Social media is already shaping orthopaedic surgery, but the real question is how to use it without turning your professional life into a performance. We sit down with Dr. Mary Mulcahey, Chief of Sports Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, to talk about what actually works for physicians who want to learn, connect, and lead in a fast-moving digital world. Her approach is refreshingly simple: focus on using platforms as tools for education, community, and professional development.

We also get into why she launched her own medical leadership podcast, Lead Change, after realizing there was a gap in content about leadership in medicine and strategic career transitions. Getting the first job is one thing. Moving from clinician to leader, taking on administration, or stepping into department and hospital leadership is another. Dr. Mulcahey shares how conversations with physicians, coaches, and authors can turn into practical lessons you can apply in your own practice, team, and training program.

If you’ve ever wondered how a busy surgeon keeps a consistent podcast cadence, we unpack the behind-the-scenes work: recruiting guests, scheduling, editing, and creating social media snippets that meet people where they are. We also talk platforms, including why Instagram can be such a strong fit for orthopaedic surgeons, how to start by observing before posting, and why social media should never feel stressful or controversial.

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If orthopaedic surgeons stop showing up, who decides what our profession becomes? We sit down with Dr. Fred Azar, past president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a longtime leader and current Department Chair at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics, to talk about the future of organizational involvement in orthopaedic surgery and why it matters more than ever as healthcare grows more complex.

We get practical about the pressures surgeons feel right now: hospital employment, limited reimbursement for memberships, shrinking time, and the reality that many clinicians no longer want to “fly to learn.” Dr. Azar argues that the winning model is not meeting-based societies but connected knowledge networks where education, mentorship, data science, AI, and shared outcomes move fast and reach surgeons where they live. The standard for engagement changes too: it has to be meaningful, efficient, and clearly tied to impact for patients.

If you care about the future of musculoskeletal care, this is a conversation about unity, credibility, and showing up before someone else writes the rules. Subscribe for more, share this with a colleague, and leave a review with your take: what would make organizational involvement worth your time today?

Ballistic missiles overhead at 2 a.m. Surgeons back in the OR at sunrise. A city buying groceries and sending kids to school while medevacs arrive around the clock. That contrast is the setting for our conversation with Dr. Roman Hayda, Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at Rhode Island Hospital and a retired US Army colonel who has traveled to Ukraine repeatedly to support frontline trauma hospitals.

We trace how his Ukrainian roots and military surgical career shaped a calling for war surgery, then zoom in on what makes the current conflict medically different. With contested airspace and relentless drone surveillance, traditional evacuation assumptions collapse. When you can’t fly a helicopter and you can’t safely drive into the kill zone, the “golden hour” becomes a moving target and the downstream impact shows up in limb salvage decisions, prolonged tourniquet times, infection risk, and a growing need for amputation care and complex reconstruction.

We also dig into leadership lessons for any orthopaedic surgeon considering humanitarian work: arrive with humility, listen first, adapt to limited resources, and treat teaching as a two-way exchange. Finally, we talk practical ways to help even if you never get on a plane, from donating external fixation resources to supporting reputable NGOs and advocating for sustained support.

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