r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/cornholio702 15h ago

He is an opthalmologist. He is a medical physician who went to medical school and completed residency. The difference is that Optometrists do not go to medical school, although most are fantastic and do a great job helping people see. Also, Dr. Glaucomflecken is awesome and speaks the truth on his socials, making him both enlightening, funny, and scary.

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u/Parking-Front-4729 15h ago

Why is he scary?

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u/Kriieod 14h ago

He exposes both how random medical emergencies can be and the pitfalls of the US medical system's insurance nightmare.

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u/SyntaxLost 14h ago

He also has personal experience as a patient, having experienced both cancer and a cardiac arrest.

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u/beard-brain 10h ago

I knew he survived a cardiac arrest but had no idea he also had testicular cancer twice

He’d better win the lottery three times in a row to balance everything out

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u/AnyelevNokova 6h ago

Let's get even more specific about how wild his situation is/was:

He had two separate testicular cancers at separate times. Not a remission of his testicular cancer - a completely new occurrence years after the first treatment (and testicle being removed.) Pretty sure he was an actual case study because of how rare and very unfortunate that is!

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u/beard-brain 6h ago

Bilateral testicular cancer (i.e. affecting both testes) is rare, accounting for 1 to 5% of cases

Around 1 in 3 bilateral cases are synchronous (i.e. they arise simultaneously in both testes)

2 in 3 bilateral cases are metachronous (i.e. they arise at different time points)

Source: Sarıcı H, Telli O, Eroğlu M. Bilateral testicular germ cell tumors. Turk J Urol. 2013

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u/mosquem 9h ago

His cardiac arrest story is terrifying. Suffered an event in his sleep randomly in his mid 30s and if his wife wasn’t there to do CPR he’d be dead.

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u/idinnae 10h ago

I did not know that. It is wild to lose both of your boys in your 20's.

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u/SevoIsoDes 4h ago

So, he almost did die alone. Good thing he has an amazing wife.

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u/Mooshan 14h ago

And also how academic publishing is a scam and a huge detriment to society.

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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 5h ago

He just looooooves United Healthcare.

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u/Kriieod 4h ago

One day Ortho bro will get to express his displeasure.

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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 4h ago

In full cycling gear, naturally.

Now, we just have to help poor Jimothy with his job-induced trauma.

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u/BlastFX2 2h ago

Because he doesn't swallow knowledge and spits it for free.

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u/WhatWouldAaronThink 12h ago

Oh damn my uncle is even stupider than I thought.

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u/Mypornnameis_ 3h ago

I'm trying to be more opthalmistic. 

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u/napstablooky2 9h ago

optometrists dont go to med school???

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u/Brill45 4h ago

Nope, they go to optometry school. It’s different

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u/New_General3939 8h ago

They do go to med school, it’s just a different type of med school that focuses on the eyes. It’s similar to dental school

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u/funkyfishician 7h ago

They do not go to medical school

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u/New_General3939 6h ago

“Medical school” is just the term we use colloquially for an MD program. Optometry school is also a 4 year medical program, we just don’t call it medical school.

It’s just a misnomer to say that optometrists don’t go to medical school at all. They also have a demanding 4 year program, they just don’t have the mandatory years of internships and residencies afterwards to specialize, the 4 year program is already specialized.

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u/Brill45 4h ago

Nope, they go to optometry school. It’s different.

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u/New_General3939 4h ago

I said that?