Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens Podcast
1) Knock Knock Eye: Would You Trust a Doctor Trained in Less Time?
This week’s Knock Knock Eye is a little bit of everything: football, birthdays, med school reform, and one of the strangest kinds of patients I see in clinic. I talk about turning 40 (and yes, going f...Show More
2) What Happens When a Doctor Designs a Board Game? with Dr. Lakshman Swamy
When your job is literally life and death, how do you explain what that feels like to patients, to families, to anyone outside the ICU? This week on Knock Knock Hi, Kristin and I talk with Dr. Lakshma...Show More
3) Knock Knock Eye: Are My Arms Too Short or Is This Presbyopia?
Look, I knew getting older would mess with my joints and metabolism—but no one warned me that my arms would become too short to read a menu. In this solo episode, I talk about the aging process that r...Show More
4) Glauc Talk: What Makes Medical Misinformation So Addictive Online?
Sometimes the dumbest things go viral. Case in point: I guessed a basketball player’s glasses prescription online… and half the internet thought I was rating her looks. (Spoiler: I wasn’t.) In this ep...Show More
5) Knock Knock Eye: RFK Jr. Says Doctors Are Keeping You Sick. Here’s Why He's Wrong!
RFK Jr. says doctors like me don’t want you to get better. Apparently, we’re part of a vast system designed to keep you sick. So I did what any responsible, monocle-wearing ophthalmologist would do, I...Show More
6) What Happens When an Insurance Company Interrupts Surgery? with Dr. Elisabeth Potter
Ever had your surgery interrupted… by UnitedHealthcare? Yeah, me neither. But that’s exactly what happened to our guest this week, the incredible Dr. Elisabeth Potter. She went viral after exposing th...Show More
7) Knock Knock Eye: The One Rule I Follow in Medical Comedy
I love a good medical joke as much as the next ophthalmologist, but there’s one line I won’t cross and I think more of us need to hear it. In this episode, I’m talking about the state of medical comed...Show More
8) Are Pharmacy Benefit Managers the Real Villains of Healthcare? with Deborah Keaveny
You know those mystery charges at the pharmacy that make zero sense? Yeah, turns out, there’s a whole shadowy system behind it and no, it’s not your pharmacist’s fault. This week on Knock Knock Hi, Kr...Show More
9) Knock Knock Eye: Should We Worry About Organ Procurement Organizations?
I spent this week untangling one of the wildest New York Times stories in recent memory about organ donation. The article set off a firestorm online, and the clickbait headlines had everyone ready to ...Show More
10) Will You Live to 120 with a Little Help from AI? with Dr. Eric Topol
This week, Kristen and I go full sci-fi (but, like, the real kind) with the one and only Dr. Eric Topol—cardiologist, author, and guy who’s been yelling for years that the way we do medicine is… less ...Show More