"Can someone get the weirdo talking to himself in Central Park to stop filming himself? It's upsetting the rats"

"Do not underestimate this city's ability to murder you." God *DAYUM*

The background barking while running from the rat, absolute genius timing

"Oh, kids we're not going down there. I don't care if the subway is how people travel in NYC. Have you seen Ninja Turtles? Led by a rat."

As a Manhattan resident, I can confirm there's nothing odd abt a man talking to multiple imaginary friends while filming himself

You could make a song about the sicknesses rats can cause. And the best part is it wouldn’t be the first one

"I dressed up as a plague doctor? That wasn't a costume" WRECKED.

Just wait until Infectious Disease finds out about street hot dogs

"which diseases do rats cause?" Waltuh voice: It'd be quicker to mention the diseases they don't

NY rats can grow to the size of cats. So, yeah, that puppy joke wasn't an exaggeration 😅

honey wake up, the ophthalmologist is on his 4th vacation this month

As a New Yorker, I am cackling and wheezing at Infectious Disease "enjoying" the City That Never Sleeps 🗽. Sounds like he is ready for everything anf anything he may come across here. 😂😂😂

Infectious Disease does not need to put on PPE because he's already immune to every known illness. As part of his residency program.

He's not the father we wanted, he's the father we needed.

OMG! I was hoping you'd cover pigeons and psittacosis!!! Thank you! (Infectious disease epidemiologist here).

"You should be glad I brought the doxycycline!" ROTFLMAO! Doxy is never the first-line drug for ANYTHING......but it's the second-line drug for EVERYTHING!!!!!

Closed-toed shoes on the street!

All the research regarding the other specialties must have turned you into the ophthalmologist with the biggest non-eye-related knowledge in the world!

The rats have learned how to bark to lure unsuspecting humans in thinking they’re going to find an adorable puppy only to get eaten alive

I moved to NYC a few years ago and recently my family came to visit. Everyone got multiple little hand sanitizers, lysol wipes a plenty, strict instructions on indoor and outdoor shoes, and I wouldn't let anyone sit on the bed until they changed from their outdoor (ie dirty bus/subway) clothes. They probably now think I'm insane, if I am then this city is for me 😅

the NYC Rat Information Portal has an interactive map. good times.

Im a NYer and the last comment about confusing a rat for a dog is sooo spot on. Hope you enjoy my city Dr. G

This is very tangential, but I remember the time I was on my way back to the hotel in London and saw a cat, so I tried calling to it. Then it ran away and I realized it was a fox. Possibly the most British thing I ever saw.

3 million seems a drastic underestimate for the number of rats in a city like New York

"Here they don't run, this is ~their city."

New York has the Rodents of Unusual Size, do be wary

Doing this detailed research on something outside of the Orbital bone is something I command you on Sir.

I was just a lowly biology major when I visited NYC, and I didn't want to touch anything! Or smell anything! It was horrific! I'm surprised I didn't catch something.

I’m glad plague got a shout out. Yersinia pestis is my favorite rat vector disease.

Upon reading the title: "This will not go well."

I just love the idea of people walking by hearing him rant about all the diseases rats carry. They now live in constant fear! 😅

Dr., I would love to hear this to sung to 'Modern Major General' by Gilbert and Sullivan. Welcome to NY, we have diseases galore---but have you tried the bread?

Poor man spent so much time on the rats he missed out on recounting all the different ways the hot dogs can kill you.

Infectious Disease would likely be somewhat comforted by the long list of vaccines everyone has to get to go to public school.

"These Mice don't run...this is their city" 😂

Another classic. Thanks for stimulating my smile during a Wednesday in family practice sameday clinic.

I’ve seen rats steal a whole sandwich in front of the owner. They don’t play around, and after all these years riding the subway and using CBGBS restroom when it was around, my immune system is quite strong. 😅

What i learned here is Rats - deadly NY rats - next level deadly

Every day of medical school that goes by, I learn more and more how accurate these videos actually are 😂. My classmates and I were talking about your videos at a restaurant and when we were talking about the nephrologist with the salt we discovered the guy next to us was one and he also loves your videos (and said the war with cardiologists is accurate :D). Thanks for all of the laughs!

When I was in Infectious Diseases Rotation in Europe we were so astonished by a Patient who came in with Malaria 😂 welp… after listening to this I am more astonished by how many diseases one city can bring…

Soooo excellent! I spent 35 years at HHS (NIH & FDA) & this was just perfect!

Look, post pandemic this is me, but leaving my house. Like a panic attack if I forget to bring hand sanitiser in my purse. Think I need to book an appointment with a Feelings Bro.

I just came back from NYC and now my butt is being kicked by influenza A. 😭 Listen to infectious disease, kids.

A friend’s young child got Lasa fever without ever leaving the US-apparently, he was playing on some luggage that friends had brought back from Africa and that was contaminated by rat excrement. I hope his physicians wrote that case up, because how much of a zebra is that!

Those New York rats are really on another level. One time my friends and I turned down an alley and found ourselves in pitch-black darkness. We kept walking as we started to turn on the flashlight on our phones. The moment the lights went on... *shudders*... All we saw was a big massive wave of black shapes ripple away from our feet. We has been walking through a sea of rats without realizing it. With the lights on, we saw them EVERYWHERE, they had just been quietly staying out of our way as we walked through the valley of death lol.

Thanks for mentioning hantavirus. Although I live in California now, I know everything is possible in NYC.

The plaque with leptospirosis, classic 👏👏

Flashbacks to my graduate school Parasitology, Medical Microbiology, and Clinical Immunology courses...lol! The answer often was doxycycline.

3 million rats in NYC, lol. Forget whatever study said that, there are 3M in a subway tunnel alone.

I can't decide which is funnier: picturing the "kids" as literal children he's singlehandedly taking on a nyc trip, or like, adult medical students who are still singing three blind mice etc

Literally thinking of Hantavirus when you mentioned the diseases rodents carry! I audibly yelled YES as I was watching

Evolution works a little differently here😂

Thank you for reminding me of the dangers of not sleeping. It is 5 AM and I haven't slept yet. 😢

Wow! Thank you for reminding me how, when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, the school I was in brought a very enthusiastic service member who worked in our 4 person base clinic to tell us about infectious diseases. He was my introduction to water-born parasites, nematodes (dracunculus), and the reason to this day I cant swin in fresh water lakes. So yeah. This episode was uhm... very familiar. The only difference was he was just smiling and super exciting and this doctor has just Seen Too Much and it shows. Great episode though! Absolute love it!

Meanwhile the other chaperones are conflicted, because on one hand, potential trauma and futures as hypochondriacs for the kids, but on the other, Infectious Disease is handling the kids and is a doctor in case of an emergency. Could do an episode of a PTA meeting debating that lol. Or Internal Medicine and Ortho chaperoning a field trip together, or Nephrology and Cardiology. Oooh I bet Emergency Medicine, Dermatology and Opthamology would be a fun chaperoning combo. Or could do an episode where the doctors are doing a health presentation to the school to get out of bake sales and stuff and they're sassing each other on stage.

Time to re-watch that 1983 Peter Weller classic "Of Unknown Origin"

Dr. Glaucomflecken wouldn’t last 2 seconds in New Orleans during Mardi Gras 🤣

Toxoplasmosis from the pigeons too; yeah get replay close to feed them, they look so cute! And as you do that take deep breaths!

Kind of like my Dr dad in the Sixties in big cities. Oh yeah, we learned!! Tetracycline was the standby then.

I studied the evolution of LCMV the virus that causes lymphocytotic chloromeningitis for my PhD. The see it mentioned outside academia in a KZfaq video is astounding. Thank you so much.

See that dog… oh that’s a rat

I’m now starting to think that Doc Glauc bought his own copy of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine just for his skits lol

Infectious Disease can not compete with me the caregiver to a husband who just had a double lung transplant last May, followed by 4 rounds of chemotherapy as they found stage 3 cancer in one of his explanted lungs post transplant, and he is a 34 year HIV+ survivor. We have to travel 860 miles every 6-8 weeks for his care (denied transplant without even an evaluation locally in MN due only to HIV status). I make sure we both wear masks literally everywhere! Constant hand washing, avoiding crowds where possible, very very careful with food, rarely eat out. Airports are the worst! I stopped hanging out the bird feeders when we moved back home (spent 5 months in Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic). I would have a heart attack before allowing him to go to NYC. By the way, he is doing amazingly well by some miracle. Despite chemo he sailed through recovery and lung function continues to improve.

Hope you’re having a good time in NYC, Doc.

It’s really Jurassic Park for the rats alone - Central Park just sounds better.

That reminds me of a great book called "Bellevue" by David Oshinsky. It's about Bellevue Hospital and how it has evolved to treat common symptoms as infectious diseases due to their place as a safety net hospital and the volume of patients they see on a daily basis presenting with such symptoms. The one Ebola case in NYC was at at Bellevue Hospital and the first doctor to treat Lincoln's gunshot wound was trained there too! I don't have a medical background but I thought the book was amazing! It was the first book I sat down and read excitedly in a long time!

The delivery is hard on these. Thanks for looking so much like John Lennon! -Your fan

As a New Yorker who literally just got out of the ER due to the latest infectious virus that mugged me, I approve this video...

2 decades ago, New York had a rabies outbreak. A raccoon was smuggled in and released in Central Park

You look so handsome with all those tones of grey! Love the stylish!

All small dogs are large rats. The ones in NYC have bigger teeth.

"Except these mice don't run. This is their city" 😂🤣😂 I'm in PA school now on clinical rotations, and if I had more electives, I totally would do infectious disease. Just seems so interesting... and relevant. Thanks for the videos, as always!!

Don't forget Spirillum minus and rat-bite fever....always my favorite from Clinical Microbiology!

0:20 umm, whilst Polio sure is worrying, I don’t quite think of that when I think of New York and murder

I might be going to New York this year so this was very helpful, thank you

"These mice don't run. This is their city." DARN RIGHT. 🐀🖖

I called the scribe at my moms' retina docs appointment, and dude *lost it*

I think Bubble Boy was clearly on to something. “It’s MOOPS”. Still makes me laugh. 😂

Having grown up in Queens and worked in Manhattan for some years, yes, it’s all true. He didn’t mention the shared subway poles of disease transmission. I love to see what a microbiologist could culture from them. Those poles make every subway rider a potential disease vector.

"Are you're singing Three Blind Mice? Heh. Except these mice don't run. ...This is THEIR city." 😂😂😂

As a native New Yorker, I gotta say you got it absolutely right!

I love that he talked about viral hemorrhagic fevers.

He's probably not getting any street meat

Infectious disease wouldnt see a dog but toxocarosis

“You guys are lucky I brought doxycycline on this trip.” DEAD 😂😂😂

So much for my bucket list visit to NYC! Thanks Dr. G for the heads up! 🐀🐿🦇🕊🐦‍🔥🐲🐜🕷🪳🦟🪰🪱🦠🦠🦠🦠

As a New Yorker, I approve of this message.

I love informing drs that they need their NYS Infectious Diseases certification I know it’s their favorite too

He needs to go down into the subway to see every possible infectious disease in the textbook.

So infectious disease is a SCP. That's how he retains incredible memory and virtually invincible immune system with possible hint of immortality. It all make sense now.

Funny thing is, the listing of very rare infections does happen nearly everyday on rounds. 😂Glad to hear the murine typhus mention, that’s actually more common these days!

“Oh look kids a little dog….thats a rat! Let’s go this way!” 🤣🤣🤣

The fact that you never saw the rat(s) you were scoping for, is too funny.

Fun part of the Plague Doctor reference is that I bought the costume mask for Halloween. I was going to wear my costume, but either 2020 or 2021, things were closed down. 🤔 However, the following year, I enjoyed dressing up as a Plague Doctor in honor of Covid! 🎭➡️😷/ 🥳🎉 Also, loved the puns! 👍 😷🙅‍♀️🐀🐁

Always enjoy your videos

A pure genius 🍁

Thanks for the video.

Damn. I am currently working 2 year project in Brooklyn, NYC. I have Rheumatic Heart Disease and can't afford a case of endocarditis. Thanks for the freak out video! ID Doc is usually my favorite character DAMMIT!!!

Wouldn't it be a bad idea to take doxy for the trip, incase it promotes the develoment of resistant strains?

I'm very sleepy and at first interpreted this as an actual disease visiting new york with all his little disease pathogen students and somehow it still worked most of the time