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Should Doctors Have Tattoos? | Responding to Your Comments #9 | Doctor Mike

anonymous why the thumbnail are you trying to make me fail no not November [Music] hey guys welcome to another episode of responding to your comments why wait let's just get started I think I know what no Knut November is now are you doing that for a cause because then I'll support you but if you're just doing no Knut November to prove something to yourself that's cool hope you're not in a relationship because that's gonna be rough I will say doing a simple task that you can stick to for example like brushing your teeth with the opposite hand that you're used to proving it to yourself that you can be strict and disciplined stick to it can actually translate to other areas of your life and then you'll start seeing your ability to be disciplined in going to the gym and following a diet maybe no not November is exactly what the doctor ordered I know that's not no weird I'm a triplet have you ever delivered multiples any stories Cortney I've never delivered triplets I've never even delivered twins although my sister has twins they're my nephews and I play with them all the time there's wearing glasses make your eyesight worse no Gabrielle that's like a common myth that you hear from people I think the misconception started off when someone uses eyeglasses or let's say not using eyeglasses and they think their visions fine they put on eyeglasses everything seems like it's HD and amazing and they take the glasses off and all of a sudden it looks worse that's because you now got used to seeing normally with the glasses ass seat what are the current opinions on tattoos in medical school I have a sleeve on my left arm but everything can be covered would this be an issue I don't think it's an issue especially right now medical school is becoming incredibly progressive I have a tattoo it's not shown it's obviously coverable that's ideal just because all humans have their own implicit biases we undergo some implicit bias training to be more aware of them but they exist so why create an opportunity for a tattoo on your neck or on your face that patients are gonna have to confront that and deal with it you're bringing another barrier into the doctor-patient relationship and I'm not saying that they're right for doing that but it's gonna happen if you're aware of that and you understand the consequences by all means get that tattoo I'm a fan and send me a picture because I want to civil Duckling 4n I don't know what 4n means but I like you civil duckling is it weird to sneeze seven times in a row is it weird weird meeting unusual yes it's unusual but most people do sneeze in multiples and my buddy Leonard Sherman aka the sausage maker he sneezes like seven eight nine ten times in a row he literally sounds like a dog he's a quorum it chills should I take prenatal vitamins if I'm trying to get pregnant yeah Cora you really should with in prenatal vitamins you have a nutrient called folate or folic acid you'll see sometimes that's really important to the for the development of your child's neurological development I generally don't like supplements and I tell people all the time that yeah you shouldn't really be taking a multivitamin unless there's a medical reason for it trying to make a baby and conceive you should be taking prenatal vitamins that's a medical reason there is proof there is research on that so I do recommend prenatals can you please do a collab with david dobrik or another youtuber who you have in collab with natalie i want to do this so bad I do have one collab lined up with a very popular youtuber I've already collapsed with Ricky Dillon Ava Gutowski and Gabby Hannah but if you have a youtuber you want me to collab with my biggest piece of advice because I don't necessarily feel comfortable just going out and saying okay collab with me they get so many requests as is I don't want to be annoyance if you want to tweet at them or leave comments when their YouTube videos that you think they should collab with me I'll jump in I'll retweet your tweet I'll comment perhaps we can get a line of conversation going Kristen Musa what are your opinions on routine infant circumcision in the u.s. I don't know how routine it is I guess that you do have to sort of deny it if you don't want it to happen I don't think that there's a lot of great evidence to support routine circumcision I think it's a surgery it has risks it has benefits and it should be up to the parents to make a decision on what they want to happen to their child what I do when I'm functioning as a pediatrician as a family medicine doctor I have a detailed discussion with my parents when I say parents I need my patients who are parents there's not a lot of great benefits we're seeing some decreases and what we call balanitis which is inflammation of the glans of the penis there's been some research on showing decreased transmission of HIV and those who are circumcised it's not evidence that's mind-blowing or even life-changing there's certainly side effects if the procedure goes wrong and it can go wrong things can go wrong in these procedures I've seen botched circumcision just think about how bad that is I don't think it's mutilation I've heard some people discuss that because there are some benefits but it's just important to weigh those benefits first the harms for each individual patient and not just make this a routine procedure what are your thoughts on anesthesia awareness is it possible to wake up during surgery evie I've heard of this it's really scary I can't imagine if I'm cut open and then I wake up and I feel everything I've heard of instances of this happening knowing how true it is because it is subjective is hard to know I mean I believe all my patients it's really scary and something that scares me and I've thought about this what if the anesthesia since part of anesthesia is amnesia meaning that you forget what happened also what if during your surgery you wake up or you you don't wake up but you feel everything but then when the surgery is over and you wake up from the anesthesia you have amnesia so you'll remember the surgery squid lava why do I have such a short attention span maybe because you're a squid lava I don't know I need to ask you so many questions the fact that you asked this one question without any punctuation in the YouTube section tells me that you definitely having a short attention span my thing is when someone comes in with a complaint of short attention spans I don't like jumping to a disorder because what that does is that encourages you to label yourself as a person who has let's say ADHD it now becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that's gonna keep you from reaching your goals i instead like to focus on what are your symptoms what can we do to help them what can we try from the most conservative to then increasing stepwise approach that's my thought process on it I hope you were able to despite your short attention span listen to my blabbing I like your logic I like your logic not rachana because you left that quote in order to give me a compliment because you knew I'll use it in this video so that you get airtime so well done I like your logic before I take a test I study and know most of the information ball I'm taking one I seem to blank out what causes this can I and mark this does happen this has happened to me I mean I've taken hundreds if not thousands of tests in my career in trying to become a doctor something that you may be doing that could be contributing to this is not simulating a testing environment I'll explain what I mean I like for you to set up with a timer however long you need for your test give yourself a test don't know the answers practice recalling that information recalling that information is a different type of memory and you need to practice that can we please see pictures of teenage dr. Mike Amy dear you don't want to see it you don't want to see it spiky Jersey Shore Pauly D hair in your face obnoxious look teenage years are awkward years it's not easy to get through them without some embarrassing pictures floating to the surface what's your take on birth control for teens to use to regulate periods Tannis sometimes this makes sense I know a lot of people worry about taking birth control about increases and risks of certain cancers and while there's some truth to that there's also some decreases in cancer rates when taking birth control so it's always a trade-off between the benefits and the harms especially when you're talking about hormonal treatments I have used birth control in teens to help regulate periods that was a treatment that I've done in the past is it right for everybody absolutely not it's an individual decision that you should make as a team with your doctor and if your teen with your parent I can pop my big toes multiple times in a row you should put that on your resume it's awesome dr. Mike can you make a video about concussions more information needs to be known about the century I agree with you in fact two days ago I was playing basketball with my nephew I snuffed him because I'm the block master I fell but I felt so bad that I actually have a bruise on my hip bruise on my shoulder my head got right a little bit and I think I had a mild concussion cuz I had a headaches like three days after that I was initially gonna specialize in sports medicine after my family medicine residency I've attended the conference's on concussions I've looked at the research on this so I will be making a dedicated video just for you what is an unhealthy amount of time on your phone a day for your eyes or your brain I know it's not your specialty just curious on what you thought Robert I'm curious whose specialty you think it is to talk about cellphones I'll tell you what I tell parents of teenage children and my guess middle school children it's to limit screen time to two hours a day outside of what you get in school what we found is not causation but a correlation which means two events happening simultaneously those who spend more than two hours of screen time a day have side effects as a result struggles with mental health some visual issues try and limit it to two hours a day live in real life spend time laughing with your friends doing stuff outside the world is beautiful and God I sound like I'm 90 years old two hours that's your answer just found your videos and I'm obsessed I don't think it's healthy guess what on the contrary it is healthy you're watching a doctor break up misinformation teach you real stuff about your health give you some guidance allow you to have fun get your neurotransmitters going win win win win win please don't spend five hundred hours a day watching my videos see how's a trick statement because there's no 500 hours in a day I was exaggerating and you know that because you're educated if radiation can cause cancer how come doctors use it to try and shrink the cancer cell radiation is lethal to cells now cancer cells ourselves too so if we can target the radiation very accurately and now we have amazing technology courtesy of radiation specialists physics specialists when you can target radiation at the tumor cell you can actually kill those cancer cells fan halter is it normal for me to be able to touch my head to my butt okay I'm not flexible so I can't do it you could be hyper mobile I have patients through the hypermobile joints well that could be a sign of a clinical condition like Marfan's or some other ones what I know about people who are hyper mobile is they're more susceptible to injuries you're supposed to have a limited range of motion and when you go past that physiologic range of motion you can actually cause damage talk to your doctor about what you can be doing and where you have to exercise caution what do you give first good news or bad news Cameron when I receive news I want to hear the bad news first because I'll take that shock and then hopefully the good news will make me feel better and I'll forget about all about the shock when I'm delivering the news I think I like to do the same thing making people wait for bad news can increase the anxiety related to that bad news therefore making the person more susceptible negative effects that's my medical way of thinking about it I saw my first mental health professional today can we talk about how weird it is to talk about inner feelings with a total stranger Stephanie you're a hundred percent right it's hard to talk to a complete stranger it takes time to build a rapport and we're not gonna give you a diagnosis and a treatment plan right away from the first visit takes time for you to be able to share things create a connection make sure to stay positive carry a personal sense of responsibility and know that there is no obstacle that is too big for you to overcome if you come with that mindset you will do better with your outcomes I know many of you are incredibly passionate about mental health so click up here for my mental health video and tell me what you think do you have a question leave it down below in the comments because clearly I like answering them as always stay happy and healthy

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