Not Your Doctor Podcast

Docs Tara and Laurel delve into supplements, giving their take on a myriad of powders and potions from super-molecule anti-aging concoctions to pre-workout creatine to sleepy magnesium. Is the Lion’s Mane Mocha Latte actually giving you a mental edge? And will your child be missing developmental milestones without Little Critters Immunity Super Boost? And what are the docs themselves willing to try?

As interns, Rachel and Laurel are the Meredith to each other’s Christina, and they’re both looking for the Dr. Robbys to their Mel. This week the gals gab about their favorite medical shows and answer questions about how real life compares. Do residents ever sneak away for sex in supply closets or sob in stairwells? Do bugs actually grow in wounds and do people die in the waiting room while waiting for 8+ hours to be seen? And have these docs actually watched the Pitt themselves?

This week the girls talk wearables, as in the pretty jewellery that also takes your temperature, measures your sleep and judges your exercise habits. The docs answer listener questions about continuous glucose monitors, socks that check your baby’s oxygen, and other devices that promise big glow-ups but might give big anxiety. Digressions include horses on beaches, a celebrity shadowing and a damp kitty. 

On this week’s episode, Rachel shares exciting news, Laurel flips to nights, and the docs delve into some double D dilemas on this episode about boobs. One listener is wondering if her asymmetry is a cause for alarm, and another listener ponders whether she should get a breast reduction. 

Rachel is back from Greece and Laurel has completed yet another book club. The docs also discuss some of our listener’s common health myths and misconceptions. From STIs on toilet seats to swallowed chewing gum to the percentage of our brains we put to use- are you ready to shake them off? Or continue squatting in midair?

This week, Tara and Laurel struggle to make use of the English language, while responding to a grab-bag of listener reactions, a hantavirus haunting, a fertility visit gone awry, and some dating dilemmas. The docs also return to the question of quitting and discuss the extent to which they’re in competition with one another.

Rachel and Laurel dig in and talk money in this week’s pod. Our listeners have questions about everything from gel nail habits to the hidden costs of food allergies to different spending patterns between partners. And they spill on the sanity (or lack thereof) of their own spending.

Is your sex drive “normal”? Are you wondering when and how to bring up STIs in a new relationship? Experiencing physical limitations to getting it on? Tara and Laurel tackle questions related to relations between two (or one, or more) consenting adults. We’re not your doctors, but we certainly have opinions.