A Rural Medicine Winter

Texaco Mike and the gang have their hands full this winter

[Bajirkus]

Later, Anesthesia opted to stay in the rural community, as Texaco Mike is far more polite than any surgeon.

[shieraseastar]

Wait a sec...how come we never see Texaco Mike and Jonathan in the same room together AT THE SAME TIME??

[lisacrews]

I came for the rural medicine, I stay for Texaco Mike. Best minor character ever.

[ShawnMcNaughton]

Great short, but now I'm torn between two headcanons... one is a where Texaco Mike was a field medic in the Army and literally knows how to do everything professionally, and owns the clinic as a way to train others and share the workload... the other is that Texaco Mike is just a naturally gifted 'jack of all trades' - he isn't formally trained in medicine, science or engineering, but he thinks that way and figures it out.

[Redluna]

Never had the fact that I grew up in rural farmland reinforced faster than how quick my head snapped up at, "There's nothing to do on a farm in the winter." Even if it does get quiet, that just means people are plotting a way to do something that's probably about to bring them in anyway.

[ronheil]

I was expecting Texaco Mike's anesthesia would involve an empty whiskey bottle.
"You get them drunk first!?!"
"No. More of a hold still, *thwock*, nightey-night kind of method..."
*stares in horrified silence*

[Littlefeen]

Two words: livestock farming.

No days off, no fallow seasons, just the same daily grind of feed and water and more poop than you can possibly imagine. SO much poop...

These rural skits have often been my favorites. Not only are they insanely accurate for the rural life, but they always remind me of my years working at the veterinary hospital. Texaco Mike is spot on for any veterinary staff! If you're working with animals, you'd better have a strong creative streak in you and be able to figure out how to build and adapt anything and everything to suit your immediate needs on the fly, whether it's building a tiny splint for a baby squirrel's leg or figuring out how to re-rig your portable x-ray machine to get that image of that bull's leg without losing your spleen or your staff in the process.

And of course Texaco Mike's propofol turned black. What color do you exoect it to be after he adds the activated charcoal to purify it, since he had to use his own duck eggs to make it?

[thestoryfactory]

Texaco Mike reminds me of a woman we called The Goat Lady when I was a kid. Unassuming. Lived by a dilapidated silo with her goats. Turned out to be one of the most highly educated people in our area. 4-5 Ivy League graduate degrees

[DemonicNightmare]

Texaco Mike is a godsend to rural medicine. Working so hard to fill in the gaps where the American medical system has failed.

[SaltyArmyLightworkerDivision]

As someone who comes from a farming family, there are 2 things you NEVER say out loud to a farmer. "I'm bored" is number 1. "There is nothing to do" is number 2. Both will result in an insane amount of work to make sure you never have these feelings or thoughts again

[Aaron-nekr]

"I thought things would be pretty quiet--"

Did you hear that? That's the sound of everyone who's ever worked ER/EMS whipping around with a glare that should reduce Anesthesia to ash.

[marcidevries]

The snow is waist deep in rural Michigan right now. Feeding the animals and keeping the water in a liquid form takes a lot of time right now. As for crops, it's seed ordering and planning season.

[jayATUK]

"How have you been doing surgeries without a board certified anaesthesiologist?" "We're not sure... Texaco Mike's work is proprietary"
😂 I think that's my favourite bit, but of course the whole skit is great as always

[yochva]

Texaco Mike is the farmer's son who couldn't get his head out of the books and ended up the local expert. "Oh yeah, I can figure that out! I'll get back to you tomorrow."

[michaelmatthews]

As a rural physician working in a town of 3k, 4 hours from the nearest tertiary center, I request a video on the OB care in a rural area. I never thought at this point in time in my career I would be swapping delivery stories with the farmers who are out calving in the subzero degree weather at this time of year, yet here I am.

[lilianleijenaar]

Just here waiting for texaco Mike to take over the world. That man and his fan boat can do anything.

[myrtillegrandesoreilles]

I COMPLETELY lost it at "winter is also the honey do season" "oh like the fruit?" "no like honey can you do this list of projects"

[StephBer]

Texaco Mike is like that Superhero that people here about but never actually see. He arrives, does the job and leaves. True hero.

[therainbowcat]

I love the fact Texaco Mike has a CT-MRI. Not only did he make both himself, but it's a top of the line imaging equipment that has benefits beyond what the two machines can do separately

[sandradavis]

Texaco Mike should remain always an enigma.