The Doctors On Social Media Podcast
Dana Corriel, MD
This podcast was created by founder Dr. Dana Corriel, who built the SoMeDocs brand (SoMeDocs being short for "Doctors on Social Media") from the ground up. The podcast plans to showcase, in audio format, what has already been built out on the venture's website, at doctorsonsocialmedia.com; unique content representing the diverse voices, talent, and ideas existing in healthcare.With a combined social media audience of 40,000 followers and growing, SoMeDocs is doing something right. Tune in to…
Recent Episodes
I Was One Month From Finishing Residency. Then I Quit.
Sep 13, 2026Dr. Noah Kaufman, an emergency medicine physician, recounts his journey through medical training as an independent thinker who frequently clashed with institutional hierarchy and authority. From an arrest during his first year of medical school to confrontations with senior residents and attendings over patient care decisions, Kaufman traces how his authenticity and refusal to stay silent cost him throughout his training. The episode culminates in his near-resignation during the final month of residency after a confrontation with an intimidating pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, exploring the culture of medical training, the expectation of blind obedience, and the importance of physicians being able to say "I don't know."
Gunshots, Ninja Warrior & One Very Strange Night in the ER
Sep 6, 2026Noah Kaufman, an emergency physician and former American Ninja Warrior competitor, recounts a chaotic Saturday night at a Level 2 trauma center in Denver. The episode opens with an unusual foreign-body case requiring emergency surgery, then pivots to a Level 1 trauma involving a gunshot wound to the chest—during which the patient recognizes Noah from television, creating a surreal moment in the trauma bay. Through these stories, Noah reflects on the collision between his public identity as a TV personality and his identity as an ER doctor.
The Independent ER Doctor: Rethinking Where Acute Care Happens
Sep 3, 2026Dr. Noah Kaufman, a board-certified emergency physician with 23 years of experience, discusses his transition from traditional hospital-based emergency medicine to founding Cough Care Advanced Urgent Care in Denver—a direct-pay, physician-owned acute care clinic positioned between urgent care and the emergency department. He explains his model's operational advantages, including in-house diagnostics, AI-assisted charting, transparent $120 visit fees, and the ability to deliver high-acuity care typically reserved for ERs. Kaufman addresses criticisms about creating a two-tiered healthcare system and outlines the mental, financial, and operational requirements for other ER physicians considering similar independent practices.
The Biggest “I Don’t Know” in Medicine
Aug 30, 2026Dr. Noah Kaufman, an emergency medicine physician with 23 years of experience, recounts his firsthand account of practicing medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic across multiple emergency departments. He shares a pivotal story from a small Michigan town where he was unable to save a middle-aged COVID patient, only to be confronted by the man's grieving teenage son. Kaufman reflects on the uncertainty that defined the pandemic, the difficulty of admitting 'I don't know' as a physician, and how COVID fundamentally and permanently altered emergency medicine, the physician-patient relationship, and his own career trajectory.
What’s in Your Patient Agreement? Two Ways One Plastic Surgeon Protects His Practice.
Aug 29, 2026Dr. Jason Hall, a plastic surgeon with a solo private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee, discusses two legal strategies he developed with counsel to protect his practice: a HIPAA waiver for online reviews that allows him to respond to patient reviews while maintaining privacy compliance, and an arbitration clause in patient agreements designed to resolve disputes outside the courtroom. Hall shares lessons learned from building his practice without formal business training alongside his wife, a physician assistant.
He Carried Her Through Yosemite. Ten Years Later, Her Father Found Him.
Aug 23, 2026Dr. Noah Kaufman, an emergency physician with 23 years of experience, shares two extraordinary stories of emergency medicine practiced outside the traditional hospital setting. The first involves improvising a single-lead EKG at a remote Lake Tahoe ski clinic to diagnose a massive heart attack (ST elevation MI), while the second recounts a harrowing rescue in Yosemite where he carries a critically injured young girl struck by rockfall through the forest to the clinic. A decade later, her father tracks him down to reveal she survived and is now pursuing emergency medicine herself.
The Physician Story Her Hospital Didn’t Want to Hear: Dr. Recinos
Aug 16, 2026Dr. Sheryl Recinos, a family medicine physician and assistant professor, discusses her memoir 'Hindsight: Coming of Age on the Streets of Hollywood,' which chronicles her experiences with homelessness as a teenager and her brother's suicide five days after she completed residency. She recounts how her employers discouraged her writing and public advocacy, creating a conflict between her identity as a physician and her identity as a writer and activist focused on ending youth homelessness. The episode explores institutional resistance to physician self-expression, the healing role of writing in managing trauma and burnout, and the need for healthcare systems to embrace the full humanity of their doctors.
From Sideline to Cyberspace
Jul 10, 2026Dr. Alejandro Badia hosts two leading orthopedic surgeons—Dr. Stefan Obini (joint reconstructive surgeon at UCSF, founder of DocSF digital health conference) and Dr. Martin Roach (pioneering robotic joint arthroplasty surgeon in South Florida)—to explore the intersection of technology, robotics, and AI in sports medicine and orthopedic surgery. The discussion covers why orthopedics has lagged in tech adoption, the role of data collection and machine learning, misconceptions about AI and robot "replacement" of physicians, and the future of collaborative robotics, digital twins, and biologics in athlete care and joint surgery.
The Day Dr. Ong Stopped Being a Doctor
Jul 4, 2026Dr. Olivia Ong, a rehabilitation medicine physician, shares her transformative story of surviving a catastrophic spinal cord injury sustained in a 2008 car accident in Australia that left her with incomplete paraplegia. The episode explores her journey from shock and despair through intensive rehabilitation at Project Walk in California, her eventual return to medical practice as a pain management and rehabilitation specialist, and her evolution from viewing herself solely through the lens of her medical identity to valuing herself as a complete human being.
Biologic Buzz vs. Real Evidence in Sports Medicine
Jul 3, 2026Dr. Alejandro Badia hosts a panel discussion on orthobiologics with three leading experts: Don Buford (president of the Interventional Orthobiologics Foundation), Pedro Bernalis (sports medicine surgeon from Seville, Spain), and Raj Pandya (building a multi-center biologics practice in Atlanta). The episode explores the gap between 'biologic buzz' and real evidence in regenerative medicine, examining why patients are drawn to PRP and stem cell treatments, the need for certification standards, and how these therapies may render certain surgeries obsolete while improving patient outcomes.
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