The Weirdest Kinds of Doctors: Jim Gaffigan

[@roxanncorston9403]

Love you Jim. God bless you and beautiful family!!! 😊😢👍

[@roxanncorston9403]

Ooops, xcuse the unintentional sad emoji

[@meganbowman4747]

Absolutely LOVE this!!

[@WintersWar]

His Andy Rooney style is awesome.

[@christophermonti6948]

Lmao the irony is that ENT is one of the hardest specialties to get into 😂😂

[@maximayette4231]

As competitive as neurosurgery but people outside of the medical world don't know that.

[@wandalee5010]

I’m dying with allergies, vertigo, and sinuses! This made me laugh!

[@starrfishhill]

Oh no… really? Or hypothetically

[@InspectorCallahan.44]

"Mikey is good, he's a little worried about this mole I have on my arm." 😂

[@Royal_dj_ent]

I am here for the viewer’s who may have gotten offended, I am here to say that you guy’s make the jokes way funnier! LoL

[@kas7344]

Did you even watch the video? Whats there to be offended about?

[@joekamka8571]

@@kas7344 are you offended? Lol!

[@LisaGemini]

Aw, a dentist saved my life in 1989. Seriously, I had a tumor on my tongue that turned out to be a huge tumor. So I always defend dentists...they didn't even check for mouth cancer back then.

[@dawnlabette8576]

It's comedy people!

[@janelliot5643]

@@dawnlabette8576 related anecdotes are always welcome. It's KZbin, people!

[@Adamn19]

It’s just a joke, nobody thinks doctors and their speciality aren’t necessary

[@markinnis5978]

Bla bla bla...just a joke!! Glad you are ok though!

[@Phooie]

Maybe should have went to the ear,nose, and throat doctor. Lol. 😊

[@whoever_81]

A comedy genius

[@chloecamp8714]

The draw to Anaesthesiogy? Have you ever seen the starting pay? I little less school & slightly higher starting pay-getting out from under the student debt faster. Plus you have the ability to easily go through another program while working if you decide you want to switch your specialty. Sounds very appealing to me, especially relative to other medical professions.

[@skaftonmd8916]

As an anesthesiology resident, the only thing you got right is the starting pay after residency… everything else is completely false. An anesthesiologist has to complete 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of residency (with about 15k clinical hours) - which is standard. A lot of specialties have 3 year residency programs, most tend to have 4, the majority of surgical specialties have 5; a couple have 6-7 (neurosurgery). Fellowship (post-residency training to sub-specialize) is 1 year for anesthesia specialties. So, if someone goes into pediatric Anesthesiology- that’s 13 years of education and training after high school. It is pretty difficult to switch specialties regardless of which one your in. The general rule of thumb is that it’s easier to go from a more competitive specialty to a less competitive one. Anesthesiology is a mid-high level competitive specialty - about the same as General Surgery. It would be easy for me to switch to Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Psych, and Peds - hard to switch into non-general surgical specialty. But any specialty switch, for any doctor, means repeating residency again with a residents salary… 50-70k/year with 60-80 hour work weeks. The point being that, with the exception of a couple surgical specialties, training for all physicians is about the same amount of time. Anesthesiology Residents also have some of the most hours worked per week next to our surgical colleagues. Work hours after residency vary greatly based on where you choose to work - which is the same for all specialties. One appeal of Anesthesiology is that, if you choose to work in a small private practice hospital or one with a large group, you have less call and 6am-5pm work days with very few weekends. So it can lead to a great work life balance - especially if you’re a general anesthesiologist who doesn’t sub-specialize. There are of course many other reasons to become an Anesthesiologist (as with all specialties), but that’s another conversation lol

[@skaftonmd8916]

Oh, and as I may have hinted at, there is no “go through another program while working” - we’re not nurse anesthetists or anesthesia assistants who can do that. If we want to change specialties, we have to reapply to residency programs, then, become residents again. That’s the same for any specialty. You cannot practice in one field and be training in another. And, as I said, you get a residents salary again. For example, there is an Emergency Medicine resident I know who used to be a Board Certified Family Medicine Attending Physician… completed a 3 year FM residency and sat for the boards. He then, after a few years of practicing applied to EM residency programs. He went from making ~200k/yr to ~56k/yr to eventually make ~300k/yr… but, for 3 years, he’s no longer an independent attending physician… he’s a resident again - making less money per hour than someone at McDonalds. This is why most physicians don’t change their specialties. Most who do go from surgical specialties to non-surgical specialties for lifestyle reasons and do so while still in residency.

[@dashhoundlover2837]

ENT !!! DUDE !!

[@Davett53]

I was sent by my Cardiologist to a physical rehab, exercise clinic. I would run on a treadmill machine, behind an 80 year old man on the treadmill in front of me, with a primitive prosthetic leg. He could run for an hour, the whole time his fake leg would make click-clack sounds. I was only 47, and I hated every minute on that machine. One time I was running next to an 80 year old woman, and we both took a break at the same time. She turned to me and asked whether I could score her some weed. I have long hair and I look like a hippie. I wish! I just didn't have my own personal dealer.

[@velkrokitty260]

Ok Jim, an orthodontist does braces and a hygienist scrapes your plaque…while listening to whatever soft rock inoffensive channel the doctor feels like listening to that day.

[@OntarioAndrews415]

LOL @does someone have the WIFI password. 😄

[@linshanhsiang]

LensCrafters have opticians, not optometrists.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

*Now* it’s funnier!

[@dashhoundlover2837]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@jameskidd1710]

When Jim gets "in his 70's, he might change his mind about "wanting to die". Ask Jerry Seinfeld.

[@Milesco]

"Hope I die before I get old" -- The Who, 1965

[@vickilindberg6336]

We need a medical specialty that does upper jaw & noses because tooth roots are so close to sinus'' & when you get an infection neither specialty covers it.

[@PluribusProject]

I'd have given him a "thumbs up" but he's a little frigid for that. Stay cool, Gaffigan

[@tinginlang1358]

anesthesiologist is the second best paying job right after a politician. politicians get lots of tax free income they can't report.

[@milord_tibbs]

I can confirm that this is factually incorrect

[@aguyfromnothere]

Ironically its hard to be an ENT and easy to be a brain surgeon.

[@flyoverkid55]

Jim is hilarious. But he can't step on nerds, just put him in front of a mirror.

[@bigj6143]

If I had his talent and money anyone could call me a nerd all day long.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

Nerds are the smart ones. Jim's just a dork.

[@flyoverkid55]

@@dogslobbergardens6606 Can't argue with that.

[@linshanhsiang]

He makes fun of himself all the time!

[@bswogger4656]

Lol…

[@lindahurley7381]

🥵🥶😭😱

[@imout671]

Anesthesiologist are just pimps. The nurse anthestists does all the work and the Anesthesiologist gives her a little bit of the money.

[@milord_tibbs]

As a crna, I can confirm that our docs do a ton of work (edit - and that I wouldn't be where I am today without them)

[@TheInfantry98]

Id rather be dead at 36 my current age

[@annsmith8948]

You want to die??? You need to pray, ask God through Christ Jesus to help you.