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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

The King and Queen of Medical Comedy: Up Close and Personal with Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Join Patrick Georgoff and Kevin Kniery for a special conversation with the king and queen of medical comedy Dr. Will Flanary, aka Dr. Glaucomflecken (@drglaucomflecken), and Kristin Flanary, aka Lady Glaucomflecken (@Lglaucomflecken).

Will is a practicing ophthalmologist and social media personality with over 4 million followers. During his 3rd year of medical school, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and he began using humor as a coping mechanism. Following a second bout with cancer three years into his medical career, he created a Twitter account under the pseudonym "Dr. Glaucomflecken"— because it is arguably the funniest word in ophthalmology. A cardiac event and near-death experience in 2020 only fueled his creativity. Kristin is formally trained in cognitive neuroscience and social psychology and now works in marketing and communications. Kristin is best known internationally as her social media alter ego, “Lady Glaucomflecken,” where she shares stories from her unique perspective of the healthcare system. She has been a patient, "married to medicine" through the entire medical training journey and beyond, a lay responder and CPR provider to her husband, and a caregiver and "co-survivor" of his two cancer occurrences and a sudden cardiac arrest. And, if that’s not enough, they also have a brand-new podcast called Knock, Knock – Hi! where they discuss quirky and unexpectedly hilarious medical stories. Check out their website here: https://glaucomflecken.com/

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0:00.0

Behind the Knife, the Surgery Podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you

0:12.0

dominate the day.

0:22.5

Are you a passionate surgery educator with something to say?

0:25.7

Then join behind the Knife and let the world hear.

0:28.4

Behind the Knife is the number one surgery podcast in the world, with each episode

0:31.6

reaching 20,000 listeners.

0:33.8

Our current group of subspecialty teams have created incredibly diverse and engaging

0:38.2

content.

0:39.2

But their commitments are nearly finished, and we want to open up the opportunity to all

0:42.5

of our listeners.

0:43.5

We're looking for teams of three to four surgeons who will develop one new subspecialty

0:47.4

podcast every four months.

0:49.6

To learn more, check out the show notes or contact us at hello at behindtheknife.org.

0:54.9

Applications are due February 13th.

0:57.2

Welcome back to Behind the Knife.

0:58.7

This is Patrick Georgeoff, and I'm joined by Kevin Canary.

1:01.4

And today we have two very special, very funny guests.

1:05.7

The King and Queen of Medical Comedy.

1:08.3

I want to play a little teaser here, I think.

1:11.8

You might recognize this.

1:12.8

Good morning, Dr. We have a new med student working with us today.

1:21.0

Hi, I'm excited to be here.

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