Two of the happiest surgeon dropouts you’ll ever meet, Tony Chin-Quee, MD and Frances Mei Hardin, MD, have traded the OR for the mic. On Social Rounds, they give their wildly unsolicited opinions on the state of medicine, the absurdities of healthcare culture, and the chaos of the world at large. From inside-baseball medical news to pop culture drama, space doctors to Taylor Swift, no topic is too sacred (or too ridiculous) to roast, dissect, and laugh about. Smart, irreverent, and occasionally unhinged, Social Rounds is what happens when surgeons leave the scalpel behind and decide to say everything out loud.
Social Rounds
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Two of the happiest surgeon dropouts you’ll ever meet, Tony Chin-Quee, MD and Frances Mei Hardin, MD, have traded the OR for the mic. On Social Rounds, they give their wildly unsolicited opinions on the state of medicine, the absurdities of healthcare culture, and the chaos of the world at large. From inside-baseball medical news to pop culture drama, space doctors to Taylor Swift, no topic is too sacred (or too ridiculous) to roast, dissect, and laugh about. Smart, irreverent, and occasionally unhinged, Social Rounds is what happens when surgeons leave the scalpel behind and decide to say everything out loud.
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May 29, 2026
Was It All Bad? | Remembering the Good Parts of Medicine
<p>This week on Social Rounds, Tony and Frances Mei slow things down for a more reflective episode.</p><p>After weeks of guests, chaos, travel, and controversy, they get back to basics — talking about Europe, ghosts in Rome, getting robbed in England, leaving the UK for Canada, and the question at the center of the episode:</p><p><strong>Was medicine really all bad?</strong></p><p>From funny patient encounters and late-night residency memories to heartbreaking moments with cancer patients and families, Tony and Frances Mei reflect on the humanity that still stayed with them long after leaving clinical medicine.</p><p>This episode is about the moments that made the work meaningful — even inside a broken system.</p><p>Topics include:</p><ul><li>Traveling through Rome, Paris & Copenhagen</li><li>Why Frances Mei thinks the Colosseum should be haunted</li><li>Tony’s family home getting robbed in England</li><li>Leaving medicine without invalidating the good parts</li><li>Patient relationships that still matter years later</li><li>Love, grief, family, and dignity in healthcare</li><li>Why medicine can be meaningful and unsustainable at the same time</li></ul><br/><p><strong>Hosted by:</strong></p><p>Tony Chin-Quee: @wheyouat</p><p>Frances Mei Hardin: @francesmeimd</p><p><strong>Produced by:</strong> The Hippocratic Collective</p>
May 22, 2026
Doctors, Medfluencers & Career Suicide on the Internet
<p>A fourth-year medical student goes viral for offensive videos targeting women’s health, and the internet exploded. In this episode of Social Rounds, Tony Chin-Quee, Dr. Ryan Montoya, and Dr. Janet McMordie unpack the controversy, the rise of medfluencers, professionalism in medicine, and whether physicians should be held to a higher standard online.</p><p>The trio dives into the blurred line between personal branding and professional identity, the dangers of parasocial fame, physician social media culture, and how online behavior can impact trust, hiring, and patient care. Plus: a chaotic round of “Hire or Fire?” featuring doctors posting OR content, real estate side hustles, political rallies, and more.</p><p>Topics include:</p><ul><li>The medfluencer era</li><li>Social media professionalism in medicine</li><li>Women’s health and misogyny in healthcare</li><li>Parasocial relationships online</li><li>Physician identity beyond medicine</li><li>Should doctors be “cancelable”?</li><li>Privacy, branding, and internet permanence</li><li>Why some doctors leave medicine entirely</li></ul><br/><p>Social Rounds is a podcast from the <a href="https://hippocratic-collective.com?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hippocratic Collective</a> exploring medicine, culture, internet chaos, and everything in between.</p><p><strong>Hosted by</strong>:</p><p>Tony Chin-Quee: @wheyouat</p><p>Ryan Montoya: @ryan_montoya_art</p><p>Janet McMordie: @janetmcmordie</p><p><strong>Produced by:</strong> The Hippocratic Collective</p>
May 15, 2026
Big Map Conspiracies, Victorian Cholera, and Finding Work You Actually Love
<p>This week on Social Rounds, Tony and Frances Mei are joined by fan-favorite “Cartographer Geoff” — historian, mapmaker, professional forager, jam-maker, and accidental proof that people can actually enjoy their jobs.</p><p>What starts as a conversation about whether children should follow their parents into medicine spirals into a surprisingly deep discussion about maps as instruments of power, colonialism, propaganda, redlining, Victorian cholera outbreaks, and why the Mercator projection might have subtly rewired all our brains. Geoff also explains how he turned a PhD on colonial-era beeswax extraction into a dream career making historical maps for places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</p><p>Along the way:</p><ul><li>Why almost no physicians want their kids to become doctors</li><li>The hidden emotional bargain of “settling” for prestigious careers</li><li>The terrifying influence of Big Map</li><li>The real story behind John Snow’s cholera map</li><li>Stardew Valley as an aspirational lifestyle blueprint</li><li>Why Frances Mei is emotionally destabilized by someone genuinely liking their work</li></ul><br/><p>Also featuring: “Frances Frizzante Mei,” anxiety hobbits, sea monster maps, and the phrase “everything in the world is about maps except maps; maps are about power.”</p><p><strong>Hosted by:</strong></p><p>Tony Chin-Quee: @wheyouat</p><p>Frances Mei Hardin: @francesmeimd</p><p><strong>Guest: </strong>Cartographer Geoff</p><p><strong>Produced by:</strong> The Hippocratic Collective</p>
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