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Hello everybody. Welcome to Knock, knock. Hi, with the Glaucomfleckens, I am Will Flanary also know Dr. Glaucomflecken.
Kristin: I am Kristin Flanary, also known as Lady Glaucomflecken.
Will: Uh, thank you for joining us today and uh, thank you for my cup of coffee. You’re welcome.
Kristin: I tried, I’m
Will: having a little bit of a slow morning today, and
Kristin: I’m not a coffee drinker.
I do [00:01:00] not know how to make coffee unless it’s a K-cup. And now we have a pot.
Will: Can I just say. Uh, that I love it when you make me laugh. Like, I
Kristin: Okay, but I don’t like it when you’re laughing at me instead of with me.
Will: It’s like, it’s been a, it’s been a really slow morning. Yeah. I’ve been having, I’m like, really?
I don’t know if I’m getting sick or I just, I’m feeling really like, like a bit run down. Are you getting depressed? No. I mean, it’s, it is maybe a little bit of seasonal depression. Yeah. Sitting in, um. Uh, I got a legitimate, hearty chuckle when I, when you said you made coffee and, and I, I went in there, uh, to pour my cup of coffee.
No,
Kristin: I was still in progress.
Will: I know, but I just, I went in, you weren’t with me. I went in there to pour the cup of coffee and I just, just took a, a, a long look at the process. [00:02:00] That was Kristin making coffee.
Kristin: What I was trying to do something nice for you. Did I
Will: know? And I really, no, I really appreciate it. Um, it’s a coffee grounds everywhere.
Kristin: Yeah. I spilled.
It’s a tiny little filter. It’s hard to get it in there. It’s like a mini pot. I feel like that’s relevant to the story. It’s a mini one.
Will: Yeah, it’s a small one because I’m the only, there was like two coffee drinkers in the house and we don’t drink that much coffee, but, um. But at one point I saw you balancing really gently balancing the filter with coffee grounds in it.
Mm-hmm.
Kristin: Because I was trying to clean up this bill because I didn’t want the grounds to get into the coffee just like that. That was made, just
Will: balancing with coffee, walking around the kitchen, kind know what was going on. So you were cleaning? I didn’t know there that. Yes. Okay. Alright. Well anyway, thank you so much for my coffee.
Kristin: Yeah. I don’t think you mean
that.[00:03:00]
Not anymore.
Will: What
Kristin: Now? I’m gonna do it with coffee grounds in it on purpose.
Will: It tastes great. You made a a hell of a cup of coffee. Alright. Do you want to go into, oh, that really made you mad, didn’t I?
Kristin: Is this, this is a great way to start a podcast by pissing off your co-host.
Will: I was just remarking on the process. You have a different process than I have. That’s all I was
Kristin: learning in real time. I know I don’t have a process.
Will: And what did, how do you, how do you feel about making coffee? Was it fun? I feel like it was
Kristin: not worth it.
Will: But did you have fun doing it?
Kristin: No.
Will: Well, uh, I do have some healthcare news for you. Should we get to that? Okay. Anything to add about the coffee?
Kristin: I do not, unless you would like to really get into it. I’m trying to get us through this as quickly as possible.
Will: Oh man. [00:04:00] Alright. Well, uh, so, you know the GLP one mm-hmm. Medications?
Kristin: Mm-hmm. Yes.
Will: Um, so apparently the plan was for like, when Biden was president, the plan with through CMS was to have Medicare cover those medications.
Okay.
It was just recently announced that, um, Trump has said that’s not gonna happen.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: And that’s a big deal.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: For a number of reasons. Number one, those typically cost people about a thousand bucks a month,
Kristin: right? So they’re
Will: kind of expensive, very expensive,
but they’re also. Incredible medications.
Mm-hmm. Like these things, and like, I don’t prescribe them. I, I’d hear about them from my patients. Mm-hmm. Because I’ve got a lot of patients in their sixties, seventies, eighties, a lot of ’em are taking these medications and they’re like, it’s making their diabetes better. It’s making like metabolically, they’re just like improving.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and, [00:05:00] and you hear on, so I’ve, I’ve seen some reactions on social media about this. The fact that Medicare will not be covering these, um.
It, it’s like just people are just bewildered in the medical community. Mm-hmm. I’m talking about like the physicians are actually seeing the effects that these medications have. Yeah. Not that they’re perfect. There’s like side effects to ’em, obviously, and, and maybe even there’s things we don’t know that might come up down the road, but the, there’s no denying like the impact these medications.
And I’m not, this is not an ad for these medications. I’m just saying what, you know, what, uh, I’ve, I’ve seen and what a lot of my colleagues in medicine have seen. Yeah. I feel like it’s just a part of it is like this push by RFK Junior, um, and, and kind of other people that are, that really like, like what he’s doing, um, to like, it’s like a personal, people should take personal responsibility over their weight kind of [00:06:00] thing.
Mm-hmm.
Like it, like you’re, you’re not exercising enough. Mm-hmm. Or you’re not eating right. Well, guess what? Those are the things we’ve tell, been telling people to do and trying to get people to do for, for decades.
Mm-hmm.
And so along comes a thing that just makes it a little bit easier, so you don’t have to just like force yourself to do some of these things that are more like behavior modifications.
Mm-hmm. And yeah, it’s not like they’re like, it’s like bad to suggest that. Right. It’s okay to do. How can you just ignore this, this potentially like life-saving medication and just say, no, that, that, it’s a, it’s like a crutch
Kristin: also. You shouldn’t
Will: be using that. You should be taking your own personal responsibility for your health.
Like that’s, I that’s also, it’s more
Kristin: complicated than eat right and exercise. Oh yeah, absolutely. Like those are not the only two ingredients. So to take away this thing that helps the people that even if they eat right and exercise, they still, it’s
Will: not enough. [00:07:00]
Kristin: Right.
Will: It’s, it’s like, it’s kind of insulting to just like
Kristin: Right.
Will: You know, the multifactorial nature of health.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Um, so it’s just, it’s a bit disappointing.
Kristin: Disappointing, but
not surprising.
Will: Yeah. It’s, um, I, I think. I don’t know. And then, you know, we’ll see. I, I’ve even seen some patients that, you know, after starting it, they’re like, diabetic retinopathy gets better, and stuff like that.
Yeah. This is all anecdotal evidence. I don’t know the data like around that, but even in my little corner of the world in ophthalmology mm-hmm. We’re seeing some effects of it. So I don’t know. I don’t know what’s gonna happen with Medicare. It sucks. Those are expensive medications too, you know. So, yeah.
Kristin: Hopefully that doesn’t end up actually happening.
Will: Oh, we’ll see. That’s all the healthcare. That was the only healthcare related news I have for you.
Kristin: Okay. Do they make coffee good in your corner? Oh my
Will: God. You’re still talking about
Kristin: you brought it up. [00:08:00]
Will: My goodness. Coffee is not covered by Medicare. Maybe it should be because look how, how improved health I have this morning that I’m a little bit cut.
Words are hard.
Kristin: What was that?
Will: I thought the coffee thing was just a funny story. I could tell on the podcast
Kristin: you.
Will: Now Kristin’s just mad at me. All right, well, we’ll, we’ll take a break, but, uh, if Kristin’s still willing to talk to me in the next segment, I don’t know. We’ll find out. Uh, but I think we’ll have another guest come on. Okay. Special guest.
All right. You
ready? All right, let’s take a break. We’ll come back with a special guest.
Hey, Kristin. Yeah. I’ve been, you know, grossing you out about these dex mites, although I’m not sure why they look like adorable.
Kristin: Well, these are cute, but it’s the real ones that kind of freak me out a little bit.
Will: Yeah. But I have some new facts to share with you. Oh, great. About [00:09:00] Dex.
Kristin: Alright.
Will: These mites have likely lived with us for millions of years.
Kristin: Oh.
Will: Yeah. Does that make you feel better?
Kristin: No.
Will: Like they’re passed down through close contact, especially between mothers and babies.
Kristin: Oh, wow. Such a special gift for our daughters.
Will: They’re born, they live, they crawl around and then they die on your eyelids and in your lash follicles. Their entire life cycle lasts about two to three weeks, all spent on your eyelids.
Kristin: Well, thank you for that. This isn’t
Will: helping, is it?
Kristin: No. How do I get rid of them?
Will: Well, it’s, it’s. It’s fun to gross you out, but we do have all of these, it’s really common, but there is a prescription eye drop to help with these now.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: That probably excites you.
Kristin: That makes me feel better.
Will: Yes. Any way to get rid of them, right?
Kristin: That’s right.
Will: All right.
Kristin: Sign me up.
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Kristin: And we are back. And, um, rather than Will, who’s just insulting my nice efforts to support him, uh, I got rid of him and now I am joined instead by family medicine.
Will: Hi.
Kristin: Hi. How are you?
Will: I’m doing good.
Kristin: Are you though?
Will: Yeah, I’m,
Kristin: I’m good.
Will: I’m, are you
Kristin: sure?
Will: I, I want, I’m glad. Thank you for letting me come and talk.
Your husband sounds not nice
Kristin: Sometimes. He’s, he’s a bit of a, you know what,
Will: why, why he should be more thankful for the things that you do for him. I, I agree. I, I’ve listened to a little bit of your podcast. Uh, in between like when I’m, while I’m charting at night.
Kristin: Oh, that’s nice.
Will: Yeah. And, uh, and you’re you’re better than he is.
Kristin: Thank you.
Will: I clearly like the [00:11:00] brains of, of the, the organization.
Kristin: Thank you. It’s nice to be seen and understood. Can I, can I drink his coffee? Yes. Is that, yes, go ahead.
Will: That’s tasty.
Kristin: Okay. Well good. I’m glad you enjoy it.
Will: I, anyway, I, I thank you for inviting me. Um. So I wanted to talk, uh, about family and medicine.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: Because, uh, it’s, we’re having a rough
Kristin: time. Yeah. It seems like it.
Will: Uh, and it’s, it’s, uh, it’s not our fault.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: Family and medicine. It, I’m sure you heard, uh, we didn’t fill all, we had a lot of unfilled spots in the match this year.
Mm-hmm.
And it just, it seems to be getting worse. And, um, uh, but I wanna tell you. We have, [00:12:00] it’s a great field to be in as a doctor. Yeah, it’s really, it’s real. Think about it. I want you to think about it.
Kristin: Okay?
Okay. I’m thinking,
Will: okay, so, uh, I don’t have to work, uh, on the weekend. I don’t have to work on holidays.
Mm-hmm. I, I can own my own practice. Did you know that? Oh, that’s nice. I own my own practice. I can set my own schedule.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: And, uh, and it’s, it what’s, what makes my life difficult mm-hmm. Is obviously the insurance companies.
Kristin: Yes.
Will: But, but also it’s the other doctors. Oh. They don’t respect me.
Kristin: Oh. I know how that feels.
Will: They don’t res. Mm-hmm. You know how hard my job is.
Kristin: I know you gotta see all sorts of people of all ages with all sorts of things that they’re coming in for.
Will: I saw when I came in, I saw you had one of those first aid books.
Kristin: Yes.
Will: Yeah, I do. That’s my specialty.
Kristin: Right? That whole thing, like all
Will: of it.
Kristin: Right.
Will: It’s [00:13:00] a lot’s, it’s like, it’s not like I’m just like an eyeball doctor.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: You know how big the eyeball is. I don’t care if we have two of them. It’s very small.
Kristin: It’s,
Will: it’s very small. And so I do, I, I can do eyeball stuff, but also all the body stuff.
Kristin: Yeah. Yeah.
Will: It’s hard job. I know. It’s a hard job. I don’t, I don’t think the other doctors show me the respect.
They make fun of us.
Kristin: Mm-hmm. That’s not very nice.
Will: No. They, they, all these, they send me patients, uh, they tell me that they need clearance.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: Before cataract surgery.
Kristin: Mm-hmm. You think they’re just being lazy?
Will: I think it is. Laziness. Mm-hmm. You’re a doctor. Put a stethoscope on, listen to. And the lungs, by the way.
There’s two of them.
Mm-hmm.
But they don’t do it.
Kristin: No.
Will: They tell me I have to do it.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: And then it spoke to me to clear the patient for a cataract surgery, there’s no such thing as [00:14:00] clearing. You can’t clear anything medically. It does. That’s not a thing. That’s a made up term by some kind of eye dentist.
Kristin: Mm-hmm. Watch out you. Don’t care. The dentist mafia after you with that kind of language. I don’t
Will: care. I don’t care. I, I am overworked and underappreciated.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: And honestly, I think med students should choose family medicine.
Kristin: Why is that?
Will: Because, do you know how beloved I am in my community?
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: I’m the guy.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: I know everybody.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: I see the parents, I see the kids. I see the grandparents.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: Birth to death.
Kristin: That’s a long time.
Will: It’s, it’s a long time. It’s a long time. I’ve been practicing for a long time.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: Probably should have retired a while back, but I like it too much. I like it. So your community, you, they love you.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: Uh, you get to do a lot of different things. You don’t like it. Did. I mentioned you don’t work on the weekends.
Kristin: You did. Yes. But that is a big perk.
Will: I’ve, you don’t, last time I’ve done a 24 hour shift [00:15:00]
Kristin: when
Will: can’t.
Kristin: Do any of, ‘
Will: cause I’m family medicine,
Kristin: but do any of you work on the weekends? Nope.
Will: You can if you want.
Kristin: Oh,
Will: okay. Because? Because I own my own practice. Do what you want, I’ll do what I want. Mm-hmm. And so I think people need to show some respect. Family medicine. All right. And don’t tell the med students that they shouldn’t be doing primary care.
I think it’s the mo. It’s the most noble field in medicine.
Kristin: Yeah. It’s, you’re the front door.
Will: Yeah. You’re
Kristin: the thing that, you’re the first or the
Will: backbone.
Kristin: Yes.
Will: The backbone. Stop making fun of us.
Kristin: That’s right.
Will: So you tell that husband of yours when he comes back
Kristin: that he’s Stop making fun of you.
Will: Making fun of me.
Stop making fun of coffee.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: All right. Stop making fun of you. Mm-hmm. That’s right. That’s not, that’s what
Kristin: he does though. He makes fun.
Will: Oh, why? Just ’cause he.[00:16:00]
I don’t even knows that that means except me. ’cause I know everything in that book.
Kristin: Mm.
Will: I know it all.
Kristin: You are
very smart.
Will: That’s all I had to say.
Kristin: Okay. Well, I’m glad you weren’t able to get that off your chest.
Will: Yeah. You know, it’s just, I, I feel, I feel like people don’t understand what we do.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: Like we’re out there in the community.
Kristin: Yeah. Talking to the people.
Will: Like the, the, the hospitals, the, the academic center, they can hire the, the, their, their subspecialty trained. They’ve got like a, a, a liver doctors mm-hmm.
That
just take care of the portal vein.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: I mean,
Kristin: you take care of that. And the rest of the liver,
Will: I do all the veins.
Mm-hmm.
And the organs, you don’t hear me complaining.
Kristin: Well. It’s
Will: okay to complain every now and then.
Do you, do you, so do you have [00:17:00] any questions for me? Yeah. As a primary care doctor,
Kristin: I do. Um, you’re talking about how your job is so great. It’s great and it sounds great. It’s
Will: great. I love it.
Kristin: Yeah, I do. But then you also look really burned out.
Will: Is it the glasses? I,
Kristin: that’s part of it.
Will: What is it? Is the hair?
Kristin: The hair seems a bit disheveled.
Will: Yeah. Like maybe
Kristin: you slept on your office couch last night.
Will: You know, it happens. But here’s the thing. Here’s the thing, we’re all burned out.
Yeah, that’s true. Like, it’s not
just me.
It’s true.
It’s such, I’m just the only one that’s not afraid to show it.
Hmm.
Kristin: You’re just the most authentic.
Will: I’m the most Everyone’s trying to hide it. Mm-hmm. You think the the eye doctor isn’t burned out. They’re burned out.
Mm-hmm.
They’re all burned. The, the surgeons, the, the, the, the infectious disease doctors, the ob GYNs, [00:18:00] like they’re the, the, and medicine is hard for everyone.
Yeah. I’m just not afraid to show who I am.
Kristin: Right. Why, why is everyone so burned out? We don’t want a bunch of burned out doctors. That’s not
good. What do we need to do? It’s, it’s,
Will: you know what it is,
Kristin: what
Will: not everybody has a Jonathan.
Kristin: Oh.
Will: Also prior authorizations, but yeah, the Jonathan thing too.
Kristin: Okay.
That’s the biggest,
Will: it’s just there’s so much paperwork we gotta do. Yes. I’m always doing paperwork that’s constant.
Kristin: Yeah,
Will: that’s constant.
Kristin: And you didn’t go to med school to do paperwork, but,
Will: but people think that if they don’t wanna do family medicine because of the paperwork, because of all the regulations and stuff, you’re gonna see that everywhere.
Kristin: Mm.
Will: That’s not just me.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: That’s not just me.
Kristin: That’s true.
Will: So do you wanna make a difference in your community? I
Kristin: think that’s a very noble thing to do.
Will: Do you wanna not be afraid to show who you are? Do you wanna come to work? You know, loosen the tie a little bit.
Kristin: Yeah. You do seem to loosen the tie.
Will: Come be a [00:19:00] family medicine doctor.
Kristin: All right.
Will: Next time you come over to where I work, I’ll, I’ll introduce you to Texaco, Mike. Oh, I know him.
Kristin: Do you know him personally? I’ve
Will: met him.
Kristin: I’ve never met him. Good guy. I’ve always wanted to.
Will: Good guy. A little reclusive.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Yeah, yeah. But he is, he is. Got some interesting things in that gas station.
Ct. MRI observatory.
Kristin: Have you ever, have you been a patient of Texaco, Mike? I’ve,
Will: I’ve not. Uh, I’ve of um. He’s made some antibiotics for me though. Oh wow. He ferments his own. Wow. It’s, it’s phenomenal. Yeah. He’s
Kristin: jack of all trades. Tasty.
Will: One. Very tasty. That
Kristin: one Tasty. Yeah. Oh
Will: yeah. Yeah. Where, who do you think came up with the delicious amoxicillin flavor?
Kristin: I guess Texaco, Mike.
Will: Absolutely. Okay. It’s great. Alright, we’ll see you later.
Kristin: Alright, bye Family medicine.
Will: Alright, I’m back. Did you have fun without me?
Kristin: I did. Family medicine. He’s a, he’s a nice guy.
Will: Did you learn anything? Did he teach you anything?
Kristin: Um, well, he told me all [00:20:00] about what he does.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: You know,
Will: he’s a good guy. Family medicine, being
Kristin: out there in the community, it’s a good thing.
Will: Mm-hmm. Um, I think people are, are enjoying, like, hearing from other doctors.
Kristin: Yeah, I think so.
Will: I think we did the, you had, um, um, emergency medicine on
Kristin: Yes, I spoke with him recently. Got
Will: some feedback. Uh, let’s see. Um, let’s see. We had, and looking at the comments on our YouTube channel at Lid, uh, Gillers, I know it’s a joke that Ed docs wear bike helmets to work, but I legit worked with a doc who did a 12 hour shift in, um, stiff mountaineering boots to break them in.
Kristin: Oh boy.
Will: Anyone who’s gone, mountaineering knows those boots don’t break in. He was just being wild Mountaineering boots. That’s.
Kristin: I think that’s an area that you haven’t tackled yet with emergency medicine.
Will: Yeah, I did. When, uh, a couple times, whenever we’ve done, like live shows, [00:21:00] I’ve made a joke about, you know, like mountain climbing.
Yeah.
As a way to get to work, right?
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Uh, I, I could lean into it a little bit more. Um,
Kristin: yeah, you could,
Will: there’s some praise for your cheat, your bone structure.
Kristin: Oh, my bone in here. What? My bone
Will: structure at Michelle 1 5, 4, 9. Why does this woman have the bone structure of a supermodel? This is unfair.
Kristin: And so other people liked that comment.
People like your bone
Will: structure.
Kristin: I don’t know what to say to that. I have,
Will: I’d have to agree.
Kristin: I had nothing to do with it. This is purely my, I guess, you know, my Scandinavian genetics kicking in there.
Will: Um, also people like to, I guess you made fun of my gait. Problems. Um,
Kristin: oh, that episode. On that episode, yeah.
Because you’re talking about tripping on rugs.
Will: That’s right. People are wanting, uh, uh, character visits. Um, um, more of them, so, okay. Uh, what makes it even better [00:22:00] is that emergency medicine is one of the mo more normal ones.
Mm.
Continue with the next most normal like anesthesia until you get to the weird ones.
Like neurology?
Kristin: Yes.
Will: Would you even wanna have a conversation with a neurologist?
Kristin: Oh yeah. That’d be interesting seeing how that goes. What would be,
Will: what would be the most interesting spec? Like if you could have one specialist
mm-hmm.
That you can ask them any questions you want. Like a real, not like me as a character, like any specialty in medicine.
Mm-hmm.
Who do you think you’d want to have? Like a one-on-one conversation with? Where you can ask anything you want medical questions?
Mm-hmm.
What do you think would be the most advantageous for you in your life?
Kristin: Well, for me personally, I would have to go, you know, gynecologist because they kind of do all of women’s health
Will: really.
I would’ve guessed. I would’ve guessed you’d pick psychiatrists.
Kristin: I, I already talked to one [00:23:00] of those.
Will: You, you already get one-on-one time with a psychiatrist. I do. Okay. I guess that’s fair.
Kristin: Yeah. So, you know, I feel like, I feel like a gynecologist would be the most, or, or, you know mm-hmm. Just a women’s health
Will: mm-hmm.
Kristin: Specialist. Yeah. It would be the most useful for me, especially, you know, I’m getting to be of a certain age where things start to. Will start to to change soon-ish. So it’s good to know what those changes are, what’s coming.
Will: I don’t know sure what my would be, but I would probably be maybe like plastic surgery so I could actually make a character.
Mm-hmm. Actually, I might actually choose an ob. GYN.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: And my, the, yeah, for like an hour I would just like Oh, just
Kristin: for your character development purposes? Yeah, just for character development.
Will: Mm-hmm. I feel like I could from that.
Kristin: Yeah.
Yeah. You’re scared of them.
Will: It’s, it’s like I, I, it’s, it’s more like [00:24:00] fear of the unknown.
I just don’t, and I just don’t know enough.
Kristin: But you, you don’t know any of these specialties.
Will: I know more about other specialties than I do about O-B-G-Y-N. Well,
Kristin: you did a rotation. You liked it even
Will: I did like it. I did like it. But yeah, I guess I could, I don’t really have an excuse. Yeah, that’s true.
Kristin: You’re just being lazy, I guess.
Will: I guess so.
Kristin: So if you’re an ob, GYN and you wanna talk to Will,
Will: is that, what, is that what family medicine said? Did he tell you I was lazy? He did. Did he say that?
Kristin: He did? Mm-hmm.
Will: I regret ever letting you talk to him.
Kristin: Mm-hmm. Well, you know, good guy we’re, we’re of a like mind on certain issues.
Will: How about rural medicine?
Kristin: We probably would have a lot in common also. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I think so. You know. I know how that is. It’ll be the, the being a rural community,
Will: the least exciting one for you to talk to. Which of my characters are like, I don’t really want the
Kristin: ophthalmologist.
Will: That’s fair. Alright.[00:25:00]
What about Jonathan?
Kristin: Uh, Jonathan would be, would be nice listener. He doesn’t say much. Yeah. Good. You could just, you know, I’m, I’m pretty introverted, so What about the nephrologist? I like my quiet. I dunno what I would say to the nephrologist. I, I don’t have a lot of kidney. Information or,
Will: or not? Banter.
Not really. Uh, curious about your kidneys in any way?
Kristin: Not at this time, no. Maybe if they start acting up,
Will: maybe down, maybe down the road.
Kristin: Alright. I’m thankful that they are working
Will: well. We’ve got some good ideas from people about, uh, the type of characters or the type of doctors they, they would like to see, uh, on this podcast.
It would be interesting to
Kristin: do, Jonathan, given that this is a podcast.
Will: Challenging.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Yeah. Jonathan, as we all know, have perfected the art of being seen but not heard.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: And so you kinda have to hear people on a podcast.
Yeah.
Anesthesia is a good one though.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Get, uh, that, I feel like [00:26:00] that’s an, the anesthesiology is like a under, I don’t wanna say underappreciated ’cause they’re appreciated, but more like people just don’t, they’re kind of shadowy.
Yeah. They’re kind of behind the scenes.
Kristin: Well ’cause
Will: people don’t really understand their
Kristin: patients are usually unconscious.
Will: Yeah, so it’s like somebody out there probably has just informed the, the world that all anesthesiologists do is turn a switch on and off, and that’s what they do for the anesthesia.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: I don’t know who would ever say that out.
Kristin: I wonder if he would show up with the, with the behind a drape, like do they need that? Is it like an emotional support drape
Will: that I think there is a, there is. They walk around
Kristin: in the world with it.
Will: Yeah. I do believe that’s the case.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: I definitely, you’ve seen them walking around.
I can
Kristin: accommodate that. Yeah.
Will: Yeah. Emotional support, drape.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: Sure. What other emotional support objects do? Other character, yeah. There’s emotional support. Salt
Kristin: uhhuh.
Will: Right. I feel like family
Kristin: medicine could use an emotional support token. Emotional
Will: support token for family medicine. Maybe he
Kristin: needs like a weighted blanket.
Will: Oh, a [00:27:00] weighted blanket would be good. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You find a lot of support and weighted blankets.
Kristin: I do love a good way to blanket.
Will: Alright, well, uh, if you have a particular, uh, character you’d like to have on the podcast, uh, let us know, uh, in the comments, um, a good way. I think a good way to get reach out to us with the comments are, is on the YouTube channel.
Kristin: Yeah, I mean, any of the channels will off Complex Will, because I love
Will: reading the comments on the YouTube, on our, on our joint YouTube channel here. Um, so do that. And, uh, let’s see. I think that’s all we got for today, so thank, thank you all. All right.
Kristin: We did it. Um,
Will: yeah, send us your comments and your stories and your I anything you wanna, questions, questions.
Absolutely. If you have a question for a specific character, we’d love to try to address that. Um, lots of ways you can reach out. Email us. Knock knock high@humancontent.com. This is on our social media platforms. Mention the YouTube channel. That’s probably the easiest one because it’s, it’s directly connected to our podcast.
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Kristin: I was afraid you were gonna say that.
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Kristin: appropriate.
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Hey, Kristin.
Kristin: What?
Will: Do you want? An assistant?
Kristin: I would love an assistant. I bet you would. I don’t want just one though. I want many,
Will: many assistants.
Kristin: Yes. I’ve got a lot of work.
Will: Well, I can give you something that does the work of many assistants. Okay. Have you heard of Microsoft Dragon Copilot?
Kristin: Oh, I have heard of this.
Yeah.
Will: This is an AI assistant for clinical workflow.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: It’s amazing. It’s, it transforms the way clinicians work. Uh, it’s like a little Jonathan. Yeah. Doing lots of things for you. Uh, one of those things is, is helping you get information faster.
Kristin: Oh, yeah. That’s nice. Yeah.
Will: This is what I, one of the things I love most about it, like, you just ask and you can get answers on a wide variety of clinical topics mm-hmm.
With citations, sometimes, like we don’t, we have to like do research to like. Yeah, try to jog our memory about certain things. You know, there’s a lot to, to think about in medicine,
Kristin: right? And new [00:31:00] stuff coming out all the time.
Will: Well, Microsoft Dragon copilot can just make that process faster and give you citations that lead you, you can look up the latest evidence about things, guidelines.
It just, it just makes that whole process seamless.
Kristin: I like it.
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