Name: How An Anesthesiologist Became A Ketamine Doctor
Uploaded: 2021-05-31T05:41:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How An Anesthesiologist Became A Ketamine Doctor' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How An Anesthesiologist Became A Ketamine Doctor' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-31. Transcript available.

what made you care about this how did you get into this whole universe you know
i did anesthesia for
quite some time and i and you were a real doctor then yeah yeah i have an md um
and um
i saw ketamine work pretty well and because i was i did anesthesia right was it
fun doing
anesthesia it was interesting it was fun and it was crazy and it was but it was
a you know i mean
you listen to music and stuff where you go in there nothing like that you know
we had a
actually we had a surgeon who who would get noise complaints from the other ors
because he would
listen to death metal all day and he would turn it up all the way and so he
sort of had like a his
own little crew because you kind of have to be like the right be in the right
mindscape to go in there
and listen to mega death for 12 hours yeah at you know 80 db all day long yeah
that's crazy you're
cracking up in a rib cage and you're hot all hopped up well the surgeons next
door in the rooms next
door would complain you know it's like been in a hotel they'd be like dude tell
them to knock it off
but it was i mean it was it was it was crazy i mean it was it was good but it
was it was like super
busy super high intensity yeah um and you have to stay the whole time you just
hit them with that dose
and you roll out it depends okay but the way our model was we had uh uh nurse
anesthetists and and so
we would we worked together with them and they would stay the whole time and i
would i would come
in and troubleshoot things and get the get the ball rolling and and you know we
were at a place where
we we took care of really sick people so it was um you know it was but you sort
of acclimate to it
and then you look around and you look at what you acclimated to and uh but but
for me what what
got me turned into the corner of this is is um sort of my understanding of
suffering has evolved a lot
and um i had a brother and he died last year he was injured as a child um
terribly
um and he never could get the help he needed and so he he did a lot of drugs he
tried to
take his own life several times oh man sorry to hear that he did all these
things and and i was
sitting there and and he knew he was dying he was in hospice but i was you know
looking at what was
coming down the pipeline i was like you know if if we can help people who've
been traumatized
like it's sort of like for me it's like if this would have been around 20 years
ago maybe i'd still
have a brother ah because he he was sexually abused as a kid and i'll never
tell anybody nobody
only reason we found out about it is because our our pastor was imprisoned
after the fact by somebody
else dang and so i couldn't figure out what was wrong with him his whole life
and i i asked him one
night and he goes yep and i was like and but the damage was just like yeah how
much that shapes somebody
that's young that's man that's heartbreaking i'm sorry yeah so so and i'm sorry
for him i'm sorry
that you know it's heartbreaking to see you know i've been you know a lot of my
family and being in
recovery and struggling through those you know struggling through trauma and
stuff like that childhood
trauma not like that uh but different types of trauma and stuff has been pretty
prevalent in my family and
it's heartbreaking to see the effect that it has on people you know it it was
you know the last six
months of his life i finally got him to say because he was like a he was a he
was a crusty guy was he
yeah oh yeah and uh the last were you guys pretty close yeah oh that's cool and
he knew he was he
knew he was dying he was drinking himself to death yeah he did and he had the
operations and and
he kind of stopped actually but the problem was is the damage was done and and
but like you know one
of the last times we we spoke um i was sitting with him in the hospital he was
on hospice and and for
the last six months of his life i got him to tell me that i told him i loved
him every day and he was
like i love you too and like just for him to to be able to express emotion was
priceless yeah and then
you know one of the last moments we spoke i said i love you and he said i love
you i love you too and
then he goes he flips me the bird and i was like that's that's mike and uh and
so it was like you
know i he knew at least he was loved yeah and and um that was in um it's
important yeah i think a lot
of people's life if they struggle with trauma i think some of it is just yeah
thinking that people don't
care people that think it unable to feel love it's weird how a traumatic event
can block off other
things you know yeah he couldn't he he didn't have the capacity and he never so
he he was stuck
and he could never get out of it and you kind of wonder or hope that if
somebody else comes to me
and who's a little younger and hasn't burned themselves physically like like
damaged themselves
enough that you can help them turn the corner yeah and get healing going in a
way that they they can get
back on the road to life and and that's sort of that's to me is a very
rewarding way to interacting
with life you know i can look over my shoulder and be like i am okay with what
i'm doing i'm helping
people find peace right yeah it's it man it's so fascinating how like if you
can if you don't feel
loved or if something makes you feel so unloved or so damaged that then you it's
very hard to feel love
after that because i think there's just receptors in you that just do not trust
it or just do not trust
the world almost in a weird way and i don't even think you can access it
sometimes like that's the that's
the such hard thing is to be able to access why or what or how to change it to
get the clay in your hands
you know it feels like you just can't find it you know um so it's fascinating
to hear that there's
opportunities that this could be a way where people can i'm i'm you believe it
i believe it i do i really
do because um i've seen it work i've seen it work on a lot of people and it it's
one of those things where
it's it's like you get to see these people come to you and they're they're just
broken
and and the first time you hear them laugh and or smile and you're just like it
it's
it's i'm in the right place yeah
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