Real Doctors React: Trainees on Social Media | The Scrubs Life Podcast Ep. 4

What happens when a medical resident has 550,000 followers? In this episode of The Scrubs Life Podcast - a companion podcast to the medical show Scrubs and its recent Hulu reboot — host Dr. Maheetha Bharadwaj sits down with two doctors on opposite sides of the social-media-in-medicine conversation. ▸ Dr. Preston Roche (@PressRowOnline) — Psychiatry resident at UT Health San Antonio, active-duty Air Force officer, and one of the largest medical creators on social media with 550K+ followers. He uses humor and storytelling to make medical training relatable to the next generation. ▸ Dr. Susan MacDonald — Associate Professor of Urology and Program Director at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She brings the program director's lens to the conversation: how social media affects evaluation, professionalism, and the perception of medicine itself. Together they react to scenes from the Scrubs reboot and dig into the questions modern trainees are actually asking: What can residents post online? Where's the line between personality and professionalism? How does rating culture in medicine — from program evaluations to public review sites — change how doctors show up both in the hospital and online? And in a world where patients Google their doctors before the first appointment, what role should social media play in medical education and trust? The Scrubs Life Podcast is a companion podcast to the medical show Scrubs and its recent Hulu reboot. Episode by episode, we watch key scenes, catch reactions from experts in the field, and discuss the critical themes portrayed in each episode. 🎧 LISTEN ON ALL PLATFORMS Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, and wherever you stream. 📺 WATCH THE SCRUBS REBOOT Streaming now on Hulu. 📱 FOLLOW US Instagram & TikTok: @thescrubslifepodcast Follow Dr. Preston Roche: @PressRowOnline Audio/Video Production by Paul Bogosian #Scrubs #MedicalEducation #DoctorsOnSocialMedia #RealDoctorsReact #ScrubsReboot #MedTwitter #MedTok #Residency #MedicalPodcast #Hulu #DoctorsReact