Glauc Talk: Fixing Healthcare One Smell at a Time
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Knock, knock, hi!

What? Because I'm in my feelings or something? No, I don't know what's gotten into you. This is unusual. I just woke up tired. Just very, very tired. Yeah. Did you go to bed too late? No. No, I don't think so. I don't know. I watched the White Lotus season finale, which was sad. Oh, and then you went to bed with sadness? Yeah.

And now you woke up with sadness. You go to bed with sadness. Do you wake up with sadness? Is that a central tenet of psychiatry? I don't know. I mean, maybe you do, right? Like you, your brain is at work processing your day all night. Could be. I did see something funny though, um, that I thought I'd share with you. So occasionally I think one of my favorite places to go on social media lately is Reddit. Yeah. Is that social media? Does it count?

Sure. Yeah. It is social. Yeah, you have communities there. I don't know how media it is. Well, they're separated into subreddits. I think maybe that's why I like it because it still feels like the way social media should be. Like a little bit more primitive. You can share links to articles and stuff, but all the interactions are...

You know, just text based. It just people talking to each other. Exactly. Conversations, people joking with each other. Humor still exists over there. Yes, it does. So there's a couple of subreddits I like to look at every now and then. And sometimes I get like video ideas to people talking about different things. But two of them are the residency subreddit. Mm hmm.

And the medicine subreddit. So I did an AMA for the medicine subreddit. Yeah. And that's just like everybody, right? Medicine. Anybody in medicine at all. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, anybody, I think for those two, anybody can join and like look at the posts and everything. But anyway, so I, so, so I was on there and I saw, I saw it.

one uh this was from a user named magic monkey okay and the title of it i'm afraid i i can see this title you just pulled it up and i don't know where this is going and i'm very afraid it's just

So some posts are like shit posts, you know, like just people, you know. Being mean to each other? No, no. Just like telling, it's like all jokes and it's not meant to be taken seriously. Some are like serious posts. So this one, and you can label your post.

As like a meme, if it's just a meme, if it's a serious post. Anyway, this one was posted with the subtitle like serious. Yeah, it's got the tag on there. And the title is...

This is a residency suite. And either we need to bleep or now's the time if there are young children around that perhaps you should turn the volume down for a sec. Sure. The title is My Farts and Shit Smell Like My Patients Shit. I don't know what to say to that. It says, I'm not even joking. It smells like either the necrotizing fasciitis wounds or their stool. Am I colonized? That was the question.

Colonized meaning bacteria? Yeah. Okay. Like you take care of enough patients in the hospital. It gets inside your body. Does it get inside your body? Your skin absorbs the smell. Now, I thought I had heard like every single thing. Yeah.

Every concern, every worry, every source of anxiety. This was a new one for me. I am on medical social media. Always. Everywhere. Yes. All the time. I'm keeping tabs on all the things that people are talking about. The fact that a hospital environment can make your excrement the same as yours.

other people in the hospital is a new one. And this person is very concerned. But what got me laughing were some of the comments. Okay. The first one, you must be a terrific physician to carry a small piece of your patients with you everywhere. In nursing, we call it deja vu. So this is like,

a thing like this is not an original thought like obviously right like nurses are like it's like oh man it's like what's coming out of me smells like what i smell every day and and so then as you scroll down people were like you know wondering okay well what's the source of this yeah like trying to investigate this thing medically and what do you think it would be

I mean, my question was, well, my question was, is it actually happening or is it just kind of...

like a psychosomatic you know like i don't question that he's smelling that smell but like is it actually if you analyzed yeah his sample would there be something in it well some people were surprised by this the original poster like saying like he's some kind of poo sommelier oh my gosh

To be able to. But it really is a thing because there's different smells. We've talked about smells in the hospital. There's like like different poop smells too. Like based on what disease you have. Any parent knows that's true. And like with certain diseases like C. diff and stuff. A lot of people think it's it's the food.

Oh, interesting. The hospital food. Because that's like the common denominator of what the staff eats. Some people won't go near the hospital cafeteria. But I think that's probably the most likely. Yeah, that makes sense. Hopefully, health care workers are not being colonized by the patients. I feel like you would know, right? Like you would have symptoms.

Yeah. I mean, is it? I don't know. Yeah, exactly. Like, you know, fecal oral transmission. Right, because if it's something that has landed this patient in the hospital...

then if you get it, it seems like you would at least not feel good. Now I do remember, you know, in my, there were certain floors in the hospital that had a very distinctive smell. In fact, I think back in the day, I wrote a Gomer blog article about a certain floor at the hospital that had like a very distinctive smell. And, and so I, I think it's,

It's got to be the food. That's got to be it. What else could it be? So anyway, that was a new one for me. I wanted to share with you. Sometimes. That there's a thing called deja poo. Deja poo. Sometimes I do. This is not about poo, but I do smell things from earlier in the day. Generally, they're not good things. It's like the pets did something or the children did.

Even though the smell has been taken care of and is now gone, it's like smell memory. Like, it's just still in there, you know? Like, still in my nose. Memory is, like, very tied to smell. Right. The olfactory parts of the brain are, like, very primitive. Yeah.

I could channel my inner neurologist. That's right. Yeah, I think that's a big one. But maybe there are like little smell particles that are like stuck in your nose. Maybe so. And so it just, it makes everything kind of smell funky or off. Yeah, anybody that knows if smell particles stick around, please tell us because I am curious. We need some smell experts here. Have you had deja vu?

Tell us what you feel like you experienced from your deja... But the thing with deja vu is that, I mean, deja vu is like you feel like you experienced something, but you didn't actually experience it. Right. In this case, you did experience it. So I don't know. Just, you know, another form of trauma that medicine... Inflicts on people. ...foists upon the healthcare workers is...

Oh, you poor people with your deja vu. I don't have that. I don't know. I was thinking in my job as an ophthalmologist, what's the worst smell that I... Yeah, are there any? I would say... Do eyeballs smell? No, generally eyeballs are quite... Generally very clean for the most part. Does conjunctivitis smell? That's the grossest eyeball thing I can think of. It doesn't really, no. There's no, you know... If there's a bad enough pseudomonas infection, you might smell it. But it's...

The strongest smells are when you sit down with a patient at the slow lane. And so it's the bad breath. It's the body odor. You're just very close to somebody. Hygiene smells. Yeah, yeah. And so I, as you know, I am an extremely hygienic person. I don't know what to say to that either. How dare you? Look at me.

Look at me on YouTube. Look how... Picture of put together. Look how well-kempt I am right now. Okay? Anyway, I always try to make myself at least smell good.

Yeah, that's true. And you only smell bad when you've just finished a workout and you haven't showered yet. So I will give you that. And I brush my teeth. Yes, you do. And floss. You're a religious flosser. I'm a very big oral hygiene kind of guy. A part of that is just fear of going to the dentist. And so I don't want anything bad to happen to my teeth.

um to necessitate some horrific thing that the dentist will have to do to me such as a cleaning it's terrible but um people on the other side of the of the uh of the slit lamp not so much sometimes so well can i tell you it goes both ways what's that what do you mean when you're a patient in a close encounter like that yeah also the

The physicians sometimes have a little. Oh, sure. Coming off of. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, I kind of. I don't doubt it. I appreciate it when they're wearing a mask. If they have to get real close. Oh, yeah. Because then we don't have to worry about this issue. You know, that. Like either way, they can't smell.

I can't smell. Yeah. You know, when, when everybody was masking all the time, I'd say that was actually a huge benefit to, to, to just the everybody masking. Yeah. I, I, I never had those smells. So, you know, now not so much. Yeah. It's, it's back. You really get in, get in deep with the, with your patients. I wonder if you put in like,

an Altoid or some really strong like peppermint. If you were just like sucking on a mint, if that would overpower...

The smell of the other thing. I think that might also bother people. It is very strong. Any strong scent, even if it's cologne or perfume, it's just really in that small area, it's tough. Right. So it's not always bad smells. Yeah. Sometimes I could just... The fact that you can tell what a stranger had for lunch. Yeah. That's kind of gross. It is. I don't want to...

you know, be able to smell your lunch on you. Yeah. But, but that's not necessarily like a, like a noxious, awful smell. It's just kind of a weird social thing. Right. Right. Yes. So I'm, I'm used to it now. It's just like part of the gig, but we do have a, a sneeze guard on the, on the, Oh, that's good. Oh, I'd never thought about that. Cause somebody could sneeze right in your face.

Which I think has happened. Usually it's like a kid, like a little kid. Oh, yeah. It just slaps right in your face. Our dog did that to you this morning. Yes, that's how I woke up this morning. That was great. I really enjoyed that. So, yeah, the sneeze guard. And it does help. It actually blocks a lot of the scent as well. That's good. Since COVID, we...

But when there was like a wimpy little sneeze guard, but COVID. Yeah. You got to get the heavy duty. We got like an industrial sneeze guard. Yeah. For the slit that hangs on the slit land. I love it because it's,

Much more coverage area. I mean, you should be doing that all the time anyway, given... Sneeze guard everywhere we go? Well, for the slit lamp. Yeah. Given how close you are. Anytime you're that close, I feel like put a sneeze guard in. Yeah. No one wants to get sneezed on ever. These are the things we discuss in ophthalmology as opposed to real issues in healthcare. All right. Should we... Let's take a quick break. Okay. All right. We'll come back right after this.

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Speaking of issues in healthcare, we ran the 30 Days of Healthcare series on Instagram and Facebook. That's right. We had run it on, what, TikTok and YouTube? Yep. A couple years ago? Yeah, back when I first made it. So, like, in case you're not sure what we're talking about, every day of a whole month, I made a video about the healthcare system going from, like,

you know, what is a deductible and what is a copayment, coinsurance, all the way to like more complex things like pharmacy benefit managers and no surprises acts and DIR fees in pharmacy and stuff like that. And they were all in your style. They were all just comedy skits. All these skits. And it shocks me because you think that

Like, since I posted all of these on prior on TikTok and YouTube, that people are going to be like calling me out on that. Like, oh, you're just, this is all old content. Right. No, people don't. But man, people do not cross platforms. No. Like people have a preferred platform.

social media platform and they will stick to it. That is why we decided to release it on Instagram and Facebook because it's a whole different set of people that have not seen it yet. A lot of people have not seen it before. We got great feedback. A couple of times I was like, I kind of cringed to myself a little bit because really just one time. And that was the very, I think it was the last episode. Oh, I know. Yeah. Yeah. This was, this was a little dicey. So the last episode,

The last episode of the 30-day series was like, okay, what can we do to fix it kind of thing. So it was like an all-hands meeting between all the Jimothy type characters. Yes. Jimothy, Christopher. Christopher, Bimothy. Bimothy, yeah. Maybe Jonathan was in there as well. Yeah.

Anyway, all of these folks who are like, they were all the kind of the straight man in all the skits. Yeah. You know, interacting with the ridiculous, terrible executives in healthcare and pharmacy and all this stuff. But during that skit, Jimothy repeatedly...

to like resort to murder to solve the issues in healthcare. And so it certainly plays a bit different. Yep. Hit different now. Ever since the actions of Luigi.

Uh, obviously I filmed that in, uh, 2023. I want to say back when that was a ridiculous scenario, a ridiculous thought that was worthy of comedy. And now it's, uh, less so. So I, I, I,

I was re-watching these as they were coming out because some of them I hadn't watched myself in like two years. So I watched that one and I was like, ugh. And some people on Instagram were like, oh, ugh.

Some people are kind of joking, like, I want to rethink the post in this. I'm like, no, you know what? I'm going to let it ride because you can't get mad at me. It was all based on humor, comedy. But I understand that the context is a little bit different. Well, and because they hadn't seen it before, they may have thought that you...

just filmed this, you know. Possibly. That you wrote it after that. And you didn't. But it was a bit of an oversight, I think. In retrospect, maybe we would have...

Thought about that a bit more. There are a couple of topics that I would have liked to include that, like, in a future iteration of the—however, I do, like, you know, healthcare-related content in the future. I didn't really talk much about Medicare Advantage. Yeah. Which really was—

You know, Obama, you know, the Affordable Care Act really paved the way for Medicare Advantage for like insurance companies to start getting all this government money to fund their version of Medicare. That's what Medicare Advantage is. So it's like basically government sponsored health insurance, private health insurance plans. And it's been a disaster. It's just like that part of the Affordable Care Act, it just...

really just paved the way for so much of the greed and the stuff that sucks because they're, you know, I don't think, I think I didn't know at the time that that would happen. A lot of people probably did, but anyway, it's one of the,

Yeah, we didn't have that in there. But now I feel like who knows what the health care system is going to look like if you were to film this again. We'll see. Maybe I'll be changing every day. I'll be making a video about what tariffs will do to the health care system. I don't know how much we maybe we import like IV fluids.

And I'm not sure like what we, I have no idea how it's going to. I don't think tariffs are the biggest issue. I think it's going to be more like all the research that's being defunded. Yep. That's a big one. And like the CDC and all of its services that are being defunded. I don't think I'm going to make a video about tariffs because I don't really get tariffs.

I, you know what? Like I'm reading all these social media posts and people like are like tariffs are good. And other people like tariffs are bad. And I don't know what's going on. And so I assume we'll just find out because not like any of us have any, any power over, you know, I mean, maybe not individually, but I feel like collectively like voting. Well, and you know,

Protesting or advocacy. Just raising a stink. Yes, raising a stink. Raising a deja stink. Deja poo. Raising a bit of deja poo. Yep. So other healthcare news, you know, the pit, they're going to do a second season. Yes. That's apparently going to be based on the 4th of July weekend. Yeah, I saw your post about this. Yeah. So...

Ophthalmologist guaranteed. There absolutely better be an ophthalmologist on the pit. Yeah. If any of the pit riders are listening. I'm happy to help. Yeah, you can. Come on. Yeah. Do a little consulting. Like right now, I look like a guy that was in the emergency department on the 4th of July weekend. A little ragged.

rough around the edges just because i need a haircut that's all but yeah you had to skip your haircut we're gonna see some open globes we're gonna see some burns to the face and the hands some very scared looking ophthalmologists trying to navigate an emergency department i really hope that's in there at the way i mean that's your you know i think they they need to bring a little bit

doesn't have to be a comedy obviously it's like a serious show but come on the ophthalmologist can be the levity that's where you that's that's gonna be your little your light moment uh is is an ophthalmologist what they could do just have them go around just asking people for things and then everybody's like like you know trying to actually like do life-saving work and the ophthalmologist is like

Where's the tonal pen? Can you, do you have any eye drops here? How do I order? I've not been trained on your electronic health record system. Yeah. So I need you to do everything for me. Is that what you do when you go to the hospital? Well, there's one hospital that we take call at that I, I cannot log into their system. So what I have to do is write a,

like handwrite my consult note and I hand it to the person at the front desk. Oh my goodness. Be like, can you please scan this into the record system? I'm not in there. I can't, I can't log in. Can you not get in there as an on-call physician that works there? I don't know. I mean, it's probably possible, but it would require probably a lot of, I'd have to do like an eight hour training session. Training and stuff. Yeah.

Or the one or two times per year that I go to that location, I can just handwrite a note and have them scan it. And besides, no one's going to read it. No one's going to read it. You know how many notes? I'm going to scare you to think about it. All the notes I've written throughout

like residency and like hospital notes, like consult notes, or how many, what percentage people have actually looked at. That's a good question. Because I bet it's below 50%. Yeah. Is it mostly for like liability purposes that we have everything documented and insurance? I think liability is what drives the note bloat, the extreme amount of documentation that occurs. Yeah. Because we have a lot of liability issues here in the U.S.,

Um, and people are terrified of that kind of thing. Right. Uh, but I mean, you're just, you're told, you know, you got to document everything. And so it's there in case someone needs it down the road. But I, I, I,

I just doubt that anybody's ever read any of my notes. Well, that makes all the residents listening feel great. Not even, maybe part of it's because we also use a ton of acronyms that no one can decipher. So maybe it's partly our fault too. Yeah, you could spell those out. All right, let's take one more break. I have a little activity for us. Okay. All right, here we're back. Tell the people what I just handed you.

It's a hefty book. It's first aid for the USMLE Step 1 2025. Hell yeah. A student to student guide. Are you familiar with this book?

I remember you having a version of this book a long time ago. It was probably about half the size of that. It's gotten bigger, huh? It's gotten a lot bigger. And that is like the med student Bible. Yeah. So when you're studying for your exams. Right. Yes. This was your copy back in the day was a well-worn copy.

The edges were frayed. Yep. Yep. And I had notations in there and there was just a lot. I'm not a big highlighter, but you're a big highlighter. I can tell you. I know you're a big highlighter. I do pen more than highlighter. I will underline and like make notes. Yeah. Yeah. I like to color code so I can find it quickly. You're a highlighter girl. I'm a color coder. That's what I am.

So I'm toying around with this idea of making skits around different like diseases. Yeah. And just things that are in this book. Can you remember things that are in this book? That's why I bought the book because I don't remember anything. And so I thought, you know, like, cause I talked about this on a knock knock eye episode as well, but you know, I I'm,

I'm enjoying doing these New England Journal of Medicine things where I get a trial. I make, you know, I try to make that seem funny and engaging so that people will pay attention to it. Yeah. Well, I thought, like, let me do the same thing for, like, body medicine. Yeah. Right? Mm-hmm. Not just eyeballs. Just, you know, people might get tired of, like, hearing about eyeballs.

And so let me, maybe I could do some stuff about like cardiology and like GI and rheumatology, which I'm not even totally sure exists. Some of these areas that you have. Pediatrics, yeah, all those things. Historically glossed over. And so, and so I can have the characters like explaining this thing in medicine in a way that's fun and engaging for people and that people might, you know, take something away from it. So I thought we could like,

I just want to test my knowledge here. Okay. Okay. So I want you to just randomly open that book to a page. Okay. And then pick something. Pick something and I'll just tell you what I know about it. I'm not even sure what I'm looking at. Okay. Here we go. Bradford Hill criteria. Pick another page, please. Okay. Here we go.

So this is in the musculoskeletal skin and connective tissue section, anatomy and physiology subsection. Okay. Common, in parentheses, fibular, peroneal, in parentheses, L4S2. I don't know. Am I saying that correctly? You don't remember. Oh, it's just like, what is the anatomy? Oh, you're cheating. You're looking. Okay.

Yeah. So so it wants to know innervation, cause of injury and presentation slash comments. I don't like this game. You made it. I know. I didn't think about it. This is the first time this book has been open so far and it's harder than I thought. OK, let's try another one. OK, here's some. OK. Oh, no, that's gonna be too hard to.

I don't know if you know anything in here. Where's the eyeball section? No, no, it can't. It doesn't have to be eyeballs. That's the only thing you have any hope for. Oh, here we go. Some public health. Oh, okay. Let's do public health. You wouldn't have known this back in the day, but I feel like you've learned more about it. I didn't know that. Okay. That's pretty good. I'm glad that there is. Okay. What is capitation? Capitation. Capitation.

is when a doctor will receive a set amount of money from either a health insurance, usually it's the health plan that the patient's on, will give the doctor a set amount of money to do their healthcare. And so the whole idea with capitation is to try to decrease costs because the doctor

the physician, the team has to be, um, economical with their medical decisions and not order too many tests or, you know, um,

I think a lot of people don't like the capitation model just because it's pretty restricting. Yeah. And then you end up, what if something really bad happens to the patient? Or it's a more complex patient. Right. And so then you have to lobby for more money. And so, I don't know. I think it's primarily...

The context I've heard about it is in primary care. Okay. Right. So, I know a thing. That was pretty good. It says physicians receive a set amount per patient assigned to them per period of time, regardless of how much the patient uses the healthcare system, used by some HMOs. Yeah. So, that would be a popular thing for young people.

patients right who don't have a whole lot going on so even if like the patient only comes in for like a physical once a year you still get like a certain amount of money and so maybe the idea is that that amount that money you get is supposed to offset some of the other patients that have to use more of the health care system right i don't know i could see that i could see the issues and flaws with that though yeah all right give me something else well i'm i'm pleased to know that this

This whole section is public health sciences, healthcare delivery. I'm really glad that that is something that med students are learning about. I could totally do. And see, so this idea of this content idea I have is that, so I, I do a video about capitation, about the capitation model. And I could totally figure something out where like, um, like,

ortho thinks it's like decapitation the opposite of decapitation you put a head back on yeah and then he's upset because like he doesn't do spine and there's a lot of spine work and something like that and and what does that have to do with the long bones uh so yeah see it's just easy this stuff writes itself okay okay um okay so you want another one

It's hard to find one that I think you'll have a chance at. But you won't know unless you ask me. I know. I know. I know what you know. You don't know what I know. I've been with you the whole time. I know what you still know. Give me one more. Okay. All right, Mr. Smarty Pants. Cryptosporidium. Oh, cryptosporidium. This is on topic. Cryptosporidium is a bacteria.

That gives you severe deja vu. Yes. But not really. It's a GI bug. Yes. That's all I can tell you. It says severe diarrhea in AIDS. Oh, yes. So it's more. Yeah. So that's like the classic people who are immunocompromised are more likely to get cryptosporidium. So it's a mild disease in AIDS.

immunocompetent hosts right so yeah you got a normal immune system just a little bit of a little bit of the runs but that's it uh what's the treatment oh nothing no there's something how about um let's do like uh uh doxycycline no i have no idea what is it metronidazole

No, but that seems like you're getting in the right ballpark, maybe, based on the etymology of the words. Well, prevention, first of all, like by filtering your water. Sure. But, oh, geez, I don't know how to say this. Nidazoxonide. Nidazoxonide.

I've never heard of that. Nidazoxonide. Nidazoxonide. You give that for the severe disease and or immunocompromised. Oh, man, that's a new one. I haven't even heard of that. This is why this book is like twice as big. Yeah, there's new stuff, man. There's too much new stuff.

Yeah. I want to see what the first edition of First Aid, how thick that was. It was like 30 pages. It was the same size as Pocket Medicine. Exactly. You know Pocket Medicine? I told you I've been here the whole time. Hello. So good.

Pay attention. I still have my pocket medicine. I know. You used it as a prop. As a prop. All this stuff. I don't know what happened to my first, I know, actually, I remember my first aid book, it fell apart. Yeah. It was like two different pieces. As I said, it was very well worn. Yeah. And so I'm pretty sure I got rid of it. And that was before. If I had known, if I'd only known. Maybe.

Maybe there's a version on eBay that you can purchase. That I'd be making comedy videos based on first aid. Yeah. Maybe I would have kept it. But what are you going to do? How are people supposed to learn all this now? Like if there's so much new stuff. That's my question. It's too thick to, I don't know how students get all of that stuff in their brain. Yeah. And it seems like they shouldn't have to anymore. Right? Like with AI. Yeah.

And Google. Yeah. I feel like that's going to cover a lot of what you need to know. So what are the new skills going to be, you know, that will be important for med students to have? I don't know. But also...

Like everything they have in that book, there's like so many mnemonics. Some of them are a bit of a stretch. Yeah. I remember that from your med school days. Not always helpful. No. But whatever you got to do, I came up with some, I don't even remember them now, but I came up with some wild mnemonics that would only be useful for me personally. Right. Your own brain. And so you got to do what you got to do to try to...

cram all that stuff in my head and your head. And then you can imagine why when I started Ophthalmology Residency, it's just a big dump. Yep. I just had a big deja vu. I deja dumped it right out of my brain. All right. That's it. That's the most poop talk we've ever had in an episode. I don't know if anyone's still listening. That's all the first aid I can handle for now. So let's call it. Okay.

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