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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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43:16

Glauc Talk: What Does an Apgar Score Actually Measure?

Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens ·

2025/12/30

This week, Kristin and I answer listener comments about colonoscopy prep, including a truly cursed diet of mashed white vegetables and learn about Cologuard, the screening test where you… mail your poop. Through the actual mail. To a stranger.We also dive into the ongoing household war known as “Kristin Won’t Stop Sleeping in Her Contacts,” which leads to a horrifying discussion about wrinkly eyeballs, saggy conjunctiva, and what happens when an eyelash embeds itself in your eyelid gland and

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42:06

Knock Knock Eye: Which Christmas Characters Need an...

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2025/12/26

This week, I start by sharing why First Descents, the nonprofit that helped me rebuild community and trust in my body after cancer, deserves a spot on your end-of-year giving list. And then, because it is Christmas, I diagnose the eyeballs of Charlie Brown, the Grinch, Rudolph, and even Jack Skellington.From aniridia to jaundice to reindeer esotropia, it’s a holiday episode only an ophthalmologist could make. Takeaways: The nonprofit that helped young adult cancer survivors, including me,

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41:07

Glauc Talk: The Weirdest Skin Diagnosis I’ve Ever Seen

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2025/12/23

It’s Christmas, which means two things: Kristin’s wearing a periodic-table tree shirt, and I’m reminiscing about the worst cafeteria meal in VA history (“brown meal,” may it never return).But the real adventure this week? Our kid suddenly developed mysterious brown patches on her skin, smooth, painless, and deeply unsettling for two parents whose medical degrees contain zero pediatrics. Cue the panic Googling, the advice nurse, and the pediatrician casually wiping it off with an alcohol pad like a

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41:44

Knock Knock Eye: What Happens When Your Eyelids Won’t...

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2025/12/18

This week, I’m answering your YouTube questions, including why my histology shirt is back, and then diving into a mystery case straight from the ICU. A sedated teenager with a swollen face, red eyes, and a whole lot of chemosis needs help, and I show up with… my ophthalmologist luggage.What I found is something every ICU clinician has seen but doesn’t always recognize: exposure keratopathy, the completely preventable eye emergency that happens when the lids won’t close, the tears disappear, and

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47:17

Glauc Talk: Why Are Health Insurance Premiums Going...

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2025/12/16

This week, Kristin and I break down the kind of healthcare headline that makes you want to scream into a pillow: premiums going up while subsidies disappear. Love that for us. We talk about why insurance always seems to be “oops, more expensive now!” and why families in the middle always get squeezed the hardest. But then we pivot to the good news, we got fact-checked by an actual biochemist. And honestly? It made my whole week. Thanks to Liz the Biochemist, we learned why carbon monoxide fits into

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43:08

Knock Knock Eye: What Happens When Surgery Becomes...

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2025/12/11

This week, I’m diving into one of the weirdest modern medical questions: what actually makes a “top doctor” in the age of TikTok? After an Allure article exposed the rise, and sometimes fall, of social-media-famous plastic surgeons, I have thoughts. Many thoughts. Mostly about ethics, entertainment, and why the operating room should never be a live-streaming studio.Then we shift into something much more fun: a full mystery case. A patient with double vision, oscillopsia, lower-extremity weakness,

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42:05

Glauc Talk: How Does Vision Loss Turn Into Visual...

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2025/12/09

This week, Kristin and I dive into aphantasia, anendophasia, and why apparently my wife’s brain works more like a slideshow than a podcast. I’m learning things about her that I wish I didn’t know, and she’s learning that most people don’t think in GIFs. We also talk about what happens when meditation goes wrong, how brains get rewired after trauma, and why sometimes “turning your brain off” might actually mean “floating into the void.”Then we flip open the med student bible for a crash course in

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44:31

Knock Knock Eye: Why Are My Eyes So Sensitive to Light?

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2025/12/04

This week I ran into something online that made my ophthalmologist brain short-circuit: a brand-new CDC statement about autism and vaccines that… let’s just say does not follow how science actually works. So I’m breaking down the logic, the frustration, and why “prove it’s not true” is one of the worst arguments in medicine.Then, because I can only rant for so long before needing to retreat into eyeball science, I walk through two new “Signs & Symptoms” differentials, light sensitivity and

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44:41

Glauc Talk: What Causes Gout?

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2025/12/02

This week on Glock Talk, Kristin and I unpack the bizarre ways people twist “correlation vs. causation” and why apparently every high school should have a mandatory class on basic biostats. We talk about protestors, parenting, penis decisions (you’ll see), and somehow end up designing the world’s most chaotic public health curriculum.Then we pivot to something a little closer to home, physician side gigs. From telemedicine to expert witness work to content creation, we break down which ones sound

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43:47

Knock Knock Eye: A Thanksgiving Thank-You Tour...

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2025/11/27

This week, I’m doing something different. No eyeball emergencies, no angry rants about healthcare, just gratitude. In this Thanksgiving special, I’m giving thanks to the people who shaped me: my high school English teacher who believed in my writing, the German teacher who let me hide pencils in my hair, the residency mentor who saw the future ophthalmologist before I did, and, of course, Lady Glaucomflecken, for saving my life and still occasionally letting me win arguments. It’s a trip through

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54:36

Glauc Talk: Why Can’t I Get a Doctor’s Appointment?

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2025/11/25

This week, Kristin and I dig into my long-overdue skin check, a gift from my mom (because nothing says “happy birthday” like preventative medicine). We talk about awkward gown moments, dermatologists who multitask like superheroes, and why apparently I’m not famous in derm circles.Then we get a little more serious about why it takes forever to get a doctor’s appointment, how the physician shortage is affecting care, and what it really looks like behind the scenes when you’re trying to squeeze

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41:03

Knock Knock Eye: When Eyeballs Pop Out: The Real...

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2025/11/20

In this episode, I’m breaking down what a week of ophthalmology call actually looks like, why retinal detachments aren’t the emergency you think they are, and how one cartoon wolf ended up being my latest ocular diagnosis. Plus, in the latest installment of my “Signs and Symptoms” series, we’re talking eyelash loss, bleeding eyes (aka hyphema), and the fine line between “put your pants on now” and “you can wait till morning."Takeaways: Why not every “retinal detachment” is a

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46:29

Glauc Talk: Kristin’s Official List of Fears

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2025/11/18

Kristin and I start off by talking about puzzles, rainy vacations, and why Scotland might be the best place on earth, mostly because they have giant defibrillator kiosks just sitting out in public. Then, somehow, that conversation spirals into an in-depth analysis of Kristin’s many fears (spiders, the ocean, nouns too close to her face: you name it).We also dive back into our favorite recurring segment: “Pick a Random Page From the Medical Book and Hope It’s Not Biochemistry.” Spoiler: it is

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44:23

Knock Knock Eye: What Does an Abnormal Red Reflex...

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2025/11/13

I’m trying something new: differentials. Each episode, I’ll pick one ocular sign and one ocular symptom, and walk you through everything that could cause them. This week: the mysterious “abnormal red reflex” and the all-too-common “my eyes are burning.” From cataracts and retinoblastoma to blepharitis and bad makeup glue, I’m breaking down the real possibilities, one red, irritated eyeball at a time. It’s part med school, part comedy, and yes, you might just become an honorary ophthalmologist by the

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50:38

When Anatomy Gets Adorable with Wendy Bryan Lazar

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2025/11/11

This week, Kristin and I sit down with Wendy Bryan Lazar, the founder of I Heart Guts, the company making plush organs so lovable you almost forget they’re based on, you know, actual human guts. We dive into how she turned her background in design and a deep love of anatomy into a wildly successful brand that celebrates the weird, wonderful world inside us.We talk about the real challenges of bringing humor to healthcare, the joy of making science accessible (and huggable), and how one person’s

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41:09

Knock Knock Eye: Why Doctors Should Be Allowed to Own...

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2025/11/06

From ophthalmology to testicle jokes, this episode covers a lot. I’m talking about why physicians should be allowed to own hospitals, the internet debate over vision therapy, and the truth about whether your eyes can actually pop out if you sneeze too hard. Plus, I share the one time an ophthalmologist asked a patient to drop his pants and why professional athletes might be missing out by skipping regular eye exams.Takeaways: Why physician-owned hospitals might actually provide better and

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51:23

Glauc Talk: Pituitary Glands: The Testicles of the Brain

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2025/11/04

So… I turned 40. And like any doctor staring down middle age, I celebrated by talking about colonoscopy prep.This week, Kristin and I unpack everything that happens to your body when you hit your forties, from dry eyes and presbyopia to statins and perimenopause. (Don’t worry, it’s still funny.) We talk about getting old, staying healthy, and why I’m way too excited to film my own colonoscopy. Then things take a turn for the scientific. We dive into the pituitary gland, why I called it the

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49:20

Knock Knock Eye: Which Disney Characters Have the...

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2025/10/30

I went to Disney World and ended up diagnosing cartoon characters. From Mike Wazowski’s lack of depth perception to Goofy’s questionable eye anatomy and Winnie the Pooh’s all pupil, no iris situation, I’m breaking down which Disney characters would absolutely fail a vision test. Plus, a quick dive into a real breakthrough from Stanford that might help restore sight lost to macular degeneration. It’s ophthalmology meets Disney meets mild existential crisis. What more could you want?Takeaways:

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44:06

Glauc Talk: Why Everyone Should Know CPR (Seriously)

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2025/10/28

This week, Kristin and I dive into two real-world CPR stories. One that’ll make your blood boil (looking at you, Hofstra bar exam), and another that’ll make you want to hug a comedian in Spokane. We talk about what happens when bystanders freeze, how quick thinking saves lives, and why everyone should know at least something about CPR.Then I drag Kristin into a round of “Doctor Strange or Just Strange” where she has to guess if bizarre medical facts are from Marvel or real life. And finally, we

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41:54

Knock Knock Eye: Does Vision Therapy Actually Work?

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2025/10/23

Can you really “train” your eyes to work better or is vision therapy mostly hype? In this episode, I’m breaking down the three main types of vision therapy, what the science says about each, and how to tell when it’s actually helpful versus when it’s just expensive pseudoscience. We’ll talk convergence insufficiency (the one real winner), why eye exercises don’t fix dyslexia or myopia, and how to ask the right questions before spending a dime.Takeaways: What “vision therapy” actually means

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