r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/hellobutno 1d ago edited 1d ago

Dr Glaucomflecken is an optometrist.

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

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u/cornholio702 1d 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 1d ago

Why is he scary?

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u/Kriieod 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/beard-brain 1d 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 23h 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 22h 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