Calling a Psychiatrist

Who's crazy now?

[Puffy]

To be fair to Mr. Jones, I'd also be crazy if I spent over a year in the hospital and got afflicted with every ailment known to modern science.

[thecodellama]

"Hey Mike, I got Psychology on the line here." Hope you enjoyed burning that bridge xD

[LadyRad]

Did you call them psychology?! No more consults for you…😂😂

[gummygrenade]

I love how he said “I got Psychology on the line, ” when it’s Psychiatry, which, granted, are somewhat similar, but are completely different.

[lewlavabra]

psychiatry is one of the biggest "grey areas" in medicine, it isn't as clear-cut as other somatic specialties, and therefore vastly misunderstood. i'm glad two of my best friends are currently specializing in that field (i work at the ER) bc their perspective helps me realize a lot of things about what psychiatrists do, when to ask for a consult, what to expect in terms of treatment etc

[Rhobyn]

Once did a consult where the only info I got beforehand was "Pat. is thinking about the future."
Thanks, doc. I guess confirming a brain is a start...

[TheRealityfades]

Poor Mr Jones. He has so many afflictions and never seems to get out of the hospital. Does he even have family?

[royce]

This really hurts a lot. While I’m laughing at this skit, I know a lot of people who have been hurt by this thinking. This is a serious issue in healthcare. For some reason, doctors off the clock understand that people sometimes act “crazy” or sad. Many doctors have serious mental issues themselves!

But on the clock, it’s common to legitimately traumatize patients by stripping them of agency and treating normal emotional responses as being insane. I know of a few people who have tried to seek help, only to be treated as incompetent animals just because they are going through a tough time. This can give a patient medical related PTSD and make them not want to seek medical help in the future.

On the whole, this is a super important skit and I hope that med students in the comments will keep this is mind as they enter the workforce :)

[Alex-opty]

A good chunk of psych consults I saw as a student:

-Hey this patient is sad because something devastating happened in their lives. Can you fix it?
-Hey this patient isn't compliant with what we want them to do. Maybe they have a psych problem. Can you fix it?

[ZanderSabbag]

That "psychology on the line" hurt so bad, oh my God, I must be charcoal now, cause that burned me damn

[usagixmochi]

"Ah yeah patient looking sad and depressed"
"Oh no. Any reason why?"
"Idk man he did get diagnosed with cancer doe"
"🤨 you think it's connected?"

[Lucy-fnrj]

my mother is a social worker and in her opinion, no one should be assessed for capacity in the hospital. she calls it “hospital psychosis” — stick anyone in a boring, strange place where they can’t get more than 4 hours of sleep at a time and after a few days, they won’t know which way is up

[sopyleecrypt]

Ooh and the sting in the tail... PSYCHOLOGY 😂

[Briaaanz]

Lol, I love "I got PSYCHOLOGY on the line for you".

[julia.]

have you noticed that he agreed to do all these consults? it makes this video sooo real :D psychiatrists rarely refuse consults even tho 50% of em aren't necessary (and it feels like 50% isn't high enough number :D)

[ludmilamaiolini]

I’m currently doing a rotation in a general hospital for my residency. This is so accurate. Medicine doctors know very little of psychiatry and ask consults for the dumbest things 🥲

[yaboicolleen]

oh god the way you called him psychology at the end. shit, i don't even work in medicine and I wanted to smack you through the phone lol

[tejoned]

I would love one for inpatient Palliative Care, please! We get asked to perform miracles in terms of goals of care, but then we get a lot of time to meet with patients and family/friends/etc. I love getting "hey! Mr. Jones isn't a candidate for surgery and likely has days to weeks left...can you clarify goals of care (whispers: and tell him?)"

[Teresa-bpzl]

The amount of weird stares people give me when I say I've got an appointment with the psychiatrist 🙄
They think psychology is for "normal" mental health issues and psychiatry is for "crazy" people. I always simplify it to "the psychiatrist is the drug dealer of the psychology", they seem to get it

[nowasart]

as someone who was admitted into the psych ward and met a non-psych doctor i can vouch for this. he was like "so.... why do you want to kill yourself? don't you know that ... you'd, like, die???"

and i was like "yeah no, i think i got that. that's kinda the point."

laughing abt it now but it was bad lol