In this video, Mikhail Varshavski, DO — who goes by “Dr. Mike” on social media — reacts to dangerous stunt videos.
Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible):
Varshavski: Sometimes incredible videos on TikTok go well. Oh, he did it! And sometimes they go horribly wrong. Someone needs to call the doctor. A huge thanks to Audible for sponsoring this video. Peewoop.
Oh, these videos always freak me out. Ooh, good catch. Good catch! Sick catch. Ooh, he had like 38 flips! Backwards catch. All I’m picturing is people like that landing on their necks, and then having like a spinal cord injury. It’s so scary to me.
Oh, here we go. Dude, is there… Where is the spotter? No spotter? It’s like benching without a spotter. Probably worse.
Ooh, oh! Oh. I wonder if this person did that on purpose. Oh, yeah. They did. They could do tricks and stuff. I just feel like your toe would hurt after a while. You probably don’t need pedicures often. That’s so cool. Oh! And that is how you get a neck injury.
Oh, that’s funny. Growing up in Brooklyn, you lived on those. You collected nickels until you saved up 99 cents to purchase those. What you do is you throw them on the floor and they make a popping sound. Parents hated them. My grandparents hated them. So much fun. He screamed because he probably burned himself.
Male: What is your deal?
Varshavski: What is your deal? Torture. This flip is wild. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh! Oh my God. If he would have got… if he would have got back on the bike, I would say he deserves an award. I would go on his Patreon and sub. You should go on my Patreon and sub by the way. We have a Patreon community where all the money gets donated to charity, but you get access to an exclusive discourse. I thought it was a good way to plug it.
Wow. But wow. He caught the bike. Oh, he did it! He did it! Oh, he caught the bike and flipped it. I don’t know much about this sport, but that’s got to be like top 5 tricks of all time.
“The scouts? All over me.” Oh! Oh! You know what’s funny? That’s probably not going to cause him any real injury outside of just like immense pain for a short period of time.
Okay. I already know this is going to end poorly simply because this branch just looks flimsy. Oh! See? How could she have not predicted that? I think she was okay with that.
Oh man. What is this? Again, doing it for the ‘gram. He is benching a bench. Did he weigh the bench first? I have so many questions. The chain around his neck is supposed to work his abs more. But my question with that is, do you really want pressure around your carotid artery while you’re exercising? My answer is probably not.
Oh! He is going down. Oh? He, he… Oh! Oh! Oh, oh. How did he not tear his ACL, MCL, LCL, PCL? So many injuries.
“By far the dumbest thing I’ve tried in the gym.” Oh, I didn’t even realize what was happening. It took me a second. Now, see I would find this cool if instead of having weights on one side and the dude on the other side he had twins, identical twins, hanging.
Ooh, ooh. Ooh! Clavicle fracture, shoulder dislocation, easy on that. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Honestly, definitely just keeping going because of the video. If there was no video, staying down. These are so dangerous. Like never do this not on the road. Just don’t.
Oh, my god. How do you let your friend do that? That was so obvious that that was going to happen. And you know what I’m even more upset about? That he kicked a football with his bare foot. You know how easy it is to break a toe like that? Think about the toe.
“This man in his 70s flipped off the swing.” Well, yeah, he is probably having some words said. Whoa! I thought he was going to flip off the swing negatively. Wow, my man just picked up his groceries and said, “Let’s go to Whole Foods, baby.” Back to the TikToks in just a second.
All right, let’s get back to these TikToks and see what happens. Oh my God, this is terrible. Why would you do this? I… hip dislocation is happening. This is not normal human anatomy physiology. The only thing that is normal in this image to me is the dude holding the cell phone, leaning over, trying to stay out of the shot, but failing to do so. Everything else about this, it’s not that it’s not normal. It’s extreme amazingness and a lot of leopard print.
Turning off gravity. You are now free to float. Whoa! Those are some powerful pecks and scaps. Wow. Rhomboids. Everything activated.
“Making my way downtown.” Oh no. Is there a person on the stretcher? Is there someone on that gurney? No way. No way. No, no. There is no one on it. There is? Oh, you better sprint after that person. They are in the crosswalk. Oh, that’s malpractice.
Now this is fun. This is like one of those game shows. Ooh, ooh. Ooh, it speeds up. Ooh, ooh! Ooh, ooh. Ah! Dodge! Dip! Duck! It’s like one of those bull-riding things where you get on like, “This is cake” and then 2 seconds later you’re flying across the room.
Oh no. I feel like the ball is going to come at the screen. Is that what’s going to happen? How did he just eat it? He ate it! Did he have some kind of eye protection?
Sam: I think it hit his forehead, so it hit the helmet.
Varshavski: Oh, wow. Balls.
Sam: He did not duck out of the way.
Varshavski: Balls on multiple levels.
Whoa, that was a lot higher than I thought it was. If you don’t land that fall with feet first accuracy and you belly flop, that’s a dangerous fall. I don’t recommend that.
Okay. Oh, oh. It’s a transformer. It’s a transformer robot. Why does he have a helicopter thing? That’s kind of cool, though. Oh my God. I kind of want to do that. How do I get one of those?
Mike Varshavski, DO, is a board-certified family physician and social media influencer with more than 9 million subscribers.