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[intro music]: [00:00:00] Knock, knock,
Will: hi! Hello, everybody. Welcome to knock, knock hi, with the Glockenfleckens. I’m Dr. Glockenflecken, also known as Will Flannery.
Kristin: I am Lady Glockenflecken, also known as Kristin Flannery.
Will: Uh, the plumber recognized me.
Kristin: Yeah, that’s true. You have reached the plumbing community.
Will: We had a plumber come over to fix a leaky toilet and um, I can, I can tell.
Kristin: Yeah, they just kind of look at you a little too long. There were two
Will: guys and, and I, I, I came in, you were talking to him already, I kind of walked in and one of the guys just, just like, yeah, just like,
Kristin: I
Will: think I know you from somewhere. And then as he was leaving, he’s like, Are you, are you on social media?
And I was like, yeah, I didn’t ask why, like it reached him in the plumbing community. But, uh, I mean,
Kristin: [00:01:00] he said your face and voice seem very familiar.
Will: That’s right. Uh, there are some plumbing adjacent things in medicine, gastroenterology, cardiology, urology. There’s actually quite a bit of plumbing that occurs.
There are, uh, multiple types of different lumen. That need to be cleared out.
Kristin: All right. That sounds gross. Just
Will: blood vessels, colons, ureters, any,
Kristin: any sort of tube is lumen.
Will: Any kind of tube has a there. The pipes in there has aluminum , there’s
Kristin: pipes lu potato potatoes. Don’t
Will: think in ophthalmology. I don’t think there are any pipes that we clean.
Kristin: Well, there are blood vessels.
Will: Yeah, we don’t clean those. No. Um, tear ducts. Oh, yeah, that’s a good one.
[intro music]: There
Will: you go. That’s a good one. Sometimes whenever, um, you have like excessive tearing, tears running down your face all the time, it’s different. It’s different. It’s
Kristin: associated with sadness.
Will: Crying is associated with an emotion
Kristin: or happiness.
Will: Right. Emotion.
Kristin: Yeah. [00:02:00]
Will: There’s a blockage though. Have you heard of those? You’re not experiencing an emotion. I have emotions. I’m having one right now, in fact. When you have tearing, tears running down your face that are not associated with an emotion, that’s pathologic. That’s leaky eyeballs. And usually it’s because there’s a blockage of your tear drainage system.
Now, sometimes. It requires like a surgery. You have to like create a new opening because it’s so blocked up. But sometimes if you just irrigate it, it like clears out.
Kristin: The way you talk about this,
Will: Jesus. Sometimes you could just do like a quick little area. It takes like, like two minutes in the clinic. You just push water.
That’s
Kristin: called flush.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: We’re back to the plumbing.
Will: I see what you’re saying. That’s like, yes, that’s exactly what we’re doing. We’re fleshing it out. I see what you’re saying though. Very good.
Kristin: We need a sound effects, uh, board. I would really, really enjoy that. I need to get one.
Will: [00:03:00] Um, okay. So anyway, uh, yes, I don’t even know what I was saying.
Uh, plumbing. Tear drainage. Uh oh. Yeah. I flushing, I I can flush it with little saing. Don’t blow up. And sometimes that alone will clear it out.
Kristin: Mm-Hmm.
Will: Yeah. Mm-Hmm.
Kristin: a little bit. Day satisfy. Action’s. Very
Will: satisfy. And you just push, push, push it through, push it through, and then all of a sudden, oh. Tearings resolved.
Just like that. That’s good. So, anyway, I was excited to be big in the plumber, plumber community. Glockenflecken
Kristin: and plumbing. Right off the bat. Maybe we should
Will: have a plumber come on the Maybe
Kristin: that guy!
Will: We could talk about all the, uh, similarities and differences between the plumbing.
Kristin: Plumbing, electrician
Will: They have to deal with so much poop.
Plumbers. Body
Kristin: plumbers. No.
Will: Oh, all.
Kristin: Both kinds of plumbers
Will: mean well,
Kristin: body plumbers. Yeah. gi.
Will: Yeah. But you know, honestly, most of the, most of the colons they see are clean though.
Kristin: Oh, true.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: Yeah. [00:04:00] Still, yeah. They’re kind of plumbers. There’s
Will: a fair amount of looking into toilets.
Kristin: Yeah. I don’t think I could do that job.
Oh, I, I doubt. I know I could. It’s another one like ophthalmologist. I’m very grateful that there are people who can tolerate that job because. I cannot, so I can’t imagine having to do that every day, but I’m very grateful that somebody does.
Will: Agreed. Yeah. Alright. I don’t
Kristin: want to deal with that much poop.
Will: That’s, that’s enough poop talk, I think.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: How about, uh, how about a live show?
Kristin: Woo!
Will: We got, we, we, we got Iowa coming up.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Our, uh, where, where I, where I came of age as a physician.
Kristin: Where I
Will: did my residency training. You started
Kristin: as a wee baby ophthalmologist.
Will: Where Glockenflecken started.
Kristin: True. We’re going back to the
Will: origin.
Yes, that’s the origin. Second year of residency. It was 2016, 15.
Kristin: Yeah, 15.
Will: 2015 I think is when that started and I made [00:05:00] that Twitter account. That’s
Kristin: almost 10
Will: years. I know, I know. That’s nuts. I’ve been doing the social media thing for quite a while.
[intro music]: Yeah, you’re old. You’re old.
Will: But I’m excited. I’ve, I’ve got, I’ve written some jokes specifically for Iowa.
Um, some, some special things. My residency program director, Dr. Tom Oding is going to be there. He was a
Kristin: guest on our show. So if you’re interested, go check that out.
Will: Yep. Um, it’s, uh, it’s just, it’s going to be so much fun and it’s sold out.
Kristin: Yeah,
Will: it is maybe there may be like three tickets left. I don’t know as of by the time people hear this
Kristin: Yeah
Will: in a few weeks.
It’s gonna be sold out.
Kristin: I wonder if we should do a second show
Will: that Yeah, that would be that’s a lot. I don’t know. I think I think once enough It’s
Kristin: like
Will: a 650 seat theater.
Kristin: Yeah, it’s a lot Yeah. So I’m excited about the Angler
Will: Theater. It’s gonna be great. Um, uh, I’m just, I’m so pumped.
Kristin: It’s going to be really fun because that, that, uh, audience in particular is going to be full of people that we know [00:06:00] and people we don’t know.
And
Will: farmers. And
Kristin: it’s, and farmers. You’re, oh, we’re going to have to do a little, we’re going to have to play up the rural.
Will: I’m doing some farmer jokes. I got it.
Kristin: I know. I feel like you should put your character in.
Will: Uh, you know, the rural medicine is not really, uh, rural,
Kristin: rural, rural,
Will: not, not exactly like, uh, that, that is the rural medicine videos are, were inspired by my time in Iowa for sure.
But, you know, Texaco Mike is not, he’s not on screen. He’s not a, I can’t shh.
Kristin: There’s ways around that.
Will: Yeah, could have him offstage. Uh
Kristin: huh.
Will: Doing something there. Uh
Kristin: huh.
Will: Let’s think about that.
Kristin: Yeah, I’m just saying
Will: probably come up with something pretty
Kristin: good Anyway, it’s gonna be fun cuz that’s a special place Second stop
Will: on our on our tour.
Kristin: That’s right
Will: So I would
Kristin: say come on out, but the tickets are sold out. I’m
Will: Scared I’m scared for October though
Kristin: Yeah, I think it is literally every single weekend and we’re gonna
Will: be busy in October in
Kristin: different cities in the [00:07:00] United States of America
Will: Washington DC Dallas Houston.
Kristin: Yeah, you know what? I’m really glad though.
I’m glad we’re not doing Washington DC in November.
Will: That would be great
Kristin: Well, October might not be much better, but I feel like November will be even
Will: worse. We’re also going to a historic theater, the Howard Theater.
Kristin: Yes. In Washington, D. C.
Will: So, uh, it’s, it’s, uh, I’m, I’m excited. It’s gonna be fun. Did you
Kristin: catch that I was referencing the election?
I feel like you didn’t catch that.
Will: Oh, I thought you were just talking about weather. The
Kristin: weather, right. That’s what I figured. Oh,
Will: November?
Kristin: Yeah. Big election. Have you heard?
Will: Is there? I don’t know.
Kristin: Are you new to Planet Earth? Did you just get here?
Will: I’m like we’re recording this right now We’re recording this in like the I’m the last dregs of my caffeine.
Kristin: Yes
Will: are starting to wear off. I can feel it It’s like too early to get that second cup of coffee yet
Kristin: Cuz you might not make it the rest of the day.
Will: Yeah, and then I have to get a third cup
Kristin: Yeah,
Will: I promised myself I wouldn’t do [00:08:00] that
Kristin: Okay,
Will: I feel like three is it’s just like it’s a lot. It’s a lot of coffee. Like
Kristin: now you have a problem
Will: Yeah, two two is reasonable one in the morning one in the afternoon, you know get you pick you back up after lunch No, two’s fine.
No two is that I’m sure I think there have been studies
Kristin: scales different in the medical community I think you guys tend to go high on caffeine.
Will: We do love our caffeine. Um, but no, so anyway, hopefully you guys can come out and see some of our shows if we’re coming near you.
[intro music]: Yes.
Will: And, uh, I don’t know, I just, we’re, we’re adding some, some fun things, uh, you know, compared to what we started with, you know, it’s changed a little bit and it, but it’s all going to be awesome.
Kristin: Yeah, I mean, guys, not to brag, but it’s a pretty good show. Like, we’ve, we have had feedback.
Will: The hardest part is just, uh, packing up my costumes and transporting them.
Kristin: Yep, a
Will: lot of stuff. This
Kristin: time we’re gonna have, we’re gonna have even more stuff.
Will: We do have more stuff. Exactly. It’s
Kristin: gonna be some [00:09:00] logistics.
People don’t want to hear about our travel logistics. Nope, they don’t.
Will: Okay, so let’s keep going. How about, since we’re talking about characters though, uh, in the live show and stuff, should we do some lore?
[intro music]: Yes. Some
Will: lore action?
[intro music]: Some lore.
Will: Oh, yeah. All right, let’s take a break and we’ll come back and do some lore.
[intro music]: Okay.
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All right, we are back for Glock Talk, where the talks, where the Glocks talk. God, thank you all for being here. Oh my God. All right. So, um, let’s do some, some lore talk.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: Um, we’ve, we’ve done, yeah, we’ve talked about [00:10:00] Jonathan, we’ve talked about, uh, neurology a bit as well. Uh, I thought we could do like anesthesia surgery.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: That’s, those are, I think, yeah, they kind of go together and they, it’s such an interesting dynamic and I think that the operating room is a setting that gets people really excited because it’s, Not
Kristin: me.
Will: Well, in, in terms of seeing like the comedy, the videos, like people love the surgery setting videos because that is such a fascinating ecosystem of personalities and high stakes and there’s high stakes.
There’s, there’s, uh, there’s some anxiety going on there. There’s, uh, then you get like. Your residents and your med students coming in for the first time into this environment and learning the ropes and then you have
Kristin: to buy the trash can.
Will: Yeah, and you have your, your, your, your, uh, your nurses, your charge nurse, you have the, the patient, the surgeon who’s, you know, everything revolves around the [00:11:00] surgeon or the surgeon likes to think everything revolves around them.
And then the anesthesiologist is just like kind of chilling. You know, so it’s it’s a fun It’s a fun environment to explore through comedy because there’s a lot of material there
Kristin: Yeah, does does having gone through med school and surgery rotations. Does it make you less? Um, well, nobody likes having surgery, but does it make you a little, does it make you like it less?
Like, does it make you more nervous, more apprehensive?
Will: I, I think some people who know, there’s some people, some med students who know they don’t want to do surgery.
Kristin: No, I mean when you’re a patient.
Will: Oh, oh, to have Like
Kristin: to have the perspective of, you know, seeing what it’s like on the other side. Does it make you want to be a surgery patient less?
No. For any number of
Will: reasons. Because I know how, how particular operating room staffs are and how about protocols and timeouts and, and, [00:12:00] and so I do want to make sure that it’s a reputable hospital I’m going to. Right. Um, and then But no, I, I, I’ve, I love the operating room.
Kristin: I just think sometimes, you know, you’ve seen too much.
Will: Oh, I mean, I’ve only seen eyeball surgery. So, and some, I’ve seen some amputations. Um, so I guess. I’d feel comfortable with that. You
Kristin: must have seen more surgeries than that in med school.
Will: Yes. No, I have. I’ve seen other surgeries, but I’m closest, obviously, to eye surgery. I’d probably be more nervous about that
Kristin: than any other.
What does it make you want to have eye surgery less? You won’t even get an exam. Oh, I
Will: absolutely don’t want to have eye surgery, but I know I have colleagues that I would trust to do my eye surgery.
[intro music]: Yeah.
Will: And my family’s eye surgery.
[intro music]: Yeah,
Will: so yeah, I’d be a little nervous about it, but um, I think I’d overall I’d be okay I don’t think I was talking about this with my colleagues One of my colleagues is like just he said he’s gonna have to have general anesthesia.
He’s so nervous
Kristin: Oh, [00:13:00] oh, no, I
Will: think it’s interesting hit coming from a surgeon.
Kristin: Are you doing it?
Will: No, no, no, no, we were just talking about like what what about like when we have to have cataract, okay and so Yeah, I don’t know. I but any other surgery I would I mean I’ve had other surgeries, you know, yeah, it’s it’s been fine You know, yeah, I like the happy juice.
Sometimes when you
Kristin: see behind the curtain of something it influences your perception. I like the
Will: Versed, makes you feel good
For those, for that, like, you know, 30 seconds before, uh, as,
Kristin: as
Will: they’re wheeling you into the operating room, they like, that’s when they push it.
Kristin: I bet you can tell how much they’re giving you by what number they ask you to start counting down from
Will: a
Kristin: hundred. Maybe you’ll be there a little bit, but if they get, if you’re just starting on 10, they’re like, you’re going to be out.
And
Will: oh yeah, usually you don’t get to, you know, two or three because by the, by the time they’ve, You start counting, they’ve already given you a little bit of the propofol. And that takes just a bit to [00:14:00] circulate. But I was going to say, one of the underrated aspects of being a patient is the, um, is writing in the bed to the operating room.
Kristin: Oh, writing. Yeah, it’s writing.
Will: Like you’re in the, you’re laying in the bed, And because that’s usually,
Kristin: so
Will: it’s cool because at least whenever I’ve had outpatient surgery, they give you a little bit of Versed, happy juice.
[intro music]: Yep.
Will: Okay. Like in pre op because anesthesia is there and they’re the ones usually that will wheel you in.
[intro music]: Mm hmm.
Will: If you’re having a surgery where you get wheeled in, I think everybody, most, a lot of surgeries do that, but One time I
Kristin: had to walk in and lay on the table. Yeah,
Will: like in
Kristin: cataract
Will: surgery, you have to walk in.
Kristin: I know, this was a neck surgery.
Will: Okay. Well, anyway,
Kristin: I was nervous.
Will: I really enjoy the feeling of getting some of that happy juice.
Kristin: So you’re going for a ride? You’re a little
Will: high, right? And then you go for a ride in the hospital [00:15:00] and you’re like, you’re just, they’re just pushing you around. Exactly. Yeah. It’s kind of, I don’t know. It’s kind of exciting. It’s like, as someone who spent a lot of time in hospitals, but having to walk everywhere,
[intro music]: it’s like,
Will: Damn, this is nice.
[intro music]: First class treatment. I get
Will: to, I get to ride in a bed? But then at the end of the ride, you have to surgery. You get cut
Kristin: open. Yeah.
Will: So nuts. Not as fun, but, um, anyway, I kind of enjoy that. That is one thing
Kristin: I do remember, like, obviously I’m not there when you’re getting surgeries, but I have been there when you’re, like, still waking up from the anesthesia.
[intro music]: Yeah.
Kristin: Uh, like you’re awake, but you’re still, like, coming out of it, and, uh, you get very giggly.
Will: Yeah,
Kristin: that’s what you do when you I’m happy drunk that stuff just just giggles.
Will: I just I like that going back to the writing Remembering reasons why I like it so much the feeling I know
Kristin: what to get you for your birthday now
Will: the Hospital bed that you can wheel me around the house.
Yeah,
Kristin: give you a ride. Yeah
Will: the breeze. I remember the breeze
Kristin: Yes.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: That, that fresh hospital [00:16:00] air, blowing through your hair.
Will: Cause, cause they’re wheeling you quickly because everything moves so fast in the hospital. Yeah. And like you’re going fast enough that it’s, you feel it.
Kristin: On your face. On your face.
Give me all those
Will: germs. You’re making it less fun. Haha. Relax. Oh, what a sad, sad life. Oh, the lore, the lore. I love it.
Kristin: Yes, surgery. We’ll get forward
Will: to my next surgery so I can get wheeled around the hospital. I’m
Kristin: just picturing you, 6’4 with your hospital socks sticking like six inches off the end of the bed.
Will: Yeah. Getting
Kristin: wheeled around. I
Will: don’t fit in those very well.
Kristin: I wouldn’t think so.
Will: I still have those socks though. Yeah. Yeah. The no slip, the no slip socks. They come
Kristin: in handy.
Will: So anyway, back to the lore.
Kristin: Yeah, surgery, anesthesia.
Will: The first time I did a piece of content about The OR environment was actually a Gomer blog.[00:17:00]
So I was writing these satire articles and one of the ones I wrote was, um, let’s see if I remember the title of it was, uh, anesthesiologist swallows pride develops small bowel obstruction.
Kristin: I don’t get it.
Will: Right. So I it’s it’s a clever title. Oh, it’s a clever title because because part of the joke with anesthesiologists is that is that they get dominated by the surgeons like the surgeons that have such a big ego that they have to control every single aspect of the operating room where they feel like they need to.
Right. And so they will essentially like assert their dominance over everybody in the room, including anesthesiologist, who by the way is also a physician. And so the anesthesiologist, because they’re like super cool and they just, they just don’t get worked up about those types of, you know, personalities and dynamics.
They’re used to it. So the joke is that they [00:18:00] swallow their pride and not like. Fire back at the surgeon, just let the surgeon be there.
Kristin: Oh, and the pride is the small bowel obstruction.
Will: And then they swallow, and it’s just a joke on swallowing something. Right. And they develop a small bowel obstruction.
Kristin: That’s funny.
Will: Okay, I was really proud of that one, alright. I said
Kristin: it’s funny.
Will: A few people did read it, but anyway. And, um, but I, I just, I love the dynamic between the two just with, with, and obviously I play it up for effect in the videos, but, but the, the surgeon being just so oblivious to the needs and wants and, and, and desires of the people around them, uh, just having this gravity, this vortex that they assume everyone caters to them.
And then you have the anesthesiologist who’s just kind of aloof. And, um, it just kind of goes with the flow, and, uh, uh, I just
Kristin: You know, this [00:19:00] is reminding me of
Will: I’m afraid of what it’s reminding you of.
Kristin: Well, you are a surgeon.
Will: Do you think I act this way in the operating room?
Kristin: And I’m the anesthesiologist.
No, not in the operating room.
Will: Oh, yeah, because you’re home because you’re so easygoing. I’m so
Kristin: chill.
Will: You’re absolutely the chillest person I know
That was a very surgeon thing of you to think right there
By the way, we need to up your searcher lane, I think So
Kristin: that’s rude
Will: Just kidding.
Kristin: Mental health is not a joke.
Will: No, it’s not. Of course not. So no, you are not, um, I think you could actually be a good surgeon.
Kristin: No, I can’t. My hands are not
Will: steady. No, no, I mean like from a personality standpoint.
Kristin: I don’t think that’s a compliment.
Will: Just, no, but you’re like very attention to [00:20:00] detail oriented.
Kristin: Yeah, that I am.
Will: And you kind of have to be that way to a certain extent. I’m a good leader. You’re a perfectionist.
Kristin: You’re a
Will: leader. You just don’t like blood and guts.
Kristin: And my hands are shaky.
Will: Your hands are a little shaky. Yes. Yeah. And you’d have to sit on, stand on a stepstool.
Kristin: I would. I’m too short.
Will: But that’s okay.
They have that. Can I sit? You should do that. Without
Kristin: being an ophthalmologist?
Will: Oh, do other types of surgeons?
Kristin: I can’t stand that long,
Will: you know?
Kristin: I gotta be, I gotta be able to shift position. I don’t know how people do it.
Will: Yeah, yeah.
Kristin: No one cares anymore. I think
Will: ENT maybe? They sit up the I don’t know. I don’t know, to be honest.
You could be an orthopedic surgeon.
Kristin: I do like to take out my aggression sometimes. That would be fun.
Will: malleting.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: So do you have any, let’s see, what else, what can I tell you about the characters in [00:21:00] Between Anesthesia, Anesthesia. Anesthesia.
Kristin: How did, how did you come to develop, um, All their little idiosyncrasies, I mean, you’re talking like general personality.
Will: Yeah. So
Kristin: we’ve covered that. But each of those characters has like some very specific, uh, traits or qualities.
Will: Yeah, the surgeon, I guess, is, if there had to be a villain in, In the cinematic, the GCU, Glockenplicket Cinematic Universe, it would probably be the surgeon, the general surgeon.
Kristin: Well, now, hold on, you’ve got private equity, you’ve got Bartholomew Banks.
Will: That’s true, I do have, I do have other legit
Kristin: Insurance guys that Jimothy works for. But I,
Will: I have, I have depicted surgeon, the surgeon, the general surgeon in a negative way a few different times. And I, I chose, I choose surgery for that because not that they are, because they’re wonderful surgeons. Like [00:22:00] I, I’m friends with surgeons.
I know a lot of surgeons and they are, they’re very analytical, not analytical. They’re very, um, it takes a special personality to do surgery. Yeah. So you have to be. Uh, have a lot of confidence, right? And so, um, but I feel like they can also take a joke really well.
Kristin: Yeah,
Will: that’s why I’ve kind of poked fun at them a little bit more than other specialties I would say because I know they can take it.
Kristin: Because they got all that confidence.
Will: They got all that confidence They’re like, yeah, you can make fun of me. Whatever. I know who I am. I know what I do I know what I’m good at.
Kristin: Yeah,
Will: you know So and there’s something to that because certainly if I have surgery on something, I want my surgeon to be crazy confident
Kristin: Yes, if
Will: you like.
I don’t
Kristin: want them to be crazy confident. Well, lack of Sane confidence. Well,
Will: the point is, though, lacking confidence is a, is a bad, is not a great thing for a surgeon.
Kristin: Right. But too much is also not great.
Will: Sure. You gotta know your limits.
Kristin: Appropriate amount of confidence.
Will: You have to know your limitations.
Otherwise, you end up [00:23:00] like our, uh, friend Gerald there behind you.
[intro music]: Yeah.
Kristin: Skin and bones. Except he doesn’t have any skin. He does.
Will: That’d be weird to see a skeleton covered in skin.
Kristin: Just skin.
Will: Just skin.
Kristin: No muscle.
Will: Yeah, it doesn’t work that
Kristin: way. No organs.
Will: All right. So, uh, anyway, that’s, that’s all I got. All right.
So those are like the surgeon quirks, you know, as far as from the anesthesia side, I guess I feel like they, surgery and anesthesia, they balance each other well.
Kristin: Yin and yang.
Will: Yeah, because while, whereas the surgeon is, is very, I don’t want to say aggressive, but like confident and, and.
Kristin: Action oriented. Yeah,
Will: yeah.
They’re, they’re, they tell you what they think and, and they get what they want and they expect to get what they want kind of thing. Uh, the anesthesiologist has to, has to even that out a little bit by being a little bit [00:24:00] more, uh, you know, go with the flow. Um, uh, there was one of some of the big jokes about them is that they’re, they’re always taking breaks.
They love taking breaks. So as opposed to like the surgeon who’s like, no work life balance, that’s like the running gag for them. Uh, anesthesia just, they have unlimited work life balance. They love it. Now their job, anesthesia, their job is hard because, um,
Kristin: You don’t want to kill the people.
Will: Well, yeah, they’re keeping, they basically, what anesthesiologists do is they keep the surgeon from killing the patient.
That’s essentially what they’re doing, right? Yeah. They’re keeping the patient alive while the surgeon is like cutting into a patient. Yeah. So in a way, they’re basically, their job is to keep the patient alive while that happens.
Kristin: That’s an interesting one. Okay, so keeping them alive.
Will: Yes.
Kristin: How are they counteracting something?
Like that makes me think they’re counteracting something. What is happening?
Will: They’re helping control the breathing of the patient, the blood pressure.
Kristin: Okay, so if they [00:25:00] weren’t there, the natural response to being cut open, even if you’re unconscious, say, would be to leave it or something, then you would, you would have these.
Yeah. Oh, I’ve never thought about that.
Will: Yeah, that’s, that’s, that’s what they do. Is there,
Kristin: I just thought they were there to make it where you didn’t have to experience it. That’s all I’ve ever thought.
Will: That’s one of the benefits of having an anesthesiologist, yes. But like for me, in my mind, as
Kristin: just a patient, that’s the purpose.
Will: No, they’re, they’re, they’re, I’ve never
Kristin: considered this other
Will: thing. They are there to keep the surgery from killing you.
Kristin: Well, that’s lovely.
Will: But they’re good at it.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: They’re very good at it.
Kristin: I’m just about 10 times more afraid to have surgery now, but cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
Will: Okay. It’s a, that’s a very, it’s a, it’s an embellishment, obviously.
But if you like drill down into the essence of what that, what it is that’s happening in the operating room, that is basically what’s happening. And so the, and what’s so cool about anesthesiologists is that it, it so [00:26:00] little phases them.
Kristin: Yeah, I don’t understand, I mean, it’s good, but like, how? If that were me,
Will: I’d
Kristin: be a nervous wreck.
Will: Well, see, the thing is, their job, there’s so, there are long stretches of time where they just get to kind of, like they’re monitoring things and they’re giving medications and stuff, but they’re, they can chill out a little bit, right? They can check their investment portfolio. Yeah, I don’t know, do their Sudoku books.
That’s where all these jokes come from. But. Those periods of time where not a lot’s happening are punctuated by like five to ten minutes of sheer terror.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: When things do happen.
Kristin: Okay. When
Will: a patient has an arrhythmia on the table, or when they’ve have a stroke, or I, you know, they’re Do they have
Kristin: to tell you if that happens while you’re having a surgery, or would you just never know if you’re the patient?
Will: Oh, if you had, like, a complicated course, then, yeah, those things are told to you. I don’t know what
Kristin: that means. [00:27:00]
Will: Something that happened that was not supposed to happen that is out of the ordinary that might affect your recovery.
Kristin: Even if it was just, like, a little blip and they fixed it and then carried on.
Like, you had an arrhythmia for a little bit.
Will: That’s a bad
Kristin: example. It doesn’t seem like a blip. Yeah,
Will: well, no, I mean, I think anything that, that, uh, doesn’t go according to plan.
Kristin: That would like be in your notes.
Will: Yeah. Like you’d, as the patient, I’d want to know about it. Um, like I’ll give you an example. I, when I had my first orchiectomy, the surgeon came in afterwards, said they, they accidentally cut through a nerve.
Kristin: Yeah, that was your second one.
Will: My second one, to, to, that caused a loss of sensation like along my thigh.
Kristin: Yeah, he came in and told me that. He told me
Will: that. And so that’s an example of something that didn’t go according to plan, but was still told to me. Yeah, that’s like a
Kristin: big oopsie, though. But what about if, like, what you just said, like, let’s, well, let’s not use arrhythmia, because that’s kind of loaded.
But, like, let’s say [00:28:00] my, I was having surgery and my blood pressure got really high. Like, really high. And then they just brought it back down. And it was all cool. And they continued on. Would you
Will: know
Kristin: that?
Will: You might not know that. Especially if it’s, cause those types of things can happen. The blood pressure can fluctuate and if it didn’t cause any adverse event.
any long term changes. It was just part of kind of a normal ebbs and flows of surgery. Right. And that wouldn’t be something that you necessarily would think to disclose to a patient.
Kristin: Right.
Will: Um. Yeah.
Kristin: That’s what I’m asking.
Will: Yeah. Yeah. So. And
Kristin: ultimately, I just want to know, like, how good of an unconscious patient was I?
Will: I’m sure you behaved yourself quite well. All right. Uh, so do you have any other questions about anesthesia and surgery?
Kristin: Um, you know what I want to know? I want to know what these people, I mean, maybe anesthesia [00:29:00] because it sounds like surgery, this wouldn’t apply, but I would like to know what they do as a hobby, you know, like out of the operating room, obviously in the, you got their Sudoku books and stuff, but when they’re just out in the world as a person,
Will: Probably like just what any normal person would do.
Well, there’s like a
Kristin: personality type, right? Like this is your whole bit. Oh, I see. Oh, gotcha. What would this personality type
Will: want to
Kristin: do for fun or to relax? Okay,
Will: I’m gonna make a total guess. Okay. I’ll say, I would say general surgeons collect classic cars.
Kristin: Yeah, I can see it.
Will: Um, they, anesthesiologists, they own Teslas and are very vocal about their love of Tesla.
Okay. Okay.
[intro music]: Okay.
Will: Um.
[intro music]: Why?
Will: I don’t know. I’m just making stuff up as I go along. They, I think they’re probably, an anesthesiologist would probably be into archery.
Kristin: Archery. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. [00:30:00] Very specific.
Will: It kind of seems like an archery type of thing. Obscure. Yeah, just kind of like they, they’ve, they’re trying to find like weird things to fill their, their free time with.
You don’t think
Kristin: they’d be like a skydiver?
Will: No, no, that’s like, it’s, it’s, that’s uh, emergency medicine.
Kristin: Sure.
Will: Yeah, no. I don’t think, I don’t think they’re the, anesthesiologists are not the, I don’t think they particularly like feeling stressed and like a big, you know, adrenaline rush.
Kristin: This is what I’m trying to wrap my head around, though, because it’s such a conflict, right?
That, like, they Are the person that is keeping the patient alive. That’s high stress, high pressure.
Will: That’s a controlled environment. That’s the difference. So they control the environment. They know what they’re getting into. They know what the plan is. So they’re
Kristin: control freaks.
Will: Um, I think probably to a certain extent, yeah.
Maybe
Kristin: have a little OCD sometimes, some [00:31:00] tendencies. I think all physicians They like their coffee table books positioned just so.
Will: Probably, yeah, they don’t like it when people sit in their chairs.
Kristin: I
Will: guess the butt mold gets messed up.
Kristin: Oh, yeah, and you might change the height.
Will: Yeah, but I think That’s a big difference with anesthesiologists is typically they’re in a controlled environment.
So what you might think of as a very stressful thing, keeping a patient alive, that’s routine to them. But then there are those moments when a patient all of a sudden starts dying on the operating room table and they have to act quickly.
Kristin: So they have to be good under pressure. They
Will: do.
Kristin: But they don’t like pressure.
Will: I don’t know anybody that likes pressure except for maybe emergency medicine.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Yeah. So I don’t know.
Kristin: I’m just saying, I sound like an anesthesiologist. That’s all I’m saying.
Will: Let’s hear some, from some anesthesiologists. Do you think Kristen would be a good one?
Kristin: I’m good under pressure, but I don’t like it.
Do you like
Will: chemistry?
Kristin: Um, yeah, I like chemistry. Okay.
Will: Okay. All right. Well, [00:32:00] let’s, let’s take one more break. Okay. All right. Cause we’re, we’ve got one more thing to do.
Hey Kristen, would you rather have like a thousand demodex mites on your eyelid or just one of these little guys?
Kristin: I will have one of those, please.
Will: Because they’re so cute.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Yeah. It’s look at them little eyes and they got their, their feet and they’re just kind of just, just, just crawling all over your body.
Are there
Kristin: really a thousand Demodex mites on eyelids?
Will: Oh, I don’t know. Probably not that many, but there are, they can be numerous and they can cause Demodex blepharitis.
Kristin: Yeah. I don’t think I want that.
Will: Yeah. You get like red, itchy, irritated eyelids, flakiness, crustiness. Yeah. They can cause some itching.
Fun. Yeah, it’s not, it’s not real fun, but you shouldn’t get grossed out by it. I can look at your face and tell you a little grossed out by this.
Kristin: I don’t want that.
Will: Don’t get grossed out. Don’t get freaked out. Get checked out.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: All right. To find out more, go to eyelidcheck. com. Again, that’s E Y E L I [00:33:00] D check.
com to get more information about these little guys and demodex blepharitis.
All right. We were back. Did I answer it? Did you, do you have a good sense of, What an anesthesiologist does. Now, you seem very interested. I know
Kristin: what they do. I’m interested in this person What I’m really trying to figure out is like how does one decide to become like what personality type?
[intro music]: Oh,
Kristin: it’s a good fit For anesthesiology.
That’s kind of what I’m trying to figure out because like sure once they are an anesthesiologist It’s all a controlled environment But what might attract you to that in the first place other than like other factors like lifestyle factors Obviously, but
Will: I think a lot of people a lot of med students.
They might they like the operating room environment
[intro music]: Yeah,
Will: but they don’t necessarily want to operate doing the surgeries.
[intro music]: They
Will: like being there Yeah, you know y’all said to be a morning person.
[intro music]: Hmm You
Will: But the thing is they got really good work life balance because usually toward the [00:34:00] end of like they’re there and on their way home like 3 or 4 o’clock, even though they got to get up at like, you know, 4
Kristin: o’clock.
Will: But still, they do. It’s, I think of it as a nice work life balance, which is a wonderful thing to want to pursue. But any
Kristin: personality type, well many, might want a good
Will: work life balance. As opposed to surgeons. Surgeons, like, they’re like,
Kristin: Workaholics.
Will: Well, surgeons, they’re like the only place that they can be happy, truly happy, is in the operating room.
That’s like classic, a classic stipulation for like wanting to do surgery.
[intro music]: Yeah.
Will: Other types of doctors, they could be happy doing other things, surgeons, that’s, that’s all they want to do. Yes. They can’t imagine doing anything else besides like operating. Right.
Kristin: That’s fascinating. I like all the personality stuff coming from a psychology background.
That’s uh, interesting to me.
Will: So do I, but strictly from a comedy standpoint, not from an actually, you know, [00:35:00] philosophical or.
Kristin: Yeah. Well, I would be interested to hear from people who are surgeons or anesthesiologists or who are.
Will: Yeah. Attached to one. Give us, give us some insight. That could help me too. Yeah.
So. All right. So, you know, a couple of times, uh, I think, uh, yeah, a couple episodes ago, uh, I’ve, I asked our audience to send some of their marriage problems because I think, I think we could possibly launch a career.
[intro music]: Mm. Yeah. As unqualified marriage counselors.
Will: As completely unqualified marriage counselors.
[intro music]: Okay.
Will: Alright. Nobody sent us any. But! But! One of our producers, Rob, has helped us out.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: So he asked ChatGPT for, um, marriage problems. Okay. Like, what are some marriage problems? Like, common
Kristin: marriage problems.
Will: Common marriage problems. But what he got from ChadGBT was, like, too boring.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: And so what he, he amended his, [00:36:00] his inquiry to make it more specific and weirder.
Kristin: Perfect.
Will: So we got some good ones. Okay. So, so here, here we go. The first one. Hypothetical
Kristin: marriage problems.
Will: Totally. Generated by artificial intelligence.
Kristin: That’s about who we are qualified to help.
Will: I, I, I see this as a trial run.
Kristin: We
Will: see how we do and, and then maybe it will compel people to. Give us their actual marriage problems that we can we can lend a hand.
All right. So the first one here Listen,
Kristin: don’t send us something. That’s like you’re gonna get a divorce. Oh, no. No,
Will: we’re not again Cannot stress this enough Nobody should ever rely on our advice For anything to do with their marriage, but you should totally listen to what we have to say.
Kristin: Yeah, if you want some really unqualified Yeah,
Will: I will be truthful for you.
Well,
Kristin: semi qualified. We have managed to stay [00:37:00] married for a while now. And we work
Will: together. Yeah. That’s something, right? So we have life
Kristin: experience, but no qualifications other than that. Okay, just some disclaimer. Cannot stress that enough.
Will: Yeah. Cannot stress that. Okay, here we go. So the first marriage crisis here, the pet obsession.
So here’s the problem. One partner has developed an intense and exclusive bond with their pet.
[intro music]: Exclusive? Mm
Will: hmm. Treating it almost like a child and prioritizing its needs. and wants over their spouses. They spend a significant amount of time and money on the pet, even going so far as to cook gourmet meals for it, arrange frequent playdates, and include the pet in all aspects of their daily routine.
The other partner feels neglected and sidelined. As their spouse’s affection and attention seems solely focused on the pet. This leads to feelings of jealousy, frustration, and a sense of being unimportant in the relationship.
Kristin: Okay, well
Will: What say you?
Kristin: What kind of pet?
Will: Um, I’m gonna say I feel like that
Kristin: might, uh, be [00:38:00] important.
Will: I’m gonna say it’s a parakeet.
Kristin: A parakeet.
Will: Yeah, it’s a bird.
Kristin: I was just imagining, it says it includes the pet in all aspects of their daily routine, and then you said it’s a bird, which made me think about how birds eat out of the other bird’s mouths, and so then this person just like opens their mouth with their dinner, and the bird eats the dinner out of it.
That’s
Will: exactly what’s happening.
Kristin: That’s what I’m picturing.
Will: And then they’re like, you know, when they go take a shower, the bird’s on their shoulder, um, there’s, Anytime, you know, the sleeping, the bird’s right there.
Kristin: I’d imagine there’s a lot of, uh, a bird excrement all over the house. I’ve
Will: never owned a bird.
Have you ever owned a bird? You’ve had a lot of pets in your life.
Kristin: We have owned birds, yeah. Yeah, nothing like fancy, not a parakeet or anything, not a parrot. Like we had like finches or something.
Will: I, here’s a question. Would there be any pet that this situation would, would not be a problem? Does it matter what the pet
Kristin: is?
What if it was a cow? It’s not that it [00:39:00] doesn’t matter. It would be just, it’s informative. It’s important to know, cause it might change, like, it’s going to, that’s going to affect the, what the situation is. So
Will: let’s imagine it’s me. Your pet,
Kristin: outdoor pet, small, large.
Will: I, our dog.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Our standard poodle, Milo.
Kristin: Yes.
Will: Imagine I have, I have generated a It’s not
Kristin: that hard to imagine, you’re, you’re pretty close.
Will: A very tight bond, where you start to feel like I love him more than I love you.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: How would you, what would you say to me?
Kristin: Well, you do snuggle with him more than you snuggle with me. So this is not hard to imagine.
In fact, I had to fight pretty hard for, you didn’t, you’re not like a physically affectionate
[intro music]: sort
Kristin: of person. So the fact that it came so easily to you to snuggle with this dog.
Will: Rob, did this really come from Chad GPT? [00:40:00] Uh, I feel like you’re in cahoots, the two of you.
Kristin: No.
Will: Okay.
Kristin: I’m just, I’m just speaking my truth.
Will: I think the person with the unhealthy pet obsession needs to tone it down or face some consequences.
Kristin: Okay, what kind of consequences?
Will: Um, they need to share the love a bit.
Kristin: That’s not a consequence.
Will: They, um, I don’t know. I don’t know what would be appropriate.
Kristin: Yeah, what would be a fair consequence? I think that the spouse needs to be able to eat out of their mouth and ride on their shoulder.
Will: See, this is what, this is what I mean when I say we’re not qualified to address these problems. I, I think, um, uh, well, if, if you’re feeling, I understand that you’re feeling jealous and frustrated about me and Milo’s relationship.
Kristin: Some empathy, maybe some active listening. And
Will: that you don’t feel important.
Yeah, in our relationship, but [00:41:00] I, if you want, I will pick your poop up as well, if that would make you feel better. Do
Kristin: I have to
Will: go in the woods? Uh, it’s, it’s helpful if you would do that. Um, stay away from the lawn, please. It’s nice. I don’t like stepping in poop. The woods would be better. And just let me know, indicate in some way that you’ve gone and point it out to me, and then I think by doing that, we can start to work on our relationship a little bit more.
But when you take
Kristin: him out, you, you anticipate his needs, and you take initiative. And, and take him out and you go with him and
Will: you watch
Kristin: him while
Will: he poops. Do
Kristin: you have
Will: a leash? I don’t. I, something tells me I would get in a lot more trouble if I suggested that.
[intro music]: I don’t think
Will: this is, I don’t, I don’t, [00:42:00] I don’t think we’re going to come to a conclusion here on how to fix this.
That’s a tough problem though. Does that exist in real life? Maybe. I don’t know. People are very attached to their animals on social media that I see. This is
Kristin: true. I would say too, to be fair, and play devil’s advocate,
Will: you’ve
Kristin: got to think about both sides, right?
[intro music]: True.
Kristin: So, perhaps the person who has an unhealthy obsession with the pet.
Now, this is no longer, um, attached to our real life situation. Perhaps the person with an unhealthy obsession with the pet also feels neglected. By their partner, and that is why they have developed
[intro music]: this unhealthy
Kristin: obsession, because at least the pet shows them attention, and they anthropomorphize that into love, if it’s a parakeet.
Will: That’s pretty good. I don’t know,
Kristin: can birds love?
Will: See, I think you’ve got, I think you’ve got something here. [00:43:00]
Kristin: I think both partners, perhaps, need to pay a little more attention to the parakeet. Giving to their partner rather than focusing on what they would like to take from their partner. What their partner is not giving them because I think when you focus on giving to your partner Then they reciprocate then it works out better for everyone.
Will: Is it possible that this is gonna help our marriage as well?
Kristin: I told you this is no longer tied to our particular situation.
Will: All right, there you go the pet obsession Should we do one more?
Kristin: Okay,
Will: you’re enjoying this, aren’t you?
Kristin: Yeah, this is fun.
Will: Here we go. This next one’s called the obsessive collector.
All right. Here’s the problem. One partner is an avid collector of unusual items, specifically vintage clown memorabilia.
[intro music]: Okay.
Will: Their collection has grown so large that has taken over significant living spaces in the home, including the dining room and bedroom, creating clutter and [00:44:00] discomfort for the other partner.
The non collecting partner feels overwhelmed and stressed by all of the, uh, clown noses. And giant rubber shoes, which leads to frequent arguments about space and cleanliness. They may also feel embarrassed or frustrated by the extent of their partner’s hobby.
Kristin: Oh gee, I cannot relate to this at all. Is the partner’s cloud memorabilia, uh, are any of them full sized skeletons, for example?
Will: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Kristin: with headwear.
Will: We did put Gerald back behind us with a unicorn headband.
Kristin: And I have actually walked out from a meeting into my home and stumbled upon you in clown face paint crying fake tears. Oh, that did happen once. Into a video camera.
Will: Yes.
Kristin: So, you know, I can relate to this person.
Will: Dang, Chad GPT’s a little bit too good today. Okay, so what if [00:45:00] instead of Also, we
Kristin: have an entire closet in here that is full of garbage and toys that are quote, props.
Will: Okay, but what if, what if instead of what I do, what if it was if I was making like Clown satire videos, and it was just all clown stuff.
That would
Kristin: be even more embarrassing.
Will: Would it?
Kristin: I think so, because clowns have like a whole thing attached to them. They’ve got a bit of a PR problem.
Will: What if I was a rare insect collector?
Kristin: I’m out.
Will: That would be a deal breaker. I can’t live
Kristin: in a house with insects.
Will: Well, you know, I just couldn’t. But you know how important it is to me.
Well, we can stay
Kristin: married, but we’re not gonna cohabitate. You’re gonna have your own section for Of the house? Or something, your own house. You gotta move out to the barn, that’s what we would do, you would move to the barn with your insects.
Will: Most of the rare insects are not alive.
Kristin: I know,
Will: I don’t,
Kristin: eugh.
Still
Will: no, like the press board, it’s like, it’s very [00:46:00] nicely well organized.
Kristin: That’s, that’s, I see where you’re going,
Will: but
Kristin: that’s, I can’t.
Will: My Guatemalan hissing cockroaches. He’s comfortable.
Kristin: No.
Will: I can’t look at insects.
Kristin: And relax in my home.
Will: You wouldn’t let our daughter get a snake. Not as
Kristin: a pet in our home.
Will: Why?
Kristin: If the snake wants to live in the barn, great.
Will: Okay.
Kristin: Like in a, in a, in an appropriate enclosure in the barn. I would allow that. I think
Will: you were okay with the snake idea until you learned that they mostly eat frozen mice.
Kristin: I wouldn’t say I was okay with it. I would say the frozen mice is, was the nail in the coffin.
You need a vegetarian snake. You have to feed these snakes mice, which then means that you have to keep dead rodents in your freezer. You
[intro music]: It’s a
Kristin: no go for me. No, I’m out.
[intro music]: You’re done.
Kristin: No, I’m not doing that. But if there’s like a separate freezer in the barn and the [00:47:00] snake lives in an enclosure in the barn and marry, the two shall meet.
Will: So that’s the way to the snake and I, that’s the way to fix the marriage to the obsessive collector is,
Kristin: yeah, you need to give them a space, give
Will: them their own space
Kristin: where they can. Keep all that stuff and keep it out of your sight, which incidentally, as I am saying this, I am realizing is exactly what we have done.
You have a prop closet. I
Will: do.
Kristin: And also you have, we have separate closets, uh, with a door that I can just shut and not have to see your mess. And then that way you can clutter to your heart’s content. You can just throw everything anywhere you want. Yeah, I don’t even have to see it. And it’s what keeps the magic alive.
Will: So, the, the, the key to this, this conflict, to resolve this conflict, is just divorce.
Kristin: [00:48:00] Well, now, that’s not what I said.
Will: Okay, living separately out of With some separate spaces
Kristin: of some kind would probably be something to consider.
Will: Alright, alright, I think that’s fair. Yeah. That’s good. It’s, it’s worked for us so far.
Kristin: Yeah, everybody gets what they need.
Will: But there are limitations and then once I dab, we’ll start dabbling in rare insect collection. That’s kind of it.
Kristin: You’re out in the barn at that point. Yeah,
Will: there you go.
Kristin: Get yourself a barn.
Will: So if if our thoughts on these two issues If you’re thinking wow, that’s
Kristin: insightful.
They
Will: are so good at this then Give us your marital issues Nothing serious, like, it can’t be, it’s gotta be something weird, but not like weird in a really weird way, just
Kristin: Keep it like PG. Like
Will: normal weird. Yeah, yeah. Uh, we’d love to help you out. Again, and I can’t say this enough [00:49:00] times, we are not qualified to do the thing I’m asking you to do.
Kristin: Unqualified, but probably funny, marriage advice. It’ll be entertaining.
Will: At the very least. Knock, knock. Hi, at human content. com. Oh boy. Okay. Um, that’s it for today. So thank you all for listening. Uh, and let it again, give us your thoughts on any topics you want us to discuss together, not just marital issues, but anything healthcare related.
Uh, uh, I think it was interesting conversation explaining, trying to explain the personalities to you. About the different specialties. We can do that for other specialties, too.
[intro music]: Yeah.
Will: Um, because, yeah, someone who’s not in medicine, you don’t have that insight. So, maybe it’ll help other people gain some insight into some of these personalities.
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Will: Hey Kristen, you know what I had to spend a lot of time doing yesterday after work?
Kristin: [00:53:00] What?
Will: Clinical documentation.
Kristin: Womp
Will: womp. It’s terrible. Not only just patient charts, like prior authorization paperwork, paperwork that you don’t even know that there was paperwork for. I mean, it’s, it’s just, there’s A lot of
Kristin: documenting.
Will: So much documentation. You know what I really could have used?
Kristin: What?
Will: The Dax Co Pilot from Microsoft.
Kristin: That would have helped.
Will: It would have just taken so much more off my plate. Honestly, can I give you some stats? This is pretty impressive. I love stats. Yes. Uh, 90 percent of patients say their physician spends less time on a computer when they use Dax Co Pilot.
I
Kristin: believe that.
Will: All right, furthermore, I got more. 80 percent of physicians who use DaxCopilot say it reduces cognitive burden.
Kristin: It’s always good for you to think less.
Will: Okay, I’m preserving my thinking for the more important things. And 62 percent of physicians say they are less likely to leave medicine or their organization.
Kristin: That seems important. It is
Will: very important. To learn more about how [00:54:00] DAX Copilot can help you reduce burnout and restore the joy of practicing medicine, stick around after the episode or visit aka. ms slash knock knock hi. That’s aka. ms slash knock knock hi.
