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. Flanary has also tweeted about the shortcomings of the American healthcare system and the need for more humor among physicians. And I trust myself. [6], During his third year of residency, Flanary was diagnosed with testicular cancer again. "And then I remember getting to know him and going, 'Oh crap.' Flanary's recovery was quick, but he needed an outlet to process his experiences. 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. But its a minority most people are just fine with it. 'The second time was much harder,' he admitted. 'I noticed one morning that it felt like my testicle was trying to grow another testicle. 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. On May 11, 2020, William A. Flanary, MD, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, went to bed like every other night. A: Initially, the hardest part was sleeping at night not knowing if I would wake up in the morning. It doesnt take long to learn, and you can save a life. That continued into the internet era, initially with posts for GomerBlog and now on his strangely named social media channels. Glaucomflecken alter ego began as a creative outlet to tell painfully specific ophthalmology jokes and to cope with my own health challenges. 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. They cant be funny. Babe Ruth, Serena Williams, and Michael Jordan competing at their peaks. Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Community Guidelines | KRDO Jobs | FCC Applications |, KRDO FCC Public File | KRDO FCC Applications, Breaking News I made one too many jokes, got sent to the principals office, and received a conduct report to be signed by my dad. He started with stand-up in high school, making "teenage boy jokes" wherever he could find an open mic. Flanary still doesnt know what caused his heart to stop beating. A: I never get backlash from surgeons. Hi, we are the Glock Flecking. I can be pretty specific with different areas of medicine and create this world of, honestly, pretty dysfunctional people. Her work has appeared in Vox, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. 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. As most of the humor on Fun Friday, this is funny and also heartbreaking. 1 credit a month to use on any title of your choiceyours to keep. Then one morning in 2013, Flanary woke up and felt a lump in his testicle. While attending Texas Tech, he met his wife, Kristin. Morgan Housel, Written by: 121. Flanary, originally from Houston, has been a practicing comedian longer than hes had a medical license. Dr. Flanary is an ophthalmologist who specializes in satirizing the medical field with hilarious social media skits. Who are these people?" 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. But it is all just balls.. If the later one would have been ophtho for me, I would have dropped out and painted clay doves for a living until I die. Neurosurgeons are just a tad confident. The criticism that rankles Flanary most is that his humor is "unprofessional." Dr. Glaucomflecken said he didnt want to listen to her 911 call at first because it was too hard to hear. Thats why I love building this Glaucomflecken General Hospital of characters, Flanary told STAT. The next video is a sponsored one for a pretty cool reader that could help with accessibility. ', The comments below have not been moderated, By "That's kind of the way it works with me with humor.. But its funny.. Robert T. Kiyosaki, Written by: More recently, Flanary joined TikTok, which has allowed him to showcase some of the skills he honed over years of live performance. Q: You wrote in your bio about doing stand-up, but never explained how you ended up becoming an ophthalmologist? Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Honestly, it's surreal. Fumitake Koga, Written by: Dr. Glaucomfleckens success to date was unimaginable back in the spring of 2020. And lets go ahead and get you a COVID vaccine, Flanary, posing as the doctor, concludes. Im really good at finding my own testicular cancer! He laughed. 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. If youre not familiar with the Glaucomfleckens, their actual names are Will and Kristin Flanary. For a long time, theres been this idea that its not professional to show that side of yourself as a doctor; that youre supposed to be this emotionless machine and you cant show that things affect you mentally, or make you angry or sad or laugh. She performed CPR for an incredible nine minutes. Hes also starting to think bigger. I saw, Oh theres a big appetite for this. William E. Flanary is an American comedian and ophthalmologist who performs under the stage name Dr. Glaucomflecken. "It's crazy some of the things we do." Robert Greene, How to Talk to Anybody, Anytime, Anywhere, Written by: Dr. Glaucomflecken will deliver the keynote address during EMS World Expo, Sept. 14-18, 2020. And besides, even if it all blows up, he still gets to be a doctor. She first came across Dr. Glaucomflecken four or five years ago. In 2014, after a transitional year in Chicago, the young family moved to Iowa City, where Flanary began his residency at the University of Iowa. So Dr. Glaucomflecken is an ophthalmologist and he hilariously makes fun of all other specialties. Eleanor Cummins is a freelance journalist whose work runs the gamut of science. My Dr. And medical students are living in a special kind of hell, from match day to rotations. A: No, I felt completely normal. In 2016, he joined Twitter as Dr Glaucomflecken, and took to it like an eyeball to ocular fluid. They have one thing in common being mocked by Will Flanary, an ophthalmologist known to millions in the medical world as Dr. "It was such a powerful thing for me, and I saw the good it does for me and the people I do that trip with," he says. He posts amusing tweets and videos about some not-so-amusing parts of medicine. I can make a second career out of finding testicular cancer which would be really weird for an ophthalmologist to do. He paused. Over the ensuing months, hed set his sights on the idiosyncrasies of medical education, academic journals, and all of health cares many instances of institutions preying on people who are less powerful than them, he said. Thankfully, his wife was able to perform CPR until the paramedics arrived and they were able to resuscitate him. I learned about the pandemic and how it's really impacted your profession, Dr. Glaucomflecken said. 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. OK, but everyones tired all the time, can you trust people to know if theyre asymptomatic? the other character (also portrayed by Flanary) responds, before offering alternative suggestions that end up being significantly watered down. You have to do it and live through the consequences.. That combined dedication to learning the inside details of medicine while practicing the outsider art of satire might explain what makes Dr. Glaucomflecken work. But it was the emotional and mental recovery that took some time., He turned back to comedy, something he had been doing since high school, to process what he went through. A: When I started med school at Dartmouth, everyone was assigned a random adviser, and my adviser was an ophthalmologist. The second time around was a little bit more difficult, just physically and mentally and emotionally and I needed something to help me cope with the fact that I had already had cancer twice and I was only at that point 29-years-old, he said. They dont like the portrayal of the some of them as overworked, underpaid sympathetic figure, always doing some sort of fellowship. Dr. Glaucomflecken recently uploaded a video to his real youtube channel (one with ~25k subscribers) notifying people that the 144k subs account is actually not him, rather an impersonator that is taking all of his videos off other social media platforms and reuploading them to that channel. "Now I'm at the point of no return. I get to go home at a reasonable time and develop meaningful relationships with my family. The trauma surgeon laughed really hard at the part where the surgeon tells the medical student hes mad at the student for not being psychic. Written by: If you are asking a question, don't forget to check the sub FAQs, or do a search of the sub to see if your question has been answered already.. Failure to follow rules may result in your post being removed, or a ban. [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. The idea is in the very early stages, Flanary said, but hes been working with an outside firm to press things forward. "It became a way to roast him publicly, basically," she says. 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'Its really hard having a diagnosis like that in your 20s because when youre in your 20s, you have this sense of invincibility, like nothing can hurt you, youll never get sick. Price. Sometimes its a sarcastic look at coronavirus guidelines, an insiders view of the medical hierarchy (nurses are the true rulers) or the expensive world of peer-review publishing. 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. It wasnt until I was able to do a rotation in ophthalmology at the beginning of my fourth year that I made the decision, so I decided really late. Q: What is the most important thing you learned from this event that youd like to pass on to others? They claim their digital dynamic mimics real life. "A lot of doctors take themselves very, very seriously.". He then enrolled at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, where he discovered his interest in ophthalmology. I dont know if the specialty makes the personality or the personality is drawn to the specialty, its a chicken or egg kind of thing. It was comedy that helped me through a diagnosis of cancer during med schooland again during residency. Related videos. 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. But I still know what comedy is. Hctor Garca, Written by: Paramahansa Yogananda, Written by: His Dr. Glaucomflecken alter ego has been a balm, not only for his colleagues, patients, and a pandemic-weary public, but also for himself. 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.. Three days later, he woke up in an ICU bed, recovering from a cardiac arrest. Left untreated, it is a minutes-long prelude to death. Eric Jorgenson. The health care system is laden with power dynamics, and patients are at the bottom, he said, so I should never be perceived as making fun of patients, because thats not going to go OK., When things get a little more complicated, what it comes down to for me is: Do I believe that my ridicule of something is justified? he said. Flanary grew up in Houston, Texas. You cant talk about the problems that you have in your job without sacrificing professionalism. Yuval Noah Harari, Written by: There is a lot of evidence that shows humour can be protective of burnout, says McKeen. 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. But thank goodness for adrenaline. The dispatcher, Lisa, led Kristin through 10 minutes of CPR as they waited for the paramedics to arrive. You've successfully added to your alerts. Although they may not want to admit it, "powerless" is exactly how many medical professionals, patients, and their families often feel. 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. Humor has seen him through the challenges of medical school and residency, as well as fatherhood, two bouts of testicular cancer, and, just last year, cardiac arrest. 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.. 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. 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 evenings are for family, and a standing commitment to make dinner for his wife and two daughters. Check it out: Flanary has loved medicine almost as long as he has loved making people laugh. Social media is a great way to show that side, because you can reach a big audience and it shows the public that we have things that suck about our job or that we hate health care, and it allows the general public to relate to us, and thats something thats been missing for a long, long time. After all, you got an ophthalmologist to come in on a Saturday!, I've learned a lot about emergency medicine and the role you play in your communities, really acting as a safety net for society. Its just been a very serious field. Flanary couldn't perform regularly, given his responsibilities as a student and a father. What is included with my Audible Premium Plus membership? Morning Forecast And it feels good to be laughing with someone that knows what youre going through and knows the things that have been happening inside your own head that you havent put out into words.. Then all of a sudden, it just comes crashing down on you.'. You can also listen on any Alexa-enabled device. Ram Dinesh Sharan, Suno Mahabharat Devdutt Pattanaik ke Saath, Written by: Three days later, he woke up in an ICU bed, recovering from a cardiac arrest. For example, neurologists may have a slight rage stroke hearing someone described as having an altered mental status, which they describe as garbage terminology because it could mean anything from slightly confused to comatose. Ive gotten the most backlash from family medicine/primary care doctors. They don't care.". Audible is a membership service that provides customers with a huge selection of audiobooks as well as podcasts, exclusive originals and more. That can be a tricky proposition. He practices in Oregon City, Oregon and lives in Portland, Oregon. Sometimes there is someone so good at something that there is universal agreement we are witnessing something special. I called it the Quiet Place. Turns out, I was having agonal breaths, which are a sign of cardiac arrest. There was no medical explanation for the sudden cardiac arrest. That has gotten a lot better, but it took a few weeks to get there. Will was in cardiac arrest. In 2010, when he was 25 years old, Will was diagnosed with testicular cancer. And we are happy youre here because uh, we have a wonderful []. "I got on to see, where are you all the time? What is an ophthalmologists personality? "It was almost like stand-up in a way," he says. The second time around wasn't quite so easy. He practices in Oregon City, Oregon and lives in Portland, Oregon. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that neurologist Anna Nordvig was among those who had reacted to Will Flanary's videos. In Germany, your oral-practical exam to graduate from med school includes each a professor/examiner from internal medicine, surgery, a specialty of your choice and a wildcard specialty. I like knowing theres an end to my day when you get to go home. Whatever comes next, Flanary says he'll keep making jokes, experimenting on new social platforms, and amplifying the voices of other physicians. In the pre-op room before his second surgery, Kristin began looking for support groups for her husband. What I think [Flanary] does well in general and perhaps why hes never been canceled is that his humor is typically one of two things: wholesome, or relatable to everybody within the medical community, said Sarah Mojarad, who teaches a course on social media for doctors and scientists at the University of Southern California. I am Lady Glock Flecking. He added: 'No one knows your testicles better than you, more than likely. If this is your first time posting, please read the sub rules. 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. You know, youre just going to spiral and its gonna affect your real life outside of the internet, he said. Ophthalmologist Portland | Dr.William E. Flanary | EHNPC Home Our Doctors William E. Flanary, M.D. Diagnosis Compression gonioscopy is key to properly diagnosing an acute angle closure. I always make sure that the object of ridicule is clear, Flanary said. Like many things involving TikTok, the Dr. Glaucomflecken phenomenon was born out of boredom. ", He began to develop a personal coda for how to conduct himself online. 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. But cancer is not the only challenge Flanary has faced. 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. That online conference is coming up Nov. 2-4 and allows you to participate in ACEP22 educational content from the comfort of your own home. He wore a portable defibrillator at first and eventually had one implanted. " For the record, it was Will's work ethic that won her over, she says. She knows the trauma of being a co-survivor and uses her experience to advocate for compassion for patients and their families. What humor does is it allows you to take that thing and you just break it apart. It was a clarifying moment for Flanary as a creator, convincing him to ditch TikToks de rigueur music syncopation and embrace what he was good at: crafting characters and writing jokes. It was a dark and empty chamber where no words were spoken or understood Those of us who have survived trauma need our healthcare providers to meet us in our Quiet Place. The audience was rapt as they listened to her 911 phone call. Dr. Glaucomflecken's real name is Will Flanary. Flanary continued to recover, with the help of friends, family, and, of course, comedy. In his fourth year of med school, after an "awful" vascular surgery rotation where he was on his feet for hours at a time, draped in lead, Flanary took an ophthalmology elective. Kristin talked about how they are building a new version of normal, healing themselves with medicine, humor, advocacy. Flanary churns out original content every few days. Nikita Okhade, Written by: If you're new to Audible, you can take free membership trial for 30 days. It meant that he would have to go on hormone replacement therapy for the rest of his life." David Goggins, Written by: And it does help you put a different perspective on things.. She wrote about her experience in the Journal of Cardiac Failure. 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If you dont have any symptoms, you dont feel tired, you can go back to work, his CDC character tells a colleague in the video. Here, Dr. Flanary shares some of his experience. ", Flanary's frequent contributions to the site taught him how to home in on the idiosyncrasies of various specialties. That's funny, but it's kind of my passion Let's check out this video! For more news, follow Medscape on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, andYouTube. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Book a personalized video with Dr. Glaucomflecken on Cameo! In the clip, he issues a reminder to his fellow viewers, "Health insurance companies don't care about you. Theres the lackadaisical emergency medicine doctor, eternally clad in cycling gear. In 2012, they had their first child. He sipped from his diet coke while showing off his skin-tight, belly-baring cycling jersey with matching bike helmet and sunglasses. 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. OK, OK, send me all your consults, he told the audience. He was diagnosed the first time in his third year of medical school and then a second time in his third year of residency, he said. Commenting is limited to medical professionals. It was my coping mechanism. The more hours you work per week, the closer you get to park to the hospital. 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. 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. In front of a standing room-only crowd, Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken delivered an opening keynote session packed with laughs (so many laughs!) Q&A with William A. Flanary, MD, aka Dr. Glaucomflecken, provides a glimpse into his experience surviving cardiac arrest. Written by: A: Were kind of boring. Then, on May 12, 2020, he went into cardiac arrest (not heart attack) and was saved by his wife, Kristin, who performed CPR. 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. "There are a lot of weird words in ophthalmology," Flanary says of his decision to riff on a glaukomflecken for his internet persona. Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. Please enter a Recipient Address and/or check the Send me a copy checkbox. Q&A with William A. Flanary, MD, aka Dr. Glaucomflecken, provides a glimpse into his experience surviving cardiac arrest. In May 2020, his heart suddenly stopped beating in the middle of the night. After he recovered again, their family was dealt another blow when Kristin awoke in the middle of the night to find her husband unresponsive, breathing irregularly and making strange noises. In them, he dresses up as different types of doctors and acts out funny and awkward made-up scenes between the doctor and a patient. Since 2016 he has become well known for making and uploading medical satire skits on Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. 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. TORONTO (CTV Network) By the time Dr. Will Flanary was 29-years-old, he had already survived cancer twice. 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. As Dr Glaucomflecken's popularity has grown, so has his prop inventory. Chetan Bhagat. In the years since, Flanary has raised more than $50,000 for the organization. Daily Briefing The account is named after glaukomflecken, a sign of acute angle-closure glaucoma. "One time, I walked out and he was in full clown makeup with Pagliacci music playing." The humour not only allows him to connect with his audience, but it can also help patients and doctors, says Dr. Dolores McKeen, the president of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society. So he turned to the internet. Flanary suffered a form of cardiac arrest called ventricular fibrillation, in which the hearts lower chambers flutter erratically, cutting off the flow of blood to the rest of the body. 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,. "That's my coping mechanism," he says. Glaucomflecken, a term for a sign of glaucoma. with the Glaucomfleckens. I had this bad thing happen, I made it through, and now Im OK. What means more to me is that Im able to reach out to the public using my platform to create some meaningful change, and also sing the praises of my amazing partner. The Glaucomflecken repertory theater began to grow. That leaves nights and weekends for the ring light, the iPhone, and Flanarys alter ego, an internet celebrity known as Dr. Glaucomflecken. Now, Will said he loves to bring others happiness through his viral videos. "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. Despite coming close to death on more than one occasion, he constantly posts positive and hilarious videos to his TikTok account under the name Dr. Glaucomflecken, which has gained him morethan one million followers and more than 40 million likes. It took the first responders five shocks, three rounds of epinephrine, and a dose of amiodarone to get Flanary's heartbeat back. 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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