Medlife Crisis

Medlife Crisis

@medlifecrisis · 580K subscribers · 182 videos · English

Statistically less funny than placebo (p<0.05) Hello, I'm a consultant cardiologist and university researcher that makes science videos and bad jokes. Topics and analysis you won't find elsewhere, fortified with a government-mandated dose of humour, but ultimately clinically useless. There's a lot of bad science on YouTube, especially medicine, with quacks and clowns peddling garbage. I'm not saying I'm not one of them, I'm just stating a fact. Dr Rohin Francis NB - Please don't ask for medical advice as I cannot give any online. Nothing I say is medical advice. How do you even know I'm a doct

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2:58

WHICH CELL HAS THE MOST MITOCHONDRIA??

58K views · 25d ago · 2:58

Pop quiz time! See if you can guess before I tell you the answer. For extra credit, cardiac cells do indeed have the highest proportion of mitochondria, if not absolute number, with 40% of the cell comprising those LITTLE POWERHOUSES. Some crazy punks might tell you that a very very long motor neurone like ones going from your spine down to your foot MAY have more mitochondria than a heart cell simply due to their crazy size (and to give them credit, they are massive.

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46:26

AI WILL replace doctors, and here's why

235K views · 28d ago · 46:26

Doctors keep talking about whether AI will replace us but many also seem to be actively encouraging it, by practicing medicine in a way that will allow machines to seamlessly take our places. The loser in all of this is clear: the patient. And by extension, we all lose.

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41:54

Unhelpful Doctor Answers Student Questions | BEARD GRWM

75K views · 1mo ago · 41:54

I can fight the algorithmic forces no longer: I am becoming an INFLUENCER. And what other way to start my #journey than with a Get Ready With Me. In which I answer some excellent questions posed by the next generation of doctors. I'm trying to both be down with the kids and the wise old owl at the same time. Let's see if I can pull it off (and I don't mean my beard).

Topics: I am become influencer · Question list · Q1 Future trends in medicine · Q2 AI and misinformation · Q3 Am I anti-science · Q5 My youtube career

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1:26

Cardiologist answers top 5 blood pressure questions!

50K views · 2mo ago · 1:26

Thank you for all the lovely comments after my post about becoming a BHF Health Ambassador last week. Looking forward to getting stuck in to lots of topics, and we thought we’d kick off with some essential basics. One thing that’s become clear is just how many questions people have about blood pressure. As a cardiologist, here are five of the ones I get asked most often. Got one of your own? Leave it in the comments below and we’ll try to answer it in a future video.

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11:34

We Keep Learning the Wrong Lesson when Athletes Die

137K views · 2mo ago · 11:34

Another tragic case of a fit young professional sportsperson unexpectedly dying during a match occurred recently as Quevin Castro collapsed in August 2026. When reading comments under an article about him, I realised that people believe the (very natural) idea that screening everyone, in a more aggressive manner, must be a good thing to do. And this has striking parallels to the medical messaging we all receive online these days, that more medical testing must be a good idea.

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3:39

RAPPING THE MEDICAL DICTIONARY [Alphabet Aerobics Parody]

18K views · 5mo ago · 3:39

YOU asked for this. YOU wanted more M.C. MCing, so here it is. You only have yourself to blame. With sincere apologies and gratitude to Blackalicious and their 1999 all-time classic 'Alphabet Aerobics' Equally big thanks to the team at Nebula Studios for the backing track and mixing down the audio to make me sound vaguely passable as my alter ego, Cardio B

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1:06:45

2 cardiologists discuss how to avoid a heart attack

46K views · 6mo ago · 1:06:45

A conversation with my friend and cardiology colleague, Dr Heeraj Bulluck MBBS PhD, who has written a book called 'Heart Reset 40', which is an attempt to review the highest yield, evidence-based advice for maintaining cardiovascular and overall health.

Topics: Interview start · What is Heart RESET · What is special about midlife · Basics of heart disease · Blood pressure · Cholesterol

📖 Mentioned books: Heart Reset 40 · This video is not sponsored!

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17:08

Who Should We Blame for Medical Complications?

139K views · 7mo ago · 17:08

When the worst thing imaginable happens during a medical procedure or intervention, what happens next? I decided to make this video after learning about a tragic case of a young boy who lost his life. Many mistakes were made, based on the coroner's report, but the learning points and the focus of media coverage seems to be at odds with my interpretation of the case.

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21:51

A patient who taught me humility

78K views · 10mo ago · 21:51

If a doctor gets a kick out of all the myriad things that can go wrong in the body, does that make them a good student of their craft, or a bit sick in the head? Or both? I don't mean doctors want their patients to be unwell (no matter what wellness podcasters and antivaxxers claim), but should a doctor be thrilled by the actual process of performing surgery on a patient, or entranced by seeing horrific pathology in action?

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8:50

Testosterone Therapy and Heart Attacks

137K views · 11mo ago · 8:50

I, and other cardiologists, are noticing an uptick in middle aged men having heart attacks on testosterone therapy. To reiterate the same message I hope I made clear in the video – this is anecdotal, the lowest level of evidence. I simply want to alert people to this possibility and hopefully someone much cleverer than me can look into this properly.

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7:08

Does Cancer Screening Actually Work? | Quick Crisis

54K views · 1y ago · 7:08

Guest: Quick Crisis

Does prostate cancer screening actually work? A huge study, probably the best in the field, has published its 23 year data this week and I thought I’d quickly talk about what it showed as, rather typically, the media and even social media doctors, once again demonstrate they cannot interpret scientific papers

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21:37

This Patient Changed My Entire Career

367K views · 1y ago · 21:37

Doctors remember patients for different reasons. Perhaps something went right, something went wrong, or maybe they changed us as a person, and (hopefully) made us into a better doctor. This is one of those patients for me.

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19:24

The Weirdest Paradox in Medicine

198K views · 1y ago · 19:24

Actually here are two crazy and incompletely understood medical phenomena for the price of one. First, how and why does treating a heart attack actually cause MORE damage to the heart and secondly, what on earth does squeezing an arm have to do with preventing heart attack damage?!

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