Hematologist Answers Blood Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

"We all wish that Noah had just slapped those two mosquitos" - As the person in my family who got 50x as many mosquito bites as anyone else, I concur.

thanks for having me! important note idk if it was editing or I misspoke in blood rushing excitement--probably the latter bc I mean, it's wired magazine--the diastolic / lower number is still an arterial pressure read veins are passive / not part of BP but still all a closed circuit and this is why i'm not a cardiologist.. at the dismay of uncles and aunties everywhere i'm sure 😮‍💨

11:20 for the mosquito question

He must have spent some time in pediatrics. His discriptions are so vivid and simple. It’s amazing to listen to him

He is just like this in person. He was my hematologist a few years ago. He treats all his patients with respect and kindness, and most of all, he listens to you. Dr. Juneja is just a wonderful human.🙂

As a black person with a constant “low” wbc count. It was nice hearing him explain the difference between ethnicities.

He should teach the public. He's so good at communicating complex topics to a lay audience.

The expert series is so well done, Wired always finds fantastic people, and in doing so they are really helping public education. Having clearly intelligent and charismatic experts answer complex questions in the simplest manner possible is fantastic for the millions of laymen like me that watch these. These folks are the Bill Nye's of our era. Plus the cheerful, helpful engagement likely helps shore up trust in educated professionals (especially in medicine) and that's proving to be very socially important nowadays.

Great video so far! Dr. Juneja is charismatic and a great science communicator.

I'm a medical technologist in charge of my hospital's haematology department, and I love his explanations to allow people to understand complex subjects. Suppose I know I'm talking to someone with little to no medical background or is in a different field of practice. In that case, I also try to simplify what I'm talking about without being condescending--they may not understand my job, but I probably don't know theirs either.

My whole biology class for like 4 years in 11 minutes

Dr. Juneja is great fun!! You should have him back for blood part 2.

Thank you for talking about standard ranges for blood tests and different geographical areas w/blood types. I was a grown grown adult before a hematologist was able to help me understand my ridiculous life long anemia & alpha thalassemia. Now I have a treatment that actually works rather than just taking iron pills that never did anything and just emotionally feel less "defective" knowing that some of what's different about my body is the result of it trying to protect itself.

ThIs guy is great at presenting information. I think it's because he has A Positive attitude. I'll see myself out.

'Plasma is a beautiful harmony' omg as a former lab technician and physiology teacher I agree. We take so many things for granted but human body is so precise and beautiful ❤️

the way he answered the question related to period blood makes me so happy.. like for once there is no reference to 'the amount of blood being lost is minimal so just relax, don't exaggerate' etc :)

This dude's a great teacher, bring him on more!

Hats off to hematologists frfr. My daughter’s hematologist had the tiniest hunch that my daughter had AML due to consistent blood testing and other health factors that put her at extremely high risk. She was scheduled for a bone marrow biopsy that same week. By Monday of the next week, her hematologist gently delivered the diagnosis, thoroughly explained her treatment plan, and had us admitted to hospital the next day. She would make sure to speak to us when she was in for morning rounds and really held our hand through it. My daughter is now in remission thanks to her. I’m so grateful for all the very nerdy people who study blood lol ❤

It takes a long time to bleed out to the point of being in danger when on your period, trust me. Several years ago, I had a really heavy flow that lasted several weeks (I'm talking about half a box of pads per day type of heavy flow). I went to urgent care, was told to keep an eye on it, but later that week I passed out in the shower, only to wake up to a doctor explaining to me that I was borderline comatose because my H&H got so low. It was so bad that they kept me in the ICU for 6 days and I ended up needing a total of 9 units of blood... almost an entire person's worth. I can honestly say without donated blood, I'd be dead right now. SO PLEASE DONATE BLOOD IF YOU'RE ABLE!

I am so glad that he mentioned the racial differences in blood components. It's something that is overlooked all the time