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[music]: [00:00:00] Knock, knock, hi!
Will: Knock, knock, hi!
Hey everybody, welcome to Knock, Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens. I am Will Flannery, better known as Dr. Glaucomflecken.
Kristin: I am Kristen Flannery, also known as Lady Glaucomflecken.
Will: Well, the time has come.
Kristin: It is, it’s time. It’s time to face your fears. It’s
Will: time to talk to a dentist.
Kristin: That’s right. We’ve,
Will: for, uh, over a Almost two years now, we’ve been doing this podcast.
Is
Kristin: that true?
Will: Yeah. Yeah, almost two years! Not a single dentist.
Kristin: Wow. The
Will: accusations were coming in that I am an anti dentite.
Kristin: Yeah, from me in particular. But I am not, I
Will: am not against dentists, even though I portray them as a, as mafia bosses in my content. Yeah. I do appreciate what they do because they gave me a, like, a decent looking smile.
I had the [00:01:00] braces that did the thing.
Kristin: Well, that’s, that’s, that’s Orthodontist is a type of dentist.
Will: Oh, I thought you were going to like the quibble with me on my decent looking smile. I Think it is Relatively straight and Mostly white getting a little coffee stains going on. I think I think whitening is in my future.
Kristin: Yeah
Will: at some point
Kristin: You’re not gonna like that. I have to warn you.
Will: Why don’t you just put a little
Kristin: Yeah, but it makes my teeth feel sensitive, like the stuff,
Will: man, I don’t like that, but maybe
Kristin: you’ll be different. I don’t know.
Will: Okay. Anyway, but you know, it’s the scraping and the, and the, and the, the poking
Kristin: pressure
Will: in the, all this.
Yeah. Are
Kristin: you going to have a vasovagal response?
Will: I’m not. I’m going to be fine. Okay. I’ll be fine. Uh, but, uh, we, we did it. We talked to Dr. Humey.
Kristin: That’s right.
Will: So I came across this [00:02:00] guy on, um, on TikTok. It just is very high production quality, which we learned he films all his videos just with an iPhone, which puts me to shame because you can get that kind of production quality.
Uh, then I have no excuse, but anyway, uh, he does great content, funny, really funny content. Uh, and you know how much of a sucker I am for medical, funny content people. It’s true. And, uh, and so it was great talking to him, uh, learning a little bit about dentistry and covered a lot of topics. I feel like we could have touched on a lot more.
Yeah. There’s so much I need to learn. I felt
Kristin: like we had a lot, a lot left to say. We might
Will: try to, to collaborate down the road though. Yeah.
Kristin: That would be fun.
Will: You know, eyes, eyes and teeth are not as different as you would think. I did not. Have the courage to talk about the term eye dentistry. What
Kristin: if your eyes had teeth or your teeth?
Well, they technically
Will: can if you have a, [00:03:00] what’s called a teratoma. You can get those in your orbit.
Kristin: That is horrifying. It’s
Will: got, it’s like a tumor that has multiple different embryonic tissues in it.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Including sometimes teeth.
Kristin: And are they like formed?
Will: Not like usable teeth, like you can’t take it from the tumor.
Sure, but like you could
Kristin: see that, oh yeah, that looks like a tooth. Oh yeah,
Will: that’s a tooth. Tooth city. Yeah.
Kristin: That’s horrifying, it really is. Not only
Will: that, but um, there is a type of keratoprosthesis that uses a tooth. Now it’s not used as much anymore.
Kristin: What is a keratoprosthesis?
Will: So it’s a artificial cornea.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: And, um, there are certain really, really bad diseases that cause lots of scarring over the cornea so much so that you can’t do a normal corneal transplant. You have to do a special transplant that has like metal in it. It’s, it’s a, it’s a prosthetic. Cornea, which we don’t use very often. So like people that have had bad chemical [00:04:00] injuries or Stevens Johnson’s, Steven Johnson’s syndrome.
So hard to say that SJS, uh, other types of diseases that cause horrific scarring over the cornea. Can’t do a normal transplant. So you have to have a prosthetic and one of those prosthetics historically has had a tooth. Usually it’s the patient’s own tooth. As
Kristin: always. I am sorry. I asked.
Will: Anyway, uh, we’re talking to Dr.
Humey and you should check out his content on TikTok and on Instagram. It’s really, really well done. He gets his whole staff involved and, um, it’s positive,
Kristin: you know, it makes you happy
Will: and even better, it’s like respectful.
Kristin: Yeah. For
Will: like, like pay someone doesn’t, it’s not the type of medical content that makes fun of patients in any way.
And so it’s, it’s just very well done. I really admire it and appreciate it. And um, and so we talked to him about all of that and his process and content creation and dentistry and teeth and being a sting, scared of going to the dentist. [00:05:00] Let’s get to it. I, I do. I, no. No. I, no. I really, I. Are
Kristin: you any more likely to go get that dental exam that you’re overdue for?
Will: I am overdue and I will go. I, I don’t have no time. Are
Kristin: you going to go at the same time you get your eye exam?
Will: No.
Kristin: Because I’m starting to think neither one of these things are ever going to happen.
Will: I will go. I will go to the dentist again. I will say it does feel easier when you go to the dentist like every six months versus waiting like two years.
It’s just, it’s an easier time.
Kristin: Right. Well, and they probably have less work they have to do on you.
Will: But I’m really good at, like, dental hygiene. Like, I floss every night, I brush, I use the mouthwash. I do everything I can to keep my teeth tip top shape. Yes, but
Kristin: there is a reason that we still need to go to the dentist every six months, even when we do those things.
Okay,
Will: alright, alright. I’ll go, I
Kristin: promise. Alright, good. Alright,
Will: let’s talk to Dr. Humey.
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All right, we are here with Dr. Humey. Thank you so much for joining us. Uh, can I just say that, You are our first dentist on the podcast. I was
Dr. Humie: actually going to ask that, because I was going through previous interviews, I’m like, okay, I think I’m the only dentist on this podcast. So I’m honored, actually.
Kristin: Yes. It is long awaited. We have been trying to do this for a long time. So we are very happy to have you. Yeah,
Will: well, I mean, I knew exactly, I knew exactly the dentist that I wanted to have on whenever I saw your content and, and it’s on, on TikTok. I, I want to, let’s just start there because the, the production quality is outrageous.
Kristin: It is. Yeah.
Will: Thank you. Thank you. So, so how do you, how are you doing this? It’s, [00:07:00] it’s, I assume you have to have a background in some kind of, you know, video editing, I don’t know, uh, video making, what, what’s going on here? How are you doing this so well?
Dr. Humie: Yeah, I’m actually doing everything on my phone, which everyone gets surprised when I say that, but as far as background or, you know, education and film, I, Don’t have that.
It’s basically just experience over time. I’ve been doing
Will: this. Now you’re making me look so much worse. Cause I have no excuse then you’re doing on your phone. What’s going on? What app are you using to help
Dr. Humie: me? Okay. Here’s the thing though, because content nowadays, as we all know, it’s about storytelling and relatability.
It’s really not about equipment anymore. So, you know, the production aspect of it is fine. It adds that nice touch to it. But, um, Yeah, it’s just the phone. Um, I’ve been doing this since I was a teenager. And, uh, yeah, I think I just grew up loving film. And when I used [00:08:00] to, you know, rent DVDs to watch movies, they always had this extra DVD that had all the behind the scenes, all the B roll.
Yes, I
Kristin: loved that one. Yes, how
Dr. Humie: they shot the different, um, you know, sequences, action sequences.
Kristin: Yeah, I
Dr. Humie: was nerding out when, when You know, when I watched those stuff. So yeah, it’s just experience over time. And, uh, just kind of, I feel like that’s
Will: gone away with, it’s like the, the death of physical media now, like the poor kids growing up and like our kids, they’re like, they’re not going to know what behind the scenes, I
Kristin: know.
I always loved the commentary. I don’t know. Where do you even find that anymore? You can’t, you can’t
Will: be DVD commentary. You know,
Kristin: you watch the movie and then you watch it again with the commentary on, it just, Standard. And
Will: now it’s dying. It’s unfortunate.
Dr. Humie: It is. I used to rent those and I also used to rent movie soundtracks from like the public library.
When I discovered that was a thing, I was just, you know, it was like a kid in a candy store. I was like, wait, you could do [00:09:00] that? So I would, you know, I used to get soundtracks to like the Lion King, you know, the Dark Knight, Batman movies, and just listen to the music only for hours.
Kristin: Yeah, the Jurassic Park soundtrack has been stuck in my head for like, what, 30 years.
Like, it’s just like, burned in there. That’s
Will: good. Yeah. That’s a good one. And this doesn’t surprise me because you, you, your use of music in your videos is, is great. And, um, I, I could have, like, you, the way you film it, like you do a really good job with the editing and everything because it really does seem like you have several cameras set up like in your office and, and so it’s, um, I don’t know.
I. I take a lot of shortcuts in my, I, like, I want to be recording for as little time as possible because I don’t know, maybe my attention span just isn’t what it used to be, but, uh, and so I film everything in the TikTok app for the most part. Wow. That is actually impressive to me.
Dr. Humie: Because when I open TikTok, I’m like, I don’t know what any of this is.
You know, I still, [00:10:00] I still do the, uh, old fashioned, you know, editing software on the, uh, Computer and just upload everything. Cause I’m like all these apps
Will: nowadays, I don’t even know how to use. Okay. Well, let’s, let’s have this be a, like a little test here. Like how, how long does it take you to, to like film to finished editing?
Like how, what would you, what would be your average amount of time?
Dr. Humie: Depends on the video. I think. Anywhere from two, maybe to four hours, depends on how involved the video is, how much action, how long it is, uh, that’s actually fast. You kind of develop over time, you know, when you do this for a while, you kind of already in your, in your head, you know, exactly how you want it to look.
And so it’s mainly just about cutting and splicing based on your vision. Uh, it gets faster with time.
Will: No, I, I totally agree. Like once, for me, the longest part is just the script writing. Like once I have the script. Written out, uh, I can, because I film and edit [00:11:00] in the Tik Tok app, I can like knock it out in like 30, 45 minutes.
So it’s, it is faster to do it that way, but there’s not as much of the features, the, the soft focus stuff that you do, the, the, the quality. Cause I, I’m going to, I need to figure out what kind of camera, I mean, you said you’re using your, your iPhone camera, just like portrait. I’m going
Kristin: to guess it’s cinematic mode.
Cinematic.
Will: Cinematic mode. Yeah, there you go. Cinematic mode.
Dr. Humie: Cinematic mode. you got the professional right there she
Will: can help you
Kristin: i know okay all right but you won’t let me help
Will: but like tiktok it softens my features and so i look like yeah that’s really all about vanity
Kristin: because he wants the filter right honestly i don’t blame you because
Dr. Humie: i’ve had moments where Like in the middle of editing, I don’t
[music]: blame you.
Look at your face. No, no, no, no. I don’t blame you because I want
Dr. Humie: that too. Cause I’m in the editing. I’m looking at myself and I’m like, oof, I look rough that day. Or like my hair is all messed up. You can see all my, uh, pores, but I’m like, eh, whatever. I can’t do anything about it.
Kristin: So [00:12:00] guys, lighting, lighting is a filter.
Will: I know. Well, you know, unfortunately, medical offices aren’t designed for like, like horrible lighting and filming. Yeah.
Dr. Humie: Honestly, you walk into a medical office with the lighting, it looks like you’re about to enter like a, uh, interrogation room or something.
Will: Yeah. It’s bad. Oh, you think a dental office is bad?
Try going to an ophthalmologist’s office. Yeah. Oh,
Kristin: it’s all in the dark. Where
Will: it’s all dark. It’s, it’s horrible. It’s, I can’t film. I’ve tried, I’ve done a couple of videos in a couple of our offices and. It’s always, uh, it’s always a struggle. Um, and I just had to stop pretending I’m in an ophthalmology office.
Yeah,
Kristin: now he just does it in a bedroom.
Will: So it’s like the production quality has declined,
Kristin: but
Will: I, what I’m impressed by you as well is how you get your staff involved.
Kristin: Yeah, that is so fun. Let’s talk
Will: about that.
Dr. Humie: I’ve been very blessed, but also it takes a little bit of time to warm up the staff to [00:13:00] it. Um, I always say I’ve been blessed in being surrounded by people who just like to have fun and kind of let their creativity out.
And um, I think the hard part is the initial. Aspect of it, once you get someone in on the video and they see how fun it is, they see themselves on the, on the Instagram page, uh, they see the people’s reaction, they get excited and they’re like, all right, I, I got over the hump, I’m ready for the next one, and now people just So, I think it’s creating a fun culture in the office, fun atmosphere.
Um, a lot of it is also directing them what to do. Uh, people think I work with actors. People say that all the time. Like, oh, you just hire actors or, you know, if you want. Someone to work in your office. They ha they have to say acting on their resume. And I’m like, not really . I just tell them, you know, just smile [00:14:00] here, say this line.
You know, gimme a little
Will: bit more emotion there. Um, as if you have the time, like you’re gonna like go out and find actors to come into the office. Like, like you gotta see patience too. Correct. It’s like, correct. Yeah. That’s what
Kristin: I’m wondering is when are you filming? Do, like, is everybody stays after school kind of a thing?
Or like how do you Yeah. So how do you fit this into the day?
Dr. Humie: Um, if it was staff related, then yes, we do wait until the end of the day. Obviously, nothing interferes with uh, patient care. Uh, some videos I involve my friends in, so depending on the time available, we probably do it on weekends, you know, Saturday or even Sunday.
So it’s been nice to find people who share. The creative aspect of it, and they’re willing to take time out of their busy schedules to do it. If it’s sometimes with staff, if I have to involve more than two, three people, you know, we’ll get lunch, I’ll get lunch for the office, kind of, you have to give a little bit of incentive.
You know, why am I staying after five [00:15:00] o’clock for your video
Will: to build up your Instagram page?
Dr. Humie: Exactly. Like what am I getting out of it? But, uh, again, it’s all about the culture and the fun. I mean, it’s more fun for them.
Will: I love the kind of the morale building aspect of it. Yeah,
Kristin: it’s like you get to play together, you know, in addition to working together.
It’s really cool.
Will: And what do you, what is your feedback about just, Like dentists in general, like, okay, maybe we should do this now. Let’s do this now. Oh, no, just, we’ve been talking about one of the reasons why it’s so like, we haven’t had a dentist on is because I am, I’m terrified.
Kristin: You’re an anti dentite.
No, I’m
Will: not an anti dentite. I’m not an, I, I, I’m pro dentist. I am as, as like a professional, like as an ophthalmologist, I appreciate dentists. I have actually worked in the OR with dentists on like facial trauma. Things. There you go. Okay. Um, but [00:16:00] it’s as a patient
[music]: mm-hmm .
Will: I, I am nine months overdue. Okay. Ooh, okay.
Uh, I, it’s bad. I, I don’t, I’m a, I’m afraid of the dentist. Um, and not so much that I need to like medicate before coming in. Um, like you would
Kristin: probably benefit though if you did that. Mm.
Will: Maybe I just, there, I don’t know. Right now you’re
Kristin: white knuckling it.
Will: There’s something about tea. I’m, I’m feeling tense already.
Uh, that there’s, uh, I’m, I just sit there when I’m in the chair. And you guys are like doing the scraping and the, the, the, the water and the thing, like I am, I’m holding on for dear life and, uh, I’m sure there are a lot of people like me out there. Oh yeah, stand in line. I
Dr. Humie: mean, you and pretty much 90 percent of people that I see.
It’s not easy. Yeah, it’s not easy.
Kristin: But then I’ve got an unpopular opinion. She falls asleep. I love the dentist. They have, they have, my dentist has a chair that is, you know, heated and massage, and they [00:17:00] give you the little remote and you just turn it on. Doesn’t help me. And then you lay back and they give you the sunglasses.
So it’s a little darker, right? And then he’s like music playing. Cause
Dr. Humie: you guys have very opposite
Kristin: When they’re scraping, I’m like, yeah, I get all that off of there. Yeah, I just love it. It’s like a little vacation, right? I lay back and people like attend to me and they don’t need anything from me. And I get to just lay there in my heated massage chair for 30 minutes or an hour.
Will: So what I’m hearing from you, Dr. Humey, is, is that I’m more common and she is less common.
Kristin: I’m the weirder.
Dr. Humie: I would say you used to be more common. She’s becoming more common now. Because. A lot of what you guys experience now is related to previous, you know, history of your dental visits, previous trauma.
So that was actually was what I was going to ask is, as far as, Kristen, I mean, how was your experience growing up going to the dentist? Did you have?
Kristin: I have had [00:18:00] so much surgery.
Dr. Humie: Like,
Kristin: this isn’t going to help your case. He’s had nothing. Well, finally, you did have a you did have one procedure. No, a few years ago that I remember, but as a kid growing up and even as an adult, I have continued to have so many surgeries I had.
I don’t know how far you want to get into it, but I had three baby teeth that never came out. And so when I was in high school, they had to pull them out and then put braces on and then do this horrific, barbaric sounding surgery that involved peeling back the roof of my mouth
[music]: to
Kristin: put the Like, I don’t know what they were, but like they had to attach the braces with a chain, right, to the teeth that were in my jaw still, and then it pulled them down, but one of them got stuck halfway, cause once you’re a certain age, right, it like fuses to your jaw bone or something, so one of them didn’t come all the way down, so we had to take that one out, and then put in an implant, Um, and so all of that [00:19:00] was like five years, many surgeries, you know, and then I don’t know, just a few years ago, well, no, I had another M.
Will: That makes sense to me because like, you’ve had all that crazy stuff happen. So cleaning
Kristin: is like, sure. And so cleaning
Will: is like, no big deal. A
Dr. Humie: hundred percent. It’s almost like, it’s not unknown anymore. You know, people I think are nervous and scared of what they don’t know or don’t understand. But. In your case, having been to the dentist many times and had gotten the work, you’re kind of like, okay, I know what to expect.
I think a lot of the anxiety comes from coming in and not knowing what to expect and not knowing what the dentist is about to tell me and, oh my god, how many cavities am I going to have? Is he going to need to do this? You know, so it’s not, it’s not easy. And I tell patients all the time, I don’t like doing what I’m doing to you either, but it’s gotta be done.
You know, I don’t, I’m not the bad guy here. I’m trying to help. Do you ever, do
Kristin: you ever say this hurts me more than you? I
Dr. Humie: mean, that’s
Kristin: what my parents [00:20:00] used to say when they had to punish me. I say it just
Dr. Humie: not, not like this, but, but I do say it. Yeah, I say it, especially when I give anesthesia. because everyone’s complaining about the shot and i’m like look i don’t like giving it either but do you either do that is the one part
Kristin: of the dentist that i don’t like yeah yeah
Dr. Humie: i mean we either do it or you’re gonna have to see the alternative yeah what’s what’s the alternative right uh but i will say dentistry is changing with time i mean like right now with Local anesthetic.
We do use a specific buffering, a solution that helps reduce the acidity of the anesthetic. So when you inject it, it doesn’t hurt as much, you know, it takes away that pinch feeling. Um, a lot of distraction. I always thought that
Kristin: was just from the needle. Is it not?
Dr. Humie: It’s, it’s the needle pinch, but then the anesthetic itself, you know, the, the pH of it is low.
So when you inject it, it kind of creates that very, you know, Painful experience. So
Kristin: yeah, like you [00:21:00] feel it going in. That
Will: makes a big difference because, um, I remember it, it was a resident one time at the VA, um, and I was, had to do a blepharoplasty and the, the pH, I guess the buffering solution wasn’t, wasn’t correct.
And, um, and so the patient had a significant amount of pain, uh, everything went okay, but it was like. Out of the ordinary. And so it really does make a difference, like what he’s talking about in terms of the, what you’re drawing up the anesthetic with. Yeah. So,
Dr. Humie: yeah, but it’s, you know, you have that, you have the sound of the drill, you know, the, I think the mouth is such a personal space.
And actually for me, it’s the eyes. So, you and I both, buddy. Me too! You and I both. See, that’s how it is. You’re not going to like coming to me, I probably won’t like coming to see you. Um, you know, it’s such a small personal space, you know, anytime I get my eyes checked, which is not often, by the way, I have to say.
Uh, right away, [00:22:00] my eyes just start tearing up and it’s like, and the guy’s like, I haven’t even started. I haven’t touched you. I’m like, I don’t know. It’s just, you know, very,
Will: that’s, it’s, that must be it. It must be the, I like how you put that, the, the personal space to it. Cause like, you’re not used to people.
Like you give people hugs, you get like other parts of your body. You’re like, Used to people being a little bit closer to you, but not in your face, in your mouth. Well,
Kristin: and your eyes in particular, like, you have reflexes to keep people from getting in there, right? Like, at least your mouth, you don’t have that aspect to it, but like, your eyes are wired to be like,
Will: I don’t know.
Kristin: Stay awake.
Will: I would close my mouth if someone tried to put their fingers in my mouth. I think, I think my reflex would be to close my mouth. I would not want that, but maybe that’s just me. If they’re coming
Kristin: at you with fingers, maybe, although I don’t know. I’ve had toddlers. You’ve had toddlers. You get used to it.
Will: So I’m guessing, I’m guessing you’ve had a lot of practice in like talking people off the ledge kind of thing. Oh [00:23:00] my gosh. Yeah. We always
Dr. Humie: joke around in dentistry, you know. Dentistry specifically, you have to be both a dentist and a psychologist in a way because once you, it’s not necessarily about doing the dental work itself, but it’s calming the patient down, you know, reducing their anxiety, connecting with them, you know, that part, obviously the connection with the patient, that goes with every field, but um, really taking the time to making them feel comfortable and, and, and gaining their trust before you work in their mouth.
So it’s very important.
Will: So one thing that we see a lot in ophthalmology, I’m loving like seeing the overlaps between our fields here, but, uh, you know, one thing is we do have a lot of people have vasovagal episodes. Um, it probably, I mean, it’s not really often, it’s a particular demographic, usually young adult males, whenever you come to try to get like a piece of metal out of their eye or something or just even come and like bring the, the microscope to their eye, they will have [00:24:00] a vasovagal episode and pass out.
Do you, do you get that? Is there, is that, is there a similar thing with, with dentistry? Yeah. A lot of times.
Dr. Humie: With the anesthetic, I think because people are just so, you know, the white knuckle, like you said, once you get the anesthetic and you see the patient up. You know, you have a few cases where they just pass out and they’re like, I’m so sorry.
I’m just not used to it. You know, I just, you get this
Will: sudden, they always apologize as if it’s their fault. It’s like, no, you don’t have
Dr. Humie: to apologize. It’s okay. Exactly. I think because they put so much pressure on themselves to try to be a good patient. Um, yeah. And so. That’s true. It’s kind of like a reflex, you know, like you said, when, when you pass out and you feel guilty, like, okay, I’m, I’m, I disappointed my dentist.
But at the end of the day, You have to understand it’s again, it’s not a pleasant experience. My goal always with my patients is let’s make this as quick, pain free as we can [00:25:00] and just move on with our day. You know, everyone knows it’s not a pleasant experience, so let’s just kind of get it out of the way in the most comfortable way possible.
Kristin: Yeah. Is there a gender difference in, in those responses though? Do you see that too?
Will: What do you mean? Cause you, you said it’s usually young men. It’s almost always young adult men. They have, they’re the ones that are going to pass out.
Kristin: That’s interesting. You know, I would say. What is that about?
Dr. Humie: From my experience, it’s always been men, surprisingly.
Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That’s so true. Men just have, uh,
Will: lower pain tolerance, I guess.
Kristin: I mean women do.
Will: I think there might be something to that.
Kristin: I mean not, I don’t know if it’s like a biological difference but just in daily life, like there’s a lot of pain involved in being a woman, right? Like uncomfortable shoes, you know, we do these beauty procedures to ourselves that hurt, you know, we have children, that really hurts.
Will: The waxing.
Kristin: The waxing pregnancies, right? Like you just sort of get [00:26:00] used to being in
Will: pain, I don’t know. I’m gonna need, I’m gonna need, I, I do not do well with my waxing, no. He
Kristin: passes out every time.
Will: Oh man. Couldn’t get near the stuff. But I think we need a, We need a, we need a trial. We need a clinical trial looking at this.
I mean, I need, actually, you probably couldn’t do something like where you’re trying to make someone have a vasovagal. So I don’t know that the IRB would approve that, but if
Kristin: anybody knows, yeah, if there’s like a reason for this, I’m curious. Well, we gotta
Dr. Humie: get you, uh, uh, we gotta get you out of that. Once I know in February, you’re coming to Atlanta, right?
I am. Yes. So let’s come on by and, you know, we’ll try to change the experience.
Kristin: Yeah, you need, you gotta go to the dentist and then you can come to Portland and he can give you an eye exam.
Will: Oh, yes. Yes. I like that. That’s good. That’s good. Well, well, one thing I love that you’re doing, I can, cause I can feel it [00:27:00] watching your videos.
It’s like you’re. Kind of demystifying dentistry a little bit, right? You’re showing that, you know, dentists are just regular people. They’re not here to try to hurt you with a giant drill and needle. And do you, is that part of the motivation for doing these videos or?
[music]: Yeah, a hundred percent.
Dr. Humie: I mean, when you go to any healthcare provider, was it, whether it’s a dentist or, you know, physician, I think the environment itself Like we agreed on, it’s very unpleasant and so you have this, um, you know, authoritative figure that’s about to do something to your body, it’s scary.
So I think one thing that I love about doing these videos is that you’re humanizing the dentist a little bit and creating a bridge between the dentist and patients, not just the dentist and his staff or the people that, you know, they work with. The biggest compliment that I get is When a patient walks into the waiting area and like, Oh my God, I love you guys.
You know, I feel like I know [00:28:00] you. I feel like I’ve been here before, even though this is their first appointment, uh, and they’ve seen us on social media, it’s, it’s so rewarding to be able to, um, take that bridge and just make the connection much quicker. Um, so when patients feel like they know you, you know, they, they know your personality, they’ve seen your staff.
It becomes a more comfortable experience for the patients, like, okay, I can kind of relax a little bit. Nice, I love that.
Will: Let’s take a quick break. We’ll come right back.
Hey Kristen.
Kristin: What’s up?
Will: You know what would be great to have?
Kristin: A million bucks.
Will: Sure, but also a little bit of disability insurance.
Kristin: Mmm, that would be We
Will: kind of dropped the ball on that.
Kristin: Yeah, both of them, because you got testicular cancer twice and then had a cardiac arrest, and now you’re basically uninsurable, but I love you anyway.
Will: Yeah, it does make it a bit harder. And it’s a disability insurance is something that every physician needs to have. It’s true. Because our job, our bodies and our ability [00:29:00] to move our bodies are so important to the work we do.
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All right, we’re back with Dr. Humey. Uh, so I have a very important question. Uh, have you seen my portrayal of dentists in my content?
Dr. Humie: Oh, yeah. Yes. Um, [00:30:00] okay. You have two, if I’m not mistaking, you have two videos, right? One about, uh, fluoride and one about dental insurance. Yes. Those are the two that I found.
Am I right?
Will: Yes, I did. I did. I, I made, there was another one, um, featuring the, uh, Orthopedic surgeon who, uh, started to try to teach med students about teeth, only to be confronted by the dental mafia who told him he better stay away from teeth. And by the way, you also have a bit of gum recession. And that, that dentist that confronted him with a golf club, um, turned out to be the fifth dentist.
Oh, you
Dr. Humie: always have the golf club guy. In all your videos. I love it. He’s like the villain, right? In all your videos.
Kristin: Yeah, that’s the
Dr. Humie: dentist. Oh my gosh. Oh, that’s because I’ve seen
Kristin: it. Yeah,
Dr. Humie: I’ve seen him in other non dental videos, I thought, but I [00:31:00] guess he made his way through.
Will: No, no, no, he’s all, he, that is, that is the dentist.
Yes, that’s my dental costume is, is the golfing.
Dr. Humie: I have to say you, you are so creative with your scripts. I mean, I like, I want to ask you how you come up with your scripts because like you said, I think writing this stuff is for me, the hardest stuff, like all the production, all the editing
[music]: to
Dr. Humie: me, that’s the easiest thing for me.
But I think coming up with the scripts, um, you know, I’m also interested to know how you
Will: do it. Well, for me, the, um, what I’ll, I, I just, I have like a, usually I’ll find a core conflict. Like for, for that one I was just describing, I was like, wouldn’t it be funny if, because teeth, they’re not like bones in the general sense of like orthopedic surgery, taking care of their luxury bones.
Right. Exactly. And so I was like, well, wouldn’t it be funny if, if ortho, which is like, you know, [00:32:00] started talking about teeth and then the dentist got mad. And so I have a central conflict like that. And then I’ll just, I’ll just build jokes around it. And, you know, I’ve, I’ve been writing jokes for, you know, I have a background in standup comedy.
I’ve done like satire writing for, for a long time. Yeah. So, so I, I, I, I generally, I, I’m fairly good at, at writing material. And so, Once I have the core theme, I’ll just kind of build it out. And before long, it’s like two minutes I
Dr. Humie: joined forces and you had material and I had all the production stuff and we just combined them into a show, oh my God, we would kill it.
I really think we would kill it. Yeah. And eyes and
Will: teeth, are we, there’s something
Kristin: there, right. People hate eyes and teeth. So,
Will: yeah,
Kristin: I think at both of you, it’s like, why do you want to do that for a living? Why do you want to be in squishy eyeballs? And why do you want to be in people’s mouths all the time?
Like the lay person, just that’s baffling. What did,
Will: what [00:33:00] did get you into, into dentistry?
Dr. Humie: Yeah, I mean, I grew up with healthcare providers in my family. You know, everywhere and all around the world. I had family in Germany who were surgeons and dentists, uh, you know, dentists and doctors here in the US. So I kind of did what any curious college student would do, just kind of shadowed both.
And during that time I was taking a lot of Art classes for some reason in college because I was just exploring all the creative aspects of my personality and I was into ceramics and all that stuff. So, um, dentistry just clicked for me. Honestly, it was the perfect combination between art and science in a way.
And, um, being able to give someone immediate relief when they walk into your clinic or immediate Smile results, smile makeover was just very satisfying. Um, yeah. Yeah. My shadowing experience was really, [00:34:00] really positive. Um, so that’s,
Will: yeah, I decided to apply. Now, as, as, as, you know, all of us in healthcare, we always have experiences that humble us and things that, that are, have, uh, you know, our trials along the way and learning our field.
And so you, uh, um, told us about a story of a patient using super glue at home, um, to cement a bridge. So tell us, uh, you know, I, uh, I haven’t heard a lot of like. Uh, dentistry stories regarding patients. So can you tell us about this one?
Dr. Humie: Yeah,
Will: it was actually
Dr. Humie: a 20, 21 year old, uh, patient. He had, I’m
Kristin: going to, I’m going to guess this was a man.
Dr. Humie: No, it was actually a female. Yeah. It was female. All right. We’re not all bad. Yeah, we’re
[music]: not, we’re not all bad. I’m not saying you’re bad, I’m just, you know.
Dr. Humie: We may have very low pain tolerance, but you know, we’re not, but, um, [00:35:00] yeah, she, she had a bridge, uh, you know, from canine to canine. And, um, this is a patient that I’ve been seeing for a while.
It, the bridge came off, I guess, on a weekend and, and she couldn’t find any dentists in her area to see. And in my previous clinic, we happened not to work any Saturdays. Now, thankfully we. Open two Saturdays a month, but she came to me a couple of days later and she was like, actually, she came in for a regular checkup and I’m looking at her teeth and I just see this almost like clear sticky stuff around her, uh, bridge, around her gums.
Her gums are super inflamed. I’m like, what happened? And she told me, she was like, yeah, you know, came off. During the weekend, I didn’t know what to do, so I just, uh, glued it. And I was like, you glued it with temporary cement, right? And she’s like, nope, I had super glue in my drawer and I just put it in. So, this poor girl, I mean, I had to, uh, cut the entire bridge out, you know, we had to drill it out.
I mean, [00:36:00] once, once you, once you use super glue, it’s, it’s the end. So, the, the moral of the story, Do not use superglue, go to a pharmacy if something like that happens, they have a specific dental cement that you can use, you can put it back on until you see your dentist.
Kristin: Okay, what is that called? Because that is good to know.
Dr. Humie: They have different brands. I, I, I can’t recall the exact, uh. Just
Will: the teeth cements.
Dr. Humie: Yeah, it’s just, it’s called temporary. Just ask for teeth cements.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: See, this is another thing we have in common, ophthalmology, because I’ve. You have eye
Kristin: cement?
Will: No, I have people that, um, that mistake super glue bottles for eye drop bottles.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: And so they will know because they’re they’re kind of some patients can’t see very well or they’re using them in the dark in the middle of the night and so they grab for some reason they keep their artificial tears in the same drawer as their superglue and grab the wrong bottle and put it in their eye Um,
Kristin: [00:37:00] yeah,
Will: most of these patients end up coming into the emergency department, obviously.
And so we’ll get a call about it. It sounds really awful. They don’t, it sounds like it’s a worse situation in dentistry than it is in ophthalmology because the glue doesn’t cause any permanent damage. It just glues the eyelids shut. At the
[music]: lashes. So
Will: you just, you just trim the lashes, the eyelashes and the eye will usually will open up.
It’s always a really terrifying experience. But it
Dr. Humie: doesn’t get
Will: stuck on
Dr. Humie: the actual eye itself, on the
Will: eyeball? Some of it does, but it, it comes off and, and kind of gets washed out pretty easily. Yeah. Yeah, cause your eyes
Kristin: are pretty wet, right? Like more so than I don’t know. Your mouth is pretty wet too, though.
Will: Well, I wake up with some dry, dry mouth from time to time. So,
Kristin: well, I don’t know why that is.
Will: Xylitol gum. Um, Xylitol, there you go. Xylitol gum. Yeah. What are the, give us the, cause I’m always talking in ophthalmology about over the counter, like what to use, what not to use. So what, [00:38:00] what are the things that you would tell people like.
Like, this is garbage, like, don’t use this over the counter stuff that you find.
Dr. Humie: Um, look, there’s a lot of brands out there, uh, with, as far as toothpaste, mouthwash, the main thing that you want, which is something that you’ve talked about, is a fluoride toothpaste because fluoride is good, okay? We all agree on this, right?
Will: I would love for all of us to agree on this, and I’m glad you brought that up. Because I, I mean, whenever you see fluoride coming back into the news, cause I feel like this happens every so often, right? All of a sudden people start talking about fluoride. Why is it such a
Dr. Humie: big deal? I don’t understand.
Will: I don’t know.
I, it’s, you know, I think the, the neurotoxic effects of like high doses of fluoride get blown out of proportion.
Kristin: And aren’t those studies like in mice? Like we don’t even know if that is
Will: Right. But I mean, anything in excess amounts can cause neurotoxin, like [00:39:00] water in excess amounts can cause neurotoxicity.
Oh, you guys have a
Dr. Humie: friend behind you.
Will: Yeah, this is Milo. Usually he doesn’t bark in here. Hey buddy.
Kristin: Making a little cameo.
Dr. Humie: No, I love it. I’ve actually been wanting to get a dog, but I just, I think, I don’t think I would be a good Dog dad, to be honest with you. I’m out of the house a lot. And
[music]: yeah,
Will: they need, they need the attention.
We have, we have people around that, that give them plenty of love. Um, but no, but
Dr. Humie: to answer your question, it’s mainly the ingredient. You just look at the ingredients. Yeah. I mean, you want something with fluoride, um, you know, every case is different. You know, if you’re a patient who experiences a lot of sensitivity on their teeth, I’ll recommend something like Sensodyne, you know, because it’s It has a specific ingredient for tooth sensitivity.
If you have dry mouth, I’ll recommend Xylitol. So, you know, case by case, I don’t necessarily recommend like a specific, you [00:40:00] know, brand because every office is going to recommend something different. I mean, they all have, I’m sure like eye products, they all have a lot in common. Yeah. So it just depends on the case.
I wonder if there’s a dental equivalent of
Kristin: Visine, which is not about the brand, but about the ingredient. Is there a dental equivalent of?
Will: So yeah, Visine, I tell people not to use Visine because it has astringent. It’s got tetrahydrozoline that constricts blood vessels and causes problems. That’s why people use it for like, get the red out type drops, but it’s bad.
It’s bad for your eyes. It doesn’t
Kristin: actually solve the problem. It just makes the problem worse.
Will: Also, just homeopathic stuff, like there’s lots of homeopathic, like homeopathic, it’s like just putting like tap water in your eyes, so I’m sure if you get into like homeopathic toothpaste and things, it probably doesn’t have the type of ingredients that you need to like adequately clean your teeth.
Yeah, yeah. It’s
Dr. Humie: [00:41:00] different. How, how is the um, I guess product market for ophthalmology. I mean, is it a saturated market? Do you guys have a ton of products or not as much as you see, I guess, with dentistry?
Will: No, there’s a lot. Just go to the eyedrop aisle and it’s, it’s, it’s all over the place. Yeah. I mean, most of them are okay, but then you get the, like the redness relievers, the homeopathic stuff.
That’s just, that’s not good, but people buy it because they’re. They get scared about certain things because of somebody on TikTok that told them to, you know, to avoid certain things. And I don’t know, it’s just, it’s like the, the fighting misinformation, like fluoride’s bad, right? It’s, you know, that kind of thing is always a struggle.
No, you gotta always
Dr. Humie: do your research, always do your research. One thing that, um, I was watching one of your interviews, I think it was with, uh, Dr. Mike and you guys were talking about how nowadays there’s just, A lot of information on the internet and really the role of a healthcare provider has changed [00:42:00] as far as, uh, you know, educating the patient.
It’s more about guiding them towards their decisions and I really, really resonated with that. I mean, it’s the same thing goes for dentistry. People just come into our office like, I know I need a root canal, I have this and I have that. I just want to know what my options are. So this is kind of what it’s like nowadays.
Will: Well, I have, I have one more thing for you before we, before we wrap up. Um, I posed a question to my audience on Twitter, um, I asked people, what’s your favorite thing about teeth? What’s your favorite thing about teeth? So the most common response was having them. People appreciate having teeth, which is good.
Um, chewing. Was that, was a popular, like people, I think that’s more like, I think that’s more, I think that’s more mandible appreciation versus, you know, tooth appreciation. Um, some people talked about how, uh, [00:43:00] that they appreciate their dentist, who’s very nice and calming. And so I think you’re probably having a big effect on people, uh, um, with, with your, with how you’re, you know, portraying dentists and, and dentistry.
Um, a lot of people say that they love the smile that you give them, literally the smile. And probably also just the smile that you put on people’s faces, but, and that makes sense like looking at your smile, like I would, I would guess you’d be a dentist. Thank you.
Kristin: Right? Yeah. Is that one of the prereqs?
You have to, you have to have great teeth to be a dentist or like they give you a certain amount of time. Believe it or not, patients have
Dr. Humie: actually asked me to remove my mask so they can see my teeth. Like, this happens very often,
Kristin: and I’m always
Dr. Humie: feeling, like, self conscious sometimes, like, is this, is this good enough for you?
I don’t know. I think I have good teeth.
Will: So they weren’t, they weren’t all wholesome, uh, answers, one [00:44:00] said, I like, I like that they have, I like that they have a gooey center, like a weird crunchy gusher.
Kristin: Ew. Gosh.
Will: Okay. I don’t even know what that means. That’s something. Well, you know. Like
Kristin: the pulp inside, I guess.
Uh, one person
Will: said, they’re great for biting my fingernails. Oof. Ew. Wow. That’s probably not good for your teeth, right? No. Do you, do you, do you counsel people to avoid, probably just biting things in general. Yeah, we always say your teeth are not tools.
Dr. Humie: They are not tools.
Kristin: But the, okay, but hold on, but they are for biting.
Well,
Dr. Humie: yeah, but they’re for biting. I mean, okay, look, nails, I guess, are not as bad as opening beer bottles, but, uh, still
Will: preferably not. So some people just started asking questions. Why are some teeth yellow like, I don’t know. Um, but then I followed it up with a, with a question that I’d, I’d love to know your opinion.
Uh, I asked people. What is the best tooth? And I gave [00:45:00] four options. The four main types of teeth, incisors, canines, pre-molars, and molars. Mm. What do you think came in first place so far? There have been over a thousand volts. Incisors. Canines. And then what? You said what pre-molars?
Dr. Humie: Pre-molars
Will: or molars.
Okay. And
Dr. Humie: molars. What do I think came first? What do
Will: you think people said? What do you think people said is the, is the best tooth out of those four? Hmm. If you had to guess.
Dr. Humie: I would probably guess incisors because people appreciate a smile more than function, probably.
Will: Canines, canines has over 50 percent of the vote so far, which I think it’s just because people like dogs.
I think that’s probably, that’s probably the, honestly, the reason I don’t know if people really understand the difference between incisors and canines. Canines are the bigger teeth, right? The sharper ones. The sharper ones.
Dr. Humie: Yeah.
[music]: For tearing.
Dr. Humie: Canines actually have the longest roots in your mouth. So, I mean, they are [00:46:00] the stronger.
Obviously not as strong as the molars for chewing, but they have the longest, uh, roots. So we always say if you want to try to save, uh, you know, a tooth, always try to save your canine. Okay.
Kristin: That’s smart. You know, they have the most personality too, I feel like. Canines?
Dr. Humie: Mm
Will: hmm.
Kristin: Like,
Will: people have different looking
Kristin: canines.
Correct. Yeah. Yeah.
Will: So your front two teeth, those are incisors? Yeah. Incisors. Right here. All of those are incisors.
Kristin: Everything around the canines, basically.
Will: And then one person who I’m kind of worried about said, um, teeth remind me of my own mortality because when you lose them, they’re gone forever. Wow.
That is very dark. That just got really dark. Um, also kind of insightful. Like, that’s true. And that’s probably a good way to think about your teeth is that you want to protect them because when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Kristin: Same, same as eyeballs.
Will: We’re not, I think that’s maybe the next frontier [00:47:00] in dentistry is how can we get shark teeth that just keep growing throughout your life.
Kristin: Regenerate.
Will: I know, thank
Dr. Humie: god for implants, right? I mean, technically if you do lose your teeth, you have a lot of options. Not that I’m saying don’t take care of your teeth, but I’m just giving hope for people it is not too late. You have, people have options nowadays, you know, thanks to implants and implant routine dentures.
I mean, poster child for implants right here. In
Kristin: fact, I think one of my canines is an implant. Yeah.
Dr. Humie: Yeah. Well, you both have beautiful smiles and you’re rocking the smiles, so keep smiling.
Kristin: Thank you. I paid a lot of money for mine.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: Or my parents did. Yeah.
Will: Well, um, Luna, thank you so much for joining us.
Tell us, tell people where to find you on social media.
Dr. Humie: Yeah, uh, my handle is drhumi, at drhumi, both on Instagram and TikTok. I have not made my way on YouTube yet, but maybe one day. I feel like you
Kristin: are, you are ripe for YouTube because of the production [00:48:00] quality. Like that is
Dr. Humie: They really do appreciate production.
YouTube just obviously is not, it came out with the shorts. Um, I don’t know how the shorts are doing. I mean, I think YouTube, I’ve always thought of it as the long form videos, which in my opinion, take way longer to make than You know, our minute to two minute production videos. So I will say I don’t consider myself as a dentist.
That is, uh, I mean, I love educating people, but I think my content is very specific to, um, a comedic approach of the relationship between dentists and patients, dentists and staff. So I think YouTube, there’s a lot of dentists out there that are doing a lot of educational stuff, which I love. I’m happy that there are dentists out there.
It’s just, I think my content is a bit different.
Will: Can I, can I just give you a little like, piece of advice Please? Um, yes. Just, just cross post, like post it. Just get, post it [00:49:00] and see happens. A YouTube channel, even if, even if it’s just shorts, you have nothing to lose. And, and it’s, and you can find a way to do it very efficiently and easily.
And, and there is a, a distinct audience between TikTok and YouTube and people that just watch YouTube shorts. So even if it’s just shorts mm-hmm . Get it out there. And it’s, uh, it, it really, there’s, there’s no downside to it. So, um, cause I was, I was, I, I was just like, your thought process was just like me.
I was like, like, I’m, I’m already, you know, I’m on these two or three platforms and like, I’m good. I’m happy with how things are going. And then eventually someone started stealing my content and posting it on other platforms. You want to, especially as your, your audience gets larger, you want to have a presence, even if you don’t do a lot of posting, you want to have your stuff.
On those platforms, you gonna claim your
Kristin: own stuff so you can
Will: claim your own. I’m not saying someone’s going to, you know, steal your content, hopefully not. But, um, just [00:50:00] in case, you know, it’s, it’s good to have, have a presence. No, I love that actually, the larger platform. Thank you for that advice.
Dr. Humie: So I will, I will take it because at the end of the day, the video made, so you’re right.
It doesn’t hurt to just share it on other platforms. Do you do any long form content on YouTube?
Will: Um, just the podcast, that’s it. Yeah, I, I don’t, I can’t, I don’t know. I, I can’t write, uh, longer than like three minutes skits. I mean, I could, but
Kristin: I mean, is it a skit anymore? If it’s right, like, isn’t that one of the features of a skit is it’s really quick.
Will: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it could be a little bit longer. I think, I think what YouTube has told me in the past is like the optimal length for YouTube videos, about seven or eight minutes. Okay. So. And, and that’s, I don’t know, that seems like a long time for like a script, where I’m, especially where I’m playing all the characters,
[music]: I
Will: don’t know, like, eventually, eventually people will get tired of seeing my face, I [00:51:00] guarantee it, so, and that, probably that threshold is about two and a half minutes.
Dr. Humie: Well I think with, with, with your funny scripts, that’s, that’s not true. I think you’re gonna, you’re gonna, stay relevant for a long time. It is.
Will: Well, please keep doing what you’re doing. I love seeing your content, um, and, uh, uh, the creativity and everybody needs should go check it out. Um, Dr. Humey on, on Instagram and, and tick tock awesome stuff.
So thanks for coming on the podcast. Thank you. It was a pleasure being here. Thank you.
Hey, Kristen. What? You know what mites do when they get excited? They dance. They dance. They dance all over your face. You got these on your eyelids. You know that, right? I do not. Well, some people do.
Kristin: Okay. They’re
Will: demodex mites.
Kristin: Yes.
Will: They cause blepharitis, which is like red, itchy, irritated eyelids, like flakiness.
You want to scratch your eyes. And don’t do that, by the way. [00:52:00] But yeah, sometimes that’s from a disease. Demodex
Kristin: dance.
Will: It’s the Demodex dance on the eyelids, except it’s not that fun because it gives you all those symptoms. Alright, so, yeah, but they’re cute, right? They’re not gross.
Kristin: These ones are, these stuffy
Will: versions.
Right, oh, the real ones, not so much.
Kristin: Are the real ones gross in the microscope?
Will: Um, they’re still, I think they’re still cute, but again, I’m an ophthalmologist.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: But don’t get freaked out by this. Okay. Get checked out.
Kristin: All right.
Will: All right, you go find out more. Go to eyelid check.com. Again, that’s E-Y-E-L-I-D check.com to get more information about Dex and Dex Blepharitis.
I survived our talk with a dentist. You did. And I even survived, uh, hearing about a patient, a dentist, Uhhuh patient. Yeah.
Kristin: Of I was a little nervous about part. Yes.
Will: Yeah. I was a little nervous about that part, but got through it. Um, you did it. Now
Kristin: you know how I feel when you’re talking about eyeballs.
Will: That’s [00:53:00] true.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: I, I just have so much appreciation for like funny medical content creators. Yeah. It’s, it’s like, it’s, to, to use your expertise to, to make something funny and humanize people that see patients. It, it like, Right. It’s, it’s so great.
Kristin: Also, there’s a lot of stuff in healthcare, dentistry included, that is just, just amazing.
Absurd and ridiculous and funny and you know,
Will: yeah,
Kristin: why not be able to, I’m
Will: shocked that he was able, he’s doing, he’s doing his videos just with an iPhone, like it looks so much better than my videos.
Kristin: Well, um, you said it, not me. I feel like this is a trap. I don’t know what to say here. No, it’s fine. It’s fine.
No, I know it. I know. I’m
Will: not, I mean, I know it. I know it’s like just very low quality. It’s, but, uh, you know what? It is what it is. I’m not gonna change now. I’m too old to change. It’s part of my charm. Let’s call it that.
[music]: Yeah.
Will: How about? Well, let us know what you guys think. You have [00:54:00] any, are there any other dentists out there we should talk to?
I feel like I, I’m, I’m okay. I can do dentistry. Okay, it’s like
Kristin: exposure therapy.
Will: Oh, it is. It’s pretty soon. You’ll, you’ll be able
Kristin: to go to the dentist again.
Will: Suggestions. You can email us knock, knock high at human dash content. com. Visit us on our social media platforms. Uh, you can hang out with us in our human content podcast family on Instagram and Tik TOK at human content pods.
That’s some great new podcasts on the podcast network. Uh, also thanks
Kristin: aggressive. Oh,
Will: it’s a wonderful network. Uh, thanks to all the great listeners leaving feedback and reviews. We love those reviews. If you subscribe and comment on your favorite podcasting app or on YouTube, our YouTube channel, by the way, at Glock Flecking, we can give you a shout out like today.
Uh, uh, user Zonular apparatus. This is on Apple said you questioned whether we like to hear your bizarre AUO terms. I was listening today and you said the words zonular apparatus, to which I loudly proclaimed. Now that is just completely made up. [00:55:00] I asked my husband, an ER doctor, who thinks he maybe learned that in his opthalmology rotation and promptly forgot because I knew I would never need that info again.
[music]: Probably true. Fair. Yeah. You didn’t need
Will: it in the first place. But I’m, I’m, I’m glad you like it. I love hearing these weird terms used in eyeball world. Your podcast is great for down and dirty eye learning and we plebeians trying to not, to not make people go blind. I appreciate that. That’s good.
Talking about the knock, knock eye episodes.
[music]: Yeah.
Will: Uh, we have full, full video episodes up every week on our YouTube channel at Glaucomfleckens. Tons of cool perks over on Patreon. Check that out. Bonus episodes, react to medical shows and movies, hang out with other members of the community and us. We, we’re, we’re always there.
We’re doing, uh, we’re doing live streams. We’re doing, uh, like Q and A. We post things and try to get feedback from people. Bonus
Kristin: content, behind the scenes stuff. Yeah,
Will: yeah, exactly. Patreon. com slash Glauconflecken or go to Glauconflecken. com. Speaking of Patreon community perks, new member shout out. All right.
We [00:56:00] got Kushal K, Brendan B, Dr. Hoover, Kyle B and Melanie. Thank you all for joining. Shout out, as always, to the Jonathans, Patrick, Lucia C, Sharon S, Edward K, Steven G, Marion W, Mr. Grandetti, Caitlin C, Brianna L, Mary H, Kay L, Keith G, Jeremiah H, Parker, Muhammad L, David H times 2, Kaylee A, Gabe, Gary M, Eric B, Marlene S, Scott M, Kelsey M, Dr.
Hoover, Bubbly Salt, and R. I. P. Pink Macho. Well, no, she
Kristin: didn’t die. I hope not. I don’t think she did.
Will: Oh,
Kristin: she is gone.
Will: And
Kristin: we miss her.
Will: Yeah. What should I say then? I think I, R. I. P. from a Patreon standpoint.
Kristin: Sure. R. I. Patreon.
Will: Milo wanted to participate in the naming of the, of the Jonathans. He did,
Kristin: he had a lot to say about it.
Will: He did have a lot to say. But anyway, Bubbly Salt, uh, Bubbly Salt’s still here. Pink Macho. Uh, in our, um, in our, you know how we have a [00:57:00] community, a patron community, we also have a cemetery in our little patron community where we pay our homage to the people that have departed us over the years. It’s true.
So, um, anyway, R. I. P. Pink Macho. Thank you all for listening, uh, oh, we, patron roulette, forgot patron roulette. Shout out to Sarah T for being a patron. Thank you, Sarah T. And thank you all for listening. We’re your hosts, Will and Kristen Flannery, Glaucomfleckens. Special thanks to our guest dentist, Dr.
Hoomey. Our executive producers are Will Flannery, Krista Flannery, Aron Korney, Rob Goldman, and Shahnti Brooke. Editor in Engineer Jason Portizo. Our music is by Omer Ben Zvi. To learn about Knock Knock High’s Program Disclaimer Ethics Policy, Submission Verification, and Licensing Terms, and HIPAA Release Terms, go to Glaucomflecken.
com. Milo really loves those HIPAA Release Terms. Mm
[music]: hmm. He gets excited. He’s a big
Will: fan of this outro. Uh, go to Glaucomflecken. com or reach out to us at KnockKnockHigh at Human Content. com with any questions, concerns, you want to send us some fun medical puns, we’d love that too. Thank you. Kind of.
Titanaut Chi is a [00:58:00] human content production.
[music]: Goodbye.
Will: Hey, Kristen. Yeah. What do you think about clinical documentation?
Kristin: Boo.
Will: You feel that strongly about it?
Kristin: I do.
Will: Why?
Kristin: Because your doctor ends up spending all their time typing little notes on their little computer instead of like, listening to you or looking at you in the eyeballs.
Will: Well, it sounds like your doctors could use DAX Copilot.
Kristin: I bet they could.
Will: Yeah. This is like a little Jonathan in your pocket. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s an AI assistant that helps, uh, decrease the administrative burden that leads to burnout and leads to like your doctor’s not being able to look at you while they’re talking to you.
Kristin: Yeah. It helps them do their little typing and take their little notes without having to do it themselves.
Will: 93 percent of patients say their physician is more personable and conversational with Dax [00:59:00] Copilot. You love conversation.
Kristin: I do. And I want them to be a person.
Will: And that, that’s, and that we need that because today’s physicians are overwhelmed and burdened and they feel like work life balance is unattainable.
Kristin: That’s right. And
Will: we know that work life balance makes you a better physician.
Kristin: That’s right.
Will: To learn about how DAX Copilot can help you reduce burnout and restore the joy of practicing medicine, visit aka. ms slash knock knock hi. Again, that’s aka. ms slash knock knock hi.
