Right. Well. Where does one begin? I—um—yes, I suppose I’ll just plunge in. So there I was, innocently browsing through podcasts on the sort of rainy Tuesday that makes you question every life decision you’ve ever made, when I stumbled upon this utterly bone-jarring audio offering by—wait for it—two female orthopedic surgery PAs.
Yes. You heard me. Two of them. Talking bones, joints, labral tears, and possibly the secret inner emotional life of a titanium hip.
Now, you might imagine, as I did, that this would be something of a dry affair. A bit like chewing on a dehydrated rice cake while someone reads the CPT codes aloud. But oh, no. No, no, no. These two—let’s call them the Mary Poppinses of Musculoskeletal Mayhem—somehow manage to make medial meniscus repairs sound… dare I say it… positively titillating.
They volley witty banter like seasoned Wimbledon doubles players, except instead of tennis balls it’s ACL graft options and surgical glove mishaps. One moment they’re explaining why the femur is the drama queen of long bones, and the next they’re launching into a tirade about scrub techs who think they invented sterile fields.
And the laughter. Dear God, the laughter. I found myself giggling like a schoolboy in a catheter lab. There’s something gloriously unhinged about hearing phrases like “posterior tibial tendon dysfunction” in the same sentence as “I once sneezed in my mask and blinded myself with betadine.”
Also, I must say, it’s quite thrilling—thrilling, I tell you—to hear women utterly own a field historically dominated by men who smell faintly of hand sanitizer and God complexes. These two don’t just walk into the OR—they sashay in, armed with scalpels and sass.
So, in short, if you enjoy medical comedy, female badassery, and the occasional rogue F-bomb disguised as an anatomy pun, then for heaven’s sake, subscribe immediately. Your cartilage will thank you.
5 stars. Or screws. Or whatever orthopedic fixation metaphor you prefer.
