What the Glaucomflecken?! Urogynecologist reacts to popular TikTok doctor Dr. Glaucomflecken 

_"What's your biggest fear as an ophthalmologist ?"_ "Being the only doctor on a plane during a medical emergency."

@@massimookissed1023 exactly

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Aww, you didn't cause the complication. I tell my clients to say thank you rather than sorry. Too many people are apologizing for existing, when people appreciate a thanks more. :) Glad you made it through.

In a country where you would be yelled at for "taking too long", apologizing for your gallbladder both seems funny and sad to me.

That’s absolutely truth Savannah! Not to mention your nurse probably hasn’t eaten, gone to bathroom & could possibly be sick. Your doctor (& nurse since they force OT on us) could possibly be seeing you & making decisions with zero to minimal sleep. The ONE house keeper is forced to HURRY HURRY HURRY & clean that room the person with MRSA/cdiff etc just died in so they can fill the room with another person. Are we sure they were able to REALLY clean that room?? I wish the public could really see what is going on in hospitals. It’s the only way healthcare will improve is if the greed is cut out! Look up the salaries of everyone from nursing assistants to docs then compare to administration (maybe even look at profits of insurance companies & can’t leave out BIG pharma) that is where the problem lies. During covid we were wearing same dirty masks & gowns (if we had any) while CEOs are visiting their country home splashing around in one of their pools or using their gold toilet with a seat warmer. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

The least we could do as a society is say that anyone to go through that much training and on the job stress to protect our health can get their education for free. Debt for medical school is absolute insanity. I have a vested interest in the kid who wants to grow up to become a heart surgeon NOT ever wondering if he can afford the education that he would potentially use to _SAVE MY LIFE_ when my genetics from both sides of my family decide it's time to start clogging my arteries. If someone wants to learn to save lives, whether that's first aid training or a doctorate, it should be free. Don't we WANT more people with those skills in society? Why would we put barriers between them and getting those skills? When you think about it, it sounds downright suicidal.

@@denise331 I think the public I'd aware, but we are at the mercy of the corporate medical machine and rarely get our needs met due to difficulty getting appointments and the cost! I caught cdiff during a hospital stay as many do. DR and nurses are given too long shifts covering too many people...you barely see your doctor in the hospital and if something goes wrong overnight it takes forever for the night doctor to respond, and when they do they often don't help or don't understand, and they move on quickly. The residents are great but the more senior doctors act arrogant to patients and nurses. The food is trash, and if you have food allergies you end up with jello and broth the whole time. We know. It's awful. If Healthcare workers push themselves until they're unwell, what does that say about the dysfunction of the system? I hope it changes too.

@@andromedaspark2241 I just got off a work stretch & I seriously consider driving off this one bridge I pass on the way home but I have pets that need me. This week we had a family member come running through threatening to kill us. Shoved the doctor. What’s sad is we were like “well if he kills us we don’t have to be nurses anymore”. I use to love my job but it is nothing like it was 30yrs ago when you could actually give your patients the best care possible. Now, our healthcare system is run by satan. Pretty sure that’s truth.

@@denise331 Meanwhile, Administration is strictly 9 - 3.

@danikashmankika: Thanks for the kind words

I know! That’s just not right! I’m in retail and I get way more than a resident. That’s just messed up.

S J: I should have update my estimate with modern times. When I trained, we averaged 95 hours a week and made $36,000/year = about 7$hour. In current times residents are capped at 80 hours/week and make a little more 45k-65k/ year (around 14-15$/hour). Still a pittance for the life saving work that residents do.

@@DoctorRich Thanks for replying! :D

@@DoctorRich That is still not much...also rent has gone pretty high in many places. I hope residents all over the country one day get paid way more....at least 20/hour.....

@oscarmendez. that would be great

Yup, that was my take.

You got the right husband!! That's what mine did after c section. During which, btw, the very nice anesthesiologist TAPPED OUT half way through and introduced me to his replacement - just like Dr. Glaucomflecken always said. And it's just a

Thanks for sharing your story

@@DoctorRich Well, a severe inflammation of the left ear after a 140 m dive in winter conditions cured my ego because it damaged the center of balance on that side and left a reminder as the inability to equalize the pressure in the middle ear which limited me to dives to 35 m and heights in a non-pressurized cockpit to 5400 m effective ended my military career. Although I joined the population of the middle lowland biosphere, I have to admit that the anti'ego-treatment was only partially successful. Oh yes, as a crown at the end after 35 both my eyes decided to develop chromatic aberration as if I were a telescope, now I can do spectral analysis without having to use an optical prism

They never bought me drinks but they did keep Ensure for me and I have a few gifts from nurses that I treasure. One is just a little statue of "World's Greatest Doctor" from the CICU team.

@Micro Artifact: Gesundheit?

I am 45 and I have already written my Advanced directives.No sir,no docs for me either

Robot: Dr. GlockFlock has bravely pulled back the curtain of the medical establishment for all of the world to see. All the more reason to provide support to our healthcare professional who do not feel supported by the medical industry.

I’m an 30yr ICU nurse. I spend $500/month medical insurance & still have over 10G in medical bills. Our healthcare system is a disaster. Since greed & capitalism has made it into the system it’s all going to shit. No one feels supported by our facilities/hospitals. Everyone docs/NP PA nurses and ancillary we are ALL working in an unsafe work environment making it impossible to give the best care & setting us up for failure. Healthcare could possibly be the only profession that self care & work life balance is VERY frowned upon! (ie we are expected to work when injured or sick including covid & other contagions; I have been denied a vacation for 2 yrs then they threaten I will lose my vaca time if I don’t use it…. Explain that to me?!?). They take money out of my paycheck for break time even though I’ve maybe taken 10 actual breaks(eating while charting or chewing while suctioning lungs is not a break) in 30yrs. Not to even mention the countless UTIs from not going to the bathroom. I even collapsed was sent to ER with a BP 78/37. Got a couple bags of IV fluids & was expected to return to work (they did dock my pay while in ER & sent me a big fat bill for their services which included the price of iv fluid 3 times what I pay for it from my vet that I administer to my pet when he needs it). I was also made to feel guilty for being in ER for 3 hrs. & wanting to go home. (Also at the facility I’m at IF you do manage to call out sick they use your vaca time over your sick time but can’t use sick time for vaca which most likely won’t get either. All of this ultimately affects patient care. We suffer moral injury for being unable to do our jobs & give the best care possible all due to greed (from facility itself or insurance & big pharma etc). Your doctor isn’t even allowed to be a doctor. It’s your insurance company that decides what THEY think you need by denying to pay for services. DO NOT join the healthcare industry unless you enjoy sadistic torture. It hasn’t always been this way but I doubt it will ever be a safe profession again. I’m planning my escape. I don’t go to the doctor. I quit taking all my medications etc just to avoid more expenses. I think I’ve become suicidal. I want to help people but I’m human too & I get sick but it has been made very clear that I am not important. I now wear a DNR sticker on my badge & drivers license. There is even a note in my car to alert EMS that I am not to be taken to any emergency dept in case I was in a car accident. I doubt they would be able to honor that but my HCP has strict instructions to drag my ass out of the hospital as fast as they can even if they have to rip an ETT out of my mouth. I refuse to support the greed any longer. Just this week I canceled my health insurance because I am so disgusted with the situation & refuse to be a financial victim of healthcare greed. I certainly do not recommend stopping current medical treatments or seeking health care. This is just my actions to avoid medical debt. (NOPE NOT BITTER AT ALL😂)

@@DoctorRich yeah, medical professionals are caught in an unnecessary 2-front war against illness and those trying to reap obscene profits from their drive to fight illness. We'd all be a lot better off if they only had to worry about the illnesses.

@@denise331 We desperately need universal healthcare. Insurance industry sucks. Hate Big Pharma's practices but glad their drugs can give me some semblance of a normal life. Nurses rock. They've always made sure I was comfortable and allayed my fears whenever I'm in the ED. You deserve much better than you are getting.

Why do they refuse?

Is there some aspect of your life that they find unappealing? I once had a pt. (a Nobel laureate) who once commented to me that he had recommended acceptance of a student to medical school who said that he knew he could become a good physician because his father was one.

@@LorianandLothric No work life balance. Long skills training high debt ratios and therefore no freedom to move whenever or wherever you want until AFTER 12 years of school. Family medicine puts in huge hours charting without pay and in rural communities you're on call even if you have volunteer EMS services. That's not to mention fighting the bureaucracy of Gov't and big business forcing people to get care 100's of miles away in a large city or constantly fighting insurance for things you are absolutely sure the patient needs. If they thought the minor medical care that insurance would cover was going to work (preapproved treatment paths as dictated by insurance) they would have used it already. Even if the kids are academically successful already, all of that work minus even the potential of realizing how much debt they will carry, means I can see why they didn't do it. I bounced around medical staff jobs before deciding healthcare in any capacity other than volunteering on my schedule was not worth it. Nursing still has the best ROI considering the amount of time you spend in school but the interpersonal and management criteria made my time as a peon seem hellish. I didn't see the attitude change when nurses or doctors were more senior and far more educated than the sales reps and business majors dictating patient treatment. My thoughts now are that the nationalized NHS system doesn't really work and something like a single payer Swedish/Norwegian model (or Japan) would work best. That's to say nothing of farming,school, and transportation infrastructure reforms that would make chronic health conditions go down. It would require good leadership willing to commit to all aspects of legislation.

@wholeNwon: That is great to hear

This dude isn’t helping you with that kind of stuff. He’s not really urology or gyn. Some weird middle no man’s land.

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Thank you!! 😁

My endodontist makes 2 million/yr., my lawyer 1.5, his senior named partner about 5 million, investment bankers...well, the sky's the limit. A tennis buddy who is in the investment racket got a bonus last year of 400,000. Most docs. would love to be paid like that for so little work and even less academic achievement.

tootallforyou112: Thanks for your comments. There are definitely challenges to becoming a physician and practicing medicine. I do love my job, and I am truly honored to serve my community. Although Dr. Glockflock's tongue-in-cheek videos are entertaining. I feel it is important to bring awareness to theses challenges if we hope to improve the system.

@@DoctorRich entirely true and I hope it does

Well, there are aspects of the job such as dealing with hospitals, which are profit centers, and insurance companies that we all wish were different but the profession itself is incomparable.

@@wholeNwon seems like literally everything

He sounds like Reid Reimers from _SciShow Space_ ~ deep + husky.

Grace: Thanks for the 'reacts' idea. I will share with our production team.

@@DoctorRich Thank you so much sorry I’m replying to it now. It’s season 2 episode 6 and it’s about Sydney getting her first period.

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@Dogukan: The consensus seems to be Doctor Strange. But Kevin is an acceptable answer.

I don't understand your comment. My hernia repair lasted approximately 4 hours, which was a little longer than they had estimated it would take.

Yup. And many hospitals make billions.

@PhrontDoor, now you made me curious. I presume these methodologies are related to project management. What are they called, please?

@@fredericapanon207 Oh, there are SURGICAL versions of the "COCO models" (for procedural software design estimation models) as "The process of estimating the cost of surgery: Providing a practical framework for surgeons" or "Estimation of Surgical Costs Using a Prediction Scoring System" But I haven't seen a 'named' scoring system. Most are named after the 'first' author in a study.

great suggestion

Skafton: Dr. Glaucomflecken has a lot of great vidoes on doctors going to therapy as well

@@DoctorRich this is the perfect response lol

Help me understand your comment or are you just kidding? What kind of Dr are you?

He was referring to the male actor (Flannery) playing a male surgeon. Was he supposed to refer to the clearly male-identifying person as she/her and he/him?

@Chels0813: precisely

Dalton: thanks for your comments. Dr. Rich is a practitioner in the only surgical speciality that has more females than males. The majority of his mentors have been women. Dr. Rich and our channel are unequivocally not innately sexist. As you mentioned, Dr. glaucomfleken is a male who identifies as a male, and uses he/him pronouns. It would be sexist and inappropriate for us to refer to him as a her/she against his preference. As you can see in our videos with female Surgeon Dr. Erinn Myers we also appropriately refer to her as she/her. When people are maniacally obsessed with finding sexism in the world, they can project their biases onto others even when it doesn't exist.

@@DoctorRich changing the language about it and just removing the gender from the conversation is key to changing that. When you talk about it being a boys club or something like that, it creates a mental barrier for those who are younger and still deciding what to do with their life. Yes do go out and encourage young women to join the field, and do mention that currently is is more dominated by males although mention that yall are trying to change that.

@@dalton6173 thanks for the clarification. Hopefully you can do a better job supporting those channels that support women's health.