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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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62:28

The Neuroscience Behind Being "Too Sensitive" (with...

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2026/10/06

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, Resilience, and the Science of Feeling Deeply. Sasha breaks down the actual neuroscience behind why some of us feel emotions so intensely, and gave us some genuinely useful tools for dealing with it. We also got a proper medical explanation for hangxiety, which, as someone who has experienced it, I found extremely validating.Sasha also walked

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44:24

Knock Knock Eye: The Stop Corporate Takeovers of...

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2026/10/01

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 Oregon's landmark CPOM law. It closes the MSO / PC ""friendly physician"" loophole that corporations like Apollo MD use to get around existing laws in 34 states, and it kills non-competes and non-disparagement clauses so hospital-employed doctors can finally speak out. It's not perfect, nonprofit hospitals are exempt, but I support it. My answer to

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45:47

Glauc Talk: Is It Too Late To Start Med School At 40?

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2026/09/29

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 wondering if she should ditch academia and go to medical school instead. Kristin and I dig into what it would actually take to start med school at 40: the family logistics, the physical toll of taking overnight call as you get older, the financial reality of avoiding debt at that age, and whether it's even possible to "test drive" medicine

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27:17

Knock Knock Eye: ACGME Wants to Cut Resident Rest Hours

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2026/09/24

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 walk through what's actually being proposed: eliminating the mandatory 8-hour rest period between ordinary shifts, cutting required rest after a 24-hour call from 14 hours down to 12, and loosening call frequency from every third night to every second night. Despite some pushback that current restrictions have made residents "soft," I think

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59:21

Do Physicians Make the Best Startup Founders? (with...

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2026/09/22

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 Dr. David Lortscher, a board-certified dermatologist, co-founder of Curology, and author of Why Doctors Win: The Doctor's Guide to Creating or Joining a High-Impact Startup. David breaks down why so many of the most successful healthcare companies of the last few decades, including Intuitive Surgical, Gilead, Regeneron, UpToDate, were founded

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35:47

Knock Knock Eye: What People Get Wrong About Private...

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2026/09/17

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 practice, and the framing bothered me: the idea that private practice is inherently about squeezing as much money out of patients as possible. I get where that creator is coming from, but I think that's simply a culture problem atthatpractice, and I don't want med students or residents seeing that content and writing off private practice

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67:03

The Business of Medical Content Creation (with Dr....

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2026/09/15

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 the wildly common experience of getting scammed by fake podcast invites (yes, it's happened to both of us), then get into her actual path to medicine: integrated arts classes, a rejected dentistry detour, a brief love affair with pathology, and a med school that apparently banned water in the lecture halls.From there we go deep on the

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32:46

Knock Knock Eye: Why An Eye Exam Could Make You Faint

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2026/09/10

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 (just this once, I promise) to dig into a mailbag question from a listener named Gina, who fainted during a routine gonioscopy exam. We get into what a vasovagal reaction is, why the eye seems to be such a common trigger for fainting, and what you can actually do in the moment to keep your blood pressure from tanking.From there I go into

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43:18

Glauc Talk: Nostalgia as a Survival Mechanism

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2026/09/08

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 research on nostalgia; why it exists, what it does to our brains, and why it might actually be an evolutionary survival mechanism. We talk about looking back at old photos of our kids, why parenthood memories tend to get rosier over time, and whether millennials are uniquely nostalgic given everything we've lived through.Then we get back to

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34:14

Knock Knock Eye: How Step One Pass/Fail Fueled the...

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2026/09/03

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 against me, and honestly, I expected some backlash since it was a genuinely spicy take. But I want to be clear, I was being facetious, obviously nobody's going to actually ban med student research. What I actually want to unpack this episode is why this topic clearly struck such a nerve, and what's really driving the explosion in med student

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44:46

Glauc Talk: Should We Be Using AI in Our Creative...

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2026/09/01

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 the Salt Lake airport with the Portland Thorns professional soccer team, which hit me with a wave of nostalgia for my old Ultimate Frisbee team days, followed by Kristin's late-night ladder saga trying to fix a chirping smoke detector on our vaulted ceiling while I was useless from the airport.Then we get into something a little more serious:

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42:54

Knock Knock Eye: Nine Neonatologists Fired Without...

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2026/08/27

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 from a dead sleep and immediately have a coherent medical conversation, and now, ten years later, I basically have to be walked through who I am and what hospital I'm even at before I can function. I also tell the story of getting completely lost in a big Portland hospital after hours, which honestly just confirms the stereotype that

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42:40

Glauc Talk: "Ozempic Face" & Other GLP-1 Side Effects

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2026/08/25

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 facial fat quickly on GLP-1 medications. Kristin gets grossed out the moment I bring up orbital fat, so we go down a whole rabbit hole about fat pads, blepharoplasty, and why your eyes need that squishy cushion behind them. I also share something newer in ophthalmology: GLP-1 medications are now considered a rare but real risk factor for a type

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36:04

Knock Knock Eye: Research Hot Takes: Medical Student...

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2026/08/20

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 it, but performing research myself has never been my thing, and I get into the whole story of how I ended up doing it in med school anyway purely to check a box. Then I break down the newest NRMP match data, and the numbers are insane. We're talking applicants matching into ortho and neurosurgery with over a hundred research experiences and

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42:06

Glauc Talk: Acting Class Confessions from a...

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2026/08/18

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 want to actually be able to communicate with my Spanish-speaking patients. Kristin was a Spanish major, so she helps me practice phrases sent in by a Spanish-speaking listener named Gabe, and let's just say it does not go great.Then I give Kristin a real update on my acting class, which has become my midlife crisis hobby of choice after

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31:57

Knock Knock Eye: Sydney Towle's Legacy and the...

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2026/08/13

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 and honesty that it genuinely impacted me, even though I never knew her in real life. Her passing hit hard, and it brought back a lot of what I went through with my own testicular cancer diagnoses at 26 and again at 31. I talk about how isolating it is to get a cancer diagnosis as a young adult, how most of the research and attention goes to

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66:26

Stupid Cancer, Stupid Insurance, Smart Guests (with...

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2026/08/11

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 healthcare system and lived to write a book about it. Matt founded Stupid Cancer, the organization that essentially created the young adult cancer advocacy space out of nothing back in 2007, and I can personally attest to how much that work has meant to people like me. Jen's journey started with her own aggressive lymphoma diagnosis and years of

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24:39

Knock Knock Eye: Cosurvivorship & Why Kristin Belongs...

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2026/08/06

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 from our episode with Rana Awdish set me off; Kristin talked about the "God complex" in medicine and what happens when patients don't fit neatly into the box the system has for them. The response from some corners of the internet was exactly the kind of misogynistic, dismissive nonsense that proves her point.So I'm laying out two things I

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46:48

Glauc Talk: What's the "Surgeon God Complex"?

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2026/08/04

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 ages zero to eighteen, and the fact that I then did actually die in my sleep, which, in retrospect, really should have been a tell. The midlife crisis hobby conversation covers mountain biking, beekeeping, Bob Ross-style painting, and acting class, which I have already signed up for and fully expect to enjoy. We also invent CampDash, a

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35:47

Knock Knock Eye: The Top Five Malpractice Risks for...

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2026/07/30

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 continues, but the headline for anyone in private practice is the multiple procedure cut: if you bill an E&M code and a procedure on the same day, Medicare now pays 100% for the more expensive service and only 50% for the other, regardless of modifiers, regardless of whether they're for two totally separate problems. That is a direct assault

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