A Night in the Life: On Call with a GI Fellow

A look behind the scenes to see what a call night is like for me as a GI fellow! I take you through the pages and calls that I receive and how I responded. Stay tuned to see whether I get called in for any emergencies!
All scenarios in this video are altered to protect privacy and anonymity. No patient info is provided in this video
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This video is intended for educational purposes only and should not be interpreted as medical advice. You should consult with your doctor with any symptoms or medical concerns.

[@samrusoff]

You can tell this guy is really a doctor because of how much information he can pour out his mouth non stop. I look away from the video for a couple seconds and I've missed 4 symptoms and a couple treatment plans! 🤯

[@victoriaolson8985]

One can slow down the playback speed thru the … menu

[@kaboomsihal1164]

I only recently noticed that when the new 1st years came in, how much slower they talk. Made me notice how even in regular conversations everyone in my year hurries through information like their consultant is about to hit them with a book for being too slow.

[@jessicaschieffer4405]

As an RN, thank you for being so kind when nurses call and ask for simple things like diet orders. Not all specialists are nice when you call after hours.

[@meaganlewis6077]

My mom was a rn at a rural hospital If we were breathing and our blood was clotting we didn't go to the ER, we made an appointment and went to the Dr All our Drs worked in the clinic during the day and one would be on call while working and then if you went to the ER during the day it threw his clinic appointments off AND if you go at night your going to be waking him up after he worked all day It was so weird living in a city where the Drs were working scheduled shifts at the ER so we didn't have to wait for them to drive to the hospital and they weren't moody due to sleep deprivation I'm back in that hometown and the other day I laid awake in bed in excruitiating pain cause I didnt want to be the reason multiple people were woken up and had to go in, so I waited till a decent hour to have one of my roommates drive me to the ER

[@annclinkscales8222]

💯 Agreed! But, he understands that everything needs an order unless your unit has a few standing orders! He is very kind, even through all of his funny videos, they are appropriate funny versus making awful remarks about a patient. (Even if he could get away with it, to make us laugh, he doesn't treat anyone badly!) Doc Schmidt is a very special doc!

[@waleed8309]

As a med student, I’ve read about these diseases in books, but to see you deal with them practically is fascinating. Love the brief explanations of each disease and how you plan to treat them. Please keep doing these 🙌

[@Doc_Schmidt]

Glad to hear it was interesting! I will certainly plan to continue making videos like this

[@eirikdegard4498]

I second this.

[@aamirrazak3467]

agreed

[@fifaplayer-ve2zb]

@@Doc_Schmidt where are the videos at?

[@trustypatches5244]

It’s really interesting because as med school student , I never really know the severity of some diseases. So I just freak out all the time.

[@rachelkim232]

Haha I’m a surgery resident on call tonight and just as you said “sometimes I get paged right away-“ I got a page 😂😂 so thanks for jinxing me!

[@juliahaynie764]

As a Crohn’s patient, I really appreciate what you do, and how much better my life is now that I know how to treat it.

[@johbow3045]

Absolutely fascinating!!! Thanks for this window into your life. Specially liked the middle of the night mood lighting-- nice touch!

[@Doc_Schmidt]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed

[@HotChocolate1994]

@@Doc_Schmidt your voice is sooooooo friendly and soothing. You know how some people are paid cuddlers? I would LEGITIMATELY PAY YOU, to massage my head and talk me to sleep. That is how calming your voice is. I'm not creepy, just weird.

[@Professionalasshole]

@@HotChocolate1994 Just put your ear bud's in and listen till you fall asleep!

[@GweenPenguin]

This is FASCINATING. I had many preconceived ideas about what being on call was like, but it's so cool to see an example, especially by someone this good at explaining. It's wild that you can get a call and within minutes be 'on' and giving advice. And in addition, you follow that up with a vlog for the viewers before getting back to sleep. I love that you've got a nocturnal buddy as well! Thanks for this window into the support system we all take for granted will catch us in an emergency.

[@Katfancy40]

You're such a kind person. I see so many different types of physicians and go to Mayo, etc and boy, I would like to have more Drs that are kind like you! Keep up the funny videos!

[@Doc_Schmidt]

So glad to hear that! Thank you!

[@butterbeer4582]

Wow, so interesting! As a biomedical science student, I've thought one or twice about pursuing med after my degree, but this is one of the main reasons that pushes me to stay in the lab! I need so much sleep to function, no idea how you guys do it, big respect to all the nurses, docs and other healthcare professionals who work nights!!

[@bradclarke7874]

RN here. This is why I couldn’t do med school. Four 12s is a lot but you guys never stop 😭

[@Doc_Schmidt]

It can get pretty busy for sure (I just finished working 12 days straight). BUT it is a lot less crazy once you're (eventually) done with training

[@Professionalasshole]

@@Doc_Schmidt Holy crap! 12 day's straight!? Good thing you're still young! Absolutely love you and your channel! Also love all of your characters ♥

[@idiocracy2806]

When I worked the floor as an RN, I would get real annoyed with doctors because the patient was never d/c'd on time. Now that I am an NP, I will never say another bad thing about doctors. Thanks for the laugh!

[@maryshippee3673]

Well done on your laymen's explanation of hepatic encephalopathy, the md's at my hospital at terrible at talking to patients like they aren't also doctors.

[@janeclark7060]

Both of my parents have needed GI consults in the last few months, and I’m so thankful for the care they received. Sadly, my mom had metistatic cancer in her liver, and she took the lactolose as long as she could. She passed away last month. Then my dad had signs of internal bleeding, but it wasn’t found in his GI tract. He has since stabilized, and we hope his anemia will resolve. Doctors don’t always get the thanks and respect they deserve. Your care makes all the difference for the patient and the family.

[@lisacallan5462]

Thank you for what you do. My gastro saved my life and continually helps me survive. Life with severe UC is so much worse without a good GI!

[@mb-ez8yy]

Loved the Video, this feels like my life as a family doctor who gives out her number , lots of after-hours calls, and a full day of work after. Keep up these great videos

[@Doc_Schmidt]

Thanks for watching!

[@tsfbaf303]

Take care of yourself, giving out phone numbers without defined times is how many people get burnt out. Constant availability

[@tanya5322]

My husband is a food animal veterinarian who works out of a home office. We are always on call anymore. Fortunately we don’t get too many calls after hours anymore, but I remember the days when he was in a larger practice

[@suzieschmidt8255]

Thanks for this. It was really interesting seeing “a night in the life”.

[@sunidhim.ghatikar3625]

I'm a med student, this was really a good insight into how GI would be

[@kdurand7878]

As a nurse I loves seeing this insight! Thank you for sharing.

[@biancab310]

I love this... I wish more specialists would do this , I love hearing the dxs and plan of care

[@annclinkscales8222]

Me too! I know a couple o-b's who we work with who do videos. I think it's so great until we get a pt in the ED who pull up videos or webmd and want to tell us what they have. Then, as we ask pribing questions, we find out they really don't have those sxs! But, they do have...and pull up a video. I can't laugh. I smile and finish my questions and apologize to the ling doc as we get ready to move them out of triage!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Meganmama]

Thank you for explaining lactulose!!! I had a pt today (social worker) and the nurses were saying he wouldn’t take his lactulose because he didn’t want to poop too much…but he was detoxing and VERY confused and lethargic. I had no idea what that med was for but now I do. I loved this style of video. Thanks so much!

[@ACoe40]

This will be my life next year, starting Peds GI fellowship.

[@LeeAnneRMT]

Good luck with your fellowship!

[@cocococonut8650]

Good luck!

[@annclinkscales8222]

Bon chance!! I hope you had a fantastic fellowship and got to see some cool stuff for your education, but not too much going against the favor of the patient. Not trying to be cruel. I just hope your fellowship was enlightening and not too traumatic for the patient!!

[@allieniner675]

Pls do more! These are so interesting!

[@SamirAhujaGamer]

I wasn't sure if this was a funny video (like your usual ones) or a real one at first, but boy am I happy it was the latter. Really enjoyed this video Sir, please make more of these as and when you can, they're very inspiring!

[@Doc_Schmidt]

I appreciate that! Will certainly plan on similar future videos. You can expect more funny videos in the meantime though :)

[@SamirAhujaGamer]

@@Doc_Schmidt Hahaha thank you so much :)) looking forward to it!

[@joshuamacha2150]

I’m an EMT student and your channel is helping me get a picture of how care in and out of the hospital works. Thank you!

[@kellyabe4140]

I follow you on TT and then found your channel here. What an entertaining & gifted teacher you are!

[@tedxiao957]

Love the fact you share the cases and your responses! More on call vids!

[@Uufda651]

Mad respect. Thank you for what you do!

[@cherie4470]

Love listening to these little lectures 👍🏼

[@ramonaking1029]

I really enjoy your funny quips amd also the informative ones like this. Thanks for sharing!!

[@julianovaes7041]

Thank you so much for this insight of your routine! As a med student, I find this kinds of videos very fascinating! Glad you had a relatively chill on-call night

[@ernestozamora5798]

Thank you for this. I am about to start GI this July and it was awesome to see how a night call goes. Keep it up the awesome videos.

[@jaymejohnson3388]

I’m an RN, and I don’t work at a teaching hospital. Were a chicago suburban trauma center (loved to hear you help out small IL hospitals

[@flashee23]

MORE LIKE THIS!!! Im in medical field too and i LOVE THIS STUFF!!💁🏼‍♀️

[@farnazee888]

I'm a med student and your videos are really amazing and helpful for me. I really appreciate how you patiently describe every GI disease. Thank you🌻

[@michaelsparlin292]

Thank you for letting us see a doctor's viewpoint. My wife has been in the hospital for 3 months. Coincidentally she is in liver failure so I am familiar with everything you were talking about. Your video helps put into proper perspective how dedicated doctor's are to their jobs. I can say with full confidence that our local University hospital saved her life and is continuing to so. In fact she just got out of her third heart catheterization checking for right-sided pulmonary hypertension. Thanks again for the video.

[@annclinkscales8222]

Good luck and I hope she gets/got better after such a long illness process! ❤ 🤍 🤎 🏥 stay!

[@SherbhojiRao]

Hey Doc, I'm a fresh grad from med school, and I have been thinking about GI a bit, so the video really helped me get a glimpse of the life of a GI fellow, thank you so much, and please keep making awesome contents, and more quizzes with your wife, some of the terms are pretty new for me 😅

[@user-pr2fd5xe1o]

Thank you for giving us your precious moments of sleep. A very generous and informative gift.

[@113dmg9]

You are a very knowledgeable doctor and excellent communicator. Very impressive videos.

[@aamirrazak3467]

Thanks for this video! I am very interested in becoming a GI physician, and it was very neat to see what an call night is like for a GI fellow. Props to you for your hard work Doctor Schmidt, especially given that you don't have to make these videos.

[@hishamabbas9399]

This really enjoyable to watch I'm a US IMG gi fellowship has been always my dream. Thank you for making this video

[@dr.maryamabid9371]

Watching this video while on call in Oncology during my break ☺️🤗 A forth year Medical oncology fellow here 🙋 enjoyed the video ✅ hope to see more of these in future.

[@Tenorsax69er]

I like this style of video for sure! Interesting to get a walk through of this role from your perspective

[@MarySommers-sw4uy]

Love your presentations. I often forward them to my 1st yr. med student grandson.

[@silence-is-bliss]

From all the on call videos I've seen this is a really good one, enjoyed it.

[@janellefranco629]

This is so epic! I want to be a GI doctor when I grow up as well. This is so awesome!

[@patrickday6822]

I love this format! Please keep it up! I love the comedy videos and this format too. I just need more content!!!!

[@Doc_Schmidt]

I appreciate that! Stay tuned 😁

[@erinwalsh7602]

I loved this!!! I’m trying to get into nursing school and I’m super interested in being involved with transplants when I’m an RN. I loved hearing about your day on call. Please keep doing these!?

[@Doc_Schmidt]

Thanks for watching! I can certainly do some more. I’m on call next weekend, maybe I’ll do some stuff from that!

[@annclinkscales8222]

Yay! Love your videos, Doc! As an RN, I love watching your videos and how you even respect the "patients" (even yourself in character) and want to educate! I think education is one of the best roles for everyone in the medical field! I love the education you give by making it fun. People may not even realize that you are explaining a procedure or a disease process because you make it fun and easy to remember! You are tops in my book! ❤❤❤❤ 💯

[@jasonlove8733]

Great format!! I love the periodic updates through the night. And i have more respect for Fellows like you… on call for the night and then 7 to 5 the next day!!!! Exhausting 😰😰hi tyrone

[@kridswonderhowell4541]

Both fun & informative! Sharing your channel with all my partners in crime !

[@Jon-jk8vd]

Awesome video. 10 minutes of high quality learning experience here.

[@abeatingheart]

This was a great video, thank you Doctor Schmit!

[@Meganmama]

I didn’t realize that GI was in charge of the liver. I love your channel, thank you!

[@supremepancakes4388]

I go oncall…but I am an engineer. I just come here cuz I frigging LOVE your house MD video. Having to see a doctor is always scary, so I have so much appreciation for doctors who dare to show their sense of humor! Kudos to you :)

[@baldur3365]

Tyrone is precious, as a reptile lover myself glad to see a little cameo of him

[@kenzielacosta8244]

You and my GI doctor would make the best videos ever. AND THE A Team GI docs.

[@natashah9056]

Two thumbs up on this one! Very interesting!

[@lightsaberdude3250]

My daughter is a Charge Nurse and i send her all your videos , she says your so funny and its all true!

[@ireneirene4866]

God bless you for the work you do

[@JessI-yu8tj]

I really liked this video! Fascinating!

[@alvarovaldez8980]

Hey DOC it woudl be great to see more videos like this!

[@jeanetteraichel8299]

Good to see what you have to deal with on a daily basis.

[@pamelapilling6996]

Thank you! I have a leopard gecko, Fiest. Tyrone is lovely. Old RN here. It is nice to keep my fingers in medicine even if from a distance.

[@mattyp7582]

Very interesting day in the life. Thank you for sharing and get some sleep.

[@ireneirene4866]

I love this video as a Rn .please keep it up

[@alexanderwood7854]

Love this type of vid, fascinating

[@pancakeday4866]

I used to be an on-call hospice nurse. I hated the stress of not knowing what my night would be like or whose house I would have to visit. Some of the neighborhoods were dicey. It was a great job but I don’t miss being on call. Thankfully my pager-PTSD is gone!

[@zoyamufti833]

Dr..... We respect you

[@4and20blackbirdsbakedinapi6]

It was fun to meet your cresty, Tyrone! He did look confused😂

[@2792ufd4]

Very interesting!! Thx for making this vid!! 👏👏👏

[@Ezunit1991]

I have to spill. I’m a chiropractor, I work for a hospital. I inturned in a hospital… twice… at the same time. It might be a grass is greener take, but I’m so damn jealous of what you get to do. I deal with back pain which operates in a grey area most of the time. It’s mostly clinical diagnosis and the occasional MRI to show disc herniations etc. We actually learned every system and how to care for it in school, the blood work and all. Since I don’t see those things, I have lost much of that knowledge. When I see these videos it really reminds me of how much I love diagnostics and the body. I always want to go back to med school, but the debt…. Lastly I’m never on call so I have, what I assume is, a good work life balance. Though I love medicine, my wife probably wouldn’t like me going back to learn more of it…. Keep these videos up man, you make me want to go back and learn more.

[@rachelr.n.3563]

I love these videos!!

[@camstarz20123]

This is the best on call video I’ve seen! So informative and interesting. I’m not a med student or doctor but now I’m motivated to be able to get to this level of being a fellow 😂

[@bettyg9707]

Wow.. I've been binge watching his videos and am quite surprised to find out how much workload they have to deal with. All those hospital dramas do not do a justice! But then again, if it was too real, there will be nothing but docs calling each other and never 'get it on.'

[@syedammaduddin]

When i was doing my internship in GI department, the consultant GI doctor beat the hell out of me with the questions. I was numb the whole week with him. Love, doctor from KASHMIR.

[@teripenny3335]

Awesome thanks for the info. ❤️

[@landrewmackinnon4888]

Very interesting. I struggle with the wake and sleep and repeat during 1 night rest. You seem to handle yourself well.

[@summersmith6587]

Notice how his excited speech slowed significantly when he was awaken in the night.

[@catieq5270]

Holy cow I thought being an on-call clinical social worker in psych was bad. I typically get either no calls or only a few. I’ll never complain about the very few calls I get on my on-call weekends ever again!

[@AhJodie]

Good for people to understand what is going on behind the scene.

[@alcinakong805]

In hospital I worked before, GI Fellow on call would be called only if there is a need for urgent endoscopy (say unstable GI Bleed). Whenever we call them, it's usually quite a mess already, therefore they will stay overnight at hospital with us fellow residents. And also since the duty is quite heavy, they split duty with GI Surgery team. For pancreatitis/ SBP/ acute liver failure, it's all on the on-call residents, very exicting on site call everytime!

[@geoffreydcruz7222]

I came here after watching your comedy videos. Kinda confusing to see you being serious 😉 (community hospitalist here). Keep up the good work.

[@sissiour5210]

I love your videos ! very nicr

[@Runningwithdogs]

Your a beast remember to take care of yourself.

[@MaryBerryGray]

You have tbe patience of Job👏

[@feliciamiley7714]

God Bless you, I felt for you the entire time.... It is so helpful and eye opening to see behind the scenes. Kudos to you! Question: what time of self-care do you use or relaxation techniques do you use to keep going? Thank you for your feedback. Now, I have to subscribe to you channel =)

[@LQBify]

Man. I’m blessed to say after 2 years of trying to get a GI Fellowship I got accepted for the new academic year. I’m super nervous about starting. If you got any advice I’d really appreciate!

[@L1teralsatan]

You have a Cresty?! What a lad!!

[@Professionalasshole]

I think Dr's are born with the ability to talk faster than the fastest rapper can rap!!

[@gelaj9152]

Thank you for sharing

[@amazinggrac18]

More Tyrone, please!!!

[@deeceepnw]

Well done sir! Give my best to Tyrone! (How old is he? They can live up to 30 years!😃)

[@susanjoycesabo8450]

Lord, when I was an internal medicine resident 40+ years ago, lactulose was still used for cirrhosis patients. My cousin's cat was on it for his bowel problems! That must be one of the oldest meds in use!

[@kentrolBR]

I loved this videos, would really like to see more if possible

[@Doc_Schmidt]

Absolutely! Anything different you’d like to see or just additional call nights?

[@harveenkaur9501]

@@Doc_Schmidt can you show us some procedures? :D

[@kentrolBR]

@@Doc_Schmidt more of procedures and just daily vlogs

[@ashkeeoh]

very informative!

[@ireneirene4866]

Pl make a video about ovarian cyst signs and symptoms and cancer of the colon and gall bladder stone signs and symptoms

[@vikab8929]

My puppy has a liver shunt and she takes lactulose to prevent hepatic encephalopathy too, only it is over the counter in Canada.

[@KO-vb4tg]

Your gecko is cute 🥰

[@Doc_Schmidt]

He is indeed 😁

[@HHSMCJROTC]

More content like this plzzz

[@ninjanerdajelibi1286]

Love from India !🇮🇳❤️

[@anjalithangavelu6929]

Omg he is so good