Doctor Reacts To LOST TV Show Medical Scenes

I’ve never seen Lost, but I’ve been getting all sorts of comments lately asking me to react to the medical scenes. Turns out there were a ton of medical moments throughout the series, anchored by Matthew Fox as Dr. Jack Shephard. I reacted to the opening pilot sequence on the beach, Evangeline Lilly as Kate stitching Jack’s wound, Jack saving Charlie with some chest compressions/chest thumps, Sayid sealing Charlie’s head wound with fire, Jack performing spinal surgery on Ben’s tumor, Juliet giving Jack an appendectomy, and the wild “Do Not Harm” episode where John Locke brings Boone in with a broken leg while Claire is giving birth. So much drama. Any scenes I missed that you want me to react to in a future video? Drop them down below!

Special thanks for helping source these scenes to Brian Tochterman Jr. Erin O’Conner, Tara Bennett, and the LOST SUPPORT GROUP on Facebook!

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[Michelle-hwwj]

I like the way Doctor Mike critiques the chest compressions for not being deep enough as if they’re going to do full chest compressions on an actor whose heart is beating lol

[Crazael]

To be fair, when he's telling the pregnant woman she'll be fine, he's probably more concerned about her panicking than he is with accurately diagnosing her.

[itsjustbrandy]

I can't believe they cut out the part when Jack gets pissed and just punches Charlie's chest and he just magically starts breathing. Gosh, I miss Lost.

[hiromizin]

*Doctor is forced to do a surgery in a man who kidnapped people of his camp including children and is only doing it because his girlfriend asked, so he cuts Ben's kidney and starts punching everyone around to have a chance to get away*
Dr. Mike: this is unethical.

[That-Ginger-Chick]

"Don't worry the doctor told me all the bleeding is internal, that's where the blood's supposed to be" [Brooklyn 99]

[tonythreepies]

Mike is always so surprised that the baby isn't actually new born as if casting directors should just be waiting around maternity wards to snatch babies as they are born for scenes like this. XD

[katies]

Jack trying to micromanage his own appendectomy will always just kill me 😂 classic Jack “I can fix it” Shepherd

[LBullockPW]

Dr. Mike watching Ben’s surgery: That’s unethical.
Everyone else: Finally. Someone out maneuvers Ben.

[jhawkk]

As a huge fan of LOST, I can tell you for sure that Dr. Jack could revive a man who has been pronounced dead for more than 48 hours.

[Deefoh]

Doctor Mike every time he reviews chest compressions “why aren’t these actors breaking each others ribs for accuracy?!”

[droxina]

Mike: “Why aren’t the actors actually injecting each other with lidocaine? This is so unrealistic.”

[Jacobmelrose]

But what if you say "Come on" a forth time? Surely it helps eventually.

[fredrik]

*Actor forgets he is acting and starts doing real chest compressions, resulting in a broken rib*
Dr. Mike: Now that is what I am talking about!

[Crystalus]

I completely forgot about lost, such a good show "he could be a doctor, he's dressed like one, he looks like one... he's heroic"

[ttff]

Man I love when Mike misses the fact that this show was created during the early 2000s where we were taught we needed to breathe into peoples mouths.

[mastersKaaP]

My dad was in the military (around 1970s) where he befriended a medic in his squad and they still occasionally hang out and tell some "war stories". He once told me that they actually trained to do this kind of "direct" blood transfusions in emergency situations. Every soldier wore their identification, blood type, chronic illnesses, allergies, etc. on dog tags around their neck and in a situation where someone's life depended on a blood transfusion (which I'd imagine would be fairly common when there's bombs and bullets flying around) and they could not do an immediate evac or didn't have blood supply on hand, they would find someone with a compatible blood type and use a special kind of tube that allowed a direct blood transfusion from a donor's vein to the recipient. As he told me he hasn't actually needed to do it himself, since they always had sufficient medical supplies at hand or some kind of medical vehicle close-by which was fully kitted out, but he does know of a different medic who trained with him and had to use this method in a hostile environment on someone who lost a leg to a landmine going off in close proximity and it saved the guy's life. It bought them enough time to move him to a safe evacuation point and allow them to transport the soldier to hospital by helicopter, almost like a action movie.

Maybe this would be an interesting guest to get for a video one day. An actual army medic to tell us of some of the stuff they have to do in combat situations to save patients from explosion or gunshot wounds.

[TheDakkaman]

Let’s be honest: Jack having X-Ray Vision and a clairvoyant capacity to diagnose patients would still be far from the most inexplicable thing to show up in Lost.

[Anubis]

The thing is: If the Island doesn't want you to die, you won't - no matter how bad Jack's chest compressions are.

[xiphiasoffishwell]

A good breakdown of this entire show:

"Where is Jack?! Someone get Jack!"

[ext_biglobsonly]

god this makes me wish I could watch lost for the first time again this show was so good