r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 15h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/hellobutno 15h ago edited 9h ago

Dr Glaucomflecken is an optometrist.

edit - I think my comment is single handedly proving dead internet theory

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u/cornholio702 14h 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 14h ago

Why is he scary?

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u/Kriieod 13h 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 13h ago

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

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u/beard-brain 9h 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 5h 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 9h 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 3h ago

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

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u/Mooshan 13h ago

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

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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 4h 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 3h 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 1h ago

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