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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 sneak a

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35:50

Knock Knock Eye: Why I’m Skeptical of AI Replacing...

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2026/04/09

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 record saying he is ready to replace radiologists with AI "at this moment". As someone who spent my pre-med days doom-scrolling on StudentDoctor.net twenty years ago hearing these same rumors, I can tell you the fear is real, but the reality is much more complicated.We’re diving into why the tech world’s view of radiology as simple "pattern

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38:59

Glauc Talk: Breakup Big Medicine: My Collaboration...

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2026/04/07

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 Orleans. Will shares a harrowing story from a recent live show where an ad-libbed joke about sperm banking and "the sisters" nearly cost him the audience, only to be saved by the laughing nuns in the front row. Between beignets and redfish, the conversation turns to the high-stakes world of healthcare policy.The gloves come off as Will discusses

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39:56

Knock Knock Eye: Something I Love and The Thing I...

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2026/04/02

Today, I’m putting on my "career counselor" hat to address the latest medical social media drama: a spine surgeon who decided to take a break from clinical practice just six months in to become a full-time content creator. While the internet is full of opinions, I’m sharing why I choose to stay in the game, even when YouTube decides to reclassify my skits and slash my ad revenue. For all you med students and residents watching, I’m breaking down why medicine is the ultimate "safety net" that gives

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56:09

How One Family’s Christmas Morning Turned Into 9...

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2026/03/31

This week, the Glaucomfleckens connect with a fellow "co-survivor" whose Christmas morning took a harrowing turn from opening presents to performing life-saving chest compressions. Ellie Breach, a D1 goalkeeper for the Pittsburgh Panthers and NC State, shares the intense story of her father’s sudden cardiac arrest and the specific athletic training that kept her calm when "shit hit the fan" in her own basement.The conversation dives deep into the "living wake" experience of the ICU, where Ellie

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38:59

Knock Knock Eye: Can Oregon Stop this Corporate...

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2026/03/26

Usually, I’m teaching you about the finer points of ophthalmology, but today we’re looking at a real-world case study in "how to tank a hospital’s morale". We are heading to my home state of Oregon to discuss the PeaceHealth system and their decision to fire a group of 41 local emergency physicians who have served the community for 35 years.I’m breaking down why this isn’t about money or performance, since the CEO admits those are fine, but looks a lot like retaliation for doctors who dared to

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45:03

Glauc Talk: How Do You Become a Space Doctor?

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2026/03/24

This week on Knock Knock, Hi, Will and Kristin stumble into one of the more unexpected parenting moments yet: discovering their teenager might want to become an astronaut. That leads to a surprisingly deep dive into what it actually takes to make it to space and the answer is… a lot. Think extreme environments, elite training, and possibly even medical school. Naturally, Will immediately begins researching astronaut pathways while Kristin begins quietly calculating the odds.Then the conversation

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34:43

Knock Knock Eye: Where Is the Line Between Medical...

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2026/03/19

Pull up a chair and grab your notebooks, because today I’m talking to you like it’s your first day of medical school. We’re seeing more "med-fluencers" than ever before, but our medical education system hasn’t quite caught up to the reality of TikTok and social media ethics. I’ve seen too many students and residents trip up lately, so I’m laying down the "Glaucomflecken Guidelines" for a successful, ethical career online.We’re covering the "Number One Rule", which is a lot more than just avoiding

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62:35

Why Did Physicians in Oregon Feel Forced to Strike?...

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2026/03/17

This week, Will and Kristin sit down with Dr. Jen Lincoln, OB-GYN, educator, advocate, and author of The Birth Book, for a conversation that goes way beyond the usual pregnancy advice.Together, they unpack the internet’s favorite birth myths, from epidurals and exercise in pregnancy to IUD fearmongering and the idea that eating the “right” foods can somehow control how big a baby gets. Dr. Lincoln explains where so much of this misinformation comes from, why outdated practices still hang around,

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41:40

Knock Knock Eye: My Official Medical Comedy Ladder

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2026/03/12

I saw a video from a dermatology resident asking people to stop making fun of dermatologists… and it got me thinking.Why do certain specialties get roasted more than others? So in this episode, I present something I’ve been mentally building for years: the medical comedy ladder. A hierarchy that explains who can make fun of who in medicine without accidentally starting a professional civil war. Using three highly scientific criteria—ego, respect, and compensation, I rank specialties from the

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45:32

Glauc Talk: Why You Shouldn't Wear Contacts to a...

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2026/03/10

After my recent pepper spray video unexpectedly hit 5–6 million views, we break down what actually happens to your eyes when exposed to pepper spray, what to do immediately, whether baby shampoo is your new best friend, and why milk absolutely does not belong anywhere near your corneas.We also talk contact lenses (don’t wear them into situations where pepper spray is possible), corneal abrasions, how permanent scarring can happen, and why irrigation is the universal ophthalmology answer to almost

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35:41

Knock Knock Eye: What Did The Pitt Get Wrong About...

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2026/03/05

After reading your very disturbed (and very funny) comments, I briefly explore whether a large “package” might negatively affect figure skating rotational velocity. Then we pivot to the eyeballs. The Pitt keeps delivering ophthalmology cases, so I break down gonorrhea conjunctivitis (yes, that’s a thing), what really happens when someone super-glues their eye shut, and why trimming eyelashes is sometimes the most heroic act in medicine. Finally, we get into something far more serious: a routine

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57:36

What Is a GI Psychiatrist? with Dr. Claire Brandon

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2026/03/03

This week we sit down with Dr. Claire Brandon, one of only a handful of GI psychiatrists in the country, to talk about something most of us learned in med school and then promptly never thought about again: the gut-brain axis.Why does stress wreck your stomach?Why do chronic GI conditions come with anxiety and depression attached?Why does “it’s all in your head” miss the point entirely? We talk about serotonin living in your intestines, inflammation affecting mood, why doctors struggle with gray

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39:56

Knock Knock Eye: Is Corporate Medicine Breaking...

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2026/02/26

This episode starts with something that makes me very angry and ends with something that makes me genuinely happy. First, we talk about what’s happening in Eugene, Oregon, where a nonprofit hospital system decided not to renew a 35-year contract with its locally rooted emergency physicians and instead hand the ER over to a large corporate staffing group based thousands of miles away. Wait times went up, morale collapsed, doctors spoke up and admin responded by replacing them. If you’ve ever wondered

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38:38

Glauc Talk: Why Is My Dog Having Seizures?

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2026/02/24

This episode starts with TikTok’s updated Terms of Service, specifically the part where apps want to know where you are at all times, and quickly spirals into a much bigger question: did we accidentally sign up for the surveillance state… or was it always inevitable?Kristin and I debate privacy, inevitability, pessimism, preparedness, and whether refusing to participate actually protects you, or just makes life harder. Somewhere in there, we revisit COVID lockdown memories, the great toilet paper

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41:39

Knock Knock Eye: Can Penis Size Really Affect Olympic...

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2026/02/19

We start this episode exactly where you’d expect: Olympic penis drama. From pole vault mishaps to ski jumpers allegedly injecting hyaluronic acid for aerodynamic advantage, we briefly explore how far humans will go for gold. Then we pivot to the eyeballs. First, a patient with sudden, painless loss of half their vision walks into the ER. What sounds like a retinal detachment turns out to be something far scarier: a branch retinal artery occlusion, essentially a stroke of the eye. I walk through

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38:26

Glauc Talk: How Residency Applications Became an Arms...

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2026/02/17

This week, Kristin and I unpack what really happened after Step 1 went pass/fail and why medical students are now under more pressure, not less. We talk about how Step 2 quietly became the new make-or-break test, why students are leaving clinical rotations early just to study, and why calling this generation “less dedicated” completely misses the point.We also zoom way out and ask a bigger question: are we solving the right problem… or just reacting downstream? From residency application overload

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36:48

Knock Knock Eye: Why Do We Still Require Pre-Op...

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2026/02/12

Let’s talk about something deeply unsexy but incredibly important: pre-op clearance for cataract surgery.After watching a colleague get sent to their own primary care doctor for a seven-minute procedure under minimal sedation, I realized how far we’ve drifted from common sense. Cataract surgery is one of the safest, most routine operations in medicine, yet we’re still funneling millions of patients into unpaid, unnecessary pre-op visits. In this episode, I break down how we got here, why

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50:15

Glauc Talk: Should You Trust Chat GPT Health With...

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2026/02/10

This episode opens with an extremely serious debate about whether buying a $5,000 air hockey table is financially irresponsible… or medically necessary for eye-hand coordination. From there, we read listener feedback from our EMS episode, including why dispatchers are absolute heroes, how CPR instructions actually work over the phone, and the big difference between fire-based and non-fire-based EMS funding. Then we get into ChatGPT Health, which sounds helpful, exciting, and slightly terrifying

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32:24

Knock Knock Eye: What Should You Do If You’re Pepper...

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2026/02/05

This episode is a tough one. I start by talking about the killing of Alex Preti and Renee Good in Minneapolis and why it’s been sitting so heavily with me as a physician, a parent, and a human being trying to make sense of what’s happening in this country.Then I focus on something concrete I can do: explain what pepper spray and tear gas actually do to your eyes and how to protect yourself if you’re exposed. From corneal abrasions to scarring and vision loss, I walk through what ophthalmologists

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58:03

What Actually Keeps Your Heart Healthy? with Dr....

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2026/02/03

It’s Heart Month, so we went straight to the top and invited Dr. Stacy Rosen, Volunteer President of the American Heart Association, to help us answer one simple question: What actually keeps your heart healthy… and what’s just noise?We talk about why 80% of heart attacks and strokes are preventable, what the AHA’s Life’s Essential 8 really looks like in real life (spoiler: you’re still allowed to eat cookies), and why sleep, movement, and food matter way more than internet “biohacks.” We also

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