Robert T. Kiyosaki, Written by: I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to continue for long enough. 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. Flanary's Twitter obsession eventually spread. He has two children now and is grateful his wife Kristin known on Twitter as Lady Glaucomflecken convinced him to start their family during medical school. 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. The dispatcher, Lisa, led Kristin through 10 minutes of CPR as they waited for the paramedics to arrive. "We did, like, eight cases in a day. He always "punches up." I made one too many jokes, got sent to the principals office, and received a conduct report to be signed by my dad. Devdutt Pattanaik, Written by: A doctor who who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and survived cancer twice has become a viral TikTok star, after sharing hilarious stories about his health woes Will Flanary, 36, has gained more. Neurosurgeons are just a tad confident. From then on, he knew he wanted to be a doctor the first in his family. Related videos. America to face a shortage of primary care physicians within a decade or so. You can cancel your membership at anytime at no cost. Sometimes Ill still have to do some research, so Ill get on Reddit message boards and read what people love about being a neurologist or a cardiologist, so Ill get a lot from that. "It was the dispatcher that I spoke to who recognized what was going on," Kristin says. Welcome back to the Doctor Rich channel! "Now I'm at the point of no return. Will Flanary, aka Dr. Glaucomflecken, at home in Portland, Ore. Flanary in character as the emergency medicine doctor, eternally clad in cycling gear. TikTok doc makes physicians laugh at themselves. Many members had tears in their eyes as they gave her a longstanding ovation for her lifesaving efforts. You have to do it and live through the consequences.. Now, he is telling his story so that other men know what to look for and can catch the disease early on. In 2017, Flanary went kayaking in Hood River, Oregon, with 15 other cancer survivors. "I was just a med student, but I knew my testicle wasn't supposed to grow another testicle," he says. At this point, I feel back to normal. Today, we're going to be doing a reaction video to Dr. Glaucomflecken's "Introducing the OB/GYN." Hi, I'm Doctor Rich, and my passion is to create silly videos you can watch and laugh. In December 2015, he made his first (anonymous) contribution to GomerBlog, in the form of a satirical news report headlined "Ophthalmologist Accidentally Agrees to See Inpatient Consult. I had an excellent medical team, and my family also played a big part in my recovery. In closing, she asked the audience to pay attention to the families of patients, the ones who are walking through the trauma alongside them. The Night Telecommunicator-CPR Saved My Husbands Life, Lady Glaucomflecken Honored with American Heart Associations Resuscitation Champion Award, Power of Social Media with Family Medical Physician Dr. Mike. Honestly, it's surreal. We dont spam! Since 2016, when Flanary launched the pseudonymous Twitter account at a research conference because he was "bored as hell" Dr G's comedy has earned him hundreds of thousands of followers who eagerly await his next punchline. Theres this prevailing notion that you cant do the things Im doing on social media because its not professional, he said. Since then, it has evolved to incorporate satire of the US healthcare system, academic publishing, and the interpersonal conflicts that are pervasive in the medical system. Since then, it has evolved to incorporate satire of the US healthcare system, academic publishing, and the interpersonal conflicts that are pervasive in the medical system. He'll do it all under the guise of his signature, top hat-wearing ophthalmoscope. "It's crazy some of the things we do." By that time, he turned from blue and purple to gray. Flanarys best material balances the specificity of an expert with the nose for hypocrisy that typically comes from an incisive observer, said Heidi Tworek, a University of British Columbia history professor who studies health communication. We dont spam! Power of Social Media with Family Physician Dr. Mike | Knock Knock, Hi! He scheduled a doctor's appointment, which turned into emergency surgery to remove cancer. "For me, it was basically, I went to bed and I woke up in the ICU wearing a gown and no underwear like three days later," Flanary says. "I remember being very tired and telling her, I'm so tired. On TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, Flanary posts videos several times a week for more than 1.6 million followers about the medical system. "OK, OK, send me all your consults," he told the audience. It sometimes allows the environment that we work in to be a little bit more humane I think that patients sometimes enjoy the humor and it makes us a little bit more relatable.. Flanary continued to recover, with the help of friends, family, and, of course, comedy. "Your humor has helped me cope with a very grim time," wrote another fan. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Transcript Will: [00:00:00] Knock, knock, knock. A short format, very easy to edit and shoot, and it would work on my schedule. Q: I watched some reaction videos from doctors. "It gave me that relief and just a sense of joy that I hadn't had in a while," he says. Honestly, its surreal, Flanary told CTV National News in a video interview from his home in Portland, Ore. Flanary had been doing stand-up comedy intermittently since high school, but always wanted to go into medicine. For undergrad, Flanary enrolled in Texas Tech University. 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'. Flanary, originally from Houston, has been a practicing comedian longer than hes had a medical license. Through my stories, I hope to make a difference. More recently, Flanary joined TikTok, which has allowed him to showcase some of the skills he honed over years of live performance. The more hours you work per week, the closer you get to park to the hospital. Better known as Dr. Glaucomflecken to the rest of the world, his humour has been a bright spot for his 1.3 million TikTok and 472.9K Twitter followers looking for a bit of levity amid the stress and gloom of the COVID-19 pandemic. OK, OK, send me all your consults, he told the audience. Glaucomflecken, a term for a sign of glaucoma. If youre not familiar with the Glaucomfleckens, their actual names are Will and Kristin Flanary. You cant tell jokes. But everybody likes the TikTok where "Dr Daddy" Flanary in a red puffer jacket refers his 5-year-old daughter to debt collectors for failing to pay him for a $900 emergent splinter removal and Frozen Band-Aid application. That's a golden rule in comedy that demands jokesters protect the vulnerable and lampoon the powerful. It kept me moving.". I get to go home at a reasonable time and develop meaningful relationships with my family. "You had to be efficient, you had to have good jokes, and it was somewhat of an unforgiving audience, and you had to work at it. I am Lady Glock Flecking. It was the spring of 2020, and the nascent Covid-19 pandemic had shuttered businesses around the country, including Flanarys private practice. 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. Gaur Gopal Das. Q: How did this whole social media gig get started? He wore a portable defibrillator at first and eventually had one implanted. Ive gone from cutting up in front of my 6th-grade classmates to delivering keynote addresses around the world and entertaining an audience of millions online. Thankfully, his wife was able to perform CPR until the paramedics arrived and they were able to resuscitate him. I could attack all these topics that Id been discussing on Twitter just with boring words, but now I could approach it in a different way and do something new.. This contributes to negative outcomes like physician burnout and strained interactions with patients, he explains. Thank God she did because, you know, I dont know where wed be at this point.. There is a lot of evidence that shows humour can be protective of burnout, says McKeen. I called it the Quiet Place. 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. Once at the hospital, he underwent hypothermia treatment, which involved cooling his body for 24 hours to reduce damage to the brain. But thank goodness for adrenaline. ', The comments below have not been moderated, By And medical students are living in a special kind of hell, from match day to rotations. "I wasn't really looking for a boyfriend or anything at the time," Kristin recalls. Will was in cardiac arrest. 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. Theres no benefit to it. [2], In May 2020, Flanary suddenly went into cardiac arrest in his sleep. Glaucomflecken account on Twitter as an ophthalmology resident, fresh off a second occurrence of testicular cancer. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that neurologist Anna Nordvig was among those who had reacted to Will Flanary's videos. What is included with my Audible Premium Plus membership? In the clip, he issues a reminder to his fellow viewers, "Health insurance companies don't care about you. Another video depicts a patient agreeing without hesitation to a full body CT scan, lumbar puncture, colonoscopy, brain biopsy, and an experimental surgery where we replace your spleen with a second liver.. Commenting is limited to medical professionals. Get started by signing in with your Amazon account, Based on your location you have been directed to audible.in. Theres the warm but disconcertingly studious pediatrician, the charmingly alarmist dermatologist, the meatheaded orthopedic surgeon, and Jonathan, the loyal medical scribe whose dedication borders on sociopathy. Audible is a membership service that provides customers with a huge selection of audiobooks as well as podcasts, exclusive originals and more. A: No, I felt completely normal. And I trust myself. After surviving testicular cancer twice, Will suffered a cardiac arrest out of the blue last year, and his wife, Kristin - whom he calls his 'superhero' - saved his life by performing CPR. Being funny was always meant to be a hobby rather than a vocation, but the surging popularity of Dr. Glaucomflecken has turned into a business in its own right. Medical school can be brutal, and its making many of us suicidal. And lets go ahead and get you a COVID vaccine, Flanary, posing as the doctor, concludes. Flanary is willing to take the gamble. "William Flanary" redirects here. iconic take on the EM residency interview. She wrote about her experience in the Journal of Cardiac Failure. It feels good to laugh. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. He registered for a Twitter account out of boredom while attending a conference several years ago during medical school and began using it as a surrogate for telling jokes on stage. Dont forget that before you are a physician, you are a human, she said. His wife performed CPR on him for 10 minutes before paramedics arrived and resuscitated him. Dr. Flanary is an ophthalmologist who specializes in satirizing the medical field with hilarious social media skits. My Dr. But Will's health problems didn't end there. Dr. Glaucomflecken said he didnt want to listen to her 911 call at first because it was too hard to hear. 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. Medscape: What Is the Psychological Cost of Performing CPR? Robert Greene, How to Talk to Anybody, Anytime, Anywhere, Written by: In the years since, Flanary has raised more than $50,000 for the organization. If this is your first time posting, please read the sub rules. While still in his residency, Flanary was concerned his medical comedy would get him in trouble. Orthopedic doctors are bros who love the gym. But it is all just balls.. Her work has appeared in Vox, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. I draw a lot on my experience from med school, and even though Im 10 years removed from med school, things dont really change theres always going to be the dynamic between surgery and anesthesia. Turns out, I was having agonal breaths, which are a sign of cardiac arrest. 'Its really helped me because I enjoy making people laugh,' he told the outlet. Let's put an end of burnout. Severe Weather In February alone, Dr Glaucomflecken released nine installments of his ongoing 60-second video series, in which a hapless medical student is thrown into the deep end by various specialists, from an elbow-patched psychiatrist to a mountain-biking emergency medicine doctor. So Dr. Glaucomflecken is an ophthalmologist and he hilariously makes fun of all other specialties. It feels good to make people in medicine laugh, especially during a time right now during the pandemic when its hard for people to find things that make them smile, he said. 17:25 GMT 26 Nov 2021. Its my coping mechanism. The criticism that rankles Flanary most is that his humor is "unprofessional." It was comedy that helped me through a diagnosis of cancer during med schooland again during residency. 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. Then, the surprise bills arrived accumulating charges for out-of-network care he received in the depths of his health crisis. [8] As of June 2022, his Twitter account had over 573,000 followers, and his TikTok account had over 1.5 million followers and over 58 million total likes. Q: What does it mean to you to be a survivor? Sarah Cooper, a comedian who rose to internet stardom by lip-syncing to President Trump, parlayed her success into a 2020 Netflix special that was not particularly well-received, and then the election came and went along with her moment. Daily Briefing Written by: If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform. Q&A with William A. Flanary, MD, aka Dr. Glaucomflecken, provides a glimpse into his experience surviving cardiac arrest. Cancel anytime. This is my life with aphasia. He started doing stand-up, the hardest thing in the world, while in college at Texas Tech University. "It became a way to roast him publicly, basically," she says. We love taking breaks. His prognosis was good, but this would change their lives forever. Three days later, he woke up in an ICU bed, recovering from a cardiac arrest. Even as my pursuit of a medical career took me to the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in New Hampshire, I continued to do stand-up comedy when I wasnt learning the Krebs cycle or other things that med students learn that I dont really remember. The audience was rapt as they listened to her 911 phone call. Kristin talked about how they are building a new version of normal, healing themselves with medicine, humor, advocacy. A: Initially, the hardest part was sleeping at night not knowing if I would wake up in the morning. They claim their digital dynamic mimics real life. Ram Dinesh Sharan, Suno Mahabharat Devdutt Pattanaik ke Saath, Written by: Im fortunate to have this nice job that gives me a nice living thats always there, he said. "But he healed so quickly, it was like nothing ever happened." He sipped from his diet coke while showing off his skin-tight, belly-baring cycling jersey with matching bike helmet and sunglasses. "Believe it or not, a lot of doctors are not good at making fun of themselves," he says. Together and individually, we use our social media presence, impactful writing, creative endeavors, and multimedia keynote speaking to promote humanity, and a healthy sense of humor, in healthcare. Although he says he is careful to protect his patients and the vulnerable information they share with him, Flanary ultimately believes that sharing parts of himself from the sick to the slapstick will benefit everyone. He sipped from his diet coke while showing off his skin-tight, belly-baring cycling jersey with matching bike helmet and sunglasses. Telling jokes helped me to navigate the challenges of living as a cancer patient in my 20s. We have a real delight today. It really did kick off with the insurance problems, Flanary said. How do you know the little idiosyncrasies so well? A: Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, needs to learn CPR. Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. There are two things Ive always wanted to do in life: I started out as an amateur performing stand-up comedy in Houston, TX to sparsely attended comedy club open mics. "That's my coping mechanism," he says. Then all of a sudden, it just comes crashing down on you.'. They cant be funny. He had raised over US$100,000 for the organization as of January 2022. If Id known that it would turn into this I would have chosen an easier name to say. Price. "It meant that he wouldn't be able to have any [more] children. 'Life was just more complicated at that point.'. with the Glaucomfleckens. Many people with loved ones in the hospital become "forgotten patients" or "co-survivors," she says, using terms developed by healthcare outcomes researchers Kirstie Haywood, PhD, and Katie Dainty, PhD. Flanarys escalating popularity is all the more notable because his jokes, delivered in short skits, plumb the inane depths of American health care. Thats a big compliment to me, that people who are not in medicine still watch, because that tells me my acting skills are decent. and important messages. "The first one was a blow, because you feel like you're young and invincible and healthy and nothing's going to happen to you," Kristin says. 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. For nonmedical personnel, Flanarys videos give insight and a few tips in dealing with a world most only see from the patient side. A: Were kind of boring. You can also listen on any Alexa-enabled device. The second time around wasn't quite so easy. "Comedy is a way to assert some sort of power over a situation in which you feel powerless," Flanary says. Ophthalmologist Portland | Dr.William E. Flanary | EHNPC Home Our Doctors William E. Flanary, M.D. Flanary still doesnt know what caused his heart to stop beating. Written by: Kristin says. If you can laugh over a shared experience, that can bring you together more than almost anything else, Flanary said. In the months since, the Flanarys have worked to make something of their experience. 16:10 GMT 26 Nov 2021 Koral Dasgupta. Theres the lackadaisical emergency medicine doctor, eternally clad in cycling gear. She knows the trauma of being a co-survivor and uses her experience to advocate for compassion for patients and their families. You've successfully added to your alerts. Don't have time to read this post? "That's all we have.". "I would say it's been harder for my wife, in many ways.". While attending Texas Tech, he met his wife, Kristin. You must declare any conflicts of interest related to your comments and responses. Its this sweet spot of demystification and comedy simultaneously.. Emergency room doctors savor adrenaline and bike helmets. 'I noticed one morning that it felt like my testicle was trying to grow another testicle. This website also contains material copyrighted by 3rd parties. That continued into the internet era, initially with posts for GomerBlog and now on his strangely named social media channels. After the trial period, membership is 199/month for 1 credit per month. Eleanor Cummins is a freelance journalist whose work runs the gamut of science. Flanary has loved medicine almost as long as he has loved making people laugh. His idle hands first turned to Twitter, where hed amassed some 100,000 followers as @DGlaucomflecken, borrowing the German term for a glaucoma symptom because he wanted the most ridiculous word I could think of in ophthalmology. But soon he wasnt finding it as much of a challenge to be funny via text. Flanary is the one and only Dr Glaucomflecken. Exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences. Then one morning in 2013, Flanary woke up and felt a lump in his testicle. That led to writing for the schools satirical magazine, and Flanary contributed to GomerBlog, a sort of medical analog to The Onion, through his training in ophthalmology. 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He was diagnosed with testicular cancer twice the first time was when he was in his fourth year of medical school at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and the second time while he was in his third year of residency at the University of Iowa. So he found an open mic near Dartmouth's campus, prepared a 10-minute set, and performed for an enthusiastic crowd of 50-60 people. Product type. Merchandise is in development, and hes plotting a way to translate what works on TikTok into a longer-form episodic format. The Glaucomflecken repertory theater began to grow. 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. Ashneer Grover, Written by: Read our privacy policy for more info. He and his wife shared two kids at the time, and they weren't sure if they wanted more. She first came across Dr. Glaucomflecken four or five years ago. "A lot of doctors take themselves very, very seriously.". (He has joked, "It's so easy even an ophthalmologist can do it.") After a three-day ICU stay, Flanary would be fitted with a temporary defibrillator, undergo surgery to get a permanent one, and most important for his comedy navigate the hellish reality of American health insurance. He practices in Oregon City, Oregon and lives in Portland, Oregon. A: When I started med school at Dartmouth, everyone was assigned a random adviser, and my adviser was an ophthalmologist. In the pre-op room before his second surgery, Kristin began looking for support groups for her husband. A: Humor is how I process grief and tragedy in my life. Together, Will and Kristin Flanary have tackled health challenges and internet fame. But its a minority most people are just fine with it. On TikTok,. Becoming a partner in his own practice changed the risk calculus. 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