I've had my fair share of problems on Tick Tock I mean just recently I got called out by some medical peeps attacking me about a clip from my podcast with Sebastian Maniscalco and they were attacking me unfairly unjustly factually and accurately even and I have come to the point where I'm considering making a really drastic decision and I really need your help at least to weigh in on this decision because I want to hear your feedback and we're going to be talking about that a little bit at the end of the video for now let's talk about the problem that is Tick toxic it seems on the platform the only things that go viral is when you attack directly another person you post something controversial and that shouldn't be the case if you're posting quality content good content in fact so many people in the medical field have caught on to this and think that in order to be effective they have to call out and be controversial and attack others and it's sad to see because they're in in fact not being effective communicators despite getting more views because the viewers that they're getting are just angry people who are there for the controversy and not for the learning I have a lot of issues on that and I have actually a whole podcast coming soon with two scientists discussing this so make sure you're following the checkup podcast because we're going to be discussing the ins and outs of all this controversy but today what I want to talk about is this video which is a clip of Dr Rajan speaking on a podcast and I need to address it because so many people have sent it to me and have been mad and sound mad and want me to be mad and I actually am mad but probably not for the reasons that they think I would be mad CPR is not very successful really sometimes the single digits of success oh [ __ ] okay oh that person said boom boom back to life oh snap it's higher in people who are fit and healthy and are young Sports person who collapses on a pitch we've seen loads of footballers over the years have that they have immediate CPI and they're back Christian Eriksen is an example Hollywood has made all these myths the average person in hospital have got medical conditions 70 80 90 years old it's not a high success rate and even if they get a pulse back and their heart restarts that period of time where their heart was stopped their brain was obviously starved of blood and oxygen they could have brain damage and long-term disabilities rough I'm mad because it felt like so many people who sent me this clip were disingenuously asking for fact checking when what they really want is pure conflict so that kind of raised a flag in my head like why are they sending this why do they want this controversy is this truly something wrong and while they might not be big fans but they might know that I'm very passionate about chest compressions in fact like we scream test compressions chest compression chest compressions it feels like every video I partnered with American Heart Association getting these CPR kiosks across the United States in order to teach people hands-only CPR because CPR can save a life so many cardiac arrests happen outside of the hospital in fact the majority of them happen outside the hospital so we need Good Samaritans to see people who are down call for help right away see that this person's not breathing and is pulseless and to start doing hands-only CPR pushing hard and fast in the center of their chest I'm incredibly passionate about this so when I see someone sending me a video saying that CPR is not good or something negative about CPR of course I'm triggered that's the natural response but then what you got to do is look for the context the Nuance as Jonathan height said on this channel if you want a superpower that very few of your peers have it is Nuance I then did what everyone should really be doing and watched the full clip of this podcast to get nuance and context I was thinking about this recently so you know in hospital when we got something called a DNR form do not resuscitate form okay so what that means is basically if you sign that form saying that you do not want to be resuscitated that means if you have a cardiac arrest your heart stop you don't want someone to do chest compressions and do CPR and bring you back okay from the brink right you just want to be dead and that's it he's actually talking about do not resuscitate forms which is a form that a patient can sign if they decided they likely wouldn't benefit from CPR like if they're terminally ill because if you're already terminally ill and then you die and then we do chest compressions we're actually not helping you so these conversations are so important to be had and I applaud Dr Rajan for having this intense important and emotional discussion on a podcast there are however two problems that arise from the clip that was originally shared one we as content creators need to be really careful especially the medical space of trimming a long-form interview into a short clip or sound bite because had Dr Rajan included a little bit about do not resuscitate forms or someone being terminally ill and then paired it with CPR that would give us a lot more context and allow was to place that conversation into the correct part of our minds there's nothing against Dr Rajan because I've made this mistake time and time again in fact everything he said In that clip is factually accurate and many misinterpreted his message as CPR is useless which is not what he said second it's easy to get triggered by content but it's even more important to pause when you're triggered and do the work and check the nuance and the context of the clip where it's coming from what else was said before you get very upset the people who sent me this clip did not look for that Nuance they did not look for that context they saw the video they had their emotional reaction they sent it to me wanting me to have an emotional reaction and attack Dr Rajan but that's not going to happen because we in the medical community need more Unity we need to come together to battle misinformation not attack one another when perhaps we didn't cut something in the most perfect way because these are mistakes are going to happen as especially to us doctors who have never been trained well in communication to start with but this brings me to the point where I need your help over the last few weeks experiencing everything I've experienced observing everything I've observed seeing that the federal government has banned tick tock on devices that certain universities are Banning the app the University of Texas in Austin joining a growing list of schools blocking tick tock on campus Wi-Fi networks that it's being put to a vote to potentially ban Tick Tock altogether in the United States knowing that China the parent company of tick tock puts out a different form of tick tock for its Chinese users because they want to clean it up and make it more educational knowing all of this and then seeing how all this is playing out I've considered leaving the app and I want to ask you what you think about my decision if I do choose to leave even as early as 2017 I was saying that the absence of good quality evidence-based Physicians and other Healthcare professionals on social media has created an uprising and misinformation so I do think we need good medical voices on these platforms but at the same time I almost feel like a hypocrite putting content on Tick Tock and supporting the app when there's so much misinformation already there that they refuse to take down take no action about and then they instead fuel the resources and clicks and viewership to the most problematic controversial aggressive almost like hate mob pieces of content so I'm curious what you think how would you feel if I was to delete my Tick Tock I think it's a it's a weird question to to pose but I think it's an important question to pose given where we currently find ourselves to show that I support Dr Rajan I've actually linked his Channel Down Below where he myth busts and actually does the fact checking of all of these pseudo medical videos on Tick Tock really applaud him for doing that check out that content and click here for my medical debunking videos of the biggest scams of tick-tock products that you can buy click here to check that out and as always stay happy and healthy