My med school friend just got into NSGY residency. Probably a good thing that we were only roommates for first year, the imposter syndrome glare was felt even then 🤣
As a medical student who worked with several neurosurgeons, I have to say this is exaggerating. They are in fact really nice, they never charge me for the blanket warmer.
As the psychiatrist married to the neurosurgeon I remember an evening in the early years of our marriage when he leaned over in bed and traced a pattern through My hair - he was mapping his approach to the surgery the next day - lol! Between us, we have a great appreciation for the brain.
Umm yeah! I still think I’d have been terrified when I realized what he was doing!! But hey! Who am I to disparage your marriage?!?! I just graduated with a lowly degree in psychology. If you’re both happy, that’s the absolutely only thing that matters! I’d still be terrified and/or paranoid after that experience. But, again, that’s just me! I suffer from anxiety, so I’m sure you have absolutely nothing to worry about!! (Absolutely no disrespect meant - I know and have no problem admitting that I’m quirky!!)
the chief of surgery at one of my med school's hospitals had a crayon drawing done by one of his kids, of which he was very proud, on the wall in his office. It showed a house with stick drawings of a mom and 2 kids labeled "our house" and a rectangular tall building with a sign "hospital" with a stick figure of a man labeled "Daddy's house". Even then, I thought it was very sad.
There's something oddly heartwarming about the neurosurgeon appreciating the happiness of the JCPenney stock family. May he find the same if he can ever remember what his family looks like or where he last left them
This brings back memories. My dad used to be a neurosurgeon before he retired. When I was a kid I used to play with a doctor’s kit at home and he would come in during the weekends and point out what I was doing wrong and how my surgeries werent realistic. Fun times!
OMG!! WOW!! I’m not only speechless - I don’t know how to react!! This has literally never happened to me before! 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ Ummm! So how did you feel like when he did that? (That’s the only thing I can think to say!)
I‘m a neurosurgeon and I can tell you: doing 100 surgeries a week is not good, doing 1 surgery for a week is the awesome stuff. Unfortunately my longest was only 18 hours but I assisted one that took 27 hours. It was the best day(s) of my life! PS: my wife won’t be bothered I didn’t say our wedding cause she is a neurosurgeon too. I always enjoy meeting her in the hallway!
@@charmainesmith5623 eat: didn’t, drink: didn’t, toilet: didn’t need to since I didn’t drink. No breaks. It was an AVM in a 4 year old it was bleeding all the time, adrenaline was high, adrenaline is all you need in days like these. Patient was severely disabled before surgery but recovered perfectly and did a little dance for me 3 months after. That’s what keeps you going.
As someone who scrubs (Surgical tech here) with neurosurgeons on a regular basis, this certainly tickles my funny bone! And it's 100% accurate! We especially have a neuro doc here who is literally here everyday. He works as if he will be destitute and on the streets if he misses a day. Please Dr. N, go home!
My anatomy profesor is a doctor which worked in many fields over the years amasing soo much knowledge he can explain in the greatest possible detail every minute thing in the human body and everytime I rise my hand to answer a question nobody else knows I fell as if I was pushed out of a giant crowd to answer a question coming from god himself
My teenage daughter’s pediatric neurosurgeon made the incision further back from her hairline than he initially planned because right before surgery my husband told him she really cared about her hair. And in a location where her hair would cover the scar. Sadly he retired from ucsf in 2020. What an understanding gem
😂 When they capped resident hours to 80 h per week on avg, Neurosurgery increased the duration of its residency from 6 to 7 years because 80 hrs per week for 6 years is not enough time to train neurosurgeons. Seriously.
@@ordinarytree4678 IKR?!!? I didn't realize that the residents had to clock in that many hours. This can't be healthy. How could anyone function properly?? Especially doing brain surgery! This just blew my mind. Lol!
I'm a non-doctor from a family of doctors just appreciating what I didn't get myself into because I like sleeping and having a normal work-life balance.
Please,, as a neurosurgery patient,, I beg you. Do not forget your patients are people not just skulls to crack. My first neurosurgeon, at a top ten hospital, had his own surgical suite. He was an asshat. I give that you need a bit of a god complex to crack into someone’s brain. But still,,,, he was an asshat. My favorite neurosurgeon was from The Cleveland Clinic, he has become a good friend even out of work. He’s human,, warm and caring. He held my hand and patted my head while I was having a panic attack before my surgery. Everyone else ignored me,,, he got me through that. I will be forever grateful that he is a compassionate human being. He’s done amazing work with deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s patients. He’s an amazing physician, surgeon and person. Please,,,, don’t become one of the many asshats. Become one of the rare compassionate ones. Thx
My son had a 6cm vestibular schwannoma that required several complex and lengthy (9 hours, 16 hours, and 8 hours) surgeries to fully debulk, plus a nerve anastomosis. The lead neurosurgeon on his case was just amazing, we are so grateful to him. He is incredibly intelligent and committed to his surgery, but also kind and compassionate. He said he was most proud of how the surgical team, comprising different specialities (paediatric neurosurgery, ENT, tumour specialists, paediatric anaesthesiologists) came together to ensure a successful outcome in a rare and complex case. Hats off to you, I wish you every success in your chosen field 🎓
Blanket warmer sleep is the best sleep. Sometimes they bribe the charge nurse to hang a liter of LR to go in during their nap, and they not only sleep like a baby angel, they awake refreshed and ready to go!
I used to be a caretaker of a neurosurgeon’s home for a few years he was one of the best in his field He had a very beautiful house in a wealthy neighborhood This hits home more than you think He never came home in the time I was employed by him he maybe stayed in his house once I worked there so long I almost forgot what he looked like b
Sir, I work with neurosurgeons for a living, and I'll have you know that- you absolutely nailed this, thank you, I'm sending it to all my co-workers in the dept immediately. We even have one doc that the running joke is the idea that he'll go to the pre-op area and just grab any patient he can rather than go home. Head canon for the same doc - Dr. Smith from plastics once shared a KitKat with NS doc, and now that's why that plastics doc is ALWAYS the one invited for co-surgeries.
Never underestimate the power of a candy bar when your coworkers are hangry. I learned that lesson years ago during critical care fellowship and started buying bite-sized assorted chocolate in bulk for morning rounds 😀
Psychiatry. Medicine, work life balance and working in a field that badly requires good doctors for a very vulnerable and overlooked patient population, what more could someone want. Plus you get to work with some pretty awesome people. 😏
I was a neurosurgeon and lived like this for a long time. I don't know 5 days in a row but I definetely kept changing ORs due to continuous flow from my ED and elective cases combined for3 days, 2 hrs sleep every now and then. Daily dexamethasone injections around 10.30 AM when cortisol starts to drop and I start feeling exhausted. Now I quit and planning for another specialty, just realized I don't want to spend my life like that. Also looking at colleagues and other people like they are not important is toxic. Most of my NS friends got a divorce at least once. It took me 2 painful years after quitting ns to realize that. I wish I never chose NS in first place.
I actually have a Neuro-vascular Surgeon and he's one of my favorite Drs! His bedside manner is amazing. He gets my jokes and is able to joke back. Also, I was in the ER once for severe migraine issues that he was concerned were vascular in nature, he actually came down to the ER from his very palatial 4th floor office and sat and talked with me for quite a while. He's the head of the number one stroke team in the state. Clearly he's a one in a million, actual personable neurosurgeon. And then there's my plain, regular neurologist. Who has no personality, no compassion and has given up on me, in person, on 3 separate occasions. He just said he had no idea what my issue was, my problems are too complex and just turned and walked out the door.
): I've read that a lot of neurologists are like that to migraneurs. I'm sorry you had to deal with that, hopefully yr receiving good treatment now. Migraines can be so disabling.
I have multiple types of head pain, including what I now know are primary stabbing headaches/icepick headaches (quite aptly named). When I described them as best I could to one of my past neurologists, she looked at me, raised a very skeptical eyebrow, and stated "I have absolutely *no* idea what you're talking about.". She then turned on her heel, strode away, and that was my last visit with her. I've seen a plethora of doctors in my life, but rarely have I felt so stupid, humiliated, judged, etc. by one. Is it really so hard to say "I'm sorry, but I can't think of anything that matches the pain you're describing. I can refer you to someone who might, though," and then do so? Especially since years later, another neurologist with horrible bedside manner did just that, which is how I finally found out what they're called. I mean, he did it after he made me cry twice, but still.
Problem too complex for a neurologist reminds me of the auto mechanic who I watch here on UA-cam who just this very day completed the diagnosis on a car's problems and traced the issue to a bad solder joint on a fuse box component. This car had even been to the dealer who couldn't diagnose the issue. This guy is the go to guy for hard issues. He diagnosed another issue that another dealer ran a parts cannon on and located the issue once he checked on a ground strap that had corroded in 3 years! Giving up on a patient says you don't know how to do your job to start with and you don't know how to try out some cross-discipline consulting to see if the issue crosses over disciplines.
Coming from someone who would have died from a subdural hematoma, thank you to all the neurosurgeons out there who are scrubbed and prepped for their next patient at all times🥰 My craniotomy was forty-two years ago, I was just a toddler so I don't even remember my surgeon.
Bless our family's ped neurosurgeon! He had a bank of monitors AT HOME connected to monitors of his patients. This was back in the early 90s. Watching these monitors, he saw my then 4 y/o crashing 12 hrs post op. There is something to say for ped neurosurgeons blurring of work-life balance. BTW, he took up pogo sticking (with a helmet, naturally) & was a huge advocate for ALL parents to give it a try.
Hilarious . It was one time I saw that neurosurgery was asked to come to Pediatric ICU and when they came , they came is surgical gowns from their OT itself. These guys are legends and not to be messed with.
45 yrs nursing, 38 of them in the OR. Showed your "turnover time" to some of the staff and docs at work. Hilarious! Thank you. We need the comic relief!
To this day, I still cherish one of the greatest days I had during my internship was assiting the same neurosurgeon from the morning, through the evening, all the way to my night shift; I entered so many surgeries that the anesthesio resident knew my name and already was joking with me and remember when she said "how you doing, Tired as f*ck I guess" and the neurosurgeon was so nice and explained everything to me while operating with hard rock and progressive rock on the back ground!!
I am a doctor, but my daughter was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma (after ordered the MRI because her doctor and a neurologist would not) at age 8. Turns out that I was in the same class in med school as he was. He checked on her every day at 5 am and again around 8 pm. Even as the patient’s mom, I was concerned if he ever went home. Anyway, we are eternally grateful, my daughter is now a Sophomore in college!
I was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and had my first brain surgery at 3 weeks old. Now, as a 15 year old who is otherwise pretty healthy, I am so thankful to God and my neurosurgeon. Now I am planning to be a peds nurse because of all the times I’ve had nurses take care of me.
AS an OR nurse all I have to say is 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love your video's. The first on I watched was Turnover time. You were spot on and our surgeons thought it was funny too. Of course there were a few we did not show it to.🤣
The best part about neurosurgeons “living in the operating room” is when they don’t plan out their cases to coincide with how many surgical trays the hospital has and how long it takes to reprocess them: Cleaning Disinfecting/Assembling/Sterilizing! 🙃
True story (as told to me 3rd party....) Had a friend in urology residency. He was having lunch with a neurosurgeon resident. The neurosurgeon resident told my friend he was quitting residency and going into psychiatry. My friend was utterly shocked - why would you quit neurosurgery!!!!!!! One sentence. It Wasn't Invasive ENOUGH....
god this video had me in absolute stitches! i've been yearning for more wholesome comedy surrounding occupational situations after having burned myself out watching so many shows focused on shock humor and gratuitous violence. its a nice switch in comedic effect.
I literally know nothing about medicine but I still laugh hysterically at this. It also simultaneously makes me want to go into medicine and stay as far away from it as possible.
Psychiatry ... Can you tell me, does the personality disorder choose the specialty, or the specialty develop the personality disorder? Question from a psychologist 🥴😅
Not a psychiatrist (although an absolute nerd), but which personality disorder? Because by god are there many that could be factored into this question Edit: furthermore, I’d advice against saying “the personality disorder choose the specialty” as that may objectify your disordered clients, wouldn’t you say? With all due respect, I think the word you’re looking for is “determines”
The personality disorder chooses the specialty, definitely. The general favorites in medicine are Borerline, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Narcissistic. Source- am a psychiatry resident
I don’t know, but I remember when our neurosurgeon left, a hospital administrator thought the neurologist could fill in for him. That shows you how little hospital administrators know!
We in hospital have a Neurologist- Neurosurgery Power Couple. I was so confused with them both. Seems like both have their home time in and arround neurology ward
After completing 2 months of neurosurgery posting during my MS training, I relate 💯 % to this very funny. Prepping psychiatrist with a trimmer 😂 Very funny content. Keep it up.
Hey everybody, thanks for watching. If you happen across a neurosurgeon, please don't look directly at them.
My med school friend just got into NSGY residency. Probably a good thing that we were only roommates for first year, the imposter syndrome glare was felt even then 🤣
I already have imposter syndrome 🤷🏼♀️ “They” say it’s a sign of intelligence, “they” being the internet
😎😎😎😎😎😎😂
Usually, my stepbrother does not cause this but then again maybe he's not looking directly at us anyhow. It just seems like it.
I'm a nurse, so pretty sure my RBF counters his glare and makes me immune.
As a medical student who worked with several neurosurgeons, I have to say this is exaggerating. They are in fact really nice, they never charge me for the blanket warmer.
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Lol! We allll stand corrected.
You had us in the first half, not gonna lie
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Lol😂
As the psychiatrist married to the neurosurgeon I remember an evening in the early years of our marriage when he leaned over in bed and traced a pattern through My hair - he was mapping his approach to the surgery the next day - lol! Between us, we have a great appreciation for the brain.
And they say romance is dead. 🤣
😂😂
Umm yeah! I still think I’d have been terrified when I realized what he was doing!! But hey! Who am I to disparage your marriage?!?! I just graduated with a lowly degree in psychology. If you’re both happy, that’s the absolutely only thing that matters! I’d still be terrified and/or paranoid after that experience. But, again, that’s just me! I suffer from anxiety, so I’m sure you have absolutely nothing to worry about!!
(Absolutely no disrespect meant - I know and have no problem admitting that I’m quirky!!)
Honestly that's pretty adorable
Damn bro, nothing can top this union, bonding over the brain is a dream :))
the chief of surgery at one of my med school's hospitals had a crayon drawing done by one of his kids, of which he was very proud, on the wall in his office. It showed a house with stick drawings of a mom and 2 kids labeled "our house" and a rectangular tall building with a sign "hospital" with a stick figure of a man labeled "Daddy's house". Even then, I thought it was very sad.
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This should not be normalised.
I hope he recognized it
@@kinebrembry6224 I don't think he ever did. The system rewards and reinforces that type of behavior.
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'Psychiatry is not a surgical disease' sounds exactly like something someone with cerebral lesion would say..
If that cerebral lesion is organic, it would be a neurologic disease with a psychiatric manifestation.
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Perhaps is neuro atypical.
Regardless, it needs study.
jajajaja
"WHERE IS THE LEEESIONNNN!!!???"
Oh god please dont tell me the reason why neurosurgeons have nice houses is so they can fit an entire operating room somewhere
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Aspiring NS here, my dream house include a garden, a library, a game room, and an operating room
@@tranbach9431 why do I relate to this 😭
Get Out got it right.
@@tranbach9431 the game room is the OR
There's something oddly heartwarming about the neurosurgeon appreciating the happiness of the JCPenney stock family. May he find the same if he can ever remember what his family looks like or where he last left them
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Honestly this comment made me laugh even more than the video. Cheers
subconscious longing
Or their names.
He can get his resident to find out where his family went
This brings back memories. My dad used to be a neurosurgeon before he retired. When I was a kid I used to play with a doctor’s kit at home and he would come in during the weekends and point out what I was doing wrong and how my surgeries werent realistic.
Fun times!
OMG!! WOW!! I’m not only speechless - I don’t know how to react!! This has literally never happened to me before! 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ Ummm! So how did you feel like when he did that? (That’s the only thing I can think to say!)
That sounds like one shitty dad.
I laughed way too hard at this 😂
@@mcgc93 yeah I'm sure you have enough context to infer that kind of diagnosis, thanks professor xavier
Did he hate the game Operation?
I‘m a neurosurgeon and I can tell you: doing 100 surgeries a week is not good, doing 1 surgery for a week is the awesome stuff. Unfortunately my longest was only 18 hours but I assisted one that took 27 hours. It was the best day(s) of my life! PS: my wife won’t be bothered I didn’t say our wedding cause she is a neurosurgeon too. I always enjoy meeting her in the hallway!
How did you eat, drink go tonthebtoilet ?
Did you have other Dr's who tagged you out?
How many breaks did the anithetis get ?
That's sweet yall are a match made in hospital work heaven haha
@@charmainesmith5623 eat: didn’t, drink: didn’t, toilet: didn’t need to since I didn’t drink. No breaks. It was an AVM in a 4 year old it was bleeding all the time, adrenaline was high, adrenaline is all you need in days like these. Patient was severely disabled before surgery but recovered perfectly and did a little dance for me 3 months after. That’s what keeps you going.
@@NinjaElephant woooww..
@The cycling NinjaElephant my thoughts just went back and forth between “This guy’s a genius.” and “This guy’s a hero.”
As someone who scrubs (Surgical tech here) with neurosurgeons on a regular basis, this certainly tickles my funny bone! And it's 100% accurate! We especially have a neuro doc here who is literally here everyday. He works as if he will be destitute and on the streets if he misses a day. Please Dr. N, go home!
Destitute is one of my favorites words I. English! 😂
Lol... I'm also Dr N.. wink wink😉😉
I don't understand it, is neurosurgery fun or something?
"How can it tickle your funny bone if the bone is not built to sense that?"
@@ggok surgeries are very very long and hospitals tend to overwork any kind of surgeon, so neurosurgeons tend to stay for very long hours.
"My direct gaze results in overwhelming imposter syndrome" reminds me of my Anatomy professor...ROFL
My anatomy profesor is a doctor which worked in many fields over the years amasing soo much knowledge he can explain in the greatest possible detail every minute thing in the human body and everytime I rise my hand to answer a question nobody else knows I fell as if I was pushed out of a giant crowd to answer a question coming from god himself
Why is it always the Anatomy professors?!?🤣😅
Psychiatry may not be a surgical disease but surgery is a psychiatric disorder lol
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*that sounds like a psychologist talking*
My teenage daughter’s pediatric neurosurgeon made the incision further back from her hairline than he initially planned because right before surgery my husband told him she really cared about her hair. And in a location where her hair would cover the scar. Sadly he retired from ucsf in 2020. What an understanding gem
Here's the thing, he was a pediatric neurosurgeon. The joy of working with kids overshadows any negative trait of any specialty because adults suck.
😂 When they capped resident hours to 80 h per week on avg, Neurosurgery increased the duration of its residency from 6 to 7 years because 80 hrs per week for 6 years is not enough time to train neurosurgeons. Seriously.
Some are eight! 😂
Jesus Christ...
@@ordinarytree4678 IKR?!!? I didn't realize that the residents had to clock in that many hours. This can't be healthy. How could anyone function properly?? Especially doing brain surgery! This just blew my mind. Lol!
@@reneegoughnour3988 And this is why they need to see psychiatrist.
for us, we fabricate our hours
I like how Neurosurgeon said "That's my wife and young child" because he forgot whether he had a son or a daughter. XD
I'm a non-doctor from a family of doctors just appreciating what I didn't get myself into because I like sleeping and having a normal work-life balance.
Same, but married one hahah
Yeah, my mom was a little dubious when I told her I wanted to go for medicine (her father was a doctor)
The impositor syndrome is real tho, my dad's a doc, my sister's a doc and here i am, "mister wasted potential" living his average life.
@@khorneflakes9760 I know that feeling!
@@khorneflakes9760 Many doctors are completely clueless. Memorizing things and being interpersonally coercive is not impressive.
Matched into Neurosurgery! I'm most excited to work on my gaze over the next 7 years.
How does it feel to be enjoying your last days of freedom until retirement?
7 years?
Please,, as a neurosurgery patient,, I beg you. Do not forget your patients are people not just skulls to crack. My first neurosurgeon, at a top ten hospital, had his own surgical suite. He was an asshat. I give that you need a bit of a god complex to crack into someone’s brain. But still,,,, he was an asshat.
My favorite neurosurgeon was from The Cleveland Clinic, he has become a good friend even out of work. He’s human,, warm and caring. He held my hand and patted my head while I was having a panic attack before my surgery. Everyone else ignored me,,, he got me through that. I will be forever grateful that he is a compassionate human being. He’s done amazing work with deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s patients. He’s an amazing physician, surgeon and person.
Please,,,, don’t become one of the many asshats. Become one of the rare compassionate ones. Thx
My son had a 6cm vestibular schwannoma that required several complex and lengthy (9 hours, 16 hours, and 8 hours) surgeries to fully debulk, plus a nerve anastomosis. The lead neurosurgeon on his case was just amazing, we are so grateful to him. He is incredibly intelligent and committed to his surgery, but also kind and compassionate. He said he was most proud of how the surgical team, comprising different specialities (paediatric neurosurgery, ENT, tumour specialists, paediatric anaesthesiologists) came together to ensure a successful outcome in a rare and complex case. Hats off to you, I wish you every success in your chosen field 🎓
It's just distilled exhaustion concentrated by contempt for every other specialty. You'll have no problem developing it, good luck!
Hilarious as always!
I'd love to see Johnathan go to therapy someday...
Oh yes please!
Yes please!!!!
Jonathan doesn’t need to go to psychiatry. He is perfect in every way.
Second this petition!!
You mean when the psychiatrist goes to Johnatan
The residents pay rent on the blanket warmer! :-)
(And the psychiatrist is apparently ok with that.)
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Gotta prioritize your battle!
Blanket warmer sleep is the best sleep. Sometimes they bribe the charge nurse to hang a liter of LR to go in during their nap, and they not only sleep like a baby angel, they awake refreshed and ready to go!
Wait, so what happens when a neurosurgeon stares at another neurosurgeon?
A neurologist is born
Overwhelming imposter syndrome in both leading to a competitive drive to establish superiority.
@@DGlaucomflecken 😂😂😂 I love this
The same thing that happens when you divide by zero or put 2 metal detector together.
Oh this happened once, they called it the Big Bang
The "don't prep psychiatry for a craniotonomy" & "for the last time, psychiatry is not a neurological disease" got me good as a Psych student.
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They got me good as someone with psych issues lmao
Please do 'the Psychiatrist goes to therapy" video. You're a legend!!
I’d love to see that too.
Yes, I asked that, too!
“I increase my microdose of lithium whenever I feel the call of the void”
@@IdkIdk-pv1mx "psychiatry, it's extremely inappropriate to self-prescribe"
"you're one to talk"
psychiatry: snorting cocaine
yes please, psych resident here waiting for that
I watch these almost always immediately after they are posted and it's so satisfying. They're so funny. Thanks for your hard work Dr. G!
I appreciate it
I said these exact words to my preceptor literally 2 minutes and 32 seconds ago
I used to be a caretaker of a neurosurgeon’s home for a few years
he was one of the best in his field
He had a very beautiful house in a wealthy neighborhood
This hits home more than you think
He never came home in the time I was employed by him he maybe stayed in his house once
I worked there so long I almost forgot what he looked like b
That's sad. Did he have children?
@@wisdomasculture3173 not that I know of
“My direct gaze results in overwhelming imposter syndrome” you ever feel something on a very deep level
As a Psy.D I felt the impact of Neuro's gaze through my phone's screen.
Sir, I work with neurosurgeons for a living, and I'll have you know that-
you absolutely nailed this, thank you, I'm sending it to all my co-workers in the dept immediately.
We even have one doc that the running joke is the idea that he'll go to the pre-op area and just grab any patient he can rather than go home. Head canon for the same doc - Dr. Smith from plastics once shared a KitKat with NS doc, and now that's why that plastics doc is ALWAYS the one invited for co-surgeries.
LMAO xDDD
Never underestimate the power of a candy bar when your coworkers are hangry. I learned that lesson years ago during critical care fellowship and started buying bite-sized assorted chocolate in bulk for morning rounds 😀
That’s adorable
@@Avarren while reading your reply, Bonnie Tyler's "I Need a Hero" started playing in my head immediately!
@@lapislazarus8899 The ICU nurses where I did my residency still reminisce about the goodies I routinely brought them 😂
"For the last time, psychiatry is not a surgical disease" OMG!
As a psychiatrist, I agree 😜
I'm 3 months from deciding between psychiatry and neurosurgery and this pretty much sums up the conflicting thoughts in my mind. Well done!
Psychiatry. Medicine, work life balance and working in a field that badly requires good doctors for a very vulnerable and overlooked patient population, what more could someone want. Plus you get to work with some pretty awesome people. 😏
@@SRR-rh7id appreciate that!
My greatest wishes whatever you choose! It’s never tiring to see those launching headfirst to uncover the most complex thing in the universe...cheers!
Those two fields are so different. The fact that you are deciding between them makes me think that you really need to gather more information.
@@jnick5358 agreed, omw to subIs which should help
I was a neurosurgeon and lived like this for a long time. I don't know 5 days in a row but I definetely kept changing ORs due to continuous flow from my ED and elective cases combined for3 days, 2 hrs sleep every now and then. Daily dexamethasone injections around 10.30 AM when cortisol starts to drop and I start feeling exhausted. Now I quit and planning for another specialty, just realized I don't want to spend my life like that. Also looking at colleagues and other people like they are not important is toxic. Most of my NS friends got a divorce at least once. It took me 2 painful years after quitting ns to realize that. I wish I never chose NS in first place.
Could you please elaborate on this? I would like to hear more about the lifestyle of neurosurgery
Why don’t you just open your private practice and work normal hours rather than in a hospital?
I've got really different problems and regrets but if you happen to see this, hope you are in a better place these days.
I actually have a Neuro-vascular Surgeon and he's one of my favorite Drs! His bedside manner is amazing. He gets my jokes and is able to joke back. Also, I was in the ER once for severe migraine issues that he was concerned were vascular in nature, he actually came down to the ER from his very palatial 4th floor office and sat and talked with me for quite a while. He's the head of the number one stroke team in the state. Clearly he's a one in a million, actual personable neurosurgeon.
And then there's my plain, regular neurologist. Who has no personality, no compassion and has given up on me, in person, on 3 separate occasions. He just said he had no idea what my issue was, my problems are too complex and just turned and walked out the door.
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): I've read that a lot of neurologists are like that to migraneurs. I'm sorry you had to deal with that, hopefully yr receiving good treatment now. Migraines can be so disabling.
Excellent use of the word "palatial"!
I have multiple types of head pain, including what I now know are primary stabbing headaches/icepick headaches (quite aptly named). When I described them as best I could to one of my past neurologists, she looked at me, raised a very skeptical eyebrow, and stated "I have absolutely *no* idea what you're talking about.". She then turned on her heel, strode away, and that was my last visit with her. I've seen a plethora of doctors in my life, but rarely have I felt so stupid, humiliated, judged, etc. by one.
Is it really so hard to say "I'm sorry, but I can't think of anything that matches the pain you're describing. I can refer you to someone who might, though," and then do so? Especially since years later, another neurologist with horrible bedside manner did just that, which is how I finally found out what they're called. I mean, he did it after he made me cry twice, but still.
Problem too complex for a neurologist reminds me of the auto mechanic who I watch here on UA-cam who just this very day completed the diagnosis on a car's problems and traced the issue to a bad solder joint on a fuse box component. This car had even been to the dealer who couldn't diagnose the issue.
This guy is the go to guy for hard issues. He diagnosed another issue that another dealer ran a parts cannon on and located the issue once he checked on a ground strap that had corroded in 3 years!
Giving up on a patient says you don't know how to do your job to start with and you don't know how to try out some cross-discipline consulting to see if the issue crosses over disciplines.
"No! Do not prep your psychiatrist for a craniotomy!" Has become my new favorite line 😂
Coming from someone who would have died from a subdural hematoma, thank you to all the neurosurgeons out there who are scrubbed and prepped for their next patient at all times🥰
My craniotomy was forty-two years ago, I was just a toddler so I don't even remember my surgeon.
Bless our family's ped neurosurgeon! He had a bank of monitors AT HOME connected to monitors of his patients. This was back in the early 90s. Watching these monitors, he saw my then 4 y/o crashing 12 hrs post op. There is something to say for ped neurosurgeons blurring of work-life balance. BTW, he took up pogo sticking (with a helmet, naturally) & was a huge advocate for ALL parents to give it a try.
After just finishing a 17 hour surgery day in a Neuro theatre, I can deeply relate to this.
That "Yet" for his own personal operating room was pristine
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Hilarious . It was one time I saw that neurosurgery was asked to come to Pediatric ICU and when they came , they came is surgical gowns from their OT itself. These guys are legends and not to be messed with.
I love the idea of mandatory therapy sessions in a hospital to deal with dysfunctions within and amongst doctors
45 yrs nursing, 38 of them in the OR. Showed your "turnover time" to some of the staff and docs at work. Hilarious! Thank you. We need the comic relief!
To this day, I still cherish one of the greatest days I had during my internship was assiting the same neurosurgeon from the morning, through the evening, all the way to my night shift; I entered so many surgeries that the anesthesio resident knew my name and already was joking with me and remember when she said "how you doing, Tired as f*ck I guess" and the neurosurgeon was so nice and explained everything to me while operating with hard rock and progressive rock on the back ground!!
I am a doctor, but my daughter was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma (after ordered the MRI because her doctor and a neurologist would not) at age 8. Turns out that I was in the same class in med school as he was. He checked on her every day at 5 am and again around 8 pm. Even as the patient’s mom, I was concerned if he ever went home. Anyway, we are eternally grateful, my daughter is now a Sophomore in college!
There should be a warning ‘Do not eat or drink before the video starts’ before every video. I almost spit out my coffee. 😆
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I was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and had my first brain surgery at 3 weeks old. Now, as a 15 year old who is otherwise pretty healthy, I am so thankful to God and my neurosurgeon. Now I am planning to be a peds nurse because of all the times I’ve had nurses take care of me.
"they pay rent on that blanket warmer," almost spat my coffee with that one 😂. Love your content dude. It always brightens my day.
"For the last time, psychiatry is not a surgical disease!"
António Egas Monis (pioneer of frontal lobotomy) had never heard such bullshit before
He also came up with cerebral angiography. You win some, you lose some.
I would rather have a beer in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy
Omg it’s so true. I remember as a med student, the neurosurgery attending looked straight through us like we didn’t exist 😂
AS an OR nurse all I have to say is 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love your video's. The first on I watched was Turnover time. You were spot on and our surgeons thought it was funny too. Of course there were a few we did not show it to.🤣
At risk of repeating myself, BRILLIANT!
Especially the prep for craniotomy 😂
"I don't have an operating room there... YET" when I tell you I wheezed
you had me at subletting the blanket warmer!😸
The best part about neurosurgeons “living in the operating room” is when they don’t plan out their cases to coincide with how many surgical trays the hospital has and how long it takes to reprocess them: Cleaning Disinfecting/Assembling/Sterilizing! 🙃
As someone who doesn’t work in medicine, I wanna try sleeping in a blanket warmer. Sounds comfy.
True story (as told to me 3rd party....) Had a friend in urology residency. He was having lunch with a neurosurgeon resident. The neurosurgeon resident told my friend he was quitting residency and going into psychiatry. My friend was utterly shocked - why would you quit neurosurgery!!!!!!! One sentence.
It
Wasn't
Invasive
ENOUGH....
That wisdom is diabolical 😅
Really contextualizes that time the dr told us my dad's surgery had been 'lovely' and he looked forward to the next one in a few months' time
Every single line of the neurosurgeon made me think for a quick second. This was absolutely brilliant!
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god this video had me in absolute stitches! i've been yearning for more wholesome comedy surrounding occupational situations after having burned myself out watching so many shows focused on shock humor and gratuitous violence. its a nice switch in comedic effect.
Bwahaha....i can relate 😂😂😂.my husband is a neurosurgeon and we ophthalmologists piss them off🤭🤣🤣
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Me (a psychiatrist) and my best friend (a neurosurgeon) are gonna use the video references for a long time
Dr Glaucomaflecken deserves a Nobel Prize in medicine just for this series. ❤️
As someone with a neurosurgeon as a father, I felt this. Thank God I ignored the call!
"Paying rent" on the blanket warmer, ....that got me, LOL.
I think that's the best therapy session yet!
Keep up the great work
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To be fair the blanket warmer is the best spot in any hospital. I legitimately thought about using my warming oven as a blanket warmer earlier today.
I fear the day I meet my first neurosurgeon in rotations
Take your skin suit with you. You will need a thicker skin.
I literally know nothing about medicine but I still laugh hysterically at this. It also simultaneously makes me want to go into medicine and stay as far away from it as possible.
Well that went about as well as could be expected…😂😅
This was so satisfying to watch. At least neurosurgery came to the the therapy session 🤣🤣
I'm a hydrocephalus patient, I NEEDED THIS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Yes, I sublet"
And that's when I died
Psychiatry ... Can you tell me, does the personality disorder choose the specialty, or the specialty develop the personality disorder? Question from a psychologist 🥴😅
Not a psychiatrist (although an absolute nerd), but which personality disorder? Because by god are there many that could be factored into this question
Edit: furthermore, I’d advice against saying “the personality disorder choose the specialty” as that may objectify your disordered clients, wouldn’t you say? With all due respect, I think the word you’re looking for is “determines”
@@thevoiceinyourhead7215 dude learn how to read a room...
@@freudianchipdip I really should, thanks for the reminder
The personality disorder chooses the specialty, definitely. The general favorites in medicine are Borerline, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Narcissistic.
Source- am a psychiatry resident
@@sarahstevens1199 I wouldn’t think that Borderline personality disorders would function in high pressure medical careers
I love these skits. Plz keep them up! 😂😁❤
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"That's my wife and young child" 😂
I would be interested for the Chaotic Good med student mafia to go to therapy.
this one was so good i could not stop laughing, Jonathan might be my favorite character but neurology is by far the funniest
Neurology and neurosurgery are two totally different fields.
@@gerardacronin334 had a bad day?
@@zenks5883 No, just a fact filled day. Just sharing knowledge with you. You’re welcome.
I was looking for neurosurgeon goes to therapy earlier today... found the neurologist instead! here we are now
“Why would I go home? I don’t have an operating room there.” That was the best part
The sudden appearance of the mask, gown and clippers took me out 🤣🤣🤣.
This is amazing! Neurosurgeon seems so out of touch and funny and weird, I love it! 😂
What happens when you put a neurologist and a neurosurgeon in the same room together? This isn't the setup for a joke. I want to know.
They get married. Search up Dr. Rutkowski.
I don’t know, but I remember when our neurosurgeon left, a hospital administrator thought the neurologist could fill in for him. That shows you how little hospital administrators know!
The neurosurgeon turns animals into vegetables and the neurologist waters them
@@murraysolomon4924 LMAO 😂😂
The psychiatrist be sounding so confused and appalled by the behavior he sees 😭😂 I love it 🙌🏾
As a neurosurgeon, I take absolutely no offense with this. Well done.
Amazing. Neurosurgeon is my favorite character. Or bone bro...
got a good laugh out of this one, still a baby in the medical world as a student nurse and i love it when i get the jokes
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Legend has it that you need to use a flashlight to see a neurosurgeon's ego.
Brings a whole new meaning to picking each others brains.
As a neurosurgeon, this is completely inaccurate. Doing only 100 surgeries per week is unacceptable.
Anesthesia here. Pro tip. The drape blocks the gaze. If I have to go mobile, the Sudoku puzzle at eye level works well.
We in hospital have a Neurologist- Neurosurgery Power Couple. I was so confused with them both. Seems like both have their home time in and arround neurology ward
I have gradually got addicted to these!
💚❤if I ever opted ophthalmology in my residency, it will be because of you
This was hilarious doc🤣 GGs👍
I don't deserve to be here either lol, I'm just a librarian assistant with a great taste in humor❤
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"noO! do not prep ypur psychiatrist for a craniotomy" might be my new favorite quote that I'll never get to say outloud
TY YOU MAKE MY DAY. I WORK IN THE MEDICAL FIELD AND YOU ARE SO CLOSE LOL TO REALITY.😂
After completing 2 months of neurosurgery posting during my MS training, I relate 💯 % to this very funny.
Prepping psychiatrist with a trimmer 😂
Very funny content.
Keep it up.
The neurosurgeon should have more interactions with the neurologist. It be quite the show!
I'm interviewing for jobs at a hospital this week, watching your videos for comfort... uh, and research
I don’t have any medical understanding of medicine but your videos are always funny and enjoyable so everyone has a laugh!
I'm afraid if the next one is gonna be "the Psychiatrist goes to therapy"
Yes, I sublet 😭😂😂😂
"Yet..." icing on the cake
You definitely nailed this one!!! 🤣❤️