Episode 5: The Surgeon Who Walked Away and the Fight to Heal our Healers

She walked out of the operating room mid-case thinking, If I can’t be a surgeon, I want to dieDr. Frances Mei Hardin was medicine’s ideal success story—until it nearly destroyed her. In this episode, she exposes the reality of malignant medical training, the moment she left clinical medicine, and why she’s now fighting to change the culture through the Hippocratic Collective.A raw conversation about physician suicide, burnout, shame, survival, and rebuilding an identity after medicine takes everything.Check out: Her podcast Surgeon, InterruptedHer new book coming out soonThe Hippocratic Collective