Video taking off 6.3x its usual first day

ISMO has questions about doctors taking "new patients"

The Finnish comedian turns American appointment booking into a stand-up routine that has already passed his usual full-day audience.

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ISMO Story of November 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 108,817 views a day, 6.3 times a normal first day on this channel (17,270).

ISMO | Seeing a Doctor in America

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0:00ISMO introduces his long-delayed American doctor's visit as a "10-year checkup."
1:05The question "Are you taking new patients?" becomes a puzzle about whom doctors are willing to treat.
2:35A waiter's first-visit question makes ISMO imagine restaurants refusing new customers.
3:15The doctor's automated emergency message sets up an imaginary receptionist offering a distant appointment.
5:14The closing callback arrives when an emergency dispatcher answers.

ISMO announces that, after a decade living in America, he is finally going to see a doctor there. "It's time for my 10-year checkup," he says.

That decision supplies the setup for "ISMO | Seeing a Doctor in America," which drew about 55,000 views in its first eight hours, already well beyond the channel's usual first-day audience.

The obstacle isn't a medical procedure. It's the language of getting through the door. ISMO recounts asking a friend how to find a doctor, learning about insurance and encountering a question that sounds increasingly strange the longer he examines it: "Are you taking new patients?" What, he wonders, is wrong with being a new one?

He contrasts that with booking an available slot online in Finland. Then the anxiety follows him out to dinner: when a waiter asks whether it's his first visit, he starts wondering whether restaurants might refuse new customers too.

It's a familiar ISMO move, taking an everyday English phrase literally until its oddness becomes hard to ignore. Here, the appointment question even escapes into the comments, where a newcomer jokingly asks whether the channel is accepting new subscribers.

The routine's final stretch moves to the doctor's automated phone message. Its instruction to hang up and call 911 sends ISMO into an imagined emergency-booking conversation, with an appointment offered months away.

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What viewers say

I’m new to this channel. Are you taking in new subscribers?
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-- Are you taking new patients?

Doc: -- I'm not gonna lie....
@leandro3825See it on YouTube
Whatever You do Ismo ...
do NOT go to see Dr. Acula !!!!
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