Glauc Talk: A New Color Just Dropped
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Hey, Will. Hey, what's up? I've been thinking, the U.S. healthcare system, it needs some improvement. Yeah, there's room for improvement. Yeah, it's a confusing, scary place for everybody involved. Absolutely. Physicians, families, patients, everybody. Everybody. And I've experienced it from both sides, right? I'm a physician. I've also been a patient. So I wanted to use my platform to give people practical education, really the only way that I know how.

By making jokes. So Dr. Glockenflecken's really fun and super uplifting guide to American healthcare is out. And it's a free resource that includes all my videos from the 30 Days of Healthcare series, alongside deeper explanations, also reliable facts, emphasis on reliable. Yes. All right. Figures, numbers, insights into how each of us can fight for a more humane healthcare.

better healthcare system. Also, it has jokes. Did you mention the jokes? I did. Jokes. Yes, definitely jokes. Well, this guide is great for anyone looking to learn more about U.S. healthcare, but especially if you are experiencing it from the clinician side for the first time. That's right. We really hope you'll check it out. Get the free guide sent straight to your inbox by signing up for our mailing list, glockenflecken.com slash healthcare. Enjoy. Thank you.

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Like the first couple of years, it was all over the place. Once I got glockenspiel. Yeah. Which I think is a toy. No, it's a musical instrument. Oh, right, right. It's okay. Like a legit musical instrument? It's like a xylophone thing? Isn't it a xylophone thing? Kind of, yeah. You're thinking it's a toy because our children got one.

Oh, that was a toy version. Gotcha. But there is like a real... I think so. Yeah. It's like those professional glockenspiel players. Well, now you're out of my area of expertise. So I don't know. I think we should find someone who's an expert in the glockenspiel to...

to do some intro music for something for us. It's not a bad idea. If any of you are well-versed and practiced in the Glockenspiel, please let us know. Maybe we need to get this message out to Germany or wherever. Probably Germany. I imagine that's probably where the Glockenspiel is.

Probably. I would think so based on the name. This is probably if our, if our producers are paying attention, this is probably something that they can look up while we're talking. They probably already are. Um, all right. So, uh, Kristen, you know, what's been going on with you is you just got back, you got the celebrity treatment up in, uh, Washington, the state of Washington. The celebrity treat. I saw photos. People were taking selfies. Oh, well that's true. Yeah. Yeah. Um,

Yeah, I went up for the Washington State Medical Association Leadership Conference.

um it was pretty fun they were a fun group of people like they had a really good sense of humor and it was like high energy and that's great it was really cool and i told them like you guys are the most fun group that i've ever i think spoken in front of with maybe the exception of you know the australians they're always fun like they're hard to beat as far as keynotes any group well some of those live shows we did at the comedy club well okay sure that's like that's like a different category right yeah but

But keynotes. Yeah. What time of day did you speak? It was evening. Okay. That always helps. Yeah. Yeah, it does. Right. And there were some drink tickets being passed around ahead of time. Very nice. There was a reception before and then I spoke at the dinner. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. It went really well. And one thing they had there that I thought was really cool because, you know, as a

family member of a physician. They invite, they have this conference every year, I think, and they invite the families and the children even. And they have, you know, it's a very family friendly time. And so I was very like, I thought that would have been nice, right? To be included and invited to, especially like during training when you had to do things more. That

I would have liked that. But apparently what? Well, except that some of the things that you talk about are horrifying.

Right. So I did have to have the children leave the room at one point. Was that a weird conversation? Because you had that you talked with the organizers beforehand. They're like, listen, we're going to be playing this 911 call. Yeah. About that's literally the sounds of my husband dying and me trying to save his life. The kids need to leave. Yeah. And they were like, OK.

Um, or are they like shocked by that? I think there was no place for the children to collect it. Like there's nobody that's babysitting the children. It's just each individual parent. Um, and they were all in the back at a table, like coloring and stuff. Yeah. Um, so I let them know at the beginning of the talk. And then again, like right before it's like, you know, just as a mother, if it were me, I would want to.

escort my child out right now. So as soon as that part came on, it was like the, there's like a SpongeBob meme of like the, the, the parent fish, like pushing the little baby fish out the door. Pretty much. Yeah. You survived dinner? Uh, well, I didn't, um,

I never eat when I'm speaking at dinner. Like there's not a lot of time for one thing. And then people are talking to you, right? Because you're arriving and you're sitting at a table and people are coming and sitting down and they're like, hello, and start talking. And it's just like, there's not enough time to actually eat. So you got saved from the salmon. We ate afterward.

It was actually, I probably would have been buying it. It was a Mexican, it was like a taco bar. Oh, nice. So, yeah. That's good. Any other thoughts? Well, yeah, I was going to go back to the family thing. Like I said, I really liked it, but apparently some people are starting to feel differently about that. Like they don't want to spend their family time, you know, weekend or evening doing work stuff.

Like at a work event. Okay. Even if the family is invited. But, you know, because the members do have to go to meetings and stuff during the day. And I assume that the families go off and it's in a beautiful place. So they probably, you know, go off and have fun. But I just thought that's an interesting shift. What's the shift? Because people have always...

not wanted to actually go to the sessions at conferences? Sure, sure, sure. So what exactly are you talking about? It sounded like, and again, I'm like a third party dropping in for two hours, so let's take it with a grain of salt. But it sounded like they are having to rethink how they do their meeting every year because it used to be seen as like a positive thing to bring your family and do all that. And then now it's

Kind of shifting to where it's more like, no, this is our actually family time that you're using. And so I don't want to be spending any of that doing work things. I see. It used to just be a little more, I don't know, accepted, I guess, to do it that way. I don't know. I can see both sides. So maybe they're not people, these academic institutions will no longer be marketing their meetings as a family friendly meeting.

I don't know. That was what they were discussing. It's like, what's the right move here? So...

Because they're all about trying to get the attendance. They want to get the attendance. Right. And I saw it as like, well, you have to go anyway, right? So better if we get to come along if it's in a cool place and, you know, versus just staying home and doing regular life, but minus one parent. What was the big takeaway? Like one thing, like when you give a keynote, like what's like the, like one thing that you want people to come away with?

I mean, the whole point of the talk is that any medical events like, you know, big medical events, cancer, cardiac arrest, you know, anything really that is kind of life changing that also happens to, you know, the people around the patient, the spouses, the children, the family members, etc.

friends, you know, and that basically that the patient is not an island, right? Like it's more complex than that. And right now there's nothing in the healthcare system to be able to acknowledge any of that, you know, whether it's during the acute event or even after the patient goes home. You know, if we are ever acknowledged, it's just as the caregiver that can take care of the patient once the patient is no longer in the hospital, right?

And so it's still like... Like you're an extension of the medical team. Yeah, and not like a whole person who's actually struggling with this, not to mention has no medical experience. And this is really intimidating to have to take care of somebody. So yeah, that's the main thing is just that it doesn't happen to just one person. It happens to everybody that loves that person. Yeah, it's a message that a lot of physicians...

you know, don't, don't think in that way, you know, taught to think in that way. Right. Yeah. It's very patient centric. Right. Which is good for in certain like, yeah. I mean, I want the doctors focused on the medical care of the patient. Sure. Like that is what they are experts in. That is what, but I just think that, um, this system should have something like there should be,

A recognition, it shouldn't just be a great big gap in the system. There should be services or something for these people. And at the very least, just to start, like, maybe just acknowledgement of how hard it must be for them, right? Just treat them like a human being who this is happening to. And so that's a point I make is, you know,

I'm not saying that you have to provide all the care to everyone that is attached to the patient. I'm just saying like before you're a doctor, you are just a human and we are just a human. And so like in our interactions with each other, just remember the humanity of the situation and be, you know, a human to each other rather than this like clinical distance and everything.

You know, I don't know. Just like, just be a human. That's really what my talk is all about. Hey, don't forget we're all humans. Last question about your talks. Cause I, I don't know if I've seen you, I haven't been able to see you just give one of your keynotes. Right. Just by yourself. Solo one. So you do make fun of me, right? Of course. Okay. All right. Good. Just making sure. Yeah. You have to start it that way. What, give me, can you give me something that you, you know,

Uh, well, so my first, my opener is, um, you know, I show a picture of you and all your different characters, you know, and, um, I say for those of you that are familiar with us on social media, yes, I am married to Dr. Glock and Flecken. And yes, I do accept condolences for that. That's good. I'd certainly approve. Um, uh,

Well, that's great. I'm glad you did that. That sounds like a good event. Yeah, it was really good. It was like a bunch of leadership medical people in Washington. And that's who you, you know, it's good to get your message out. Yeah, there were hospital administrators there. Yeah. A bunch of, a variety of people, lots of physicians. So it was good. Well, I have some healthcare news. I thought I'd, because typically healthcare news is pretty depressing. Yeah. I have something that's just kind of interesting. Okay.

All right. So this is a kind of a pop. It's reached the pop culture. Like the mainstream news? Yeah. You know, like it's something you like. They have like NBC News articles about this thing. Right. So that's how I heard about it. I did a little bit more digging. But basically, the clickbait headline is scientists have discovered a new color. Oh, OK. Yeah.

Yeah. So I was dubious immediately. It's like, okay, like a new color. Like we know what the, the normal spectrum, the wavelength spectrum for human like color vision is. Um, and I think there's two interesting things about this. So this is a group of scientists, I think out of California, I want to say, um, that, uh, said they have, they have, they did it, ran an experiment, uh,

where they were able to isolate individual cone, like wavelength cones. So there's different wavelength cones. There's S cones, L cones, M cones. Don't worry about that. They're designed to respond to certain wavelengths. Exactly. And so they've discovered this device that allows you to individually stimulate a specific cone.

Okay. So it's a specific wavelength of light, but they've been able to not just like blanket, you know, bathe the retina in light. They can focus it using fancy engineering to individually stimulate certain cones.

So I think that's actually the coolest thing about this is that they were able to do that because, because that, you know, could have implications for being able to treat certain like forms of colorblindness. If you can just isolate certain cones that, that people can see well, and maybe that can help facilitate, you know, color vision a little bit. But what their hypothesis was that is, is that there are certain cones that,

have so much overlap with other cones that they normally can't be stimulated by themselves, by normal ambient light. And so you never see what the actual color that those individual cones are reacting to. So why are they there? What do they do? Well, because the combination of cones give you all kinds of different colors. And so their idea is that, okay, in the normal world,

normal light you know these cones can't be stimulated individually and so we're going to individually stimulate them to see if the patient the subject will see a new color okay and so they they did that and there was this the basically what the subject saw was this it's like a very very highly saturated pink and they called this color what was it it was called um

Olo. O-L-O. They called it Olo. I don't know why they called it that. Interesting.

What I thought was kind of, and this is up for debate on whether or not this is actually like, quote unquote, a new color. Well, I have a question before that about just the mechanics of this thing. Yeah. Are we sure that it's, you know, when you get a bright light in your eye, it is kind of red, pink, you know, are we sure that's not what was happening? Well, so the way, what I find very kind of,

I'm skeptical about is, is the, the reporting, the way that the subjects reported the color, like they turn some kind of dial until the, the color they saw matched what was on the dial. Okay. But if it was on the dial, how is it new color? Yeah. So I don't, I don't really, and, and there's some skepticism like, okay, is this really a new color? This might just be like a,

headline-grabbing type thing, right? So I am very...

I'm not convinced at all that this is actually a new color. Yeah. But what I think is the most interesting thing about this study is the way they were able to individually stimulate cones. I've never heard of that being able to happen because cones are very, very tiny. Right. That is pretty cool. I am reading this article you have pulled up about it, and it says it's a blue-green color, not pink. So I retract my previous guess. Oh, I thought it was pink. Yes.

Maybe somewhere else. Maybe I got it mixed up. There's somewhere else that they were talking about pink in here. But okay, a blue-green color. Yeah. So anyway, but they called it Olo. And I don't know. It's a really cool experiment. Yeah. And the way they were able to... I'm looking at a picture of the device and there's lots of lasers, lots of lenses. Fascinating stuff. There's so much. I think color vision is really fascinating. Yeah.

There's so many different types of colorblindness and people kill their whole lives early without even knowing they're colorblind because they have real still good vision, visual acuity. It's just that their color perception is off. So I don't know. Interesting. So stay tuned for that. Okay. You'll have to do an update at some point. We'll see what happens with that. All right. Let's take a break. We'll come right back.

So, Will. Yeah. You're always teaching me things about demodex mites, your little friends there. Let's switch things up a bit. Okay. How about I ask you a couple questions to see how much you really know? Go for it. Okay. Let's do it. What are the only two main species of demodex mites found in humans? Oh.

Type 1 and type 2? Hmm, got you on that one. Demodex follicularum, which are found in the eyelash follicles, and demodex brevis, which are found in the meibomian glands. Impressive. All right, next question. Why do people with demodex blepharitis often feel itchy eyelids first thing in the morning? I know this because I use it to gross you out. Demodex mites avoid light and they come out mostly at night to mate.

and move between your eyelash follicles. So many people will wake up with that itchy, irritated feeling along their eyelids. So gross. I'm surprised you even brought that up. I know. I know. I'm just trying to get used to these mites since demodex blepharitis is such a common disease and we keep talking about it. Well, that's a big step. And we know there's a prescription eye drop available to treat demodex blepharitis. Yes. A treatment makes me feel much more comfortable about this topic.

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Okay, we are back. Here's what I thought we could do for the rest of the episode. Okay. We haven't really... We don't really get into some of the YouTube comments. Oh, yeah. And so I just... I collected some comments. We've had some interesting ones over the last couple episodes. Yeah. These are all... I mean, we see them. We see them. To be clear. But we don't talk about them a lot on... In a... Actually read all the... Big way on the podcast. And this is something I don't normally do. I actually read all of the comments. Yeah. On the YouTube channel. Because they're...

I like it because it's like, these are like the people that are really, you know, paying attention to the podcast. Right. Generally, there's no trolls. Yeah, there's not a lot of trolls. You know, if people have criticism, that's fine. But, but it's, it's like, you can tell it's not,

AI generated. Like it's like, not like bots. It's like real people. And so I do enjoy that at Glockenfleckens, by the way, that's the podcast YouTube channel for Knock Knock High. And, and so I pulled some from our most recent episodes that we could go through some of these. Okay. You want to? All right. So first let's, you know, the episode that was recently posted was

about our five-year anniversary of the cardiac arrest. Yes. And got some great comments. I really appreciate the people who are talking about their own personal experiences with heart issues, with health problems in general. Lots of shout-outs for you. Yep. Thank you. So, yep. So here we go. We got...

At Francis Bowman, this is one of my favorite comments. I'm going to watch the episode about the event for more info, but shout out to Lady G for doing CPR for that long on a person who is that much larger while, in all caps, healing from neck surgery.

Did I mention that? I don't think I mentioned that. I think you've mentioned it at some point. Okay. I think you did. That's what I'm wondering is if this person has pieced together information from different places. Yeah. That's an iron woman right there. Best wishes to all Glock and Flexes and thanks for what you do. Yeah. How long after the neck surgery? Yeah. Yeah. I don't usually talk about that part so much. It was... A couple months? It was four, almost four months. Yeah. So I had...

You know, the incision was healed and all of that. You weren't in a neck brace anymore. No, I wasn't in a neck brace anymore. But still, I guess, I don't know, kind of like in the rehab phase, you know, like I was going to physical therapy and just kind of making sure things didn't get stiff and stuck there. Right. So and it still was like.

You know, pretty tender, pretty weak still. That was the first time I had ever seen you under the effects of anesthesia. Did you? Yeah. I don't remember much. Yeah. Because I brought you there and I was waiting for you to come back. And then they brought you back in afterwards. You were wearing the neck brace. Actually, you're not like a fun, silly... No. You're not like an angry person. But it was like you were...

It was like you were stranded in the desert. Was I thirsty? And you were just... And you want to water, like, every, like, five minutes. Really? You're like, water. This is water. Yeah, yeah. I wonder what that's about. You're just very thirsty. Yeah.

I guess so. Surgery makes me thirsty. So, but that was it. I don't have any other. This surgery is making me thirsty. I think I acted out more than you did. Yeah. Well, you're right. You're just giggly and silly when, when you're under anesthesia.

And very concerned with making the nurses do stuff for me, apparently. What do you mean? Didn't you say that I was apologizing to the nurses for one of my surgeries? Like for asking for things?

I don't remember. I mean, maybe. My memory these days is just shot. What is that? I used to have such a good memory. I also used to be very punctual, believe it or not. No, you weren't. You were never punctual. I will tell you, speaking of anesthesia, I had to have an oral surgery when I was in high school. And I do remember the first thing that I asked as soon as I woke up is, what time is it?

Because I remember having this sensation of like, I don't know if I was really kind of awake, you know, like, I mean asleep, but like somewhat aware. Or if that was just like how it felt coming out of it or something. But I just had this sensation of like, I can't tell how much time has passed. And that is freaking me out. Like I'm aware of the fact that I can't tell how much time has passed. And so then when I was brought out of it,

That's what I said. What time is it? Yeah. So I used to be

I used to be very different. I will say the last couple of recording sessions we've had, you have sat down in the chair of solid three minutes before time. Yeah, I'm more on time. I'm early. You've been doing well. Thanks, Will Butrin. Yeah, I was going to say, maybe it's like your anxiety is like being treated better. You know, I used to like... It's not anxiety so much. It's the ADHD. Is it? And then there was some depression happening. So...

Well, Futrin covers both of those a bit. Yeah, I used to really scoff at people on social media who would like refer to like things called like things like time blindness, which is like a made up term. Like, I don't know if that's... What do you mean it's a made up term? Well, I mean, everything's a made up term. But like, as far as like a, I don't think that's like an actual medical like...

It might not be medical, but I think it's in the world of psychology. Is it? Have you heard that before? I don't know. So anyway, until I realized like you have time blindness. Yeah. Quite often. Now I do. I didn't used to. I used, I mean, I don't know what happened. I've lost. I listen. I was the person that everyone would ask.

You know, what is this number or, you know, just different questions about, you know, that would require a memory. And I was the go-to person when someone couldn't remember something. Hmm. Like, I don't know what happened. Now you're the last person. No, I can't even remember yesterday. It's like your hippocampus is just such cheese. I don't know what happened.

Yeah. I don't know if it's just like there's too much stuff in there now. It just became full. And then it just...

I don't know. I don't have a way to flush it out. A known medical phenomenon. Yeah, full brain. Full brain. Yeah. It's just, you're done. Yep, that's it. That's all I got. I need like an upgrade to my hardware, but I don't think they make that yet. A secondary brain, the second thing you can whenever your first brain fills up. It's just an external hard drive that you can dump your first brain into. That's how I felt immediately after I finished my

oral boards the last major test i read sick i was like my brain's full right i'm done with it is a thing i'm not i mean i'm not saying it's a medical thing but like it's a sensation that people experience of just like i can't take in any more information yeah for me fortunately i was able to get rid of all the like basic medical like yeah immediately just the internal medicine anything that featuring an organ you can't directly look at um is is gone for me

Yeah, you only have the memory capacity now to remember an organ that's... How big is it? There's a remarkable amount of stuff in that 23-millimeter organ. Well, that's true. I'm just saying. All right. All right, so some more comments about our five-year anniversary. A couple questions about defibrillators. If someone's just listening to this episode and they didn't listen to the other episode, they're going to be so confused. Just so you know...

So five years ago, it's not a wedding anniversary or something. It's not a great anniversary. I guess it's the anniversary of me surviving a cardiac arrest. So in that respect, it's good. But it's a very traumatic experience for all involved. But yeah, the five years. So it's been five years since that event at cardiac arrest. Kristen did 10 minutes chest compressions, whole bunch of stuff happened. Blah, blah, blah. I'm here. I'm here.

And then whenever you have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, you get a defibrillator. Now, there's different... I don't think I've ever talked about this. There's like different types of defibrillators you can get. The classic defibrillator is one where the leads will... It's kind of right underneath your pec, like in your chest. Yeah.

the box and then you have a lead that goes kind of directly into your aorta basically or some of the one of the major arteries that come off of the heart so it's like right there like in your heart now whenever you're I think some of the criteria for this for having a different type of one is you have to be like a young person

And a certain, you have to have had a certain type of cardiac arrest, I want to say. Like mine was, I had ventricular fibrillation. We don't know exactly what caused that. All my testing was normal. But I guess I qualified for a subcutaneous test.

ICD implantable cardiac defibrillator. So mine is not right here on my chest. It's in my armpit, basically. It's like right here on my side, right underneath my armpit. It sits there and the leads kind of go, they're more superficial. They're not, I don't have any leads in my heart. They just kind of come right underneath my, kind of at the bottom of my sternum. And I have one

I can kind of feel them. They kind of go along the bone. They're like just right under the skin. Right. Yeah, a little bit, maybe a little bit deep. They're subcutaneous, right? So it's right, pretty close to the surface. And so that's, it's a little bit,

More of a secure thing, I believe. Like, it's less likely that the leads will dislodge or move because obviously you have a lead, like, in your heart. Who knows? I mean, that's just a problem if you have something wiggling around in your heart in a place it's not supposed to be. So, yeah, that's my defibrillator. And knock on wood, it's never gone off. But I had a couple questions from some listeners. So, at 6Fiona6P6 said...

Thank you for sharing this extremely terrifying event that happened and all the rollercoaster experiences, emotions, and memories surrounding the cardiac arrest. One question about the implantable defibrillator. When you're in a quiet room or are in bed at night, does the defibrillator make any audible noises? That is a good question. Or sounds? No, it is totally silent. I'm pretty sure that would drive you absolutely insane to have to hear my defibrillator. Maybe a separate bed situation.

Because it's just there. It's got a battery charge to it. And so it only activates if I have some kind of malignant arrhythmia, if my heart's not beating like it should. Then it might make noise. Who knows?

Yeah, and I hope I never find out. I do hear that the defibrillator firing is like a horse kicking you in the chest. Yeah, sounds really painful. So I don't want that to happen because horses are strong. Yeah. Baby horse, maybe that'd be better. Still bad. But still probably pretty bad. Yeah. You know, like a little Sebastian situation would be probably better than a secretariat. Yeah.

That was an unexpected reference. But as long as it works, like that's what matters. But no, it does not make any, it's silent. As opposed to like a pacemaker. Do those make noise?

So, I don't know if I... Is it like you've got a metronome? Yeah, I don't know if I've heard specific... You can hear it whenever you listen to the heart. Like with the stethoscope? Yeah. One thing I have heard in a really quiet room is artificial valves. Oh. Sometimes the mechanical valves, they can be quite loud, and you can sometimes hear them. Hear them every heartbeat. It's not really loud, but...

I feel like certain ones I've heard, like just listening really intently in a quiet room. So anyway. Yeah. I wonder, I mean, you must just get used to it. Not the kind of white noise that you want. No. Although, because you do, you sleep with a jet engine right now. Oh my God. You guys, this white noise machine that Kristen uses. It's not a white noise machine. It's an air purifier. So I think that's why it's so much better.

It is insanely, I honestly feel like I need to wear it. Like it might be damaging your hearing over time. Like whenever, so we have a TV in our room. If that thing is on and the TV, you cannot hear the TV because that, that thing is so loud. It's, I don't know how you sleep. You can hear the TV. You might just not be able to make out all the words you're saying, but it's not like it's louder than the volume of the TV. I'm just amazed by your, by the, I call it your jet engine. I, I've got a, I don't,

you know, the mama hearing thing is like, it's a real thing. If there's any noise that gets to me, I will wake up. So I have to have something that just is a constant sound that is just, it's not going to change. And it's loud enough that it covers the little house noises that happen at night and stuff like that. So unfortunately, now I...

am so accustomed to it no you can't sleep without it now i have trouble when i go to a hotel room i have trouble sleeping yeah without something like that yeah you know they make apps yeah i know i know i have them they're just they're not they're not as good they're not as good see you like it you're giving me a hard time yeah but you it's your fault you conditioned me to have to use it to sleep

All right. Another question from at JMVH70C says, curious if your defibrillator has gone off in the five years you've had it. So I just answered that. Nope, it has not. And I don't, I don't like worry about it. I think at first I was like,

anticipating that it would go like I was like thinking about it a lot more. Right. I don't even think about it. I forget it's there. The only time I remember that the defibrillator is even there is when I'm wrestling with our youngest daughter and she accidentally kicks me right in the defibrillator. That

Sounds awful. It sucks. It does not feel good. What does it feel like? Like, it just hits your ribs? Yeah, it's just like a rib shot. Yeah. And it, you know, I'm more, it's more concerning that, like, it would just disrupt some of the leads in there. But anyway. Speaking of which, don't you need to schedule a cardiology appointment? I think you're overdue. Yeah. Let's go on. Mm-hmm. So.

Doctors are the worst patients, you guys. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back. I have a couple other topics to discuss. Hey, Kristen. Yeah.

Why did we not get life insurance sooner? I don't know, but it's a decision I regret. What was I, did I think I was going to live forever? Apparently. I think we just didn't really know about it. Didn't think about it. You know, it's never too early to get life insurance. That is true. That's something I've learned. And let me tell you about Pearson Rabbits. Tell me. Because this is great for physicians. This is a physician-focused, physician-founded company by Dr. Stephanie Pearson, former OBGYN, and Scott Rabbits, an insurance expert. They understand the unique needs of a physician.

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All right, another topic that we discussed on a prior episode was which characters should join OnlyFans. Yes. And we got some great responses. All right, so, at Old Man Yells at a Cloud Loudly. Great name. Oh, this is easy. Pathologist wins by a mile. Oh, interesting. OnlyFans has an obviously unaddressed market segment for inanimate objects.

Okay. Old Man Yells at Cloud Loudly is very well versed in what is underrepresented on OnlyFans. Seems to be. And as a bonus and cash saver, you can convince Lady G to voice Tabitha's reactions from off camera. No, you can't. You don't have to be on camera. Nope. Just you're providing the voice of the OnlyFans version of Tabitha. No, thank you.

As she takes out... Pass. Hard pass. She takes out her slide. Okay. Adjusts the... All right, stop it. Fine focus. Stop it. It's just disturbing. Can move that stage up and down. You know how many objectives there are on Tabitha? Maybe you should voice Tabitha. All right, so I had some votes for Tabitha. Really, those for the pathologist, but mostly, I think, for Tabitha. A lot of people wanted Jonathan. Yep, of course. They're like...

Like, where do I, where do I send my money for a Jonathan only fan? I'm not sure what people are expecting. Well, I think that's the part of why they want to see it. It's the mystery of what would happen. Well, what exactly does this look like? Uh, and let's see. Oh, at Susie says, so seven, four, one, three says, uh, neurologist, no question for the masochist. Perhaps also an unaddressed market segment. Yeah. Neurologists. Good. Um,

Another person said, I don't have their comment up here, but someone said the nephrologist with the salt containers. Oh. Like only wearing the salt containers. Oh, I see. Yeah. Just like a belt with the salt on it. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Okay. To each their own. Yeah. Everyone's got a thing. And then this is another comment. So, at Kiroi.

kuroi xhf who has sent this exact comment before i think oh because as i've said this before and i'll say it again make an only fans oh sorry make an of ocular fans where you can show the gross eye stuff you can't on knock knock eye yeah is is that a a thing that you can do with only fans i have no idea like it doesn't have to be like pornographic and material

It could just be. I don't think so. I think that's just what happens when humans are given a platform like that. It just inevitably leads to pornography. Things happen. Ocular fans. I like it as like a concept. Yeah. Not like on that. No. That platform. But but just as a. Yeah, I've seen other creators do that. There was a TikTok creator that did only pans. She's a cook.

Like, so, and there's like things you could do. I think ocular fans. Yeah. All those gross eyeball pictures that I would always cover up when you left it open on the coffee table. You have no idea. I have so many.

The problem is I could absolutely create like a branch in the glockenflecken business that's like super like gross eyeball stuff. Yeah. The problem is I don't own any of the images. Right. Right. So like we get into copyright problems. I don't know how to navigate that. Yeah. You know where you can see some some gross eyeball images, though.

I rounds. Yes, that I was editor in chief and residency. Yeah. I rounds.org. Go check it out. They have, they have amazing photos, honestly, like they're, they're like award winning photos because yes, there are awards that are given out for eyeball photos. That is a thing.

And Iowa's probably one more than anybody out there. Yeah, it's a great resource. Huge amount of like thousands of eyeball photos and very detailed. Lots of open globes, chemical injuries. Right, it's not just eyeball photos. Soupy infections. Yeah, it's for ophthalmologists and training. When I say soupy, I'm talking about like gumbo. Yeah. Like a lobster bisque. Yeah, so anyway.

The pathologist. Split pea soup. Nope. Okay. All right. Last thing. People want mom stories.

Mom stories. Whose mom? My mom. Okay. So people really liked the, where we went into the glass store together and I pretended that I was blind. Yeah. And so at Narnia said, love stories that include your mom. She is hilarious. No wonder you're in comedy. The thing is, you're trying to be funny. She's not. Oh, I got it. So I have a story. This is the, we'll close out the episode with this. Okay. So my mom is,

The classic extrovert. Like you cannot, like she's always has something, even in retirement now. Like she, first of all, she was a middle school teacher for her entire career. So sixth grade usually. Math, language arts, she taught a bunch of different things. That's another story you could tell, I guess, another day. It's true, yeah. But I, so she's a huge, huge extrovert.

And, uh, like when we go on family vacation, she was always, you can always count on her to ask for directions or to like, just talk to a stranger. To say anything to anyone, really. If you're like in a, in a, uh, at this, at a big event with lots of people, like a wedding or something, and she's at your table, you love having my mom at your table because things will never get awkward. Right.

She will always start conversations and, and just, she, she holds the crowd. Like she, she has stories after story. So anyway, um, so that's just the, I want to say that just as the, to set the stage for like my mom's personality. Yeah. Um, she, she's fearless when it comes to social interactions. No shame.

No shame whatsoever. Which can come in handy. Yes, but it can also be a problem sometimes. So this was years ago. It had to have been at least 15 years ago. There was this event in Houston where it was like you get your group of friends together and you go on a scavenger hunt. It's like a citywide scavenger hunt.

So you all pile in a car and you'd go to try to have to find different things and find clues. And then there's like a cash prize at the end. So it was like a big deal. It was like, you know, they had them in, I think, a lot of different cities. Wasn't it based on that TV show? What was that called? The Bucket List? No. The Amazing Race. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's right. Exactly. That's what it was. It was like The Amazing Race, but in real life. Like, I mean, that was a reality TV. But for the cast.

For the common folk. For the common folk, yes. Yes. Anyone could sign up. So they had this clue, and her and her outgoing friends, teacher friends, when teachers get together, by the way. Yeah, it's a wild time. It's wild. Absolutely wild. So they're driving around. They're acting all crazy. They're just trying to win this competition. And, of course, they needed help.

You couldn't use GPS, by the way. Like this was... I think this was even before like GPS was common, right? So you had to just figure it out by maps or asking directions. So they didn't know where they were going at some point, trying to find something. And so...

Who was going to ask for directions? Obviously, it was my mom. Like she, nobody in our family would ever ask for directions because we didn't want to like, wouldn't have to like talk to somebody and let our guard down. To just say, excuse me, can you just. Exactly. But she's like, pull over. So they pulled over because my mom found like saw like a group of people in like a park. Mm-hmm.

um and they pulled over she got out of the car she ran up to them and was like just acting real demonstrative because they were in a hurry he's like hey can you help us find this we're trying to we're trying to find us a building and down and uh you know it's over by the medical center uh can you guys help us and then this group of people they turned around and it was this horrified look on her face their faces and they said ma'am

We're having a funeral right now. She had stopped at a cemetery. Oh my God. They were having a memorial service.

Did the tombstones and the all black clothing not tip anyone off? No, she just saw people. Yeah. She saw people. It was like, I'm going to ask people. There are people there that can help us. It could have been anybody. Yeah. It could have been absolutely anybody in any situation, but there were people that she could ask a question to. And she, when she tells the story, like she is, she was just so horrified. Yeah.

and apologetic. And because my mom, she's also the sweetest person in the world, right? She cares deeply for people. And so she felt so bad, but it's just my mom. That's just like, I'm just going to ask. Um, and, and that, that kind of stuff happens. Like whenever we were in, I want to say we were in like Niagara Falls or we went on a trip, like all of us together. Um, I think you were there too at this point. And, uh, um,

We were going, it was like a subtourist thing. And as we were walking to the thing, you know, there's, you know, people like try to scam you and like, you know, offer you tours. Yeah.

And so we were walking to this thing and some scammer guy just was asking everybody, asked our group, hey, you guys, I can show you around here. And my mom's like, oh, yeah, we'd love to know. We'd love to hear from you. That kind of thing. She could very easily, I think, fall for like scams. I got to watch her as she's getting older. You know, make sure that she doesn't, you know, just she assumes the best. Right.

Right. Like everybody's got the best intentions, I think at times. So anyway, that's just, that's just who she is. So anyway, that's my mom's story. There's so many. There are so many. So that's our episode for today. Let me know if you guys want to hear more of Ma Glockenflecken.

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Always look so much better than me. I saw myself. I don't usually watch the YouTube videos of us. I look haggard often. Why did you not tell me? What do I do? Is this just me now? Is this my face?

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Sure. I don't believe you. Oh. That was not very convincing. No? That's okay. I fully admit I'm not the best at it. And the problem is physicians have to do a lot of multitasking. Yeah, that is a problem. Like I'm sitting there, I talk to the patient, I hear all the things, synthesize all the information, come up with a diagnosis, sometimes order medications, and then maybe that has an interaction with a different medication. You got to like figure that out.

you know, what can help though? What? Microsoft dragon copilot. Yeah, this is great. You don't have to, you can just use dragon copilot like in your workflow. You can access information right at the point of care, right there with the patient. And like, if I wanted to look up a code, a diagnostic code for the encounter, I can use dragon copilot. It's it. I can look up drug, drug interactions. There's, there's, and,

an endless number of applications that you can use Dragon Copilot for. That's true. Very true. I think it's good for you as a patient, too. Yeah, I mean... Because it's streamlined. It's streamlined. And you get accurate information more quickly. Yes, exactly. You're taking the words right out of my mouth. To learn more about Microsoft Dragon Copilot, visit aka.ms slash knock knock hot.

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