New Docs vs Old Docs: Gloves
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Sometimes I wonder if gloves even existed in the 80s
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And of course the doctor’s hands feel like literal ice.🥶
That's how you know they wash them between exams
THIS!
My hands are ice all the time and I feel real bad during physical exams lmao
That's the enjoyable part of the rectal exam
True
I saw an old staff lick a patient’s hand once and say “she’s uremic” to which I responded “yeah I told you her urea was 150 5 minutes ago”. That was last year. I still can’t believe I witnessed that 😂
Wow. This raises so many questions for me (not medical staff). Mainly when and why did they learn what a uremic person's skin tastes like in the first place? And is this something very urgent that can be genuinely helpful to tell that way (even if it wasn't necessary in this case)?
whoa
@@Suzanne4415 I want to know who figured out that diabetics have sweet tasting urine
@@kayrie95 it used to be common in ancient and medieval times for medical staff to taste urine. Sometimes it was an ingredient in medical treatment as well. Not saying it works, just saying that it was sometimes used in some times and places.
@@Suzanne4415 Uremia is incredibly dangerous. It happens when the kidneys shut down and can't filter blood anymore, leading to waste, or essentially urine buildup in the blood. As the waste has no other way to escape, it will escape through the skin, so a severely uremic person smells or tastes like, well, urine. At that point, death by organ poisoning is not far behind.
I'm just glad last 2 exams were in that order...
Gold 🤣
Dad used to say "What is the difference between a rectal and oral thermometer? The taste."
When you realize the doctor had other patients before you today...
Omg
@@agailparsons Red thermometer does not mean it's cherry flavored...
The old doctor's face after the patient questions licking his hand is a godsend
Yessss😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The only inaccurate thing about this is the male patient's willingness to do a rectal exam😂
I don't think he knew what it was. Its the only answer
@@giggabiite4417 "That's where you use a thermometer to get my temperature right? Right?"
@@ConstantlyDamaged no
Actually it is inserting a finger inside rectum to feel inside of it in case of rectal mass or bleeding and also for examining prostate
@@alaahabib5373 I know-I have Crohn's disease, I have experienced many of the wonders of modern GI medicine.
It was a joke, hence the quotes. ;)
@@ConstantlyDamaged I hope you get well soon 💛
We had an old surgeon that would do dressing changes with his coffee in one hand and no gloves. Didn’t matter how much drainage and pus was coming out. I would have to force him to at least put gloves on one hand. Even the patients where concerned.
Eww really? I honestly thought stories like this were a joke
LMAO i know a couple surgeons like this.
100% True. I've seen the exact same thing, no coffee, tho. My surgery teacher would make us change dressings but when he saw we weren't being thorough he would just wash his hands and go IN on that wound barehanded with the very visible box of sterile gloves in front of him. Also, how urologists will touch balls with no gloves, regardless of the doctor's age.
@@lechiii
yes! it's just over 2 decades ago, we could still smoke in hospitals... 👀✅🤷🏻♀️
I once had an old dentist who worked without gloves. It was weird, feeling his skin instead of gloves in / around my mouth. He always had warm hands though.
In my anatomy class, my teacher suggested to not wear gloves in order to fully feel and understand the tissues. Stating that the sample was likely cleaner than the hand you're using to touch it with, and that formaldehyde isn't all that bad with limited exposure.
i had a professor teach us the anatomy in the dissection hall without gloves on. with her bare hands all inside the organs. i was shocked until i realised that we too had breakfast on the dissection table. So, fair enough.
My pediatrician (and favorite doctor of all time) would always go "Please don't mind my cold hands" before any touching, I think I remember her letting us touch her hands to get used to them when me and my siblings were little. She had the kindest voice ever, I hope she's doing well in her retirement
This reminds me of the 80 year old urologist I rounded with who would just walk in and grab with a bare hand and insert a foley.
If you blink you miss it, but him putting a second pair of gloves on is hilarious
What about the 3rd pair?
I thought I was the only one that saw it! So funny!
When I was a veterinary student years ago, I did an externship with an old expat British vet in Kenya, who would do rectal exams on cows bare-armed in the morning, then come back to the clinic and do surgery on dogs and cats bare handed in the afternoon.
Been having a rough day thanks to my lovely myriad of gastrointestinal illnesses and this is the first thing that actually made me laugh and weirdly managed to cheered me up a little today. the lick my hand thing actually had me cackling
Feel better :)
Don’t even dare look at the pen on the floor in the NICU, there will be a group of nurses, doctors, and RTs all there to jump to stop you from touching it 😂. We started counting the amount of pacifiers that our twins went through in the NICU because any time one fell to the floor they had to be replaced with sterile ones because of their lack of immune systems. 110 days in the NICU and basically the same amount of pacifiers each 🙈
i just remembered my mother boiling my sister's pacifiers...of course don't do that with newborns. My sis loved her binkies, so she had to have several and if they fell on the ground, there was a clean one somewhere.(my sis was born in 76) she had binkies for several years..i remember the brand: Chicco. Thank you for the memories !! How tiny are the binkies for newborns? if they are premature..do they have a suckle reflex? (all newborn mammals must have the suckle reflex otherwise they cannot latch on: puppies, kittens, calves, lambs...all must be tube fed, until strong enough to latch on)
As a parent of NICU graduates, I’m glad they are so careful 💛 bless them
@@belgadog99 the pacifiers for infants in the hospital where I was appeared surprisingly huge....basically normal sized paci but the baby is small
Wow. So only one pacifier fell to the ground a day? That's impressive!
110 DAY NICU TWINS?!? That would be my record for a visit, holy hell. And they both left alive? Sheeeeeeesh. I would have scheduled a party for them at that point, the parents would have been invited to my birthday.
New nurse vs Old Nurse, pretty much the same. But I'm most definitely never doing a rectal check without gloves. Or providing incontinence care. Or emptying a urine drainage bad.
I'd empty the bag. Not like the pee comes anywhere near my hands. If I get splashed, I'll wash em 🤷🏼♀️
yes. worked with older doctors not using gloves for testicular exams 😬 handwashing after, but still you have to touch the door handle on the way out
do be fair it is just skin
This is so true. I’m turning 50 this year and I’ve experienced this phenomenon with drs I’ve worked with over the years.
OMG, this is Soooo accurate 😂. Old nurses, too. The new ones weren't taught to smell. There is so much smell can tell you.
Well why disregard 1 of the 5 traditional senses that served our ancient ancestors so well… there’s a reason most mammals react to death or decay as such ya know!! 😅
Funnily enough, very similar to New vs Old parents lol. "It'll be fine"
A quote from my father: "after you have your first kid, you come to learn that any substance can be washed off your hands and you get less worried about putting them In gross places"
The way he even changed how he spoke, it’s so real.
Having one of the old doctors check to see if my spleen was enlarged was quite the experience
This is true with older medical assistants too!! I work for a colorectal surgeon and we assist with in office procedures and my coworker never wears gloves!! So foul!! My cheap boss wasn’t ready for me because I wear gloves for everything so she had to buy double the normal amount since I started!
I worked for a plastic surgeon and turned over the room between patients. I rarely wore gloves because I rarely had any body fluids to clean. If there were specimens, I gloved up. Otherwise, I wrapped away from me and let it be - unless I had an open sore or something on my hand.
But that was YEARS ago so I'd be "old" myself.
@@jenniferharris1280 she 72. I love her. But we work for the butt doctor!! Gloves and face mask are a must! I’d like a big poncho too if I could! Lol
@@Daniellelp921 I actually interviewed to work for a proctologist in the '90s. Gloves were heavily emphasized! I'd blame the doctor, they should care about EVERYONE'S safety. OSHA would have something to say!
@@jenniferharris1280 oh yea they would.
absolutely!! I’m a new medical assistant and I’m 22, wear gloves all the time but my coworker in her 60s doesn’t even wear gloves when administering injections which is absolutely wild to me
This is so true! I once forgot to bring gloves for an anatomy practicum (dissection lab) at med school about 25 years ago, and had to work with my bare hands - had to stick my whole bare hands into the chest cavity to remove the lungs from a formaldehyde-soaked cadaver...
I do actually forget that there is a correct consistency of saliva. Which is strange
I’m not sure there’s much clinical significance to it 😋
@@Doc_Schmidt outside of a couple really obscure issues I don't think so
@@Doc_Schmidt As a dentist I would have to disagree but in regards to most other areas of medicine, you're right
Wait, what ARE the consequences of having the "wrong" consistency of saliva? I feel like mine's been too thick for years, no matter how much water I drink throughout the day.
@@Mac-ys6nq in animals...yes, if they are dehydrated and some heath issues too.There must be a certain viscosity to saliva, in healthy individuals.
How on EARTH did you get your own hands in those positions to make it look like another person?! Especially the hand licking one, I’m in awe
ngl the old doc’s voice was super relaxing
Even as a patient I can say - this is absolutely authentic.
BAHAHAHA SO TRUE!! Jokes aside my son's pediatrician is ANCIENT and we absolutely love him 🤣 he's very straight forward with us and an amazing pediatrician AND he's very respectful. it does kinda feel this way though 🤣 he's just been a doctor for so long it's like he's built up an immunity to feeling awkward. he will never say anything insulting or judgemental either. I've never had a doctor with so much patience and respect for his clients 🥰 it's so nice.
I think the good manners and high ethical standards (Hippocratic Oath and all) and hygienic rituals for Doctors (especially Surgeons) are needed, because they have no natural resistance whatsoever to just cut you open with a knife (= scalpel). - You see: touching everything on your outside is just level one…
I wonder if most people watching these shorts realize how innovative you have to be to get these shots by yourself. I mean the hand licking must look extremely weird from another camera angle.
I don’t even touch patients and I wear gloves. Germs are on everything in hospitals. I used to get a weird rash on my palms and occasional GI issues working in a hospital till I washed my hands 20 times a day and wore gloves when I’m anywhere around patients
I HAVE noticed that they don't feel around on your tummy anymore if you have abdominal pain, to feel for swelling/masses like they used to. If you have severe stomach pain they just ignore it.
Some older nurses as well. I had an OCD mother so my hygiene skills are still top notch even after all my years nursing. I wonder why some of them never get seriously sick with their slip in hygiene protocols.
It’s pretty much that way for teachers, church goers or really just about anyone. Old people be coming up to you putting their hands on your shoulder, even when you aren’t looking. Licking the corner of each handout before they pass them out. Young people be like, if you sneeze, stay 6 feet away and get some hand sanitizer. Better yet, use handsanitizer for everything. Keep it at your desk. And don’t lick anything. If you cough, Use your elbow.
Worse part is the old people act like the only thing that’s contagious is depression. If you are depressed, they can’t help you or even be near you. Well maybe it depends on the group.
I’m 69, and I know when people do and don’t want a hug. Nearly every time I go out to run errands, there’s going to be at least one person who needs a hug.I’m a little hesitant to do that anymore, because we’re exposed to Covid and the flu and everything else, every day. We have good immune systems, & the three adults in our house are vaccinated. My concern is that I’m healthy enough that I could be asymptomatic, but carrying and transmit both, now. That’s why I still wear a mask.
@@bethmoore7722 Beth, it makes my day to know that you keep an eye out for people in need of a hug! You are exactly the kind of woman I aspire to always be. There can be so little love out in the wild, but it's small doses like this-little acts of kindness-that keep us all grounded. Thank you for you. 😊💕
Oof, too true.
idk the 2nd one seems like a pretty cool guy to me, he gets it done jiffylube quick.
As I retired dental assistant, what is dropped on the floor STAYS on the floor. ❤
They dropped my temporary crown on the floor and washed it out then wiped it down with antiseptic
Fr why are old doctor so ROUGH. I'm not a clay sculpture dude, be gentle! Especially when feeling my abdomen, feels like they're making bread from scratch 😫.
They've learned that even though you're in pain, they're not actually hurting you. They're trying to feel your organs.
And if they're touching you as you'd break like so very fine glass, then they could miss something important.
Think of it as them being quick efficient, and accurate.
it's all fun and games until doctor freeze over there cups ya balls and tells ya to cough. can't really check for a hernia when my balls went north for the winter, can ya?
@@samboyd1828 I'd like to introduce you to my hands, they'd give you a new appriciation for a doctor's hands. 🤣
@@0Jenna7 that's a very threatening thing to read right before bed, especially when I forgot the context until I hit the notification
@@samboyd1828 🤣🤣
OMFG.... the accuracy!!!! 🤣🤣
I was a nurses aid for awhile and we always wore gloves when wiping people's butts because no one wants a bad case of C Diff!
Why I do pedi screw wiping old peoples butts they know how to do that already lul
I've worked in healthcare nearly 10 years now, and gloves for personal care are obv, a thing. So much so, that I was bathing a family members baby and it was so weird to be doing it without gloves. Im like, 100% not phased by the poo, but wow it is weird to not be wearing gloves whilst doing it.
Oh man, this is so true. One very old doctor I had who was consulted on my patient didn't want to wait (5 seconds) for me to grab lube for a rectal exam so he just used the foam antibacterial soap at the sink. He didn't wash his hands after the exam and proceeded to start charting. I kindly asked him to wash his hands, and he said, "I did before I entered the room" 🙄
🤮
That’s positively horrifying.
I bet he was an excellent doctor too. In medicine the experience usually makes a ton of difference.
@@stefancoban59 Sometimes. Unfortunately, other times that experience leads to rejection of newer protocols and processes that are proven to be more effective, safer, and more comfortable for the patient. For example, if that gloveless doctor was examining a patient with C. diff, he could spread it to himself and other vulnerable patients in the clinic. C. diff is a notorious, serious, and often deadly hospital acquired infection. HAI’s are no joke.
Whaaaaat ???😮
I wish this wasn't so accurate cause I didn't realize how true it is.
I know some old school paramedics that are like this. They may end up looking like a slasher movie villain at the end of the call but they are definitely the guys you want keeping you alive.
‘Ohhh come with meee and youll be in a world of hipaa violations’
I had an old doc one time. I was weirded out by his No glove action. Dude, you are way too comfortable! 😂😂
the old doctor is so true. I just got an otolaryngology exam and his hands were all up and down my throat. and ICE COLD 😂
That "now lick my hand" part had me
I worked for an old doc who treated patients regularly without gloves. He often had poop under his nails. 😰 but he was a good doctor and relieved many of their disease. He wasn't stingy with pain or anxiety medication, and most, if not all respected him for it and kept to their medication schedules. My doctor feels my neck then immediately uses hand sanitizer. I think it should be opposite, he uses it before the exam - I don't think it's necessary at all. I would rather have him use gloves to examine me than to ostentatiously sanitize AFTER he touches me. It feels rude.
Back in medschool I heard a saying from an old surgeon, who passes it down from an even older surgeon about the benefits of gloveless rectal exams - "it's better to have a stink on your finger than on your career".
The doctors face when he asked him to lick his hand 😂😂👌🏼💖
I'm amazed how they lose that disgust sense. And thank god they do! 🙏🏼💝❣️👏🏼💖
Hahaha the things you become desensetized to in medicine.. and its even more akward when you bring up your patients gigantic bowlmovement that they ended up doing on floor cause they couldnt get to the toilet in time, and your friends look at you and wonder if you are joking or if you have gone completly insane xD
Do you bring in other staff like “Damn come check out this huge log!”
@@Ahhhmotherland depends on how big the mess is! xD But its more on the lines of asking for help. Cause it would be rude to the patient to drag a bunch pf people in to look at their poop on the floor.
He pooped ?? Oh that's so great !!! He could not poop for days. (I worked a lot for veterinarians) Any animal not pooping for days is BAD..vary bad: obstruction, megacolon etc. Also, if they poop in the exam room: do a fecal floatation test (parasite ova?) Same applies to ANY animal not able to pee, that is even a worse emergency (blockage/stones?) Please pay attention to your pets peeing+pooping habits, this is what the vet will ask about a lot ! Bring a sample too ! last but not least: eating and keeping food down or vomiting ? VERY common topics of discussion :-)
@@Ahhhmotherland One little old lady in an ED I was working in had an elephant-sized bowel motion into a bedpan. 1 big, solid log that we couldn't comprehend how she got out. Several people took photos of the poop as it was the most massive stool we had ever seen
As long as there is no visible melena, you can probably just step over it!
Important questions: does he do a rectal exam on every patient, and did he wash his hands between the last one, and the patient licking his hand
Pretty much lol. Except my doctor who is 3 years out medical school is chill when you pick up something for him.
Just beware examination gloves from a box on the wall. They can be bug covered from all the previous ppl pulling out their gloves (and pushing back in the extra ones they grabbed by accident.) There are times when a well washed hand can be safer than gloves for the person touched.
I’m a medical assistant and I’ve worked with this really old otorhinolaryngologist (ENT doc) who had us write our progress notes on paper and did ear cleanings and endoscopes without gloves, thankfully he’s retiring next year.
I have personally known a few doctors in their 60's, men and women, and that wig + glasses combo is too damn accurate.
Well, now I know which doctors have been working longer.
I was thinking he was going to diagnose the rotator cuff injury with him picking up the pen
When I first started assisting with bronchoscopies, back in the late 80s, most doctors didn’t wear gloves. We didn’t wear gloves when drawing ABGs back in those days either.
This is gold 🤣🤣 always great material Dr. Schmidt !!
New RN's vs. Old RN's, too! I can't tell you how long it took for me to wear gloves. Even after the AIDS crisis began, even emptying urine bags, we stuck needles in the mattress until we were done taking blood or starting IVs! We were awful, but didn't think anything of it at the time. 🤷🏼😏👩🏼⚕️
l Still stick the needle in the mattress 😁
@@papershadows9653 🤭
The thing I love about old docs is how reassuring they are. They have seen it all.
I was so grossed out by the hand lick knowing full well he is licking his own hand. 🤣
Hahahaha!! Dying of laughter and washing my hands. Twice, no,,,,, for hours!
I originally was a MLT before becoming a nurse and retiring and back then we didn't have gloves to wear and we use to pipette by mouth, thinking about the way things use to be is scary! We weren't forced to wear gloves when AIDS came around, it wasn't actually mandatory until the early 90's. It was such a big change to get use to doing our jobs while wearing them.
I love how the old doctor was wearing aviators
This is soooo true! Our senior surgeon used to perform DRE without gloves 🤢
Reminds me of the time when the doc put both his hands on my shoulders to make sure I stayed calm during the prostate exam.
My childhood doctor had to do an exam when I was little to check to see if there was any sign I'd been abused. He told me he could wear gloves or not but it would hurt more if he wore gloves, and I had to choose. It's one of my earliest memories. I know he had no bad intent but being forced to chose how badly he hurt me really fucked me up. 30+ years later, and I'm still not okay.
Props to this guy for having to go through a rectal exam for us
Ahhhh! This is sooooo accurate!!!
Had an attending pathologist during my residency who would cut in autopsy brains without gloves. She was super old school.
I was I small child when this switch was made. Weird memories, huh.
If someone asked me to lick their hand, it'd be no.
I have one doctor who almost always works without gloves and it's very unnerving sometimes. I had an IV team nurse trying to reestablish a line after the floor nurse blew my vein pushing phernergan as a bolus into a very ssmall cath in back of my hand - 0/10 would not recommend as it left the entire area black for 2 weeks and almost impossible to make a fist. IV nurse couldn't get it after something like 20 attempts and called someone else who was an older guy who just came in, no gloves, and got it first try. He said that he knew the risks but found it easier to feel the veins without a glove, especially for a tough stick, because veins can be so delicate and finicky and he found gloves make him question if it's the gloves or the vein he's feeling.
I’m crying at the accuracy 😂😂
Omg I'm DYING!!!🤣 Because there is someone I'm thinking of specifically lol
I was lowkey expecting him to spit on his finger before asking him to turn around
That reminds me of farm life. At first you bathe everytime you finish in the barn and wash your hands after you so much as walk in the barn, and a couple months in you can be cleaning stalls and eating at the same time.
Rem8nds me of a question my instructor asked us in Paramedic school:
"What's the difference between the thermometers with blue or red tape?
The taste
Obviously there's a limit but there's something comforting about a skin to skin exam vs my skin and their gloves. Again, within reason but if I feel bad enough to let anybody touch me, please touch me...
That ending 😅
guy i knew did volunteering in Africa in the 90s. he operated without gloves. died of infection he got from a patient. insane.
Love old docs tho
We've gone beyond the point of return.
My sister asked me to change my nephews nappy… my response ‘Without gloves?!’
THIER HANDS ALWAYS FEEL LIKE THE ARTIC CIRCLE
I feel like these videos get better each time one is posted 🤣
For the added bit of comedy you should've licked the "inspection finger" in the last scene
“I don’t have any gloves in this room”
Peels hands
The old science teacher at my school would dissect things with her bare hands. Unfortunately she retired the year before I would have had her class.
You forgot the new Dr using a gallon of hand sanitizer lol
I miss the old docs
Got sick in the Philippines a while back, was surprised how sparingly gloves were used lol
I was in hospital after a transfer for emergency appendix removal. I was waiting in an empty ward and dr came in to check me over before surgery. He just washed his hands again after seeing me. But he realised the curtain was in the way, impeding his exit. He refused to touch the dividing curtain and was kicking it with his foot to push it back. I was in agony, but even I snickered as the nurses rolled their eyes. He was rly afraid of those covid germs on that curtain
Given those curtains may not have been changed for awhile, not touching them with your hands is good infection control.
After that exam, i was never the same...
‘Proceeds with oral throat exam’
This is like in food service where we all trick each other into high fives or smack someone's hands so they have to change gloves
Old doc ftw this time.