A Letter To The Patient's GP Please, Angela

[tranurse]

sounds like they need to take her out and shoot her.

[Inu47Yasha]

Just one more thing to look forward to if I get into med school.Writting letters to fellow doctors in poem form just to mess with them.

[najodleglejszy]

sheesh, what have someone done to her? o.O

[cgc1997]

lol great

[SammGee09]

Who has all that wrong with them? :P

[dprabushankar]

This shows how tough transcription job is

[legendofthelol]

Buttonmushroom. Are you a Dr too ?

[thebuttonmushroom]

@legendofthelol Sadly not. I applied for Medicine and was left on the reserve list in case someone dropped out / dead. No one did and I've since changed my aspirations to just work in healthcare as opposed to on the front line. I have huge respect for those who do successfully pursue Medicine, enjoy it and become excellent doctors. I have had the great pleasure of meeting some such people.

[ilsennodipoi]

@thebuttonmushroom

What about us who successfully pursue medicine and become mediocre doctors?

[thebuttonmushroom]

@ilsennodipoi lol Having a mediocre doctor is as reassuring as having a mediocre pilot. People have very high expectations of the medical profession, and sadly don't seem to be able to process that we all make mistakes and most certainly don't have all the answers!

[thatdeadrockstar1]

@thebuttonmushroom but sir, is it wrong that the public have ' very high expectations' of those working within the medical profession?

i have never met a patient that attended hospital who said 'Hay doc, am pretty ill and would really appreciate if you could cure me, but if not Que Sera, Sera '

surely having high expectations means that the mediocre doctors will be found out sooner or later

[thebuttonmushroom]

@thatdeadrockstar1 I don't think there's nothing wrong with having high expectations, especially in something as crucial as medicine. I always expect my doctor to do everything in his power to help me when I go to see him, but I also realise that sometimes he can't just make things better. I can't call him a mediocre doctor if he fails me simply because there is no answer. That said, if I were to see a doctor who gave a half-hearted attempt to cure me, I would be far from delighted.

[TJB12345678910]

Brilliant



[nomilkthanks]

Love this - hilarious!

[tczblood]

geez this patient should just be put out her misery.

[TWIB627]

They put a comma and then started a new sentence....

[thebuttonmushroom]

I know. Not sure all the rest of the punctuation is wholly accurate either but it's more there for comedy I guess.

[TWIB627]

It is very funny (:

[LordFeckington666]

@TWIB627 It's a poem?

[stridingshadow]

Actually it spells "dysdiadoCHOkinesis" and not "dysdiadoKOkinesis".

[thebuttonmushroom]

Another case of copying the lyrics from the official source. That's how the doctor spells it in the song, but I know it has the "ch" instead. Perhaps it wouldn't have fitted so well in the song if he'd spelled it correctly, or perhaps our fictional doctor didn't know how to spell it himself. Either way, I'm impressed by anyone who can spell long words out loud without reading them off something. My mind goes blank when asked how to spell something!

[stridingshadow]

It's no big deal, I'm from Poland and I study in Polish, the pronounciation is somehow different, and we don't read the Greek "CH" as a "K" but rather as "H", therefore spelling becomes evident.

BTW. I don't know how about England (and other countries) but we took Latin during our studies (with elements of Greek), so we cut up every word into parts: Dys (impaired) dia (two) docho (from ductus -> way) kinesis (motion) -> impaired ability to move a limb in one way and another rapidly (:

[thebuttonmushroom]

In the UK Latin is not a requirement for studying Medicine anymore, though I believe it used to be. I however have just spent the last three years studying both Latin and Greek full time and can appreciate the roots of most medical terminology. I really recommend Donald M. Ayers' book "Bioscientific Terminology: Words from Latin and Greek Stems" to any medic or classicist!

[09button]

hes not a fictional doctor, both Adam Kay and Suman Biswas are real doctors in the Royal Bromton Hospital in London UK

[thebuttonmushroom]

I know that. Suman is an anaesthetist and Adam a gynaecologist. I've been in touch with both of them. I'm just saying that this whole scenario is fictional ... unless of course Adam really has had a patient with all these problems, in which case I don't envy him!

[bogen1050]

@thebuttonmushroom it's for comedy

[MegaNonsensical]

both spellings are acceptable

[tranurse]

i love it. poor woman just needs to be taken out and put down.

[PedanticWretch]

That's really clever and well done.

[furrykindred]

I'm no doctor (though I do pretend to be one down in a 'lesser privileged' area of town where they don't know any better) but it seems to me that this woman has more than the normal amount of conditions compared to the average patient....

[TheWayWeDie]

FSH, as in follicle stimulating hormone? I didn't know that was linked to anything but menstration. But I am a newb, so who knows?

xxx

[IceCreamFromTheBox]

Haha, that's also what I thought. But this video made me laugh so much, I think it should be overlooked. ;)

[TheWayWeDie]

Indeed =D

[NarutaxFan]

i have a rhym

The fat cat shat on the mat which relates to

This is crap much like the shat on the mat by the cat

[J999ACK]

The three kisses on the end lmao

[FelicitousWiggins]

For someone as pedantic as me, this is brilliant!

[maryradio]

I love this...

[smilinduck]

Hylariously written and clever use of puntuation with the medical terms for rhyming :D love the amateur transplants

[Bongs43]

WHAT lol... k, i think i need a few years at uni to understand that properly but still funny. u make me feel so stupid though :( xD

[annurahmad]

LOL DDK!!!!

[American767]

one wonders why a comatosed patient is having immunology/endocrine bloods being taken.

But otherwise, an excellent little ditty!

Thankyou amateur transplants and thebuttonmushroom

[thebuttonmushroom]

It must be ingrained in the clinical culture to take as many cultures as possible, even if they are completely useless. Less likely to be sued upon regaining consciousness. :P

[sconessie]

lol, i think that a few extra bloods are the least of this woman's problems, with a leg stuck in extension, correction flexion!!!

p.s. wouldn't count a CRP as immunology, and whats a few hormone levels between friends!!!

[J999ACK]

More to the point, if shes unconcious, how the hell did they diagnose Dysdiadokokinesia!

[thebuttonmushroom]

Hopefully that observation was made after she regained consciousness. Considering it's a letter to a GP, shouldn't s/he know some of this already?

[ACVoltage]

Genial !

[SimAtlantida]

brilliant! love it!:)

[straffster2]

*cough* :P hahahaha canny i suppose :P

[Alexurologista]

very cool, very original, congrats!!

[stainonsociety3451]

ah the joy of jargon. :) nice vid.

[undersated]

Ohhhh my goodness! This is crazy hilarious.

mini-stroke [stroke]/ stroke!!! Brilliant!!!

Open brackets brackets brackets close!!! hahahahaaa

[MrBubbles80]

i think all your vids are brill button, this one is one of the least viewed but most amazing ! congratz.

[thebuttonmushroom]

Why thank you! *Bows* I hope part of the reason it has fewer views is because it is only a couple of weeks old. That and because it lacks swearing *rolls eyes*.

[orangedementor]

Amazing! i cant even make videos ;_; can i just say, err, can everyone join my group Colon D :D Tank U! ._.

[pikanchion]

i put 5 stars - GO BUTTON!!!! ^_^

[vizvize]

and.. did this actually happen?!

[thebuttonmushroom]

This isn't real, no. Though I feel sorry for Mrs Connor if it is real.

[vizvize]

wow! dunno how many tymes i watched tht! :D

[JoeMitchell1]

putting xxx at the end of a letter to a GP.

lol

[thebuttonmushroom]

It's something I imagine Adam Kay doing anyway. I'm sure Dr Newland appreciated it. :P

[orangedementor]

Woo! 15th View ;) love your vids button :D

[thebuttonmushroom]

Thank you! That means a lot to me.:D