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Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens
"Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens" dives into the highs, lows, and WTFs of healthcare. Whether you're in the medical field, live with a healthcare worker, or broke your arm once and are still paying off your medical bills, this is a must-listen. Join Will and Kristin Flanary (aka the Glaucomfleckens) for candid chats with leading healthcare voices like Dr. Mike and Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. Discover fun facts about eyeballs, hear relatable stories from medical training, and…
Episodes
- Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens
Knock Knock Eye: Over-the-Counter Redness Relievers: An Ophthalmologist’s Guide
Halloween is around the corner, so here is a little housekeeping. I open with the saga of my HOA fining me for window units during a 117°F Portland heat wave…
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What Medicine Gets Wrong About Pain with Dr. Rachel Zoffness
Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a pain psychologist and assistant clinical professor at UCSF and Stanford, and she came on to do something I desperately needed, explain…
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Knock Knock Eye: Breaking down the American Diabetes Association Boycott
This week I get into the No Surprises Act, starting with my own $20,000 out-of-network bill after my cardiac arrest and the nine-month fight to resolve it. The…
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What the 19th Century Teaches Us About Medicine Right Now with Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris
Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris is back and she brought her best book yet. Sleuth Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, out October 20th, which tells the story…
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Knock Knock Eye: Why This Nobel Prize Could Change How We Treat Blindness
The weight of the healthcare system has been sitting heavy. Our practice officially dropped UnitedHealthcare after they offered a 0.8% rate increase, and I’m…
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Glauc Talk: When AI Claims Credit for Human Research
We did back-to-school night for our ninth grader and I came away wanting to re-enroll myself. The CS teacher (28 years in the classroom) convinced me that what…
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Knock Knock Eye: Myopia Is Officially a Disease: What the AMA Reclassification Means
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association put out a truly hilarious study complaining that AI tools drove nearly $1 billion in extra costs for their insurers over…
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The Neuroscience Behind Being "Too Sensitive" (with Dr. Sasha Hamdani)
This week Kristin and I sat down with Dr. Sasha Hamdani, a board-certified psychiatrist, ADHD expert, and author of the new book Too Sensitive: Rejection…
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Knock Knock Eye: The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act: What the Bill Actually Does
I'm back in the corporate practice of medicine content cycle, this time on the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act, a new federal bill modeled on…
Knock Knock, Hi! with the GlaucomfleckensGlauc Talk: Is It Too Late To Start Med School At 40?
This episode kicks off with a listener email from someone facing a conundrum: she finds out about getting tenure within a few weeks of turning 40, all while…
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Knock Knock Eye: ACGME Wants to Cut Resident Rest Hours
Coming to you from a hotel patio in Lebanon, New Hampshire, this week I dig into the ACGME's newly released revisions to resident work-hour restrictions. We…
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Do Physicians Make the Best Startup Founders? (with Dr. David Lortscher)
This week Kristin and I are talking business; specifically, how doctors go from having a great idea to actually building a company around it. We're joined by…
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Knock Knock Eye: What People Get Wrong About Private Practice
This week I'm tackling two things that have been on my mind. First, I saw a piece of content from another physician creator explaining why they left private…
- Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens
The Business of Medical Content Creation (with Dr. Fran Heydanek)
This week I'm sitting down with Dr. Fran Heydanek, OBGYN, mom, and one of the biggest medical content creators out there fighting misinformation. We start with…
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Knock Knock Eye: Why An Eye Exam Could Make You Faint
Welcome back to Knock Knock Eye, my one-stop shop for all things eyeball related. This week I'm taking a quick break from corporate practice of medicine talk…
- Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens
Glauc Talk: Nostalgia as a Survival Mechanism
This week we go down a bit of an emotional rabbit hole, starting with a Mad Men clip about nostalgia. This leads to us reading some genuinely fascinating…
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Knock Knock Eye: How Step One Pass/Fail Fueled the Research Arms Race
So last episode I made the case that medical student research should be banned, and I clearly touched a nerve. I got flooded with angry messages arguing…
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Glauc Talk: Should We Be Using AI in Our Creative Pursuits?
This week we start by discussing our daughter's summer geometry crash course, and I forgot how much I hate proofs. I also tell the story of getting stuck at…
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Knock Knock Eye: Nine Neonatologists Fired Without Explanation
I just wrapped my second call week of the year, and honestly, getting older has made overnight pages so much harder than they used to be. At 30 I could wake up…
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Glauc Talk: "Ozempic Face" & Other GLP-1 Side Effects
This week Kristin and I get into "Ozempic face," which has been all over social media, and I break down what's actually happening medically when people lose…
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Knock Knock Eye: Research Hot Takes: Medical Student Research Should Be Banned
I've got a love-hate relationship with research, and this week I finally get into why. I'll read a study, I'll watch a talk, I genuinely enjoy learning about…
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Glauc Talk: Acting Class Confessions from a 40-Year-Old Ophthalmologist
This week Kristin and I start off with something I've been wanting to work on for a while, my medical Spanish, because we're opening up a new location and I…
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Knock Knock Eye: Sydney Towle's Legacy and the Isolation of Young Adult Cancer
I wanted to start this one off talking about Sydney Towle, a 26 year old TikToker who documented her stage four cholangiocarcinoma diagnosis with so much humor…
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Stupid Cancer, Stupid Insurance, Smart Guests (with Matthew Zachary and Jen Singer)
This week Kristin and I sit down with Matthew Zachary and Jen Singer, two cancer survivors who between them have basically seen every corner of the American…
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Knock Knock Eye: Cosurvivorship & Why Kristin Belongs on This Podcast
I've got something serious to get off my chest this week. It's about how Kristin gets treated in the comments section of our own YouTube clips. A recent clip…
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Glauc Talk: What's the "Surgeon God Complex"?
We start with Kristin's ever-escalating sleep setup, my childhood bedtime prayer that explicitly included the possibility of dying in my sleep every night from…
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Knock Knock Eye: The Top Five Malpractice Risks for Ophthalmologists
Dr. Oz's proposed 2027 CMS rules dropped, and I've been waiting all week to get into them. The push toward value-based care and Accountable Care Organizations…
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What Healing Actually Looks Like After Near-Death with Dr. Rana Awdish
Dr. Rana Awdish is one of those rare humans who can speak from both sides of the hospital bed with complete authority, and somehow make you feel understood in…
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Knock Knock Eye: Physicians and Unionization: Why We're Behind
Two topics today. First, unionization, which is having a real moment in healthcare. Banner Health's hospitalists just formed the largest physician union in…
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Sharon McMahon on How Physicians Can Make Real Change in the Healthcare System
Sharon McMahon, America's government teacher, author of the number one New York Times bestseller The Small and the Mighty, and one of the most effective…
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Knock Knock Eye: My July 4th On-Call Recap
I almost finished my July 4th call week. Good news! Portland did not blow its face off this year. No open globes, no eyelid lacerations, no thermal injuries…
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Glauc Talk: Can Free Medical School Fix the Primary Care Crisis?
It's just the two of us this week, which means we bounce between Star Wars, ageism in medicine, Mark Cuban's healthcare policy ideas, and the spleen. Kristin…
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Knock Knock Eye: Life Advice for Residents Starting Their First Month
Today's main event: how a physician-owned practice negotiates with UnitedHealthcare. UHC is notorious for raising premiums 20 to 30% while offering physician…
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Two Sisters, Two Cardiac Arrests, Zero Explanations with Kendra Cunningham and Kayla Messana
This week we're joined by Kendra Cunningham and Kayla Messana, sisters and co-hosts of the podcast Flatlined and Fine, and their stories are almost impossible…
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Knock Knock Eye: World Cup Eye Injuries: An Ophthalmologist's Field Guide
I'm on call July 4th for the first time in what feels like forever, and I have fully lost perspective on what call should feel like. 2018 me, fresh out of an…
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Is the Match Broken? A Deep Dive into Medical Education with Dr. Bryan Carmody
I've been watching the Sheriff of Sodium break down medical education data on social media for years, so I'm thrilled to finally have Dr. Bryan Carmody on the…
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Knock Knock Eye: Mark Cuban's Case for Medicare for All and Total Financial Transparency
A few things on the agenda today. First, RFK Jr. and the MAHA crew want medical schools to dedicate around 40 hours, roughly 20% of preclinical training, to…
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Everything You're Getting Wrong About Sleep with Sleep Doctor Chris
This week we sit down with Dr. Chris Allen, board-certified sleep medicine physician, board-certified pediatric neurologist, and a man who has been on CPAP…
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Knock Knock Eye: Is Medical Recertification a Money Grab?
I just watched The Backrooms and now I can't stop thinking about hospital liminal spaces. The basement. The pathology lab. The OR at 2 AM when you're going in…
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Understanding Mitochondrial Disease with Dr. Heather Gatcombe
Dr. Heather Gatcombe, a clinical radiation oncologist at Emory, who immediately humbles me by explaining that her job involves a lot more than drawing circles…
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Breaking News: A Game-Changing Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer with Dr. Mark Lewis
We're dropping this bonus episode because something genuinely historic happened in oncology and we couldn't wait until our regular schedule to talk about it…
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Glauc Talk: The Mystery of My Unknown Genetic Mutation
I’m back from a whirlwind speaking tour where I realized my entire social media presence might just be a long-con ruse to get a captive audience of 1,000…
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Knock Knock Eye: Victor Wembanyama Has the Strictest Bedtime and a Pair of Blue Light Glasses
Victor Wembanyama, the 7'5" alien playing for the Spurs, apparently refuses to look at blue light after 9pm, which allows me to get into my love-hate…
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A Survival Guide for Journalists and Protesters with Adam Rose
I’m stepping away from the slit lamp this week to talk about a different kind of eye emergency. The ones happening on the front lines of protests across the…
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Knock Knock Eye: I Ran A Cow Eyeball Dissection Station
I'm not in a great mood and I'll tell you why. A mini fridge in our family room sprang a slow leak, and before I knew it I was $5,000 deep in a restoration…
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Glauc Talk: Why Are Med Students Saying They "Wasted Their Twenties"?
We’re diving into a heavy topic that’s been making the rounds on medical TikTok, the soul-crushing feeling of "wasting your twenties" in medical training while…
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Knock Knock Eye: Let's Navigate Dry Eye Treatments
Today is a day for celebration and a little bit of "I told you so." We finally have a resolution in the saga of the Eugene Emergency Physicians (EEP). Just as…
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Glauc Talk: Blunt Force Blindness: The Bizarre 8-Million Thermos Recall
I’m opening up this week with a bit of a public service announcement: please stop pointing stuck containers at your face. We’re diving into a bizarre and…
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Knock Knock Eye: Can Pig Semen Eye Drops Actually Treat Childhood Cancer?
Put down the "Standard of Care" manual for a second, this week I’m talking to you like a med student watching a corporate train wreck in slow motion as we…
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Glauc Talk: Medical TikTok Firestorms: The Doctor Iggy "Exodus" Debate
We dragged the kids across the country for a mix of family time and a high-stakes meeting at the Capitol with Senator Elizabeth Warren. I’ll admit, I was a…
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Knock Knock Eye: Why Does the U.S. Have a "Barbaric" Emergency Room Problem?
Put down the hospital cafeteria coffee because today I am diving into a "barbaric" problem in American hospitals that I can't believe I haven't addressed yet…
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Grief is Not a Contest with Dr. Rebecca N. Thompson
I’m feeling a bit reflective this week as we head into Mother’s Day, a holiday that used to be a real bummer for us. It turns out that having a cardiac arrest…
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Knock Knock Eye: Is Vision Insurance Worth It?
I’m feeling a little run down today—it’s peak "conference season," and I’ve been bouncing between recording studios and speaking gigs. But I couldn’t wait to…
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Why Do Med Students Think Pediatrics is Easy? with Dr. Paul Tran
This we're joined by one of the few people whose medical comedy I actually enjoy: Dr. Paul Tran. Dr. Tran is a pediatric gastroenterologist who has mastered…
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Knock Knock Eye: Why Do Hyperopic Lenses Make Kids’ Eyes Look So Big?
I just got back from Puerto Rico, where I attended my very first gynecology oncology conference. It turns out that even though we're at opposite ends of the…
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Glauc Talk: The Ethics of the Medical Influencer
This week, we tackle the emotional roller coaster of Match Day and the precarious "new frontier" of medical professionalism on social media. Kristin and I…
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Knock Knock Eye: Why is the DOJ Investigating Higher Education Admissions?
Put down the study guides for a second because I’m taking you back 20 years to my own medical school application, back when the MCAT was still paper and…
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Tales of a Pediatric Airway Surgeon with Dr. Tali Lando
This week, we are talking about the busiest "real estate" in the human body, the neck. Dr. Tali Lando, a pediatric otolaryngologist who spends her days (and…
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Knock Knock Eye: Why I’m Skeptical of AI Replacing Radiologists
We need to talk about the "Doomsday Scenario" currently haunting the radiology department. A prominent CEO of a major public health system recently went on…
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Glauc Talk: Breakup Big Medicine: My Collaboration with Senator Elizabeth Warren
This week, the Glaucomfleckens are feeling a bit "spicy" as they navigate the grogginess of daylight savings and the fallout of their recent trip to New…