Thursday, September 05, 2013

When Media Doctors Play Doctor

After George W. Bush's recent controvertial stent placement, news organizations were hot to jump on the media buzz created by a former President's health issues. Perhaps the funniest moment of all came from Fox News' proported medical "A-team" member, Marc Siegel, MD.

Dr. Siegel is an internist by trade, and when internists are handed a cardiac stent to open on TV, the ensuing moments were something to behold:



The special moments begin a 2 minutes into the video where Dr. Siegel attempts to open the stent packaging (even resorting to using his teeth 22 seconds later). After failing, he hands the package back to the anchorwoman who hands the challenging packaging to her TV crew to open.

Once the package contents are returned to Dr. Siegel, he remains baffled and displays the stents flush port to the TV audience as the stent.

Sorry, but it rarely gets better than this on TV...

-Wes

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

OMG that was great!

Dude needs some new glasses too - geeeez.

-SCRN

NurseWriter said...

He probably thought a cardiac cath is a good "screening" tool as well.

Anonymous said...

And the Good Doc perpetuates the myth for stenting asymptomatic lesions to the gullible American public as in More. Is. Better, and does some freebie advertising for the stenting company... Head-smack !

Carolyn Thomas said...

So funny. Maybe they should have asked a heart patient to rip that sucker open . . .

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the Funnies. : )

Anonymous said...

THAT WAS PAINFUL!! A twinge of nausea is overcoming me... (maybe I need a test!).
What a farce... Already one call this am about a screening stress test... (now I have a screening test for guys who watch fox)

Anonymous said...

Jesus Christ

Anonymous said...

Dr. Siegel is just as adept when he tries to deliver his Fox- scripted attacks on Obamacare.