Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKnock Knock Eye: Flashes, Floaters, and Tears...Oh My!
Ever wondered what happens when your eye jelly decides to collapse in on itself? Or why some cataract surgeons apparently get squeamish around LASIK …
1 year ago
Glauc Talk: Can a BuzzFeed Quiz Accurately Define Our Medical Destiny?
This week, it’s just me and Kristin taking a BuzzFeed quiz to figure out what kind of doctor we are—and, well, the results raise some eyebrows. We al…
1 year ago
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 i…
1 year ago
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 …
1 year ago
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 …
1 year, 1 month ago
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 wa…
1 year, 1 month ago
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 respo…
1 year, 1 month ago
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.…
1 year, 1 month ago
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 ep…
1 year, 1 month ago
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 …
1 year, 1 month ago