[4] While attending Dartmouth, he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha. He added: 'No one knows your testicles better than you, more than likely. The dispatcher, Lisa, led Kristin through 10 minutes of CPR as they waited for the paramedics to arrive. During his third year of medical school, he discovered a lump in his testicle. Get started by signing in with your Amazon account, Based on your location you have been directed to audible.in. Dr. Glaucomflecken lists . This interview has been lightly edited for style and clarity. Q: What does it mean to you to be a survivor? Im really good at finding my own testicular cancer! He laughed. It also introduced him to the intoxication of a "like" at that time, on Facebook. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. That's where he met his wife, Kristin, now 36 and the communications manager for the Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Iowa. Dr. Glaucomflecken said he didnt want to listen to her 911 call at first because it was too hard to hear. Theres no benefit to it. Becoming a partner in his own practice changed the risk calculus. The account is named after glaukomflecken, a sign of acute angle-closure glaucoma. Life in one of the world's most isolated communities: Indigenous Canadian woman reveals it takes two days to get groceries from nearest town 338 miles away, there's only five hours of daylight in winter and no one has an address because it's so small, Student, 18, reveals she 'could have died' from toxic shock syndrome caused by falling asleep with a tampon in after hospital doctors dismissed her symptoms as 'Freshers Flu', Children's campaign group slams 'despicable' UK secondary school over letter telling parents that pupils who arrive without a mask will have to buy one or face being hauled out of lessons - branding it 'child abuse'. His gasp for breath woke up his wife, who performed CPR for 10 minutes until paramedics arrived and resuscitated him, according to an interview with Today. Feb 10 2023 Length: 39 mins Podcast Listen for free View show details Summary Today for our 100th episode, Asif and Ali welcome back one of their most popular guests, Will Flannary aka social media star Dr. Glaucomflecken. You cant talk about the problems that you have in your job without sacrificing professionalism. TikTok doc makes physicians laugh at themselves. Flanary said he wants his peers to see themselves in his satire, to come away feeling like somebody understands. But he also hopes poking fun at the profession might help nudge doctors away from what can be a monastic self-regard. They're using honesty and humor to advocate for widespread CPR training, an overhaul of the way medical systems interact with patient's family members, and insurance reform. By In a clip posted April 9, 2020, he squints, scowls, and grins into the camera to explain the many muscles of the face, all with the aid of Megan Thee Stallion. I made one too many jokes, got sent to the principals office, and received a conduct report to be signed by my dad. Private events across all areas of medicine. More recently, Flanary joined TikTok, which has allowed him to showcase some of the skills he honed over years of live performance. Flanary is writer, director, editor, and star, with the typical sketch foisting two or more of his characters into an instructively maddening situation that resolves with a punchline and perhaps some music, all in about 90 seconds. Flanary declined to disclose his comedy income, but he gets ad revenue from YouTube, and hes recording three or four Cameo videos a night at $180 a pop. "Comedy is a way to assert some sort of power over a situation in which you feel powerless," Flanary says. "One time, I walked out and he was in full clown makeup with Pagliacci music playing." The characters bounce off one another, either to illustrate some irksome aspect of medicine or simply to be the butt of a joke. Ram Dinesh Sharan, Suno Mahabharat Devdutt Pattanaik ke Saath, Written by: Hi. Its my coping mechanism. I was just a third-year med student, but I knew enough to know that wasnt supposed to happen,' he recalled to The Today Show during a recent interview. In middle school, he went to summer camp at a local university and got his first hard look at the field of medicine. That's funny, but it's kind of my passion Let's check out this video! To comment please, Comments on Medscape are moderated and should be professional in tone and on topic. Its wrong, but its also true, said the surgeon. "It gave me that relief and just a sense of joy that I hadn't had in a while," he says. Flanary is hardly alone among doctors with TikTok accounts. [2], In May 2020, Flanary suddenly went into cardiac arrest in his sleep. William E. Flanary is an American comedian and ophthalmologist who performs under the stage name Dr. Glaucomflecken. I feel like I can just try these things and see where it takes me.. A: Humor is how I process grief and tragedy in my life. Welcome back to the Doctor Rich channel! I saw, Oh theres a big appetite for this. Each is deployed as a comedic foil for whatever point Flanary wants to make, whether a high-minded critique of prior authorization or a farcical look at how residency works. At the time, Flanary told CTV News, "If Id known that it would turn into this I would have chosen an easier name to say. I like knowing theres an end to my day when you get to go home. To hear more, attend ReSS 2020: Survivorship at 9 a.m. Saturday. Dr. Glaucomflecken Sticker Pack 01. Read our privacy policy for more info. Flanary, originally from Houston, has been a practicing comedian longer than hes had a medical license. By day, the 35-year-old cares for the eyeballs of Oregonians in his practice near Portland. I can be pretty specific with different areas of medicine and create this world of, honestly, pretty dysfunctional people. They cant have a sense of humour because thats not professional, Flanary said. His wife performed CPR on him for 10 minutes before paramedics arrived and resuscitated him. Glaucomflecken is a result of lens epithelial cell necrosis from the elevated IOP. Glaucomflecken, a term for a sign of glaucoma. "But he healed so quickly, it was like nothing ever happened." I am Dr. Glock Flecking. We dont like to work for long periods of time. Telling jokes helped me to navigate the challenges of living as a cancer patient in my 20s. Glaucomflecken alter ego began as a creative outlet to tell painfully specific ophthalmology jokes and to cope with my own health challenges. David Goggins, Written by: We have a real delight today. His prognosis was good, but this would change their lives forever. It meant that he would have to go on hormone replacement therapy for the rest of his life." Everything from social media to the patient experience to why cataract surgery isnt as bad as you think it is. It was my coping mechanism. Daniel Kahneman. Please use this form to submit your questions or comments on how to make this article more useful to clinicians. KRDO NewsChannel 13 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation. If youre not familiar with the Glaucomfleckens, their actual names are Will and Kristin Flanary. I can make a second career out of finding testicular cancer which would be really weird for an ophthalmologist to do. He paused. 2023 Glaucomflecken | Web design by Edge One Media | Privacy Policy. "William Flanary" redirects here. Flanary has also tweeted about the shortcomings of the American healthcare system and the need for more humor among physicians. Today, we're going to do something a little different we're going to do a reaction video to one of the most popular TikTok/YouTube videos on social media: Dr. Glaucomflecken. My entire medical workup was normal. They don't care.". Devdutt Pattanaik, Written by: I started doing the video format at the right time especially with the pandemic, more people have been on online. If you trust your content, if you trust the message, then youve got to just go with it and accept that. DEALING WITH CANCER AND A HEART ATTACK. His pandemic content on vaccinations have garnered the most negative response but he tries not to pay too much attention to the angry comments and messages, he says. My "Dr. Glaucomflecken" alter ego began as a creative outlet to tell painfully specific ophthalmology jokes and to cope with my own health challenges. Subscribe to STAT+ for less than $2 per day, Unlimited access to essential biotech, medicine, and life sciences journalism, Subscribe to STAT+ for less than $2 per day, Unlimited access to the health care news and insights you need. Ashneer Grover, Written by: mountain-biking emergency medicine doctor, shortcomings of the American healthcare system, "Ophthalmologist Accidentally Agrees to See Inpatient Consult. Since 2016 he has become well known for making and uploading medical satire skits on Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. That leaves nights and weekends for the ring light, the iPhone, and Flanarys alter ego, an internet celebrity known as Dr. Glaucomflecken. Eric Jorgenson. This time the diagnosis was a stage 1b seminoma, and he had surgery to remove his remaining testicle, followed by hormone replacement therapy consisting of a weekly self-administered injection of testosterone. But mainly, the young, mellow-voiced doctor focuses on the strong personalities involved in everyday medical practice. If I didnt find the humor in this awful situation, the gravity of it all would crush me. As an Audible member, your subscription includes: Amazon Prime members can take a free 30-day trial and receive 2 credits that can be used on any 2 titles from of their choice. Anand Neelakantan, Little Things: Jab Dhruv Met Kavya, Season 1, Written by: [7], Since 2017, Flanary has raised money for the non-profit organization First Descents, which provides outdoor experiences to young adults who have been diagnosed with cancer. But thank goodness for adrenaline. So he turned to the internet. He grew up in Houston, the son of a teacher and an engineer. So Dr. Glaucomflecken is an ophthalmologist and he hilariously makes fun of all other specialties. She wrote about her experience in the Journal of Cardiac Failure. Dr. Glaucomflecken hasn't responded to me and probably won't. Go ahead and share this so he gets the message. You can also listen on any Alexa-enabled device. Monkeys Spinning Monkeys - Kevin MacLeod & Kevin The Monkey. 'The second time was much harder,' he admitted. She first came across Dr. Glaucomflecken four or five years ago. EMS1: NAEMSP 2023 Quick Take: Wife or Death. She knows the trauma of being a co-survivor and uses her experience to advocate for compassion for patients and their families. His early work was squarely in the lingua franca of the platform: short, comedic videos synced to popular songs. Flanary, 36, has about 2.5 million subscribers across TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter, where his pointed satire of medicines many absurdities has ballooned into a cast of characters and a cottage industry. Will Flanarys days are spent conducting eye exams and cataract surgeries at a private practice outside Portland, Ore. It was the juxtaposition between my previous rotation, which was vascular surgery, where youre standing for like six-hour cases, holding the retractor and you have really sick patients. Theres the lackadaisical emergency medicine doctor, eternally clad in cycling gear. In 2010, when he was 25 years old, Will was diagnosed with testicular cancer. If Id known that it would turn into this I would have chosen an easier name to say. Dr. Glaucomflecken had the audience laughing as soon as he took the stage, resplendent in his TikTok-famous emergency physician costume. New details emerge about a U.S. scientists obscured role in the CRISPR babies scandal, well-paid and under-worked ophthalmologists, We wish wed written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2022. ", Flanary's frequent contributions to the site taught him how to home in on the idiosyncrasies of various specialties. He posts amusing tweets and videos about some not-so-amusing parts of medicine. I just dont know if I can trust you, Flanary the patient responds. [2] Biography [ edit] Thankfully, Will was able to remove the testicle through surgery and was fully cured. [TikTok plays] Speaker 1: Good afternoon, sir. Kristin was headed to a graduate psychology program at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, while Flanary was set to return to Houston for medical school. Your membership will automatically continue for 199/month after the first 30 days, and you can cancel anytime. A: They may not get some of the terminology, some of the jokes, but they get the personalities, and that resonates with people. Q: You made a video in March about Match day, where medical students match into residency, basically cementing their medical specialty. Click the topic below to receive emails when new articles are available. Price. Robert Greene, How to Talk to Anybody, Anytime, Anywhere, Written by: We dont spam! And those are the ones where theres a lot of truth about a subject thats a little bit more sensitive people have a more of a reaction to it because they feel heard. He'll do it all under the guise of his signature, top hat-wearing ophthalmoscope. Gaur Gopal Das. (Interestingly enough, I just saw Louis CK talk about this same thing on Joe Rogan's podcast). After surgery to remove the cancer, they were ready to move forward. She supported her husband through two bouts with testicular cancer in their 20s before helping to save him from sudden cardiac arrest in May 2020. For Flanary, who survived two bouts of testicular cancer, the videos have been therapeutic, but they have also allowed him to fundraise over US$100,000 for First Descents, a non-profit that provides outdoor adventures for young adults impacted by cancer and other serious health issues. And then theres ophthalmology, where I get to sit down to operate. 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