a break is a *BAD SIGN*. I knew it was serious because she never stopped -- but she insisted it was just gas or something and would pass, and there was nothing I could do to convince her. We found out months later, also, during a stress test.
@@iamsneakyfoxx1284 my grandfather chopped a piece of his finger off when he was young, dipped it in kerosene, took it into town, and had it stitched back on. Still has it. The same man went on hospice due to congestive heart failure with no more than six months to live. That was 3 years ago. They took him off hospice after half a year, and he's still going.
I still live in one, and being the only child of my mom local, we'll both combine errands and go for the day together. She still does this, so much lol. Recently we both got our cars done at the local shop, and she told him she'd bring down muffins later as a tip. She did.
@@BT-ex7ko I offered my pharmacist who went WAY Above and Beyond this week cookies, any G-rated favors. He saved us, and it wasn't the first time. I love all our care providers.
Back when I was in dental school(literally months ago, not as ancient as it sounds), I was in my native country, and the public sector where we practiced had a lot of patients from rural communities. Most had insurance, but they and even those who paid would give us rural gifts like this because they were so grateful, particularly if you were generous to them. This one patient brought me dates from a different state on our last appointment. I gave most of them away but stuck some in the fridge since I felt guilty about giving away a gift. They were there for months(dates last a long time) since I didn't really eat dates, then one day during a vacation I had some out of a mixture of boredom and feeling peckish. Best things I had had in a long time
"I dunno, he just said it needed doing" killed me. While I'm not in medicine, I did grow up in a farming community and that's so, so accurate. Also, I wanna see Rural meet everyone else someday ngl.
5 decades ago I worked for the big city doctor but everything around was rural. He got 3 feeder pigs for a delivery. A brick wall at his home layed( he bought the bricks) the walls painted, carpet layed, plus country hams vegetables etc. His father had been a country doc & he understood sometimes that was all people had. He would tell them pay the hospitals what they could( back before for profit & private equity) The farmers,laborers would show up on Sunday afternoons or when they finished their work to see if anything needed to be done. A machinist made a steel table out of scrap metal. He always said thank you.
This is so accurate. I ve practiced rural medicine for 4 years now. I do everything from surgery to taking deliveries, splinting fracture, preterm care and even control anaesthesia at surgery. Recently I was paid with palmwine and towels😄😀
For some it might not seem as glamorous as the big city doctors but as a 20+year ER/ICU nurse in big teaching hospitals, I honestly think about going back to a rural setting. It seems care in large urban settings is so fractured,everyone is stressed out, and the money never seems enough for being overwhelmed by the profit driven system. I admire you for what you are doing. God Bless you
This is unironically motivational, "in the end, I'm all these people got, so we just make it work." It's statements like these that shines a light on the HCW's who put their heart into caring for people regardless of the situation. It also shines a brighter light on the problems of healthcare in the States. Also this **** is hilarious. Thanks Dr. G, from a HCW.
As a daughter of a family medicine doc back in the day this is 100% true. These payments stand out in my mind- 3 bushels of apples one fall from the old guy with the orchard, 2 dressed frozen rabbits & a quart of honey with comb, and lastly half a cows worth of frozen butchered meat for pregnancy, labor & delivery. As one of 5 kids the food was greatly appreciated!
My Great Grandfather was the town dentist (in partnership with his best friend. they married each other's sisters, but that's another story...) for a small town in northern Minnesota during the Great Depression, and many of their patients paid in eggs and chickens. My grandmother said that growing up that even when money was tight, they always had a chicken dinner on Sundays.
@@snsnplpl 😂 We have a good idea what she looked like. Niles brought a greyhound to Frasier's . Fraserburgh teased Niles that he had picked a dog that looked just like his wife. Niles was offended. Frasier put a ladies hat on the dog's head and Niles was shocked when he realised it was true.
I still have a hand forged and stamped carpenter’s square that a patient of my grandfather’s made for him. The guy was a blacksmith and carpenter and his wife was chronically ill. Grampy hired him to build a camp up on the mountain and got some furniture as well. He also let a lot of bills just slide. This was in upstate NY in the 1930s-1950s.
@@jgw9990 Not sure how you figure that. The rural doctors I've known were booked solid every day, before the urgent care squeeze-ins and actual emergencies. Add in the after-hours calls, too. You can't just send them to the local Doc-in-a-Box or ER when they don't exist.
When I worked as a paramedic in small towns, we were given food as appreciation. The best homemade pies, cobblers, farm fresh foods ever. Theyd also invite you over to house and cook big meals, I LOVED IT
I used to have a doctor who did some things for his patients that some might consider to be questionable. In both of his examining rooms he had large metal cabinets. They were about 6' high, 4' wide, and 2' deep. Both of them had locks on them and they were always locked unless the Doc was in the room. Now I have always been fortunate and always had prescription insurance of one kind or another so I never needed any help with that. But one day he forgot that and after examining me he opened up the cabinet in front of me to get me something from inside. I was amazed. He had a damn pharmacy in there. Literally dozens of different drugs and plenty of each type. I asked how he acquired all those pills and potions and did he pay for them out of pocket. He told me no, he did not pay for them. Instead, whenever a Pharma salesman came to his offices he would hit them for lots of free samples of everything they had. The salesmen knew he was giving those samples out to people who could not afford medications but they also knew the more samples he received the more he would prescribe their products to those who insurance or Government coverage like I did. Later, in conversation with one of his nurses, I found out he also had two refrigerators in a backroom to store more samples that required refrigeration. She also told me that pensioners would not likely ever get those samples nor would people on social assistance since their pharma bills were covered by the Government. People who had coverage through work never received any either. So who got those samples? Well, it was the working poor. People who struggled everyday at low paying jobs where a $20.00 prescription might break the bank for them. She also told me that most Pharma companies have programs to assist those who cannot afford their long term medications like insulin. Some of those companies would literally hand out their products for as little as 10% of their over the counter pricing from a pharmacist in a drug store. There were also Government programs that did much the same thing. If this was the case, the Doc had all the forms required to apply and would have his nurses help his patients fill those forms out after their visit to see him. Dr. Mike became one of my everyday heroes that day. He did his very best for his patients and tried to make sure, even if he bent the rules a little, that each and everyone of them got the meds they needed to help with their ailments. Mike finally retired when he was 72 but his Grandson and Granddaughter took over the practice and they continue to do things as he had. Mike a practiced medicine in the most compassionate way the could and his legacy carries on today. Wouldn't it be great if some other Doctors were to emulate this everyday hero instead of just chasing the buck?
Many years ago I was the working poor who benefited from exactly those kind of samples at the docs. In Canada health care was available and free but drugs were so expensive.
In Malaysia, some rural area parents give gratitude to their children's teachers almost same way. Especially fruit season, they will be overwhelmed by king of fruit : Durian.
@@WarriorKalia depends on what side you are no, it is a bless for the lover and curse for the not lover (I wouldn't say haters it just someone cannot compromise the smell which make they can't eat it) .
My grandfather was a rural doctor in Mexico back in the 50's and 60's (ortho specialist) and this is so very true. My mom and my grandmother used to tell me how people would pay him with animals, fruits and vegetables, eggs, milk and everything. Sometimes they did not even had to go buy stuff for the week.
Phils. Whenni was a kid, We were from a more rural area and we go to the "big" city for our family doctor. If it was just a small thing, he wouldnt even charge us coz he had so many patients from far towns. A friend brought up that we would end up spending more sometimes coz we felt we had to give our doc something in goods like fruit during harvest for the kindness. The cost wasnt the point. It was gratitude and responding with kindness. It felt comforting to have that level of community with our doctor. Even when i got older, and id had other regular doctors... i sometimes went to him even though he mainly deals with younger patients.
I’m not gonna lie this type of lifestyle actually really speaks to me. I’ve been in hospital medicine for about 7 to 8 years now and this seems like a very refreshing change of pace. I think I might look into move somewhere in Vermont.
Grew up in Northern Wyoming and this is spot on. My dad would get paid in cords of wood, horses, and cattle. My bother is a GP in Montana, the tradition is still alive. It may be a bit unconventional but it’s how true rural, remote communities survive. No one is left behind, and in the end it all balances out. A pure, rewarding way of life.
I grew up in the countryside where my mom used to work in a cottage hospital, this is true! Patients used to give us fresh vegetables or chicken eggs. Even to these days, even tho we’ve moved to the city and my mother works elsewhere, we still get visits from ex-patients and yup, our house never runs out of eggs!
Last time one of my friends went to the doc, he was unsure if he'd be a double amputee (luckily, both limbs were saved) Aside from not being able to say you don't need it and stuff where a rag and the extra wide ducttape isnt enough, people in pretty much any rural area don't visit a doctor. i'm talking as an european on this, the hospital stay and sewing 2 limbs back on cost my buddy a whole $850, $400 of which was from upgrading the material of the bone-holding metal thingies.
I had a heart surgeon take a whole processed pig in trade. The value of the processed pig was the same as his fee. And I was in a midsized city. But he was from the same small town as the pig farmer. It worked great for the OR heart team. He gave us most of the pig.
So true. It's so heartening to see the rural folk giving value for the services you've provided, in their own way. My own grandfather was a General Practioner in a small town in India, and very often, people would bring him their fresh produce, confectioneries or something special from their suburb / village to show their appreciation, many times over and above the modest fees for consultation.
I can attest to this. My grandfather was a rural lawyer and back in the day, he was paid in a similar manner. My mom said they always had fresh produce.
@@cathylutz7288 Actually it was the dentist. And the med student asked if he was a pharmacist for people or animals, and Rural asked if he thought they had 2 pharmacists. =) (I love this series!)
Love this! I once bartered a paint sprayer and some .22 ammo for a beat up farm truck. Thing was awesome. Lasted 9 months. Literally drove it into the ground.
Call Schedule for the Next Year: “Me” Had me literally laughing out loud. You do such a great job with visual humor. Thanks- nice to see medical humor so well done.
this video makes me genuinely happy. its so wholesome. I would love to live in a community like this where everyone just helps out. as long as there were ways to help people who were not able to work or make as much to barter. sounds like a utopia
I'm a rural doctor. That's video is so true! I love my job and I swear, that's why I will never ever work in a big city! Greetings from rural Poland, Europe.
A bottle of wine for breast ultrasound is a nice gift 🤭 Home made frozen dumplings for treating an abscess. 10 L of apple juice for consulting a grandmas Alzheimer. Embroidered banner for diagnosing cancer.
I went to med school in Arkansas. This is 100% accurate. I lived off of the food brought by patients. Lots of delicious deer steak, eggs, and fresh produce.
My dad isn't a doctor, but he works at a hospital's office. There was one time where he found out by the nurses that there was a patient that needed blood donations of a specific blood type, and coincidentally my dad was a match to his type. Sadly, the patient didn't make it, but the man's wife appreciated my dad's donation so much she invited us (my dad, mom, brother and me) to have dinner at her house. It turns out she and her family live WAY deep in a rural area. It was the best food I've ever had.
I frikken ❤️ this bit. There is apparently a doctor who does this in a rougher part of town near me who will do this to demonstrate that while he will always take care of his patients, it's with the understanding that his time isn't free even if it's just a can of beans 🤗 Whatta guy. 💕
Youre acting has been steadily improving. Kudos on the effort; I'm really appreciating it! I hope you're all doing well over there behind the camera too.
I'm from the country and can 100% verify this is what some people did. It's a good plan to have differing crops and farm animals than your neighbors so you always have something to barter that they don't 👍
Sounds about right! Though I live in a rural state, I've never been a farm kid. Sometimes bartering works in other areas, too (sadly, I have never had anything to barter with). The guy doing the siding because it needs doing is spot on!
This makes me miss my old job. After I graduated from university I was a nanny for a rural GP. We're Canadian, so no bartering, but he would bring home THE BEST baked good and jams from his patients, plus things like veggies (soooo many tomatoes!) and farm fresh eggs.
Absolutely love these videos. Beautiful - 'it needed doin' is exactly how chores work rurally haha. I wonder, will we ever see the opposite of rural family medicine? The sub-sub-sub-specialized academic surgeon scientist md phd phd, who actually gets paid in prestige instead of money or chickens?
One of the docs I worked with was paid with the patients Toyota Camry. The doc then drove that car for years so he could tell the story. Lots of rural areas in Oklahoma
Watching videos like this one is priceless. I’m a doctor, until last December I lived in Russia, now I’m in Uzbekistan, where I was born. Two very different countries, both are even more different from the US. But when I watched this video, I thought to myself that in the core people all over the world are the same - a feeling that I have veeery rarely. It always feels like the western world is distant both geographically and culturally, and the only thing we have in common is 46 chromosomes in our genome. Turns out that rural life there and here has more similarities than urban and rural life in the same region. You kinda understand that with your mind but it’s every time a discovery due to videos like this one. And for some time you keep in your mind true meaning of the word “humanity”. Priceless. Thank you.
I think in order to be a rural Dr it has to be a calling, a true drive to be of service. My family Dr had a resident with her for a time and she was shocked when he left at 4. She explained that was when they were needed the most and he said "not my problem they should have come in earlier, I'm going to the gym." That guy would never make it as a rural Dr. He just saw medicine as a 9-4 well paying job.
Lol, wow, that’s so sad. Should’ve gone into a corporate desk job instead! I feel like his mentality is not a good one to have in any of the “helping” professions. While setting healthy boundaries and not stretching oneself too thin is also important, crises won’t always happen between the hours of 9-5, Monday-Friday.
He wasn't a rural Dr. But I was in a BAD semi crash. When the Helicopter landed at Uof L in Louisville. He said we might have to amputate that right leg. I said how'd I drive a truck he said well there is a procedure I've heard of but never done on a leg this bad. The lower leg had compound fractures the thigh was crushed six inches. I was in surgery 12 hrs icu in a drug induced coma for 5 days. Praise God and thank the Dr. It was a success. I got a steel rod and screws from hip to knee and knee to ankle they pieced the thigh bone like a puzzle around the rod. Took 7 months to learn how to walk again. Hurt my knee about 10 yrs later got an x-ray the x-ray tech freeked out. Said your getting a consult. The consult was with a Dr who was a resident who made rounds with that Dr. They'd come in every morning. the Dr would say how's our miracle this morning. That was Feb. 2000. Been driving truck ever since.
@@of.course That isn't 'having a healthy work-life balance'. That's having no sense of duty, or hell, compassion - I'm in no way a doctor and if someone woke me up at 3 AM saying I was needed to hold down a patient, you better believe I'd be there.
It's like when the local small engine mechanic told me I should have brought my broken rototiller in during winter- it wasn't broken then as i wasn't using it, helllooo
I came from a town of 600 and people and this is spot on, my grand father was the only pharmacist for 2,000 sq miles and he got paid in all sorts of things like prehistoric fish fossils to a worn down boat and trailer because people had no other way to pay.
Hahaha great vid! This is true for rural veterinarians too! One client painted me a sign. Another was bored waiting for his turn and started snow plowing the driveway! :)
These gifts of kindness are 110% better than reading Press Ganey scores… they actually mean something and likely motivate one to keep going, unlike the PG scores which only exist to suck out one’s soul.
I am a 1st year medical student and we are being trained to be a rural doctor. Can't wait to actually be in the community, heard lots of great experiences
This reminds me of when I was pursuing veterinary medicine and I was researching different specialties rates. Most resources were like, "large animal vets get paid the least... unless you like services and unusual gifts in exchange for your services. The lawn needs to be mowed and the clinic needs to be painted anyway, right? Good, because Holly's dad can't pay for her teeth floating but he's got a great work ethic."
The last one is accurate af when it comes to us rural people, one time i felt so ashamed i was just sitting there with my sprained leg that i mucked out stalls while using a pitchfork as a crutch/cane
My father was a small town family doctor who began practicing medicine in the 50s. At that time family doctors delivered babies, set bones, did surgery, and made house calls. We always had people bringing vegetables,, pies and other stuff around to our house. Only years later did I found out that dad, who did not charge them if they could not afford to pay, was accepting their gifts as payment. Rest in peace Dad, they don’t make them like you anymore.
Loving the rural skits man ...it's true mostly we don't have insurance but we do have moonshine and if ya don't respond soon enough when we reach out "we will say to hell wit it"😆
Same with being a lawyer in a rural community! I just started out but one of my clients is a neighbor who didn't have enough money to finish the case so they sent over a crate full of corn. Cool stuff.
This was my father-in-law - a family medicine doc in private practice in central WI. He was given vegetables, eggs, whatever for payment sometimes. Definitely didn't live a life of luxury! He had to give up delivering babies because of the insane cost of malpractice insurance, then was pushed into retirement by big insurance who would not contract with him because he wasn't part of the group practice in town (and didn't want to be).
Back when i was in that (not so) rural place :") - some patients gave me fruit from their yard, or things they made (like steamed banana, etc) It was somewhat touching. Now im moving to another place with my husband, work in the city, but those memories from that rural area warm my heart 😊
Me too!!! I grew up in a small, resort town on Lake Michigan (population 1,200) and moved to San Francisco 12+ years ago. While I love my job and I’m able to really make a difference in my clients’ lives here (I’m an addiction counselor), I keep feeling this pull back to Northern Michigan. I know I’d probably be able to find work there because of the opioid epidemic, and my license could be transferred from state to state but I am still worried about moving back. Edit: words
The rural barter system is how Texico Mike ended up with an MRI
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@@AaronGeller totally!
It all started with one of those reflex hammer things
Just imagine some random farmer finding a MRI in their bushes to trade away for rash medicine
The worst part of practicing rural medicine is when you get a bag of wheat, a chicken and a fox and you need to figure out how to get all of those things to your house
You mean across the river to your house?
Ok, i hv heard this puzzle somewhere? 😂
@@AP-nj1mr Chicken first, empty back, fox, chicken back, seeds, empty back, chicken XD (I'm not sure if chickens eat wheat though lol)
@@doodle606 a goat lettuce and a wolf ;)
First eat the chicken …
Then probably it gets easier…
Greek doctor here. One of our health system peculiarities is that upon finishing medical school (and usually before residency, but it varies), you are required to do a year of "rural service" in a village or a group of villages as the local state-paid GP. My posting was OK, but the everyday immersion in such close knit communities was priceless. Within a month, I knew all the gossip in the village (old folks love to talk). I frequently received "gifts" for services rendered in the form of eggs, fresh vegetables, pies, etc. Initially, i tried to decline them because I was still wet behind the ears, until my nurse advised me that it would be considered an insult to not accept them. Long story short, my mother was very sad when I finished my year, because she got used to fresh village eggs!
Τα πιο ζουμερά κουτσομπολιά και τις πιο ζουμερές κότες τις έχει πάντα το χωριό.
I'm from India and we have one year compulsory rural service as well, it was awesome!
We peruvian doctors have the same system. It's called the SERUMS and we laso have to go to the countryside or very poor areas to work for a year. I loved the apples the old folks brought as a gift or the cheese ! The cheese was excelent paired with the bread they made!
My mother is a physiotherapist and we don't even live in a rural area and her patients literally bring her meat and stuff as gifts. One time a patient of her literally have her halg a goat. It was quite tasty
This is also from Greece
So they fix the lack of medical professionals in rural areas by having students do it?
Being from a rural area, "It needed doin'" made me laugh something fierce
Yep, it's what keeps those people going! If something didn't need doing, they probably wouldn't still be here!
"I mean, I got the time, I got the crane and the welding gear, and I have plenty of extra siding from when I tore down that warehouse outside town...I'll be back in a couple of days to throw on a coat of paint." That's half my family tree.
hey sometimes it just needs doin
And it is so true, just so true, that whole part of the skit.
This and "It ain't gonna do itself!" are pretty much the bedrock of rural communities.
I casually told one of my patients (ag farmer) that I loved sweet corn. One month later, there was a 45lb box filled to the brim with hand-picked sweet corn from his field dropped off at the front desk of my office. Also the call schedule bit is 100% accurate.
Aww that's so sweet
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😁That is hilarious and sweet.
LOL my grandpa was a rural veterinarian and sometimes farmers would gift huge 50 pound sacks of tasty Iowa corn when the knew the family was visiting.
like the corn
This just makes me want a "small town girl goes to the big city" type crossover where rural medicine works in a big city hospital. He's terrified at the poor quality food the patients get, is drowning in the whirlwind of constantly changing staff he's unfamiliar with, gets lost bc the building is so big, and goes out to drinks with family medicine at the end of the day, the one he most closely relates to.
Why does this sound like a cute illustrated children’s book??
They made that show about 20 years ago. It was just called "Doc," and it starred Billy Ray Cyrus (i.e. the guy who sang Achy-Breaky Heart, and who is Miley Cyrus's dad).
At some point Texaco Mike shows up on the airboat to bring a farmer to see him on the basis that the farmer stopped working to see the doctor.
How Texaco Mike navigated the airboat through a city to get there is unclear but the farmer who was declared legally dead by the big city doctors half an hour ago jumpstarts himself with cables from the airboat and grumbles that he has a crop to harvest. Rural convinces him to let the big city doctors put in a pacemaker because it's already happened three times and he doesn't have time for any more dirt naps this time of year. The farmer asks Rural how the livestock he gifted the last time is doing, much to the chagrin of the other doctors operating in his chest cavity at the time.
Later in the film a crisis that will require many doctors occurs but when they arrive Rural has already resolved it by himself because "it needed doing" and he had all this free time from having all the other doctors around to swing over there on the airboat. Again how Texaco Mike navigated an airboat there is unclear but it's much faster than everyone else, and they airboat off into the sunset to go back home.
I need Glaucomfleckin fanfic. 💯/💯
And the nerologist goes to rural...
Filing taxes is going to be a nightmare
You still owe the IRS 2eggs and 1chicken and a handful of sunflower seeds
Jokes aside, usually payments in kind are indeed considered to be a form of taxable income (by the IRS, for example). Iirc the tax is calculated taking the 'fair market value' of the goods or services received.
No taxes on Chickens, Goats or Pie
Tax fraud!
@@pascalausensi9592 They're gifts of gratitude for the doctor's charity work. I'd say the doctor should be writing off all these patients as charity to offset any income paid in cash.
Yep. Once saw someone being 4 huge cases of eggs to a physical therapist. I once paid a veterinarian by baking enough cupcakes for an entire fundraiser, and one of our local doctors ended up a beekeeper because a beekeeper patient paid him in honey for gallbladder removal and then gifted him a whole hive after a bout of kidney stones that required surgery.
Love the Byleth pfp
As a son of a doctor, I can assure you can't buy those foods that quality anywhere else. They are specially selected or made for the beloved doctor
We had a neurosurgeon who was gifted a half side of beef from a rural rancher. This was in the 1980s. Of course everyone laughed like hell.
That was until he told us it was the best meat he ever had in his life. Said the sausages were phenomenal.
You know the best calf was selected and fed primo stuff for that guy.
@@lilbatz I've raised cattle and grew crops my entire life. A little known trick that us smarter farmers keep in our back pocket is to plan ahead and designate certain animals and certain vegetables to be apart of the "gift" pile. I usually plan ahead and specifically put my best looking vegetables aside to give as gifts but I also keep an eye out on my heard for which animals I think would make the best cuts with. I'll steadily feed a handful of my cows the "good stuff" that way when I have an opportunity to give someone a gift of beef I know they'll be getting the best of what I have to offer.
A person's generosity really is a true measurement of the quality of that person, especially in rural areas.
Plus...
I know that people I gift some of my meats and crops to will be talking to everyone in town about how good it all was, which is a bonus feature to my generosity. It really helps me keep the other farmers in line around here. I might be the best farmer this world has EVER SEEN.
I am the pinnacle of mankind's ingenuity and efficiency and I genuinely might be the most powerful farmer this world has ever known, sincerely.
@@thomasmitchell4128 is it me or the surgeon just became a farmer? 😂
@@PedroGuilhermeSchneider Gentleman farmer, probably. Not a working farm. Not that gentleman farming is not work. It is.
@@thomasmitchell4128 Ah of course, Mr. Mitchell - What an honor, your exploits have been legendary. I have heard tales of your superior livestock and supreme produce halfway across the world. I would offer you my life's savings in exchange for a single ear of corn from your next harvest.
I once asked my dad why there were so many old chairs in odd places around my grandparents' house. He explained that when you are the only lawyer around in the rural south during the Great Depression and WWII, you often get paid in kind. Some of those payments were handmade chairs, apparently.
The heart attack bit got me laughing. My dairy farmer grandfather was scooping snow years ago, had a minor heart attack so he sat down on the step for a while till he felt better, then got up and kept going. They discovered it months later.
Man people of that age/generation were just built different. My grandfather was a longshoreman and he had several heart attacks over the course of his life. never got any treatment for them and he ended up being fine.
A woman that lived next to my grandmother, never saw a doctor in her life until ~ 83 when she needed 2 hip replacements. She did gardening, had some chickens, bunnies and earkier some goats , she killed and cooked herself.
She ate the fattest meat, intestines and all and did garden work for other people 15 years younger , cutting down trees way up until in her 70 ies , riding her bike with a skirt and no long underwear , leggings etc in - 5 degrees, rain or 40 degrees sunshine, she even rode her bike on a highway for 20 miles to get to a job - once we saw her passing by car and my jaw almost hit the floor...
After her double hip replacement , she was on her bike 5 weeks after I swear !
Good bless her. She was quite a character , no husband, alcoholic son who built his house on half her ground , but never cared for her.
SHE OUTLIVED HIM 30 YEARS ! These people don't exist anymore.
My grandmother lost her mother aged 15 , she was watching as they were pressing down on something, cutting up something and her arm was caught.... maybe 1930 ? Well she went to be a maid as soon as she could and married the first good looking soldier she met. Big mistake . Lost an arm , became a violent alcoholic, four generations of unspoken trauma later I was born and decided to blow the lid off by starving to death age 14 . Still here decades later , but don't ask what it costed. I still don't know if it was worth it.
And that is why mankind is doomed. Look at all the generations of trauma we created in 91 , 2001, 1995, 1997, and still now in Africa, Europe , EVERYWHERE !
So familiar. My mom had a heart attack while we we were working together out at the barn. She sat down for a while, taking a break from moving livestock. I tried to get her to go to the hospital because a farmer taking a break is a *BAD SIGN*. I knew it was serious because she never stopped -- but she insisted it was just gas or something and would pass, and there was nothing I could do to convince her. We found out months later, also, during a stress test.
@@iamsneakyfoxx1284 probably survivor ship bias, we only see the ones alive today or dead recently.
Plenty never made it that far.
@@iamsneakyfoxx1284 my grandfather chopped a piece of his finger off when he was young, dipped it in kerosene, took it into town, and had it stitched back on. Still has it. The same man went on hospice due to congestive heart failure with no more than six months to live. That was 3 years ago. They took him off hospice after half a year, and he's still going.
Rural is quite possibly one of my favourite characters
Same!
Second only to Jonathan!
It's about 50-50 between him and infectious disease.
Lmfaoo definitely 😂
He just does what needs doin'.
I grew up in a small town surrounded by rural area... According to my mom who was a home health and hospice nurse this about 110% accurate
I still live in one, and being the only child of my mom local, we'll both combine errands and go for the day together. She still does this, so much lol. Recently we both got our cars done at the local shop, and she told him she'd bring down muffins later as a tip. She did.
"he said it needed doing" that was so true :'D
Unless you are a psychiatrist and have to constantly say no and just be financially poor but happy to see all 3 generations doing well
I did home health in Vegas. Goodfellas appreciate getting good service for their family members. Always dropping envelopes in my bag.
@@BT-ex7ko I offered my pharmacist who went WAY Above and Beyond this week cookies, any G-rated favors. He saved us, and it wasn't the first time. I love all our care providers.
Back when I was in dental school(literally months ago, not as ancient as it sounds), I was in my native country, and the public sector where we practiced had a lot of patients from rural communities. Most had insurance, but they and even those who paid would give us rural gifts like this because they were so grateful, particularly if you were generous to them. This one patient brought me dates from a different state on our last appointment. I gave most of them away but stuck some in the fridge since I felt guilty about giving away a gift. They were there for months(dates last a long time) since I didn't really eat dates, then one day during a vacation I had some out of a mixture of boredom and feeling peckish. Best things I had had in a long time
Wow 😭
Same here I live in the city but dad receives all sorts of gifts from his patients
Love seeing another OSRS enjoyer
dates are delicious mate, you missed out giving them away haha.
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"I dunno, he just said it needed doing" killed me. While I'm not in medicine, I did grow up in a farming community and that's so, so accurate.
Also, I wanna see Rural meet everyone else someday ngl.
5 decades ago I worked for the big city doctor but everything around was rural.
He got 3 feeder pigs for a delivery. A brick wall at his home layed( he bought the bricks) the walls painted, carpet layed, plus country hams vegetables etc. His father had been a country doc & he understood sometimes that was all people had. He would tell them pay the hospitals what they could( back before for profit & private equity)
The farmers,laborers would show up on Sunday afternoons or when they finished their work to see if anything needed to be done. A machinist made a steel table out of scrap metal. He always said thank you.
This is so accurate. I ve practiced rural medicine for 4 years now. I do everything from surgery to taking deliveries, splinting fracture, preterm care and even control anaesthesia at surgery. Recently I was paid with palmwine and towels😄😀
For some it might not seem as glamorous as the big city doctors but as a 20+year ER/ICU nurse in big teaching hospitals, I honestly think about going back to a rural setting. It seems care in large urban settings is so fractured,everyone is stressed out,
and the money never seems enough for being overwhelmed by the profit driven system. I admire you for what you are doing. God Bless you
This is unironically motivational, "in the end, I'm all these people got, so we just make it work." It's statements like these that shines a light on the HCW's who put their heart into caring for people regardless of the situation. It also shines a brighter light on the problems of healthcare in the States.
Also this **** is hilarious.
Thanks Dr. G, from a HCW.
Texaco Mike might be the best-named character I’ve ever heard of omg. I have never had such a vivid image pop into my head.
We had a man who was called bumblebee and another was called Popeye. Not sure why either had the name.
As a daughter of a family medicine doc back in the day this is 100% true. These payments stand out in my mind- 3 bushels of apples one fall from the old guy with the orchard, 2 dressed frozen rabbits & a quart of honey with comb, and lastly half a cows worth of frozen butchered meat for pregnancy, labor & delivery. As one of 5 kids the food was greatly appreciated!
My Great Grandfather was the town dentist (in partnership with his best friend. they married each other's sisters, but that's another story...) for a small town in northern Minnesota during the Great Depression, and many of their patients paid in eggs and chickens. My grandmother said that growing up that even when money was tight, they always had a chicken dinner on Sundays.
Story time
Can we get a glimpse of Texaco Mike? The guy is haunting my dreams.
I dunno..... never seeing Maris means she could be anything you made up in your head. Endless possibilities.
@@snsnplpl 😂
We have a good idea what she looked like. Niles brought a greyhound to Frasier's . Fraserburgh teased Niles that he had picked a dog that looked just like his wife. Niles was offended.
Frasier put a ladies hat on the dog's head and Niles was shocked when he realised it was true.
Pretty sure it's best not to see Texaco Mike till you need that MRI. And even then.
He's probably a relative of Jonathan, if that helps 😂
I still have a hand forged and stamped carpenter’s square that a patient of my grandfather’s made for him. The guy was a blacksmith and carpenter and his wife was chronically ill. Grampy hired him to build a camp up on the mountain and got some furniture as well. He also let a lot of bills just slide.
This was in upstate NY in the 1930s-1950s.
That’s beautiful 😍.
I love how odd rural medicine is but they all look happier than any of the city doctors.
Except for the severe lack of sleep.
lived in both the country and big city. Trust me, they are
@@Civ33 In the city the docs don't usually have to take call every single night and holiday. In the rural areas, they do.
@@deadrose23 City doctors will likely see more patients overall though.
@@jgw9990 Not sure how you figure that. The rural doctors I've known were booked solid every day, before the urgent care squeeze-ins and actual emergencies. Add in the after-hours calls, too. You can't just send them to the local Doc-in-a-Box or ER when they don't exist.
My great grandfather was a doctor in a small town in eastern Kentucky years ago and this is absolutely how he was paid.
Perry County ky
@@kevingroover ah Hazard wish we still could mine COAL. I've been up Yellow creek to KY May about 1998 for Oliver in Winchester.
When I worked as a paramedic in small towns, we were given food as appreciation. The best homemade pies, cobblers, farm fresh foods ever. Theyd also invite you over to house and cook big meals, I LOVED IT
I used to have a doctor who did some things for his patients that some might consider to be questionable. In both of his examining rooms he had large metal cabinets. They were about 6' high, 4' wide, and 2' deep. Both of them had locks on them and they were always locked unless the Doc was in the room. Now I have always been fortunate and always had prescription insurance of one kind or another so I never needed any help with that. But one day he forgot that and after examining me he opened up the cabinet in front of me to get me something from inside. I was amazed. He had a damn pharmacy in there. Literally dozens of different drugs and plenty of each type.
I asked how he acquired all those pills and potions and did he pay for them out of pocket. He told me no, he did not pay for them. Instead, whenever a Pharma salesman came to his offices he would hit them for lots of free samples of everything they had. The salesmen knew he was giving those samples out to people who could not afford medications but they also knew the more samples he received the more he would prescribe their products to those who insurance or Government coverage like I did.
Later, in conversation with one of his nurses, I found out he also had two refrigerators in a backroom to store more samples that required refrigeration. She also told me that pensioners would not likely ever get those samples nor would people on social assistance since their pharma bills were covered by the Government. People who had coverage through work never received any either. So who got those samples? Well, it was the working poor. People who struggled everyday at low paying jobs where a $20.00 prescription might break the bank for them. She also told me that most Pharma companies have programs to assist those who cannot afford their long term medications like insulin. Some of those companies would literally hand out their products for as little as 10% of their over the counter pricing from a pharmacist in a drug store. There were also Government programs that did much the same thing. If this was the case, the Doc had all the forms required to apply and would have his nurses help his patients fill those forms out after their visit to see him.
Dr. Mike became one of my everyday heroes that day. He did his very best for his patients and tried to make sure, even if he bent the rules a little, that each and everyone of them got the meds they needed to help with their ailments. Mike finally retired when he was 72 but his Grandson and Granddaughter took over the practice and they continue to do things as he had. Mike a practiced medicine in the most compassionate way the could and his legacy carries on today. Wouldn't it be great if some other Doctors were to emulate this everyday hero instead of just chasing the buck?
Many years ago I was the working poor who benefited from exactly those kind of samples at the docs. In Canada health care was available and free but drugs were so expensive.
In Malaysia, some rural area parents give gratitude to their children's teachers almost same way. Especially fruit season, they will be overwhelmed by king of fruit : Durian.
From what I've heard of durian, that is a blessing and a curse.
@@WarriorKalia depends on what side you are no, it is a bless for the lover and curse for the not lover (I wouldn't say haters it just someone cannot compromise the smell which make they can't eat it) .
@@mrsdin3739 I think I need to start teaching in rural Malaysia...I love durian!
so they give them poo poo fruit?
@@catherinegraybarnes so you like poo poo? lol
My grandfather was a rural doctor in Mexico back in the 50's and 60's (ortho specialist) and this is so very true. My mom and my grandmother used to tell me how people would pay him with animals, fruits and vegetables, eggs, milk and everything. Sometimes they did not even had to go buy stuff for the week.
Phils.
Whenni was a kid, We were from a more rural area and we go to the "big" city for our family doctor. If it was just a small thing, he wouldnt even charge us coz he had so many patients from far towns. A friend brought up that we would end up spending more sometimes coz we felt we had to give our doc something in goods like fruit during harvest for the kindness. The cost wasnt the point. It was gratitude and responding with kindness. It felt comforting to have that level of community with our doctor.
Even when i got older, and id had other regular doctors... i sometimes went to him even though he mainly deals with younger patients.
I’m not gonna lie this type of lifestyle actually really speaks to me. I’ve been in hospital medicine for about 7 to 8 years now and this seems like a very refreshing change of pace. I think I might look into move somewhere in Vermont.
Please come to Maine. We have the ocean too. Good Drs are so hard to find. If you're in it though for mostly the money Vermont is fine.
Grew up in Northern Wyoming and this is spot on. My dad would get paid in cords of wood, horses, and cattle. My bother is a GP in Montana, the tradition is still alive. It may be a bit unconventional but it’s how true rural, remote communities survive. No one is left behind, and in the end it all balances out. A pure, rewarding way of life.
I grew up in the countryside where my mom used to work in a cottage hospital, this is true! Patients used to give us fresh vegetables or chicken eggs. Even to these days, even tho we’ve moved to the city and my mother works elsewhere, we still get visits from ex-patients and yup, our house never runs out of eggs!
I once went to a rural medicine doctor. I told him I have a cold... He and his assistants laughed at me...and his dogs
Last time one of my friends went to the doc, he was unsure if he'd be a double amputee (luckily, both limbs were saved)
Aside from not being able to say you don't need it and stuff where a rag and the extra wide ducttape isnt enough, people in pretty much any rural area don't visit a doctor. i'm talking as an european on this, the hospital stay and sewing 2 limbs back on cost my buddy a whole $850, $400 of which was from upgrading the material of the bone-holding metal thingies.
They all laughed at his dogs too? That just sounds mean.
😉
"He just had a heart attack three days ago!"
"He said it needed doin."
As a country gal, yeah, yeah that's 100% accurate.
I had a heart surgeon take a whole processed pig in trade. The value of the processed pig was the same as his fee. And I was in a midsized city. But he was from the same small town as the pig farmer. It worked great for the OR heart team. He gave us most of the pig.
"He ate all the pies" had me 😅😅😅
Rural’s attitude towards providing healthcare and taking what comes is so down to earth. Love it!
Is the goat that ate the pies the same one that's running for mayor?
This is the most important question.
So true. It's so heartening to see the rural folk giving value for the services you've provided, in their own way.
My own grandfather was a General Practioner in a small town in India, and very often, people would bring him their fresh produce, confectioneries or something special from their suburb / village to show their appreciation, many times over and above the modest fees for consultation.
We had a guy back in the day pay for his yearly eye exam in fresh venison.
We got a gallon of pure, unfiltered, raw honey. Best tasting honey I have ever had.
hell yeah. You know how much meat costs where I live? Gimme that venison.
I can attest to this. My grandfather was a rural lawyer and back in the day, he was paid in a similar manner. My mom said they always had fresh produce.
Rural doctors do potentially some of the most important work. Great work on the videos!
Rural Medicine is my favorite saga
"He said _'It needed doin'.'_ "
We should all be so lucky to be a man like Jasper.
I love how Dr. G gets people. Funny but factual and sometimes a little heartbreaking on the side. An astute and empathetic observer.
This is some comedy gold
Can we get some rural pharmacist?
I am sure Texaco Mike is involved in it.
As a semi-rural pharmacist, I say amen to this one!
Isn’t the Vet the pharmacist? I think he said the town couldn’t support a Vet and a Pharmacist. Lol
@@cathylutz7288 Actually it was the dentist. And the med student asked if he was a pharmacist for people or animals, and Rural asked if he thought they had 2 pharmacists. =) (I love this series!)
@@falconerd343 this is probably my favorite. Possibilities are endless.
Love this! I once bartered a paint sprayer and some .22 ammo for a beat up farm truck. Thing was awesome. Lasted 9 months. Literally drove it into the ground.
It needs doin'. Seriously, rural clinicians and their communities are the richest people in the country - thanks to their social spirit.
Call Schedule for the Next Year: “Me”
Had me literally laughing out loud. You do such a great job with visual humor. Thanks- nice to see medical humor so well done.
I love the response, "He said it needed doin'". There isn't enough of that in society anymore
this video makes me genuinely happy. its so wholesome. I would love to live in a community like this where everyone just helps out. as long as there were ways to help people who were not able to work or make as much to barter. sounds like a utopia
If you're a medical provider I can point you toward a community in need.
@@FayeVert Any info for interested RNs?
@@nursewithanosering If you're willing to mesh with the community, rural upstate NY always needs medics. Particularly Western NY & the ADK mountains.
I'm a rural doctor. That's video is so true! I love my job and I swear, that's why I will never ever work in a big city! Greetings from rural Poland, Europe.
A bottle of wine for breast ultrasound is a nice gift 🤭 Home made frozen dumplings for treating an abscess. 10 L of apple juice for consulting a grandmas Alzheimer. Embroidered banner for diagnosing cancer.
I went to med school in Arkansas. This is 100% accurate. I lived off of the food brought by patients. Lots of delicious deer steak, eggs, and fresh produce.
My dad isn't a doctor, but he works at a hospital's office. There was one time where he found out by the nurses that there was a patient that needed blood donations of a specific blood type, and coincidentally my dad was a match to his type. Sadly, the patient didn't make it, but the man's wife appreciated my dad's donation so much she invited us (my dad, mom, brother and me) to have dinner at her house. It turns out she and her family live WAY deep in a rural area. It was the best food I've ever had.
I frikken ❤️ this bit. There is apparently a doctor who does this in a rougher part of town near me who will do this to demonstrate that while he will always take care of his patients, it's with the understanding that his time isn't free even if it's just a can of beans 🤗 Whatta guy. 💕
It's so nice, I've got a bag of pears today as a thank-you gift, perks of being an ophtalmology resident in a partly rural area I guess:)
Youre acting has been steadily improving. Kudos on the effort; I'm really appreciating it! I hope you're all doing well over there behind the camera too.
"It just needed doin'" is one of the most accurate lines I've heard used in all of these vids.
My mom, who's an RN, says this is pretty much spot on with rural communities. And she loves your content.
I'm from the country and can 100% verify this is what some people did. It's a good plan to have differing crops and farm animals than your neighbors so you always have something to barter that they don't 👍
I love the rural medicine skits. So wholesome! Can't wait to see more of these characters.
Sounds about right! Though I live in a rural state, I've never been a farm kid. Sometimes bartering works in other areas, too (sadly, I have never had anything to barter with). The guy doing the siding because it needs doing is spot on!
I love these rural sketches, they are my favorite!
I love everything about this series of rural medicine videos
This makes me miss my old job. After I graduated from university I was a nanny for a rural GP. We're Canadian, so no bartering, but he would bring home THE BEST baked good and jams from his patients, plus things like veggies (soooo many tomatoes!) and farm fresh eggs.
Absolutely love these videos. Beautiful - 'it needed doin' is exactly how chores work rurally haha.
I wonder, will we ever see the opposite of rural family medicine? The sub-sub-sub-specialized academic surgeon scientist md phd phd, who actually gets paid in prestige instead of money or chickens?
You just described the neurosurgeon. ;)
You're just describing a regular PhD lol
lol
Isn't that Neurology?
One of the docs I worked with was paid with the patients Toyota Camry. The doc then drove that car for years so he could tell the story. Lots of rural areas in Oklahoma
Watching videos like this one is priceless.
I’m a doctor, until last December I lived in Russia, now I’m in Uzbekistan, where I was born. Two very different countries, both are even more different from the US. But when I watched this video, I thought to myself that in the core people all over the world are the same - a feeling that I have veeery rarely. It always feels like the western world is distant both geographically and culturally, and the only thing we have in common is 46 chromosomes in our genome. Turns out that rural life there and here has more similarities than urban and rural life in the same region. You kinda understand that with your mind but it’s every time a discovery due to videos like this one. And for some time you keep in your mind true meaning of the word “humanity”.
Priceless. Thank you.
I've just run across your videos, and Rural is 100% my favorite character now.
I think in order to be a rural Dr it has to be a calling, a true drive to be of service.
My family Dr had a resident with her for a time and she was shocked when he left at 4. She explained that was when they were needed the most and he said "not my problem they should have come in earlier, I'm going to the gym." That guy would never make it as a rural Dr. He just saw medicine as a 9-4 well paying job.
Lol, wow, that’s so sad. Should’ve gone into a corporate desk job instead! I feel like his mentality is not a good one to have in any of the “helping” professions. While setting healthy boundaries and not stretching oneself too thin is also important, crises won’t always happen between the hours of 9-5, Monday-Friday.
He wasn't a rural Dr. But I was in a BAD semi crash. When the Helicopter landed at Uof L in Louisville. He said we might have to amputate that right leg. I said how'd I drive a truck he said well there is a procedure I've heard of but never done on a leg this bad. The lower leg had compound fractures the thigh was crushed six inches. I was in surgery 12 hrs icu in a drug induced coma for 5 days. Praise God and thank the Dr. It was a success. I got a steel rod and screws from hip to knee and knee to ankle they pieced the thigh bone like a puzzle around the rod. Took 7 months to learn how to walk again. Hurt my knee about 10 yrs later got an x-ray the x-ray tech freeked out. Said your getting a consult.
The consult was with a Dr who was a resident who made rounds with that Dr. They'd come in every morning. the Dr would say how's our miracle this morning.
That was Feb. 2000. Been driving truck ever since.
Maybe he realized that he deserves a healthy work-life balance :-)
@@of.course That isn't 'having a healthy work-life balance'. That's having no sense of duty, or hell, compassion - I'm in no way a doctor and if someone woke me up at 3 AM saying I was needed to hold down a patient, you better believe I'd be there.
It's like when the local small engine mechanic told me I should have brought my broken rototiller in during winter- it wasn't broken then as i wasn't using it, helllooo
Yep! My dad practiced dentistry in a small town in Michigan. He took payment in apples and one time we were given some beautiful quilts.
😂😂😂. Oh my. “It needed doing”. Or better yet: “needs done”
How do you describe a video that makes you laugh, feel informed, and tear up from the wholesomeness all at the same time? ❤
I came from a town of 600 and people and this is spot on, my grand father was the only pharmacist for 2,000 sq miles and he got paid in all sorts of things like prehistoric fish fossils to a worn down boat and trailer because people had no other way to pay.
This is the GOAL! I love this character because even if it may be terrible in terms of "money" the pay is so rewarding!
Hahaha great vid! This is true for rural veterinarians too! One client painted me a sign. Another was bored waiting for his turn and started snow plowing the driveway! :)
Nailed it. Thank you to all the rural medicine docs and nurses. Much love from the countryside. ❤️
This is why i love rural towns! Miss living like that!
These gifts of kindness are 110% better than reading Press Ganey scores… they actually mean something and likely motivate one to keep going, unlike the PG scores which only exist to suck out one’s soul.
I am a 1st year medical student and we are being trained to be a rural doctor. Can't wait to actually be in the community, heard lots of great experiences
Having grown up in a small town; each response is music to my ears. Rural Home Health is just as awesome.
If the last patient didn't just have a heart attack three days ago I'd buy that man a beer. Good man.
As a rural doc that call schedule got me right in the feels
This reminds me of when I was pursuing veterinary medicine and I was researching different specialties rates. Most resources were like, "large animal vets get paid the least... unless you like services and unusual gifts in exchange for your services. The lawn needs to be mowed and the clinic needs to be painted anyway, right? Good, because Holly's dad can't pay for her teeth floating but he's got a great work ethic."
these rural area skits make me so proud of the people i live with everyday 🥰
The last one is accurate af when it comes to us rural people, one time i felt so ashamed i was just sitting there with my sprained leg that i mucked out stalls while using a pitchfork as a crutch/cane
@whatsapp①⑨⓪⑨③①②③⓪③④ hmmm yes clearly you made this video
If "it needed doin'", it needed doing then and there. Everything else is secondary, including major organs.
My mom came from a small mountain town, and this fits every story I've ever heard of how small town communities work.
My father was a small town family doctor who began practicing medicine in the 50s. At that time family doctors delivered babies, set bones, did surgery, and made house calls. We always had people bringing vegetables,, pies and other stuff around to our house. Only years later did I found out that dad, who did not charge them if they could not afford to pay, was accepting their gifts as payment. Rest in peace Dad, they don’t make them like you anymore.
Rural medicine is just my favorite, it's so out of the box yet so real!
My Dad had a doc like this. He was a good man.
Loving the rural skits man
...it's true mostly we don't have insurance but we do have moonshine and if ya don't respond soon enough when we reach out "we will say to hell wit it"😆
Same with being a lawyer in a rural community! I just started out but one of my clients is a neighbor who didn't have enough money to finish the case so they sent over a crate full of corn. Cool stuff.
This was my father-in-law - a family medicine doc in private practice in central WI. He was given vegetables, eggs, whatever for payment sometimes. Definitely didn't live a life of luxury! He had to give up delivering babies because of the insane cost of malpractice insurance, then was pushed into retirement by big insurance who would not contract with him because he wasn't part of the group practice in town (and didn't want to be).
That siding work is probably worth at least 10 checkups
Back when i was in that (not so) rural place :") - some patients gave me fruit from their yard, or things they made (like steamed banana, etc) It was somewhat touching. Now im moving to another place with my husband, work in the city, but those memories from that rural area warm my heart 😊
Yes the innocence of simple Village Life...I miss it in this concrete Jungle...
Me too!!! I grew up in a small, resort town on Lake Michigan (population 1,200) and moved to San Francisco 12+ years ago. While I love my job and I’m able to really make a difference in my clients’ lives here (I’m an addiction counselor), I keep feeling this pull back to Northern Michigan. I know I’d probably be able to find work there because of the opioid epidemic, and my license could be transferred from state to state but I am still worried about moving back.
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as a kid, i remember asking my dad about all the "weird chickens" in the deep freezer. he told me one of his patients paid him in pheasants
"It needed doin'." Yeah, nobody has a work ethic like a farmer.