YouTube video (Ben Greenfield, uploaded Sept 28, 2018) documenting a clinic visit where Dr. Jason West drains fluid from Ben Greenfield's swollen elbow. The dialogue mixes clinical description and lighthearted banter (references to Dr. Pimple Popper, baby spiders, parasites). Clinically specific details mentioned in the transcript: the physician says he will use a 21-gauge needle and about four cc's of fluid are removed; Ben links the swelling to a prior Spartan race (bear/belly crawling).
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21-gauge
About 4 cc
A Spartan race (after bear/belly crawling)
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Show called Dr. Dr. Pimple Popper. Really? There is a show called Dr. Popper?
Yes.
She's a plastic surgeon.
I can't help but watch, you know, it's like, I gotta see that thing pop.
Oh, I think.
Yeah.
Maybe it's like a baby spider egg or something. I think it's just a precise.
Did you go on your elbows?
You basically got a housemaid's knee up the elbows?
I think so, yeah. Because it happened after a Spartan race.
Yeah.
Where there's a lot of, like, bear crawling and stuff. Belly crawling.
Yeah, that's what it looks like.
You got some swelling here on the front. I don't know if it's enough to go after, but I can. This one. But this one.
Might be able to get that.
Game.
You're in more than game. You've got a big grin all over your face.
I just want to see what it looks like when whatever goes in with a needle.
Let me have you scoot over. In the same.
In a state of euphoria right now.
I get really excited about this stuff. I know I get excited about it. I can't help it. I want to see what comes out. That's as simple as that.
Like pus.
No. Baby spiders.
Can you imagine? Parasites.
Parasites. Yeah.
You heard all the spiders.
I'll leave the first one out of here.
Just leaves the needle hanging out of my elbow.
Just drops everything and takes off. I'll be like, ben. I'll be like, well, I guess that means I have to take over.
Dan whips out his conceal and carry.
Pop, pop, pop, pop.
Like aliens.
I'll be like, cool, I'll take over. Fire up the ozone.
You can take over. Me and spiders, not so good. I would leave.
Exactly. There's lots of machines in this facility. You gotta have a spider killer.
It's an invasive evasive procedure.
What gauge needle are you gonna use?
I'm gonna use a 21.
Should I use an 18 and whatever you're happy with? I don't.
Because I think.
All right, here we go.
For the record, I'm pretty sure that wasn't numb and crazy.
It's pretty cool. You could see the needle getting guided on the.
It's going down, going and.
Yeah.
That's got to be a lot of relief. That's stuff coming out.
Oh, yeah. It's got about four cc's.
Wow.
Wait, I just forgot third grade math. What happened?
Okay, I'm just gonna mount it over here.
People come from all over the World to Dr. West's clinic to have their elbows Drained.
Yeah, yeah, whatever that means.
Dr. Pimple Popper.
Dr. Pimple, whatever that may mean.
Is there any use we could like, can you use that as an anti aging serum on people's face or anything like that while you're pulling out of there? Yeah, sell it ebay it.
Oh, there you go. You got something.
That was an artery.
No, it's just like the color changed.
Or the color of the fluid changed.
Yeah, that's about it.
A lot of fluid in there, huh?
Yeah, it should feel a lot better. But I gotta put some Go Go juice in.
Go Go Juice.
But do you think that's just.
Well, that's why he's gonna put a little bit of.
Put.
Last till my next spartan race. So I eff it up again.
Where do you sp and reset? My next one's in Colorado.
Yeah.
That's a great photo of the needle.
Can you see how much there is?
Yeah.
And it's very light. You'll see it when it. When.
So it's not blood?
No, it was like. Like a good.
It's not.
It looked p. I know. You don't. I don't know.
You don't know.
That sounds so bad.
No, it sounds infectious.
Sounds like infection.
I meant to say that was like.
That's what I was saying to you. Yes. There are other, other spellings of that word though.
Yeah.
So if, if it did have. Then we would be a little bit nervous.
Yeah.
You would see me saying, damn.
Worse than baby spiders. Yeah.
So we've got.
So you guys, this is where we're going right here.
