Balancing humor, hope in medicine with Dr. & Lady Glaucomflecken

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Will and Kristin Flanary, also known as Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken, about using humor and content creation to tackle complex issues, their personal experiences navigating the health care system and more. ·       Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 0:14 ·       About the Glaucomfleckens 0:27 ·       The interview 1:11 ·       Can you tell us the story behind how the Glaucomfleckens came to be, and how you got into the content creation space? 1:49 ·       How did you go from writing your blog to having an international platform for storytelling?  4:02 ·       Why do you think your humor allows difficult or frustrating conversations for physicians to be addressed? 8:21 ·       Did your colleagues know about your growing platform when you were first making videos? Now, do they bring it up to you? 10:03 ·       What do you say to people who think doctors should not be political? 12:21 ·       How do we help physicians and medical students put out good content, and how can we help patients determine who to listen to? 17:33 ·       Discussion on developing guidelines with social media posting. 21:25 ·       How have your major health events and experiences shaped you as a unit, and how has it influenced how you talk about medicine? 24:16 ·       Kristin, how has it been for you to talk about these experiences to advocate for fellow co-survivors? 27:06 ·       What are the biggest challenges that we need to face within the health care system right now? 30:49 ·       Discussion on Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken's favorite, most accurate and most surprisingly resonant characters 36:37 ·       What gives you hope? 40:45 ·       If someone could only listen to the last minute of this episode, what would you want listeners to take away? 42:24 ·       How to contact the Glaucomfleckens 43:04 ·       Thanks for listening 44:02 Will Flanary, MD, and Kristin Flanary bring humor and humanity to the health care industry. Dr. Flanary, better known as "Dr. Glaucomflecken," creates medical-themed comedy shorts on social media for an audience of over 5 million. Kristin, also known as "Lady Glaucomflecken," advocates for patients and "co-survivors" of serious illness. Together, the couple cohosts the medical comedy podcast, "Knock, Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens," and uses their multimedia keynote speaking, writing and social media presence to transform their dramatic personal health history into an opportunity for laughter, education and advocacy. We'd love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Jain at [email protected]. Follow Healio on X and LinkedIn: @HemOncToday and https://www.linkedin.com/company/hemonctoday/. Follow Dr. Jain on X: @ShikhaJainMD. The Glaucomfleckens can be reached at https://glaucomflecken.com/. Jain and the Flanarys report no relevant financial disclosures.