Medical Clearance for Surgery

The age old battle between medicine and surgery. This is pretty much what happens whenever surgery wants to operate on anyone with any other medical conditions.

What scenario should I do next??

[WWTormentor]

As a surgeon, it’s not that we don’t have the knowledge to perform our own medical history and physical and clear the patient for surgery. This is more to cover our own butt and spread the liability!

[unrealladynoshoes]

Pro tips: if you want to unclear the patient from surgery get an anesthesiologist to agree with you. Surgeons don't listen to medicines but they can't say much if anesthesia says No Can Do.

[danisaur]

From an anesthesiologist's POV, nothing elicits a surgeon's temper tantrum faster than saying patient is unclear for surgery

[poppyseed]

As a non healthcare worker, hearing a surgeon asking another doctor if he's with "medicine" is hilarious

[clarissagiles]

The surgical resident sounds like a teenager with a scalpel 😂

[jwalker]

I feel like this is me asking an engineer for the go ahead. “So I can design it like this”
“Yeah but…”
“I’ve heard everything I need”

[AzharShar]

Generally it's us, the anaesthetists who decides when the patient is optimized enough for surgery, not medicine people.

[FirstNameLastName-syqs]

As somebody who works with orthopedic surgeons everyday, I can confirm that this is 1000% accurate.

[BryceADugas]

The surgeon carrying a half folded patient list is the most accurate part of the video 😂 if that was on purpose that’s great!

[thesnortfort]

Dad was a surgeon, mom was a physician. This is horrifically accurate.

[aag]

My aunt was in the ICU with sepsis for weeks. These bands of young surgeons would keep popping in to check on her although she didn't need surgery. One night, I was heading out home and ran into them at the elevator. We change greetings (I had already seen them twice that day alone) and then ...
Me: you guys just roaming around the place looking for someone to slice up?
Surgeon dude: ... basically ... YES.

[trymtt]

What is funny is how accurate this is. And, kind of scary too.

[CraftyCheshire]

My son needed tubes and his adenoids removed. I forgot that I needed to get him cleared by a pediatrician for surgery. The surgeon gave him the exam right there, asked me all the necessary questions, and cleared my son himself. I was so thankful for that moment. My son was in desperate need for tubes for over two years, but I couldn't find a doctor who would listen to me. Big thanks to that surgeon and all the nurses.

[triw]

The more I see of your videos, the more I understand why the medical field sucks. As someone with a chronic condition, I know firsthand this is exactly how it goes. I got “cleared” for a surgery that we later found out made things worse and had to have another surgery to fix it. Thank god for the second surgery, medical wouldn’t clear anything without having this same conversation with me in the room. You really should do a video on how medical tends to sugar coat or omit the full truth entirely to avoid stepping on a surgeon’s toes. I’m convinced surgeons in particular have some kind of messed up psychopathology going on in order to do what they do. It’s a blessing and a curse. This system is supposed to be the safety net for the patient but it only works if medical do their job as prescribed. Often times they don’t. And the patient pays while everyone else gets to go home and forget about it.

[rester]

I heard a conversation like this while loading medication into a pyxis machine the surgeons did Rock Paper Scissors on who got to make the first cut >_<

[mcl]

My sister wanted to be a doctor since forever she got into medical school and during like 6 years we all came to the conclusion she would persue surgery so it was quite a shock to us when she choose internal medicine and the reason for it was basically this 😂

[sistakia]

This was like when I was in the hospital for chest pain and minor abdominal discomfort. Sent to CT. Nurse comes in and in the most cheerful voice says we brought Dilaudid (I hadn't asked for it) because CT says your stomach fell into your intestines! I accepted the Dilaudid as if nothing else the chest pain should have gotten better. Then surgery and medicine came in and announced my stomach fell through my abdomen and so now I needed emergency surgery. Then there was a discussion about my blood thinner which I had just taken two doses of but now there was the concern if my emergency surgery would have to be delayed. A 15min argument in my room had to be decided by a gastro surgeon only for me to find out that the gastro surgeon only did gastric bypass. So then they needed a second surgeon to decide. Finally I was cleared for surgery from the ER. Forty minutes later I was admitted and sent to a room because even though my surgery was considered an emergency a more urgent emergency magically appeared and so I ended up having to wait! Finally sometime the next day my emergency surgery was finally ready... except there was another discussion about when my last blood thinner was taken!

[andreanne]

OMG this is so accurate. I’m a nurse on an orthopedic floor and this goes on regularly. In the hospital I work at, the surgeons rely on internists to clear the patients for surgery though.

[notyetdeleted]

“The medicine dude said we could cut him open!”

Lol that killed me 🤣

[nathanbuck]

The “medicine dudes love those” absolutely killed me.