Leading cardiologists Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Herschel Sklaroff, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Cardiology at Mount Sinai Heart were filmed for one-month for the “Making Rounds” documentary film as they cared for critically-ill heart patients in the Cardiac Care Unit at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Watch Mount Sinai Heart doctors, fellows, residents, and nurses in action and saving lives demonstrating how simply listening to patients at the bedside remains medicine’s most indispensable tool over any technology. In this film Mount Sinai Heart helps preserve the disappearing art and science of how to examine and diagnose patients at the bedside for future generations of physicians. **This film was made possible by the generous support of the McInerney Family.** Copyright 2015 Middlemarch Films, Inc
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This is a great documentary. As a medical student, I wish I had seen videos like this earlier in my career. It really shows great communication between doctor and patients and shows some of the thought processes behind diagnosis. Hopefully more hospitals can make documentaries like these for students and residents.
I just got accepted to medical college!!!!!!!
I think there is really something otherworldly about doctors like this, with so much experience and intelligence, you can tell they were meant to do what they're doing.
I love how that doctor goes around and pats his patients on the head haha
Two great doctors showing med students how to show compassion and attention to patients. No computer or robot can ever replace that human element....compassion and inference. These doctors' personal experience is invaluable, of course. The clinical work is where these med students can really apply their knowledge from all the books they've read and lectures they've attended. This is the real work and the stuff that counts.
I'm a cardiologist who learned old school clinical cardiology, my teachers are almost all gone. Couldn't stop remembering when I was an insecure cardiology resident and my teachers taught me with patience and care to examinate the patient, they used to took my hand and place it on the patient chest and explained me what I was feeling, put the stethoscope on my ears and explained me what I was listening, patiently explained me electrical vectors in every patient on the ECG, when DrFuster said "most of you learned from every particular patient is at the bedside not by machines" I started crying because of nostalgia. In spanish their named MAESTRO. It's so sad in order to look in fashion the art of clinical cardiology will disappear. As health profesionals we became arrogant and stop caring about the patient, the human warm of holding their arms when we check out their pulse(very important in many cardiology diagnosis) and give them comfort give them hope of everythings going to be all right.
Bedside diagnoses are common place in many third world countries (for the most part) because of the lack of technology in most hospitals. I would encourage as many medical students and doctors to go to these countries for a clinical rotation or two because of the tremendous learning opportunities, especially in learning to manage patients with very few resources available.
“Technology is available but your heads should be also available” 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 wow that was good
Wow. I'm a retired nurse; I've met a few doctors like these in the last 45 years. To those 2 men, medicine is both a science and an art. These residents, fellows, and students are getting a fantastic education. I hope they're really listening.
"You have technology available. Your head should also be available!" <3
Best 1 hour I have spent on youtube. I learned so many things. What brilliant doctors those two are.
“A ‘non-compliant’ patient requires an obsessive physician” I love how his statement reinforces the fact that we and our patients should work as a team!
I have never enjoyed a video more in my life.
To all men and women who wish to go into medicine : please remember your patients arent merely cases - they are people. Show them kindness and gentleness, have a sense of humor. People tend to hold doctors and nurses in high opinion. Ive had a doctor abuse me and i reported him. I have serious health problems. Now ive got a wonderful team looking after me. Remember you are not better than your patient. Please,we depend upon you for our lives. BE CONSIDERATE.
Mt Sinai Saved my life. The care I recieved there inspired me to become a physician.
I think I was most amazed at how he picked up Marfan's so effortlessly. Show's that he scans the whole patient flawlessly and in such a short period of time.
These doctors are amazing! Thorough, attentive, compassionate...why is this becoming a rarity in medicine??? This should be the norm
I wish I could look in to these doctors minds as they're examining the patient and see how their wise minds click.
As a second year medical student, I have to say this is an amazing film. Definitely learned a lot as I get ready for Step 1 and the wards this coming summer. I definitely agree that that more videos like these should come about to us during our medical training, with an early on exposure.
Just watched this movie for the third time now. When I wached it the first time I was still in high school. Now I'm a second year medical student. It's safe to say that this movie inspired me and that it's one of the main reasons I am where I am today. Thank you Dr. Fuster and Dr. Sklaroff it would be my biggest honor to one day maybe be able to meet you. Greetings from Switzerland