Shadowing Practice: Medical Memes Doctors Actually Like - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I've heard a wise person say that memes are like doctors.
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Some are absolutely brilliant, hilarious, humorous even, but some are downright mean, but yet they're all giving advice on Instagram.
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Let's react to some medical memes.
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Beep whoop!
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When you test positive on all the allergy shots.
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Oh, that's almost like a dermographia.
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When you go like this with no pen, and then like you actually see the design because you get like a histamine edematous response.
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You know there's like weird conditions like hereditary angioedema when the mouth just starts swelling.
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And I had a patient the other day who has that condition, but only one side of the mouth swells.
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And it's so dangerous because what do you do?
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You have to go to the ER.
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First case of crock pox.
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Oh my God, I wonder if this actually happens.
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Wow, I never even thought about this.
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Do people get sunburned through their crock holes?
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Through their crock holes?
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Crock holes?
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Crock holes?
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Crocks holes.
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Crocks holes.
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Crocks holes?
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How your crocks holes doing?
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Wow.
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You can't forget organic chem reactions if you don't memorize them in the first place.
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That is how people who have a cheating mentality like to think.
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But in order to understand how to practice medicine, in order to know how to prescribe medications, in order to know how to take care of your patients,
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how to know how to deal with insurance companies, how to make sure that systemic barriers don't get in the way of your patient's healthcare, how to take out certain organs during surgery.
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You absolutely need to not know organic chemistry and it's something
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that we just force upon students because we think it's like a good testing thing, so.
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That's not where you thought that was going.
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Gray's Anatomy, ER, Scrubs, Good Doctor,
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House, Doogie Howser, MD, you get to pick your dream medical team from any TV show who's saving you.
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Okay, you need House, MD, to be the leader because he's gonna just like break all boundaries.
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And then you need a genius behind him to challenge him.
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And that would either be Sean from Good Doctor or Doogie Howser.
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I feel like Doogie Howser is lacking a little bit of experience.
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Good Doctor has been on air for like seven seasons.
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So that's at least like seven years of medical training.
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So I'm gonna go with Sean and then who's, am I gonna go JD?
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Is JD gonna, is he gonna help me out with a little humor?
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I thought you might go Noah?
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No, man.
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I have no on speed dial.
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I don't need him as part of the team.
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He can be the curbside consult for the team.
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We need JD's humor to bring that humanistic component because I feel like everyone in Grey's Anatomy,
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I'm questioning their skills, especially some of their CPR skills of which I tell them in person.
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Do you watch Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Mike?
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And is Jason doing a good job?
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Cause I think- He's doing a phenomenal job, but I gotta say the chest compressions could use a little work.
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So- Not mine, not mine.
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If you serve your kids frozen pizza or chicken nuggets for dinner, you are a terrible parent.
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Well, I disagree with that statement.
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I would say you are not feeding your children optimally in that moment, but do you see how we need new- All right,
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sorry, I'll relax and see what the meme says.
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I don't care how busy you are, find the time to microwave them.
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Oh, yeah.
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You probably should, at the very least, microwave them.
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I assume, okay, it got me.
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It got me, meme one, mic zero, I get it.
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What does this thing even mean?
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If you crash your car, you press that, and it will undo the accident.
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It's like uno reverse.
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It's actually the button that I tell people to press when it's wildfire smoke outside.
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Why when I was growing up, I never had to think about wildfires and now there's wildfires all the time.
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It's like part of the forecast.
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Is it raining?
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No, it's wild firing.
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Canada, what are you doing?
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Stop firing on us.
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But yeah, that's the air recirculation.
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So it doesn't bring in fresh air from outside and just recirculates the air that's inside.
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Me, enough caffeine to kill a horse.
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My anxiety.
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Nah, nah, nah.
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Do you even know the number needed to harm for a horse when it comes to caffeine?
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I don't know what the lethal dose is.
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Let's look up the LD50, look at me knowing pharmacology, for a horse and caffeine.
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I guarantee you my Google search is gonna be sent to the FBI for like trying to kill a horse or something.
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There is no precise experimentally established oral LD50 dose for pure caffeine specifically in horses.
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However, caffeine is a potent methylxanthine poison to equines with toxic effects and poisoning documented from sources like coffee husks.
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Ooh.
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Ooh.
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Ooh.
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Anxiety.
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The coffee husks are killing the horses.
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That's the problem.
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I have no words.
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Caution, do not insert in mouth or rectum.
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No. No, no one's doing that.
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That's not right, ethically or medically.
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Fun fact, your internal body temperature rises when you are infected because viruses are using your body for peer-to-peer file sharing.
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It's not inaccurate.
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Viruses are spreading all across the body.
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In fact, that's what makes viruses unique.
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When you have a bacterial infection and your temperature goes up,
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usually, unless you're septic and there's septicemia and the bacteria spreading across your blood, it's usually reserved to one area.
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So if you have a pneumonia, it's in the lungs.
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If you have a meningitis, it's in the meninges.
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So the bacterial infection is usually contained to some organ or organ system.
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But viruses, they be everywhere.
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What's more dangerous, Lyme wire or Lyme disease?
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Lyme wire has viruses.
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Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria.
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For Lyme disease, you can use antibiotics.
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For Lyme wire, you could only use Norton Antivirus.
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Hey, nice.
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You pulled that together.
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We tried.
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Back to the memes in just a second, but first I wanna tell you about my sponsor ZocDoc, a free website where you can easily search
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Look, I use reviews a lot, like when I'm trying to decide where to stay, if I'm taking a trip, or where I wanna eat dinner.
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Honestly, most of my friends won't get a reservation at a restaurant before they've checked out a place's ratings.
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But for some reason, when booking a doctor's appointment, we just search for the closest one within a 10-mile radius and call it a day.
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Shouldn't our healthcare decisions come under more scrutiny than where to get dinner?
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That's what I love about ZocDoc.
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I even used it for my dad.
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All right, let's get back to the memes.
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Me in my prime, at my goal weight, 18 pounds, clear skin, never stressed, fire outfits, personal chef, no job,
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no debt, diva, and I will say, developmentally up to date.
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That's the one I would add, and fire hairstyle.
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Those are the two things I would add for this picture.
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Swag on another level.
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Benadryl allergy.
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You can't sneeze if you're unconscious.
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That's not the only way it works.
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It's also an antihistamine.
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It's a first generation, so it's definitely gonna knock you out and have sedative properties, which is why I don't love giving Benadryl to older people.
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I've fallen and I can't get up.
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I've seen one too many, middle of the night, groggy wake-ups, broken hip.
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Something that would always happen when you're on call as a resident, you get paged.
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They're like, oh, it's 3 a.m., patient can't sleep.
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Can you give them some Benadryl?
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Because they think it's a benign medicine.
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3 a.m., they have to be up for rounds in like three, four hours when the team rounds on them.
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They're not gonna be up if you just gave them 50 of Benadryl.
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They're gonna be knocked out, like this gentleman in the forest hanging out with the dandelions.
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What if your teeth were naturally flaccid and got hard when you got hungry?
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It would be hard to speak.
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Your face shape would be weird.
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If you're on a diet, does that mean you just walk around hard all the time?
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Because that seems weird.
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It'd be hard to overeat.
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It would be hard to overeat because if you're not hungry, you're gonna go flaccid and you're gonna be all gummy unless you get milkshakes, then you don't need the hard teeth.
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I'm just waiting for your X-ray, but I've never dated anyone named Ray, and we might do a brain scan.
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She thought he meant her X-ray, and he meant X-ray.
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The real culture wars, probiotics, antibiotics.
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But it's not the same.
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They're not like diametrically opposed.
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Which by the way, what does diametric mean?
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Excuse me, sorry to bother you, but would you mind, and literally no worries if not, but if it's not too much of an inconvenience, could you possibly call 911?
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Is he bleeding?
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Or is this a prolactinoma brain tumor that is impacting the vision and therefore also creating lactation from the nipple?
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See, that's called a differential.
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You don't wanna assume there's bleeding just because you see fluid.
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That could easily be a prolactinoma.
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I need to do a physical exam.
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Treatment for headache, depression, insomnia, and stress.
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New treatment for migraine and outs.
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Honestly, that's worse.
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That makes everything worse.
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It complicates all of those problems.
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If for nothing else, you have all that money, you're gonna wanna go spend it, not sleep.
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So that's a loan insomnia inducing.
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But then once you start spending it, you're worried you're getting rid of it too quickly, that's gonna create insomnia.
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So like, there is no winning there.
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Unless you give it to charity, then you could sleep well at night because you did something good for society.
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You heard of Alf on a Shelf, now get ready for...
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Hold on.
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Just give me a second.
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God, I wanna say Jason Mraz, but it's so bad, it's not his name.
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John Mayer on a conveyor?
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I don't know, Sam, help me.
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Do you know it?
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I did, I had to look it up.
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What is it?
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It's John Mayer on a bilayer.
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Phospholipid bilayer.
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John Mayer on a phospholipid bilayer.
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Yeah, I would have gotten that.
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Yeah.
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One of my students tried to explain today how blink is the plural of wink and I can't stop thinking about it.
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It's not because if I happen to have one eye due to a congenital or traumatic issue, I would still blink with one eye.
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It would not be a wink.
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I'm not winking at you.
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Cyclops does not wink.
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Exactly.
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When you're feeling sad, remember, Vertebrae C6 is so happy to literally support you every day.
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And you know what's even better?
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C6 supports C5, which helps keep you alive.
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Because below that, if you have damage, because above that, if you, if you, because- You, you, you can, you do, you, you want, you.
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But yeah, look how cute that is.
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Super smiley.
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Super smiley vertebrae.
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Super smiley sixth vertebrae.
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Super smiley silly non osteopor...
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I'll stop.
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Gym owners on the first week of January.
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Also, that's all gym owners on the first week of January except Planet Fitness.
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How in the world do they earn money charging $9 a month?
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It must be that everyone just goes, it's so cheap, I will just pay for it because I get the emotional boost that I'm a member.
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I could tell people I'm a member.
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Scientists can now transform stress into electricity.
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That is how I got through med school.
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Rabbit jump and live for eight years.
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Turtles do nothing, they live for 150 years.
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Moral, laziness is the key.
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When I always say we should stop looking at all these longevity bros
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that look at rat research and try and convert it to humans, I say we are not rats.
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So for this meme, I have to remind you, we're not rabbits nor turtles, because if we are lazy and we just sit,
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we ultimately end up melting into the chairs, fusing with it, developing adhesive capsulitis,
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which is frozen shoulder, depositing fatty buildup into our arteries, especially the smaller ones in the heart, leading to a myocardial infarction,
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a STEMI, we have to have the cardiologist come and either stick a stent in there or do a bypass, and then you're a CVD patient.
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Nobody wants that.
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Look at that little cute rabbit.
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Pull out, Betty.
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Pull out.
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You've hit an artery.
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Oh.
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I wonder if mosquitoes like hitting blood vessels or do they freak out because it's too much too fast?
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Or can they control it?
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Do they have a valve?
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Like they go, oh, we hit an oil field.
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A geyser, a blood geyser, if you will.
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My finger, what did you do to me?
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Band-Aid, I took away your bending.
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Is this the airbender?
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Well, if you make the band-aid the correct way, if you cut the band-aid's wings and do like a crisscross method,
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you actually maintain some of the flexibility of the finger.
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So airbender with you.
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I was drinking a margarita and the waitress screamed, does anyone know CPR?
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Okay, that's kind of me.
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I yelled, I know the entire alphabet and we all laughed and laughed, Well, except one guy.
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That's terrible.
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I don't understand.
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Like the letters, CPR?
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What about cardiopulmonary resuscitation, sir?
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Even this?
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Oh my God, if I'm gonna get the primate wrong, I'm gonna be so mad at myself.
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I think that's a monkey.
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I think that's a chimp.
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That looks chimp-esque.
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Two blood cells met and fell in love, but alas, it was all in vain.
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So they were probably running low on oxygen because the venous system is historically,
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historically, physiologically, a low oxygenated state because they've already delivered their love, their oxygen to others.
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Oh my God, so are red blood cells polyamorous because they deliver to all cell types, to all tissue types?
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This is where we need cells at work.
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In fact, I reacted to cells at work, so click here and check that out.
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As always, stay happy and healthy.
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Throw that plug there, okay?
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Why This Video Is Perfect for Learning English with YouTube
If you’re looking to learn English with YouTube, this medical meme reaction video is a goldmine. It’s casual, conversational, and packed with real-world language—exactly the kind you’d use in everyday chats. The speaker’s tone is friendly and relatable, making it easy to follow along, and the mix of humor and medical terms adds variety to your learning. Plus, the natural pauses and informal phrases (like “Oh my God” or “Wow”) mirror how people actually talk, so you’ll pick up practical speaking skills without even realizing it.
Breaking Down Natural English: 3 Key Phrases
Let’s look at a few lines from the video to see why they sound so natural:
- “I had a patient the other day who has that condition, but only one side of the mouth swells.” This sentence uses “the other day” to talk about a recent event, a common phrase in casual speech. The structure is simple but effective, showing how to connect a story (patient) with a specific detail (one side of the mouth). It’s easy to mimic and great for practicing flow.
- “That’s not where you thought that was going.” This playful line uses “that’s not where you thought” to create a conversational twist. It’s a perfect example of how native speakers add humor by subverting expectations. The short, punchy structure makes it ideal for improving English pronunciation—focus on the stress in “thought” and “going.”
- “We need JD's humor to bring that humanistic component.” Here, “humanistic component” is a more formal phrase, but it’s balanced by the casual “we need.” This mix of registers is common in real life, showing you how to switch between tones smoothly. Practice saying it to get comfortable with blending formal and informal language.
A Simple Shadowing Routine to Try Today
The shadowing technique is a fantastic way to boost your speaking skills, and this video is perfect for it. Here’s how to do it:
- Pick a 30-second clip from the video. Listen once to get the gist.
- Play the clip again, pausing after each sentence. Repeat it out loud, mimicking the speaker’s tone, speed, and pronunciation. Focus on matching their intonation—like the surprise in “Oh my God” or the emphasis in “absolutely need.”
- Record yourself using a shadowing app or even your phone. Compare your recording to the original. Notice where you stumble—was it a tricky word like “dermographia” or a fast phrase like “crock holes”? Repeat those parts until they feel natural.
- Do this daily for 10 minutes. Over time, you’ll start to sound more like a native, and your confidence will soar!
Remember, the goal isn’t to be perfect—it’s to practice and have fun. This video makes learning English feel like hanging out with a friend, so grab your headphones and start shadowing today!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've heard · has been · they've checked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be sent · are infected · is usually contained |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who have · properties, which is |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.