There is nothing quite as surreal as the experience of being late in an unfamiliar hospital
@LedHabel2 жыл бұрын
I feel this sentence on a deep level
@kyle8572 жыл бұрын
Ugh. It's easy man. Just go left down the hall from the main entrance. Turn right when you see the cafeteria. Not the main cafeteria though, the snack shop. The one with the Starbucks. You go down that hall until you see a bank of elevators. Ignore it. Keep going and you will see another elevator. Take that one up to the 2nd floor. Go right again past the offices until you see a sign for 2 west. Cross over past the nurses station in 2 west and hang a slight left (not a full left) at the patient pantry. At the end of that hall you should see someone from facilities management named Mickey. If you give him a snickers bar he will unlock the door to the stairway. Take those stairs up 3 and 3/4s flights and you will find the OR waiting room. Answer the riddles three of the receptionist and she will open the door into the OR. ORs 1, 2 and 4 are right there. No one has been able to find OR 3. We think it might be in its own pocket dimension.
@deanmilos49092 жыл бұрын
Nursing student My first day of doing practice in a hospital ward I forgot my uniform pants in my dorm meaning I had to leave the hospital , run uphill to my dorm and return back , get dressed and somehow find my group . I managed to find my way after asking for directions from : 3 different ward secretary's , 2 nurses , 1 doctor , 3 cleaning ladies and a group of students . my whole search felt surreal , I litteraly felt as if I was in a movie . after that I vowed to always check if I had everything I needed before going to the ward , and the next morning I forgot my pair of " hospital shoes"
@dr.floridamanphd2 жыл бұрын
Surreal? 🧐
@Phoenixhunter1572 жыл бұрын
@@kyle857 😂😂👏
@ronin19142 жыл бұрын
This was me last week. Arrived 2 mins late at the OR, trying to play it cool, while suppressing a professional flag panic attack. Plot twist, surgeon arrives after and *apologizes* to me. Anesthesia saw the whole thing and didn't say anything. Our eyes locked (just for a second), a thank you without words. Anesthesia, I will tell tales of your compassion.
@blackjacktrial2 жыл бұрын
Anaesthesia: can you help me with this cryptic crossword while we're allies?
@WhateverDude382 жыл бұрын
Haha that's awesome!
@lisas14412 жыл бұрын
well, maybe you could start by not calling a fellow professional "anesthesia"
@WhateverDude382 жыл бұрын
@@lisas1441 chill, they're probably using a cell phone.
@coolbionicle2 жыл бұрын
When you locked eyes with anesthesia, did you feel an overwhelming sensation of comfort as if everything was going to be fine? Did anesthesia give you a firm nod of reassurance? If so, I think that anesthesia might be a Johnathan
@AchiAhisar2 жыл бұрын
This was quite realistic! As a med student, especially early on, we often don’t have access or key cards. We also don’t know our way around the hospital, or bits of info like the little shortcuts and impossible room numbers and which stairwells will keep you prisoner. It can get pretty stressful, especially if you start running late! Nice one!
@Arenuphis2 жыл бұрын
I even had this experience getting stuck in a stairwell working as a hospital cleaner
@erikawwad76532 жыл бұрын
@Kali Shaffer i'm sure this is a thing
@WhyYouAskingMe2 жыл бұрын
@Kali Shaffer This already exists for some buildings
@youtubeusername12392 жыл бұрын
Well said Yitzchok :)
@stansman54612 жыл бұрын
When I was on medschool, I'd stand near the doors with pin combinations and pretend to be on my phone. Then I'd see what the key was and note it down. Hospitals usually have a few for the entire building.
@Sultamicillyn2 жыл бұрын
This happened to me before and it still boggles my mind to this day. Is it not a legal requirement for fire safety reasons that the stairs on the lowest level be unlockable from inside the stairwell so that people can escape in case of an emergency? I remember vividly being stuck in a hospital stairwell once and told myself, "don't panic, don't panic". Went to the ground floor and there was this huge ass metal bar barricading the entire door. It was a ten-floor building too, and I was too afraid of causing a ruckus to be shouting for help, so I spent the next fifteen minutes running up and down the stairs like a mad human every time I heard footsteps. Eventually found a nurse who heard me running and was kind enough to realize it's another trapped medical student and held the door open for me
@rayvnekieron85872 жыл бұрын
In most buildings I've been in that have this problem, you can theoretically get out by tripping the fire alarm which unlocks (at least some of) the doors, but most people don't do that when they're stuck because it causes a ruckus.
@violett8742 жыл бұрын
@@rayvnekieron8587 another commenter said this literally happened to them and they did end up tripping the fire alarm lol
@skullsaintdead2 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's incredibly bad. What a great way to kill lots of sick people, doctors and nurses if there's no emergency exit that's working (even in a stampede/crushing). Why on earth would it be locked? (Consider reporting it to health & safety)
@Asdfgfdmn2 жыл бұрын
Which hospital was that?
@LuizAlexPhoenix2 жыл бұрын
I worked at shopping malls for a few years. Plenty of them had emergency doors locked either from the inside or the outside. It was like a weird puzzle, does this door open from the inside or the outside? Sometimes I heard someone screaming for help because they wanted to go up or down a floor but either the stairwell only let you go all the way down or all the way up. So I called security or maintenance and they would release the unfortunate souls. According to the guards, the idea behind it was to control movement so unauthorized people couldn't go through those unguarded areas, some even added a padlocked grate to the ones leading to the street. That way thieves couldn't steal something and run all the way out. I always wondered what would happen in a real emergency, I doubt security would remember to unlock these doors. It was potentially because of the banks and jewelry stores' safety being higher than human lives.
@maddydaf2 жыл бұрын
On my very first rotation (in patient family medicine), I got trapped between two doors I couldn’t badge out of and had no idea where I was. I called my resident freaking out, and this literal saint of a person searched for me and found me within the depths of the hospital between the laundry and peds ER.
@Drsilmi2 жыл бұрын
That’s painfully hilarious 😂 🤣🤣🤣
@AutumnTehKitty Жыл бұрын
That sounds stressful! I'm glad you had someone who could help you out!
@MeshMwah Жыл бұрын
Happy that you had your phone on you
@glitchyglitchy39252 жыл бұрын
So what I'm taking from this is is that lockpicking is an essential skill for a med student to have.
@carvedinshadows2 жыл бұрын
No lie, the paramedics picked the lock on my apartment building's front door because it needed a buzzer code from a landline to unlock or someone to open it from the inside... and I was stuck three floors up, unable to get down the stairs, and don't have a landline because who does? It took them exactly three seconds. I was still trying to call a neighbour (it was 3am) when they showed up. Lockpicking: absolutely an essential skill for first responders, lol. I am slightly concerned about how easy it is to break into buildings with a pair of medical shears, though. (As a bonus, I counted the number of bicycles parked in the hallway from the ambulance bay to the ER -- there were 5. At 3am. Emergency Medicine is 100% accurate.) The paramedics watch Dr G, we talked about our favourite videos on the ride to the hospital. I would have been a bit more worried that the driver was looking at us more than the road, but the street is empty at 3am. A+ ambulancing, 5 stars, would ride again.
@shershahdrimighdelih2 жыл бұрын
Sequel to the LockPickingLawyer, the LockPickingMedStudent
@suzannepottsshorts Жыл бұрын
I know a lawyer they could consult...
@sirapple589 Жыл бұрын
@@suzannepottsshorts “Nothing on 1”
@NateB Жыл бұрын
Bribery is better
@doctoreyeballmd74932 жыл бұрын
I literally got stuck in a stairwell while on my away rotation at Bascom Palmer as a med student. Finally tripped the emergency alarm to escape. I did not Match there 💩
@Goat.OnMorphine2 жыл бұрын
I never had to trip the emergency alarm but have definitely been trapped in my fair share of stairwells!
@LedHabel2 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@gagefraw31822 жыл бұрын
Bascom of all places! Terrible luck, hope you’re happy with your match.
@limabean52992 жыл бұрын
Your comment helped me confirm that people can leave the stairwell. So, thanks. The thought that people could actually be trapped in a stairwell was worrying.
@GiediPrime8312 жыл бұрын
Did you match at all?
@lunacake97752 жыл бұрын
This happened to me once as a medical student. I went up and down the stairwell trying to find an exit. Eventually I just decided to go for it on a random floor that wasn’t locked. As soon as I entered I heard this loud alarm, turns out it was the psych floor and they thought someone had escaped. I casually walked away as the staff all rushed towards the stairwell…
@SugarandSarcasm2 жыл бұрын
Because you DEFINITELY didn’t just need to cause a distraction so patients could escape a different way. I wonder why the psych ward was the only door unlocked. Sounds ludicrous.
@alyssadavenport629 Жыл бұрын
lmao op was hired by psych pts to be the distraction sounds like a movie
@fernando47180 Жыл бұрын
@@SugarandSarcasm Why, you ask? so that patients can find their way back to the psych ward on their own, of course!
@leobastian_ Жыл бұрын
@@SugarandSarcasm might be a door that needs to be opened with a key from the inside but doesnt need one from the outside
@SugarandSarcasm Жыл бұрын
@@leobastian_ you make a good point
@LucyStokesOceansofNotions2 жыл бұрын
I once worked in a hospital that started out as a tiny country hospital and as the population grew, it morphed into a large building by having wings stuck on to it REALLY badly. This resulted in stairways going nowhere, and corridors ending in blank walls. I was on call one night, there was an arrest and I ran, took a wrong turn and ended up face first into a wall at the bottom of a stairwell. Nearly broke my nose. That place was hell.
@gokucrazy222 жыл бұрын
This would make quite the interesting psychological horror film (and with the fear being in the setting and anxiety rather than something like a monster or ghost)
@flamingchuucygnet89832 жыл бұрын
@@gokucrazy22 Shall I interest you in a genre known as "The Backrooms" and "Liminal Spaces" or "Liminal horror"?
@Kovaelin2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like they retrofitted your building with fun house mirrors.
@seraphik2 жыл бұрын
the backrooms, liminal spaces, and the haunted Winchester mansion? PFFFT. try a hospital expanded in fits and starts over several decades.
@lunadawnlynn2 жыл бұрын
That’s why I stuck to the paperwork, no patience for the patients. I truly do not envy your profession.
@ifritdeus57582 жыл бұрын
I remembered this one time when a new urologist ran late to a surgery. So my town has two separate regional hospitals that go by the same name. They're basically one hospital split into two to reach more coverage, and every doctors work at both. One time I was shadowing the anesthesiologist and we have an uro patient waiting for surgery, but the doc hadn't shown up for about half an hour. I was instructed to call him and it turned out he was walking around in confusion at the other half of the hospital. He rushed into the one where the surgery will be held, then he called me again saying he's already at the OR but no one is there. Turned out he was at the emergency OR right above the ER (usually for midnight SCs), and we have another building only for scheduled ORs separate from the main building. Again he ran to the OR, and I can see him running in the corridor before he ran facefirst into a locked backdoor of our resting rooms. I had to fetch him there because he seemed so dizzy and confused 😅 our first meeting was so funny but admittedly he's one of the best teachers I had, and he kept on laughing everytime we met probably because of the memory lmao
@rodrigmd42022 жыл бұрын
As someone who woke up at 3 am every day during their surgery rotation because i was so afraid of being late, this was painfully hilarious
@ntity952 жыл бұрын
When did you go to sleep then?
@Burning_Dwarf Жыл бұрын
@@ntity95 Sleep? In Medschool?
@erinnorwood6124 Жыл бұрын
wait, so people don't actually have to wake up that early???
@RahulKumar-gy2iy11 ай бұрын
Yeah its brutal :(@@erinnorwood6124
@MariaS-2 жыл бұрын
"Cut suture in a way that seemed okay but was apparently completely wrong" is so true. You'd think it can't be that difficult to just cut it, but most of the time someone had something to say about it. Too short, too long, use the tip of the scissors, it's okay if you cut the knot but cut it really short, be careful to not cut the knot 🙃
@davidm63292 жыл бұрын
Its the same in diagnostics. I've failed xray competencies on the same body part for being too collimated, too uncollimated, using more technique than one preceptor wants and less than another wants... Being a student in healthcare is a nightmare. You are always wrong. Get used to it.
@TheLoopyTiger2 жыл бұрын
It is a universal truth that the suture will never be cut "just right".
@elina70382 жыл бұрын
I thought I solved that problem by asking "ok?" everytime just before cutting. It worked quite well until the surgeon complained that I was asking too often. Then I went back to the guessing game and sure enough - I cut it wrong. And that surgeon was one of the "nice ones." 😆
@AtmosMr2 жыл бұрын
Goldilocks length. Not too short, not too long, juuuuust right.
@bobdole88302 жыл бұрын
You can't do ANYTHING right as an intern in the OR. You do (or don't do) the EXACT same thing you've been told in surgery A in surgery B and get yelled at. You can't win. In a hospital shit is always falling down, and there is A LOT of it.
@kassrx2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video, Doc. It keeps me alive. -sent from a random hospital stairwell
@kitsunepixieMD2 жыл бұрын
When I was chief neurosurgery resident for a newly opened trauma hospital, I did an emergent case in the middle of the night. My attending got trapped in one of these stairwells with a medical student, neither who had a keycard, until a kindly anesthesia resident was able to free them both. I had already finished the case and the patient did well. The attending was so happy to finally find the OR
@LedHabel2 жыл бұрын
“That the entire surgical team would think I just didn’t show up for work today” I don’t know why this is so funny and relatable lmao
@kwow32332 жыл бұрын
This is why I'm afraid to go anywhere without a buddy use the buddy system kids
@Natalie-1012 жыл бұрын
But what if there's not enough saltines for the both of you!
@General12th2 жыл бұрын
Then you can both be trapped together!
@MLeoDaalder2 жыл бұрын
"Oh right, just use your keycard to get us out" "What keycard?" XD
@eviln00b692 жыл бұрын
That way you have someone to eat to survive the cold winters in the stairwell
@MyToranja2 жыл бұрын
@@Natalie-101 That's when your buddy starts to become a potential meal.
@PYR0NinjaPXG2 жыл бұрын
Felt this. Can't stand hospital layouts, the keycard access especially. For EMS, we would have to drop our ambulance keys with security if we were transferring to a specific floor instead of just using the ER floor. Combined with working in NYC, the amount of different hospitals and layouts -- only being able to get to a certain half of the 8th floor through a specific elevator, having a patient thinking you're incompetent because you can't find shit. Best advice? Don't ask doctors or nurses for directions, ask custodial staff -- they know the building better than anyone.
@dr60912 жыл бұрын
Support services always knows the way.. and we have all the bathroom codes
@PYR0NinjaPXG2 жыл бұрын
@@dr6091 bathroom codes are elite, where else can I hit my vape while my partner gets the signatures
@rquinn01112 жыл бұрын
The scrub tech in me shouted "don't use the stairs!". The locks are real. Brilliant vid!
@curtisleelowery2 жыл бұрын
Once again pure gold my man. I have been the staircase student, finally a staircase attending.
@narre712 жыл бұрын
staircase attending lmao
@sweetsandcharades83832 жыл бұрын
Bilingual bonus: “Trappe” means “stairs” in Danish. So our poor med student was trapped by trapperne. (Edit: “trappe” in singular, “trapper” in plural)
@SpicyGelato982 жыл бұрын
"Treppe" means "stairway" in German. Haha
@monedameow2 жыл бұрын
Oh, my, first double punch and then triple Wham! Poor intern xD
@henk-30982 жыл бұрын
It's trap in Dutch lol
@EarlyBird362 жыл бұрын
Trappa in Swedish
@chiravuris2 жыл бұрын
This happened to me once while on a night shift. I banged every single door, but it was night time and I was the only person there. I finally found a door which lead to weird elevators and finally found my way out. I'm terrified of stairs nowm
@servantofthe992 жыл бұрын
Phew crisis averted. When I was an intern my attending gave me the wrong room and the wrong hospital to meet at. When I finally figured it out and made it and told him his response? "Yea you have to be careful". That day was a fine line between surgery intern and serial killer
@vixenoftheseas2 жыл бұрын
The longer ago medschool gets the more forgiving I get. Then I watch your videos and the deja vu makes my palms sweaty and mouth dry. Keeps me humble I tell you
@kurootsuki3326 Жыл бұрын
literally lmao im on holiday and this threw me back to placement
@Sintakhra2 жыл бұрын
I remember going to a paediatric ward to fix their Blood Gas machine. You have to get manually buzzed through three sets of doors to get to the machine. On the way out, door number 2 managed to lock itself and wouldn't unlock. We had doctors and nurses on each side of the door fiddling with the handle, trying to open it. I just sat back and played with my deionised water and flush unit for ten minutes until they got it open.
@DalesDubs Жыл бұрын
Is a "blood gas machine" as hardcore as it sounds?
@rxanime5352 жыл бұрын
This is so true. My preceptor at my first rotation told me where his office was, but the entrance closest to his office was locked until 8 am. I called him and he said oh just go to the main entrance (on the other side of the hospital) and me not knowing how to get to his office after using the main entrance. Made it a few minutes before he showed up gasping. I had arrived 5 am that day and I was scheduled to go on rounds with him at 6 am btw. Great rotation just very stressed that first day.
@kevinklassen43282 жыл бұрын
How many rotations does one need to do before they can sell propane and propane accessories?
@rxanime5352 жыл бұрын
@@kevinklassen4328 a man only needs to have a love of Propane, God, and America to be a a propane salesman.
@ivanovosixx2 жыл бұрын
@@kevinklassen4328 what ?
@alyssah30872 жыл бұрын
@@ivanovosixx The original post is from someone with the username Hank Hill. It's a character in the show, King of the Hill. This is a reference to a quote by that character.
@notthatguy93232 жыл бұрын
And when you get no phone service while trapped in the stairwell, THIS is when all the anxiety is induced
@PianoLibra2 жыл бұрын
Every...damn...time! Happens to me even as a grown-ass attending, most recently at a national conference, had to call security to come fish me out of there. Gotta say not my proudest moment 😂
@heatherholmes68592 жыл бұрын
The other 3 students in your cohort, and the five in the year behind you cowering in the corner, would have provided sufficient cover for a late entrance. The surgeons would never have noticed, and the scrub nurse would have reduced you to a pile of Ash, then handed you a cookie for surviving the stairwell evolution. Nobody has a pass to the stairwell. NOBODY. You cannot even reach my floor. Or the ones above and below. We guard the younglings. Next time sleep over in the broom closet.
@kurootsuki3326 Жыл бұрын
we guard the younglings 😂 i'd love to work with you
@thebestcompletely90782 жыл бұрын
This one was one of the funniest to me. Like actually filming in a hospital and I just wondered if he interacted with anyone at any point (maybe why this was voice over, but I love it), and at some point he had to ask someone to hold his phone because at 1:40 it’s on the outside of the door. Also I just love this skit, not a doctor but just the perpetual fear of being lost
@ke6gwf2 жыл бұрын
He's probably holding it around the edge of the door lol
@skullsaintdead2 жыл бұрын
Jonathan is everywhere. And available for your disposure at any time of the day or night!
@cherylmack64652 жыл бұрын
Having gotten trapped in one of those stairwells in the past...I still have a phobia of them. Also got trapped in a series of underground tunnels that ran between two hospitals... Should have a nightmare tonight reliving those past traumas Thanks
@maartenvanhonsebrouck93532 жыл бұрын
To be young and trapped in random hospital spaces. Brings me back
@jhaas688652 жыл бұрын
I am a field service engineer. For those that don’t know I install and take care of the medical equipment at hospitals. I ran into this very situation at a site because they moved our servers to a basement closet that to access you had to go through the Dr lounge then a hall way and down to a secure locked door in the basement. My badge opened all the doors to go down but to come back up it didn’t open the one to open the door to the lounge to leave. Thankfully I had cell service because the only other way would have been fire alarm protocol of hold the door until the alarms started. Their security quickly fixed that issue.
@amerithaindian2 жыл бұрын
I totally got locked in a stairwell as a med student... and I think it was indeed my surgery rotation. Good times!! 😅
@user-bv7jc2 жыл бұрын
I have literally SPRAINED MY ANKLE on my first day of co-op running down an escalator because my contact's last name was "Hall" so I thought I was looking for a literal fucking hall like FirstName Hall in this building and I asked EVERYONE I ran into where said hall was and NOBODY could tell me. So that's when I started running around frantically trying to search the entire building and twisted my ankle. Literally limped around for the first 2 weeks. UGH.
@flowerm87372 жыл бұрын
I watched this 4 hours after it was posted, hope the surgery is going well!
@trippychick922 жыл бұрын
I've been addicted to your videos! Can't wait to see more!
@simple11q2 жыл бұрын
You are so darn good at this comedy, I swear you are perfecting your craft by each segment.
@kpliu29482 жыл бұрын
This is the most surreal yet relatable experience shared by anyone who ever had a surgery rotation, ever.
@victore.15092 жыл бұрын
Your timing is impeccable; I'm the med student starting my surgery rotation on Monday!
@stargazerlily70162 жыл бұрын
oh maaan how painfully real this is!! Reminds me of my time as a medstudent on a surgical away rotation in an unfamiliar city. Had to depend on a complex public transportation system to get me to the hospital each day. One day I must have incorrectly planned the route, and ended up completely lost, running around the city, showing up in sweaty clothes, LATE to rounds. I was so mortified 🤣 Took a cab every day from then on.
@gustavogalvez19122 жыл бұрын
Sir, please keep up the great work. I always wait for your videos even though i don't really know much about medicine, but with your videos, I learn a lot about that world♥️
@nobodyanon2 жыл бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one haha.
@gustavogalvez19122 жыл бұрын
@anon we are here to lear and found the best teacher ever
@Drsilmi2 жыл бұрын
And you too sir keep up being who you are because you sound like a wonderful person
@gustavogalvez19122 жыл бұрын
@@Drsilmi thank you hope you have a grear day too
@potterpal52 жыл бұрын
Even if he had been there at 7, surgery probably wouldn't have started until about 8:30.
@lorifrederick23672 жыл бұрын
Omg this brings back traumatic memories of me being trapped in the stairwell at URMC, banging on the doors and yelling HELLLLP repeatedly for what seemed like hours. All these years I repressed those memories....until now! 🤣🤪😱
@DrDave-xq2lt2 жыл бұрын
Love your work! Always entertaining and very spot on 😂 This is coming from an FM who desperately needs a Jonathan 🙏
@deepaksanwal36022 жыл бұрын
Senior was screwing with him from the start. No planned procedure starts at 7 am, unless you are a surgeon with tightly packed schedule with support of very agreeable and supporting anesthetic team.
@lisaleon98722 жыл бұрын
Dear sir, my father is a world renowned surgeon and you nail it every single time!!! I’ve needed years of treatment due to his narcissism, your videos heal me!😂 I binged every single video.
@Kaalokalawaia2 жыл бұрын
Being locked in the stairwell is a real thing. We would often have to fetch people locked in there. Good times.
@LadyRad20002 жыл бұрын
OMG! This brings back memories of my time has a rad student. So much anguish, so much doubt, so much embarrassment.😥😂😂
@mar_man8132 жыл бұрын
I thought when you showed up and the OR was empty that the first case for the day was canceled or similar and the entire team just forgot to notify the med student. It's happened.. more than once
@brock7m2 жыл бұрын
This was me yesterday. No saltines, but a kind nurse saw me waving after 10 min or so and saved me. 💟
@storydates2 жыл бұрын
I'm not in medicine, but this whole scenario feels eerily familiar to me.
@Whitecroc2 жыл бұрын
It's a bit like finding your way around a convention center.
@coffeecake88352 жыл бұрын
As a nurse in a large urban hospital, this, THIS is one of my greatest fears… 😱
@Mrsangeandbella2 жыл бұрын
I've actually had the stairwell thing happen to me at a hospital I was working agency for. Didn't know that you needed a swipe card after 6pm! Luckily someone came by within 10 minutes.
@Pope_of_the_Church_of_Tea2 жыл бұрын
Oh god, this is me every time an attending gives a specific time. Recently I had a minor panic when an unexpected change in my bus route and the sky-high prices for Ubers/Lyfts in my area resulted in me arriving only 15 minutes early for the pre-round didactic session (which was mostly pitched at the senior residents and fellows, so I was kind of confused). I mean, I was fine once I knew I was still early, but boy howdy the tachycardia when that was still up in the air…
@susanferretti57812 жыл бұрын
We at least have doorbells / camera next to the stairwell doors, but it just goes to the desk. Hope someone is there.
@othmanechchelh93392 жыл бұрын
That's the best title/video combination, on youtube with short videos it's very easy to spoil all the sketch with an explicit title. It is just an awesome choice you've made
@miloelite2 жыл бұрын
Had an almost identical experience in my second rotation. Had to grab something from the floor below me, only to find that all the doors locked like this. Thankfully, one of the lower floors wasn’t locked down, but the area was so unfamiliar to me I wandered for a good half hour before I finally worked my way back up to where I started.
@supenskylesko2 жыл бұрын
I've been trapped in a locked stairwell before, so memories came back!!! 🤣 Another reason to keep a cell phone with you at all times which is on the Verizon system. ☺️ (They normally work inside of buildings.) LOVE the ending!!! ❤️😃
@Curtistopsidae2 жыл бұрын
Hah! I'm lucky if I get wifi in hospitals, let alone cell service, if I'm anywhere but under a router or next to a window. I swear that all the hospitals around me are designed to be Faraday cages or something in case there's ever a doomsday EMP
@SJTha2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video! I am not a med student or doctor, however I can really relate to the strange stairwells in hospitals. One time I had a job that involved taking elderly residents to their appointments and runs to the hospital pharmacy. I was up on the third floor waiting for the pharmacy when I realized I needed paperwork from my vehicle. I *thought* I was taking a stairwell that would take me close by the main entrance... instead I ended up in the physcian lounge and changing area, by a totally unfamiliar door controlled by a keycard. Luckily, I could retreat back the way I came and get back to the Pharmacy.
@EveloGrave2 жыл бұрын
The locked in the stairwell thing happened to me. I wasn't a med student, I wasn't an anything, nor was I in a hospital. I just happened to be locked in a stairwell for 7 hours.
@vintagechalkboard39652 жыл бұрын
That's terrifying. I'm glad you got out.😬
@Quebrain2 жыл бұрын
What about when they tell you to come to the OR but they don't tell you which one? I've gone to OR's in entirely different buildings to realize they meant somewhere else. Or ended up walking into the wrong OR suite and the entire team, that was focused on the operation, simultaneously turn around to give me the stink eye. Still gives me nightmares...
@danielserrano43982 жыл бұрын
I volunteer in the Surgical care unit and I had a keycard that would open any door, but dumb little me forgot it on the desk when I needed to go downstairs but didn't want to wait for the elevator. I was stuck in this exact scenario until I called the front desk to let me back in.
@ryan32962 жыл бұрын
Having just finished my surgery rotation a few weeks ago, this spoke to my soul in a way that few things do
@niwaka2732 жыл бұрын
Why you giving me war flashbacks. I'm sweating cold icey droplets from all the times I got lost in a hospital. The ever repeating, seemingly never ending floors, extending towards what seems like a spatial loop of purgatory. The screams and cries of lost patients and students, hoping in vain for enlightenment of where the hell they were. And the dooming. Ticking. Of. The. Clock. And more than half of the staffs weren't there because of a state-wide strike. I'm scared to go to sleep for if I have to relife these moments even only in my mind, I will cry like a toddler.
@lindaheath7842 жыл бұрын
I remember finding a visitor lost in a hall who was in tears. I had complete sympathy because it had not been too long before I felt like crying myself beng lost .
@malakamunasinghe Жыл бұрын
Excellent...very creative and refreshing content..👍
@templarknight4562 жыл бұрын
Best advice is to walk around everywhere for like an hour a day if you can. If you can't memorize locations/shortcuts carry a memo pad. Ask those who have been there for a long time they know everything. Put aside your ego and let people know that you are still learning and you will succeed in the goals you want. Remember regardless of title as new information is discovered therefore everyone is still a student. Do not be afraid of not knowing be afraid of not wanting to know.
@moonman239 Жыл бұрын
Good advice. my first thought would be to contact security or the front desk and ask for assistance. Tell them I'm new to this hospital and need directions to X room and also that they haven't given me a badge to unlock the doors to the room. A good hospital would be able to walk me through the process of getting to X room and also making sure I have access to the room.
@donchaput8278 Жыл бұрын
I've been working in hospitals for years, usually different every week (Implementation Engineer). I try to take the stairs as often as possible, even with my 30lb backpack. Sometimes you run into one of those stairwells...so you wait to be let out, or sometimes go outside and walk around the building. The Elevator Mazes in some hospitals are fun too. That is a whole video in itself. Shoutout to Cony Island Hospital for an excellent example of that!
@Shree252 жыл бұрын
That eloquent inner monologue was quite something...just as I remember back in my days
@XavierGuillaume2 жыл бұрын
That is hilarious! I got locked in a bathroom once at a hospital. I closed the door and realized after there was no door handle on the door hence no way to open the door. I panicked for a little bit but then was pounding on the door. No answer. I decided to just call the hospital and try to reach someone to open the door. That was the best solution bc that is what I did and it took like 30 mins for a maintenance person to get the door open with like a screw driver. What was bad was I really had to use the bathroom but after calling I wasn't sure how long it would take to open so I was afraid to go in case he might open it unexpectedly. That would be hilarious! "Excuse me! Can you close the door? Can't you see it is occupied???"
@JennyG.COW52 жыл бұрын
I love the monologue of him feeling abandoned and Lost! Glad he was Extremely Early! 👏😆👍 This reminds me of a time when I thought I was supposed to be at a meeting for a Church calling because I assumed it was Thursday. Just as My Mom and I were heading out of the neighborhood, my Mom mentioned that it was Wednesday. I realized that I was actually a day early and we were able to make a quick turn around! We both had a good laugh and my Mom said that she's done this a few times herself! 😆 Good times! 😊👍
@iamkimtisaac2 жыл бұрын
I love watching this guy, EVERYTHING he does and say is so spot on!
@MrMaazMuhammad2 жыл бұрын
First day of psych rotation the residents let us in and then went to round on their patients. When we left the floor into the air lock room between the ward and the main hospital, our key cards didn't work. We sat there in this tiny room for 20 minutes waiting before the residents to returned
@s968222 жыл бұрын
Well depicts the anxiety felt. Used them often though never been stuck in a stairwell I do recall some years ago while rotating at Bellevue Hospital, NYC some stairwells being off limits due to feral dogs in them.
@crutlen2 жыл бұрын
This is so true! I just started cards fellowship and of course showed up extra early on the first day as I was starting in a very busy cath lab. Of course, I got stuck in a stairwell as my badge didn't have full access yet. That fear never goes away.
@ThingsILove22662 жыл бұрын
I’ve done this. The hospital I was in had zero reception for my cell. Feels frightening.
@Primu2 жыл бұрын
This is relatable for any workplace that requires secure access where they don't give new employees (+ apprentices/contractors) a means of access so you have to rely on the employees who do have them.
@Soriyou32 жыл бұрын
The truth is, he probably arrived on time. He just forgot to account for the unspoken rule of +30 min for an OR case's start time.
@PainRack2 жыл бұрын
You forgot to account for the 15 min before start time when the room is prepped and patient is waiting in anaesthesiology hands too :)
@Mondprinzessin1112 жыл бұрын
That reminds me of that one time I showed up 2 hours early for an exam just because I have never been to that specific building before nor did I know where the room was. Stood up at about 4 am. One thing I hate about different faculties of my uni being scattered all over the city... Its also funny when you unsuspectingly take the stairs and one corridor is pitched black, no ligth, and someone put some lines from harry potter at the door, saying something about a forbidden floor. Kind of funny but given that it was from the cemistry department it crept me out quite a bit 😂
@PainRack2 жыл бұрын
There used to be a shortcut the night doctors would take that cut across the admin offices. At night, it's totally dark and the floor after that is lit like in some ghost movie, it's usually quiet. Totally the most creepy experience available above ground. Especially when you start hearing voices or footsteps echo, only to realise it's someone else on the other end as there's a bend into an elevator that cannot be seen on the corridor. Most doctors hate it but the shortcut was way too useful NOT to use.... Staircases can't beat underground though. No idea how IT does it :)
@randoqiqks2 жыл бұрын
Something similar happened when I got locked out the hospital on a overnight after I went to get food on break... The only way back in was the emergency department
@harpreetgujral1832 жыл бұрын
I wish I can double like the video!! This is so amazing, not surprising for your wonderful performance, Dr. G!! I was listening to a very interesting podcast and immediately pressed play for your video- has to be instant gratification. I just couldn't focus on that podcast... now returning having watched the video and shared with my family.. Namaste!!🙏💕😊
@brodocmd2 жыл бұрын
My passion for surgery died at the hands of terrible surgical rotations where nobody was nice. Being a foreign med student, I didn't know about the culture of abuse in surgery here. Today I am a GI fellow. Best decision of my life.
@zehrazeynepaksoy30102 жыл бұрын
This is the most accurate summary of my entire clinical experience as a med student
@LCBrink2 жыл бұрын
Oooh. A Fire Marshall would love to find a staircase like that. The fines would be epic
@emphasis202 жыл бұрын
Can you please explain why the staircase is not ideal? I'm genuinely curious.
@theflushingtonpost2 жыл бұрын
@@emphasis20 i didn’t write the original comment but i’m guessing it’s a public danger because it can trap a person in there and they could potentially die due to a medical emergency or building catastrophe because they couldn’t escape
@31dknight2 жыл бұрын
Great video from the doctor.
@st86872 жыл бұрын
Yep. I've gotten stuck in the stairwell once as a nursing student..
@bmo14lax2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your videos Dr they've been helping me a lot lately You do more good than you know I'm sure
@taibahlavander67582 жыл бұрын
Omg that happened to me once when i was a student! It was one of these doors that when they're closed you can't open it from the inside! I tried EVERYTHING, i even tried calling my team leader but i couldn't get a signal!! In the end i just stood near the glass staring like a maniac until a janitor noticed me and let me out! Hahaha good times indeed! XD
@Cherriheart2 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness this hits home. My first hospital rotation was about a 50min drive from my house started at 7am sharp. I got there an hour early and sat in the parking lot, too jumpy from anxiety and caffeine to do anything else 🙃 fun times.
@WojtTec2 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah. Getting locked on staircase/getting lost in unfamiliar hospital happened to me more than once and to combine it with dreadful fear of being late… Ugh
@ghoghzilla2 жыл бұрын
I was trapped like this in a covid hospital during night shift It was SO SCARY All I could hear was oxygen hissing and icu beeping We had the covid wards on 5th floor and all the other stair cases were closed to avoid usage by covid healthcare I was going around in circles and them somehow I found my way out Exited the building and then went back again to the 5th floor
@Thetalldudeontv2 жыл бұрын
My first day of my first rotation I was so nervous I got there in the wee hours of the morning. It was a 30 minute drive away. I get there, burst an aneurysm when I realize I forgot my white coat. Drove back, got it, drove there again.... and was still early.
@steph9902 жыл бұрын
I was watching this with my husband and when he reached for the stairwell door I found myself screaming, “NOOOOOO! DON’T DO IT!!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ManWithCrowbar2 жыл бұрын
All the while as a technician I just waltz in any OR without any ID, since there is always a kind soul to let me in
@bonnys30152 жыл бұрын
I got off an elevator in our spanking new hospital to a small hallway with two locked doors on either end. Quickly figuring I was on the wrong floor, I turned to get back on the elevator and discovered it needed a key card to be accessed. Good times. Thanks for bringing THAT back up. 😬😂
@notsaranohuh2 жыл бұрын
i have literally been trapped in a stairwell like this when my keycard suddenly stopped working. 😂😂😂
@LietSayri2 жыл бұрын
I was laughing sooo hard. This is so true, poor med students - the hospital is like a maze
@arandomboredindividual78552 жыл бұрын
Can we just appreciate how well this is written?
@catalyst04352 жыл бұрын
The moment I saw the stairs, I already knew what was going to happen. Because it happened to me.
@CrashPhantom2 жыл бұрын
This very thing happened to me. Saw some stairs at the university hospital in the back of a unit while on internal medicine as a student. Thought I'd found a quick shortcut to my next patient a few floors down...