Private Equity Bathroom Breaks

About this video

Private equity character Bartholomew Banks confronts a physician for spending eleven minutes in the bathroom, far longer than a statistic he cites for an average bowel movement. Flanary portrays Banks explaining he bought the hospital to raise its value through austerity and resell it, then demanding the doctor recover lost revenue by multitasking on the toilet, shortening handwashing songs, and accepting nearly transparent toilet paper. The sketch pushes his bottom-line logic into personal bodily surveillance.

Key takeaways

• Bartholomew Banks is the recurring personification of private equity in this series
• Flanary portrays cost-cutting as extending to toilet paper quality and handwashing time
• The sketch argues, in his framing, that every non-revenue minute is treated as waste by ownership
• Making clinical decisions from the bathroom is offered, in the scene, as an acceptable efficiency

Episode details: published February 14, 2023 · 308.9K views · 1:46 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Everything described is Dr. Glaucomflecken’s (Will Flanary, MD) satire and commentary on the US medical system, attributed to him as satire — his sketches are comedy, not documentation, and this is not medical advice.

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