Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens

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 peek into the U.S. health insurance industry (spoiler alert: it's not great!). We'll share our own perspectives of being a patient or family member experiencing the healthcare system. And, of course, we explore the question on everyone's minds: "Why has Dr. Glaucomflecken never had his eyes dilated?" Combining science with humor and a dash of snark, we unpack the human side of healthcare.

Episodes

Why Did Physicians in Oregon Feel Forced to Strike? with Dr. Jennifer Lincoln

March 17, 2026 • 62 mins
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 m...
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Knock Knock Eye: My Official Medical Comedy Ladder

March 12, 2026 • 41 mins
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 cri...
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Glauc Talk: Why You Shouldn't Wear Contacts to a Protest?

March 10, 2026 • 45 mins
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...
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Knock Knock Eye: What Did The Pitt Get Wrong About Conjunctivitis?

March 5, 2026 • 35 mins
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 me...
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What Is a GI Psychiatrist? with Dr. Claire Brandon

March 3, 2026 • 57 mins
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 int...
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Knock Knock Eye: Is Corporate Medicine Breaking Emergency Care?

February 26, 2026 • 39 mins
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 sp...
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Glauc Talk: Why Is My Dog Having Seizures?

February 24, 2026 • 38 mins
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 ...
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Knock Knock Eye: Can Penis Size Really Affect Olympic Performance?

February 19, 2026 • 41 mins
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 retina...
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Glauc Talk: How Residency Applications Became an Arms Race

February 17, 2026 • 38 mins
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 probl...
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Knock Knock Eye: Why Do We Still Require Pre-Op Clearance for Cataract Surgery?

February 12, 2026 • 36 mins
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...
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Glauc Talk: Should You Trust Chat GPT Health With Your Medical Records?

February 10, 2026 • 50 mins
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 Cha...
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Knock Knock Eye: What Should You Do If You’re Pepper Sprayed At A Protest?

February 5, 2026 • 32 mins
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 abrasion...
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What Actually Keeps Your Heart Healthy? with Dr. Stacey Rosen

February 3, 2026 • 58 mins
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, mov...
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Knock Knock Eye: How Dangerous Is Pickleball for Your Eyes?

January 29, 2026 • 42 mins
This episode we get into a new JAMA Ophthalmology study takes a hard look at pickleball-related eye injuries, and the numbers are… not great. Retinal detachments, hyphemas, orbital fractures, and even open globes are showing up more and more, especially as the sport explodes in popularity among older adults. I break down exactly how these injuries happen, which ones are true emergencies, and why I am once again begging you, polite...
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Glauc Talk: Who Thought This Medical Procedure Was a Good Idea?

January 27, 2026 • 52 mins
Kristin and I read through listener comments, including theories about how I can create characters without an inner monologue, and real-world ophthalmology stories that lead me to beg you, once again, to call your eye doctor before going to the ER. We also talk about scrubs, fashion, and the fact that someone published a real scientific paper about what patients think doctors should wear. Then we play a game where Kristin has to g...
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Knock Knock Eye: Virtual or In-Person Residency Interviews: What Are the Pros and Cons?

January 22, 2026 • 39 mins
This episode we tackle something a lot of people are quietly worried about: virtual residency interviews. Are they here to stay? Are they fair? And how exactly are programs supposed to deal with applicants using AI to help answer questions in real time? Then we get into the eyeballs. A young woman with hair growing where hair absolutely should not exist. A 78-year-old with “sudden vision loss” that turns out to be anything but. An...
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What Happens When Doctors Get Involved in Legislation? with Dr. Erik Heitkamp & Courtney Koebele

January 20, 2026 • 52 mins
This episode we head to North Dakota, a place that is extremely flat, very windy, and filled with some of the kindest humans I’ve ever met, including Dr. Erik Heitkamp, a hospitalist in Fargo, and Courtney Koebele, the Executive Director of the North Dakota Medical Association. Together, we dig into what physician advocacy actually looks like at the state level, not the cable-news chaos, but the real work: drafting bills, educati...
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Knock Knock Eye: Who’s Liable When AI Misses Your Cancer?

January 15, 2026 • 47 mins
After surviving Disney motion-simulator rides that nearly ended me, I dive into a question that’s been rattling around my brain all break: if AI replaces doctors… who gets sued when something goes wrong? We talk AI hype, liability, tech companies discovering malpractice culture the hard way, and why replacing physicians isn’t as simple as Silicon Valley thinks it is. Then we get back to basics: how to actually take an eye history,...
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Glauc Talk: Why Are Med Students Driving Uber?

January 13, 2026 • 46 mins
This episode starts with the important questions, like whether I’m emotionally prepared to return to my ancestral homeland of Big Bend National Park, and whether Kristin would rather share a cabin with a venomous snake or a tarantula. From there, things take a turn into real life: a med student driving for Uber and Lyft just to make ends meet. That story opens up a bigger conversation about medical school debt, why med students s...
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Knock Knock Eye: Why Elon Musk’s MRI Tweet Made Every Doctor Roll Their Eyes

January 8, 2026 • 44 mins
In this episode of Knock Knock Eye, I start by breaking down Elon Musk’s latest medical hot take. The idea that everyone should get a yearly full-body MRI interpreted by AI. Then I talk about why I finally said screw it and paid cash for my own medical care after insurance insisted my testicles might have magically regenerated. And finally, a mystery case that starts as blurry vision and floaters and ends with one of the rarest e...
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