Franziska Haydanek: I really think that creating online and reading the comments and talking to people has really, really, really changed the way that I am a physician. I really think it has helped because I'm seeing more of that perspective of this is why they're here. They're here because they're scared, because they're nervous, because they care, because they heard something online. To me, that's all valid. I don't care why you ended up here, but now you're here and let's hold hands and then let's try to figure this out. Welcome back to I Did My Own Research. This is our first in-person podcast. I'm here with Dr. Beachem. Dr. Beachem earned her medical degree from Florida State University. She completed her pediatric residency at Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, and she completed her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Children's Hospital in Buffalo, which is why she's here in Western New York visiting today. We're so excited to have her. She now is working as a pediatric emergency physician. You may know her online as Dr. Beach Jem. She has over eight million followers, probably more that I didn't even find, across social media where she talks about pediatric medicine, her apparel's living in Florida, emergency medicine for children, and really as parents, how to take care of our children when we go to the hospital, and just really sharing her life in that way. Dr. Beach Jem, thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. This is a very cute place and I'm happy to be. your first guest, officially. I worked really hard to make this as cute and girly as possible. This whole podcast really is talking about medical misinformation online and the people who are there combating it. And really, you are the foremost pediatric person online to creating this content. I mean, I think we really all look to you as like a guide. I have amazing pediatric colleagues who are doing this as well. And I think that we've, a lot of us have worked together and collaborated. And I think this is something that a lot of us are really, really passionate about. Yeah. Yeah. And I think... We can all feel that in your videos. I'd love for you to walk us through how you started, why you started, like the beginning year of content creation. How did you start all this? I started creating during COVID, and I have four kids, and I had four kids at the beginning of COVID. And as a parent, you know, and I think we've gotten similar back to it now, every night of the week, we had one or two activities. We were running around just super busy. My husband and I were both working full-time. And then all of sudden, COVID comes and... Everything shut down. All of the activities shut down. My husband got furloughed. A lot of kids were not coming into the emergency department. So my number of shifts went down because our coverage went down. I was a little scared for my job even for a short period of time because I was like, you know, the kids just weren't getting COVID in the beginning. They're staying home from school. They're not going out. So, you know, the adults who were working, you know, they were going out and getting it, but the kids were really staying home and not getting as sick. And so I downloaded TikTok, like I think a lot of people. And started scrolling and... I was watching a lot of videos that just people saying, ⁓ this mask doesn't work if I can smell a fart through it. You you remember these videos, right? And it was before vaccines, but we were starting to hear a little bit about vaccines. And so I started like, you know, these people are wrong. You know, let me make a video to correct it. And so I started making content just to talk about the misinformation and kind of to take the complicated information that we were... seeing in journals and from scientists and putting it into language that people that don't have a medical background would understand and kind of keeping it simple. And I think I came off as very authentic in a language that people understood and connected with. And so that's just continued to grow. And I've kind of moved into like safety, injury prevention, pediatric parenting, and then just also sharing like, you know, a little bit of what my life is like as an ER doctor, because that's... It's a unique experience, as you know, as a specialist as well. Yes, and my father was an emergency medicine doctor. was. you know, from a family point of view, I understand what it's like with your family and the switching back and forth. And what I saw you post the other day when you had reached 10,000 followers, right, on whatever platform it was, and now you're almost at three million followers on that same platform. Was there a point in the process where you were kind of like, okay, I'm growing steadily, like 10,000, that's amazing, like all these people, like... I always think like 10,000 people, can you imagine talking to 10,000 people in person? It's like insane. So at what point did it kind of be like, you were okay, I'm growing, I'm growing, and then it like catapulted. Was there like a story? Was there something that you were like providing for people or was it just like COVID and people looking for information? I tell people that growth, growing on social media is a bumpy road and I don't necessarily mean that in like a negative way, but you get these, like you go, you're just going along and all of a sudden you get a bump and then you're going along or maybe even dropping and then you get a bump. And so it's just like these moments where you're bumping up, you're bumping up, you're bumping up. And then it's so much about consistent content in between on those areas that feel like plateaus. I've had some of the areas that I bumped, I went from like probably around 15,000 on TikTok up to 100,000 literally overnight. I made a video talking about it. It did have a good hook. It had a good hook. I said, did we just figure out COVID? And then I went into some of the research from a scientific article that was talking about some... immunology-type stuff, some antibodies associated with people who are getting sicker with COVID. But I think that hook in November of 2020, when we were still looking for so much information, got people. And then that grill brush video that I made February of, like, 22 or 23, that blew up. went, I was getting a million an hour. You've posted it twice, which is smart. To repost your most viral content, I do the same. 40 million views. That is probably the most of any medical content creator I've seen. Probably by like millions. Million. I've never seen any other medical content creator have 40 million views on a single video. I don't know. It's up there. It is up there. It's up there. was incredible and, I started to get a ton of interview requests. I think literally I posted that video. I worked until two in the morning and I was just watching it grow. And then I I started getting phone calls like at eight in the morning. Could you be on this show? Could you, could we interview you for this, that? And by the next morning... The next two mornings, I had made the front page of most of the major news websites. Even though they hadn't interviewed me, it was on some of the major news stations. was really cool. then just people on different radio stations and stuff talking about it. And I think that video really has made a difference because people are like, ⁓ grill brushes and these metal wires are dangerous. And now we have, think, New York passed some rules about you can't have, we're not selling these anymore. There's some of them, there's been recalls. I really feel like my video was a precipice of a lot of this happening. People are, it's more common knowledge. That's incredible. I mean, that's really like life-changing too. So, I mean, we don't have one of those girl brushes in my house because of that video I showed my husband and I was like, we can't, we had just moved, we got a house with a grill and we're like, where do the girls, we can't have that. Absolutely not. And actually it reminds me, that story reminds me of your other story that you shared on Dr. Mike's podcast recently. I audibly gasped. when you shared the other interesting story, something that got stuck in someone's mouth. you guys have to listen to the podcast. I'm not gonna give it away, but you two will audibly gas when you hear what else can get stuck in your throat. But I don't want any spoilers for that. It's PG. It's PG, but it shocking. It was interesting. And I did make a video about it if you can't get to the podcast. I also posted a video about it about two weeks ago. It's perfect. I want, so your legal name is not Dr. Beachgem. That is correct. It's close, but I'm also not gonna give that away. Yeah, it's a secret. We can talk later. It's a secret. But what was the, because it's close, was that just like your motivation? It wasn't somehow close to what could be a name? So it was, Beachgem was my screen name on AOL Instant Messenger when I was a child in the early 2000s, the 90s. Beachgem is close to my name, so I... Again, I did not anticipate for any of this to happen at all. Like this was never my intention to like, I'm gonna be a famous TikToker. I'm gonna be, I'm an introvert. I don't usually wanna talk to people. You're nice, I'm cool talking to you, but. It was our, I'm okay. Yeah, so it was an accident. And so I just put my screen name, which is why it's BeachChem10. Like it puts 10 on the end. It's not like Dr. Fran eight, you know. And so I just, haven't changed it. I probably should just go and just make it Beach Jam or Dr. Beach Jam or whatever, but I just, haven't been there yet. Yeah. I would never change it from that though. I sometimes I'm like, should I change my like username? I'm like, no, this is like who I am now. Like even today I saw a lady in the store and she's like, oh, pageant Dr. Fran. was like, I just, my name is just Fran. It's like literally in the name, you know, but that's like, you can't change it. can never change it. Maybe the 10. Yeah, I can take the 10 off. You can take the 10 off. That one's not too specific. I want to talk a little bit. Again, I was looking through your videos today and you made a video about vitamin K. And it was such a poignant video to me because first of all, I got a lot of views and I was trying to analyze why this video got a lot of views. And I think part of it is, is that you started the video by talking about what can happen if you don't give a newborn vitamin K. And then you went into, so you like gave the big and scary, right? And then you said, here, I want you to like the audience to understand what... the vitamin K is important for and the clotting cascade and how we have figured out that this is important. And then you addressed knowing the misinformation that was already out there, right? You were like, I know you guys are hearing about the black box warning. And then what I thought was most important was that you talked about how you as an emergency room physician are the person who has to sit bedside with new parents and say the worst news that you can give and the worst news that a parent can receive. and that the people who are online making these videos about not getting vitamin K never have to do that. The hard part I find as an obstetrician is that I, and obviously all doctors who are medical content creators is that we can never share like specific stories, right? You can never be like little baby Sue whose mom watched a lot of Instagram, didn't give this medication because she was told it was a vaccine and it has aluminum in it, right? And I find that really hard because if people could hear our stories more. whether it's getting vitamin K or not declining an induction for preeclampsia or whatever, if we could share more of those stories, I wonder if we would be in a different place. I think you make a very valid point. And I do, I have a consent form that I can approach families with to get basically their permission to share these details online. And I do, I have done that on occasion, but the patients that... their stories would be most impactful are the kids that are the sickest or that don't make it. And that information, if I was able to take that foot, but there's no way that I can approach, can I? Yeah, we're saying if you're like, you find this. Right, exactly. I feel the same way. The patients that I feel like we could learn the most about a lot of times, I can't share those stories and it's hard and it's okay because, you know, at work, I think our job is really just to like be there to support, to hold the hand, to provide the resources and... know, social media is different, but it is hard because the people that are out there giving this information, the grifters and the, you know, the chiropractors are not seeing, not all the chiropractors, there's some really, really great chiropractors. But there are some chiropractors that are giving medical information that is out of scope and frankly dangerous. And they're never gonna see the repercussions of their actions. You know, we are, unfortunately, and there are some parents that I wish they weren't, but are gonna learn as well, like, there are consequences to these decisions. And I think, and you know this, it is so important to talk about the risks and the benefits of every decision. There is no decision in medicine that is 100 % one way or the other, like there's going to be risks associated with everything. And there's so much nuance associated with what we do that they're not portraying in these videos where they're saying. Don't give your baby vitamin K, it's a toxin. It's literally a vitamin. You're telling someone else to take a vitamin instead of a vaccine. now vitamin K is a toxin. So it is so frustrating. So I recently started watching The Pit. I'm a little behind everyone else on it. And I watched the first four episodes and like I said, my father was an emergency room doc. One of my very good friends is an emergency room doc in Albany, and I... What stuck out to me not only was how hard your jobs are, I think they are incredibly difficult, but what was important about those episodes to me was being able to share medicine in a way that you and I can't, right? They were sharing the conversations that you have, but you can't share. But we're sharing what people were thinking, how parents were reacting. how the decisions that they made prior to being in the emergency room were impacting their patients. And I wonder if that makes you feel more validated watching those things. 100%. It's hard to share, even like with my husband, to understand like what it looks like at work, why I come home, sometimes the way I come home, why, you know, I actually leave, you know, kind of early, earlier than I need to for work. And I sit in my car and I just have like a debrief with myself and I... get my mind in a good place and I drop the baggage and I just get in a good head space before I go into work. And I think that the pit really has opened it up to the world what our work looks like, what our work is, the stresses of it, the challenges, even like the interpersonal at the hospital and between administration and boarding patients and those challenges as well. And I think patients maybe even understand it a little bit better as... I know you're waiting in the waiting room and we are absolutely doing our best, promise, but this is what it looks like in the back that you're not seeing when you're in an exam room type thing. So I love the pit and I absolutely love how they've shown the world what a near is really like. Yeah. I also really love that in a way it almost feels like they're trying to address some misinformation as well. Right? Obviously, I know that they're talking to ED staff and really have an understanding of what you guys are working with in real life, but it almost feels to me... like they are trying to address some of it. Like they're trying to talk about like, well, your child has, I can't remember, like measles or whatever it was, because you didn't get vaccinated. And so I think it's very interesting that, you know, many of us who went into content creation online as physicians and other healthcare professionals is because we wanted to educate and give more insight into things that people previously weren't getting insight from like real physicians and other healthcare professionals. And I feel like in some ways doing the same. absolutely. They even brought up masking because there was a woman who didn't want to wear a mask at one point and they're like, well, do you want your surgeons to wear a mask? Well, they're... And yes, you do want your surgeons to wear a mask if there was any question. And so they've addressed some of the major issues that we see like on a day-to-day basis, like the vaccines and the masks and the people who don't want to use medications. Something that my patients say a lot of the time is like, ⁓ don't want to give my kid antibiotics unless it's absolutely necessary. I wouldn't prescribe them unless they were... I'm not just prescribing for fun. I'm not just prescribing because of a cough. I'm prescribing for a specific indication, and I wouldn't prescribe them unless they were necessary. So I think that the pit really is starting to kind of creep into those things and addressing the issues that we're just seeing on a day-to-day basis right now. Yeah, I'm really hoping that the writers have a spinoff. for OB-GYNs. I think it would be pretty great. Honestly, the writers are amazing. I got to meet a lot of the writers. I got to meet a lot of the actors and actresses and people doing directors. And it was just such a cool experience to meet all of them. And then, you know, they're like, ⁓ you're an ER doctor. I was like, yes, you're doing me. Like, this is my, this is, you're doing it. And I'm, I've expressed my gratitude because I think what they're doing is really important. I mean, how incredible, think, you you and I talked a little before we started this about... the world of being a content creator and how that mixes in and out of our lives, but you are getting to have some really amazing experiences through this that us as like day-to-day people typically don't. What do you think the coolest thing of the last year has been for you? ⁓ my gosh. I think the pit was probably number one to meet Noah Wiley and his wife and like a lot of the people that participate in the show and in the different aspects of that also was pretty cool. I've gotten to do just absolutely some incredible things. I met Elise Myers on her book tour and she is... exactly the person that she is online, not in line. Like out of, when there's no cameras or anything, she is that same exact person. She's incredible. I got to do an American Heart event where we taught CPR to like a bunch of people who are creators and people in the community so that more people know it and can do it. And, you we even talked about like, you know, women are less likely to get CPR and these are the reasons and this is why we need to be out there talking. And I, I've just, I've... had so many doors open because of social media to participate in things and to teach and educate and to meet people, which is just incredible. you were on Dr. Mike's podcast, you guys were talking about when you are a content creator, you don't always know whose lives you're touching, right? Like you said, people now aren't getting metal stuck in their throats because of grill brushes, but there are probably many thousands of people who now know how to come to the emergency room prepared or know... what to look out for, or maybe it did get the vitamin K injection because of your video. And so you don't always know that story. I actually messaged Dr. Mike after because I had to tell him the story about my husband's a pancreatic medicine doctor. And he has this patient who was around like seven, eight or nine years old and had a cardiac arrest at home. And his older brother is a couple of years older than him, heard him like breathing funny, found him on the ground and started doing chest compressions. This child is like, I don't know, 10, 11. And so the younger brother survives and is now in my husband's office. And my husband's like talking them through this like after hospital event and asks the older brother, like, how did you know how to do like chest compressions? And he's like, ⁓ Dr. Mike taught me on YouTube. you're like, you know, it makes me want to cry. You know, like Dr. Mike, who does not live in Rochester, New York, is making a video on YouTube telling people how to do chest compressions. And now this little boy lived and his older brother saved him and like... You just, you know, I had to message him and be like, I need to tell you this story because you don't ever hear. like, for me, it's like, usually like I get messages like, I got my tubes removed and you changed my life in that way. And that's so kind, but most people don't message us a lot, right? And so all to say that a lot of the work that you're doing is very, very important. And I don't think anyone will ever really know the work that the medical content creators are doing and how they could benefit people's lives. And I hope anyone hearing that who wants to like join us, please join us. There are certainly pros and cons to creating content online. And I think a lot of us do a really great job. And obviously, like, the people that don't necessarily do a great job or have a bad take, unfortunately, those videos tend to blow up and can be a little bit frustrating. But I think it is so, it is so impactful to get those messages and those emails and hear those stories about, you helped me get a type, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes before we went into DKA. I saw the signs and was able to get to the hospital or, you know, my kid... this happened, it just, it really like, makes me, it gets merely emotional to be able to read those and I've shared some of them online, but it's just a really, really cool aspect, because I'm just sitting talking to my phone. Like, I don't think about the people that I'm talking to. I think about the people, but not like, I am talking to people. I think about, I'm talking to my phone. You know, I think if I was thinking about the people that would be... Well, it would be hard to imagine nine people standing in front of, nine people standing front I mean, even if there were nine people standing in front of me, I'd probably have a moment. No, I had to give a talk like two weeks ago at a medical conference and there was like 20 people in the room. I was like nervous. I could hear myself being nervous. I was like, this is crazy because I talked to a million people otherwise, right? But it feels very different when you're just talking to your phone, when you just put your phone up by yourself, like no one's there listening to you, make content. You're just like, you have control and it feels very different talking in front of other people. So I get that. But I think that's also the beautiful thing I think. You know, you and I, can touch like 20 patients' lives, or I don't know how many people you see in the emergency department, but I see about 22 patients per day in the office, right? So I can touch 22 patients' lives, but online, 40 million people, right? Like a billion people have seen these things probably at this point for you. And it's like, it's hard to wrap your head around, like the impact that could make for people. If I had a video that got 22 views, I would be very disappointed. But you know, you're right though, like I see, I probably see an average of like 22 to 25 patients on a shift and you know, just that many views on a video. Like it'd be like cool, but like, nah. But also. But yeah, and I think you're right. Like I think the magnitude of what we're doing and I'm most, I'm never gonna hear most of the stories. No. Of what happened or actually it was really interesting. I was with the Midwestern mom and she brought up a video. She was like, ⁓ the memorable video that I had from you was this one. don't even remember which video she said. That was like five years ago. And she's like, ⁓ yeah, no, but like that just sticks in my mind all the time every time I think of whatever it is. And I was just like, ⁓ my God. So like, you also never know which video is going to be the one that impacts people. Like for her, wasn't the grill brush. It was something completely different that, you know, didn't get a ton of views, but has stuck with her, which was really cool. So you'll never know the differences that you're making there. When it comes to the medical information that you and I are seeing online, think especially as content creators, you can see... why content gets popular, right? You see the way that people can like hook people in and like twist the truth, especially in the beginning of a video to continue to get the views. Because as we know, if people watch the first three to five seconds of the video, they're more likely to finish at least the majority of that video. Do you think it's harder for us though, as like physicians and other healthcare professionals who have the training in it to like learn how to do those hooks and like continuously keep people engaged in our videos? I think so. You know, there are things like fear. Fear gets views, fear gets clicks. Making people scared, you know, there's ways to encourage engagement that are not necessarily like the most ethical. And I'll say, like, I said, did we just figure out COVID? And I was like, I don't know, would I use that hook now? Like, maybe, maybe not. Like, you know, I think that there are people out there that are kind of, what we call fear-mongering, that are, they're using fear to get engagement and views. And that's something that I try not to do, you know, talking about, you know, scary things and... in a scary way and to make that. I think that there's a better way to engage, but at the same time, like it is important to engage, to get the views, to get the information out there. So I think as creators in the medical space and being ethical and reasonable, like I think trying to find that balance of we want to push engagement, but we also don't want to be fear-mongering. We don't want to be giving misinformation or telling lies. Like we really want to be truth tellers and focused on that evidence and the data and the information out there. So I think it's a fine balance, but making sure that know, we sleep well at night, making sure that we're giving the good information because, you know, we are talking to our parents, our friends, our family. And so I think being ethical in our creation is really important. Yeah. It's very easy to get sucked into knowing which, maybe more spicy video did better because it was a little spicier. And then, like, how much more spicy did you get every time, like, the sassy hearing? And, I see that with my content, right? If I am stitching a video of some chiropractor saying something ridiculous about birth control, those videos are always going to do well. always. And so if I was like so hyper-focused on like views and making sure I always was like, you're like, were saying not just like the ups and downs of growth, but just like focusing on growth like that, you would just take it always to the next extreme. And I think for us as physicians, I have to spend a lot of time really like checking myself and being like, okay, my boss is gonna watch this, my sister's gonna watch this, my patients are gonna watch this. And like, who am I portraying in that? And like, instead of just like focusing on like, well, if I get really sassy with this chiropractor. I'm gonna get many more views. And you have to like find that balance as a creator. Yeah, 100%. That is the hard part about all of this. I think, I also think a lot about when it comes to the space that medical misinformation has gotten online, some parts of that are, I think we have to be honest with ourselves and is a little bit our fault in two ways. One, we can't always spend time, and it's different for you, but for me, like my time and my day is very, like I have 15 minutes, I have 15 minutes, I have 30 minutes, I have 15 minutes. And that leaves patients wanting more. And it leaves patients looking for other people to explain it to them. Because sometimes, you'll run through a differential in your head, but you may not tell every patient the differential, right? You'll be like, OK, I know it's not this, this, and this. I rolled out the big and scary things. But if we weren't actively telling the patient it's not the big and scary things, they don't hear that, and they feel dismissed. And then they go, and then they go online and find the information instead. And so it's hard to look within ourselves as physicians who are trying so hard to keep people alive. to make sure everyone survives this event that they're going through, and then be like, but what if that experience was not good for the patient, and now they're gonna go find it somewhere else? Do you find, as a consumer of social media, that actually that part you've changed a little bit in real life? Do you see more patient's perspective and go like, okay, this is how I'm gonna address patient care differently? I really think that creating online and reading the comments and talking to people has really, really, really changed the way that I am a physician. And it... also has very much helped me to decrease the burnout and almost like, I'm not gonna say avoid it completely, because we all have our days, but I really think it has helped because I'm seeing more of that perspective of this is why they're here. They're not here because, you know, any of these other reasons, they're here because they're scared, because they're nervous, because they care, because, you know, they heard something online. And like, to me, that's like, that's all valid. And like, I don't care why you ended up here, but like, now you're here and let's... and then like, let's try to figure this out. And I think it has been very helpful. And there are, you know, the emergency medicine, just like everything else, like, there is a time crunch, and the time crunch is not always, it's a 15-minute visit. Like, we don't have timed visits, but if the EMS box goes off and there's a trauma alert coming, I'm getting a phone call from a specialist that I've been waiting for to call me back for hours or, you know, whatever it might be. Like, those are the time limits that I have. Or, you know, I've got a critical result from lab that I need to go, you know, do something or put orders or... you know, give some bad news to patients. Those are my kind of boundaries and time socks. So it's, it makes it difficult to sit down and really hold hands and try to, you know, hash through, you know, this really stable patient that they need to go to their pediatrician and get a full workup for whatever it is. But, you know, I can't get the MRI that's not urgent in the ER tonight. So it makes it a little more challenging, you know, in real time, clinically, to be able to address some of those issues and to talk. and reassure and talk about like, these are the next steps that we need to do to help you figure out what this is going on. And emergency medicine itself is challenging because we have so many limits of, can't do a MRI for a stable patient tonight. yes, I do think there is something going on. I do think that you're having this symptom for a reason, but we've ruled out all the emergent things with the tests that we've done and moving forward. And it is hard. don't always say the differentials out loud, but I do. I do really, really try. It's so hard. You know, it's so hard, all of the things that were being pulled in so many different directions. And I don't know if you've experienced this as well, but, you know, I've reached a point where a lot of the patients recognize me, know who I am. And I walk in the door and they say, ⁓ thank God, Dr. Beachgem, I'm so happy that you're here. I know that you're gonna fix everything and save the world tonight and everything is gonna be perfect. And it's sometimes I'm like, I don't... think I can live up to those expectations right now. agree with you. There's been situations where I know they came in because they're seeing Dr. Franz, and then I'm still limited by the science and the world that we live in. And so it's like, I wish I could just make this go away, or I wish I had the answer of this. And then you're like, I feel like I'm letting them down, right? Because they think they've been dismissed by other people, they didn't feel heard, they didn't feel that they were getting the care that they wanted, and then they come and their previous practitioner did everything. right, you know what I mean? And then you're like, I wish I... I feel like I'm letting you down because I thought you thought you were gonna get something different with me, but I don't have the science or I don't have the medicine or the answers the same, like it's surgery. And I think that's probably one of the downsides of being a physician content creator, especially if they're coming to see you specifically. I have a lot of patients who come see Dr. Fran specifically, and I know that there's patients that have been let down by that experience and that's hard. It's hard. I actually feel bad for my colleagues. I work with absolutely incredible rock stars. I have rock star PEDS ER docs and APPs that I work with. And you don't get to choose the ER doctor in the ER. Whoever's next up, we sign up for a patient, we go see them. You can't walk in and say, I'm here to see Dr. Beechdom today. It doesn't happen like that. So I feel a little bit bad because sometimes people come to my ER and they're like, colleague walks in who's a boss. And the patient's like, ⁓ I was hoping it was gonna be Dr. Beecham. And they feel let down before this person even has had a chance to show them how amazing they are. And so I do feel a little bit bad and there's not much I can do about it, but I feel like there's great doctors out there. Give them a chance, I promise you, if you're going to my ER, you're gonna, they're amazing. My docs are amazing, my APPs are amazing. ⁓ that's amazing. I wanna go into a quick little rapid fire with you. Okay. Okay, what's your favorite vaccine? I had the chicken pox, so it'd probably be chicken pox. I had, like, the disease. I had chicken pox. And then I had shingles. Oh, no. I was pregnant when I had shingles. My nightmare. It was awful. I haven't had a lot of the other preventable illnesses, but I had chicken pox. And I love that my kids don't have to have chicken pox. No one's answered that one yet. Usually people give me the HPV vaccine. always like, yes. But yeah, chicken pox. But yeah, our generation, we just all had chicken pox. We had a chicken pox party, and me and my sister all had chicken pox together. I may have given my entire church. to chicken pox when I was a child. I apologize to anyone who went to Wyndham Center Church back in 1991. Wyndham Center's like, oh my God. That's amazing. All right, this is gonna be a little niche for the audience, but Anchor Bar or Duffs? Oh, Duffs. Anchor Bar's amazing. Don't get me wrong, Anchor Bar is amazing. Like, amazing, amazing. But Duffs is where it's at. The wings are incredible. And the grilled cheese at Duff's is like Chef's Kiss. Okay, for the Buffalo people, apparently Duff's is where we're going. Okay, what are three baby or toddler items that you detest? ⁓ Anything that wastes mom's money. So, like, toddler formula. Now, granted, if you need medical food, that is completely different, that's not what I'm talking about. But when formula companies are selling to parents, you know, the kid doesn't need it, and they're selling to parents. Drives me nuts. And it's the little tiny magnets in things. I hate the tiny magnets. And then those little, the water beads. The water beads have become such an issue. We've seen a lot of them. It's a problem. stuck in orifices. Well, they get stuck in orifices and they're hard to get out because they're slimy and they're circular. Circular foreign bodies are harder to grab in noses and ears and stuff like that. But when kids ingest these water beads, they expand in the intestines and can cause obstructions. And because they're the same density as tissue, we can't see it on x-ray. It's really even difficult to see on a CAT scan. A lot of times we have to diagnose them by like kind of opening things up and trying to figure out what's going on. hate them, not a fan, bad things. I mean, I will say again, from like a parenting perspective, I always appreciate when people like yourself and other people who talk about parenting talk about these things. Because when you're, so my oldest is six, so I'm still like, you know, I'm new to parenting for the last seven years. But I learned so much from people, and like the button battery thing, I think I would... Oh, button batteries are terrible. I wouldn't have been as knowledgeable, I know I wouldn't have been as knowledgeable about them if I didn't see people talking about the dangers of button batteries. I mean, anything that kids swallow can be a problem, like the magnets. You if you swallow them, if it's just one magnet, usually not that big of a problem, because it's gonna go, usually it moves through, as long as it moves through, you're fine. But if you, a magnet and another magnet, or a magnet and another metal thing, or a magnet and a button battery... It's just bad news because they will try to find each other, even if there's tissue or intestinal wall or stomach in between. It's just bad news. All right. So no button batteries for the masses here. All right. What's a group of pediatric emergency medicine doctors called? ⁓ I think an MTALA. ⁓ OK. I like it. I, as an OB-GYN, get several interesting pictures in my DMs. Does anyone ever send you interesting DMs or pictures of things? You know, I have to say that I don't get... Please don't, this is not an invitation. I don't get a lot of pictures in my DMs. I am shooketh, but I'm okay with it. I am shooketh for you. I'm surprised you're not getting more like diapers. Not an invitation. Again, not an invitation. I have gotten some emails with some pictures. But I have not gotten a lot of DM pictures. People save that just for their gynecologist then. Okay, that's fine. I think I have to like re-specialize. What platform are people the meanest on? I think it depends on what content I'm posting a little bit. I would say Facebook can be. Facebook can be rough. Yeah, I saw, yeah, you had a post recently and I was like, wow. Yeah, people were very, very aggressive. I had a post about, it was very short. It was just like a lip syncing video, which I don't even make that many of about RFK Jr. And people, someone shared it on Facebook and it got a million views within like a day or two. And all these people were, I mean, I never, I like posted it because I think it's mostly funny. People are like, how do you like stand this? I was like, those people aren't being mean to Fran. They're being mean to the white blonde girl talking about RFK Jr. on the internet. They're not like being personally mean to me. I mean, people are aggressive and it's crazy what people say online, but I find Facebook to be pretty... Facebook can be rough. Yeah, you kind of like post and run. It's like my thing there. You know, I think it's important for me, like I'll post, you know, I post on all the platforms and then I will go back and start like just scrolling through the comments on all the platforms as people are posting. And the first couple hours I am watching the comments, but... Sometimes I'm like, I gotta do this, nope, I'm gonna walk away. I'm gonna walk away from this for a while. Who are your three, this is my last question for you. Who are your three favorite creators online? They do not have to be medical. ⁓ this is tough. Okay, so Dr. Elizabeth Potter. Yeah. Like, I just freaking love her. She's incredible. Elise Myers, I still, I absolutely love her. She's, I love her singing posts, like when, like, and especially when like there's layers of the songs, like it just like, it scratches that part of my brain that just makes me like really happy. Oh, who would be my last one? I would say you as well, but I'm not gonna say you, because you're right in front of me. That's cheating. That is cheating. I think probably Dr. Rubin. I just love him. And his wife is amazing as well. Like... Yeah, they're really doing a lot of work. And he has his new book out. He does. We're really excited for All about allergies. Yeah, yeah. I have cat allergies, so maybe I have to borrow the book now. But it's a good book. I've seen a lot of people talking about it. And he has... I think what he does so nicely is that he continues to keep people updated on what's happening. I'm not good at that because I'm, I feel like I don't have the time to always know exactly what's going on, but he's like, going on in the medical world because of him. He is absolutely on top of it. He's kind of like our new source. All right, DrBeachGem, for the singular person watching this who doesn't follow you, where can everyone find you online? I am on TikTok at BeachGem10, BeachGM10, and then DrBeachGem on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Thank you so much for being here. was an honor. Thank you for having me.