YMMV / Dr Glaucomflecken

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: In "First Day of Rural Medicine," the rural physician is the mayor of the town and says that he's "running up against a goat whose got some pretty impressive ideas" in the coming election. The line seems like it's simply a joke about how the town is in the middle of nowhere, but it's a reference to how the town of Lajitas, Texas has elected a series of goats as mayors since the 1980s.
• Awesome Ego: Neurology is one of the most popular characters because of this trope. While he is the epitome of Dr. Jerk, he backs up his gargantuan ego with a bottomless knowledge in his field and a penchant for genuinely witty roasts and comebacks.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Everyone loves Jonathan, Ophthalmology's "loyal scribe". Not only does he serve to spotlight the importance of auxiliary medical personnel, but he is a Silent Bob and Hyper-Competent Sidekick who can communicate more in a single terse nod than most people can with a sentence. Adding intrigue, there's also the (as yet unresolved) plot arc of the planned uprising of the Jonathans.
  • Texaco Mike, the guy who helps out Rural Medicine with everything. He is The Ghost who is also The Ace, keeping the local healthcare system functional largely by himself. His gas station is home to an ever-expanding list of jury-rigged high-end medical devices, and he "fan boats like the wind". Coming up with new lore for him is a popular fandom pastime.
• Genius Bonus: Since the primary audience for this series is doctors, this naturally happens a lot.
  • Ortho is frequently shown to really love Ancef. Ancef aka Cefazolin is an antibiotic that is administered to prevent infections related to surgery and to treat bone and joint infections.
  • Glaukomflecken is an ocular characteristic that is a sign of acute angle closure glaucoma.
  • In "Bill does a Lumbar Puncture," Neurology hands Bill a bottle of red wine for the "traumatic [spinal] tap" he did. A lumbar puncture without the presence of red blood cells is considered a "champagne tap," so a red wine tap would be one with red blood cells.
  • In "Showdown in Dialysis," Nephrology says, "Why is this patient on dialysis? Yesterday she had four functional nephrons." Nephrons are filtering units in kidneys, and the average person has one million nephrons per kidney.
  • In "The Anesthesiologist Goes to Therapy," Psychiatry mentions that Anesthesia wrote "The General Surgeon is a Mallampatti IV" on a whiteboard in the hospital. The Mallampatti scale is a measurement of the distance between the tongue base and the roof of the mouth, which is a predictor of how difficult it will be to intubate a patient for surgery. A IV on the Mallampatti scale is the highest possible score and is a predictor of a more difficult intubation.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Less than a month after a Dr. Glaucomflecken video depicting Cardiology and Nephrology squaring up to fight over Nephrology decreasing a patient's Lasix dose, a nephrologist was arrested for assaulting a cardiologist when the cardiologist confronted the nephrologist for discontinuing a patient's order for Lasix and the confrontation became heated.