No Stupid Questions

Ok maybe there are a few stupid questions

[jorgeluislopezmendez]

I guess it's a rotisserie protocol only if the patient has a fever

[christythomas]

As a medical technologist, I so appreciated the NOT stupid question of "what if it's not" (due to a lab error)! ❤

[Gravalpea]

"Keep the heart full of blood, keep the lung full of air." -Ortho

[JamesSullivan-cf]

Throwing in the "will you buy us lunch"? 😆

[SaikoX]

I was skeptic at first, but then I heard some of them and I was like: "No, hold on, let him cook"

[KyleRayner]

The pressor question was decent. Tragically, the answer is usually "I pick my favorite one, and the attending you had last week who picked a different one is an incompetent heathen."

[rhiannamonahan]

1. Someone called Kerley
2. Because embryological development is generally symmetrical
3. Because alveoli is the plural of alveolus whereas ravioli is the singular term not raviolus
4. A pulmon is from the word for lung in Latin I think. In medicine when naming things, we flip a coin and if it’s heads it’s Greek and if it’s tails it’s Latin and then we just add an English suffix
5. Asses the urine: volume, colour, clarity, sediment. You don’t need to smell as you’ll notice it on the way in if it smells bad and please don’t taste as we have dipsticks to test for glucose now.
6. We have 5+ problems listed and they are all likely/probable diagnoses but nothing is certain.
7. Not if you want to live
8. Unlikely unless it’s the end of the attending’s on call and they like everyone on rounds. So, no.
9. Something something microbiology, something something low validity, something something only 20% of sepsis cases have a positive blood culture.
10. Then we panic
11. No, I just vibe with that one/it’s hospital policy
12. A machine that operates as a replacement heart and lungs with the lung bit functioning with similar principles to dialysis but tbh I don’t really understand it.
13. I’ve heard that and we should call it that but apparently ‘it’s unprofessional’

[williamhrivnak]

The ECMO question is actually a good one. Explaining it doesn’t do it justice until you actually see it for the first time and you’re stepping over garden hoses full of blood and wondering what mad scientist invented this thing

[embargovenom]

Weirdly, here in Portugal, the word for "Lung" is "Pulmão". So you'd think having Pulmonologists would make perfect sense for us, right?
WRONG!
Over here, pulmonologists are called pneumologists, after pneuma, the ancient greek word for "breath".

Moral of the story, words in Medicine are just chosen to make life harder for everyone, and not because they make any semblance of sense. = )

[mitsurugi]

"Can you write 'pharmacy to dose' on all orders?" - how dare you put that evil out there in the universe

[TheWhanos]

"There are no stupid questions"
Oh you'll find them with that

[MichaelMayfield-fcdf]

When I was a senior resident & had supervision over students, they might say “this may be a stupid question”, to which I would reply “there are no stupid questions”. After they asked, I would respond “that’s the stupidest question I’ve ever heard’. Of course, I would immediately smile & ham it up to let them know I was kidding. It broke the ice a bit.

[Amanda-C.]

I'm not in medicine, but I feel like "but what if it's not" is one of the most valuable questions a med student can ask. Like, an experienced person in any field can get into a state where their experience tends to override what they're actually seeing. Having a fresh pair of eyes question those habitual cognitive biases has got to be a really valuable thing.

[MrRobot]

I’m telling all the ICU nurses, it’s now called rotisserie protocol.

[GhostlyGorgon]

As a manufacturing engineer, when one of my technicians says "i have a stupid question", i always respond with "there are no stupid questions, only stupid engineers"

[MsSHINeeTVXQSuju]

“Will you buy lunch today” asking the important questions 😂

[kylewaite]

I'm going to try to get "rotisserie protocol" to catch on in the OR for when we have to do a squish-and-flip spine case. OR maybe "panini protocol"? Choices, choices...

[drmrossing]

I feel like I just spent 1:25 minutes reliving my most recent month (July) as a critical care attending…

[MaximusPharmacus]

We pharmacists are very happy to help, but please don't ask us to dose "everything".

[pinkprincessinthecity]

"Rotisserie protocol" 🤣🤣🤣

By chance, I am watching this as an inpatient after being rushed to the ED last Saturday, due to a medical emergency.
I truly appreciate this much needed laugh. 🙏
😂😂😂