omg, this isn't just healthcare humor, this is a metaphor for how the entire world works

I can’t believe you took the entire medicine subreddit and managed to perfectly convey it in just over 2 minutes. Bravo! 👏🏻

As a physician who is part of a wonderful doctor's union and in the midst of bargaining for a new contract, I encourage all doctors to unionize. We even team up with our nursing union colleagues on issues of communal importance.

Nephrology crushing the salt container has me dying.

I’m an airline pilot and this hits so close to home. Gotta work on uniting the different unions against the common enemy. Management.

THE SMILE ON HIS FACE AT THE END

I love that Ortho is standing up for his fellow "providers"!

This was incredible. Thanks so much for articulating how toxic our environment is. I am currently on FMLA From burnout. The struggle is real. Fam Medicine

We need to unite. Union? No union? Providers, physicians . What have you? This hits home. Thanks, Dr. G! Sincerely, OR RN.

For those who don't know, divide and conquer is also a term used in cataract surgery describing a technique to remove the cataract nucleus. Not sure if this is a pun lol

Lol provider vs physician. My wife's residency program just unionized. It took a while. The thing that pushed a lot of them over was when the C-Suite was emailing them during the start of the pandemic... From their million dollar homes. They were sending them pictures of their gardens saying it was to help them get through these trying times and that they were all in this together..... Those emails went over like a lead balloon or a turd on birthday cake.

Doctors playing checkers. Admin playing chess here. Only one of them read the Art of War, and that is why Admin doesent get a paycut. He is a conquerer

Very easy to preserve a power structure when people who are disadvantaged by it are too busy squabbling over smaller issues and scraps that they can’t easily unite to confront the common ones in a collective manner. That was a pretty big operating strategy for colonialism too.

As soon as he said the word provider and there was even the slightest bit of objection, I knew exactly where this was going 😂 damn it, it worked like a charm!

This is probably the best illustration of the need for solidarity I've ever seen

Dang this skit is deep. Never thought you’d produce something so philosophical

Anes: "can't keep working under these conditions" is what's got me

"We have turned them on themselves! Their chaos is our opportunity!" - Sun Tzu

If art is meant to evoke emotion, this is art because I've never as much as spoken to a hospital admin and I already have a visceral opinion about them

This is too real😂😭 The things admin does to avoid unions is honestly hilarious. I'm a cancer researcher at a pretty prestigious cancer research/medical institute, yet we are grossly underpaid and everyone knows it. There are currently talks circulating of researchers wanting to unionize, and our admin team recently resorted to our version of "in case of union, break glass". They literally placed PLANTS and SNACK-FILLED COFFEE MUGS on the desks of the employees who started the union talks😂😂😂 Nothing squashes a union quite like oreos, a succulent, and the same free coffee mugs that are available downstairs LOL🤣🥴

“Now you see evil will always triumph because good is dumb” -Lord Helmet

To the administrators a “provider” is anyone who can enter orders that can be billed for. Doesn’t matter who orders the work up. It all pays the same to them. You really nailed it with this one!

I'm glad that Bill and Family Medicine didn't have to come in for this. Edit: if Johnathan could help them at least once please, please.

This one is just too real.

You sir are a master….able to convey the whole spectrum…from the childlike innocence with ortho to extreme evil with Admin.

Honestly, this. In every field. Three men have 10 cookies. The first man takes 9 cookies, offers 1 to the second man, and tells him that the third man is coveting his cookie and they should team up to protect their cookies.

I always love the nurse comment because I remember hearing that on a committee and I was like bro. I'm trying to get them to STOP expanding my scope just like im sure other places are trying to get less responsibilities piled on. I'm underpaid and overworked as it is lol. I made 20 dollars an hour working in a city hospital that charge 1000 for an 800 sq ft apartment covered in roaches and crime. Hiring travel nurses at triple my wage who aren't certified for chemotherapy so I ended up doing their job too to no fault of their own. Physicians, PAs and ARNPS/ other providers nurses and even people like CNAs/MAs/Phlebotomists/lab techs work with you! We support you. We may not have your expertise but we have it in our part of the team, we are all in this together and we all suckers to those in cushy office chairs at the top 😮‍💨our patients, community and we suffer for it. Your scribe who may be your life line may literally not make enough to make ends meet in this economy so remember provider isn't a dirty word its a word that binds you through the same struggle that management uses to put you down! That's how I usually pitch it because most places don't let you talk about your pay with other employees like we make enough for hush money lol🥲

Divide and conquer by egotism always works.

"Oh it's on now" the delivery on that line is amazing

What absolutely perfect satire. Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

It really can’t get better than this. Man has his finger on the pulse

Yet another video demonstrating why you are my favorite!!! I'm a PA working in rural healthcare and this rings so true!!! Keep up the amazing work!!

So true. It happens at every level. With the exception of the CEO's 🤔

I have smiled reflexly after seeing Dr glaucomfleckon's notification

Again sir, you have nailed it

Divide and conquer. The nuclear option of admin..

I'm not going to lie. I was scared of this video because of the title. This turned out to be a good video! Solidarity to all workers. Remember that unity and solidarity is how stand up to the machine.✊💪

My scope of love for this channel has increased tremendously.

I’m waiting for a nurse to come in and say “who cares, all of us lost money” and then the chanting begins again

That evil look at the end is absolutely terrifyingly spot on.

I stand in awe. Brilliant commentary.

For what it’s worth (thank you, @drglaucomflecken) it’s nice to see PAs mentioned as existing by a prominent KZfaq doc for once. Appreciate the shoutout.

The one with glasses and holding salt is The Nephrologist The one in scrubs with a stethoscope around their neck is Internal Medicine The one with the lilac cap is Orthopedic Surgery The one with the colorful cap is is The Charge Nurse The one in a white button up shirt and glasses is The Administrator The one with the blue cap and and holding a thermos is Anesthesiology

You are becoming an invaluable voice developing class consciousness in the health care community. Your characters disarm the audience through accepted relatively harmless stereotypes while consistently lampooning the United States healthcare model and the underlying capitalist structure allowing the audience to be more receptive to the overall message and truth that is delivered. Brav-fucking-o

the CEO face at the end. perfection.

I really really love your skits, I know it shouldnt be surprising that they're intelligent but they're still so damn funny

I think Dr. McCoy summed it up quite nicely. "I´m a Doctor, not a Psychiatrist!"

In the end it doesn't matter what you refer yourself as because we're all under the jurisdiction of business majors with a lower qualification bossing you around.

I like that Ortho is calling people bro now too!!!

The way you are able to encompass multiple controversial topics in medicine in one short video in a humorous way is beyond me. Well done.

My friend is in med school so I've gotten the base level of description of a lot of stuff that he's done, and as soon as they started with the "Providers?" thing I knew exactly where it was going.

It actually took me a second because I didn’t understand why he was derailing the conversation but I get it now.

FFS hospital staff, just unionize!

This is no longer funny skits bro, this is reality!

That evil stare at the end... 😱

The good thing about the Industrial Workers of the World is that it doesn't matter what your line of work is or what type of worker you are. As long as you can't hire, fire, or arrest people, we'll help you organize. Multiple kinds of workers in a union means there's room for both physicians AND providers.

All of your sketches are gold but this one takes the cake. Thank you!

Ummm, I am feeling uncomfortably in the middle reading some of these comments! 😂 I work as a department-level admin assistant in healthcare. I love working closely with my team and I've never been even a little bit interested in working at evil admin-bro level. I definitely refer to my entire clinical team as providers. 🤣 We're swamped! When we're thinking or speaking about the team as a whole there's just too many letters and different titles to spend time on unless it's really necessary. Charge Nurse's reaction was my favorite, you know they're gonna get it. On the serious side though... my level of admin, many departmental managers, and even some of the directors I've worked with are just as angry about the obvious, manipulative BS coming from admin-bro. Helping my clinical team to work at the top of their game is my job, and upper admin is always mucking things up! We're right in it with our team, we definitely don't get protected, and we're the ones dropping everything to avoid a crash and somehow make magic happen whenever they suddenly change course or make cuts. 😠🤬 We lost our union at the hospital where I worked in the OR. Everything went as you'd expect. The subtext in this one is very real and hits home. Amazing job as always at highlighting the very silly and also harsh sides of healthcare.

Given that we refer to clinical staff as providers, we might as well call everyone in the C-suite office people.

Dr. GlauComflecken, provider of quality healthcare and medical memes

Thank you ortho bro, for sticking with the nurses & other providers. I fear you may not win, but thanks for the effort.

"Four legs good Two legs bad Four legs good Two legs bad" 💀

Well Doc, slamming down the realities and hitting close to home there!

Dr. G, I don't know any OR charge nurses who would tell a physician or surgeon that they could do their job, and even better than they could. You are off base there. You are spot on that administration never has to take a pay cut, though.

I just can't get over how great your acting is, omg

One of the best videos yet 😂😂 scary how accurate this was.

The smile at the end looked almost like there was one of those internal wicked laughs.

Here's how I know things are bad: in 1996 I was teaching community college in Bettendorf, Iowa, and these wildly exploited night students working for no dollars an hour were telling me min wage is a handout and welfare, and that unions were an abomination. And that if you were a good worker, your boss would pay you fairly. And little steeltown me was like, I don't know what planet you're from, but it's not any planet I know. And now, only (checks watch) 27 years later, here comes Hawkeye Eye Guy with Woody Guthrie up his sleeve. Right on, eye bro. Late's better than never. Preach.

This is a freakin masterpiece

Yes.......how true....... Which category does Jonathan fit in to? Jonathan's-Jonathan's!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. That’s your best one yet! Love it.

For what it’s worth, though I have no background in medicine myself, I’d imagine that making the distinction between “physician” and “provider” is quite important due to the increased presence of insurance “providers” in making medical decisions.

As soon as he said “providers” I knew it was on! 😆 I always make the distinction when addressing the physicians at work. I figure they earned it.

That was a ride! Totally agreeing with the budget cuts not being ok, then it drops like a roller coaster 🎢 and off we go not knowing what the heck just happened! 😂

I liked this video 2 seconds in before even finishing it because how can it possibly be something other than fantastic ?!

On point, Dr. G! Just in time for Nurse's Week!

...and I just found myself named VP of a Union...Union...Union. Admin...we're no longer divided. And we're exhausted. And we actually have the credentials to run this institution. Do you?

The constant state of humanity across time.

I love the Charge Nurse

This is so accurate, it's not just funny....it's painful.

Once I was working with an anesthesiology group and I was on the phone with an anesthesiologist and didn’t realize and asked him a standard question that pertained only to CRNA’s. I never in my life had heard such offense as when the guy sputtered “I’m a PHYSICIAN!”

Administration. Management. Bureaucracy. Politics. Greed for money, power and control. Thank you for articulating what patients are seeing and experiencing on the receiving end. I'm now actually grateful for not having chosen the medical field as a career. What I am witnessing as a patient is the result of administrators declaring profit more important patient care; dictating how physicians practice medicine; and replacing ER departments with corporate run organizations that mainly send patients away rather than ensure their proper care and treatment. What everyone in the medical community, with the exception of administrators, is experiencing is appalling. Your patients value, appreciate and support you. Thank you for everything you do, especially during these totally crazy times. If administrators would learn to change their priorities to treat people with respect and dignity, there would be less need to unionize.

Finally a video my union representative husband will understand ......and love ❤️

Thanks for this highly accurate description of the capitalist world we live in! I'm going to cuddle my pillow extra tight when I cry myself to sleep tonight 😭

This one is pure gold !

Hell I’m not in healthcare and just here for the humor. You guys need to band together and demand a change.

Best close caption at the end. “Pointless chanting”

Radiology reminds me of Rick Moranis from spaceballs. Evertime he's on camera brings a little chuckle

Scarily accurate DOCTOR G, they all want us to keep infighting instead of banding together. That's the preferred method all the way up to and including the race for president of the USA 😢

Divide to conquer has been a strategy since the Roman Empire - at least, it is in written record from there, but for sure it is from much before...

A true lesson in how the world works

My wife is an internist. Can confirm she dies a little on the inside when someone calls her a provider.

"physicians! Physicians" *Cue evil hospital board smile

Wow that’s probably the best video you’ve made, the home run of home runs

I just learned something new. Thanks for this video! 🥰

Glaucomflecken about to get cancelled by the whole medicine reddit (this is a compliment)

"Union!" They cried in union

"...Yet what force on Earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one... FOR THE UNION MAKES US STRONG!"

I continue to learn new things about the US healthcare system every day. I had no idea doctors and nurses aren't fully unionized there. As far as I know, every health region in Canada has unions (though i do think Doctors are often a separate union from the reset of hospital employees)

OMG, as soon as the charge nurse spoke my brain went "well, they're all dead." NEVER mess with the charge nurse. She could very easily do their jobs.