History WebVideo / Chubbyemu

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx93aUj4A_o Patient JT]] had such a fondness for spicy foods, she managed to eat her way to developing a crippling stomach ulcer. Due to prescribed antibiotics causing her significant discomfort and personality changes, she weans herself off medication and instead manages her pain with antacids. Upon discovering gummy antacids, she quickly goes from eating them with breakfast to eating them exclusively for breakfast, ending with a breakfast of 108 gummies that puts her in the emergency room from hypercalcemia and kidney failure.

** Patient JT in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx93aUj4A_o A Student Ate 108 Gummy Antacids For Breakfast. This Is What Happened To Her Kidneys.]]" might take the cake here. Because of JT's love of spicy food, her stomach became so acidic that it caused ulcers. She was prescribed antibiotics, but it gave her an unfortunate side effect of major depression. Things seemed to get better for JT when she switched to antacids, but when trying out antacid gummies, she ends up eating an entire bottle for breakfast because she believes it will make her eat all the spicy food she can have. Unfortunately, she would end up eating 2 bottles of gummy antacids, resulting in hypercalcemia and damaging her kidneys severely enough to put her on dialysis.

** Patient JT in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx93aUj4A_o A Student Ate 108 Gummy Antacids For Breakfast. This Is What Happened To Her Kidneys.]]" might take the cake here. Because of JT's love of spicy food, her stomach became so acidic that it caused ulcers. She was prescribed antibiotics, but it gave her an unfortunate side effect of major depression. Things seemed to get better for JT when she switched to antacids, but when trying out antacid gummies, she ends up eating an entire bottle for breakfast because she believes it will make her eat all the spicy food she can have. Unfortunately, she would end up eating 2 bottles of gummy antacids, resulting hypercalcemia and damaging her kidneys severely enough to put her on dialysis.

** Katie, a nurse at the hospital Patient JC was admitted to for an appendectomy in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QS3-wY-Xwg A Student Felt A Sharp Pain In Her Side. This Is How Her Organs Shut Down.]]" happened to be tending to her father, who was suffering from an MRSA infection. Because Katie repeatedly forgot to clean her hands after handling her father, she contaminated numerous objects at the nurse's station, resulting in the staff unintentionally infecting JC with MRSA, which nearly killed her through sepsis.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXkUvHjhek Patient GF]] completes a challenge to finish 8 pounds of beef in a burger in 30 minutes, resulting in a large quantity of meat getting stuck in his stomach and stretching it, thus causing his pancreas to start digesting itself and his kidneys to start failing as the stomach presses against his internal organs, unable to move the large quantity of meat. While GF does manage to eventually pass the gigantic wad of burger, he comes very close to losing his life due to the impending organ failure. Dr. Bernard also uses the example to illustrate potential complications that may come as a result of competitive eaters straining their stomach as a result, since there isn't sufficient medical literature on the long-term effects of competitive eating on the body.

* InstantIllness: Some of the medical illnesses and poisonings discussed on the channel show that some of them really do kick in extremely quickly, and almost instantly in some examples:

** Taken to a shocking extreme with the case of Patient AC, who goes from being alive and healthy, to in grave condition with multiple organ failure, to ''dead'' in the span of just over a full day after drinking a small amount of spoilt coconut milk that contained the fungus ''Arthrinium saccharicola'' and the mitochondrial toxin 3-nitropropionic acid. This latter chemical behaves like cyanide, and the tiny amount he did swallow contained enough to knock out his mitochondria's ability to produce ATP for energy, resulting in his organ systems failing one by one and ending with his brain ''oozing'' out of the sutures in his skull, effectively crushing itself to death and finally killing him.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXkUvHjhek Patient GF]] completes a challenge to finish 8 pounds of beef in a burger in 30 minutes, resulting in a large quantity of meat to get stuck in his stomach and stretch it, causing his pancreas to start digesting itself and his kidneys to start failing as the stomach presses against his internal organs, unable to move the large quantity of meat. While GF does manage to eventually pass the gigantic wad of burger, he comes very close to losing his life due to the impending organ failure. Dr. Bernard also uses the example to illustrate potential complications that may come as a result of competitive eaters straining their stomach as a result, since there isn't sufficient medical literature on the long-term effects of competitive eating on the body.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqHpnoV00j4 "A Student Ate Suspicious Leftovers For Lunch. This Is What Happened To His Limbs."]] opens with Dr. Bernard emphasizing that the case reviewed in the epsiode was a freak accident, and not a general cause of leftovers.

* LooselyBasedOnATrueStory: While some cases are taken directly from medical literature or from news stories, some of the others are this trope, being combinations of two or more related cases, primarily to demonstrate the effects of a specific action or illness in more detail.

** Karen, Patient HB's mother in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJR8Nfi8wg8 A Boy Ate 180 Gummy Melatonins For Lunch. This Is What Happened To His Brain.]]" decides to switch out her hyperactive, gaming-mad teenage son's sweets with gummy melatonin supplements instead of disciplining him or teaching him restraint, opening the packet and pouring the supplements in, mixing them with the sweets. This immediately goes horribly wrong when her son takes the packet and eats all 180 supplements inside, then passes out an hour later from a massive melatonin overdose. Even though she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone knows she's effectively poisoned her son and is affected by guilt]], Karen stays quiet, rationalising that [[NeverMyFault it's not her fault because her son was the one who made the choice to eat the supplements]], and that [[DisproportionateRetribution it's his fault for being so loud]]. When the doctors pressure her, she eventually blurts out that he must have eaten a whole bottle of Melatonin gummies after they [[InsaneTrollLogic somehow got into the bag of candy]] that she ''totally'' didn't open and tamper with. Shockingly, data shown in the video shows that cases like these are becoming more and more common, and the amount of cases of melatonin megadoses both from accidents and [[WouldHurtAChild parents intentionally feeding their children massive amounts of the medicine]] are growing in number year on year.

* ShownTheirWork: Bernard has doctorate in pharmacy and bachelors in chemical engineering, and it shows. His videos will go into great detail of not just the symptoms of patients, but the exact chemical reactions that lead to them. He even makes sure to provide links to science journals in his video descriptions.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbylXMU8Mw Patient BB]], who drunk the liquid in a snowglobe in alcohol withdrawal-induced desperation, then collapsed to the ground and was left there for two days by his ignorant son who cared more about playing his video games than going to see if his father needed help. The ethylene glycol in the liquid he drunk was processed into oxalic acid, which then reacted with calcium in his blood to form calcium oxalate crystals, which in turn started tearing apart the nephrons in his kidneys.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbylXMU8Mw Patient BB]], who drunk the liquid in a snowglobe in alcohol withdrawal-induced desperation, then collapsed to the ground and being left there for two days by his ignorant son who cared more about playing his video games than going to see if his father needed help. The ethylene glycol in the liquid he drunk was processed into oxalic acid, which then reacted with calcium in his blood to form calcium oxalate crystals, which in turn started tearing apart the nephrons in his kidneys.

-->-- '''Bernard Hsu''', ''[[CatchPhrase at least once an episode.]]''

* CatchPhrase:
** Almost every episode opens with the title of the video, and then proceeds to "[Initials of patient] is a [age and gender of patient], presenting to the emergency room", always accompanied by him pointing his right index finger upward. After presenting the patient's backstory and the onset of symptoms, they are invariably "brought to the emergency room, where we are now".
*** Common variant of the above goes "presenting to the emergency room, ''unconscious''". Some of the regular commenters try to make a game of guessing whether or not the person would be conscious.
*** Subverted with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKNfFm0QDXQ this case]] which had its Patient KT "presenting to her primary care doctor, feeling great" which tripped up several viewers and commenters, some even questioning whether that was legal on this channel! Unfortunately, the patient wasn't great though; she was diagnosed with cancer from military burn pits.
*** Subverted in a different way with [[https://youtu.be/VY-k_YVkRKs this one]], which starts "DC is a 25 year old man, presenting to the emergency room ''dead on arrival.''" See ''Wham Line'' below.
*** Slightly subverted with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx93aUj4A_o Patient JT]], as the hypercalcemia brought on by her overconsumption of gummy antacids damaged her kidneys to the point she would have to live with lifelong dialysis. Bernard adds that as a result, JT "was not able to make a full recovery".
** In some of the more recent videos that deal with the consequences of teenagers or young adults following stupid and dangerous internet challenges, you can expect the phrase [[DoNotTryThisAtHome "Don’t do it!"]] to show up in the introduction.
** He frequently mentions some medical condition that ends with "-emia." Which inevitably leads to him saying "[and] -emia, meaning 'presence in blood'." This one got a lampshade where, after releasing one video where he ''doesn't'' say it, he made a community post joking about how his view numbers on that video were lower than usual.
** Older videos often have the phrase "the powerhouse of the cell" included whenever mitochondria are mentioned. This has been replaced by on-screen captions in recent videos. See ''Freeze Frame Bonus'' below.
** Many videos dealing with electrolyte imbalances have a variant of "where the salt/glucose goes, the water will follow", accompanied by finger gestures indicating movement, followed by footage of Bernard carrying out an experiment to display distilled water undergoing osmosis through a semi-permeable membrane to enter a bag containing a saturated sodium or sugar solution. See ''Running Gag'' below.
** Usually, if the patient in the story hasn't died from their condition, Bernard mentions that they made "A recovery" (really emphasizing the "A", implying they survived with permanent injuries or disabilities) or "a ''full'' recovery".
*** Averted with the story of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKNfFm0QDXQ Patient KT]], who developed terminal cancer after exposure to burn pits while deployed in Iraq due to breathing in carcinogenic chemicals and particulates. As KT's case was ongoing at the time of the episode's release, the episode ended without the phrase being mentioned.
** Bernard closes every video with "Take care of yourselves, and be well."
** After describing the patient's case, Bernard often asks something along the lines of 'can the doctors do anything to treat this?', answering himself with 'maybe', and then explaining possible treatment pathways.
** 'there's a bit of basic (bio)chemistry to be known here.'

* GroinAttack: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibetd87K0b8 Patient CC]], [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny ridden with sexual thoughts he couldn't stand]], decided to castrate himself by injecting himself in the testicles with calcium chloride from a cheese-making kit. Naturally, this did an absolute number to his genitalia; between the calcium chloride constricting the veins and triggering cell death, and the sudden influx of calcium creating large masses of calcium phosphate, he succeeded in rendering his testicles useless, at the cost of agonizing pain. [[ForWantOfANail All of this could have been avoided]] if he simply opted to choose psychotherapy or medication to manage his intrusive thoughts.

* GroinAttack: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibetd87K0b8 Patient CC]], [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny ridden with sexual thoughts he couldn't stand]], decided to castrate himself by injecting himself in the testicles with calcium chloride from a cheese-making kit. Naturally, this did an absolute number to his genitalia; between the calcium chloride constricting the veins and triggering cell death, and the sudden influx of calcium creating large masses of calcium phosphate, he succeeded in rendering his testicles useless, at the cost of agonizing pain.

* BittersweetEnding: Any case where the patient only makes ''a'' recovery instead of a complete one; they survived, but will probably be physically affected by the incident for the rest of their lives.

** After descriving the patient's case, Bernard often asks something along the lines of 'can the doctors do anything to treat this?', answering himself with 'maybe', and then explaining possible treatment pathways.

* AnimeHair: As a result of hairdressers closing in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILowf7Tw7QY Dr. Bernhard himself sported this]] and acknowledged it in the comments.

* AnimeHair: As a result of hairdressers closing in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILowf7Tw7QY Dr. Bernhard himself sports this]] and acknowledges it in the comments.

** Perhaps the best example yet comes from the NyQuil chicken video. As the case is purely hypothetical (unlike most on his channel), Dr. Bernard has no compunctions with going whole hog on the memes and jokes, up to and including naming the patient "OP". Of course, the entire video is presented in his usual composed tone.