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'If you trust your content, if you trust the message, then you’ve got to just go with it and accept that.'įor Flanary, who survived two bouts of testicular cancer, the videos have been therapeutic, but they have also allowed him to fundraise over US$100,000 for First Descents, a non-profit that provides outdoor adventures for young adults impacted by cancer and other serious health issues. You know, you're just going to spiral and it's gonna affect your real life outside of the internet,' he said. His pandemic content on vaccinations have garnered the most negative response but he tries not to pay too much attention to the angry comments and messages, he says. 'I just don’t know if I can trust you,' Flanary the patient original sound - Dr. 'And let’s go ahead and get you a COVID vaccine,' Flanary, posing as the doctor, concludes.

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'OK, but everyone’s tired all the time, can you trust people to know if they’re asymptomatic?' the other character (also portrayed by Flanary) responds, before offering alternative suggestions that end up being significantly watered down.Īnother video depicts a patient agreeing without hesitation to a full body CT scan, lumbar puncture, colonoscopy, brain biopsy, and 'an experimental surgery where we replace your spleen with a second liver.' 'If you don’t have any symptoms, you don’t feel tired, you can go back to work,' his CDC character tells a colleague in the video. One of his most popular recent videos, which pokes fun at the latest CDC guidelines recommending shorter isolation periods for asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, has already garnered 6.4 million views on TikTok after the guidelines were widely criticized. They can't have a sense of humour because that's not professional,' Flanary said. And there's this prevailing notion that doctors can't show who they really are. He registered for a Twitter account out of boredom while attending a conference several years ago during medical school and began using it as a surrogate for telling jokes on stage. Honestly, it's surreal,' Flanary told CTV National News in a video interview from his home in Portland, Ore.įlanary had been doing stand-up comedy intermittently since high school, but always wanted to go into medicine.

'If I’d known that it would turn into this I would have chosen an easier name to say. health-care system, and debunking medical myths have racked up more than more than 47 million views on TikTok alone. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the absurdities of the U.S. Glaucomflecken to the rest of the world, his humour has been a bright spot for his 1.3 million TikTok and 472.9K Twitter followers looking for a bit of levity amid the stress and gloom of the COVID-19 pandemic.įlanary’s short videos poking fun at medical specialists, the U.S. So the ophthalmologist, who moonlights as a comedian on social media, knows well the importance of laughter as a prescription for coping with bad news.īetter known as Dr. Will Flanary was 29-years-old, he had already survived cancer – twice.