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SHOCKING Patient Story | It Started With Foot Pain…

SHOCKING Patient Story | It Started With Foot Pain…

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Jason Robles


– Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of the Wednesday Checkup. Today, I wanna tell you
about a really interesting patient encounter I had just the other day and then we’re gonna follow up that story with one of my favorite
segments, Mail Time. You ready? (whooping) (mellow music) My nurse rooms the patient,
takes all the vitals, brings all the information, including the chief complaint to me. Tells me that the patient
has normal vital signs, normal blood pressure, pulse, high 90s. That he’s a mid 60-year-old male. That the breathing rate is normal. And that the patient’s chief complaint is that there’s this redness
surrounding the right foot, that the patient is worried about, that the antibiotics haven’t really, that they haven’t really seen an improvement in the
redness of the right foot, despite using antibiotics
in the last 48 hours. Prior to walking into the
room with the patient, I did look at the electronic health record and found out they have an extensive list of medical conditions and are take a lot of
medications for them. Hypothyroid, osteoporosis, diabetes type 2, high
cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, so I know that this patient
does have medications onboard and other conditions at play. It’s important for me as a doctor to check that before going into a room so that I can see how
maybe those illnesses and those medications can be factoring in to the current problem. After hearing the story about the foot, I asked the patient if there
were any other complaints. And I generally have a list of what we call a review of systems, where I ask a few general questions just to see how the
patient’s doing overall. Constitutional symptoms
like fever, fatigue, unexplained weight loss, then we have the cardiovascular ones, palpitations, chest pain, then with the respiratory
ones, shortness of breath. You sort of get the idea. The patient did mention that he felt a little bit more short
of breath than usual. He attributed that to the pain and discomfort from his right leg. That he thought maybe he
wasn’t sleeping as well and there were all these
sorts of explanations he had in his mind for
why that was happening. So I listened to the patient’s lungs, crystal clear, no problem. When I listened to the patient’s heart, I hear something that I
didn’t expect to hear. The patient was having an
irregularly irregular rhythm, meaning that it was an irregular rate, that is was above 100, and it was an irregular rhythm, meaning that it didn’t have
a consistent beat to it. Ba-boom, boom, ba-boo-boo-boom, boom. That is essentially the
beat that we would hear if a patient has atrial fibrillation. Now I know this patient
has a history of that so it makes it a little
bit more easy for me to expect to hear that. But a patient who has atrial
fibrillation actively, at a fast rate is dangerous. Reason being is the heart
doesn’t like to be beating very rapidly for a long period of time. At rest, your heart rate should be somewhere between 60 and 100. However, my patient was beating
somewhere in the low 100s when I listened and I checked their pulse. I asked the patient, “Have you felt any palpitations
in the last few days?” Meaning that they feel
like their heart’s racing or beating outside of their chest. That’s a very common way to explain it. And the patient says to me, “You know doctor, the last few days, “I did feel a little bit “and I wasn’t sure if it’s my AFib,” the atrial fibrillation, “kicking in. “But it went away, so I
assumed nothing of it. “Is that okay?” Let me do something, let me get an EKG just to see how your heart is doing, how fast is it beating, confirm that this is fact AFib, and we’ll move on from there. And we sort of put the
foot issue to the side because A, he’s actually
being treated for it, and B, the more concerning
issue for the time being would be the heart. Upon getting the EKG, we found out that my physical exam was correct and the patient was having AFib. And he was having AFib with RVR. I know that’s a mouthful. AFib is that atrial fibrillation where the top of the heart beats irregularly at an irregular rate. But then his ventricles, as a result of having those excess beats, was also beating very quickly. That’s the lower portion of the heart that actually pumps out blood
to the rest of the body. His heart was working very hard in order to maintain this rhythm. But this isn’t normal. My patient’s at rest, his heart shouldn’t be beating that quickly. Upon further review of that EKG, I found that he was having segments of what’s known as ST depressions. And what ST depressions,
specifically on an EKG signify is that the heart isn’t
getting enough blood and it’s suffering. It’s actually being choked out. We call this a type 2 MI which
ones a type 2 heart attack. When the heart is beating so fast that it’s not getting enough blood because it’s being overworked and there’s actual damage to
the muscle tissue of the heart. So I told him that we have to call 911 and we have to get him
sent over to the hospital in order to contain this rate, slow the rate down, and then figure out what our
long-term plan is gonna be. Now this was very stressful because the patient
started getting emotional, they started getting worried and upset because they thought they
were coming in for their foot, but here we are, diagnosing
them with a heart attack. My patient ended up going
to the emergency room. They gave him IV medications. They made sure that the rate subsided, that the enzymes that were
leaking from the damaged heart started going down and
the heart was improving. And once that started happening, they had a cardiovascular
doctor see the patient and decide what the plan
wanna gonna be moving forward. And part of that was to increase the dosage of one medication and decrease the dosage of another. And then have them follow up in one week with that same cardiologist. The point of this being is that as a doctor, you
never know what do expect, especially at a family medicine office. I had a patient on my
schedule for an infected foot, and here I am, diagnosing
him with a heart attack that they were walking around with. They actually walked a
few blocks to my office. A mistake I see a lot
of young doctors make is to get pigeonholed into a diagnosis. They see a red, swollen
foot on their screen. They only look at that body part and they say, “Okay, well
here’s a diagnosis for this,” and they forget that
there’s a whole person sitting in front of them. It’s important to take that whole person to consideration when treating a patient. Yes, the complaint is
about an infected foot, but the real concern was
with my patient’s heart and the only way I could find that out is through a thorough
history and physical exam. Had I not done those things, just looked at the foot, said,
“Okay, the foot’s improving, “you know, keep taking your antibiotics, “let’s have you follow up.” I would have been doing a
huge disservice to my patient. We have to treat the
human sitting in front us and not the ailment, or not the complaint that
they’re bringing to us. The more you can do that
as a doctor, as a person, as a police officer, it
really doesn’t even matter, the better you’re gonna fair and the better the person sitting in front of you is gonna fair. Let’s have some fun and open some packages via Mail Time, courtesy of my mail bag. West Orange, New Jersey,
that’s not too far. (bag crinkling) Oh, these are gonna be cuff links because I can tell from the cuff link box. Ooh. These are dope. These are little stethoscopes. Ooh, look at this little checkerboard tie. If it matches, you gotta wear it. Whew. Easy work. Thank you for your wonderful gift. I think I look pretty fly and I can’t wait to wear these cuff links. Fort Walton Beach, Florida. (gasping) Snickers! (gasps) Did you get Bear his favorite toy? No joke, this is Bear’s favorite toy. Little squirrels that you put in here and then he has to get them out. Bear, I have a gift for you. Oh, they make noise. This is legit, Bear’s favorite toy. He’s gonna lose his mind. Oh, it’s a mug. Aw, me and Roxy sitting side by side. How did you do this? Husky Dad, me and Roxy hanging out. Thank you, family. Okay, this one’s from Texas. Whoop! Whoa. Swarovski pens, with my name on them. But the only thing is, I’m not a DO and MD, I’m just a DO. Problematic? This is from Hungary and I’ve been to Hungary many of times. Not many of times, I’ve been there twice. I imagine this is gonna be a drawing ’cause it’s with some
really heavy cardboard. Here, let’s see. “Dear Mike, I couldn’t
decide, so I did both. “Hope you like it, best regards.” What? This is by far the best drawing I’ve ever seen of me in my life. This is pencil, folks. Is this ridiculous or what? – Wow.
– Dude, these are amazing. I’m gonna have these framed. I don’t know where I’m gonna put them because it’s kind of awkward hanging pictures of
yourself in your own house, but these are amazing. Like, this looks like me. Beau Smith or Bea Smith, please, send me your Instagram. I wanna put this on my story and share this with the world. Your art is amazing. I mean, like you can’t
draw better then that. This is from Ohio. Okay. Okay, here we go, we got socks. Get outta here! Socks with Roxy and Bear’s face on them. Come on now, chum on. I’m gonna wear these to work and people are gonna judge me and I don’t even care at all. Thank you, Kenyatta,
very much appreciated. Stay being an awesome nurse. “I’ve sent you a T-shirt I
make at our small family farm. “I guessed you wear a large or extra large “so whichever one doesn’t fit, “feel free to do whatever
you want with it.” Okay, this is a very interesting shirt. Support your local beekeeper,
I’m down with that, but why is the bee throwing up? (retches) Fun fact, all my videos are now captioned in English and Spanish, so click here to check this one out and have good laugh. As always, stay happy and healthy. (cheery music)

54 thoughts on “SHOCKING Patient Story | It Started With Foot Pain…”

  1. Alfie Morgan says:
    August 15, 2019 at 1:24 am

    Treat the patient not the disease – Chicago med Dr Rowan

    Reply
  2. swapna joseph says:
    August 15, 2019 at 3:10 am

    its so true, we have to see the whole person, great info, thx dr

    Reply
  3. TheArmoredSlug says:
    August 15, 2019 at 5:55 am

    Mike: ST Depression
    Me: why don't just abbreviate it to, oh

    Reply
  4. Clayton Nguyen says:
    August 15, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    ”bEwOOp!”
    ”cHeST CoMPReSsIONs”

    Reply
  5. Sofygrafe says:
    August 16, 2019 at 1:07 am

    Im french i can translate.
    Or look at your chest for long period of time.
    Whichever.

    Reply
  6. Mikers Yikers Gmod Boi says:
    August 16, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    My resting hr is about 130. Im anemic

    Reply
  7. Tim says:
    August 16, 2019 at 5:09 pm

    9:07 – "click here to check this one out and have a good laugh"
    I'm going to have a good laugh at "child paraylysed with mysterious illness"… ok if you say so

    Reply
  8. Alexis Turner says:
    August 16, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    “Doctor my foot hurts”
    “Yeah that’s a heart attack”

    Reply
  9. DylanK25 _ says:
    August 17, 2019 at 5:02 am

    0:45 if he hasn't seen any improvement in the right foot, maybe it was because he was applying the antibiotics to the wrong foot

    Reply
  10. Kylie Roth says:
    August 17, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    Quick question- if you hadn’t been so aware of everything about that human and had you not checked his heart and worried the way you did, could that human have died?

    Reply
  11. lillucys08 says:
    August 17, 2019 at 6:19 pm

    Honey is bee vomit, bees eat pollen then regurgitate it back up to make what we call honey, it's what they feed there young I believe.

    Reply
  12. Virgo Blue says:
    August 17, 2019 at 7:19 pm

    That bee shirt was scary

    Reply
  13. Zulfiya Rjevskii says:
    August 19, 2019 at 2:09 am

    what do you think of portable ultrasound machine? the one that can be plugged in into your iphone?

    Reply
  14. Bill Coyle says:
    August 19, 2019 at 12:11 pm

    Every Primary Care Physician should have to watch this video.

    Reply
  15. Shelley says:
    August 19, 2019 at 2:16 pm

    I have a friend in Sweden who went in to see the dr last year bc he thought he had a flu that was hanging on and on. I don’t recall the diagnosis, but less than 24 hours later he was having quadruple bypass surgery. 41 years old and seemingly healthy and active. If something just isn’t right, get it checked out –

    Reply
  16. Salem Monahan says:
    August 19, 2019 at 7:06 pm

    I had my annual check up and mentioned the chest pain I was having for months on end (still have it now. Past 6 months) and my doctor (it's a different one each time at this office) basically ignored this and continue talking about yoga, stress and etc in relation to headaches and migraines.

    Obviously I am not dying of a heart attack (unless it's very slow) but still. Don't think constant and almost constant chest pain Is normal. It was triggered by a medication and continued after that stopped now triggers randomly or from stress, a lot of caffeine, and/or heat. :/

    Reply
  17. en. says:
    August 21, 2019 at 12:21 am

    Its not lupus?

    Reply
  18. corrogal says:
    August 21, 2019 at 7:23 am

    Honey is made by bees who vomit into the honey combs. Honey is bee vomit…..yum!

    Reply
  19. madkatt333 says:
    August 21, 2019 at 8:33 am

    Bees have their own digestive system to convert pollen into honey. The bees will consume the honey and then vomit it out to pass around to other bees until the honey is prepared. They will then store this honey on combs and use the wax secretions off their bodies from that process and to seal the honey in its cell.

    Reply
  20. midnightlightthevamp says:
    August 22, 2019 at 2:20 am

    Bees eat pollen and regurgitate the liquid that makes honey…. So yeah, honey is bee vomit. Hope that explains the shirt!

    Reply
  21. Wiley E. Coyote says:
    August 22, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    Why so many dislikes!? Great reminder to all doctors and principle can also be applied to many other fields as well.

    Reply
  22. just tell me why says:
    August 22, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    5:49 my clinical instructor explained that to my class just last night omg

    Reply
  23. Ayesha Shahzad says:
    August 23, 2019 at 12:06 am

    My mother lecturing/scolding me for smth:
    My mind going be like: 2:17

    Reply
  24. King of the Potato People says:
    August 23, 2019 at 4:47 am

    Bee-woop!

    Reply
  25. npigwnl says:
    August 24, 2019 at 12:29 am

    “Look at the whole patient”
    Sometimes that isn’t even enough!

    I’m a vet and I’ve had someone come in with their cat for vaccinations and a routine checkup…the cat was perfectly healthy but I noticed her dog (who was just tagging along) was not looking healthy – turns out he was dying of a ruptured spleen 🤭

    Reply
  26. Devotional Songs says:
    August 24, 2019 at 1:29 am

    Me: Gets a paper cut

    Google: You are dying 😂😂😂

    Reply
  27. AbigailandAlexis Yas says:
    August 24, 2019 at 10:43 am

    I love this channel its educational and funny

    Reply
  28. vivian gutz says:
    August 25, 2019 at 5:27 am

    Jeez I wish dr.mike was my doctor he sounds like he really pays attention to his patients and gets stuff done!!

    Reply
  29. bernardo hernandez says:
    August 25, 2019 at 11:22 am

    I wish have in your mind the unexpected because you never know why would happen unexpected will always happen

    Reply
  30. Gregory Kyriakou says:
    August 25, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    When is the next mail time gonna take place?

    Reply
  31. Ouch On the Couch says:
    August 26, 2019 at 4:26 am

    Never been happy to admit I'm like, one town over from Fort Walton in my life until not XD

    Reply
  32. Lila Baxter says:
    August 26, 2019 at 7:39 am

    Seeing the patient as a whole and not just the ailment is so important! Take it from someone who has a syndrome that affects my full body, it's not always just one thing. I went into the ER because of a really bad pots flair before it was diagnosed, and three months later ended up getting diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Gastroparesis, and POTS. EDS has an average of 15-30 years to get diagnosed, GP has an average of 1-5 years, and POTS has an average of 10-15 years. I got them diagnosed within 3 years of actively searching for answers, and thanks to an amazing doctor that didn't just call me crazy, and looked at my body as a whole, basically gave the answer as to why my family is so sick.

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  33. GOsavagePAL says:
    August 26, 2019 at 12:02 pm

    Doctor: Patients are promised privacy.

    Also Doctor: Tells us everything about him

    Me: I trust him with my life

    Reply
  34. Krissy Ojos Azules Profundos says:
    August 26, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    I wonder if I had a white creepy van with cookies & cream milkshakes 🥛🍪, would I catch a Dr. Mike? 👨🏻‍⚕️🧸🚐

    Reply
  35. Felicia Chan says:
    August 27, 2019 at 9:10 am

    He's probably the only doctor I've seen be so happy about Snickers 😂

    Reply
  36. Rikeilan says:
    August 27, 2019 at 9:53 am

    5:34 "A mistake I see a lot of young doctors make" look who's talking about young doctors XD

    Reply
  37. Ryan Gardiner says:
    August 28, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    1:56 sounds like house

    Reply
  38. Carol Vidotti says:
    August 29, 2019 at 4:47 am

    Who's Roxy?

    Reply
  39. Lune Agenbach says:
    August 29, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    LEMME HEAR A BEEWOOP!!!!!!!

    Reply
  40. Lilly says:
    August 29, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    The bee is throwing up bc that’s basically how they make honey 😂 (ok I think it’s just their saliva and not puke but still funny 😂)

    Reply
  41. Bob Smith says:
    August 29, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    fun fact: my dad worked in an ambulance for 9 years, went BACK to school, an dis now an ER nurse.

    Reply
  42. Robin Sadie says:
    August 30, 2019 at 8:01 am

    Wish doctor was more like you

    Reply
  43. uptown3636 says:
    August 31, 2019 at 4:42 am

    Will someone please tell me why he says "Bee Woop?" I kinda like it, but it's very confusing.

    Reply
  44. Marimilitarybrat says:
    August 31, 2019 at 4:59 pm

    So they discharge the guy after an ST elevation MI? It would be interesting to hear you talk about how insurance reimbursement for medical care has changed in the past 12 years. When hospitals & medical providers or reimbursed as fee-for-service our biggest concern was that providers would order too many procedures did increase the amount of money they made. Now, the goal is to get the patient out of the hospital before you spend a little bit of money you're given for that complaint. If a patient rebounds and returns to the hospital after discharge the hospital is reimbursed at a lower rate and can be fined. Great plan?

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  45. Wesley Pipes says:
    September 1, 2019 at 12:49 am

    The bee was throwing up honey because that's how honey is made lol. Its bee puke

    Reply
  46. DJ speedywolf says:
    September 1, 2019 at 1:02 am

    👋🙂💖👣

    Reply
  47. Claudia Moscoso says:
    September 3, 2019 at 4:04 am

    It would be great if you could do a video about Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia. Seems that a lot of woman have it and there's little reassurance this isn't going to decrease someone's life span.

    Reply
  48. Beatrice Bijoux says:
    September 4, 2019 at 12:05 am

    Dr. Mike can you please give me CPR! That would save me babe

    Reply
  49. Maham 1⃣7⃣ says:
    September 4, 2019 at 4:15 pm

    I’ll be starting medical school this fall
    I’m so excited
    Thanks to Dr Mike
    You’re an inspiration ❤️

    Reply
  50. Dr Luciano Mauro says:
    September 5, 2019 at 2:53 am

    Nice one!

    Never let pre-established diagnoses or previous problems disrupt your current assessment. Therefore, the importance of routine reevaluations, especially in high-risk patients with T2DM or hypertension. Congratulations!

    Dr Luciano Mauro
    Cardiology BP – São Paulo, Brazil.

    Reply
  51. Windy Bassham says:
    September 5, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    Honey is bee vomit 😄

    Reply
  52. Phimpawee m says:
    September 6, 2019 at 6:04 am

    Honestly i have no idea what's he talking about. I am here cuz he's so dam cute. 🤭🤭🤭🤭

    Reply
  53. Gabby Barro says:
    September 6, 2019 at 7:49 pm

    Omg the bee throwing up

    Reply
  54. Ryan Ong says:
    September 8, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    What happens if someone moves to the US from elsewhere and have no health insurance? How will they pay for these things?

    Reply
  55. Kimmara Pattrice says:
    September 8, 2019 at 6:34 pm

    I'm a Charge Nurse at a family medicine clinic and have an amazing group of doctors, nurses, and medical assistance. This story sounds just like what we see in our clinic. Yeah they come in with one thing, but often have 5 or 6 other things going on at once. You may have to abandon the reason for their visit to focus on the most detrimental of their issues.

    Reply

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