Back when I worked the bench as a lab tech I received a phone call late one night from a charge nurse. She asked if we were working up a culture from the day before because she couldn't see any further workup in the system. We get that question a lot, so it wasn't a big deal. I looked it up and explained that the antigen screen was negative and we don't plate negative screens on adults. She said, "Ok, it's just he is one of our doctors you know, so I just wanted to make sure we were doing everything we can for him." I replied, "Oh, my apologizes. I assumed we were doing everything we can simply because he's a patient under our care." The amount of back-peddling and stuttering from the other end of the line had me smiling the rest of the night. :)

What's funny is I have a PhD and I literally DID live out of a car for a month. It was a Dodge Neon.

"Oh, we don't WANT the rug back! Do you realize where it's been?! Consider it a gift to the hospital."

The VA hospitals don’t give VIP treatment. Their care level is an equal crapshoot for all patients. 💉💊🌡🧪🔬 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ontario, MRI takes ~6month for non urgent patients; 1-2 days for acute patients. VIPs within 5 hours...

"Abnormal saline." That's wonderful.

I am an American who was living in the UK and I had American health insurance since I was told the NHS wouldn’t cover me (it did actually). I need stomach surgery and ended up in a private hospital that treated mostly VIPs and diplomats. During the day it was one nurse for 6 patients and at night one to eight. The nurses were rested and not run off their feet. I wish all nurses could have those sorts of ratios. The thing that blew my mind was that since I was on a purée menu was that I always had 15 options, the ability to request foods be added (with doctor approval), and a 24 hour chef. It was very strange to me.

...this one time, at the "clinic" (you know which one) had a whole floor that was "rented out" for a patient to have his cardio-thoracic surgery, and then do his entire cardiac rehab program. it was around an 8 week program, all said and done. this was on an "acute" hospital floor in the 90s. the VIP had all the hospital furniture and equipment moved out, and had his own team or decorators and therapists bring in brand new furnishings and equipment. also, his entire team was hand-selected by the VIP from EVS to lab to nurses and physicans. you had to have a special badge to even get access to the that floor. i had never seen anything like it before or after that!

Had a VIP in my OR once. Director came in to co-circulate. Good thing it was co.... she didn’t even know how to plug the bovie in. She was in my way the whole case.

The craziest VIP patient situation I ever saw (I will attempt to respect the patient's privacy, may he Rest In Peace). Dude was airlifted from a foreign country with Stage Four Horrible Cancer, no chance of survival but the attending brought him in anyways. His very extended family...wife, concubines, various kids, sub-kids, business associates, cousins, etc etc etc kept the room so full that there was barely room for his ventilator and CVVHD machine, cause yeah, all that s--t went down. The nurse manager was on vacation, someone should have called the hospital administrator or security, or someone, because this crew was off the chain. Getting up in the nurses faces constantly, using his toilet (well, I guess he wasn't using it), bringing in boxes of smelly food, eating it in the room, shoving the boxes of dirty food cartons in the halls, harassing the nurses, demanding the residents be called every 15 minutes for any little thing, etc etc etc etc. I will leave it at that, you get the point. At some point this opera came to an end. The poor man was packaged up and airlifted home. What a farce, and he suffered so much for nothing and of course the nurses were traumatized.

We NEED more comic vids like this!!! You lifted me ! Thank u DOC Z

Lol yup! VIPs always ask that they don’t get their vitals checked!!!

As an RN, all my patients receive the highest quality of care that I can deliver, regardless of economic status.

A certain distant cousin of some bigwig from the middle East came in for a cataract surgery. Regular pts - 3 hrs between walking in the door, paperwork, ward, prep, 10 min surgery, recovery, and bye. Not this lady. Entourage of 50 peeps, took over half the pre/post op area, and 3 hrs? No. 12 f&(king hours. Not to mention taking up half the parking lot with black SUVs.

I worked at Hopkins and transferred a patient to that VIP floor. The nurses wear waitress like badges (in addition to their ID's) and look well rested. Not lying about being in the ghetto though.

Doc V. You are a national treasure. The darkside must be very proud.

always love hearing from our boy!

No one should be treated differently. Everyone is a VIP and should be given the best care possible no matter how much fame or money they have. Period.

Vader apparently has a bad case of Torticollis this morning! {That "life-sustaining" plastic helmet of yours is a bit sideways today, Darth...NICE!} Maybe a nice heating pad might help? Or, as a "VIP" ER Doc, maybe one of the ER nurses can massage that neck of yours with lidocaine cream...and lanolin!

How to pay off student loans. Step no. 1 buy a used civic. Step number next... live out of it 🤣😂 you're teaching the padawans so much. Glad I never saw the hibachi in general surgery!

I hate VIP care!

Hey Doc Vader, did you ever think that the sister wanted Steven to get VIP Treatment because she wanted the Burrito Billions? That's real #DarkSide4Lyfe

Great video.

thanks for the humor because i needed it. hell, that's why i watch, because i need humor and hip-hop. keep it up, dear Dr. Damania!

God I love these!!

Excellent.

Oh dear God. Bedside grilling? I'm going to go lay down now.

Doc V.... I have an issue with healthcare providers that don't call you to cancel procedures... Or re schedule...

Hahaha this video is the absurd made tangible, love every second!

They practice vip medicine where I'm at. "Oh you're showing signs of a STEMI, but you don't have insurance? Buh bye!"

Don't mock the the Civics livability yo. I lived in a single cab pick up for three mos and a seat that reclines is livin' large.

It’s always handy to have a burner car hanging around, just sayin.

Bahahahaha! *abnormal saline* I’m deceased!

Dark side for Life ‘Thinking of buying a Honda Civic & living out of it’😆😆😆

Hehe called a "code mauve"... that's the best color choice for that 😂

The part of living out of a civic is good advice Doc!

It should have been a code green

:spitting out my coffee:

It's wierd that I can see Vader's left eye is a nose!

Z, what's with the ASTCM commercial on your channel?! 😳

Love my Civic. Next one I get will have all the bells and whistles. Just before I retire. #realdoctorgoals

TOTALLY believable story. The family member that did nothing to actually build a business, has no people skills, has lived off others for years...

As a flashy rich person, I have a fawning entourage with me everywhere I go. I want them around me in the hospital as well even if they get in someones's way.

Haha your always so funny

Funny as hell but so true, also love the civic, best car I ever owned

VIP care is for nerf hearders. 😂😂😂

@zdoggmd 3:56 “..... the Civic is very reliable.... reliable.....HOUSE!” Erika on treadmill. Have to pee. Gonna get those 30 min in. And HOUSE - spit out water, aaaaaaaaalmost pee self.

Only 381 likes (and four dislikes - obviously trolls on Putin's payroll)?! ZDoggMD should be required viewing for all medical caregivers. I think we are a few million likes short here...

I love my civic for sure

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 if my rent goes up again, I WILL be living in my 2005 Honda Civic.

Nothing irritates me more than people who think they deserve special treatment because of who they are.

Haven't you heard that money talks? Rich people want special treatment. Rich people also want special food that is supposedly better than hospital food.

When I worked in the hospitals, I always found it ironic when a rich person would die of rectal cancer.

Ironically they fall on their own rug.

OK so it was published just a day ago, maybe I'm pushing too hard. We should definitely see a few million likes by next weekend tho.

It's literally not possible for me to hear a grown man in a Darth Vader mask say the words, "It's ya boi, Doc Vader" and not crack the fuck up.

My bare or sock feet will never touch a hospital floor.

I HATE VIP NURSING AND MEDICAL CARE!!!! Nuff said

Omg🤣🤣🤣 hilarious

code mauve lol

Doc V. Please, Polish your helmet. And no that's not a metaphor.

ROFLOL!

Code mauve...dying

omg... the chipotle story... 🤣😂🤣😂 HIPAA violation or racist?

Damn don't remind me

I had to move a patient out of a room because the VIP wanted it. 😒 They are served on china, have high thread count sheets and towels, a robe, and slippers. Plus they put a loveseat in the room.

Why is your nose where your left eye is in that helmet? 😂

LMAO!

LMAO

👍for a Honda Civic.

lol

Bahahaha

I work in the ED. At my last hospital, i had a patient boarding in the ED for 3 days. Nice guy. A family member of a local politician comes in, gets the royal treatment, and they bump my patient from his room on med-surg so this family member wouldn't have to board in the ED like evrryone else. The charge nurse comes up to me with one of those smiles that can cause diabetes, telling me to tell my patient that he wohld have to wait in the ED for another room. I told her, in no uncertain terms, that she could explain to the patient why they were losing their room. Then i filed a complaint with the hospitals ethics committee. "We treat every patient the same" MY. FAT. ASS. Hearing that statement makes me lose my shit, because it is such a lie.

Hahahahaha

Seems like good advice for 2020 to have the money saved on case you need to live out of a civic

It's not racist if it's true

But Doc Vader, YOU are a Black doctor, you know that right ? Sorry is it Doctor of color ? "Nobody ever told you the power of the colored side"

The best video to get shot out in the street. 5555++++ :DDDDD

Your helmet is offset from your mask. Get it together!!!

I got a used civic for $12,000 in yo face Vader

"Number next." LOL. Thumbs up if you prefer dictation to writing/typing 👍

I know that this is comedy but what is with the kind of racist comments? Wtf?

WTF, serious mental issues?

LMAO