What Were They Thinking? Episodes

A 19-year-old emails every surgeon he can find: he has been buying testosterone online for a year, he wants a jaw implant, and maybe rib removal. They all either ignore him or say no, and he wants to know whether he is being failed by gatekeepers or protected from something he cannot see. Dr. Chang and Jackie say it plainly: the no is the protection. The conversation runs through the looksmaxxing world young men are living in right now, where an influencer like Clavicular is told his nose, jaw...

Cherise Doyley had refused a fourth C-section, and the hospital took her to court mid-labor to override her decision. There was a judge on Zoom, a state attorney, and a dozen doctors and lawyers on screen — and she was alone, no lawyer. Through the Doyley case, Dr. Chang and Jackie work through what consent actually looks like — when someone can refuse a procedure, when the hospital can override them, and why Florida is the only state where pregnancy is the legal exception to that. They answe...

He had nearly 400,000 followers, a spot at Mayo Clinic, and a match day coming up. One TikTok changed all of it. D.C. plastic surgeon Dr. Christopher Chang and clinical director Jackie discuss the med student whose joke went viral for all the wrong reasons and what it says about a generation of doctors growing up on social media. Reddit, r/nursing discussion about Nick Baumel Reddit, r/medicalschool: Nick Baumel deleted his Tiktok Account. Questions aswered by this episode: Who is Nick B...