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Funny Until Patients Are the Punchline

12 min · 21. maj 2026
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In this episode of The Physician Feed, Dr. Jordan Emont takes on one of healthcare social media’s most uncomfortable questions: when does medical humor stop being funny and start becoming harmful? From viral videos mocking patients to the institutional silence that often lets toxic behavior grow an audience, this conversation pulls no punches. Dr. Emont argues that humor absolutely belongs in healthcare, but never at the expense of patients, especially when the jokes target women, anatomy, weight, mental health, or vulnerable moments inside the exam room. The episode moves from online outrage to a deeper reckoning with professionalism, misogyny in medicine, and the power of social media to expose what institutions may prefer to quietly ignore.   SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST → https://www.doctorsonsocialmedia.com/podcast [https://doctorsonsocialmedia.com/our-podcast/] FIND AN EXPERT IN OUR DIRECTORIES → https://www.doctorsonsocialmedia.com/directories [https://doctorsonsocialmedia.com/directories/]   Participants: https://doctorsonsocialmedia.com/jordan-emont-md-mph-scm-mscp/   Takeaways: 1. Humor belongs in medicine. Patients should never be the punchline. 2. A viral following doesn’t make a healthcare professional clever. Sometimes it just makes the red flags easier to count. 3. The most dangerous medical content online may come from people wearing credentials. 4. When doctors mock anatomy, weight, mental health, or vulnerability, they aren’t “being edgy.” They’re teaching patients to trust us less. 5. Professionalism online isn’t about being boring. It’s about remembering there are patients watching. 6. Social media didn’t create misogyny in medicine. It gave it a camera, a caption, and 400,000 followers. 7. Institutions love visibility until the wrong person goes viral. 8. The internet can expose what hospitals and medical schools quietly tolerate. 9. Healthcare humor works best when it punches at broken systems, not the people harmed by them. 10. The white coat doesn’t come off just because the ring light turns on. Send us a message to tell us what you loved about the show! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1105718/fan_mail/new] Doctorsonsocialmedia.com, or SoMeDocs for short, is a healthcare omnimedia platform committed to promoting autonomy for the individuals in healthcare. Subscribe to our newsletter to not miss our new articles, episodes, or events: https://doctorsonsocialmedia.com/subscribe [https://doctorsonsocialmedia.com/subscribe]. Contact us anytime, at somedocs@somedocs.com [somedocs@somedocs.com]  (please note that we receive many emails and may not respond to all).

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