DOCTOR reacts to SCRUBS "My Two Dads"

Ed! I messaged you a few years ago telling you I got into med school. Well, I have 1.5 years to go now! I’m 70% a doctor ❤

There's also another episode much later series where Elliot and JD are treating an old man for MS but it's actually the daughter who has it, but she doesn't have insurance and the father does. I believe this kind of insurance dance happens quite a lot in the US

Battles between doctors and insurance companies are, in fact, all too common in the US. My own recent experience: I was in a skilled nursing/physical rehab facility because I couldn't walk without a special brace to relieve pressure on my heel (long story). Three doctors certified the medical necessity of this brace. The insurance company withheld approval for *three months*! The insanity was that the same insurance company was paying for my stay in the facility, to the tune of $600/day. So they were just costing themselves thousands of dollars. In the meantime, I was flat on my back for three months for no reason other than I was waiting for this brace. When the brace was approved, I needed another three weeks to recover the ability to walk after my prolonged bed rest. I finally got home last month. Just crazy.

"I was bored." One of my favorite jokes in the entire show.

the thing is in the US the reason healthcare is so expensive is because insurence companies wanted discounts, so hospitals raised prices and then discounted them for insurence companies so they still made teh same amount of money. but uninsured patients get their healthcare costs waived ALL THE TIME. guy was uninsured got bit by a snake really bad and needed like 800k worth of antivenom and they waived all of that, so he was only left with the price of the supportive care, which was like 20k.

When I was young my parents had great health insurance. My cousin who was the same age as me, none at all. If she was ill or needed a check up she would use my health card. I am sure my file is all messy because of it. I got a fresh start moving to Europe and I live in a country try where kids are covered by the government. I doubt we were the only family doing this

Ahmed must be the most medical name ever A med. 😅

If the kid is neutropenic JD and Elliot should be gowned and masked.

I diagnose Dr. Hope with PTSD from being called the wrong name repeatedly.

Seing this episode is a fantastic contrast to waaaaaay later when Cox becomes chief of medicine, him realising Kelso still wanted to be a good person that had to deal with a ton of shit. And that also somebody like Cox was important to keep the good will towards the patients alive. so JD becomes Cox's...Cox.

Discussing a child with neutropenic fever "Plus /if/ the kid grew up..." Bruh.

As a firefighter/paramedic, 99 percent of the time it's "I slipped in the shower and fell on it." It's really amazing what objects people decide to bring into the shower with them 😂

Speaking of things up people's bottoms, I just saw a case report involving a candle. The health workers figured that water that was hot enough to melt wax but not hot enough to scald would do the trick - and it did! They melted the candle out.

I really like how Dr. Kelso and Dr. Cox are both right in their own ways. They're both absolute jerks, but even if you're on Dr. Cox' team you can't deny that Dr. Kelso has some valid points. If the hosipital goes broke, nobody will get treated.

I work in a hospital in Tennessee in the US. We do not pay much attention to what insurance, if any, a patient has for hospital procedures or treatment. Exceptions would be if the follow-up outpatient care post-treatment would not be financially feasible. So, insurance might influence the leg of treatment your doctor uses because of the patient's ability to afford what happens next. But, that's only if other options are available. If you really need it you get it. We have treated people, on numerous occasions, when we know there is no way we will ever get compensated. And, and ED cannot turn you away because you don't have insurance. All that being said, I see both sides of the issue. We are a group of hospitals in the county. Our particular hospital will always lose money just because of the patient mix. Our sister hospitals earn the money for our system because their payer mix is much better. We are non-profit. If we don't treat, wrong. If we go broke and shut down, tragic. Lastly, no you can't covertly use one patient's identity for another due to levels of insurance. It's identity theft. Even if you tired to do it it wouldn't likely work today. The nurse, the nurse's aids, the transporters, the pharmacy, the surgical team, x-ray techs, phlebotomists, and a score of others would have to be involved and be onboard. Orders would get comingled and cause all kinds of errors that would endanger both patients. It just wouldn't work. You could get away with it for a single isolated item. But, never a complicated series of orders an operation would entail. And, it wouldn't be needed. She'd get the procedure, eventually be billed, and she just would never pay. She'd go bankrupt or default and that's about it in the US.

My favorite joke in all of Scrubs is in this episode. JD is teasing Elliot about flashing everyone and Elliot says, "I'm waiting for the 'but,' " and JD says, " So's everyone else around here." 😂

Classic Dr. Ahmed

Last year i had a patient, older man in his 60s, with a full-sized flashlight in him. Required surgery and a post-op ICU stay. Last week i had a meth addict tree service man who was doing his job high in both senses of the word, fell out of the tree and got a branch up his butt.

Buzz light year in the bootie also gives a whole new meaning to “you got a friend in me”😂

I always stumble when trying to say the word "jaundice". 😂 Here in Sweden it's callet "gulsot", which directly translates to yellow soot.