Doctor Reacts To FUNNIEST Onion Medical Headlines #1

I've been a fan of The Onion for many years. For those of you unfamiliar, the onion is a satirical newspaper that focuses on current events. I have seen it trick people on Facebook before. Anyway, let's enjoy a nice laugh during a difficult time such as this.

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[clarissarojas]

This video is like when you tell your mom a joke and she turns it into a lecture

[Macapta]

Fav Onion headline ever is “amazing, miracle of birth occurs for 8 billionth time”

[jacob_massengale]

"Seriously injured woman heroically fends off paramedics trying to put her in medical debt"-my favorite

[GoodMorningHikers]

Speaking of wrong grandparents, something like that actually happened to me:

At the elderly home my grandmother is staying at, I visited her one weekend and was waiting in the common room, and the caretaker brought out the wrong grandma. The funny part is both my grandmother and the one they brought out have dementia, so even though I'd never met her, she thought I was a relative and was ecstatic to see me. After the caretaker found the correct grandmother, the three of us sat around and had a wonderful chat. Just me and my two grandmothers.

[dontmindme]

Dr. Mike: freeze-away toe remover

Cinderellas step sisters: **nervous sweating**

[lauragarzon]

Dr Mike: These are just jokes, don't take them seriously
Dr. Mike: *Takes the jokes seriously*

[davidcookmfs]

6:17 I have a badly suppressed immune system. I had a doctor for years who was a professor, and he would bring about a dozen students when seeing me. Of course I had given him permission. He wanted to see how different students handled examining the same patient. So my medical appointments about every three months would go on for a couple of hours. He would have them come in one at a time to do their exam, and then after everyone was done, he would do the exam and narrate everything he was doing and explaining why about everything, and then spend about a half hour having a class discussion. One student from West Africa correctly diagnosed that I had a patch of leprosy starting, and no one else caught it, not even the professor. The thing that tipped him off was that I had a numb patch on my back, and he ordered a test, and that is what it was. Turns out it is still a lot more common in the US than people think, but it is much more common in developing countries, and he immediately recognized it. It is bacterial, and apparently attacks nerves, so the reason that people wind up with wounds is that they don't fell pain where a wound is starting, and it gets worse.

[hexxidelux]

This is concerning. I first heard of the "nutritionists say people who eat right shouldn't poop at all" thing from my mother. It was passed on to me as real news because she had seen it on TV being presented as such. My mother does not know how to use a computer, and (of course) has no social media accounts. She doesn't have a cellphone and we still use a landline phone here at the house. If she says she saw it on the news, she means it. I was going weeks thinking "nutritionists are going crazy" each time I went to the bathroom. I had no idea it was from The Onion. But now, I do. That means, someone around or in South Carolina thought it was real news and put it on our news networks to be shown as such. I'm rambling. Trying to think about it is blowing my mind.

[vanessaf]

“You owe me a half hour of my life back”

😂😂😂 👏👏👏 When it comes to wasting peoples’ time, insurance companies are so in debt they can’t possibly pay everyone back!

[painfall]

Plot twist: The Onion is actually predicting the future

[theblackvalkyrie]

*“If doctors have crows feet, it means they care.”*
- Dr Mike, 2021

[Thehouseoffail]

I have a rare condition. When I was a teenager, I was in the hospital for treatment and the doctor asked if some of her medical students could sit in. She was so excited to share this because having this condition at such a young age is almost unheard of. I said yes, thinking it was just going to be a few people discussing my case.

NOPE.

They came while I was asleep in the morning. No warning, no bra, hair unbrished, and feeling very vulnerable. And in comes about 30 mostly male medical interns crowded around my bed to watch her trigger a reaction from my condition. It was humiliating.

Safe to say, that poker buddies joke isn't too far off the mark.

[acaesic]

Mike looking at a _’toe remover’:_ “Oh, I have this thing! I’ve used it before!”

[clarkemz]

"...the most infectious part of your hand... are fingertips."

Me while biting my nails: 👁👄👁

[eirinipapagianni]

The one where the doctor supposedly asked to bring in his poker buddies was funny until I remembered a story of my mums births. The doctor who was responsible for delivering my brother brought in the delivery room his wife to watch my mum give birth so he could convince her to have a baby with him. My mum wasnt really satisfied with him as a doctor, so she went to a new one when she was having me. The second doctor brought in the delivery room his under-age high-school son to watch a live birth because the kid wanted to go to med school 😂

[Moji_Night]

The fact that you got duped even though you know full well the Onion is satire is the best thing. So pure. Don't ever change.

[deusexaethera]

4:59 - True story: When my son was born, the nurses (especially in the nursery unit) were fawning over him and saying how cute he was -- "no really, I say this to every parent, but yours really is the most adorable baby I've seen in a long time", etc. By the end of our time in the hospital, I was telling the nurses, "Well of course he's the cutest one; I picked him out myself." The older nurses thought it was hilarious; the new nurses were horrified.

[itzcloudieout]

Toe remover: *exists
Dr mike: I used this before
Me: *concerned

[ohyeah]

I can tell you as an a pretty great poker player that the reason they were dark glasses is because your pupils dilate when you see something valuable. Just be sure to get non-reflective ones.

[aliepatchik]

I love how Sam always has to be explaining jokes in the background