Podcast appearances and mentions of will flanary

Below is a brief video snippet from our conversation. Full videos of all Ground Truths podcasts can be seen on YouTube here. The current one is here. If you like the YouTube format, please subscribe! This one has embedded one of my favorite TikTok's from Will. There are several links to others in the transcript. The audios are also available on Apple and Spotify.Transcript with links to both audio and videos, commencement addresses, NEJM article coverageEric Topol (00:06):Hi, it's Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and I've got an amazing couple with me today. It's Will Flanary and Kristin Flanary, the Glaucomfleckens. I've had the chance to get to know them a bit through Knock Knock, Hi! which is their podcast. And of course, everyone knows Dr. Glaucomflecken from his TikTok world and his other about 4 million followers on Instagram and Twitter and all these other social media, and YouTube. So welcome.Will Flanary (00:43):Thanks for having us.Kristin Flanary (00:44):Thank you. Happy to be here.By Way of BackgroundEric Topol (00:45):Yeah. Well, this is going to be fun because I'm going to go a quick background so we can go fast forward because we did an interview back in early 2022.Kristin Flanary (00:56):Yes.Eric Topol (00:57):And what you've been doing since then is rocking it. You're like a meteoric, right. And it was predictable, like rarefied talent and who couldn't love humor, medical humor, but by way of background, just for those who are not up to speed. I guess you got your start, Will, as a class clown when your mother was a teacher in the sixth grade.Will Flanary (01:22):Yep, yep. I misbehaved a little bit. It helped that I still made good grades, but I cut up a bit in class.Eric Topol (01:32):And then you were already in the comedy club circuits doing standup in Houston as an 18-year-old.Will Flanary (01:40):It was all amateur stuff, nothing, just dabble in it and trying to get better. I was always kind of naturally funny just with my friend group and everything. I loved making people laugh, but doing standups is a whole different ball game. And so, I started doing that around Houston as a high school senior and kept that going through college and a little bit into med school.Kristin Flanary (02:02):Houston was a good training ground, right? That where Harris Wittels was also coming up.Will Flanary (02:07):Yeah. A lot of famous comedians have come through Houston. Even going back to Bill Hicks back in the, was that the 80s, I think? Or 90s?Eric Topol (02:17):Well, and then of course, it was I think in 2020 when you launched Dr. Glaucomflecken, I think. Is that right?Will Flanary (02:28):That's when it really started to take off. I was on Twitter telling jokes back in 2016.Kristin Flanary (02:39):GomerBlog before that, that's actually where it was born.Will Flanary (02:41):I was doing satire writing. I basically do what I'm doing now, but in article form, trying to be The Onion of medicine. And then the pandemic hit, started doing video content and that's really with lockdown. That's when, because everybody was on social media, nobody had anything else to do. So it was right place, right time for me and branching out into video content.On to Medical School Commencement AddressesEric Topol (03:11):Alright, so that's the background of some incredible foundation for humor. But since we last got together, I'll link the Medicine and the Machine interview we did back then. What has been happening with you two is nothing short of incredible. I saw your graduation speeches, Will. Yale in 2022, I watched the UCSF in 2023 and then the University of Michigan in 2024. Maybe there's other ones I don't even know.Kristin Flanary (03:45):There's a few others.Will Flanary (03:45):There's a few. But I feel like you've done, I'm sure your fair share of commencement addresses as well. It's kind of hard to come up with different ways to be inspirational to the next generation. So fortunately, we have together, we have some life experiences and learned a thing or two by doing all of this social media stuff and just the things we've been through that I guess I have enough things to say to entertain an interest.Eric Topol (04:18):Well, you're being humble as usual, but having watched those commencement addresses, they were the best medical commencement addresses I've ever seen. And even though you might have told us some of the same jokes, they were so great that it was all right. Yeah, and you know what is great about it is you've got these, not the students, they all love you of course, because they're probably addicted to when's your next video going to get posted.(04:44):But even the old professors, all the family members, it's great. But one of the things I wanted to get at. Well, I'll start with the graduation speeches, because you were such an inspiration, not just with humor, but your message. And this gets back to you as a couple and the tragedies you've been through. So you really, I think, got into this co-survivor story and maybe Kristin, since you are the co-survivor of two bouts of Will's testicular cancer, and then the sudden cardiac death. I mean, people don't talk about this much, so maybe you could help enlighten us.Tragedies and Being a Co-SurvivorKristin Flanary (05:26):Yeah, it's funny because the experience of being a co-survivor is nothing new. It's as long as we've had human beings, we've had co-survivors. But the concept around it and giving it a name and a label, a framework to be able to think about it, that is what I think is new and what people haven't talked about before. So co-survivor is just this idea that when a medical trauma happens to a patient, the patient has their experience and if they survive it, they are a survivor and they have a survivor experience. And also, most people are closely attached to at least one other person, if not many. And those people are co-surviving the medical event along with the survivor. That event is happening in their lives as was happening to them too. If someone comes in with a patient to the hospital, that person, you can just assume by default that their lives are pretty intimately or profoundly intertwined or else why would that person be there? And so, thinking of it as there's the patient and then there's also a co-patient, that family members in the past have only been thought of as caregivers if they've been thought of at all. And that is certainly one aspect of the role, but it's important to remember that whatever it is that's happening to the patient is also affecting the family members' lives in a really deep and profound way.Eric Topol (07:04):That's really helpful. Now, the fact that you recognize that in your graduation speech, Will, I think is somewhat unique. And of course, some of the other things that you touched on like playing to your creativity and the human factors, I mean, these are so important messages.Will Flanary (07:23):Well, in the discussion about co-survivorship and because I talk about that whenever I do my keynotes and when I do the commencement addresses, but all credit goes to Kristin for really being the driving force of this idea for me and for many others because as a physician, we take care of patients. Our focus is always on the patient. And it really wasn't until this happened to me and my family and Kristin in particular that I started to understand exactly what she's talking about and this idea. And so, Kristin gets a lot of credit for just really bringing that term and that idea to the forefront.Eric Topol (08:09):Yeah, well, you saved his life. It's just not many have that bond. And then the other thing I just want to mention now, you've been recognized by the American Heart Association and a whole bunch of other organizations awarded because of your advocacy for CPR. And you even mentioned that I think in one of your commencement addresses.Will Flanary (08:31):Yeah, I tried to get the crowd to do CPR. Like team up, partner up, and it kind of fell flat. It wasn't quite the right time, I think, to try to do a mass class on CPR. So maybe next time.Eric Topol (08:47):Right. Well, so you had this foundation with the Glaucomflecken General Hospital and taking on 37 specialties and all these incredible people that became part of the family, if you will, of spoof on medicine and your alter ego and these videos that you would do. And sometimes you have three or four different alter egos in there playing out, but now you've branched into new things. So one which is an outgrowth of what we were just talking about. You've been on this country tour, Wife & Death.“Wife and Death,” A Nationwide TourKristin Flanary (09:28):Yes.Eric Topol (09:29):Wife and death. I mean, yeah, I guess we can make the connect of how you named it that, but what is it you've been selling out in cities all over the country, and by the way, I'm really upset you haven't come to San Diego, but tell us about wife and death.Will Flanary (09:44):Yeah. Well, we have this amazing story and all these medical challenges we've been through, and then developing the Glaucomflecken brand and universe, and we've done keynotes together for years, and then we thought, let's have more fun with it. Let's do keynotes. They're great. We can get our message out, but sometimes they're just a bit stuffy. It's an academic environment.Kristin Flanary (10:15):They're usually at seven in the morning also, so that's the downside.Will Flanary (10:21):So we thought, let's just put together our own live show. Let's put together something that we could just creatively, we can do whatever we want with it. I could dress up as characters, Kristin, who has these beautiful writing and monologues that she's put together around her experience and just to create something that people can come into a theater and just experience this wide range of emotions from just laughter to tears of all kinds, and just have them feel the story and enjoy this story. Fortunately, it has a happy ending because I'm still alive and it's been so much fun. The audiences have been incredible. Mostly healthcare, but even some non-healthcare people show up, and we've been blown away by the response. Honestly, we should have done bigger theaters. That's our lesson for the first go round.Eric Topol (11:21):I saw you had to do a second show in Pittsburgh.Will Flanary (11:24):We did.Kristin Flanary (11:26):That one sold out too. Something about Pittsburgh, that was a good crowd, and there was a lot of them.Will Flanary (11:33):It was almost like in Pittsburgh, they rarely ever get any internet comedian ophthalmologists that come through. I don't know.Eric Topol (11:41):Well, I see you got some still to come in Denver and Chicago. This is amazing. And I wondered who was coming and I mean, it's not at all surprising that there'd be this phenomenal popularity. So that's one thing you've done that's new, which is amazing. And of course, it's a multidimensional story. The one that shocked me, I have to tell you, shocked me, was the New England Journal partnership. The New England Journal is the most stodgy, arrogant, I mean so difficult. And not only that.Kristin Flanary (12:17):You said that. Not us.Partnering with the New England Journal of Medicine!Eric Topol (12:19):Yeah, yeah. They'll get this too. They know we don't get along that well, but that's okay. You even made fun of journals. And now you're partnering with the New England Journal, God's greatest medical journal, or whatever. Tell us about that.Will Flanary (12:39):Well, so one thing that I really enjoy doing, and I've done it with my US healthcare system content is almost like tricking people into learning things. And so, if you make something funny, then people will actually sit there and listen to what you have to say about deductibles and physician-owned hospitals and all these inner workings. DIR fees and pharmacy, all these things that are really dry topics. But if you can make them funny, all of a sudden people will actually learn and listen to it. And the New England Journal of Medicine, they approached me with an idea. Basically just to take one or two of their trials per month. And I just make a skit out of that trial with the idea being to help disseminate some of the research findings that are out there, because I guess it's getting harder and harder for people to actually read, to sit down and read a journal article.(13:43):And so, I have to credit them for having this idea and thinking outside the box of a different way to get medical information and knowledge out to the masses. And you're absolutely right, that I have been critical of journals, and particularly I've been critical of the predatory nature of some of the larger journals out there, like Elsevier. I've specifically named Elsevier, Springer, these journals that have a 40% profit margin. And I certainly thought about that whenever I was looking into this partnership. And the reason I was okay with doing it with the New England Journal is because they're a nonprofit, first of all, so they're run by the Massachusetts Medical Society. That's the publisher for that journal. And so, I feel okay partnering with them because I feel like they're doing it in a much better way than some of the bigger journal corporations out there.Kristin Flanary (14:54):Well, and also part of the deal that we negotiated was that those articles that you make skits about those will be available open access.Will Flanary (15:03):Oh yeah. That was a prerequisite. Yes. It was like, if I'm going to do this, the articles that I'm talking about need to be free and readily available. That's part of it.Eric Topol (15:14):I think you've done about five already, something like that. And I watched them, and I just was blown away. I mean, the one that got me where I was just rolling on the floor, this one, the Belantamab Mafodotin for Multiple Myeloma. And when you were going on about the Bortezomib, Dexamethasone. We'll link to this. I said, oh my God.Will Flanary (15:40):Yeah. The joke there is, you don't have any idea how long it took me to say those things that quickly. And so, I was writing this skit and I'm like, wouldn't it be funny if somehow that triggered a code stroke in the hospital because this person is saying all these random words that don't have any meaning to anybody. Man, I tell you, I am learning. Why would I ever need to know any of this information as an ophthalmologist? So it's great. I know all this random stuff about multiple myeloma that I probably would never have learned otherwise.Kristin Flanary (16:21):It's the only way, you won't read a journal either.Eric Topol (16:23):Well, and if you read the comments on the post. These doctors saying, this is the only way they want to get journal information from now on.Will Flanary (16:33):Which is double-edged sword, maybe a little bit. Obviously, in a 90 second skit, there's no way I'm going to cover the ins and outs of a major trial. So it's really, in a lot of ways, it's basically like, I call it a comedy abstract. I'm not going much further than an abstract, but hopefully people that are actually interested in the topic can have their interest piqued and want to read more about it. That's kind of the idea.Eric Topol (17:06):Yeah. Well, they're phenomenal. We'll link to them. People will enjoy them. I know, because I sure did. And tenecteplase for stroke and all that you've done. Oh, they're just phenomenal.Will Flanary (17:20):Every two weeks we come out with a new one.Eric Topol (17:24):And that is basically between the fact that you are now on the commencement circuit of the top medical schools and doing New England Journal videos on their articles. You've crossed a line from just making fun of insurance companies and doctors of specialties.Kristin Flanary (17:44):Oh, he has crossed many lines, Dr. Topol.Eric Topol (17:46):Yeah. Oh yeah. Now you've done it, really. Back two years ago when we convened, actually it's almost three, but you said, when's it going to be your Netflix special?Will Flanary (18:02):Oh, gosh.Eric Topol (18:02):Is that in the works now?Will Flanary (18:04):Well, I'll tell you what's in the works now.Kristin Flanary (18:06):Do you know anyone at Netflix?Will Flanary (18:09):A New Animated SeriesNo. We're working on an animated series.Eric Topol (18:12):Oh, wow. Wow.Will Flanary (18:13):Yeah. All these characters. It's basically just this fictional hospital and all these characters are very cartoonish, the emergency physician that wears the bike helmet and everything. So it's like, well, what do we have together? What do we, Kristin and I have time for? And it wasn't like moving to LA and trying to make a live action with actors and do all, which is something we probably could have tried to do. So instead, we were like, let's just do an animated series.Kristin Flanary (18:48):Let's have someone else do the work and draw us.Will Flanary (18:51):So we've worked with a writer for the first time, which was a fun process, and putting together a few scripts and then also an animator. We learned a lot about that process. Kristin and I are doing the voiceovers. And yeah, it's in process.Kristin Flanary (19:10):We're the only actors we could afford.Will Flanary (19:12):Right, exactly.Eric Topol (19:13):I can't wait to see it. Now when will it get out there?Will Flanary (19:17):Well, we're hoping to be able to put it out on our YouTube channel sometime early next year. So January, February, somewhere around there. And then we can't fund the whole thing ourselves. So the idea is that we do this, we do this pilot episode, and then we'll see what kind of interest we can generate.Eric Topol (19:37):Well, there will be interest. I am absolutely assured of that. Wow.Will Flanary (19:42):Let us know if you know anybody at the Cartoon Network.Kristin and Will Flanary (19:45):Yeah, we're open to possibilities. Whatever, Discovery channel. I don't know.Eric Topol (19:51):You've gotten to a point now where you're ready for bigger things even because you're the funniest physician couple in medicine today.Kristin Flanary (20:05):Well, that's a very low bar, but thank you.Will Flanary (20:08):There are some funny ones out there, but yeah, I appreciate that.Eric Topol (20:11):Well, I'm a really big comedy fan. Every night I watch the night before, since I'm old now, but of Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, just to hear the monologues. Trevor Noah, too. And I can appreciate humor. I'll go to see Sebastian Maniscalco or Jim Gaffigan. That's one of the things I was going to ask you about, because when you do these videos, you don't have an audience.Will Flanary (20:39):Oh yeah.Eric Topol (20:40):You're making it as opposed to when you are doing your live shows, commencement addresses and things like that. What's the difference when you're trying to be humorous, and you have no audience there?Will Flanary (20:55):Well, whenever I'm filming a skit, it's just all production. In fact, I feel like it's funny. I think it's funny, but it's really not until I see the response to it, or I show Kristin, or what I have is where I really know if it's going to work. It's great to put the content out there and see the responses, but there's nothing like live interaction. And that's why I keep coming back to performing. And Kristin's been a performer too in her life. And I think we both really enjoy just the personal interaction, the close interaction, the response from people to our story.Kristin Flanary (21:36):We do most of our work alone in this room. I do a lot of writing. He does a lot of playing.Will Flanary (21:44):Dress up.Kristin Flanary (21:44):All the people in his head, and we do that very isolated. And so, it's very lovely to be able to actually put names to faces or just see human bodies instead of just comments on YouTube.Will Flanary (21:59):Meet people.Kristin Flanary (21:59):It's really nice.Will Flanary (22:01):We've been doing meet and greets at the live shows and seeing people come up wearing their costumes.Eric Topol (22:07):Oh, wow.Will Flanary (22:11):Some of them talk about how they tell us their own stories about their own healthcare and talk about how the videos help them get through certain parts of the pandemic or a difficult time in their life. And so, it reinforces that this means something to a lot of people.Kristin Flanary (22:29):It's been really fun for me, and probably you too, but to get to see the joy that he has brought so many people. That's really fun to see in person especially.Eric Topol (22:42):No question. Now, when you're producing it together, do you ever just start breaking into laughter because it's you know how funny this is? Or is it just you're on kind of a mission to get it done?Will Flanary (22:54):Well, the skits I do by myself. And sometimes when I'm writing out the skit, when I'm writing the skit itself, I will laugh at myself sometimes. Not often, but sometimes they're like, oh, I know that's really funny. I just wrote a skit that I'm actually going to be debuting. I'm speaking at the American Academy of PM&R, so the big PM&R conference. I'm writing a skit, it's How to Ace your PM&R residency interview.Will Flanary (23:28):I was writing up that skit today and kind of chuckling to myself. So sometimes that happens, but whenever we do our podcast together, we definitely have outtakes.Kristin Flanary (23:38):Oh yeah, we've got some.Will Flanary (23:40):We crack each other up.Kristin Flanary (23:41):We do.Will Flanary (23:42):Sometimes we're getting a little punchy toward the end of the day.Eric Topol (23:47):And how is the Knock Knock, Hi! podcast going?Will Flanary (23:51):It's awesome. Yeah.Kristin Flanary (23:52):Yeah. It's a really fun project.Will Flanary (23:54):We still enjoy. You can work with your spouse and in close proximity and still be happily married. So it's doable everyone.Kristin Flanary (24:06):That's right. And we're in that phase of life that's really busy. We've got kids, we've got a gazillion jobs. House, my parents are around, and so it's like the only time all week that we actually get to sit down and talk to each other. So it's actually kind of like a part of our marriage at this point.Will Flanary (24:28):We're happy to involve the public in our conversations, but we couldn't do it because we have all these things going on, all our hands and all these little places. We can't do it without a team.Kristin Flanary (24:41):Yeah, absolutely.Will Flanary (24:41):And that's the thing that I've learned, because I've always been a very loner type content creator. I just wanted to do it all myself. It's in my head and I have trouble telling others, describing what's in my head. And Kristin and our producers have helped me to be able to give a little bit of control to others who are really good at what they do. And that's really the only way that we've been able to venture out into all these different things we've talked about.Eric Topol (25:12):Well, I think it comes down to, besides your ability to get to people in terms of their laughter receptors, you have this incisive observer capability. And that's one of the things I don't, I can't fathom because when you can understand the nuances of each specialty or of each part of healthcare, and you haven't necessarily interacted with these specialists or at least in recent years, but you nail it every time. I don't know how you do it, really that observational, is that a central quality of a comedian, you think?Will Flanary (25:52):There's definitely a big part of that. You got to get the content from somewhere. But for the specialties, it's really first about just getting the personalities down. And that doesn't change over time.Kristin Flanary (26:08):Or around the world.Will Flanary (26:09):Or around the world. We hear from people from all over the world about, oh, it's the same in Guatemala as it is in the US.Kristin Flanary (26:18):Surgeons are the same.Will Flanary (26:19):Yeah.Kristin Flanary (26:20):Emergency is the same.Will Flanary (26:21):Which has been really cool to see. But so, I draw on my experience interacting with all these specialties back in my med school and intern days. You're right, as an ophthalmologist, we don't get out very much.Eric Topol (26:33):No.Will Flanary (26:35):So very few people have ever seen an ophthalmologist. We do exist. But then beyond that, I do have to include some actual medical things. And so, I actually, I do a lot of research. I find myself learning more about other fields sometimes than I do in my own field. So especially the further out I get from med school, I know less and less.Eric Topol (27:00):Yeah, that's what I was thinking. But you're always spot on. It's interesting to get that global perspective from both of you. Now you're still doing surgery and practicing ophthalmology. Have you reduced it because this has just been taking off so much more over the recent years or keeping it the same?Will and Kristin Flanary (27:21):Nope, I'm still. Do you know how many years I had to come along on all of this medical training? He is not allowed to give this up.Will Flanary (27:29):I know there's something called a sunk cost fallacy, but this is no fallacy. There's enough of a sunk cost. I got to stick with it. No, I still enjoy it. That's the thing. It actually, it informs my comedy, it grounds me. All of the social media stuff is built upon this medical foundation that I have. And if I stopped practicing, I guess I could maybe cut back. But I'm not planning on doing that. If I stop practicing medicine, I feel like it would make my content less.Kristin Flanary (28:07):Authentic.Will Flanary (28:08):Less authentic, yeah. That's a good way to put it.Eric Topol (28:09):Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. That's great you can get that balance with all the things you're doing.Will Flanary (28:17):And if I stop practicing medicine, they're not going to invite me to any more commencement addresses, Dr. Topol. So I got to draw the line somewhere.Eric Topol (28:28):One of the statements you made at some point earlier was, it was easier to go to become a doctor than to try to be a comedian. And yeah, I mean you proven that.Will Flanary (28:38):A lot of ways. That's true.Eric Topol (28:40):Wow. I am pretty awestruck about the rarefied talent that you bring and what you both have done for medicine today. And the thing is, you're so young, you have so much time ahead to have an impact.Will Flanary (28:57):You hear that Kristin, we're young. Look at that.Kristin Flanary (29:00):That's getting less and less true.Will Flanary (29:01):Kristin, she just turned 40. It's right around the corner for me. So I don't know.Will Flanary (29:11):We got some years left.Eric Topol (29:12):You're like young puppies. Are you kidding? You're just getting started. But no, I think that what you brought to medicine in terms of comedy, there's no other entity, no person or people like you have done. And just the last thing I want to ask you about is, you have a platform for advocacy. You've been doing that. We talked about co-survivor. We talked about nurturing the human qualities in physicians like creativity and also taking on the insurance companies, which are just monstrous. I'll link a couple of those, but the brain MRI one or the Texaco.Will Flanary (29:54):Texaco Mike.Eric Topol (29:55):Yeah, that one is amazing. But there is so many. I mean, you've just taken them apart and they deserve every bit of it. Do you have any other targets for advocacy or does that just kind of come up as things go?Will Flanary (30:08):It kind of comes up as things go. There's things I keep harping on. The prior authorization reform, which I've helped in a couple of different states. There's a lot of good people around the country doing really good work on prior authorization and reforming that whole process. And I've been able to just play a small part in that in a couple of different ways. And it's been really fun to do that. And so, I do plan on continuing that crusade as it were. There's certain things I'd like to see. I've been learning more about what pharmacists are dealing with as well as a physician. Unfortunately, we are very separate in a lot of ways and just how we come up in medicine. And so, I have had my eyes opened a lot to what community pharmacists are dealing with. For all the terrible things that we have to deal with as physicians in the healthcare system. Pharmacists have just as much, if not more of the things that they're doing that are threatening their livelihoods. And so, I had love to see some more reform on the PBM side of things, pharmacy benefit managers, Caremark, Optum, all of them. They're causing lots of problems.Eric Topol (31:24):I couldn't agree with you more. In fact, I'm going to have Mark Cuban on in a few weeks and we're going to get into that. But the pharmacists get abused by these chains.Will Flanary (31:33):Oh, it's bad. It's really bad.Eric Topol (31:35):Horrible, horrible. I feel, and every time I am in a drugstore working with one of them, I just think what a tough life they have to deal with.Will Flanary (31:45):I guess from an advocacy standpoint, the good news is that there's never a shortage of terrible injustices that are being foisted upon the public and physicians and healthcare workers.Kristin Flanary (31:59):Yes. The US healthcare system is ripe for advocacy.Will Flanary (32:01):Yes. And that's a lesson that I tell people too, and especially the med students coming up, is like, there's work to be done and get in touch with your state societies and there's always work to be done.Eric Topol (32:18):Now you've stayed clear of politics. Totally clear, right?Will Flanary (32:24):For the most part, yeah. Yeah. It depends on what you consider politics. It depends on what you consider politics.Eric Topol (32:32):It being election day, you haven't made any endorsements.Will Flanary (32:36):I haven't. And I don't know. I can only handle so much. I've got my things that I really care about. Of course I'm voting, but I want to talk on the things that I feel like I have the expertise to talk about. And I think there's nothing wrong with that. Everybody can't have an opinion on everything, and it means something. So I am happy to discuss the things that I have expertise about, and I'm always on the side of the patient and wanting to make life better for our patients. And that's the side I'm on.Kristin Flanary (33:25):I think also he never comes out and explicitly touches on certain topics, but it's not hard to tell where he falls.Will Flanary (33:34):If you really want read into it all.Kristin Flanary (33:38):It's not like it's a big secret.Eric Topol (33:40):I thought that too. I'm glad you mentioned it, Kristin. But it doesn't come out wide open. But yeah, it's inferred for sure.Eric Topol (33:49):I think the point being there is that because you have a reach, I think there's no reach that it has 4 million plus people by your posts and no less the tours and keynotes and everything else. So you could go anywhere but sticking to where you're well grounded, it makes a lot of sense. And anyway, I am going to be staying tuned. This is our two-year checkup. I'm hoping you're going to come to San Diego on your next tour.Kristin Flanary (34:21):We're working on 2025 plans.Will Flanary (34:23):Oh, we got more shows coming up. And we'll hit up other parts of the country too.Eric Topol (34:28):I feel like I got to meet you in person, give you a hug or something. I just feel like I'm missing out there. But it's just a joy to have had a chance to work with you on your podcast. And thanks for coming back on one of mine. There's lots of podcasts out there, but having you and joining you is such fun. So thank you.Will Flanary (34:54):This has been great. Thank you for having us.Kristin Flanary (34:55):Yeah, thank you.*****************************************Thank you for reading, listening and and subscribing to Ground Truths.If you found this fun and informative please share it! Yes, laughter is the best medicine.All content on Ground Truths—its newsletters, analyses, and podcasts, are free, open-access.Paid subscriptions are voluntary. All proceeds from them go to support Scripps Research. Many thanks to those who have contributed—they have greatly helped fund our summer internship programs for the past two years.Thanks to my producer Jessica Nguyen and to Sinjun Balabanoff for audio and video support at Scripps Research.Note on Exodus from X/twitter:Many of you have abandoned the X platform for reasons that I understand. 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Dr. Glaucomflecken (Dr. Will Flanary) and Dr. Basil Williams join for a heartfelt discussion of ophthalmology resident wellness and burnout, depression and suicide in medicine, and strategies at the ground level to address outstanding issues.Relevant Financial Disclosures: NoneYou can claim CME credits for prior episodes via the AAO website. Visit https://www.aao.org/browse-multimedia?filter=Audi

Comedian and ophthalmologist Dr. Will Flanary, better known as Dr. Glaucomflecken by his 4 million followers on social media, recently sat down for an exclusive interview during the AAOS 2024 Annual Meeting. He shared his story of going from patient to accidental healthcare advocate and explained how he uses medical satire to entertain and bring attention to key public policy issues.    Guest: Will Flanary, MD, AKA Dr. Glaucomflecken, comedian and ophthalmologist  Host: Adam Bruggeman, MD, FAAOS, FAOrthA, Chair, AAOS Advocacy Council  More links to Dr. Glaucomflecken: YouTube Website Twitter TikTok Instagram

In today's episode I speak with the Glaucomfleckens. Will and Kristin Flanary together join me for a humor filled episode where we explore trauma, healing from trauma, and healthcare design i.e. putting the patient, the clinician and the caretaker at the center of the design process. Will Flanary, MD, is an ophthalmologist and part-time comedian. He moonlights in his free time as “Dr. Glaucomflecken,” a social media personality who creates medical-themed comedy shorts for an audience of over 4 million across social media. Dr. Flanary's humor has been shaped by the tribulations of med school and residency but also by his experiences as a patient. He is a two-time testicular cancer survivor and cardiac arrest survivor, saved by his intrepid wife and her timely CPR.  Kristin Flanary, MA, known as "Lady Glaucomflecken" on social media, offers a unique perspective on healthcare. She has experienced being a patient, caregiver, and co-survivor of her husband's two cancer occurrences and sudden cardiac arrest by age 35. She is honored to have received an EMS Cardiac Arrest Save Challenge Coin (2020), the Citizen CPR Foundation's 40 Under 40 award (2021), and the American Heart Association's Resuscitation Champion award (2022).

I know, I know, it's hard to believe, but in this episode, Sarah chats with Dr Will Flanary. You know, that guy, Glaucomflecken!! When Will/Glaucomflecken agreed to be a guest on Comedicine, Sarah squealed like a little girl on Christmas morning. (For reals though!) Will is a (human) ophthalmologist and (human) comedian who has become a (human) social media sensation with his videos that satirize, lampoon, ridicule and parody the interactions between physicians from different specialties and the health care system in general. Will also uses comedy to expose the ridiculousness of US Health Insurance Companies, speaking truth to power, which is what great satire is all about. Will is a husband, (human) father, (dog) Dad, two-time cancer survivor, one-time cardiac arrest survivor (thanks to the superhero he lives with, aka his wife, aka Lady Glaucomflecken aka Kristin Flanary), podcaster, keynote speaker, comedian, and, honestly, just the nicest guy ever. Just like you thought. Website: https://glaucomflecken.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DGlaucomfleckenInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/docglauc/Podcast: https://glaucomflecken.com/podcast/X: @DGlaucomfleckenTime Stamps: 00:00:00 Introducing someone who needs no introduction, Glaucomflecken!00:00:11 Comedy and medicine go together like peas and carrots!00:08:13 Glaucomflecken was here right when we needed him00:12:03 Choose a specialty where you can sit down in surgery00:18:12 Finding comedy in dark places because you gotta00:21:07 Satire exposes the many many follies of medicine00:29:03 Rural medicine doctors are a lot like veterinarians00:33:25 Glaucomflecken vs US Health Insurance Companies00:37:37 Advocacy through education, one outrageously hilarious sketch at a time00:43:31 Comedy is the coping mechanism that won't destroy your family00:48:01 Where there's Will, there's a way to balance medicine and comedy00:53:47 Glaucomflecken is here for the exposureInstagram @comedicine_comedyComedicine FacebookYour host, Dr Sarah BostonDr Sarah Boston is a veterinary surgical oncologist (cancer surgeon for dogs and cats), cancer survivor (ironic, right?), bestselling author, actor and stand up comedian. She is a 2023 graduate of the Humber College Comedy Performance and Writing Program. She is the 2023 recipient of the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award, which recognizes and supports promising comedic performers in the early stages of their career She is also the recipient of the Award for Academic Excellence from Humber College because she is a nerd in all aspects of her life. Instagram @drsarahboston www.Drsarahboston.com Representation Book Musical Genius Mark Edwards Producer Heather McPherson Twisted Spur Media

First: an update on our recent two-parter with the writer John Green, about the global, decades-long fight to make an important tuberculosis drug more widely available. Just two days after we posted part 2, the activists waging that battle scored a major victory. John Green was kvelling on YouTube, of course. We'll get you up to speed. And for the meat of this episode, we've got a guest a lot of you have been asking for: Physician/comedian Will Flanary, AKA Dr. Glaucomflecken. His punchy videos satirizing the absurdities and cruel complexities of the American health care system have been a fan favorite for years among An Arm and a Leg listeners (and us too).We're sharing a delightful and moving conversation with Dr. G and his wife, educator Kristin Flanary (AKA @LadyGlaucomflecken online), from our pals at The Nocturnists, a podcast about the experiences of health care workers. As the Glaucomfleckens tell Nocturnists host Dr. Emily Silverman, the inspiration behind Flanary's most biting videos. came from the couple's experience dealing with health insurance after he suffered a near-fatal heart attack.Check out the Nocturnists here or wherever you get your podcasts, and Dr. Glaucomflecken's videos on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Send your stories and questions for An Arm and a Leg, or call 724 ARM-N-LEG.And of course we'd love for you to support this show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Will Flanary is an ophthalmologist and stand-up comic who moonlights as the hilarious “Dr. Glaucomflecken” on social media. The Glaucomflecken videos have earned him an enormous worldwide following, as he has gently parodied physicians of many specialties (including pathology). He and his wife Kristin (aka "Lady Glaucomflecken") join me to share their inspirational story, with NO blood bank learning whatsoever! Even so, you've gotta listen!

Emily speaks with ophthalmologist-comedian Will Flanary and educator Kristin Flanary (aka Dr. Glaucomflecken and Lady Glaucomflecken) about their medical comedy platform, and how Will's personal experience with cardiac arrest impacted the way they view their work as healthcare satirists and content creators.

We interview Will Flanary, who is perhaps better known by his comedic stage name: Dr. Glaucomflecken. Just a few of the awesome topics we cover in our conversation: Charitable giving Will's battle with testicular cancer and the time he had a cardiac arrest His thoughts on physician side gigs and residents unionizing … he even shares his biggest personal finance mistake Click here to download the Attend App for Doctors. Looking for a comprehensive financial platform for doctors, by doctors that will help you to secure your financial future?  Make sure to check out HelloAttend.com

We are so excited to be joined today by the Glaucomfleckens. Listen today as we meet Kristin Flannary or Lady Glaucomflecken as well as Will Flanary better known as Dr. Glaucomflecken. Learn about the history behind the Glaucomflecken name, the … Continue reading →

Nicole and Shieva are joined by Dr. Will Flanary, also known as his humorous social media persona: Dr. Glaucomflecken. Dr. Flanary talks openly about his experience as a two-time cancer survivor and shares how his personal and professional life was altered after surviving a sudden cardiac arrest. Dr. Flanary shares how he uses social media to highlight important topics in health and medicine and highlights the important role humor plays in healing both our patients and ourselves. Join us to learn more about the power of laughter in medicine. To learn more about Dr. Flanary: Twitter: @DGlaucomflecken YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCYDVFfp_AN1WBiNwaf9522w TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drglaucomflecken?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lglaucomflecken/ Website: https://glaucomflecken.com/faq/ Music by -  Glasses on the Table by Crowander

In this episode, Dr. Kim interviews Dr. Will Flanary who is not only a practicing physician, but also a comedian who had his start on social media as Dr. Glaucomflecken. Tune in to hear about his story, entrepreneurial journey, and how he uses social media to fulfill his calling as a doctor with a passion for comedy. This episode may inspire you to explore your own creative outlets or interests outside of medicine.    Are you looking for a community to encourage you as you begin, or want to accelerate your business to the next level? Then join thousands of physicians who share the same journey of creating their ideal lives through multiple streams of income by joining us in our Facebook communities such as Passive Income Docs and Passive Income MD.

Will Flanary aka Dr Glaucomflecken is in the middle of his first ever trip to Australia. He tells us what he thinks of our cities, our culture and our people. Host: Andrew BucklowProducer:  Emily PidgeonAssistant Producer: Nina YoungAudio Editor: Joshua BurtonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Will Flanary, better known as Dr. Glaucomflecken, joins to discuss how he responds to online praise and criticism, his take on health insurance companies and prior authorizations, and new projects, including his new podcast "Knock Knock Hi!".Relevant Financial Disclosures: Dr. Flanary generates income via his Dr. Glaucomflecken moniker and via his podcast, "Knock Knock, Hi!".

The medical news publication STAT calls Will Flanary “the Internet's funniest doctor.” The guests we bring on the show usually talk about how technology is changing healthcare, but Will and his wife Kristin are changing healthcare in a very different way—through comedy. A former standup comic who trained as an ophthalmologist and runs a successful ophthalmology practice in Oregon City, Oregon, Will is better known by his alter ego “Dr. Glaucomflecken.” His short videos have millions of views on YouTube and TikTok, and feature a cast of quirky characters, all played by Will himself, who lightly satirize medical culture and the idiosyncracies of the US healthcare system. And now Will and Kristin have a hybrid comedy and interview podcast called “Knock, Knock, Hi” where they bring on guests who share their own weird and hilarious medical stories.If you wanted to find a comparably successful crossover between medicine and comedy, you'd probably have to go all the way back to TV shows like M*A*S*H and Scrubs. But as funny as Will and Kristin's comedy work can be, it comes from a pretty serious place. Will's been on the patient side of medical care. He survived two bouts of testicular cancer. And in May of 2020, after WIll went into cardiac arrest, Kristin saved his life by administering CPR until emergency medical technicians could arrive and rush him to the hospital, where surgeons implanted a defibrillator. It was a nightmare experience. But Flanary's collision after the surgery with the health insurance bureaucracy may have been even worse. All of it became grist for his comedy sketches, and today the Glaucomfleckens videos and podcast range across topics like what goes on behind the scenes in emergency rooms, how oncologists deliver bad news, or why doctors in different specialties sometimes have a hard time communicating. The basic insight behind Will and Kristin's work is that in a country where the healthcare system often feels so broken and so full of crazy personalities, sometimes you just have to laugh.For a full transcript of this episode, please visit our episode page at http://www.glorikian.com/podcast Please rate and review The Harry Glorikian Show on Apple Podcasts! Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:1. Open the Podcasts app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. 2. Navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show podcast. You can find it by searching for it or selecting it from your library. Just note that you'll have to go to the series page which shows all the episodes, not just the page for a single episode.3. Scroll down to find the subhead titled "Ratings & Reviews."4. Under one of the highlighted reviews, select "Write a Review."5. Next, select a star rating at the top — you have the option of choosing between one and five stars. 6. Using the text box at the top, write a title for your review. Then, in the lower text box, write your review. Your review can be up to 300 words long.7. Once you've finished, select "Send" or "Save" in the top-right corner. 8. If you've never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed next to any reviews you leave from here on out. 9. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible.That's it! Thanks so much.

Join Patrick Georgoff and Kevin Kniery for a special conversation with the king and queen of medical comedy Dr. Will Flanary, aka Dr. Glaucomflecken (@drglaucomflecken), and Kristin Flanary, aka Lady Glaucomflecken (@Lglaucomflecken).  Will is a practicing ophthalmologist and social media personality with over 4 million followers. During his 3rd year of medical school, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and he began using humor as a coping mechanism. Following a second bout with cancer three years into his medical career, he created a Twitter account under the pseudonym "Dr. Glaucomflecken"— because it is arguably the funniest word in ophthalmology. A cardiac event and near-death experience in 2020 only fueled his creativity. Kristin is formally trained in cognitive neuroscience and social psychology and now works in marketing and communications. Kristin is best known internationally as her social media alter ego, “Lady Glaucomflecken,” where she shares stories from her unique perspective of the healthcare system. She has been a patient, "married to medicine" through the entire medical training journey and beyond, a lay responder and CPR provider to her husband, and a caregiver and "co-survivor" of his two cancer occurrences and a sudden cardiac arrest. And, if that's not enough, they also have a brand-new podcast called Knock, Knock – Hi! where they discuss quirky and unexpectedly hilarious medical stories.  Check out their website here: https://glaucomflecken.com/ **Specialty team application link - https://forms.gle/DwrRcMYDaP3a3LaQA Please email hello@behindtheknife.org with any questions. Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more.   If you liked this episode, check out our library of episodes here: https://behindtheknife.org/listen/

We're honored in this episode to talk with Kristin Flanary, MA (aka Lady Glaucomflecken). She shares her experience when her famously hilarious husband (Will Flanary, MD aka Dr. Glaucomflecken) unexpectedly went into cardiac arrest while sleeping. Her quick action saved his life, but she talks about how that experience changed her and her subsequent journey coming back from what she calls The Quiet Place. In healthcare, so much on the patient in the gurney, but often overlooked are the family/loved ones/friends who are also affected. Some have labeled them The Forgotten Patients or Co-Survivors. In many cases, they get pushed to the side, but they've just had a significant trauma in their own right as well. Kristin also touches on some of the experiences with healthcare in the days after the event that could have been improved with minimal effort and just a little thoughtfulness. We know you'll love Kristin as much as we did. Enjoy. Want more like this? Join our Weekly Well Check by clicking here. Links: Kristin's Twitter: Lady Glaucomflecken Kristin's Email: LadyGlaucomflecken@gmail.com Flanary K. The Quiet Place. Journal of Cardiac Failure. VOLUME 27, ISSUE 11 , P1300-1301, NOVEMBER 01, 2021. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.10.002 @PSnobelen. A thread of what I share with Lay-Responders after acting to Save a Life, based on the real life questions they ask. Feel free to use this info in your courses, talking etc. Posted September 2, 2020. Accessed June 14, 2021. https://twitter.com/PSnobelen/status/1301187168153591810 @PSnobelen. More common Questions and Answers. Posted September 2, 2020. Accessed June 14, 2021. https://twitter.com/PSnobelen/status/1301187168153591810 Haywood K, Dainty KN.Life after cardiac arrest: The importance of engaging with the 'forgotten patient'. Resuscitation. 2018 Jul; 128 (Epub 2018 May 1PMID:29727707): A1-A2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2018.04.034 Awdish R. Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope. Picador, New York2018

Whether you're a medical marvel or marvel at all things medical - join Will Flanary (aka TikTok's Dr. Glaucomflecken) and Kristin Flanary (aka Lady Glaucomflecken) as they explore the strange, hilarious, and deeply human experience of working in (and making content about) modern medicine.   — We want to hear YOUR stories (and medical puns)! Shoot us an email and say hi! knockknockhi@human-content.com Can't get enough of us? Shucks. You can support the show on Patreon for early episode access, exclusive bonus shows, livestream hangouts, and much more! – www.patreon.com/glaucomflecken    Produced by Human Content Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Flanary, also known as Dr. Glaucomflecken, is an ophthalmologist, social media superstar, and a testicular cancer survivor. Will talks about having testicular cancer twice at different times in med school, using comedy as a coping mechanism, different types of testosterone replacement he's used, and much more! Want to be a guest? Apply here: https://www.testicularcancerawarenessfoundation.org/it-takes-balls-submissions Follow Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation: https://www.testescancer.org https://www.twitter.com/testescancer https://www.instagram.com/testescancer https://www.facebook.com/tca.org/ Follow Dr. Glaucomflecken: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYDVFfp_AN1WBiNwaf9522w https://twitter.com/DGlaucomflecken https://www.tiktok.com/@drglaucomflecken Follow Steven Crocker: https://www.twitter.com/stevencrocker https://www.instagram.com/stevencrocker https://www.facebook.com/steven.crocker2

Dr. Will Flanary, a.k.a Dr. Glaucomflecken, has always been a comedy fan. During the pandemic, he found an audience. But should doctors be funny with their patients? Bapu Jena asks when laughter is — and isn't — the best medicine.

Dr. Will Flanary, better known as social media personality Dr. Glaucomflecken, joins Dr. Matthew Weed for a candid discussion about physician wellness and burnout, how social media can bring attention to these issues, the fine line between humor and depression, and how healthcare systems could be improved to help physicians stay healthy and well. For all episodes or to claim CME credit for selected episodes, visit www.aao.org/podcasts.

The AFP Podcast welcomes Will Flanary, MD, aka Dr. Glaucomflecken, for some bonus laughs and bonus eye content.

Dr Will Flanary is an ophthalmologist and a comedian. Over the last few years, Will's alter ego, "Dr Glaucomflecken" has taken social media by storm with a wealth of comedy sketches making light of a wide variety of situations in which we work in healthcare. In this conversation, we discuss the origins of Dr Glaucomflecken; the impact of positive feedback on how we feel and how we perform; the role of laughter and comedy in healthcare; and what makes for appropriate humour in our work. Below is a list of some of the references from the conversation: Lady G's takeover for father's day: https://twitter.com/DGlaucomflecken/status/1406689639566479360 Dr G's first descents fundraiser page: https://support.firstdescents.org/fundraiser/3183636 Dr G's comedy page: https://www.drgcomedy.com/

28:47 | Former producer of Big Valley Jamboree Larry Werner discusses overseeing safety at large-scale concert events and responds to the tragedy at the Astroworld in Houston, Texas, where eight people were killed and more than 300 people injured. 45:07 | Ophthalmologist and comedian Will Flanary aka Dr. Glaucomflecken on his popularity on social media for his blend of humour and health care. 1:29:54 | Vampirologist Dr. Peter Gölz explores why vampires, and his course on the creatures in pop culture at the University of Victoria, continue to be so popular.

Have you ever wondered what it's like when a doctor becomes a patient? I thought I was unlucky when I got breast cancer but then I spoke to my next guest, the American ophthalmologist Dr Will Flanary. He had testicular cancer twice - first  a med student and then as a junior doctor. But that's not all. In 2020 Will had a cardiac arrest and his amazing wife did CPR for ten minutes to bring him back to life. We spoke about how he's used his comedy alter-ego Doctor Glaucomflecken to cope with everything life has thrown at him.    Will is fund-raising for First Descents, a charity that provides free outdoor adventures for young adults impacted by cancer and other serious health conditions. He donates all his speaking fees to the organisation in aim to raise $50,000.   You can read more about Will's story here: https://www.drgcomedy.com/bio and watch his hilarious videos here.   Will's entry for the Jar of Joy was his new puppy. What are you putting in the jar this week?   Social media: Will Flanary Twitter @DGlaucomflecken  Website: https://www.drgcomedy.com/bio   Liz O'Riordan Twitter @Liz_Oriordan  IG @oriordanliz  Website: www.liz.oriordan.co.uk   Don't Ignore The Elephant is hosted by Dr Liz O'Riordan, produced by Bird Lime Media in association with Elizabeth Richards.

Dr. Ranjita Raghavan and Dr. Will Flanary - better known as “Dr. Glaucomflecken” - discuss everything and anything EM residents would want to know about the world of eyes! Dr. Flanary is a full-time ophthalmologist and comedian who has gained fame on the speaking circuit and social media. In this episode of EMRA*Cast he outlines key aspects of the history and physical that your ophtho consult wants to know.

We need to laugh more. Pharmacists & Pharmacy Techs are under tremendous stress. This episode is about two amazing Healthcare Providers who are also professional comedians. Listen, laugh, and share.  Dr. Will Flanary is an ophthalmologist, writer, and comedian who moonlights in his free time as “Dr. Glaucomflecken,” a top hat wearing, mustachioed cartoon ophthalmoscope who has become a leading voice in ophthalmology and healthcare on social media. Effortlessly blending humor with education, Dr. Glaucomflecken has spent the last 5 years informing audiences on a wide range of topics, from navigating the confusing world of over-the-counter eyedrops to his own experiences as a patient in the healthcare system, all with his characteristic acerbic wit. Connect w/ Dr. Glaucomflecken Twitter: https://twitter.com/DGlaucomflecken  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drglaucomflecken  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drgcomedy/?hl=en  Dr. Maurice Shaw is a stand-up comedian from Chicago, IL. Dr. Shaw attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for undergrad then went on to earn his doctorate of pharmacy from Chicago State University College of Pharmacy. If that wasn't enough, Dr. Shaw completed a PGY1 community pharmacy residency with the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. It was his ability to make his patients laugh on a daily basis that made him decide  that maybe stand-up comedy was his calling. Maurice is a clinical pharmacist  AND a professional stand-up comedian has been making his audiences feel good with his hilarious too-funny-not-to-be-true, clean comedy material. Dr. Shaw has been rocking audiences in major comedy clubs throughout the Midwest routinely featuring and headlining at Zanies, Laugh Factory Chicago, Donnie B's and the Comedy Shrine. He has been features in the PharmacyTimes and the NewYork Times articles and also performs at conventions and pharmaceutical events as well. His hilarious YouTube channel RXComedy has over 1.5 million views and his videos are watched in several different countries across the world​ Maurice's experiences of being a pharmacist and a pharmacy manager in some of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods, being a retail pharmacist during Covid and helping with the vaccination efforts at Long Term Care facilities makes his comedy routine very unique and must see comedy. Website:  https://www.mauriceshaw.com/  Twitter:(@FunnyRPhShaw) | Twitter  YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJxgBb1L7sUcwLwZdsyimtg/videos  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Date: January 5th, 2021 Reference: Shipman et al. Short-Term Topical Tetracaine Is Highly Efficacious for the Treatment of Pain Caused by Corneal Abrasions: A Double-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial. Annals of EM 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Will Flanary is an ophthalmologist, writer, and comedian who moonlights in his free time as “Dr. Glaucomflecken” on Twitter and […]