Mispronounced Medications
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I used to work in medical transcription. Saw someone type congenital hair piece in a report. It took us a bit to realize it should have been genital herpes
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Wow! I once saw a patient come into the office with an ER report that listed her diagnosis as Aero Syphilis. Erysipelas anyone? 😂
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"Rang-A-Dang!😂😂😂😂😂😂
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“You… you eat yogurt when your anxious…?”
I do
@@davincent98 same, it's one of the few foods I can get down when I'm anxious
I mean I would
Not necessarily a bad idea. Especially given how much serotonin is in the gut....
Yes, I do.
Some reason probiotics help
I know I'm guilty of mispronouncing a couple medications but nothing like this, that "a sea of men I'm in" had me rolling. LMAO
Had me crying!!!😂😂😂
I had to learn how to spell acetaminophen a couple years ago when a resident at the group home I work at was taking it regularly for pain after an injury. I had to break it in parts to be able to not have to look at the bottle every time. Ace ta min op hen. I still do that when I’m charting for a different resident who needs it on not so much a regular basis. 😂
That was the only one I figured out on my own!
aka Tylenol
"Ass effects" was actually the right pronunciation! 😂
Okay I know this is played for laughs, but as someone who has tutored many dyslexic children in the sciences and history, the ability to decipher mispronounced or misinterpreted words is an artform. Good job dude.
Oh my goodness I had to read your comment twice! I misread "tutored" as "tortured" and that gave your whole comment a different context 😅
@@stevegreening419 same I was super confused 😭
As a kid, I mispronounced “exotic” as “toxic.” It took my mom a while to figure it out and tell me the right way to say it. 😂
RN here for almost 10 years and going to school for nurse practitioner. This is why I tell people to take pictures of their medicine bottles or make a typed out list (penmanship is atrocious for most people.) Even people in the medical field have trouble pronouncing some of the crazy names! I finally wrapped my mind around how to pronounce ondansetron (anti nausea medicine also called Zofran. Oh-dan-suh-tron.) I work in oncology and those medication names are the worst! Ipilimumab. Ramucirumab. Cisplatin. Fluorouracil.
Pharmacy tech here and I recognized all of the names. It can be difficult when someone has a very strong accent or otherwise cannot/ will not speak clearly. However, the trick is to listen for patterns such as how the word begins and or ends. Gabapentin for example is almost always said something like, "ga..a...tin". And no other drug sounds like this.
Retired pharmacy technician, I just fall over laughing at these. There are some medications that I can not pronounce, no matter what. But I can most of them. Friends and family know that they can ask me about any medications. My dad loved hearing me go over his medication list because he couldn't name a lot of them. Miss you, dad.
I'm a pharmacy technician. The one I refuse to say is carisoprodol. I can only say Soma. The patients come up with pronunciations that crack me up but I get most frustrated at fellow techs who continue to pronounce easy ones wrong even after the boss corrects them.
@Michelle Hasty it's not the easy ones. It's the ones that are rarely seen outside of a hospital pharmacy. I worked in a retail pharmacy inside of a hospital. I could usually barely pronounce the brand name, but forget about the generic.
I have a little note with my medication in my wallet. And with emergency contacts. So there is a chance, the ER nurses get this infomation even when i'm unconcious
I’m a retired pharmacy technician as well,and these are so funny,because they’re true! We would often discuss where the hell the drug companies come up with these names😂
@Kilse Stoffel they do. I worked in an ER for 4 years and I know that it sounds bad, but the staff do go through everything to help save you. You should also include all allergies and medical conditions.
You make this Burned Out nurse laugh out loud about nursing and THAT is nearly impossible to do. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for every dang one of these videos. ❤️
Thank you for what you did for all of those who you cared for ❤
Thank you for what you do ❤
Me too sister me too 😂
4:00 I lost it at "A sea of men I am in"! This is hilarious as I am in poor health and on a gauntlet of meds and this so me every time. Every drug has 3 names and they're so long and stupid and spelled crazy. I love that you are all so patient and understanding. But dang you have a natural talent with comedy! Thank you for everything you do! You are Golden!
I liked peanut butter ball for phenobarbital...lol
I try to memorize the brand name and the generic name for meds that I or my kids take. It comes in handy.
As pharmacy student, this video needs to be in our learning module for education purpose, along with how to read doctors handwriting 😂
This is the idea I was looking for. These are great mnemonic devices to help students recall the medicines' names.
Nearly all prescriptions here are computer printed, but I had a hand written one from an ENT Consultant. The pharmacist had to ask me if I knew what I had been prescribed! It had been so long since she had seen a hand written one. 😂
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Communication is key
Can you include HCAs, because they are the ones I (as a patient) always have to guess what they're talking about. "Okay, it says here you're on... Cole-i-Californica?" "Vitamin D3, yep." "And Ex-kit-taparam?" "Yeah, that's the generic for Lexapro." "And do you still take... Sipral-note-on?" "Spironolactone, yes."
It brings me immense joy knowing somewhere, somehow. There is a man or woman who is pronouncing medications like this while talking to a nurse.
I was getting ready to have a check up MRI, (I'm a pediatric germ cell tumor cancer survivor) in high school.
I'd filled out the little form and one of the questions was:
"Do you have any foreign objects inside your body?"
There were little boxes to check beside "Pace Maker," etc. then there was an "Other" box.
What I have wasn't listed, so I checked "Other."
I gave the radiologist my form.
It was 8:15 am and this dude already had an attitude.
He looked at my form, then at me, squinted, and asked,
"You have 'Other,' checked here for a foreign object in your body! What could you possibly have that isn't on this list?!?"
I told him, "I have a VP Shunt."
He leaned towards me and scrunched his cheeks up,
"You have a WHAT?"
I said loudly and slowly,
"A V-P S-H-U-N-T!"
He stuck his top row of teeth out.
"What the heck is that?"
I said, "I don't know how to properly pronounce it...but it's a ven-trick-qu-lo--parrot-tone-neal shunt."
Once I said that, he was livid!
"HUH! It's pronounced, ventricul-operitoneal shunt...not whatever you just said!"
This dude was red in the face and sweating beads.
I snort-laughed at how foolish he was being and said, "Well, that's why I said the abbreviation, a 'VP Shunt' because I wasn't sure how to say ventriculoperitoneal shunt."
He retorted, "If you're gonna check 'Other' for foreign devices in your body, then you need to know how to say it!"
I said, "And now I do! Thank you!"
He turned his chair towards his computer and mumbled,
"That's so irritating!"
I knew he meant my not being able to say, 'ventriculoperitoneal shunt' was irritating, but I said,
"What the shunt? Yeah! It's very irritating! Do you have a cerebral shunt, too?"
He half turned towards me and mumbled,
"No,...I don't."
I said, "Do you have one in your heart?"
(His eyes widened. Apparently he didn't know shunts were used in the heart).
"No."
I said, "So you have no idea what a ventriculoperitoneal shunt is actually like?"
He made a face like a puppy that's in trouble.
"What's it like?"
I told him that foreign tissue builds up around the shunt and drainage lining and limits the movement of my head.
The tissue tears most often in my sleep and causes my neck down to my collarbone to puff up, like a one sided balloon.
If I turn my upper body wrong, or eat something too peppery, or acidic, then the tubing in my stomach burns.
"Whoa..." He sat back in his chair then said apologetically,
"I-I didn't know..."
I smiled and said,
"It's okay!"
Then walked in the room with the MRI machine.
He was very young and either still in med school, or just out.
Hopefully that taught him not to get irritated with patients so quickly! 😊
I take 14-ish prescription medications, plus a half dozen OTCs every day.
I gave up trying to remember them, and printed out a medication sheet I keep in my wallet that also includes all of my known medication allergies and the tops dozen or so diagnoses I carry.
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Every time I check in at an ER the staff LOVES me for this, particularly when I tell them they can keep a copy.
@@MonkeyJedi99 You're awesome!!!
I do the same thing!
Someone my mom was around got covid, and despite her wearing a mask, she also got covid and my sister and I got sick, with covid like symptoms.
The three of us went to the hospital, to get tested.
I'm a pediatric cancer survivor and the trauma from that caused my system to develop Fibromyalgia, which I didn't show any signs of, until I was 25 and began having anaphylactic reactions to foods and products I'd eaten/used all my life.
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I'd recently been to see one of my specialists and they always print off a sheet with my long list of allergies, cancer history, medications I'm on, the fact that I have an EpiPen, etc.
I took those forms and wrote on the back that the symptoms I was having were causing my ventriculoperitoneal shunt to severely burn. (A ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a device in the my brain used to prevent hydrocephalus, which is when cerebral spinal fluid builds up inside the brain, causing it to swell, because the fluid can't drain out).
I handed the forms to the doctor and he skimmed over my allergies, then turned over to the back, where I'd written about the unusual burning, in my ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
When he got to that part, he dropped the papers on the floor, exclaimed,
"Heh-bu-dah!"
And backed into a cabinet, like the papers were a snake.
He shouted,
"Why on earth did you have hydrocephalus?"
I cautiously said, "B-e-c-a-u-s-e the germ cell tumor I had when I was 14 blocked off the natural passageway for cerebral spinal fluid to drain out of my brain, then my radiation treatments turned that area into scar tissue."
He calmed down and said, "Oh. Well, do you mind if we make a copy of this?"
I said, "You can keep it!"
He said, "No! This is so thorough I wouldn't dream of keeping this from another physician!" 😆
@@pirategirl1588 dang that was inappropriate behavior they owed you a Big apology
@@mysmirandam.6618 It's all good! I've found that the difficult medical individuals are fresh out of med school, or about to finish, because they lack experience in the actual medical field.
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It's a case of 'practice makes perfect!' 😉
Thank you! ❤
At least one of these patients had the "chicken pops" as a child
And their grandpa had old timer's disease.
I must say, that as a retired nurse, it is a pleasure to see humor in medical care, because we all need a little laughter in our lives in lite of the turbulent times that we are facing in our daily lives. Thank you for providing us with your thoughtful humor, it is greatly appreciated.
BEEN IN NURSING 15 YEARS AND I CAN 1,000% AGREE WITH THIS VIDEO ☝🏾😂
Since Mum(nurse) died I am hopeless with the names. So I carry in my bag tags of the medicines I take. Now to do the same for hubby. He ends up in hospital more than me & just tells them to look up his records, no, no, no. It's a safety issue. 😊❤
OMG don't get me started on herbs and supplements..............
You probably met my friend, but at least she spelled ratinidine 😂
Hey, at least he's got a general sense of what he's talking about and doesn't simply give you colors and shapes. "I take a round blue one and an oval white one in the morning..."
Me at the dermatologist. "The gel in the tube. Yeah, no, not the cream in the tub, that's a different one."
@@fairycat23 Love your Acara avatar!
LOL that's me! ✋ - I just wrote - "LOL - went through this last night at the ER but from the other side... "what medications are you on" THIS time - remembered to grab my container from my bedside. to me they are: little one, big one, orange one, blue one - 2 of those, 2 of those (both bottles) 🤣"
2 bottles are easy -
diazepam for anxiety (small white round
zopiclone for sleep (small white oval - used to be blue)
little one, big one, (and/or big one, little one) - current antidepressant - I want to say.. cert sert - ra - line (but said lean..) "sertraline"
orange one - cholesterol - no idea - brown box, orange pills - "simvastaline"
blue one - (actually 2 now - helps with my fibromyalgia - bit of pain relief/ bit of antidepressant amy-trip ta line (as above line/but said lean) - how closes? amitriptyline
As a nurse I make sure I come with a list. I have many copies. It's so much easier for them.
I AM SORRY!! I TRIED MY BEST!!
I've also been telling nurses I'm taking the ventolin looking thing that is not ventolin and in a red tube for my asthma.
“Leave thy rocks in” made me cackle😂
I dont do pharma but sir PLEASE do a whole lot more of these, they r entirely hilarious
My wife is a nurse and these are our favorite videos.
We play “what is he trying to say”
Keep up the good work mother fucker!!
I play that game too! I'm super good at the blood pressure ones because I've tried most of them! Same with the antidepressants!
I was able to make out most of them. Except the ones with typical American brand names.
Europe has different regulations and not all medication is registered here...and visa versa ^^
@@ChallieWallie I think you might've meant vice versa?
@@xXJ4FARGAMERXx LOL!!
I’m not in the medical field but I do try to guess what they’re trying to say. I love these videos!
i worked as a vet tech for a while and used to encounter the same thing but "peanut butter ball" had me SCREAMING bc well...if you could ask the dogs what they take, that's what most of them would say 🤣🤣
I am a caregiver, and take care of usually elderly people in their own homes.
When I am doing palliative care, the patient is sometimes unable to swallow tablets. I do ask the doctor if there is a pediatric liquid which can be substituted, but often there isn't.
So tablets have to be crushed to a fine powder, and mixed with a pureed food which the patient likes.
Peanut butter which has been thinned out a bit with olive oil usually goes down really well!
@@gailboreham2431 I thought that was where "peanut butter ball" was headed.
Out of curiosity how many attempts on a daily basis do you hear for the other name for keppra?
He said peanut butter ball with so much confidence
For the medical community this is a fun guessing game 😂 I was right every time.
This was me calling in refills for my late husband. I would end up spelling things out to the pharmacist, especially when I had no idea how to pronounce them. The last couple of years before the end I just couldn't keep up with everything he was taking. I got a spiral notebook and wrote down everything, the name of the meds, dosage, milligrams, everything. Had the doctor's office information, last appointments, why he saw the doctor, everything I could think of I would need in an emergency. Unfortunately the emergencies happened. The ER nurse, and floor nurses were greatful I had everything written down, and they could just copy it. I made sure I used my best handwriting too. When the EMTs came and tried to revive him, they were greatful too that I had everything written down. It made their job easier. Unfortunately they couldn't revive him, and I lost him. I did my best by him 🕊️ RIP.
Now I need to get a spiral notebook for myself, for when I'm not able to speak for myself, or remember everything on my own. A three ring binder would be easier to update, but a spiral notebook is under 50¢.
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Oh bless you. What a caring wife, I'm sure your husband knew he was very loved.
@@reaganjaegan Hi,
Thank you. I hope he knew how much I love him. 🕊️
@@BROUBoomer I have absolutely no doubt that he did! I'm so sorry for your loss. It sounds like you were both very lucky to have each other ❤
I do much the same thing, especially with my mother. I keep a list of all her meds, dosages, and allergies in her wallet. I've got another note saved on my phone for my reference. And those little spiral notebooks? I've got sections for Mom, me, AND the dogs! When someone is ill I keep a separate log of symptoms, meds, and even food/drink. It's not that much extra work and it's been a godsend to both the doctors and us!
Mom kept her meds in a file on her pc. 96 and rocked her computer. I printed it and put inside a kitchen cupboard door
We taped one up on her bathroom mirror, too.
my sincere condolences. I was a personal care-giver for my Signif Other of 30 years who passed from COPD in 2020. I always took copious notes like you did, to take to Dr's Apps or to show to EMT's when he needed emergency help, I could not provide.
he was 83. and just wanted to give my condolences and say that your post is so relatable 🥲
It's a lot like pharmacists being able to read doctors handwriting 😂
Oh, this. I worked retail pharmacy for 20 years. I actually learned how to read Dr hand writing by working at a car dealership in the service department as a warranty administrator. The mechanics were great about telling me the repairs they had done, and showing me, so I got to spend a lot of time under the hood of so many vehicles. Future mechanics were not thrilled that the cute, short, blonde female was questioning them about why they wanted to do something that wasn't necessary.
@@heidifruchtl354 It's funny you mentioned this. I learned so much about cars from being my ex for 7 yrs. When I'd have to take my car in to be fixed, I always wanted to be in the bay for this exact reason. The one time I wasn't allowed back there, for "safety reasons" (yeah right), I got charged almost 1 thousand dollars. I later decided to get a 2nd opinion and found out that none of the work that I paid for was actually done. After that, I insisted that I be in the bay, as I knew what needed to be done and what wasn't needed, so that I wouldn't be charged a fortune, as most women are these days, unfortunately.
@Keri my dad treated my sister and I like the sons he didn't have. He taught both of us to change the oil and how to change spark plugs. I remember that my sister would sit on the wheel well inside of dad's first truck helping. He loved the fact that I learned so much from the mechanics.
I took my child to meet a couple of the guys a few years later. She was not yet 2. But they were thrilled to meet my clone. She is now 22.
Former pharmacy tech, here. One night when the pharmacy was slow, the pharmacist passed an rx around for us to "read". We couldn't. The pharmacist told us the rx was for acyclovir. Good times.
@@marysmith2060 MARY IM ALMOST THERE :)
I'm not in the medical field, but this was absolutely hilarious! 😂
I hope you do more of you because as a pharmacy technician student this really helps with pronunciation and it's actually quite funny to hear how other people pronounce the names of the medications they take
Satan: i have nothing to do with that man"s cholesterol i swear
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“A Mac sauce chillen” “A sea of men I’m in” 😂
The latter would get the attention of some friends of mine. XD
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My mom can't pronounce acetaminophen either. I don't remember how she pronounced it, but it made less sense than what's in this video.
Yep, 2 of my favorites.
I'm going to use these at my next dr appointment
These got progressively funnier 😂
I couldn’t breathe I was laughing so hard-but it’s so true!!😅
“What did I say??” is so on point it hurts 😂. Love it when you try to ask them dosages too! I once had a patient say “if it helps, it’s a little circular off-white pill”. Nope doesn’t help at all but thanks for playing!
If I know I'm going to be asked what I'm taking and dosages, I try to take pics of the labels so I can just show them.
@@apriltininow,that is a GREAT idea.
I take photos of signs/posters advertising things, but l never thought of medication packets/bottles.
@@apriltini So sensible!
Retired pharmacist here. 😂. I got a kick out of this. I always loved it when a patient told me they took a little white pill for bp. I only had about 450 different little white pills
You had me at "ass effects"😂
"You eat yogurt when you're anxious?" Is still one of the best lines
“And what is that for?” Kills me every time 😂😂
I showed my mom this video and she was wheezing! Mom's a case manager nurse for a health insurance and this is exactly what she goes through in her calls. 😂😂
This needs to be a whole genre of videos, goodness. This is why as a patient I always look up the common brand name if I can't remember/ can't reliably pronounce the generic name, though so far I haven't had issues when asked about my medications. Sometimes it's just easier to say "I took a xanax pill for a panic attack" when at the ER during a mental health crisis than to explain that "I'm under the influence of alprazolam because of a recent panic attack." even when a certain name brand isn't what the hospital pharmacy necessarily carries (Inderal vs generic propanolol, or Prozac vs fluoxetine, etc)
Yeah, the guy who could not say "acetominophen" might have been able to say "Tylenol ". (I would think that brand names that are advertised a lot would be easier to remember and pronounce.)
Thank you so much!!! I haven't laughed this hard in a long, long while!!! I had tears by the time you got to "a sea of men I'm in."
Retired nurse here. Several weeks after my husband started to take b/p meds, I asked him what he was taking. He sounded like some of those characters in your video. Well, now it is several years later and a whole lot of coaching later. He can now recite his meds and doses correctly. He also has a list in his wallet. Love your videos! I get such a kick out of them. Keep up the good work!
As someone who shortly dabbled in pharmacy technician I find these to be the most hilarious.
My brain read that as “shortly dabbed”
I just love these so much!!!! The "whaaaaaa" look gets me every time🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ironically I've had the opposite happen to me. I've gone to appointments where nurses didn't know how to pronounce the medications I'm on but I did.
My mom was an RN for 30+ years. She once had a female patient who kept asking her for “Tampoons”. My mom paused & asked, “Do you mean tampons?” And the lady said, “NO! TAMPOONS!” My mom just got her some & shook her head. But it became a long standing joke in our house.
My aunt couldn't say simple words right like Tacos and khols. We felt bad for laughing but was too funny hearing her say them.
@@karentucker2161
What are "khols"? I could not find that term by searching the internet.
Your character acting is incredible !!! I actually forget you're the same person.👏👏
Me too!!!
Same 😂
The clueless shrug is my favorite
The "little pink pill" line...that one is so real. I can't tell you how many times I've been so happy to pass those patients off to the pharmacist.
I'm a pharmacist and these are my favorite skits of all time ❤
That shrug 🤷♀️ so me, lmao. “Lori’s ass o’pan” 😂 I apologize in advance to all the nurses that may possibly treat me someday.
We love the challenge! 😊
Lorazepam?
My niece is a PICU nurse. She told me a couple of days ago that she was giving one of her patients a dose of diazepam. The kid asked her if she was giving her dead ass in a pan. She had to step out of the room for a minute so she wouldn’t hear her laughing.
@@spacelasertech8359 , yes 🤭
Babes, keep a list of them in your phone!
This video hilarious!!
Please make a part 2! 1:09 got me DYING!! 😂
I love these sections...i usually get them right. These are really cool. Please do more than these man!
As a RN of 17 years, this absolutely just made my Sunday morning!! Lol
I loved this! Thank you for the laughs! 🙏🏼🌸
The tramadol one cracks me up because my son used to call my baby daughter's pacifier a "fire-paci"
“Lies within a pearl” lmao
I'm not a health care professional and I find this hilarious. I'm certain health care workers can all relate and appreciate this even more.
Hilarious! I take seizure meds. Love the peanut butter balls.😂 When I was a kid I had to take the liquid phenobarbital. That stuff is nasty. Sure wish it tasted like peanut butter balls 😂
My nephews took the liquid until a couple of years ago. I got a whiff of it once when I was giving it to them. It didn’t smell like it tasted good.
@@mcrchickenluvr What does it smell like?
@@SewardWriter to me it smelled like flat root beer that should’ve been tossed out a week ago.
@@mcrchickenluvr Oh, dear.
@@SewardWriterit's supposed to taste of fruit (cherry, l think), but it smells/taste like fruit made by someone who never tasted real fruit in their lives. Synthetic, old and kind of plastic.
It's been many years since l gave some to a client/patient but sitting here l can still smell it 🥴😬
OMG, it's so like this with my clients, SO funny! Thanks for making light of it!
This is fantastic! Love it! It is so great to see other versions of how people pronounce medications. My favorite was "sea of men I'm in"! LOL😂🎉😅
Please, do one about patients telling you their diagnosis.
I’m a dental hygienist who used to work in a pharmacy. 😂 this is far too accurate
"a mac sauce chillin" I got that one immediately
"A mac sauce chillin" I'm dying! 😂🤣😂🤣
These are hilarious! I actually guessed a few correctly. But as a non- medical person, I understand the rough pronunciation of many of these. The people who give names to medicine sure don't make it easy! 😂
If you're on a brand new med, I recommend not just having it on a med list, but take a picture of the label with your phone. The ER staff had to look up Auvelity because they (understandably) thought I meant Abilify.
Ever sense I was 10 I've been pronouncing all my medications for the doctors, my family have absolutely no idea how to pronounce any of theirs 😂
“The what did I say”brought me right back to taking my grandma to the doctor.
Truly we need to love nurses!!!
There is so much respect for all medical workers, dealing with patients 💕
Man, you are an amazing nurse. My daughter yesterday was trying to pronounce some of her husband medicine...🤣😂😹😂🤣You nurses are amazing, and you don't get paid enough. God Bless 🙌🏻 you all. My mom was an RN. She loved it. 😍 We need more caring nurses..🤟🏻❤️💚💜
He was an ER tech not a nurse, and he is retired
@emily oh yes, I know, sweetie...😳🙃😅😂🤣
@@jacquelinebeavers4556 didn't sound like it
@@emilymulcahy 🙏🏻
Amen! 💯💯💯
🤣😭🤣😭 Omg… I was dying laughing at these!!! Please say you have more of them!! This was awesome!!!
I ain't never laughed so hard.
The best is when the medical staff can’t pronounce them either. Lol. The brand names are usually easier to say but spelt in very creative ways sometimes. 😂
As a med student who was only taught generics during pharmacy classes, it's a pain when attendings start talking in brand names because I usually have no idea what is being talked about 😂 eventually started picking up on what generic goes with which brand name
I work for a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer and some of the stuff we make is also referred to by the main brand name. Prochlorperazine is just too much of a mouthful
I used to take propylthiouracil for hyperthyroidism ( which is somewhat difficult to pronounce in my language). At some point I had a pharmacy person who couldn’t pronounce either name and after butchering both of them for a while she just handed me the box and said “for your thyroid”
I look up the names of my scripts and learn how to say them. But I'm happy that all people don't do it because I really need these laughs.
Sir this made my day. I'm the patient that tries to learn and understand and appreciate what these people do for me and my loved ones. I love my Nurses and Dr.s and kitchen staff and blood draw lady's and thank you
Awesome Carol for being my Warfarin clinic lady! Prarie Cardiac O'Fallon Illinois I love u guys! J.D.❤
Man , this guy is the best... our everyday struggle made comedy. God bless you man!! keep it up!!!!!!
I write out my scripts on a card... laminate it and keep it on me. All I have to do is hand it to the nurse. Saves a lot of time.
It has my allergies to meds on it too. Plus any other allergies.
Great idea - my doctor recently referred me for an x-ray - kept the referral letter as it has all my medications, dosage etc. put in a safe place - so safe I can't find it now - when I DO - I'll do that, thank you!
@@juliaconnell You're welcome.👍☺️
Metropolitan sounds better than what usually comes out of my mouth for Metoprolol 😂
I adore these videos !!! As a retired nurse these keep me rolling lol... never stop ! Cymbals ta da, I died 🤣 😂 🤣
I am LITERALLY in tears...I have my earbud in and my Hubby lookin at me like im nuts....😂😂😂
Should I be worried that I'm familiar with a lot of these medications? Especially the maintenance once 🥺🥺🥺
lol as a nurse who works with a very wide population of conditions, both specialized and general in adults and children, I have heard hundreds of drug names and have had to guess so many times what people are trying to say. Cracks me up but also gives us both a headache. Even I can’t pronounce a lot of the obscure ones, but I’m at least not this bad when I try 😂. I loved the half-hearted attempt at figuring out the med name and it be right 😂 love you for making our tears into laughter.
Love it. Soo good to see what you guys experience from ur side hahaha
This dude deserves a raise for having to deal with all that.
The compilation I thought I needed AND BOOM
I LOVE this series. Please More of that!
This was the best one yet!!😂😂😂😂
You have to work in medicine to appreciate this.. LOL 😅😂
Love this! Ass Effects 😂
This was most hilarious *and* informative. I found myself trying to figure out the medications before you said them, made a little game out of it, lol.
I got the acetaminophen! I think that was pretty much it. (I'm an accountant, not a medical professional.)
These have me in stitches every time 😂
"Peanut butter ball". 😂😂😂😂
Dang, the phenobarbital was the only one that got me. I can't remember the last time I saw a patient taking it.
I figured it out, no problem, but was astonished they were taking it, since there are so many newer choices these days!
How about "I'm a daffodil" for excessive daytime sleepiness.
Is that modafonil? Idk how it's spelled but it sounds kinda like that. I know one of my relatives takes that, and it _might_ be for sleepiness, but I can't quite remember.
@@fairycat23 Ding,ding, ding! You're there! Modafinil is brand name Provigil. Armodafinil is brand name Nuvigil.
Glad to see I can actually recognize a handful of these now that I've actually started nursing
I have not laughed this hard in ages 😂. Thanks!
Props to the guy who got off Cymbalta. I accidentally went cold turkey a few weeks ago. Needed three litres of fluid, a bunch of meds, and a solid week of sleep.
You're lucky. It's a nasty drug
@@xy-qy2yg That it is. Doctors don't seem to understand just how nasty it is, especially when it takes days to get a refill.
Yah. I went off cymbalta. Took a few weeks of gently tapering at the end to like every other day, then every three days, then twice a week…at the lowest possible dosage.
I was on it for a month at a very low dose, right at the beginning of the panini, and boy, was that fun to deal with when I stopped. I was on it for muscle pain and it left me with a week long headache.
@@mdroberg that sucks but still more lucky than some especially noticing it is the meds. I wish I had realized and expressed more it was the cortisone making me so ill.
I love these videos. Keep on keeping on dude. You bring a lot of joy.
it was SO fun guessing along with these omg
I love your skits, your doing a wonderful job. I would like to ask a favor though, can you make sure your videos are closed captioned (CC) some are not, and I missed a few of the videos. Really want to see how they turned out. I'm only asking because I'm Deaf, and lip reading can sometimes be difficult. Keep up the good work and awareness is an added bonus so thank you🙆🏻♀️
I was a personal caregiver to a friend who was prescribed Isosorbide which he pronounced as " I-saucer-bide " one time we were in the waiting room of his urologist, and it was time for this med, so I said "time for your flying saucer pill" and got some fishy looks from a lady seated near us, who did not know that is what we jokingly called it at home. I explained the inside joke to her and the room in general, and she and a few others got a laugh out of it also 😂
he passed in 2020, and I miss him, but I have these happy and funny memories of him to keep me going
He was lucky to have you as a friend! 💗
It's wonderful that you were able to infuse some light-hearted humor into your caregiving relationship with your friend to create some joyful shared memories to carry on.
These videos are actually super helpful (As a person who's been on the same medication for well over a decade snd still pronounce the name differently every time.) Sometimes you just gotta get through the first few letters and mumble your way to the end.
I am crying. This is hysterical. I don't know how you do it but please don't stop 😂❤
I guffawed when he guessed Lisinopril and even he was shocked.
A friend of mine asked if I was on quiet pain for my bipolar. I was like "well... The pain isn't very quiet... It's more screaming into the void" she looked confused, I looked confused before she went "no, the one the Americans call Seroquel". Oooh...
Quetiapene for bipolar you can't be depressed if you're unconscious pmsl!!
@@mysmirandam.6618 Thank you I was wondering what "quiet pain" meant!
Funny how they're actually the same drug...🤣🤣🤣
@@kelseydalziel3514 I've taken it. Better than anything at knocking u out!
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