Emergency Medicine Consults

Give him a break, please

[Thanatat_r]

1:57
I love that he didn’t forget to flip one phone upside-down.

[DiiceForeveroO]

0:30 "When would you prefer to yell at me?"

I am adding this to my common speech, thank you.

[Merumya]

I like how hes slowly fighting his caffeine addiction by diluting his energy drink with coke :D

[FenrisZAmarok]

“Is there something going on, or is it Friday afternoon?” Way too true. The number of “my doctor said they called” we get riiiight after 6pm is nuts.

[thesocialjusticewitch]

I don't want a lot out of life, I just want this man to be every one of my doctors/nurses for the rest of my life. Yes, I'll pay for out of network.

[doctorditman]

I’m now a 4 year retired family doc who was in practice for almost 40 years. This is just so unbelievably accurate and true. Glaucomflecken is definitely a genius. And yes, I could tell which specialty he was talking to on each phone call.
Back in 2007 or 2008 at 5:45 pm on a Friday I had a patient with an ophthalmological problem that, while not an absolute emergency, I needed to at least touch bases with the on-call ophthalmologist to make sure my treatment plan was OK till the patient could be seen on Monday morning (I never liked being told “if only you had called me sooner we could have saved the sight in that eye”). Anyway, after 3 unanswered pages and waiting an hour (with the patient still at my office, and since the patient was female having to have a female employee stay late) I was becoming “excited.” The service told me he was at his son’s Little League game up in Chambersburg and was not to be disturbed except for “emergencies.” I asked the service to please tell him the patient and I were now in route to the ball field for his advice. He literally called me back within 3 minutes of that fourth page.

[Alex-rgyb]

The sass and sarcasm Emergency Medicine has is incredible

[julia.goolia]

"Is there something going on? Or is it just a Friday afternoon?"

As a clinic nurse, this is too accurate.😂😂😂

[veevee]

I'm an ER nurse. Last time I worked I had 6 total nurses to run the entire ER. We had a cardiac arrest, a septic 5-year-old, a GI bleed with a hemoglobin of 5, and finally unstable a-fib we couldn't cardiovert and whose pressure was 50 over nothing.

I got reported by the floor for not collecting blood cultures before I sent a perfectly stable patient upstairs. I felt this skit in my soul.

It is also very true that doctors will have us order some things, and we are happy to because it's not laziness, it's because we are all drowning and everybody is dying and oh God there is yet another demented patient wandering the halls whose patient is that?

And yet, we love it. Emergency medicine attracts a very specific kind of crazy that I am happy to live with/suffer from.

[Starguardianbard]

"From a doctor licensed in the US" will never not be funny to me

[rashidawilkinson]

As a former ER Scribe I can confirm this is precise and accurate. Right down to the Red Bull

[quano]

The pure joy on his face when he was calling the derm guy is so beautiful, you could imagine the confusion on the other side.

[rayyt]

0:16 Surgery
0:37 Dermatology
0:41 Cardiology
0:48 Ophthalmology
0:52 Neurology
1:04 Urology
1:25 Ortho
1:33 Internal Medicine
1:46 Ortho
1:57 Medicine and Ortho arguing
2:01 Dentistry
2:04 Nephrology
2:13 Infectious Disease

[caz_tech]

'No pants' time, reserved for non-life-threatening emergencies.

[macmedic]

Dang it, Debbie! You were supposed to “remind” him!

[TheDillyOh]

"No, I didn't just give him 500 of IVF, there are another 2 liters running as we speak."
*furiously typing in the background*

[ninjason]

I’m an ER doc who just worked yesterday and can confirm this is all true. Esp the part about being on the phone all the time. Please, my consulting bros and gals give us some grace.

[JamesThatcher]

My favorite one is, " is there something going on? Or is it just Friday afternoon?"

[positronisomer]

Holding the phones up to eachother is next level funny…and accurate

[ryancantwell-wrkk]

“Hey doc, your patient is here in the ED and isn’t sure why”

-this is so accurate