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Lmao, this guy looks and sounds exactly like Kyle Broflowski's awkward cousin.

Not the Esophagoose

Warnings. Repent. JESUS CHRIST. RETURN TO JAPAN JAPANESE.

Japanese in the American forces. No. Not after Pearl harbour 2023

That self-surgery scene from Master and Commander is fantastic. Russell Crowe's character is a battle-hardened navy officer, but even he gets queasy at having to help his friend the ship's doctor operate on himself. There are many different kinds of bravery.

He said he was in the Navy but that doesn't tell the whole story. He was a Corpsman. That's a Marine with a Medic bag. They may officially be Navy but they're deployed with Marines and even Navy Special Warfare groups.

This is a super interesting video, but I wish he had been given all the context to the M&C. The mid's forearm was completely shattered and Maturin was more concerned about removing a bit of his shirt that had been carried inside his body than the bullet.

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What about the trepidation scene from Master and Commander?

my uncle charlie served 2 tours as a Green Beret in vietnam, and he said field hospitals were nothing like this. he said these are the most common hollywood myths:

1 - hospitals are full of terror, screaming, and chaos. actually they're pretty quiet and almost eerily calm. if you're at the hospital, you've already been given painkillers and/or sedated. the worst cases go first, and in most cases they're out cold.

^ even during the Civil War, soldiers reported that field hospitals were strangely calm and quiet. wounded were either sedated, out cold, sitting there in a dazed shock, or not injured that badly and managing their pain.


2 - hospitals are full of death. MASH units had a 98% survival rate, and that's because wounded who probably had no chance of survival were already filtered out before arriving at the field hospital. if you're at a MASH, you have a 98% chance of living another day. if you got your head blown off, you wouldn't have made it to this hospital.


3 - there's tension, with people rushing around tensely yelling "i need 1 ampoule of morphine STAT! intubate him!!!! 2 more units of A negative blood!!! WE'RE LOSING HIM, SIR!!!" this is nonsense. nurses, doctors, orderlies, corpsmen, etc, deal with emergencies all day every day. they aren't scared or tense. it's traumatic to civilians, but to the medical staff, this is just another day at the office.

^ going with this, uncle charlie said that the show MASH is extremely realistic, with medical staff being kind of kooky, making jokes about things, chatting casually in the midst of trauma, etc. realize that field hospital doctors generally deal with the same injuries day after day. there are only so many things a bullet, a grenade, or a shell can do to a person. after awhile, everything becomes routine, and there are no more shocks or surprises.


4 - shock and tension are the least of hospital staff's worries--their real enemy was boredom and routine. after awhile, they get bored of the routine, and when there's no action there's very little to do. it's why so many people turned to drinking--not because they needed to escape the horrors of war, but because they were so damned BORED. uncle charlie said that you either washed out quickly because you couldn't handle the stress, or you adapted quickly and managed things pretty well. there was no middle ground in the medical corps.

The same stupid blade sound effect that you hear in all slasher films. But in a war movie? Scalpel Shwing

I hope our pathetic joke of a government is taking good care of this veteran. He’s clearly very intelligent and did his time, nothing but respect for this man.

Would have been better if you would have shown him more realistic vids. Perhaps ask him?

If I ever get wounded in combat, I'd like to be treated by Dr. Rhee. K thx bye.

Dr Peter Rhee is by FAR one of my faves. he has seen the deep dark, nasty times, and yet he can communicate complex stuff when the characters are in total crisis mode, in a way I feel I can get.

I can't believe you guys let the good doctor here get away with saying he's operated on himself for little things without saying what operations he did. I wanna know what operations a doctor has done on him or herself!

this surgeon is a idiot ....did he really just say a sniper bullet makes a "really tiny hole" lmfao!!!!!!!!!! whoopsieeeee!!!!! lol

Combat medics are just incredibly smart and so tough morally

Its john wick

Never understood the reason for sending the unarmed medic to attack the MG position. Maybe he waits until the attack is over then he’s needed?

In Master and Commander, it shows Midshipman Blakeney receiving the wound to his arm in the opening battle. His forearm is shattered with pieces of bone protruding from the injury. This leads to it being amputated at the elbow joint.

In Maturin's case, removing the musket ball is incidental. They explain that a piece of the shirt entered the wound and was expected to turn septic if they failed to remove it. So he wasn't asking if they got the whole ball. He was asking if they got the whole scrap of fabric.

Master and Commander is always going to be a 10/10 movie.

I had a Thoracotomy done and was the most painful thing I ever had done

Well...with the scene with the boy losing his limb was in the 1800's. So, amputation was probably normal. Plus, giving the kid alcohol to "numb" the pain.

LOLOL love your comments Doc and thank you for your service. More, please!

I respect his opinion and his service to the nation but in master and commander the doctor wasn't going after the bullet. He was going after a piece of cloth from his shirt that the bullet carried into his body. The medical reason behind it is very sound because that quarter size piece of cloth would absolutely cause sepsis if left inside of him.

Spoken from a man who knows, FINALLY !!! I wasn't a Corpman or anything but I've patched up a few guys during my deployments OIF 04 Ramadi etc. You do what you can, when you can, for who you can and hope for the best.

Wow, Gregs anatomy is wrong....again. shocker.

I get oozy just listening to him describing everything in detail. Sign me up for medical school.

Dr. Rhee helped saved Gabby Giffords when she was shot in the head by a would-be assassin in Tucson. We know him, love him, and respect his work at The University of Arizona Medical Center.

“That doesn’t make any sense.” 🤣🤣 love how he keeps it real

That scene in Saving Private Ryan got me. The Medic being able to go through and treat so many people and wounds and in the end when he was calling for his Mom. It got me.

I think he missed the point in the self-operating scene of "Master and Commander" because maybe he didn't see the movie or they didn't tell him exactly what was going on. Dr Maturin didn't search for the bullet but for the tissue of his shirt that got transported by the impact into his body. That's why his assistant says at the end "It patches up nicely"

NEVER pull a broadhead arrow back out the way it came. He is extremely wrong about this. The only arrow you could do it with is a practice tip. I don’t know if he was just confused and mixed up his words or if he has no idea how arrows work.

Regarding Pvt Blythe in Band of Brothers, he actually SURVIVES that sniper shot, however... some people in Easy Company thought to have believed him dead
Pretty crazy. Im surprised they don't tell their company commander etc that "Yo, you got a guy alive still btw" since they would be usually given the casualty report, would they not? If someone was pronounced dead, especially they got his body im pretty sure since he survived, he would have died if he was just left laying there most likely

i need a doctor to analyze all the injuries on the walking dead

Love this guy immediately hating on Owen, accidentally aligning himself with 90% of the Grey's Anatomy fandom 😂

He is the best of the best. Part 3 please!!

For your comment on Bob, you’re extremely incorrect, I’m just going to assume you didn’t watch or pay attention fully ? One Blythe was not shot by a snipers ( sniper rifle ) he was shot by a Kar and a regular German soldier in a barn or window I forget which type of building if it was the barn or house there. , he also ended up being paralyzed as a result of him being shot.

Your welcome

Real baddie

About Master and Commander:
The boy did, actually have a fractured bone. The wood from the blown-up ship broke his forearm.
Well spotted.

The bullet in the abdomen wasn't the problem in the second scene, it was the piece of shirt that came inside with it. They said it would fester. That's why in the end the surgeon put that piece on the hole and said "It will patch up nicely" - They removed the whole of it.

Lol I love this…as an ICU nurse i can barely stand to watch medical shows cause it’s so unbelievable (or downright stupid) sometimes, but I’m not familiar with how unreal the military side of things is. Loved this ❤️

This is the only video that made me wince. Nicr

So weird how Hollywood portrays sandstorms as if they're surprise hurricanes of sand. It comes on pretty gradually, and like Dr. Rhee said, you stay indoors until it passes. It's mostly ambient, like a thick gritty fog with some wind. If you're outside unprepared it's dangerous, but if you sit tight indoors there's no danger.

They blurred out the wound on the M*A*S*H scene? That was shown on broadcast TV...

On top of the "if you get the bullet out, you'll live" thing, that was actually a common practice in the 19th century. In 1881, President James Garfield was shot with the bullet stopping by his pancreas. Garfield didn't die for a couple months after he was shot, and he died from infection, not the bullet wound itself. It wasn't the bullet that caused the infection. Had his doctors just left the bullet in there, he likely would have lived. But his doctors were obsessed with tracing the path of the bullet and removing it, ultimately killing him.