What your HANDS say about your HEALTH: Doctor Explains

What do your NAILS say about your health? https://youtu.be/ZXLMnRtrjuU Is KNUCKLE CRACKING good or bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O4qXQj-o9o

As someone with multiple types of arthritis, who has had not so positive interactions with rheumatologists, you must be such a ray of sunshine for your patients. Never lose your passion and kindness, it is sorely lacking in medicine and in rheumatology in particular.

My neurologist wrote a referral letter to an ENT doctor. The ENT doctor casually mentions he notes I have Ehler Danlos. My college roommate and best friend had Ehler Danlos, so I know what it is. I'm like, "No, I don’t.. why do you say that?" He shows me the letter from the neurologist. Turns out he was talking about my excessive daytime somnolence (EDS). Having educated, trained, edited and transcribed myself for 23 years, I recognized the error that both the neurologist and his transcriptionist made. If the dictator doesn't expand the word he is expressing as an acronym, and there is no absolute reference to the actual word(s) in the report, it is up to the transcriptionist to clarify and spell the words out completely with the acronym in parentheses following it. Then the acronym can be used throughout the rest of the report. This, among many errors between dictator and transcriptionist, can cause medical errors. Just a boring comment, but I have seen way too many errors on my own medical records, and edited many that were wrong. It's a complicated relationship that creates an accurate medical report.

I am a nurse and I LOVE your videos! They are educational, engaging, informative, and creative. You have a gift!

As card carrying hypochondriac, I am somewhat disappointed that I have none of those issues you mentioned 😂

Thank you for spreading a little awareness of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. So many people don’t know about it and it’s really frustrating as a person who has the hyper mobility type.

I have EDS that has caused an aortic aneurysm. Thank you for mentioning it! Doctors so often know nothing about it at all or they think it is only "loose joints" (oof, I wish).

I love your passion for what you do! It doesn’t matter what a person’s profession, if they are passionate and fascinated by it, the excitement is contagious and it’s really a beautiful thing to see.

I have EDS! It’s wonderful that as a Dr. You have knowledge of it. It’s a 50-50 chance a Dr. In the USA will know about EDS.

I have RA and I feel like I have learned more about it form you than form almost 20 years of treatment. Thank you.

My college boyfriend had Marfan syndrome. We were hanging out on my bed one day and he suddenly had a really sharp pain in his chest that wouldn't go away. We went to the ER and it turned out his lung had collapsed and the doctor at the ER diagnosed him with Marfan's. Didn't even know it existed until then!

About 40 years ago, in my late twenties I lost one of my best friends to Marfan's syndrome. His aorta blew out. I went to visit him shortly thereafter...he didn't die initially but suffered horribly and then died a couple of months later after being badly debilitated. He had a master's degree, newly married and had his whole life in front of him but was born in the wrong time prior to genetic screening. We are still living in the stone age of medicine 40 years later with countless medical misdiagnoses and inability to cure maladies like tinnitus as just an example. I remember his body shape which was kind of like gumby. His hands were like rubber bands...and fingers were hyper flexible which is the polar opposite of my rigid digits which hardly bend at all. I remember at this funeral, the look on his parent's face as they looked around the room and thought, why wasn't it one of us who came to celebrate his short life and not their special son who was such a good person. It could have been other than for fate.

I love seeing people so passionate about their jobs. You are clearly very passionate about all medicine but the way you lit up when talking about joint inflammation was just so beautiful. I honestly could watch or listen to anyone talk for hours about anything when they have that passion. I just love to see it.

You are the type of Dr. That everyone needs. You obviously love what you do and educating others. Thank you. I can share these gems 💎 with my family. :)

I’ve been recently diagnosed with EDS after two years of symptoms (joint issues, migraines, POTS, gi dysmotility, and a condition called SMAS) and they did lots of tests on my hands! So facinating!

You're passion and excitement for what you do is infectious! Would love to see a collab with you and Dr Mike!

I have Raynaud syndrome. I lived in the northeast and it used to happen all the time. I’ve found cashmere lined leather gloves were my best defense. I’ve moved south 2 years ago but sometimes it still happens when it’s cold and I am taking a delivery (I’m an operations supervisor)and it takes a while to come back to normal especially when I can’t get to warm water. I sometimes shock people with my corpse fingers. And it does hurt.

You are an excellent educator. Thank you.

I have ankylosing spondylitis and osteoarthritis. I feel like my hands are exactly like the grapes! I love to hear other rheumatologist thoughts on this subject. Especially that neither one of my doctors ever looked at my hands.

love your content and me and my mom absolutely adore your vlogs in the hospital. whenever my mom catches me watching you she's like "oh, it's siobhan!" and sits down and watches whatever it is with me. 💕