Scrubs STDs in the Elderly

[@Antonin1738]

I forget Kelso is a doctor with experience sometimes

[@jeramahia123]

Nah, he's just an adult. Anyone who took sex-ed in high school could have guessed they had an STD. It's just that Elliot and Carla are dumbasses.

[@supershinigami1]

@@jeramahia123 wow you must be fun at parties

[@jeramahia123]

​@@yellowpop406 If it's not a virus like Covid, the next thing doctors will ask you is "Do you have any STD's". When you have two people with the exact same symptoms but nothing in common except that they're adults, I would think to myself "what's the one thing adults do that could cause them to be infected with something."

[@jakeuzamaki4083]

@@jeramahia123 I don’t think a doctor would ask do you have stds they would ask if they were sexually active and then test them for stds. Along with medical history and blah blah blah. Carla and Elliot just gave them the benefit of the doubt since they were elderly

[@BoeseFlueche]

"Oh yeah, that's a thoughie." 2 seconds...he took two seconds. I liked Kelso in the show because he was a capable doctor. Always remember how he retired his old friend who refused to keep up to date with procedure of modern medicine. Tremendous respect for the man. Eventhough he is not a heart winning personality.

[@johnb5307]

I love the way Kelso and Cox briefly bond

[@emisferadefecta]

Funny, but I doubt a nurse with experience like Carla wouldn't have had cases like this before.

[@NiVi192]

Ok she's in her late thirties, not sixties, dear. And two different seniors, who hadn't met in person before that hospital stay, being admitted with Syphilis to the same hospital station at the same time is quite a bit unusual, isn't it!

[@DminorWolfy]

They just said in the clip that the increase in old people getting in on was due to male enhancement drugs, which in the time this show was made was when male enhancement drugs gained traction. Which really dates the sitcom itself as medicine progresses.

[@deydraniadiancecht8298]

@@NiVi192 Carla may be in her late 30s, but she's been an RN for over 10 years by this episode. She should have known this.

[@SoLiTaRyBoNe]

@@NiVi192 lol sassy ass

[@chunkylefunga]

tbh after a month in a hospital you've pretty much seen everything. So you'd know it was std immediately.

[@phoenixnyc]

Carla's explanation may just be the best scene ever.

[@drl5002]

I love her smile at the end showing that she thinks the relationship of her two patients is so sweet.

[@Maninawig]

I came to comment this myself

[@lumossk3657]

Funny part is we (5 medical students and a resident) had a 70 y/o patient that proudly talked about her new relationship with the 80 y/o husband of her best friend. Never had to suppress laughter so hard in my life.

[@hardwirecars]

@FUCK YOUR LIFE IT MEANS NOTHING im not 100% sure but i know its something to do with a brand new doctor kinda like a working teaching thing.

[@zomboids2100]

@@hardwirecars Basically residents are doctors who just graduated from med school and are now working at hospitals in their respective fields. Residents work alongside senior staff and continue to do so for a number of years, which can be anywhere between 3 to 8 years depending. Then afterwards they're pretty much recognized as doctors instead of a newbie fresh out of school who has more experience.

[@yellowpop406]

@Kranky. K! Every doctor actually has to go through residency, as we wouldn't want someone fresh out of school treating you without supervision at first. This includes family practitioners, pediatricians, etc. Interns are first year residents so they do the grunt work that nobody else would want to do.

[@yellowpop406]

@Kranky. K! Yeah, in the US it's every doctor (anyone with and MD or DO degree), but yeah I'm sure it may be different elsewhere as I know medical school is longer in places like the UK. What country are you from?

[@yellowpop406]

@Kranky. K! Ah nice!

[@pedonbio]

This is a great clip! What other program could bring up STD statistics and make it funny?

[@Alegost1]

@BartJ583 i was thinking the same

[@romainboire5297]

Sheldon

[@Mortablunt]

@@romainboire5297 Bazinga

[@matthew8153]

House did so on multiple occasions.

[@laurene988]

That drive over 20 miles and smell like the living line kills me

[@jasonb4254]

This is actually the most realistic medical show in existence.

[@Just_a-guy]

There are a lot "small" mistakes but overall yea. This looks a lot like real hospital in lots of cases

[@theyearwas1473]

After years of patient transport on ambulances, the amount of seniors with STDs on their charts is unreal

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

It's sad but fucking funny at the sane time.

[@kccrafts1]

I think its because they didnt know about this stuff as younger adults like we do or we should.

[@theyearwas1473]

@@kccrafts1 oh no it's because they bump and grind hard in nursing homes. A lot.

[@colleendianuzzo]

"Freaky and doink"🤣🤣🤣

[@NiVi192]

*"...They sure do!"* 😂😂 Classic Elliot Reid. 👏

[@WallChart]

You missed Kelso's best bit.

[@fawful94]

"I'm getting uncomfortable..."

[@therussmeister]

Oh, you can go.

[@omairsh8]

God I love the word "doink" and especially the way Elliot says it

[@DaWorzt99]

You're going to need to tell them to slip on a Love glove before they get all freaky and doink!!

[@jeremytung1632]

So by the sound of it two nursing homes have a bad syphillis epidemic

[@citycouncilcyberoperations1962]

Carla is an awesome nurse.

[@angelfuturejob]

I love how Carla cares

[@robertjackson3552]

House asks two patients if they've ever seen Dawson's Creek.

[@tonywrestles2]

As an aside, the first time I watched this, it was a little shocking to see how much Bruce Kirby (Mr. Bilbray) had aged. I grew up watching him on pretty much every TV show I was watching - MASH, LA Law, Night Court, the works.

[@hardwirecars]

what did he play in mash?

[@tonywrestles2]

@@hardwirecars Just a one-shot guest appearance. He played a soldier who wanted to open a Korean restaurant when he got stateside.

[@foty8679]

@@tonywrestles2 Mash was great.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

@@tonywrestles2 Everyone ages (if they are lucky enough to live long enough) - is this really such a schock to you? Actors are people, you know...

[@Drefyxd]

Smell like the living 😂😂😂

[@VeryFairygirl14]

😭😵

[@Predator42ID]

Spent some time in a retirement home. It smelled like decaying flesh and the scary part is. It took me a week to get the smell off.

[@crysjumar1]

dammit...i miss my scrubs

[@m77-y7q]

crysjumar1 Me too. It was a great show!

[@PhoenixAngel429]

2:39 I sympathise with that intern....

[@finnishnin]

Carla is an old person at heart

[@cracklinjack___9466]

Granny getting jiggy with it. And here I was thinking that those hips don't lie

[@robertjackson3552]

apparently the two grandparents never saw Dawson`s creak😉

[@hardwirecars]

not many are gonna get that reference i just want you to know i got that reference and you are a beautiful man for it.

[@Jon92254]

Lol

[@REY-RUM]

Please share the reference

[@SentaiYamaneko]

@@REY-RUM It was a joke from House MD. He was talking to a series of patients with suspected STDs and asked them if they'd ever seen Dawson's Creek. 'How do you get to 30 and not know about condoms?'

[@hardwirecars]

some may not know and thats a shame that dr reed is beths va from rick and morty.

[@michaelhuynh4953]

I thought penicillin wasn’t an effective medicine anymore??

[@manuelnavarette3061]

In it's early stages (Stage 1 and Stage 2) penicillin is 100% effective. Once you hit stage 3 syphilis, penicillin no longer has any effect and will be lifelong unless you use class V level antibiotics like tibercillin or any of it's cousins, but to do that you will need to be hospitalized for to two weeks as they will wreck your body.

[@Rubyofthedead]

The thing with bacteria and viruses developing resistance to antibiotics/antivirals is that they can lose the resistance once you stop exposing them to it. They don't stay resistant forever, only until you stop destroying all the ones that are vulnerable. It's the same with cockroaches and poison. If you keep using the same poison, they can become damn near immune to it in like 3 generations, but if you alternate between killing them with different poisons, the subsequent generations won't retain resistance to Poison A by the time they develop resistance to Poison B.

[@adammichna5175]

"smell like the living"

[@ronruddick2972]

dolphins they're just like kids, except easier to train...

[@MaxWoudenberg]

And when frustrated, rape other fish, and humans

[@josetteandres]

Yeah, a lot of old people refuse to drive over 20 mph. Drives me batshit crazy when I have places to be, especially if I'm running late and can't pass the old geezer/croan. Some old people shouldn't even be on the road anymore.

[@TheAnxietyCloset]

Is Mr. Bilbray Dr. Fegoli from the Sopranos?

[@jeffbrehove2614]

Aw. You Mrs. Sherman's lecture to Carla about sexual activity.

[@Lennyy15]

The ending was the best

[@sartanko]

oh... I thought it said ptsd...

[@emperorpicard7222]

Poor intern.

[@hardwirecars]

blond doctor always answer that is there something you wanted to tell us with NO but i have to...

[@michaelphilpott8860]

Grandma and Grandpa getting nasty

[@Anmeldn]

Thumpss down for editing out dr kelsos hilarious moment

[@drago1149]

It was fine up until the last part

[@490o]

Is that real?

[@IamnotJohnFord]

Old people getting it on, and getting STDs? It's very real. I use to work at the VA Hospital just when Viagra came out. We had meeting after meeting to decide whether, as a hospital, we would carry Viagra. We ultimately decided to restrict it to urology department and 4 pills a month. From the time Viagra was released, until we finally got some to dispense, every day some old geezer would pull me aside in the hallway and ask when we were getting Viagra. I was one of the few male pharmacists, and they didn't want to ask the female pharmacists. And, once we did get it, the veteran's wives were either very happy or very, very sad. They this part of their married life was over. Some of the guys starting drinking at bars and picking up any piece of ass that would agree to go home with them. And, the STDs, ah the STDs, were rampant.

[@Setsotama]

@@IamnotJohnFord tl;dr - blue pill can destroy marriages

[@matthew8153]

@@Setsotama Also save them. It’s not for everyone. Although I have to wonder what these guys did to their bodies to need the pill.

[@SpeedyEric1]

Wow, Carla. TMI.

[@TamOBanterAndHisMagicDecanter]

Was it ok for Carla to tell the intern all that?

[@topher93rodden]

Yes they all hospital staff

[@StudentLearning737]

Not really. Its a comedy though. Realisticly requires more consent forms.

[@bellerain381]

With the patient’s’ consent? Sure.

[@pavelradev1990]

I mean, not the weirdest sex story I've heard. Actually not even close.

[@marlom7882]

Pavel Radev wtf?

[@dan-5678]

The weirdest one I ever heard came from the radio and involved somebody that really liked gloves

[@noordeepkaur7795]

I'm listening

[@beauginn8774]

Goooo on

[@bellerain381]

I've been on a wildland fire crew for three summers and my brother is in the Army. That doesn't even make me blush! Ha!

[@glennmathisen2537]

300%? is that true?

[@indifference1015]

Yes. My wife use to work in a nursing home and walked in on several residents having sex with each other.

[@13579lazlo]

So they both have a star trek discovery problem? Hahahahahahahahahaha

[@tonywrestles2]

@Srithor Or as much fun to contract.

[@shoshanabodner8496]

Or smell like the living 😂

[@rinikkdas9780]

Oh Carla ❤️ my dream woman

[@adnantariq3346]

"wha da fuq did i just see" " that wired side on youtube again" lol

[@freddymintarja2186]

Smell like the living 🤣

[@leopold7562]

Syphilis, syphilis, syph syph syph syphilis

[@lucasiracusa4362]

What episode is that?

[@risalockwood1978]

did they do it

[@tonywrestles2]

To borrow from Dr. Cox, like you read about!

[@jeramahia123]

Even I guessed they both had STDs when I first saw this. It's kinda obvious and makes me think Elliot is incompetent.

[@saoirsevicteoiria2759]

VD is for everybody, not just for the few...

[@matthew8153]

Ah the 1960s Kansas School Board educational videos. I only know this thanks to KZbin.

[@DminorWolfy]

Wow these clips really makes the sitcom feel dated. That, or I'm desensitized by old people doing the do.

[@thechris312]

yea it's a bit dated. Still a good watch though

[@NoHomerS]

Even old people are still too stupid to use protection 🙄

[@ssh1487]

In America of course, very little by way of sex ed in 2021 let alone the 50s

[@matthew8153]

@@ssh1487 Or too much promiscuity.

[@insight1428]

Most people only have unwanted pregnancy in the mind when thinking of a reason to use condoms, not STDs. For people over 60 pregnancy basically isn’t an issue anymore so they think they don’t need them. Unless your doing it with people who are more likely to carry something like drug users or prostitutes. your chances of contracting something serious are very very slim.

[@rickyray2794]

condoms suck

[@kia754]

omg that is hmmmm??????????:-o

[@StYxXx]

American prudery is so cute

[@markc8956]

Missing the BEST bit where Kelso tells his own story. Pointless.