Bro, we need these videos consistently. Am a second year med student and I learned more in this video, than I have done in 6 weeks of lectures. Keep them coming

i will literally never understand how medical professionals can talk so fast and still be fully understandable.

I'm not in the medical field, but I don't even blink trying to catch as much as I can 😅 I enjoy and learn so much from you. What a tremendous job, at the hospital and social media. Thank you and hi from Colombia 👏😊

Thanks for the vid Doc Schmidt! I didn't know about the rapid prep via NG tube so thanks for that learning point :) Also you got called quite a bit last night hope you can get some good rest :P Sad to hear about that liver patient, they are always tough cases especially when they aren't a candidate for transplant due to severe alcohol use. Sounds like you were able to help her feel a little better last night though! For any med students watching this video he brought up two highly "pimpable" questions that I was asked when I was in med school. The anatomical marker for where you delineate upper GI bleed vs lower GI bleed = ligament of Treitz (definitely will get asked this on your surgery or maybe medicine rotation!) The criteria for acute liver failure = encephalopathy + INR > 1.5!

I just had a moment of realisation... Being a Fellow, in GI, makes you a real life member of the Fellowship of the Ring :O (In my defense - i wish i was a kid, but i'm a 34 year old "adult" and this is cracking me up) Thank you for the education and entertainment Doc Schmidt!

I’m a GI nurse. Been in endoscopy for 8 years now. This video allowed me into a gastroenterologist’s night on call and thought process. I learned a lot! Thanks you!

Hey Doc Schmidt, current med student and hopeful future GI doctor. Loving this content and I love how succinct and palatable you make it for the general audience while also making it educational for those in the medical field. Keep doing what you're doing!

Retired GI RN-sometimes I really miss this life. Very fast paced. I Enjoy your videos.

You’d been so good in academics! Thanks for your video

Med/surg RN of 20+ years and I still found this helpful! Please do more of these!

This is so good to watch. I get patients in the ED as a nurse but I never find out what happens to them in the end once we send them elsewhere. I love your teaching style. Also, you saved that GI bleed guy's life - even though you weren't the IR doctor who directly treated the bleed, it was your management that led to it. I find that amazing, good on you! :)

Nursing student here. Just did a class test about GI conditions (GI was not exactly my speciality in terms of systems. Still love your videos tho. Super interesting and funny). I love your very simple explanation for acute liver failure and wish I had that quick run down before diving head first into lab values and pathophysiology. Thanks for this video super educational

I’m a medical coder and I love being able to learn directly from Docs! Thanks so much.

The GI bleeds are so scary! Knowing they can bleed out so quickly, it’s great to hear that your patient had a good outcome!! Great job and great video Dr Schmidt! :)

Wanted to say that I am grateful for GI fellows. They have saved me numerous times.

This was interesting to watch. I’m studying for my RN and found it very interesting to hear what the fellows are doing on -call during the night. Hope you do more like this.

Loved it thank you! As a nurse that sometimes has to call you guys in the middle of the night it’s kind of cool to see all that you guys do overnight. Gives me a better appreciation and more grace when I don’t get the nicest of reactions at 3am 😂

Ok. I can laugh at this cause it’s true: I was getting paracentesis done, my first time. (Bad liver and a broken heart). I joked that it felt like I was being shanked. The GI specialist was teaching a student; he did a poor job poor numbing then following the needle route. He stepped aside, and his attending’s name was Dr. Shank. 😁 And I’m hoping for a transplant. It’s scary. I needed the humor. Trust me, people do appreciate what you do. I take this very seriously. Flurosemide, lactulose, piles of vitamins and a wish and crossed fingers don’t do squat all by themselves ♥️🌻🐿. Thank you.

That was interesting. Yes, please give us more of these. Thanks!

Thank you for the fascinating consultation.

I really like you. Thank you for educating so many. I work in healthcare and we need more like you.

This video broke my heart because I was a GI nurse before leaving to travel. Hepatic issues are deadly. Most causes are preventable because (most) of our patients come from a history of alcohol abuse. Please- take care of your liver. Once it starts to go, there’s not much we can do.

Great run through of a busy night! The liver patient reminds me of myself unfortunately! At 31 after a life altering work place accident that literally took off the majority of my left forearm and hand and 8 day's into my hospital stay at Mayo, my liver kinda stopped working, I was on sooooo many med's of course, and I had the top liver specialists in my room saying I had to have multiple tests done and being at Mayo they do everything 24/7 so, I was whisked out in my hospital bed and traipsed all over the hospital and it turns out my promethazine was the culprit. I've had higher numbers before and was on that med before and I told the Drs to stop that nausea med and within hours my liver was doing much better. There's one issue no Dr has figured out though. I was finally sent home of course and my surgeon required me to have frequent blood tests, for infection and liver, and my blood either did not come out at all or came out like stringy slobber or like snot after a lot of crying! No one can give me a reason for that. Can you do a video on that?!?

I’m a medical student and I absolutely loved this video! Do more of these please😍😍😍 I found it very helpful and educational👍🏻 thanks Dr. Schmidt

These videos are wonderful! The more detail the better, as a new RN, it's great to be able to learn about these things, really helps to reassure patients.

This "Fellow" is being very generous with talking about low potassium. I asked my doctor, "So what if low potassium causes leg cramps, why else would this be so bad?" That's when she told me that the muscles in the legs are affected but the heart is also a muscle. I didn't learn this in school but to be fair, I was only a Medic in the military. I also learned that swollen ankles meant CHF so when my ankles started to swell, I didn't go to the doctor thinking that I had a chronic disease. I had nephrotic syndrome 2nd to Minimal Change disease. I did not learn that in school.

Thanks, it really helps give a realistic insight into everything that is demanded of doctors. People really don’t realize…

🚨 That was a busy night! Was a GI & Endo nurse that did Call 📞 🙈 Still have nightmares 😳 about missing the call or grabbing the huge piece of Chicken (Foreign Body) stuck in a Esophagus from dinner, at 2am. Very informative & well-spoken, learned alot👌 Thank you.

As someone who had liver failure and a transplant all that brings back memories. Thank god I had a transplant Aug 16, 2013 in Houston.

This is a great format! Look forward to seeing more

I'm learning Gastroenterology right now, so your videos are very helpful & interesting. Thank you, Doctor. I'm looking forward for the next ones!

This was great! Thanks for sharing. I don't know how docs do it being on call at night and having to work the next day. Hat is off to you. Keep up the great work! 😁

As a nurse formally working for GI speciality clinic, I had no idea about the rapid colonoscopy infusion. Nor was I taught about how to differentiate between an upper an lower GI regarding the ligament that you named. I, too am grateful for your explanation regarding the livers role in clotting and how you were able to break it down, as I don’t remember or have forgotten what I learned in my pathophysiology class many years ago. As a result of your video, I will now keep a closer eye on those labs that I encounter. Thank you for making me a better RN for my patients and co workers.

Wow doc! great educational video. Do more of these please!

Very interesting video... amazing to know about your calls and pages...keep doing it...I have never really liked gi but after watching your I have really started to take interest in it... currently working in pulmonology... getting to know so many things I have forgotten and keen to know new things...love from Pakistan

40 yrs later and nothing has changed. Keep up the good humor and you might survive until retirement. But don't worry, no matter how busy you think that you are, it is 10 times busier when you're in practice. However your ability to deal with everything gets to be 10 times easier. 🤓🙋

I cannot imagine going to the hospital, being out of it from low blood pressure, and then being told, here, drink this and 💩 your brains out. 😱 Glad the patient was able to be helped in a different way. But, you gotta do what you gotta do to. Thanks for the informative video.

I enjoy learning how you deal with these diverse situations. I’d be interested in learning about your clinic days as well.

Great shorts! Useful and fun! Thank you for sharing.

Very interesting. It’s probably a good idea that I bailed on med school. I get cranky when I’m woken up at night. 🙂

Love these longer videos. More to learn the merrier

Retired nurse here, such an interesting and educational video. Appreciate the humor in some of the other videos.

I just love how u educate us. As well as your funny ones. A good doctor that can be serious excited and funny! U have me hooked

Definitely would like more of such videos!!

Love these educational videos!! These cases are always interesting to hear as well as your educational input on them.

I really enjoy the insights into what life as a doctor is truly like, the sampling of the patients you see, etc. - really helpful as I want to go into medicine one day!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PASSIONATE LESSONS ABOUT GI AND YOUR WORK !!!!!

Always interesting hearing about a night, or day. Human beings a fascinating creatures.

I have learned so much from your videos! While I am a nurse practitioner in psych, my patients typically have multiple medical problems as well that they often mention to me. The knowledge I’ve gained from your videos has helped me to tell my patients that they should not ignore worrisome symptoms and seek medical care with GI. I appreciate your efforts and generosity in sharing your time and knowledge.

this was very interesting! im not going into medicine, but I still got hooked and enjoyed every minute.

I am not even in the medical industry but I really enjoy your videos.

Absolutely love your videos! Keep them coming!!

Im in my final year of med school in Argentina. A lot of what you say on your videos has come up on my exams and it’s so easy to remember once you’ve explained it or made a joke obout it. Plus they helped me a lot with english medical terms and acronyms like “PPI”, in Spanish it’s “IBP”.

This RN clinical documentation specialist was all ears! Great content.

You guys are amazing! Cheers from Vancouver Island.

Yes please, more would be great.

Thumbs up for good patient outcomes!

I am not in the medicine field but I really enjoy your videos. Keep it up.

that was so interesting to listen to, thank you for the insight into the world of medicine ❤

You're actually insanely good at dumbing things down, for a doctor.

I love when you make longer videos!

I had an Mri for 15 mins. It was legitimately the most scared I have been in my life. I've been stabbed, attacked, done parachuting, abseiling down a 15 story building, bungy jumping, spoken in front of 500 people, had my heart stop and be aware that it was.. That MRI was horrible and much worse than that.

MELD score 🎼 ya being on transplant list is an education in itself.

I just started coding and billing in a gastroenterology clinic. Watching your vids educates me some . I find them very interesting . Thank you for sharing. I also watched u on that coding channel I watch as well.

As an OR/Endo nurse, this was extremely helpful. Thank you!

I have needed an MRI once in my life. I'd heard it was scary, loud and claustrophobic from so many people. I did an MRI of my head and felt absolutely fine. And it wasn't even that loud, and I have sensitive hearing. I wish I could lend out my MRI-calmness to all of the people who are scared of it...

Really interesting to hear about the call cases, we think of GI docs as just dealing with poop but it's a lot more than just that! ;-)

I am studying to be a nurse and was a EMT. These videos teach me more than those teachers. I love them! ❣️

As a IBD patient you give such valuable insight into the other side of Crohn's - the doctor's side , and how your balancing so much work, keep doing what you do Ben your awesome

Entertaining and educational at the same time 😄 Always love your videos Best wishes, and hope you still find the time to sleep with everything going on (juggling making these videos, the GI Fellowship, & Fatherhood)

I really like these videos. I understand more what the profession really involve. Thanks

This was so informative! Your summary totally helped with merging any knowledge gaps I had, and helped me see things from a Doc’s point of view. GI has never been my strong suit. So, any time a new video is up, I make it a point to watch it! Thank you! 💩

I do like these kind of videos - do more like this.

Excelent video Bro. I'm on the last year of medicine school and i always wanted to be a gastroenterologist. This kind of videos makes me learn about the specialty but also increases muy desire to be a GI doctor

Hi doc. I wish the doc’s that I work with are chill and nice as you. Thank you for your hard work and the laughs!

You are a great help Doc

Thats was a pretty fun and educational video! Would love to hear about more pages and consults.

Loved the video. You are typically so funny which is what makes me a regular viewer but this one was just as good if not better than those funny shorts. You do a great job explaining things.

I’d like to see a video on alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

More of these please.

I started as a nurse last December. Your videos have been both entertaining and very educational for me. I appreciate and laugh at what you do. Thank you. Fuck covid

I thought it was super interesting. I didn’t even know the liver helped clot blood, I thought it was much like the kidneys where it helps filter waste out. Could you do a video about the gi effects of cystic fibrosis? Most people don’t know the fibrosis part is due to the pancreatic fibrosis that comes with the disorder, I always thought it had to do with lung fibrosis. My friend with cf has both cfrd (cf related diabetes) and cfld (cf liver disease)

yes!!!! this is exactly the video i have been wanting.

Thanks for sharing! I enjoy unpolitical stuff now a days!

Love your videos. As I have lots of issues makes me feel less crazy

Wow sounds very tiring. Thank you Doc Schmidt for sacrificing your time and sleep to help save lives!

Extremely helpful. Especialy the emobolization as I am working with IR right now. Truly amazes me how much can be done with IR.

Loved the video please do more of these while making it more medically oriented

Thoroughly enjoy your videos. Awesome job keep up the amazing work.

Random compliments but I really enjoy the pacing you speak at, thanks for your great videos! New nurse who works GI, endocrine, colorectal, and vascular so it’s a comedic learning experience watching these.

Interesting video. I just had a esophageal endoscopy today. Big Brother must be watching!😊

I liked this a lot! Better than a DITL type video. I'm a nurse and love this stuff.

Thank you for the video! Very interesting!

Hah! Dr. Cellini (the interventional radiologist on youtube) to the rescue for the GI bleed, I suppose. I love these case by case things because it is really interesting to see what you all do on an average shift. Would not mind if you did more of these besides the skits, I could watch that forever.

Love this! Thank you

I’ve been in the lab and the transfer center! Great explanations! You seem like the kind of doctor I’d be happy to see was on call

I really enjoyed this! Very interesting.

Ugh so helpful! PA student about to start clinical rotations here and this is GOLD!

Love this kind of vid!

This is why I will always believe that the doctors I work for (and others, such as yourself) are freaking heroes, man. I work in primary care and during clinic Monday through Friday, I try to head off and warn my doc of any red flags I see (with my 30 years experience). But they...the doctors...they have to handle the red flags and that's what's amazing to me. They do this and somehow keep it flowing all day long. I work for heroes. PERIODT.