(for anyone confused, he's guessing her prescription)
Honestly, that's about my prescription. Hers looks stronger, bit I'm not wearing my glasses, so hard to say.
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FYI, Dr. Glaucomflecken is an ophthalmologist and has a YouTube channel full of medical comedy bits. I'd link it but I'm too tired from writing and triple-checking "Glaucomflecken" and "ophthalmologist".
With a name like "Glaucomaflecken," he was destined to become an opthalmologist.
- Ken M.
He also has an eyeball themed podcast called Knock Knock, Hi.
*Knock Knock, Eye!
He's awesome. And hes doing real activism for the fucked up US medical system.
I gotchu https://youtube.com/@dglaucomflecken
Thank you! Yay, teamwork makes the fediverse go 'round!
I’m a doctor and every time I write ophthalmologist I’m surprised at how many H’s there are and where they end up.
Phenolphthalein is a similar experience, as a chemist
So strange to surround a T with H's like that
Bless your heart, chemistry made me despise our reality and how it works.
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I'm apparently already subscribed to him, but looks like he mostly does shorts...? I've avoided those things like the plague...
I want to watch his videos but don't really want to open the Pandora box that is shorts, trying to make me scroll forever until I'm brain dead
Is his name genuinely that close to Glaucoma or is it a "stage" name. If real, I think that's wild he chose to become an ophthalmologist.
It’s a stage name. His real name is Will Flanary and Glaucomflecken is a medical term:
Glaucomflecken are small, gray-white spots that form on the front layer of the eye’s natural lens. They are the physical scars left behind when the eye has suffered a sudden, severe spike in internal pressure, typically due to an episode of acute angle-closure glaucoma.
Flecken is German for spots. Glaukomflecken just means glaucoma spots.
Oh shit, I know that channel and didn’t pick up who it was until your comment made me look closer at his profile picture. He’s pretty damn funny with healthcare relevant comedy.
I totally understand. Nice work on those words, especially if you’re on your phone.
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he is a -3 cuz didn't see it coming
Oh man I love that guy. His vids are great. I esp love his rural medicine bits because I grew up in the boonies and it reminds me of home lmao.
Is he the one with the video of the farmer guy who says "my wife told me I should come in" and they all go into high alert? Lol
Yep!
"did he finish the chore?" "-no, he stopped it and came to the doctor's office on his own initiative!" .......... [BIG RED BUTTON PRESSED] "GET THE CHOPPER!"
Same, I love their their horrifying dependence on texaco Mike for modern medical tech.
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Got a link to the videos?
Yes, he could have worded that better, lol.
I had to consider what the joke was... guess my mind is on the correct lens Rx because I wear glasses also
Glasses wearing world unite.
Hah i saw the "dr" first and knew what he was talking about. Also helps to be a glasses wearer in this case i guess
The rest of his username is the German word for "glaucoma spots" btw.
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Diopter? I don’t even know her.
cries in -6
I started my contacts journey at +7.5 and +7.75. I've been in +3.00 and +3.25 for about 10 years now. No one knows why I dramatically got better in 3 years but that was a wild 3 years of not really being able to see because it was changing so much.
Jeez +7.5 is incredibly uselessly blind. "Maybe can read a billboard" ass prescription
Hell I'm around where you are now, and sometimes get jealous of my myopic wife for being able to read without glasses even if it is super close.
I would put my glasses down and lose them... My eye doctor warned me though that since I'm approaching 40 I'm about to start trending the other direction. Yay...
Oh and to top it all off my right eye is a lazy eye and it doesn't like to stay centered (not very notifiable noticeable thankfully) so my brain has just decided to basically not interpret most of the info from that eye so I'm just winning over here lol.
Could be worse, -12.5 and -16 in contacts for me. Prefer it to being blind though.
Jesus, I didn't think they made contacts that thick. On the bright side, those bad boys could probably stop a direct hit from a nail gun before it hit your eye. I bet it's like wearing permanent safety glasses.
As far as I know only one company does, so uh, hope you like them because it's that or glasses thick as a submarine window. Even with the -16 I can still only get to 20/50 vision thanks to the early onset cataracts caused by the extreme myopia. Is what it is though, I don't complain.
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He has made some hilarious videos about being a doctor, for those who don't know who he is. Can highly recommend
Oh hello, Jimothy
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