A Rural Medicine Winter

Texaco Mike and the gang have their hands full this winter

[@shieraseastar9300]

Wait a sec...how come we never see Texaco Mike and Jonathan in the same room together AT THE SAME TIME??

[@DemonicNightmare]

Maybe Texaco Mike is a former Jonathon who found his calling in running a gas station... ....then discovered the local medical clinic needed a lot of help

[@eclecticcode]

They're not the same person but the answer to your question is the same as "what happens if you divide by 0?" or "what happens if a wormhole eats a black hole?" or the consequences of most time travel paradoxes. It's just not worth the risk!

[@beckysmith1178]

Inquiring minds want to know! Or maybe only the shadow knows!

[@mariacargille1396]

Oh goodness YOU'RE RIGHT 😂

[@XlittleXdrummerXgirl]

Texaco Mike IS Rural Medicine's Jonathan

[@Bajirkus]

Later, Anesthesia opted to stay in the rural community, as Texaco Mike is far more polite than any surgeon.

[@nancyquinby192]

But… if Texaco Mike is doing the surgery, who will give Anesthesia his break?

[@owenmcgee891]

* any city surgeon TM is obviously a surgeon of some repute within the eclectic tradition to which he belongs.

[@wenziz87]

Probably quicker too

[@owenmcgee891]

@@wenziz87 and more dedicated to continuing education

[@lulumoon6942]

😭

[@lisacrews3060]

I came for the rural medicine, I stay for Texaco Mike. Best minor character ever.

[@Phroggster]

Texaco Mike is the protagonist, not some minor character. Rural medicine doesn't function without him, as Texaco Mike *is* rural medicine.

[@badwolf3618]

I feel like Texaco Mike is the inverse of Florida Man. Instead of being a redneck for being dumb and reckless, he's a redneck for being resourceful and creative in unorthodox ways lol.

[@zaphodbeeblebrox2911]

Texaco Mike, fillin’ patents…

[@kevinwilcox6943]

Texaco Mike isn't a minor character, he's the main character.

[@angiestimson3886]

True! I wonder what he looks like…😂🤣😂

[@thestoryfactory8429]

Texaco Mike reminds me of a woman we called The Goat Lady when I was a kid. Unassuming. Lived by a dilapidated silo with her goats. Turned out to be one of the most highly educated people in our area. 4-5 Ivy League graduate degrees

[@mahoganywolf8843]

What does a person do with 5 degrees? Was she really indecisive or just a big fan of student loans? I'm mostly joking but it's a bit of a hollywood cliche to show that a character is smart by giving them 6 PhDs - one is generally plenty to move on to higher level work!

[@thestoryfactory8429]

@@mahoganywolf8843 I got the impression she was a professional student who liked to learn, and had the money for it.

[@homerman76]

​@@mahoganywolf8843 It depends on what you want to do, some research fields highly appreciate multiple high level degrees (especially PhDs) since it allows you to look at things from different angles (like energy research which appreciates MANY different STEM degrees.) It's also a lot easier to get another PhD (or any other level) as you get more if the fields are related since some degrees can see some overlap in the class requirements, and since you're likely doing so through the same school. It's obviously not easy, but it's not as ridiculous as it sounds. Interesting note; some people wind up with multiple degrees because they held some high level job (like a professor or someone involved in decision making) with the university and got a pass on the tuition fees (I had one friend whose dad was a professor and another that worked for a company connected to the university, both were offered free tuition and half tuition for their significant other and children,) so sometimes people have multiple degrees just simply because they wanted to take full advantage of the benefits of their job.

[@MSte21]

@@mahoganywolf8843 Given they live in a silo with goats, I imagine she was in it more for the learning aspect rather than the career advancement aspect.

[@Valanway]

@@MSte21 An educated guess would be that all of the massive, accumulated debt is why she lived by a dilapidated silo by goats, but let's go with the positive route

[@ShawnMcNaughton]

Great short, but now I'm torn between two headcanons... one is a where Texaco Mike was a field medic in the Army and literally knows how to do everything professionally, and owns the clinic as a way to train others and share the workload... the other is that Texaco Mike is just a naturally gifted 'jack of all trades' - he isn't formally trained in medicine, science or engineering, but he thinks that way and figures it out.

[@scalylayde8751]

I feel like it's the second one- but texaco mike has probably had a tone of different jobs over the years that gave him knowledge in many things.

[@eclecticcode]

Third option, the rogue vet(erinarian) timeline 👀

[@lydiastardust5169]

Texaco Mike is obviously also a farmer

[@LoveSasukeKai]

I raise you: He was a field medic who could stabilize a wound to the abdomen with a lighter, yes, but he has no medical or scientific training whatsoever. He was an arts major, or something.

[@MollymaukT]

He is the guy from Amateur Surgeon

[@ronheil6558]

I was expecting Texaco Mike's anesthesia would involve an empty whiskey bottle. "You get them drunk first!?!" "No. More of a hold still, *thwock*, nightey-night kind of method..." *stares in horrified silence*

[@cherrobinson7703]

😂

[@SaharaM18]

Same

[@holliebrokaw3716]

Texaco Mike would never, he knows that's how you give patients permanent TBI's

[@owenmcgee891]

​@@holliebrokaw3716concussion syndrome is bad shit

[@zenks5883]

Nah black propofol joke was amazing i cried laughing when I heard it

[@Redluna32]

Never had the fact that I grew up in rural farmland reinforced faster than how quick my head snapped up at, "There's nothing to do on a farm in the winter." Even if it does get quiet, that just means people are plotting a way to do something that's probably about to bring them in anyway.

[@leadpaintchips9461]

Haha ya, everything that you don't have time to fix/improve/maintain during planting, growing, and harvesting season all gets pushed into winter along with the usual issues that come with winter like burst pipes, constant snow removal, and storm damage.

[@sketchyAnalogies]

Skijoring comes to mind lmao. Y'all are going to let the out of pocket maximums spend themselves

[@TheOReport1994]

I'm a born and raised 'city-slicker', and my head snapped up at that moment, finding myself saying 'He did NOT just say that! before I could stop myself!😶

[@Listrynne]

My first thought was "the animals still need to be fed." Not all farms are just plants. Sure, it might seem like they're not doing as much, but that's because they know how to maximize their efforts. You don't want to be in the cold longer than necessary.

[@huttj509]

I was expecting 'firewood' to be on the list. Needs doing, easy to put off until "oh man I need it" and really easy to need medical care afterwards.

[@DemonicNightmare]

Texaco Mike is a godsend to rural medicine. Working so hard to fill in the gaps where the American medical system has failed.

[@nancylindsay4255]

We need Texaco Mike in the cities, too!

[@LibraryAce]

Everyone please enlist your local Jonathan/TMike to solve US health"care"! The rest of us can do the annoying speaking-to-people parts if they will come up with the ideas. They can all stand behind us cheerfully nodding, which may be creepy enough to terrify congresscritters into voting the right way.

[@BuckeyeNut123]

" Working so hard [because] the American medical system has failed. " ftfy

[@DemonicNightmare]

​@@BuckeyeNut123 The "because" is implied here. The reason he is working hard TO fill the gaps is BECAUSE the system failed, hence the comment and specific wording that the system failed.

[@Littlefeen]

Two words: livestock farming. No days off, no fallow seasons, just the same daily grind of feed and water and more poop than you can possibly imagine. SO much poop... These rural skits have often been my favorites. Not only are they insanely accurate for the rural life, but they always remind me of my years working at the veterinary hospital. Texaco Mike is spot on for any veterinary staff! If you're working with animals, you'd better have a strong creative streak in you and be able to figure out how to build and adapt anything and everything to suit your immediate needs on the fly, whether it's building a tiny splint for a baby squirrel's leg or figuring out how to re-rig your portable x-ray machine to get that image of that bull's leg without losing your spleen or your staff in the process. And of course Texaco Mike's propofol turned black. What color do you exoect it to be after he adds the activated charcoal to purify it, since he had to use his own duck eggs to make it?

[@Listrynne]

Yep. My first thought was animals. The milk was freezing to the sides of the bucket as I was milking the goats this morning. My hand kept freezing to the rim. 😂

[@docgammycat]

Thank you for shout-out to vets! 😄

[@owenmcgee891]

Propofol is made from biological precursors?

[@Listrynne]

@@owenmcgee891 Texaco Mike's is. I don't know about the regular kind.

[@maggierainville3321]

😂sooooo true!!! Hey, I just work the dairy: it’s only 8-10 hours a day in the winter, instead of 18-24.

[@Aaron-ne4kr]

"I thought things would be pretty quiet--" Did you hear that? That's the sound of everyone who's ever worked ER/EMS whipping around with a glare that should reduce Anesthesia to ash.

[@katherineg9396]

Anyone who's ever done patient care never uses the Q word.

[@katierasburn9571]

“Well, you’ve said it now…” 😖

[@jefflangdon4621]

Propofol is typically a milky white substance, which is why it’s called the ‘milk of amnesia’ so it coming out black is clever writing.

[@janeenschultz8502]

Yeah it's just the "black-out juice."

[@boratoreum]

Unless Texaco Mike is cooking Texaco Tar.

[@Joel-wx7zk]

Now it’s the Moonshine of Amnesia which isn’t that different from Regular moonshine

[@barbarak8158]

The best nap I ever had!

[@annieh1315]

And it’s white because it’s in an emulsion of oil, which is also why mayo is white (no, mayo doesn’t have milk in it)

[@SaltyArmyLightworkerDivision]

As someone who comes from a farming family, there are 2 things you NEVER say out loud to a farmer. "I'm bored" is number 1. "There is nothing to do" is number 2. Both will result in an insane amount of work to make sure you never have these feelings or thoughts again

[@AshendaFiremyst]

My mum actually had my niece and I polish silver when we were kids when we complained we were "bored". I can't stand the smell of that stuff. I never complained again, I'll tell ya.

[@jayATUK]

"How have you been doing surgeries without a board certified anaesthesiologist?" "We're not sure... Texaco Mike's work is proprietary" 😂 I think that's my favourite bit, but of course the whole skit is great as always

[@michaelpichardo4743]

I had to repeat the video, because I totally lost it on that part.🤣🤣🤣

[@SpamLamb1]

We need t-shirts that say "Texaco Mike's work is proprietary."

[@ZessXXify]

I’m in a semi rural area and I made the mistake of asking a farmer patient what she does in the winter…She just laughed at me. Now I know why 😂

[@amx-56france96]

Well obviously visiting you is what she does in the winter XD

[@ffwast]

"I'm here ain't I?"

[@yochva]

Texaco Mike is the farmer's son who couldn't get his head out of the books and ended up the local expert. "Oh yeah, I can figure that out! I'll get back to you tomorrow."

[@myrtillegrandesoreilles8275]

I COMPLETELY lost it at "winter is also the honey do season" "oh like the fruit?" "no like honey can you do this list of projects"

[@Mx.RumpusParable]

I see to very much be in the minority: I absolutely love and feel that Texaco Mike not being seen is needed

[@scobeymeister1]

Agreed. It adds to his mystique

[@LexYeen]

He can't legally enter medical buildings. Insurance reasons. (he tells patients how much their medication really costs to make - because he makes it. yes, even that one you just thought of.)

[@ChipCheerio]

⁠@@LexYeenHerceptin?

[@ngiorgos]

Texaco Mike is not a person, he's an idea. No physical form can capture his greatness

[@spOOkytimes]

He's always busy

[@michaelmatthews3289]

As a rural physician working in a town of 3k, 4 hours from the nearest tertiary center, I request a video on the OB care in a rural area. I never thought at this point in time in my career I would be swapping delivery stories with the farmers who are out calving in the subzero degree weather at this time of year, yet here I am.

[@gemstorm16]

YES! THIS!

[@blackdandelion5549]

I like this idea and I concur that this video needs to happen. Will Texaco Mike be preparing the epidurals? Pro Tip for the video - I would love to see him hand a pair of gloves for the wrong mammal to the visiting doctor. . .the ones we use for large animals that go all the way up an over the shoulder and bring the bucket of lube only for the new person to say they are there for babies, like human babies. . . . . .while looking at the amount of lube you can go through dealing with large animal OB issues, maybe a calf puller tossed in for good measure with the chains bc that can look like a torture device if you don't know what it's for. "Sorry, thought you were here for calving season"

[@lilianleijenaar5634]

Just here waiting for texaco Mike to take over the world. That man and his fan boat can do anything.

[@onebigadvocado6376]

The guy practically carries the community on his back, yet he's got his nickname working at a Texaco. This is the most perfect explanation of Country communities ever.

[@marcidevries5515]

The snow is waist deep in rural Michigan right now. Feeding the animals and keeping the water in a liquid form takes a lot of time right now. As for crops, it's seed ordering and planning season.

[@jmackmcneill]

Growing up semi-rural, my assumption was "there is nothing more dangerous than boredom + farm equipment"

[@stellaanderson7246]

Boredom + farm equipment + alcohol.

[@DarlingDevil4691]

Makes sense 🤣

[@bluecloud4652]

At this point, I'm expecting Texaco Mike to just be Jonathan but with a moustache and cowboy hat

[@douglasbabb1725]

I'm expecting it to be his uncle.

[@StephBer1]

Texaco Mike is like that Superhero that people here about but never actually see. He arrives, does the job and leaves. True hero.

[@therainbowcat3]

I love the fact Texaco Mike has a CT-MRI. Not only did he make both himself, but it's a top of the line imaging equipment that has benefits beyond what the two machines can do separately

[@AdamSmith-kq6ys]

And cooks a fine Porterhouse steak, if I recall...

[@PapaTaurean]

Texaco Mike... the MacGyver of Rural Medicine. I bet he could make an Iron Lung from a 357 Chevy Block and a pup tent.

[@llamasugar5478]

You should see what he did with shaving cream, a ceiling fan, and 2 paper bags.

[@adaliaalvarez7269]

I once heard he saved someone with an envelope that had a rubber band, paper clip and a drinking straw.

[@DanoMano1987]

​@adaliaalvarez7269 I heard it was one of those metal drinking straws - that way he could use his portable autoclave (a propane stove and tank with a potable water pot) - fastest way to save money.

[@bea4156]

As someone who left upper Klamath for PDX whose parents have to drive 20min to get to their MAILBOX, thank you for understanding rural medicine so well!! 😂💯

[@timdowney6721]

I just let the dog drive until the last 500 yards when you turn off the dirt road.

[@Cara-39]

I have family in a tiny NC town with only one traffic light - we learned to drive at 10 yrs old on the farm and we're driving through town at 12/13. This was in the late 80s/early 90s but I'm sure small rural towns are still like this!

[@GinkgoBalboa142]

Klamath? Sounds like it's adjacent to Carcosa or R'lyeh :P

[@hockey1freak]

Why you leave? im in PDX and i get emails every week asking to come work in Klamath and Medford lol

[@bea4156]

@@hockey1freak To work at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital 😊 But yes they NEED people down there bc of all of us that are leaving lol 😂

[@sandradavis7132]

Texaco Mike should remain always an enigma.

[@argentaegis]

At first, Texaco Mike seems scary. Then I thought, he's got to be doing a good job to have such consistent and widespread trust among this community.

[@Zosio]

I handle disability forms for patients, and Colonial ones always ask if anesthesia was "administered by a board-certified anesthesiologist" The first time I saw that, my inner-monologue snarky reply was "No, Colonial, Texaco Mike did it." So, needless to say, I'm glad to have some confirmation.

[@stephanieparker1250]

Good to hear that Texaco Mike is protecting his position in the community. 😂

[@Mx.RumpusParable]

LOVE that "his methods are proprietary"

[@JasonFrankenstein]

Wait, so now the CT/MRI/BBQ grill also cranks out black tar propofol?! Whoa! Texaco Mike sure is brilliant!

[@Van-dq4sw]

A Jonathan left without an opthamologist to scribe for naturally evolves into a Texaco Mike.

[@AP-gb3eb]

Loving this lore

[@handsomeman5371]

To be fair, I would trust Texaco Mike to do surgery on me more than I would trust most surgeons.

[@LexYeen]

I have Harrington rods, and I'd go to Texaco Mike for a tuneup.

[@HildeTheOkayish]

he's unconventional but effective

[@irradiated_woman8016]

Yeah I bet that black "propofol" is a real trip.

[@CeeJMantis]

And his bedside manner is warm and folksy

[@SaharaM18]

I have friends with metal hardware... I need to tell them to get tune-ups; thank you for the idea!@@LexYeen

[@eliseebrown]

Today, this farmer threw hay in for the sheep, unloaded feed my husband picked up, and swung a sledgehammer to break four-inch thick ice on a water tank. It was about 4 degrees, several degrees warmer than yesterday, and my 100% Shetland wool sweater kept me 100% warm 😊 It does get quieter in the winter, so that's nice, but it's also Meeting Season, so farmers can jet set around the country going to various conferences.

[@BravosReviews]

I was an admin guy for a hospital in Oklahoma and I can confirm a lot of the culture you’re talking about is 100% on point. The nearest hospital was us and we had clinics that were a hundred or so miles away from our city and our doctors would see the most rural people in America at these satellite broaches in tiny townships you’re never heard of. We would have cooking classes where we would teach people how to cook meals that wouldn’t give them heart disease.

[@BlackTigr]

This dude's resume of skills growing higher than a climbing vine after a rainy day, I swear.

[@michaelshaughnessy1919]

I'm just impressed, what can't texico Mike do?!?

[@JustACoffeeCup]

Can he do a backflip tho? *7 hours after post PS* I’ve been enlightened, he also can’t fix the education system

[@duboc42]

Fix the american healthcare system

[@MLeoDaalder]

Probably he can't get people to recall his actual name. Even his mom calls him that. XD

[@Moqireh]

Is he secretly Jonathans brother?

[@miah5561]

Rest

[@JohnJohnson-dl8ps]

God, if Texaco Mike and Jonathan ever met, their combined versatility would destroy the world

[@ScubaFanatic60]

"Do you know what we're going to do tonight Jonathan?" " No what Texaco Mike?" " Take over the world!"

[@msshellm8154]

They did - off screen - when Ophthalmology visited Rural Medicine! No-one ever saw that legendary meeting, but there _was_ a ripple in Space-Time ... At. That. Moment. ... as two great forces came into shared an orbit. There are whispers about what happened, but no-one really knows ... except the Revolution ... 🤐😶

[@RhombonianKnight]

Texaco Mike, the man, the myth, the legend.

[@Hydrogen101]

YES! Honey-Do season!! I feel seen!! 😂😂😂

[@antongunther3977]

I feel like Texaco Mike is just a different evolutionary branch of Johnathan

[@timothy4664]

Lolololol. Sunoco Sam approves. Our propofol comes out more brown than black. I wonder if the gasoline that runs our CT MRI has more ethanol than Texaco Mike's 🤔

[@xel1673]

Texaco Mike is truly a jack-of-all-trades. Pretty soon we'll find out he's also the dentist and a large animal vet.

[@SaharaM18]

I assume this to be true. Doesn't he also have a large telescope? He's probably looking at the footprints he left on the moon a few years ago.

[@owenmcgee891]

That implies that he makes his own fentanyl (for anesthesia, both human and animal)

[@KuroiXHF]

"Well someone has to do the surgeries." *video ends* Me after a full five seconds: ...oh god

[@Aleaaitacest3736]

*PLOT TWIST* Texaco Mike is Jonathan's father

[@user-zw2bw1nd3x]

THIS I can get behind!❤

[@jamie1602]

My favorite theory so far.

[@msshellm8154]

Nah ... he _made_ them 🤐

[@mistyridge7028]

Scrolling thru and almost got whiplash trying to get back to it when I saw Rural Medicine! My favorite. So glad that he did this one as farmers are working hard in the winter to get done that they didn't get done before winter. Everyone I know has winter project lists that are this............... long.

[@docniksnk]

Way to go Texaco Mike. Couldnt survive without him ❤ When Anaes said that the farmers have no work in winter, my thoughts were, "how rude! They are busier in winter than all year"

[@mosasaurusrex1815]

Always love a Rural Medicine!!!

[@ItBePatYo]

Another banger, Eye Bro! Love the return of Texaco Mike!

[@Damon_Salavtore]

Rural medicine is my favourite series 💚🌾

[@allwheelfreak]

Please do more rural medicine sketches 🙏🏼😂...and also please introduce Texaco Mike to us👍🏼

[@jman5949]

I wonder. Could he do Texaco Mike Justice? I wonder if he'd be better off as unseen character.

[@msshellm8154]

He can't. That character is Legend ... putting him 'on camera' would ruin it for everyone 😊

[@vm1776]

love these. my husband's actual profession is an electrical engineer but he's excited to trim the trees in the orchard while they are dormant and he's researching plants and looking at seed catalogs as if he was a kid at Christmas. He wants to know what I want to add to the list, I'm looking out at the snow and knowing that last frost for us is in June and feeling my feet ache with the winter weather as I've had 2 foot surgeries within the last year . . . so I don't want to think about the garden and he's acting like we're running out of time.

[@amaniquesmith5149]

Someone has to do the surgery had me dying 😂😂

[@susanlasater6620]

Who did the surgeries before Anaesthesia got there?

[@A7XFan800]

​@@susanlasater6620 Texaco Mike was both Anaesthesia and the surgeon.

[@theironrhino110]

As someone who has grown up on a farm, there are always things to do on farm, espicially if you have animals. January to April is usually calving season for us so depending on how well the cow gave birth and how healthy the newborn calf is, the days can be either very short or very long. But yes, maintenance on both equipment and ourselves are usually done this time of year.

[@DTPVH]

You forgot about calving season. For cattle farmers, calves are typically born in the winter, which means more work. And grass doesn’t grow in colder climates, so cattle have to be fed hay instead. That means that winter is the season with the most work for cattle farmers.

[@finnmcool2]

Where I'm from the classic farmer winter side gig is harvesting the woodlot. That's guaranteed to keep Rural Medicine busy.

[@kerasrc6230]

Texaco Mike is so versatile and industrious! SWOONING 😊

[@evanmaulbetsch8147]

Got to love the, “farmers do nothing in winter” joke. It’s currently a balmy 10 degrees in Michigan and we’ve got plenty going on.

[@Diamondmine212]

What a great man Texaco Mike is.where would ruralmedicine be without him 👍👍

[@hunters.thompson8613]

Texaco Mike is my favorite character in the Dr. Glaucomflecken cinematic universe even though we never see him on screen.

[@BrilliantBatgirl]

The DGCU is the best CU.

[@djkokki]

I always love these rural medicine bits.

[@mac__attack8609]

Rural medicine is one of my favorite skit topics. 😂

[@stonegiant4]

I want to believe that Texaco Mike is like a local folk legend that arrives when needed to provide a slapdash fix for any possible problem.

[@hitcholiak]

New lore drop. Love it.

[@MeowtroidPrime]

Rural medicine skits are hands down my favorites

[@dr.floridamanphd]

We need to meet Texaco Mike!

[@jameshenkel9474]

Texaco Mike is like the Chuck Norris of rural medicine! I love that guy! I have a vision of him that reminds me of the neighbor from Home Improvement, we will never see his face, but he is vitally important!

[@Joy21090]

Or Howard's mother on The Big Bang Theory.

[@WelcomeApathy]

Watching this on break at a semi-rural hospital, I was dying with laughter! As soon as I see a "rural medicine" skit pop up from you, it is an immediate click. They are so good and just way too accurate, lmao. I grew up in the city and still live in the suburbs, but I definitely know better than to ask my farmer patients/coworkers what they do all winter. I swear they're more likely to be injured in the winter from something they're doing!

[@TolkienOtaku]

Texaco Mike never ceases to amaze.

[@haggielady]

I've missed Texaco Mike. Thank you.

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

Texaco Mike is about to go viral! 😅 We demand a backstory!

[@cassandrasingle922]

This made me smile. i am all the way in Australia. I had an opthamologist appointment today and the opthamologist also follows Doc Glaucomflecken. He said that his videos were true of his experience in training. So hi from Australia.

[@onebigadvocado6376]

The legend of Texaco Mike continues to grow

[@teslaromans1023]

Every rural medicine short delights me to no end 😂

[@noahhobson4521]

Texaco Mike is one of the greatest renaissance men of all time. Is there no area of science, medicine or engineering that he can't kludge together a solution for?

[@BrilliantBatgirl]

And therein lies an excellent description of most farmers 😁

[@ashleydozar1387]

This is definitely one of my favorite so far! I love rural medicine.

[@moonbeam8438]

We all need a Texaco Mike - runs a gas station, CT/MRI, makes his own contrast and propofol, and can fan boat like the wind

[@silversleeper1193]

So true about everything getting stuff done during the winter. Our schedule slows down due to the snowbirds but we get all the people who “couldn’t spare the time” flooding in in December

[@sallyintucson]

A friend of mine grew up in Eastern Texas in the 1950’s. His father was the only doctor in the county and occasionally sewed up livestock wounds and pulled calves when needed. He sometimes got paid in chickens and other things so this is spot on.

[@nymeroe]

Texaco Mike, the Jonathan of rural medicine 😄

[@Pyro_Mainiac]

T-Mike is a one man hospital

[@marianroyal7340]

Glad to see Rural Medicine again!

[@emily-rb5dk]

Please do more rural medicine skits! Btw all of my pharmacy coworkers love your skits. This one is pretty relatable. We all love the dont mess with the nicu nurse one!

[@Aleksandrus12]

Whoa, the punchline in this one, I needed a moment to process it but that was really funny 😂

[@jadelamaicea3524]

Ohhhh, wow! Way to deliver a slam dunk punchline in the second!! 🤣

[@Flyboy_73]

Texaco Mike is like Joe the maintenance guy on News Radio. Has a handyman type solution to every problem.

[@ladyofthemasque]

There are so, SO many good parodies...but I think the Rural Medicine sketches are the best.

[@archangel98632]

Just realized a new life motto: "If you can't be a Jonathan Be a Texaco Mike"

[@Asharra12]

"Somebody has to do the surgeries" Oh no 😅

[@evanstedman7405]

"Well somebody has to do the surgeries..." was the moment that got me 🤣🤣🤣 and even caused me to shoot coffee out my nose...

[@michellebobier4471]

Well, of course Texaco Mike makes his own propofol. He needs something to do in the winter, too.

[@niftyspiffyguy]

You got your farmers who work on the projects in the winter and your ranchers checking on calves and breaking the ice.

[@kaerligheden]

Well... Somebody has to do the surgery😂😂😂😂

[@hand0fm1das]

Texaco Mike got a promotion!! I bet he's celebrating with homemade moonshine after a hard day's work of imaging, anesthesia, and surgery. Well done, T Mike, we knew you could do it!

[@Vengeful_Octopus]

Texaco Mike returns

[@lumc3881]

If Texaco Mike and Jonathan ever get together, i predict world domination in under an hour. 😂

[@MicheleLein]

Funny. I was just thinking about something similar that happened to me when I was a new CNA at a home for those with mental disabilities snd psychiatric conditions. It was a large facility with many houses scattered over about twenty acres. I hadn't been to this one particular house yet. It was classified as a "high care" house, where the residents were all in an infant-like state. So we fed them, did laundry and any other odd cleaning jobs that needed doing, and put them to bed. I was standing at the main desk one day chatting to the house manager on duty, and I said something to the effect that this particular house was my favorite because it was so easy with barely anything to do. The guy got really nervous, looked around, and shushed me. I asked what was wrong and he literally lowered his voice and whispered, "We NEVER say that!" And I'm like, "Why?" And he said, "Everything we do and say is monitored, supposedly for patient safety. But the unit managers also monitor us to make sure we aren't slacking off, especially on the 'high care' houses where there is not as much to do because we aren't really able to interact with the residents much beyond feeding them and getting them in and out of bed." And sure enough, later that day, the Unit Manager paid us a visit. She was a rather grim, large woman, with not a smile to be seen near her lips, who walked around the house pointedly observing everything we did with an eagle eye. Needless to say, I was not the most popular of employees that day.

[@mattlittlej]

Texaco Mike is the final boss of medicine.

[@clairmac]

Plot twist Texaco Mike is so good at surgeries and is so nice Anaesthesia never wants to return.