Doctor Glaucomflecken is a Web Video comedy channel dedicated to the medical community.
The channel consists of skits of various characters (all played by the same person, who is himself a doctor in real life) that represent various sides of the medical community; most commonly they represent stereotypes of doctors from various departments of healthcare, but they can also represent other things like insurance companies. While it doesn't have an overall narrative, the characters are consistent and are explored in each short video.
The official channel can be found here
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This channel contains the following tropes:
- Card-Carrying Villain: The investment bankers and insurance companies are portrayed in this way, as simply profit-oriented sociopaths who, in the former's case, buy out hospitals and clinics to squeeze out as much money out of patients as possible, and the latter as annoying beurocrats who will get in the way of doctors doing their job as much as humanly possible.
- Creator Career Self-Deprecation: Ophthalmology's running gag is that he's utterly helpless without his loyal scribe Jonathan, and while good at what he does is generally inept at anything else medical related, as seen in the "Emergency Ophthalmologist" series of videos. The creator of the channel is, in real life, an ophthalmologist.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Most of the specialized doctors are simply referred to by their department, such as Neurology, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, etc. Subverted with a few recurring characters like Jonathan, the Ophtamologist's scribe, and doctor Bill.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Played for Laughs with Jonathan, who is inhumanly efficient, eager to help, never asks questions (or speaks) and is basically Ophthamology's caretaker. For this reason, pretty much every other doctor wants him.
- Insufferable Genius:
- Neurology constantly flaunts his intelligence and berates others, with often extremely specific insults, so much so he was forced to go to the hospital's psychiatrist to solve his behavior, it didn't stick. This seems to be a thing shared in his family.
- Neurosurgery is a much more subdued example; while he doesn't flaunt his skills or intelligence, he instills a sense of inferiority in others just by existing.
Neurosurgery: My direct gaze results in overwhelming impostor syndrome.Psichiatry: Oh come on, that's ridic-Neurosurgery: *Glances*Psichiatry: I-I don't deserve to be here! - One of the Kids: Pediatrics borders on being a man-child, constantly wears a unicorn hat on his head, and at times treats his coworkers like children - despite this, he's one of the nicest doctors.
- Super Doc: Downplayed, but since Rural Medicine doesn't have the privilege of having a well-staffed hospital, they do several things at once, even veterinarian medicine.
- There Are No Good Executives: The investment bankers are greedy, money-grubbing bastards who run hospitals like businesses, the insurance company executives make the lives of doctors and patients hellish just for more money, and the Hospital CEO's ineffectual in the best of times.
