Technically homer did sign off on the kidney transplant. He just ran away before they could start but he never actually told them not to do it. Sounds like a legal gray zone, especially if they didn’t have time for him to wake back up
10:20 in the Netherlands, by default you are a donor. You get a letter at age 18 informing you that you can change that. I personally think that is a good system. ( For context, you aren't considered a donor before the age of 18)
Yeah um, no wonder that's a law in Netherlands since they also practice eugenics - there's a reason why your country literally has the lowest global birthrate for down syndrome. Keep that in mind when you think it's a good system that someone is an automatic organ donor against their will if they get seriously injured and die.
Fun fact, in my country everyone is automatically an organ donor. So if someone is in an incident and suffers fatal injuries someone actually gets their organs if there is a need and they are a match.
I was going to donate a kidney to a cousin's husband, but I couldn't get cleared because of my own health issues. It still makes me sad, I just wish I could have helped. He did pass away, this year.
I was on dialysis for 10 years (I'm 36) and finally got my transplant on 10/01/2019 (3 years this Saturday!!) And every single thing Doctor Mike is saying, I've experienced. I was diagnosed with FSGS when I was 19, totally random, no one else in my family had kidney problems. I was actually just talking to someone about my transplant experience and it brought so much joy to my heart! PLEASE take care of your kidneys, people, the best you can!! Dialysis is NOT fun, I missed out on a LOT of life and it's STILL a struggle trying to enjoy it some days, but I'm very grateful.
@Jess My 2 Cents Thank you so much, and you as well! Also, just one thing I did hate as well, I had a hemodialysis catheter, it was so inconvenient 😂 it was right in my chest.
@Brandon Kelly that's so wonderful!! I'm glad you're feeling much better. Yea I was REALLY worried about how I was gonna handle the pills because I suck at being consistent but it's like 2nd nature to me at this point. Continue to take care of yourself and that kidney!! You're young so you have a lot of life to live 😁
I ma grateful Doc Mike took this show with the idiocy in which is was designed. In cartoons not one ever dies, or if they do it is until the next one. At least cats have to die 9 times in cartoons.
The day I turned 18 I signed up to be an organ donor. There is absolutely no reason not to be one, you won't get your organs taken from you when you're alive and you can still have an open casket funeral if that's what your family wants. What's your reason for not being a donor?
About 30 years ago a friend of a friend was in a freak accident. The way it was told to me was that he appeared to be brain dead and so “they” started harvesting his organs before he was pronounced dead, and didn’t treat him. This terrified me for many years into not becoming an organ donor. Fortunately, I finally decided that it must’ve been BS and now I am one. Lord only know what actually happened, but these stories do get around.
“If a person’s talking, their heart’s beating”. That line sticks with me since I’m dealing with anxiety and shortness of breath (even though my oxygen levels are normal). Went to the er twice only for them to say it’s anxiety.
I went through the same thing in 2010. Repeated anxiety and full blown panic attacks that sent me to the er. I went at least a half dozen times and everything was fine. Heart, lungs... nothing was wrong, physically. It literally was 'all in my head', so to speak. I've suffered from anxiety since 1994 but this was the worst it had ever been. Turns out I was on the wrong medication. I had been DX w depression when I actually had BPII due to untreated ADHD. I'm 49 now and doing much better now that I'm on the correct meds. Anyway, just thought I'd share in hopes it eases your mind in some way. Be well 💛
You're hands down my favorite youtuber!! You're hilarious, kind, patient, and to top it all off, a doctor!! I appreciate all your work going into your videos (and it's amazing how you find time in your busy schedule!) and I wish you much luck in the future!
12:18 thanks for the definition here…I remember the first time I ever heard the term Star Trek IV - The voyage home McCoy is in a hospital, encounters an older ladies moaning on a bed, claims she was there for kidney dialysis, McCoy is incredulous at the “dark ages” nature of medicine he’s encountering compared to what he’s used to, he gives the lady a pill, telling her to swallow it and walks off Short time later tha same lady is in a wheelchair, happy and vibrant, telling everyone who will listen “doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney”
I think it would be hilarious if a cartoon had an actual realistic doctor who is just in awe about how some of these injuries came to be and then the doctor freaks out when it heals in true cartoon fashion 😂
Question for Dr Mike: What do you do if a person is unconscious, but their heart is still beating, and they're still breathing. I think a lot of doctors tend to almost only talk about life or death situations.
- Call for help, (As in shout HELP!) - Secure area if needed, without putting yourself in danger, cannot help if you are injured. Or get others to do it (Depending somewhat on what is going on, again, don't put yourself fin danger) Assuming you've decided professional help is needed: Call emergency services (better yet, get others to call, but DO point at a specific person and say YOU CALL or people might just become bystaders - Check if their breathing is reasonably normal. If there is a long gap between breaths you might need to do mouth-to-mouth, and be prepared to do CPR if they stop breathing altogether. [Sometimes if a person is semi-conscious, especially if under the influence of drugs, or in great pain, you might have to REMIND them to breathe] - Breathing OK?; Talk to the person, touch them, and if no response: Shake them (skip if you suspect spine injury!) and/ or if needed pinch them , or rub your knuckles over their chestbone once, HARD. You aren't trying to "fix" anything by doing this, just checking if you can get a response. Sometimes people are too "out" to communicate, but will groan/flinch at pain. - When you touched the patient: Did they feel warm / cold compared to what you would expect considering the environment? Are they coldsweating? Give ant relevant info to emergency services - If you are happy that they are reasonably OK at the moment, take your time to check if they have medical tags. Might be around their next, or a card in their wallet. Typically epilepsy or diabetes, but I am guessing there are others as well.
not a doctor but a second year student nurse: do your normal DRABC stuff. any danger nearby to you or the patient? are they responding to you? are their airways unobstructed? can they breathe/are they breathing? what's their circulation like? put them in the recovery position, and try and get them to respond, if no response don't panic, as long as they're breathing. phone an ambulance and stay with them till the paramedics arrive. hope this helps :)
Doctor Mike, I watch you everyday, and learn something new every time I watch you. I want to be a radiologist when I’m older, and you are definitely helping me with that. I watch some of your videos from four years ago, and yet I still learn something new! I love being around people who have experience, because I love telling people what I know so far, and I like taking in the feedback I get from people with experience. I want to be a doctor for Halloween too! I love your reaction videos. I could watch you for days. I have a question. I have a broken toe, how could anybody with experience help me? What would happen if I broke my vain?
I want to see a Doctor Mike Reacts to The Good Doctor's Islands, Part 2 - I am curious how medically accurate that conjoined twin drama is. It seemed like so much - a transplant, a separation, a rejoining, a miraculous waking up from coma... not to mention the legal/ethical dilemmas
When I went into brain surgery my doctor also encouraged me to fill out my organ donor card. I took it as cynical humor and responded accordingly in a joking way. I think he was still serious though and with good reasons. I still have all of my organs... So no harm in filling those card!
I actually got a tailbone injury and I bruised my coccyx pretty bad. I was thrown off my horse and landed bottom first. I have pain if I sit down for more than an hour. Took physical therapy and had electroshock therapy. Took away some of the pain (I used to have pain almost 24/7 if I sat down), but I now only have pain if I sit down for more than an hour.
5:00 it's funny to me that you explained the purpose of chest compression. just a few weeks ago a high schooler O.D. on fentanyl. When the boy's friend dumped him at his house and left the mom found find so he had a rapid heart beat. the started chest compression to slow it down. my only thought was how disappointed Dr. Mike would be.
Fun thing about organ donation, here in the Netherlands everyone is registered as an organ donor unless specified otherwise when you turn 16 (or maybe 18 not sure about that one) and there's also an option that you can get your family to decide for you when you died. There's also an option to only donate your body to science if you want to. I think it's an amazing system, to make sure that more organs are available for people who need them. It also makes more people think about what they want to happen with their organs after they die
@palomita palomita 5 years is the max, most people suffer rejection way before that, sometimes after months. It's probably like knowing you will die from cancer over a longer period. Must be hell honestly.
The whole "I don't want other people to have my organs" reminds me of "If I can't have her, no one can" 🤣 Man, why be selfish even after death? You could save a person. And you decide to let them die? That's like saying that you'd rather burn all of your posessions, including your house, than having another person use it. Selfish till the end, it makes no sense.
@Stacy HereIAm It's not forced if you have the right to choose (and we have it). It's just easier to say that everybody wants, bc that's the most convenient decission if you like helping people, and I like to think that most people are selfless enough. Like, why on earth would someone let a person die bc they don't want to share an organ that they can no longer use bc they are dead? If we put ourselves in the shoes of the sick person, It's a pretty easy choice to make: die, or die while helping someone survive. I get really mad whenever I'm watching a show like Grey's anatomy and the family ot the dead person doesn't want others to have the organs. It's like... man... are you really leaving someone to die when you could save them? The other person is already gone. I understand there are a lot of feelings, but you could prevent another family from going through the heartbreak, the right choice is obvious :/ just imagine being able to save another human being, even after death. It would mean that you haven't died in vane.
@liam nehren That's really expensive, and the black market would still exist bc killing people is cheaper. Letting people die just to make science go faster won't work bc there is an alternative: using every salvagable organ. Would you be willing to die? Wold you reject a "used" organ hoping they develop an organ just for you fast enough?? I don't think so. Would you die in peace knowing there's a person that could've given you 5 more years with their organs but decided not to just because??? I want science to advance fast, but I won't let a person die if they can use my otherwise useless organs.
I was seeing an episode from some drama, there was a patient whose heart stopped in the meddle of a surgery and the doctor did Chest Compression. I was like "Wow, If Dr mike saw that he would be very excited and happy 😂"
For the solar eclipse one, me and a friend made a mistake of looking directly at it in highschool, if didn't do severe damage to our eyes but we saw reddish splotches for a solid few minutes before our vision went completely back to normal
Love these videos! I love your reaction videos! I love how they make more information easy to understand without withholding information. I hope you have a splendid day!
There is a medical TV show that is on it's last season this year, which would be great for you to review next it is called Doc Martin, it's a British comedy drama, he was a vascular surgeon, but becomes a GP (family medicine Doctor same as you), the show is medically accurate, and to top it off it is hilarious.
@Alex I can't find the episode where that happens, but have checked with someone else who recalled it happening. Aside from that, there's just one or two things happening every episode that I notice that aren't right. For example, S9E4 he puts a neck brace on a trauma victim but is quite rough. S9E5 he inserts a cannula but doesn't flush it before use and doesn't wear gloves or clean the site. Another episode he performs a lumbar puncture in the GP surgery. It's nothing major for a TV show. Most of the medical speech is accurate, there's just a lot of stuff that wouldn't really happen. And as for Dr Ellingham not doing procedures involving blood, he frequently does and pushes through his discomfort and vomits right after. For example, S8E8 in which he performs emergency vascular surgery in a hotel during a GMC hearing. Like I said, I enjoy Doc Martin. I just find it difficult to describe any medical drama as "medically accurate." Probably more accurate and realistic than shows like Grey's Anatomy or House. It would be fun for Dr Mike to react to it, as it's primary care with a twist because it's in a rural setting with a GP that has a blood phobia.
@Bee King which episode does that happen in because I've watched every single Doc Martin episode and there is not one where he re-attaches a finger. You are talking about Doc Martin aren't you, you know the one in cornwall a British dramedy?
Thing is, my friend's brother actually lives without one of his kidneys. In the process of his birth, on of them ruptured and he is thriving! Also, INE of his legs is longer than the other, but I doubt he is the only one with that problem 😁👍
4:35 Personally, I recommend trying lidocaine WAY before Tramadol. As a synthetic optímate, it can be extremely addictive to at-risk patients and, in my case as a young adolescent, those around them if they fail to properly store and secure their narcotics, which is very common.
I love how people always say that ''if they see you are an organ donor in the ER, they won't take good care of you". Having worked in the ER for five years and running over a hundred traumas in that time, I don't even know your first name until we get you stabilized and I actually get to talk to your family. Until then you are either "honey, ma'am, sir, or buddy" to me.
That logic doesn't make any sense to me. Why would a medical worker cause someone else to die in order to safe someone else's life? How is the other patient more important than the first one?
@Ivana Mendez Well according to the Sopranos, American EMTs do wallet biopsies so you should do. On a different note, in the UK they do try to establish your identity to access your medical history - patient may have an allergy which you trigger with treatment.
I remember seeing an eclipse and my family took some empty cereal boxes and used those to view it and my parents were super strict about not look at the sky at all during the eclipse, sunglasses and everything, still a super cool experience in my own backyard though
I love that you covered transplants in todays video while watching the SImpsons Medical scenes. I am a kidney transplant recipient and it has been 21 yrs since. I would be honoured to have one of your kidneys, or just a shirt lol my donor aka Mum joked she could get 20 g on the black market for it
My mother was an organ and tissue donor and when she passed in August I was told the general demographic of the recipients- age, sex, and a little about their background. I was also given the option to write to the recipients as well.
Since homer was already on the operating table before he ran away, he likely already signed off on giving his kidney, so the question would be, would him running away after doing that mean that the doctor can no longer take the kidney?
I fractured my coccyx at 13, and it was one of the worst pains I've ever felt! Happened in gym class, and the teacher told me to just walk it off, it wasn't that bad 🙄 But I couldn't sit straight without screaming in pain. My homeroom teacher sent me over to the office, and they called my mom. Immediately went to the doctor, and guess what? It *was* bad! It fractured, and I had to sit on a rubber donut for two months. I also had to take that time out of gym class, and my teacher was convinced I was being overly dramatic and tried to fail me. She was the WORST. It was because of that injury that I had to stop playing soccer, and that absolutely crushed me. Believe your kids when they tell you something is wrong!
actually happened to me too. I don't know if it was actually fractured, but now I think so. I fell on the stairs and it hurt for months, but not at the point of not being able to walk (it must have been really really small). it hurt especially when I got up from the chair. I never had it checked out because it wasn't that bad and I believed it was because I was growing
Kinda the same thing, but when I was 14 or 15, I started having spams in my arms where they would twitch and I dropped stuff. My mom shrugged it off until I dropped to the floor in front of her. Turns out I have epilepsy and those were mini seizures (layman's terms)
I saw the kidney episode when I was really young and it made me super scared about holding in my pee. At all. If I had to hold in my pee at all I was freaking out that my kidneys will soon explode. Good to know that isn't true.
Have you ever watched Star Trek, Doc? It has so many medical scenes (including exobiology) I think you’d find Trek’s 24th century medicine pretty imaginative.
5:27 When there was a solar eclipse in England in 2015. Where I was at, was a layer of light cloud, so through that, we could watch the eclipse occur. And where we were at, it was 85% covered.
The thing that made me sign up as an organ donor was the fact that if I was to die at least someone could benefit greatly from my death despite that I wasn't able to until I was 16 because of the myth that you get worse treatment and yes there are some RARE cases of doctors having alterior motives if doctors have that information and often they don't but when they do it leads to better health care as they want to keep you or specifically your organs in the best possible health so they could eventually be in someone else
11:02 My PT once told me that if you’re a doner and get into an accident there’s a chance they’ll let you die. However given that, that indirectly violates the Hippocratic oath and that my PT spends most of his time in the mountains I take everything he says with a grain of salt.
I was going given tramadol when doctors thought it was safer than oxy, he had me taking 3 tabs a day for two years instead of actually getting my issue addressed and actually told my job nothing was really wrong with me after being hit by two cars. 5 years later, saw a neurosurgeon because I still had no feeling in my hand. Turns out my b-plexus was damaged, olner nerve damaged and impinged and had a grapefruit size of scar tissue in my neck. Felt better but work fired me couldn’t get PT to recover properly
Hi Doctor Mike! I love your channel and i wanted to ask a question. I’ve been diagnosed with eustachian tube dysfunction, because of it my ears pop when i swallow, eat, drink, yawn, and sometimes even talk. I have to suck in through my nose to get my ears back to normal. Will these symptoms go away as i get older? Thanks!
i remember when i was in 1st grade there was a solar eclipse and while we were waiting for the teacher to come with the things you can look at it with, we got impatient and looked through our hats for like a few seconds but then the teacher came and told us all that were gonna turn blind in 10 years cuz we looked at the solar eclipse without proper stuff :D i cried for like two weeks after that before accepting my fate but then maybe in like 3rd or 4th grade i finally realized that it was a weird thing for a teacher to say cuz it wasnt true :’) if what she said was true id turn blind next year lol
I'm a paramedic in the UK and I broke my coccyx back in may. My work only let me have a week off before coming back. Let me tell you sitting in an ambulance seat going at speed was excruciating. Doctor only gave me 1 weeks worth of codeine
so i've come to realize part of my ASD symptoms seems to be difficulty with what i hear is called "interoception?" in my case, i basically never know when i'm thirsty. is there any way i can tell if i should increase my fluid intake to stave off the crippling migraines, and without having to rely on a timer/alarm set every 2h to take a "water break?"
7:22 wow. Back when Homer was a character with morals and values and actually tried to be a good husband and father. Instead of just “Haha dumb doofus bad dad”.
When my father passed away the family of the girl who received his corneas in a transplant reached out to us and invited us to a dinner in his honor. Somehow they did know where the corneas came from. I was a teenager at the time so maybe there were some extra steps in the process my mother never shared, but yeah, they knew who we were and thanked us.
I donated a kidney once, and everyone (the hospital staff, my family, and *especially* the recipient) loved me and treated me like a hero. Unfortunately, they weren't as grateful the next ten times I did it...
Loved his interpretation of the Simpsons especially Homer. Just damaging your tail bone is painful, I know, I fell down the stairs while 4 months pregnant and I was holding my daughter.
Great video!!! In the movie Beast, the first time I saw that movie, there's a moment in the movie and right away thought of you while some chest compressions were being done, there's a GREAT scene, multiple little medical moments, I think it would be cool if you commented on it. Thanks!
0:09 "Well that's not really Gastric Bypass, that's like a sleeve" Uhm actually, it's not like a sleeve, it's called gastric banding. I've undergone gastric sleeve surgery, and that's actually a procedure where they take a portion of the stomach out, thus making the stomach itself smaller
Ohooo Simpsons my favourites 🤣 i enjoyed watching your funny reaction Dr . Mike you videos are always awesome with interesting information about health fact, Thanks Dr. Mike ♥️👌👍
I actually broke my coccyx like 4-5 years ago while messing around. I took a small mattress, cover it in bin-bags and slid down the stairs on it (the bin-bags made it go faster and it was actually my mums idea) and I flew off and landed on the edge of a step it hurt so bad, my mum was laughing (she didn’t know I was actually hurt or had broken something it just looked funny how I flew off) we went to A&E and I couldn’t sit down because it hurt and I was scared I wouldn’t be able to stand back up again 😅 my mum showed the nurse a video of me sliding down the stairs on a mattress and I could see her trying not to laugh 😩 so embarrassing but so funny. I refused to sit on a donut pillow in class out of SHAME and it still hurts sometimes depending on how I sit and for how long 🧍♀️ i can’t do trampolining anymore which I loved at the time
Doctor Mike, I'm new to your videos(which so far I LOVE) and I've got a medical show for you!!! I don't think it's very well know but it's called Red Band Society. To date it remains a favorite show of mine and I'm curious to know your medical opinion on it due to its unique nature. I hope this comment makes it to you and that you keep on doing what you're doing😃
Well, they didn't just "help themselves to a kidney" without approval. They were about to do the surgery, so Homer obviously already signed the agreement. The second one!
It always brings a smile to my face when Dr. Mike fact checks cartoons. Have you seen Disney Pixar Lifted? That poor human is put through the ringer by the alien learning how to do aductions.
OMG, this was great!. I'm learning some educational stuff while watching my favourite show..lol. Ive been a simpsons fan since the 90's. I still rememeber the very first episode i listened to on the AM radio, was the one where Bart ended up in a mental instatution & he met some guy who thought he was MJ..
10:30 you'd think that medical professionals wouldn't over-diagnose and hyper-prescribe when they see a government insurance card either... But no one audits the feds.
