It’s actually hilarious how you’ve dissected this so seriously 😂

Every time you said "this is pretty funny" I kept cracking up on how you weren't actually laughing at the jokes and you did a peer review his video lol. Over all very well done

There is absolutely no doubt that "Dr. G" has struck gold, especially in the medical community, with his gentle, but accurate satire of medical practice and the different "characters" who make up the culture of physicians. He is very talented and I am a huge fan. There is also no doubt in my mind that there is a "surgical personality." This was evident to me early on in my medical school experience. There were 6 of us, I believe, on third-year surgical rotation at Jefferson back in the 1970s. We were rotating through the colorectal surgical service. Dr M's mother had died and all of his surgery was cancelled for 3 days. We were all sad for Dr M's loss, but the "surgically inclined" students were very upset. Within an hour or so they had all found somewhere in the OR to scrub in and do their thing as medical students. The rest of us (inclined toward family or internal medicine) felt relief that we could all go to the library and study; something we were unable to do while holding retractors and trying not to break scrub. I also remember one weekend call as a Family Medicine resident in Allentown, PA. I had admitted a patient with a surgical emergency at about 2 am on a Sunday morning. The surgeon, who at the time seemed older to me (probably in his late 60's) came into the ER after I called him and presented the case to him on the phone. As usual, he was dressed immaculately in a three-piece suit and every hair on his head combed and in place. I looked like a horse that had been ridden hard and put away wet. After he saw the patient and directed the start of the surgical process (calling the OR, anesthesia, and speaking with the patient's family,) I spoke to him briefly and apologized for getting him up and out of bed early on a Sunday morning. He said to me, "Allen, this is what I live for!", and he meant it. I was left speechless and in awe of him. Of course, in my second year of residency, I was already in awe of him. I don't remember his name now (it was 41 years ago,) but his son was also an excellent surgeon at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, PA.

"Alright, so this is pretty funny" Stone cold expression lol 😐

His best bit about family relationships was in his neurosurgery residency interview. "Are you married?" "For now..." "Do you have any kids?" "I don't know, you'll have to ask my wife" I got lucky in my gen surg rotation, my preceptor was super kind and supportive. Made sure I got to have a real lunch break every day too. I had some poor classmates who would just get literally screamed at all day and called stupid/idiot/etc. without even knowing why (and frankly they were better students than me, surg was my first rotation and I had no idea what I was doing, especially having been at "Zoom school").

I need this from every specialty now. But real talk, why are we making the people who cut people open tired on purpose? Like, I would prefer my surgeon to not be overworked and underslept.

I am in internal medicine and I know for real a surgeon who hates internal medicine with a passion. His every sentence is about hating internal medicine in every way human kind can think of. It left a large impression on me until today.

Do more react videos from him! It’s great to hear your take. Your video was suggested to me since I subscribe to Dr. G.

“I’m a general surgeon” followed by the Dexter smile is a good look, bro

Your reaction is so matter of fact it’s comparable to Vulcan 🖖 explaining human humor. Funny to hear your thoughts of the nuances

My favorite was the anesthesia interview where the interviewee shows that he can cheese the general surgeon by pretending to lift the table by just making the noises.

I feel like all these reaction videos just prove that Dr. G has got his impressions spot-on 🤣

I like your assessment of his jokes because he’s hilarious lol. :) I will say the anger and blame part I have noticed to be more of the norm with surgeons with someone like yourself being an exception. I was a surgical assistant for a few years and ranked top in my class and surgeons are the reason I quit. I would say at least 75% were toxic and mean to everyone in the OR while operating. And this was with me working out of 3 different hospital locations. I’m glad you said that is something the industry is working on because it’s definitely needed. And general surgery (from the biology standpoint) was so fun because of the variety. Good video :)

The estimating blood loss hit home. I’m a Transfusion Scientist and had an MTP called for PPH. 4 PRBC, 4 FFP thawed, 4 Cryo thawed, all ready to go out the door. Ward just wanted 1 PRBC and wasted the rest. Haematologist was furious at the ward.

As a member of the general public it’s really fascinating to hear about the intricacies of working in different specialties like this!!

WESTERN UNIVERSITY REPRESENTS! No matter how hard you try, can't hide that Ontario accent. 🇨🇦 👍💕 love the channel

I just did my first week of general surgery rotation and it was amazing! I only got to see two surgeries, but both were really interesting. Surgery has always been something I would love to do, hopefully I make it!

25 yrs as a surg tech, great respect for the general surgeons I worked with. They had ridiculous schedules which they managed to pull off daily and incredible stamina. I love Dr.Glaucomflecken's inside jokes! The blood loss estimate cracked me up, it's so true!

This is the most hilarious reaction I ever did see. I hope he does more reaction content. So serious , so hilarious

I worked at a major hospital in Seattle on the “general surgery” floor. It was anything but general surgery. We would get the lap appys but we also got new trach placements, skin flaps over cancerous areas where the CA was removed, bariatrics, chest tubes, wound care. Everything from A to Z. It was not easy. You had to know how to treat pts who underwent all types of surgery.

I just found your channel and I just wanted to say thank you for everything you do. I know its hard and grueling at times but the work you do is important for normal people like me. When you talk about your speciality being trauma, it hits close to home as when I was 21 my husband died in a motorcycle accident. However they tried incredibly, incredibly hard to save him. I know there's many people out there alive who did make it because of people like you, and because of you specifically. So, even though this was a whimsical video I just wanted to say, thank you so much for the work that you do. 💜

I love how you breezed over the anger issues joke. Musta wanted to avoid that one haha

Actually came across your channel looking for Dr Glaucomflecken, thought I'd take a look, good stuff.

As a third year hoping to go into gen-surg --> trauma is was great to hear your thoughts on what it is to be a "general surgeon." I will use those tips for what you are looking for in med students when I am on surgery!!

I appreciate the honesty

THANK YOU for sharing this; it's interesting to learn more about the general surgeon's work... 👍👣

I went to Centra Care Clinic for stitches once, and noted the doctor was VERY good with the sutures. I asked him about it, he said he'd trained to do surgery but hated the extreme time commitments required, so he got the clinic job with a 40hr work week, said he was much happier. Funny how you keep saying "Yeah, it used to be like that, but...but...well we're getting BETTER!"

Hey Doc, loved the walk through> Thanks!

I work in the ICU and once during report I was told by OR RN EBL was “not that much, maybe 10-15cc.” Once I settled the patient and had time to read the surgeon’s OR note he wrote EBL 1L. I was like lol. This is why we check a H/H post surgery.

I had a residency interview in the operating room. They were doing a robotic chole and the resident was on the console while the PD was interviewing me.

Loved how you explained every bit. Just discovered your channel today and excited to see more videos.

I can attest to surgeons prioritizing work over family. Dr. Kevin Sharif did my L5-S1 fuse on a Friday and Saturday night the staff were trying to figure out a pill pain med that I would accept to replace the Dilaudid that I was getting via IV. I was not agreeing with any of the nurse staff's suggestions and they got Dr. Sharif on the phone at 10pm in the EVENING (I could hear his kiddos playing in the background) and he talked to me about the options. I hate Percocet and the other opiate options and we finally agreed on a pain med alternative. Monday morning around 6am, I got myself out of bed to sit and look out at the sunrise and he comes in. I'm like, woah! Aren't you supposed to be at the clinic today? He said he wanted to come in and check on me personally to make sure I was doing OK with the new meds. I have never had a doctor take so much of their time checking up on me. I used to just get Dr's that try to get me in and out in under 15 minutes making me feel like just another patient on a conveyor belt. ACTUALLY, he's the most attentive doctor I have EVER had. When I need more spine surgery, I'll be going back to him, he's a doll.

So very interesting love the Dr humor and what an amazing last name god bless you Dr”

I stubbed my toe this morning, then cursed anesthesia under my breath.

As per your comment on General Surgery being a specialization that has to be able to deal with anything and everything, and thus causing some confusion to the uninitiated on whether they ARE a specialist field there is an analogous role in my field of Engineering: Systems Engineering. Systems engineers’ jobs are to understand the entire engineering project and all the disciplines and subdisciplines involved in it, not as well as the field specialists, but enough to see problems cropping up in the project’s overall design and track down what subsystems need to be and can be redesigned to remove the problem. They’re specialists in generalism, because you wouldn’t trust an electrical guy to make their circuits mechanically stable or a mechanical guy to realize the hunk of metal they want to put in the design to increase its structural strength will block signals from the antenna the electrical guys want to put there.

The clash of internal medicine and surgery is a big thing. I did my surgery internships and a lot of the patients come with abdominal pain, which is a very large chunk of possible urgent abdominal diseases that might need quick surgival attention - but since it's abdominal pain, the patients often go through gastroenterology internal doctors first. Quite often I witnessed the surgeons being really angry for getting a patient sent from gastro without a proper examination, stating they need urgent examination from surgery first. Like once the doctor got so pissed he withheld the examination file he wrote just so the gastro doctor cant copy paste it when they get the patient back so they have to "do their work properly". It was half justified.

EBL ( estimated blood loss ) , they will ask this when you give report to the ICU or PACU.

I don’t want my surgeon tired or having a crappy family life. Am I the only one who feels like this?

Love Dr. G! Wish you would lighten up a bit. The man is hysterical. 😂😂

I'm sorry, team. We lost the joke on the operating table.

As an internal medicine hospitalist, we love you general surgeons. But we won’t tell you that. Exhaustion during my general surgery rotation in medical school made surgery a huge no-go for me, more than 30 years ago.

Subbed, nice to see you react to Dr G!

During my internship i was doing 100 to 130 hours a week. Working constantly, always on foot, assisting cases, op, ward.. nurses were hostile so we had to do all dressings daily, burns, open abdomens, diabetic foots, debriding.. no offs, only coffee for bf, late lunch, mini dinner, full dinner if lucky. Up and down so many stairs.. Lost so much weight. Eyes got dark circles. Slept every free minute. Studied nothing. Got paid equivalent of 100 dollars a month. Was mandatory. This was for 3 months. Made some good friends. Saw a tonne cases. Chose pediatrics cz I just couldn't imagine even though every single consultant told me that I had "surgeons hands" and I really loved surgery. Just couldn't do it anymore.

Great video!!!

Your channel will be big .👍

Oh cool a new channel, happy to subscribe

Great video "Without a doubt"

You have a nice way to talk about things, it's soothing lol Btw nice looks guy :D

Is there a loud buzzing noise that occurs when a floor nurse speaks? Cause I have spoke directly to a surgeon (admittedly, trauma) more than once and had it just slide off like water on a duck

As a PACU nurse of 23 years I find his TikTok videos pretty accurate on specialty personalities. I really enjoy watching your reaction videos to him.

As GS resident can relate, great content 👌

You sir are a rock star. I don't say that lightly. I work closely with twelve Ortho surgeons and they are my (and I mean this with all respect, honestly) DIVA DOZEN.

He did say general surgeons would be most likely to thrive in any sort of survival situation - especially a zombie apocalypse. So. That’s a real feather in your cap.

Your insight is incredible. It's also hilarious to me how much you don't laugh, I don't know why hahaha

I've always thought that to explain a joke is like dissecting it... the joke doesn't survive the dissection process - but this was cool. There ought to be a link to a specialist explaining the joke for the non-medical people in each of his videos, as you have done.

"This was pretty funny as well" 🗿

I find comparing airline pilot work restrictions of physician work/call restrictions interesting. I feel that the physical demands and fine motor skills involved as a surgeon are more complex but pilots are more restricted in hours. I’m sure the mental demands are high for pilots in case of an emergency, but are even higher for physicians.

Dr G is too hilarious.

If you think about it the most stressful time in an anaesthetists day is the induction + intubation which is done in a dedicated, quiet anaesthetic room that they have complete control over for that period of time. For the surgeon the most stressful time of the day is in the middle of the surgery itself which is preformed in a loud operating theatre filled with scrub nurses, scrub techs, circulating nurses, anaesthetists, Med students, etc. The human factors involved preforming these equally dangerous and complex task in 2 very different environments shouldn’t be understated. What are your thoughts to what might contribute to culture differences?

This video made the rivalry between the internal medicine doctor and the general surgeon in Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki make so much more sense.

I'm getting ready to have surgery to close my diaphragm alittle more. I cant remember then name of it but I have scoliosis so my diaphragm is really high and won't deflate. So complicated because of scoliosis, heart disease and defibrillator pacemaker that can get in the way. So I like having my general surgeon. He's got knowledge in all fields in knows enough to get the surgery done or at the very least keep me stable until a specialist can get in there. He is so through with what will be going on. The position they are going to have to put me in and wanted to know how far I could bend before I was in alot of pain. So thoughtful. Scared but I know I'm in good hands.

Your stone cold expression made this funnier lol...

14 years in emergency medicine and surgery was my least favorite rotation. I honestly enjoyed pharmacology more. I'm more than happy to place a chest tube but to stand hours on end laser focused is my idea of hell. I am happiest in my role of stabilizing and passing the pt. off. I find no offense in gen. surgeons And hospitalists calling us butchers. My patients are not brought in prepped and planned. It's chaos and stress, the fuel of my life.

Awesome

So this is how I sound like explaining engineering/math jokes... 😂

LOL "estimating blood loss" also could include time estimates :)

My surgeon always says minimal blood loss. 1 time i came close to needing a transfusion, another time I had hypovolemia. 😒

Oh my Canada...hope you are well...

Plan 1) no surgical intervention 2) for medical to take over 3) continue medical plan

haha that book on his shelf says it all

Hi doc. Y do i feel like you were trying to not beef with internal medicine hahahahajoke

Are you sharing the surgical procedure at what point would it be bad form to call out surgical instruments and ask anesthesia for sats?

The EBL is whatever was lost when anesthesia put in another IV

I like how you explained bit by bit but do cut down repeating what he said. We can hear perfectly fine XD it will be better if you get to point.

Dr's are getting younger and younger omg he's already a surgeon 😳

On his wnding day, his happiest day, he might crack a smile

Lol he just jumps over the surgeon anger issues thing

I’m new to this channel, but as an M3 (DO) hoping to apply to general surgery, do you have a video with recommendations?

I'm appalled that no one talks about the local Witch Doctor.

Just started watching your channel and enjoy you a lot. Love the info you pass on and your calming demeanor. I have a question, and don't want to be disrespectful, maybe it is a joke I'm not in on yet being new here. You pronounce the Dr's. Name wrong is there a reason? I can hardly spell it, so I'm not trying to be a jerk, is it an inside joke ?

Pilot: "I am not well rested. I might not be fit for flying." General Surgeon: "I am not well rested. I will now cut open a person."

BOUNDARIES!!!!! it's all about having Gooder, cross dat, GREAT BOUNDARIES!!!!

Little feedback on the video, after every clip you repeat almost completely verbatim what the clip said. We just watched it, I would try to omit that

Is all surgery taught one-on-one?

Reaction = peer review

Chromatic Mage is to Magic. As General Surgeon is to Scalpels.

It is a calling...

I wonder if surgeons would make less mistakes if the workaholic culture wasn’t glorified because they would be less tired. For most people it’s unsafe to drive on less than adequate rest, what’s more difficult driving or surgery?

A lot of diplomatic hedging here. Just go to medical school Reddit, unanimously, applicants are told to not considers general surgery. The field will be its own death. Lower pay than other surgeons, worse quality of life. Sleeplessness is not just about harming the patients, you’re putting yourself into an early grave as well. Needs to be fixed by the next generation. You are not trained that way in other countries. Sweden general surgery training is 47 hours/week on average.

Really stretching to hit that 10 minute mark lol

Yep, 12 munite reaction to a 1,5 minute video, that's a general surgeon alright

As a med surg ortho nurse surgeons are absolutely terrible at EBL. I will get a pt back from the OR and AM labs will show a four point loss in hgb. Lol ebl...100.

Honestly surgery department and especially ortho, vascularsurgery are arogant and el macho culture prevails there.

Are you Canadian? Certain words you say remind me of my friend in Ontario.

*absolutely deadpan* that was funny.

cool

All this exhaustedness! Are our doctors safe for us? o.o I think airline pilots are required to have certain number of hours of sleep prior to flying, and certain window of time after drinking alcohol before flying. Do doctors have such safeguards too?🤔

You missed the temper comment.

"So this part is actually pretty funny 😐"

It is concerning that surgeons are often very tired. I would feel better if someone tasked with putting me back together correctly were well-rested. Otherwise I would be worried that something would get left out, or reinstalled upside-down.