When Doctors try to tell a story...

Please just TRY to stay with me...

[ishprasad]

In all honesty, Ik this is just a joke but, similar names are actually SUPER dangerous in clinical settings. It’s why we usually have “name warnings” or “name alert” stickers on charts whenever we have similar names in the clinic, it lets providers know to double check.

[aurorarose]

Yes, a carried a pager on and off for 25 yrs...I used to loathe that thing, until they wanted to use your cellphone. Now the pager is a sanity saver.

[kvh]

I'm not a doctor, but I feel this on every level.

[quiggs]

This guy can tell this whole story joke and under a minute, and other people can’t spin around in a circle without stopping halfway and saying, “come back for part 2!”

[mish]

It’s hard to keep track of which friends need everything explained and which friends get sick of the over explaining.

As a navy doc, I am of the opinion that if you cannot explain complex things simply (within reason) you don’t Truly understand it. There’s a time and place for jargon.

“Checked PT MAP. Was soft. ECG shows STEMI with RVR. Began Amidarone and…” can easily be explained as “so there I was, staring at his machines and I’m seeing his blood pressure is a bit low. He’s holding his chest, machines all hooked up, and those little squiggly lines you see on medical dramas and shitty tattoos were all over the place. So I stuck him on some meds to turn his heart off and on again. Wild.”

Also, as a fact, every story gets 18% better if you start it with ‘so there I was…’

[legibletiger]

When I was studying an allied health degree and I'd be using medical terminology with my parents, my mum (an incredibly intelligent early childhood teacher who doesn't really gel with medical terms) would look at my dad and say "it's really distressing how she's started swearing all the time". Which was code for, cut the terminology and translate it into layman's terms. Fun times, fun times.

[johnydsmithson]

Just... the minute after I had this exact convo you uploaded exactly what just happened...
Get out of my head, you aren't my wife!

[kell]

I’ve heard SO MANY story’s from my step-mom (who’s a cardiac nurse practitioner) to the point that I understood all the acronyms, and things he was talking about

[nluther]

This is why I’m so glad my husband and I are both nurses. We get it 😁

[potatopirate]

What's even weirder is that I fully understand absolutely everything in these vids and have no idea where I picked up this information from.

[LaurenWatkinsArt]

My husband and I became socially awkward after he went through med school and residency. Apparently, most people don’t talk about cadavers, sawing off someone’s leg, or how to treat an infected puncture wound in a nipple at the dinner table. 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

[_veronica_r]

I'm just imagining when all of the nurses come rushing to the wrong room XDD

[deo]

Me telling my mom a medical story:
Me: and then I auscultated his…
Mom: bless you.
Me: huh?
Mom: oh that’s a real word. I thought you sneezed.

[Saf]

And that's why I understand all of these because I'm from a medical family lol. Everyone's in the family is educated because of their stories

[emilystrope]

I'm a nurse and I was more annoyed that he kept interrupting as I was trying to follow the story 😆🤣😆🤣. Maybe this is the reason almost everyone I hang out with work in the medical field.

[ginathecookie]

meanwhile, my best friend when explaining stories: ok, simpleton, this is what this means

[heathernks]

"What's a 😂
Literally me listening to all these videos, lol. I clicked on a random video, and now Yt recommendeds me every ER & Med Student video in the algorithm!🤣

[miriga]

Me realizing it means myocardial infarction: I-I’m a genius.

[catlinboy]

Fun fact, 10% of all the pagers in the entire world are used by the NHS (the National Health Service, in the UK).