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When Providers Become Patients: Testicular Cancer and Beyond
A BackTable podcast with Dr. William Flanary aka Dr. Glaucomflecken In this episode of BackTable, Dr. Bagrodia interviews Dr. William Flanary, a physician-comedian popularly known as Dr. Glaucomflecken, about lessons he has learned as a two-time testicular cancer survivor and […]
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Patient-Centered Adult Cardiovascular Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
Abstract Patient-centered care is gaining widespread acceptance by the medical and lay communities and is increasingly recognized as a goal of high-quality health care delivery. Patient-centered care is based on ethical principles and aims at establishing a partnership between the […]
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More Care Needed For Cancer Caregivers
When ophthalmologist and co-founder of Glaucomflecken LLC, William Flanary, MD, suffered two separate, unrelated bouts of cancer and then cardiac arrest, his wife served as his primary caregiver. While Dr Flanary received the medical attention he needed, Kristin Flanary, also […]
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Even after his cardiac arrest, doctor-comedian finds things to laugh about
Doctor-comedian and cardiac arrest survivor, Will Flanary – also known as Dr. Glaucomflecken online. (Photo courtesy of Jessica Gubuan/Bridgetown Pictures) Will and Kristin Flanary were fast asleep in their home in Portland, Oregon, when Kristin awoke to what sounded like […]
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Comedy and Medicine
A social media stand-out offers advice to medical graduates. Will Flanary, M.D., is an ophthalmologist and beloved comedian who is better known as “Dr. Glaucomflecken” in the medical community. The social media personality regularly shares medical-themed comedy shorts to an […]
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Kristin Flanary: Co-Survivor and Champion
It was May 11th, the day after Mother’s Day in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 epidemic. At 4:45 in the morning, Kristin Flanary awoke to the sound of her husband Will’s snoring. “I didn’t know what agonal breathing […]
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EMS1: NAEMSP 2023 Quick Take: ‘Wife or Death’
Lessons from a bystander responder and co-survivor of SCA, Kristin Flanary – Lady Glaucomflecken, lifesaver, CPR champion and keynote extraordinaireby Rob Lawrence There were many reasons to celebrate and remember this year’s NAEMSP 2023 annual meeting. Many I spoke with […]
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Medscape: What Is the Psychological Cost of Performing CPR?
“In May 2020, popular American activist and educator Kristin Flanary saw someone suffering cardiac arrest. She stepped in and started doing CPR. And she continued doing CPR…for 10 long minutes. The person she was trying to save was her 34-year-old husband, ophthalmologist […]
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Will Flanary: Health care, humor, and humanity
Known as “Dr. Glaucomflecken” to his 2 million TikTok followers, Will Flanary, MD, is using humor and his experience as a cancer patient to connect with people navigating a sometimes-complex health care system.
