What Every Medical Influencer Is Getting Wrong | Dr. Glaucomflecken (Will Flanary)
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
DM Operations Inc.
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 134 minutes
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00:00 Intro
1:46 He Died
26:05 Comedian Doctor
37:20 Young Doctors On Social Media
1:04:10 Med Students Selling Snake Oil
1:17:20 What's Wrong With Health Insurance
1:29:46 Debating Anti-vaxxers
1:42:00 Eye Myths
1:53:37 Strangest Case / Best Tips
2:04:22 Curing Blindness / LASIK
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| 0:00.0 | I'm really excited to be sitting across from you today because you died. |
| 0:04.3 | I did. |
| 0:05.8 | I had a cardiac arrest in my sleep and my wife did 10 minutes of chest compressions. |
| 0:11.2 | The fear afterwards was something unexpected. |
| 0:15.8 | I was afraid of being alone anywhere. |
| 0:20.2 | It wasn't just me. |
| 0:21.3 | My wife, I would wake up in the middle of night |
| 0:22.9 | to find her checking to make sure I was breathing. |
| 0:25.3 | She would check to make sure the kids were still breathing, |
| 0:27.3 | and they were fine. |
| 0:28.2 | Why did your heart stop? |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, no, it's a good question. |
| 0:30.6 | I get asked that a lot. |
| 0:31.9 | I don't know, and nobody knows. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome back to the checkup podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | My guest today is Dr. Will Flannery, an ophthalmologist and one of the most successful |
| 0:41.5 | doctors on social media. |
| 0:43.6 | Will has amassed millions of followers by making comedy videos about different health care |
| 0:48.6 | specialties all under the handle of Dr. Glockham Fleckin. |
| 0:52.4 | If you work in healthcare, there's a very good chance he's made a few funny jokes about your specialty, mine included. When I ask my fellow medical professionals who they like to watch online, they always say it's Doc Glock. Considering he's maybe the most trusted and beloved medical influencer in the eyes of my peers, I wanted to speak to him about how he got |
| 1:12.0 | his start, the mistakes he's made along the way, and the mistakes he sees others make who try to |
| 1:17.4 | follow in his footsteps. He also opened up to me about his incredible frustration with the American |
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