r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 14h ago

Wait a damn minute! Bad time for a how-to YouTube video.

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u/Sensitive_Cup4015 12h ago

But surely there is like a curated repository for this kind of thing and not just Youtube I'd think?

"Sup y'all it's Open Heart Surgery Steve here back with another video, today we're putting a stent in, but before we get to that, don't forget to SMASH the like button, OBLITERATE the subscribe button and ring the BLEEP out of that bell!"

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u/Sensitive_Cup4015 1h ago

By the same token though, I could see something similar happen for someone getting a Church's Chicken ad before the important bit in a life saving surgery video lol.

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u/Smithy365 8h ago

It’s not my field, so I can’t be certain, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find there’s some well-respected medical practitioners sharing their knowledge via YouTube. There certainly is for other industries.

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u/Kardis_J 8h ago

I work in a fairly niche field of work and recently went to a training seminar. The guy leading the event specifically told everyone about his YouTube channel as a means of hunting down his how-to
videos for various problem solutions.

If I wasn’t there I would never have considered YouTube as a resource for much the same reason you just stated.

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u/Carlsheartboxers 3h ago

I mean there is but there’s also a ton of documented and peer reviewed stuff out there a single google search away

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u/poormanstoast 9h ago

YouTube has a (possibly surprising but also not really) enormous library of genuine medical-medico specific procedural videos, both of real procedures and sims, uploaded by real doctors. Bc it’s a handy platform and sharing is caring. It’s (currently) free access, they’re not there for clicks or likes and not influencers…and bc it’s not paywalled it’s easy quick access.

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u/ExtraCalligrapher565 2h ago

Hospitals and academic medical institutions regularly post instructional videos on procedures to their YouTube pages. These aren’t just random content creators.

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u/Havok_saken 3h ago

For minor procedures YouTube is actually pretty reliable. A layperson could learn to do things like an I&D, some basic suturing, easy reductions from YouTube. They might not do them great but could get the job done.

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u/Giffmo83 2h ago

YouTube is just website that hosts videos, and pretty effectively at that. What exactly do you think would be special about a separate website?

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u/danieldan0803 11h ago

There are sites (at least for vet med that my wife uses) but some are paywalled. She uses YouTube to be able to get a clear visual guide of a procedure being able to see it from the doctor’s view instead of trying to peek in as another doctor is doing it.

It seems like it would be pretty obvious if it was a doctor making educational/how to video vs if it were some random content creator. Like working on vehicles you can get in depth how to videos and look at it and be like, this person has no clue what they are talking about. YouTube is filled with bad advice and misinformation from mistakes as well as misinformation from malice, when in a high skilled position, you tend to know what to look for to weed out the bad content. Also there isn’t much ad revenue generated from these videos because they tend to not get put in the algorithm of anyone outside the profession, so why would someone try bullshitting professionals for no monetary gain.

To top all of it all off, YouTube is a stable hosting platform that just is easily accessible and manageable. Think of how many god awful media players you might have used through out the years, if I was in a high stress environment some janky media player isn’t something I would wish ti fight when trying to get information

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u/Desperate_Day_2537 12h ago

Yes, there are. They're behind a hefty paywall, of course, but an emergency physician should have access through their hospital. Choosing YouTube instead is, well, a choice.

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u/FlutterKree 10h ago

Not even really a bad choice. The idea is to remind them of what they know, or connect the concepts they already known to treat the problem.

This is the same thing of people complaining about IT professionals just googling things. IT professionals know how to use the information they google and implement a solution.

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u/HelloLucrehulk 8h ago

Constantly googling the same powershell commands because I can never remember the correct syntax