Maheetha Bharadwaj

The Scrub's Life Podcast

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Welcome to The Scrubs Life Podcast, a companion podcast to the medical show Scrubs and its recent Hulu Reboot. Episode by episode, we watch key scenes, catch some reactions from your favorite experts in the field, and discuss critical themes portrayed in each episode.

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Maheetha Bharadwaj

Episodes

Dating in Medicine & Transplant (Scrubs Reboot S1E5) 03.07.2026 34:41

Can you really find love working 80-hour weeks? This week on The Scrubs Life Podcast, Dr. Maheetha Bharadwaj sits down with two women in surgery to react to the Scrubs reboot's take on dating in medicine — hospital romances, power dynamics, dating apps, and the relationships they'd strictly avoid — before shifting gears to one of the heaviest topics in the show so far: a patient facing a liver tra...

Trainees on Social Media (Scrubs Reboot S1E4) 12.06.2026 39:32

What happens when a medical resident has 550,000 followers? In this episode of The Scrubs Life Podcast — a companion podcast to the medical show Scrubs and its recent Hulu reboot — host Dr. Maheetha Bharadwaj sits down with two doctors on opposite sides of the social-media-in-medicine conversation. This week's guests: Dr. Preston Roche (@PressRowOnline) is a psychiatry resident at UT Health San An...

Rating Culture & Surgical Education (Scrubs Reboot S1E3) 22.05.2026 39:25

In this episode of The Scrubs Life Podcast — a companion podcast to the medical show Scrubs and its recent Hulu reboot — host Dr. Maheetha Bharadwaj is joined by two guests to watch key scenes, react, and dig into the critical themes each episode raises. This week's guests: Dr. Nicolas Fernandez is an associate professor at the University of Washington and a pediatric urologist at Seattle Children...

Funding, Workflow, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel (Scrubs Reboot S1E2) 01.05.2026 31:45

Episode 2 of The Scrubs Life Podcast tackles funding and workflow in modern healthcare, sparked by Episode 2 of the Scrubs Hulu reboot. Maheetha Bharadwaj, MD sits down with Dr. Quoc-Dien Trinh, Chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Chair of Urology at UPMC. A globally recognized urologic surgeon-scientist, Dr. Trinh has been honored with the AUA...

The Cultural Shift of Medicine and Burnout (Scrubs Reboot S1E1) 01.04.2026 38:49

In our debut episode, we watch key scenes from the Scrubs reboot premiere and get real reactions from three physicians living these stories every day. Dr. Brian Hoeflinger, a neurosurgeon with 27 years in the field, Dr. Helene Okpere, an ER physician and founder of Rest in Rx, and Dr. Melinda Thacker, a surgeon and advocate for rehumanizing surgical culture, join host Dr. Maheetha Bharadwaj to tal...