Real DOCTOR reacts to SCRUBS "My Mentor"

[@DrHopeSickNotes]

The video quality (+ some audio pops!) of in this episode isn't as good as normal; I'm trying a new way of recording with the aim to get more content on the channel. Despite the technical issues I still thought this version was passable, so hope you agree and are able to enjoy the video! Cheers Ed

[@R3fug333]

The video quality is fine tbh. The Audio pops are a bit iffy, but not too bad. If you can get more videos out this way, I'm down for it.

[@Kenjitsuka]

Unless it's utterly unwatchable more Dr. Hope is always a great thing; carry on! ;-)

[@is_just_diana]

TBH I didn't even noticed! I really enjoy your videos :D

[@windows95leon]

Seems fine to me. Doesn't seem like a huge decline in quality in the "live" vs edited format, beyond what you already identify. Did feel a bit sparser and shorter than some, but I put that on the contents of the Scrubs episode as opposed to the format. Thanks Doc.

[@silverfox9267]

Works for me, but where is your moustache? I liked it.

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

'I can't believe your head exploded. If your head explodes you'll never make it as a doctor.'

[@nikolettahasznosi2432]

The jumping to cancer on Dr Cox’s part I think was intentional to scare the patient. This is only the 2nd episode of the series so we don’t know the character that well, but I do think it fits into what we know about him so far. He saw a young guy not taking the situation seriously enough so he comes in with the cold shower.

[@R3fug333]

I love the Scrubs episodes. Such a great show, and good to see that it's medically accurate. I would love for you to do the whole show eventually lol.

[@Ubersupersloth]

Regarding the whole “expecting cancer” thing, what I interpreted from that scene is they think cancer is unlikely as well but they’re just doing due diligence in ruling it out.

[@jerodast]

I think the way the episode plays it is kind of funny, because nothing the characters actually do contradicts your take on it (which is my interpretation as well), but the overall writing and tone of the storyline is definitely overfocused on the scare factor of cancer. It's like if the characters were real and they were doing a documentary but the editors thought a cancer scare would interest the audience more than the detailed investigation, it would come off the same way :)

[@theyruinedyoutubeagain]

@@jerodast wait, Scrubs is not real?!

[@jembawls]

Always stop what I'm doing once I see a Dr Hope video drop! Love your Scrubs reactions doc! Honestly the quality was completely fine. I noticed some differences in appearance, but at no point did i feel anything was lacking. I'd say if your current setup allows you to more easily make videos then it looks like it's working really well for you, and I'm happy because we get more great content!

[@MegaSpideyman]

Delighted to see you reacting to this one. Hope we can see you react to more episodes, too. Lot of good - great ones out there.

[@thomashester2]

One of the best Scrubs episode

[@MsNanceePants]

6:37 - I really appreciate the way J.D. talks to him here. Regardless of whether it ultimately works, for most people an honest connection based on care is going to get you further than berating or shaming. (bonus points for Zach Braff's performance - he really shines in these kinds of scenes)

[@jasonfrederick5210]

My baby sister once asked what being addicted to cigarettes was like and I told her it was like being hungry, it feels like you need it. The longer you go without smoking the more hungry you get.

[@sjins1poolboy698]

Just finished another Scrubs re-watch and so glad to see you back on Scrubs!

[@smkfet]

I love the ending of this episode "If your head explodes you're never going to make it as a doctor"

[@MidgarMerc]

Glad to see you back on the Scrubs

[@Evasion381]

Quitting smoking is easy, I done it millions of times. Most accurate quote I ever heard

[@benrast1755]

I encountered someone who wouldn’t admit to smoking to her doctor, because she “was tired of the lecture.” I had to tell her that regardless, her doctor needs to know her smoking status. And if he/she didn’t do SOME kind of anti-smoking lecture - even just a reminder of the health risks - they wouldn’t be a very good doctor. My doctors push me to lose weight. It’s not “body shaming.” It’s trying to encourage wellness and a long and healthy life.

[@andrewgrant6516]

Depends on the context. I had an impacted finger from playing basketball. My doctor ignored the finger and gave me a lecture on weight loss. End result: I didnt go back to the doctor for seven years. Every time I saw her she told me I would be dead within five years. After fifteen years of treating me as fat first and a person second, she died, and twenty years later I'm still here. No amount of nagging can substitute for good bedside manner.

[@AutumnsFlameDances]

​@@andrewgrant6516yep, same for my mum. Last two times she went to GP they ignored the reason she went in and instead started lecturing her on smoking. She's nervous of doctors so rarely goes to GP and that kind of attitude doesn't help. For anyone saying it's the Drs job, they could wait until near the end of the consultation instead of at the start which will only get the patient defensive as well as feeling like the problem they went in with is being ignored (and sadly sometimes is).

[@windows95leon]

I dunno, I think it depends. My GP has had a very serious conversation about my weight with me. We talked options, and talked about challenges to what I face. And that conversation was over. Just like how we don't "check in" on my OCD every appointment, we don't check in on my weight. I know, she knows I know. Doesn't make her a bad GP, it makes her not the pimary person able to make that change. If I have a health issue related to weight, it needs to be discussed. When I have health issues unrelated to weight, bringing it up is a distraction and a waste of clinical/hospital time. Summary Care Records are brilliant and a good medical professional can use them to know what has and hasn't been discussed.

[@alyero6341]

@@CTM418 if you're fat you're not healthy, period.there is no question around this topic. Smoking at all is not healthy and drinking alcohol regularly also isnt great. If you come in with a broken finger and you're morbidly obese your doctor should treat the problem at hand immediately but the actually life threatening thing is most likely still the weight/fat percentage and not a cracked finger. So yea it might not feel good to hear but the doctor has some point

[@lindadurrant43]

it depends how the advice is given, i had a dr (uk) who was so nasty that i stopped going with near fatal consequences . NB i neither drink or smoke or consume drugs yet he though me having a chest infection ment i was chimney pot

[@macmcleod1188]

I have missed these. I'm glad you are doing them again. It's good to see you covering episodes that are not frequently covered too. Anyway... instant click when I saw the thumbnail.

[@ashleyjustice3008]

I enjoy it when you review a Scrubs episode! Keep them coming! Thanks for posting!

[@thepiedbagpiper9320]

Always great seeing your Scrubs reactions; I tend to avoid a lot of your reactions to contemporary stuff for fear of spoilers, and Scrubs is very react-worthy. Though it did seem short, like there was plenty episode left to discuss, but I imagine that might've been because there wasn't much to comment on in this particular episode. I'd say the new set recording style worked; I didn't really notice a difference until you brought it up. That said, I'd miss the demonstrations - like the drawings and skeleton - if this style continued strictly as-is. But, of course, your commentary is the big draw, so you do what you need to, mate.

[@ThreadBomb]

I work in the addiction area, and I don't think I've seen a medical drama look at treating patients who are drug dependent. Scrubs did have an ep about a patient faking an illness to score opiates, but that's different from having to manage a patient's addiction while treating another condition.

[@oz_jones]

There was that one addict that moved away that Elliot "believed" too

[@MaxMcAdams]

I quit cigarettes in august and dear god it was so hard. I still wake up wanting one, and I haven't fully sorted out the mental health problems I was using them to self-medicate

[@macmcleod1188]

It gets better. You know.. it's funny because smoking used to be an "after dinner" activity. They even had special smoking jackets. Then, it spread to an all day activity time later.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

You got this! Keep it up! 🦸‍♂️

[@hannahk1306]

Well done, you're doing really well. Have you got reasonable access to mental health support where you live or perhaps a stop smoking support group? I hope things get easier for you.

[@cmo6055]

Took my husband a good year. During that year he really missed his good friends "Nico and Tina". Their absence left a big void that was only filled a good year later. Now he is 14 years without cigarettes and cant imagine he ever needed them. He even thinks the smoke is disgusting, when he encounters smokers. It was really hard the first year. I almost asked him to start smoking again, because he was so grumpy, depressed and sometimes plain agressive...😅. Glad he (and to a lesser extend me) did not give up. He quit cold turkey, after multiple times of using patches, gum etc. Those things did not work for him, he needed to have all or nothing. Smoked around 30 a day. Keep up the good work. It can be done and your body and mind eventually overcome the addiction, it just takes a long time

[@sandraisyearning]

Happy to see you back!✨ I really needed a light-hearted video like this today

[@catherinelindsay7437]

Ooh yay, a Scrubs review!! I'd also love to see your reaction to Code Black at some point.

[@LeafyK]

This style of reacting is great. I can tell you did a ton of editing to splice in the show so seamlessly, so I can’t fathom the greater effort necessary for previous videos. Great stuff!

[@lukematic812]

I listen to these occasionally while driving on my forklift picking orders. I love the way you speak, it's just really relaxing and informative.

[@mtneubelt]

I miss you scrubs reacts! I hope we see more in the future!

[@ipwolf2224]

Thank you Dr. Hope! You make each episode a fun learning experience. Taking the MCAT soon!

[@JonathenPetrie]

You are a good kind man and your content is phenomenal. Thank you for being in this world.

[@StewChicken42]

Loved this reaction. Definitely think I'll try binging Scrubs after I finish House, in 69 years.

[@enzi87]

Scrubs is back! I'm so happy!!

[@RickWeasel]

You always do such a great job doing these videos! Scrubs is such a great show!

[@jaihayes9647]

Feel like I haven't seen you in a while Ed. Hope everything is going ok with work. Loved seeing you pop up in Dr. Mikes viedo recently.

[@SebastianWeinberg]

It's always fun to see that _Scrubs,_ a show that takes such _outrageously_ silly comedic license with so many things, is nevertheless rated so consistently as one of the most accurate shows by medical professionals. Accurate to the _experience_ of being a young doctor or nurse (or janitor), that is - not necessarily accurate to specific medical details or treatment practices. The general refrain is almost always along the lines of, "Yeah, that's not exactly how that works, and this one thing isn't really how we do it, and probably wasn't the way it was done, back then either - but *_that_* is _exactly_ how it feels when you're in that situation… and you _will_ be in that situation, sooner or later."

[@jerodast]

I'll usually show up for most of your vids, but especially _Scrubs_ - glad to see another one!

[@TheAdvertisement]

Oh wow, Scrubs what a classic. I remember my medical mother showing me this show, I was never too interested as a kid but it's really nostalgic now.

[@alteregoivy]

I'm glad to see you talk about the struggle of wishing that patients would change their habits. So many doctors (particularly here in the US, and particularly for fat patients) are extremely judgemental and dismissive of such patients. And I get how frustrating it could be from the doctor's point of view. But the truth is that there are so many barriers and challenges to pursuing health that might not be within the patient's control, e.g. mental health problems, financial problems, lack of access to healthy food/movement, lack of time or energy, executive dysfunction, etc. And shaming almost never helps anyone. Shaming is far more likely to cause the sort of distress that will cause someone to retreat further into whatever they're being shamed about. Heck, the CDC's model of population-level health outcomes has individual lifestyle choices only accounting for 20% of the outcomes. The rest are things like genetics, socioeconomic status, quality of accessible healthcare, etc. I wish more doctors would lean towards empathy and compassion rather than judgment.

[@oosakasan]

I think Dr. Cox with the defibrillator at the beginning isn't meant to be realistic not just because they wanted a joke but because *in the universe of the show* it's not what's actually happening - it's JD re-interpreting his surroundings as if he was in a "I'm so competent now" musical montage. Just like we can think the patient's feet and Turk's exam in that scene aren't actually moving in time with the music. And I think the fact the resuscitation scene is so farcical highlights the self-aware irony of that whole sequence - JD *feels* super-competent but he's still very inexperienced to the point his visual imagination of hospital scenes is very sketchy and drawn more from inaccurate TV medical dramas than personal experience. I also wonder if it would be in-character for Dr. Cox to have ordered the tests and talked about it being cancer not because the probabilities justified it medically but in order to "scare the patient straight" in a more subtle but maybe effective way than JD's straightforward approach. I'm kind of in two minds about it if so - my general intuition is that playing such games is a dickish move and I can easily imagine it being pretty bad if every doctor did this, to the point of undermining the trust of smokers in the medical field ("the moment they find out I smoke it becomes all about that, they're not trying to help with the problems I went to see them about"). On the other hand it does seem like this experience could be a very concrete way for a smoker to internalize the reality of their cancer risk, even maybe this guy on a subconscious level. Either way I bet Dr. Cox would give zero fucks about my intuition that it's a dickish move. Whatever the writers intended it could be a decent headcanon for restoring your suspension of disbelief on this plot point.

[@jennymckenzie5304]

Always love these! Also you sound like you have a bit of a stuffy nose Dr Hope, if you do have a cold, hope you get well soon!

[@rahdo]

"hopefully it's good enough..." yes most definitely YES! make whatever changes you need to streamline the process, don't burn out, love the show! :)

[@RedPanda79]

Hey you're back great!

[@benschroeder4036]

I like the moment that really drives home Cox's point--right when JD says he really thinks he got through the the smoker, he opens a stairwell doorway only to find the guy smoking with (I think) the janitor. Reality check, JD, reality check.

[@Kenjitsuka]

Dang, this takes me back to early Dr. Hope! :D

[@themchamburglar210]

Big time set up episode. Lessons that can’t be forgotten for later.

[@Manxsee]

Man! it's been a long time since i've seen someone talks about scrubs, what a great show.

[@damionlee7658]

Scrubs remains one of my favourite episodic programmes. Dr Cox is, without doubt, one of the best characters in an episodic drama, and was always used to great effect to convey great wisdom to the audience. Scrubs want just a great medical comedy-drama; it was like good children's television programme (conveys useful information and morals) but created for adults.

[@dclemans13]

Has anyone ever pointed out you look like the English version of JD, and you're a Junior Doctor?...JD...? 😋

[@bLuGhOsT_]

Any day with a new scrubs episode upload is a good day!!

[@aps-pictures9335]

As a therapist - 8:50 for sure, needing to hold back to meet a patient when they’re ready.

[@aeolanyiramoon6260]

One of my favourite TV shows 😄

[@Michael_OBrian]

Can you do a fight scene trauma diagnosis on the Punisher prison fight from Daredevil season 2?

[@OmgPuppies]

Do you intend to do the rest of Cells at Work season 2?

[@hettyscetty9785]

I can totally relate to the cannula thing. As a student nurse, I was really nervous about doing things like sub-cut injections and putting in cannulas and taking blood. So far I have done a couple cannulas, and one of them the patient literally pulled it out before I had managed to get the dressing on and the doctor had to put it in, she was nice and still signed it off for me.

[@MartinB_Art_Design]

0:04 "We are gonna be breaking down..." Ah so we're getting super real now!

[@robertknight2556]

Smoking IS a form of suicide. It can take a long time, but you eventually get there, with possibly all sorts of physical travail along the way. I know this as at 74, I have smoked consistently for 58 years and, though I hardly ever see my GP, clearly my body, particularly my lungs, is now telling me it's getting worn out. It's partly a case of addiction and partly a case of how you view life that I continue. The thought of how much this has cost me in financial terms is staggering. A good and telling video, Dr Ed. Thanks. Robert, UK.

[@jakepullman4914]

I mean, you're not wrong, but I can't help thinking, you're going to "get there" regardless. The number one cause of death is being born. But your quality if life definitely goes downhill when you start doing damage to your lungs.

[@HunHaze]

Love your scrubs reactions.

[@vidhoard]

Very interesting!

[@Bentzel75]

Scrubs is the bees knees, I know you love to analyze the realistic doctor stuff but I love that you also tap into that empathetic and amazing feeling that scrubz deliver again and again. Tragic and funny , salt and sweet !

[@parastie]

So a pleural effusion would show up on a chext x-ray and would not usually require a CT scan unless the effusion is very large, in which case we would want to do a CT but that would be done after draininage. (Check the British Thoracic Society Guidelines). However, a young patient with multilobar pneumonia, even one that smokes is quite unexpected. I might request an HRCT or more likely just a standard CT Thorax depending on the presentation of the patient.

[@warbler1984]

I don't think Dr Hope suggested a Pleural effusion wouldn't be on xray

[@CharlesAbell]

Honestly I think you should go thru episode by episode of this series lol I will watch every one of them

[@angustin6590]

"accurate for the time" damn

[@j.rinker4609]

I liked the candid feel of this one. It doesn't need to be heavily edited.

[@BlueJDev]

Scrubs holds a very special place in my heart, I have all the episodes of scrubs on my hard drive, yes even s9!, Yet I still bought s1-3 on dvd when I chanced upon them in a charity shop, purely for the extra scenes and outtakes. It's was an awesome show! So Funny and serious at the same time, very heart warming. The steak night episode always sticks in my mind as one of the greatest drama episodes and almost makes me cry every time I watch it and I've seen it about 20 times! "We can only hope that our last memory is a good one!", Looking forward to the review of that one and the rest of course. Could talk about scrubs for days. Edit: how did I forget you reviewed this one last year and I even watched it... Duh!

[@frigobar0173]

I love your scrubs episodes. I’d just like they were a bit longer❤️

[@miniroll8513]

Please can you do some reactions of holby city and casualty

[@thepudgyninja]

I feel like it’s been quite a while since you’ve done of these. Makes me feel like we are in ore-COVID days.

[@groovr22]

Hi - I got here from a Dr. Mike video - I clicked your link in the description. I'm glad I did. I just hit SUBSCRIBE. I really like your channel and can't wait to check out your videos. You definitely need more subscribers..!

[@DrHopeSickNotes]

Thank you and welcome aboard!

[@Anon26535]

Is Ibogaine any good for quitting smoking? I've heard it can help with addictions.

[@Turalcar]

According to my dad, before he gave up smoking one of the guys he used to take smoking breaks with was himself a surgeon who had to firsthand (pun intended) deal with its consequences, up to amputating limbs.

[@sharingitach]

Love the content, but the audio levels seemed really low for me. I had to play on max volume. Keep it up

[@LilyGrace95]

I work with med students as a patient roleplayer, and honestly us actors had to listen to the smoking lecture SO many times, we asked them to stop adding it if it was irrelevant. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because we took offense or anything (though as a vehement anti-smoker, the patronising tone got very grating), it was more because the med students would just get stuck on that one topic and not move on. In exams, they only have 7-20mins depending on the exam (20mins tend to be two parts or psych) so it was in their interest too. But yeah, the amount who would forget to ask in the younger years, or assume "no" meant "never", was kinda scary....

[@RatelRegalement]

Small highlight to the actor playing the patient when JD's giving him the stop smoking talk - very much see it hit home. Patient may later renege on it and ignore the advice and such, of course, but at least captured the moment.

[@jijitters]

Hello Dr. Hope! In both this episode and all over the medical genre, there's a running trope that doctors always assume patients are lying about how much they drink/smoke/eat/have sex/whatever their vice is, and it's always bothered me. It seems doctors in real life operate on the same judgment because they never seem to fully believe my answers about things. It can get really frustrating to trust doctors enough to give truthful answers when this judgment is always present ):

[@hannahk1306]

They also don't like it when you don't know or can't answer a question, like they want exact information that most people would only be able to accurately answer if they'd kept a diary.

[@amblonyxx]

I mean, I've seen enough MRI's of pregnant people who swore they were not pregnant to just assume that people lie.

[@diavolo007]

Well, they assume people lie coz guess what, people do lie

[@j.rinker4609]

Multiple people reacting live to movies/shows about their profession is fun. I watched some of the "Jurassic Park" movies with both paleontologists and flight students (there's a lot of aviation in there too). Some actual "Easter eggs" in there...

[@Dansull123]

Is cannabis legal in the UK? How would you determine 'pack years' for a cannabis smoker?

[@Madmark50484]

You missed the best scene out!! At the end JDs head explodes.

[@Scrubber89]

Yay a Scrubs one. More scrubs please 😜

[@tammyhines1585]

Well done.

[@l33tspaniard]

Ngl i was kinda hoping for the “I can’t believe your head exploded” I always wonder with these how much of the inaccuracy is a result of changes in procedure (this episode is over a decade old) or regional differences

[@MrHorimiya]

daily scrubs reaction would be nice :P

[@zebracorn9184]

I love scrubs

[@Thraim.]

Scrubs is still funny, love it.

[@claytonhilliard925]

I can't belive you skipped over the part where JD's head explodes. You'll never make it as a youtuber if you skip over the good stuff.

[@shakirasmylie6178]

The musical episode is funny 😅

[@MS-sr6mj]

I think I'd watch you watch all the Scrubs episodes if you made the videos!

[@windows95leon]

Scrubs!!!! ❤🎉

[@StewChicken42]

Currently binging House M.D., Dr. Eddie. I love it, but it makes me depressed. 😂

[@qienna6677]

The lack of long term support in any area of the healthcare system really stinks :( I have a genetic kidney disease that has damaged my kidney and I can't see a nephrologist unless I'm literally in kidney failure purely because of a lack of funding and I really don't want to end up in kidney failure :(

[@Retrosicotte]

Try as I might I cannot wrap my head around how the "pack years" thing works.

[@andrewgrant6516]

1 pack a day for 1 year is 1 pack year. 1 pack a day for 5 years is 5 pack years. 5 packs a day for 1 year is 5 pack years. 5 packs a day for 5 years is 25 pack years.

[@pyresti]

Looks like your a big Star Wars fan.

[@lindadurrant43]

what is the tune on your outro

[@DrHopeSickNotes]

Thanks! It's a song by my old electro band from uni, you can listen here: soundcloud.com/theautodisko/escapists

[@forbezr3581]

Not good watching this while smoking... my plan is to quit again this year, manage a year and a half and then bad mental health - I fucked up

[@uekernas]

Please do a trauma reaction video to Robocop (by Paul Verhoeven), particularly to Murphy’s shooting, and the subsequent attempted resuscitation in the hospital! Supposed, the medical team was played by an actual trauma team.

[@flowingafterglow629]

With Turk's percussing the abdomen, wouldn't he really want the stethoscope to listen? We have found that my wife can find the studs behind the walls that way - in fact, she says it's pretty obvious.

[@MrSthotwhelz]

As long as the syringe is flicked and not the actual needle a la Fallout.

[@michaeltessier4200]

❤

[@bros402]

Love your Scrubs videos! However, I would link to comment on one thing - don't say he's too young for cancer. You can get cancer at any age - in the US, 90k AYAs (15-39) get a cancer diagnosis every year. It looks like for the UK, it's 2400 cases in 15-24 year olds, then 162 per 100k in 25-49 (If I did the math right, that comes out to 108k cases per year?) - so add them up and it's 110k cases per year. Please don't try to marginalize the AYA population. If you had said they shouldn't have told the patient they were considering cancer, sure - that is a good thing, but nobody is too young for cancer.

[@IamnotJohnFord]

I've worked for over 30 years in various hospitals. I've seen the same patients come in every few weeks or years Each time they are a little worse until that last time. Often, they do not follow the advice of medical staff. You just have to move on.

[@tombuir]

I’d really like to know what you think of the Seinfeld episode “The Junior Mint”. It involves a surgery

[@DrHopeSickNotes]

Thanks I'll give it a look

[@howtoaca7504]

💕💕

[@christpoetry]

Greyssssss anatomyyyyyy

[@Frandaman84]

Longer, more in depth. It ended so abruptly