What You Resist Will Persist: Grief, Illness, and Reinventing a Medical Career
Dr. Red Hoffman is a surgeon, hospice physician, and writer whose career has never followed a straight line—and whose life was radically reshaped by grief, chronic illness, and unexpected loss. In thi...
27 Jan 39min
A Normal Life Feels Soft When You’re a Doctor
What happens when a doctor decides she doesn’t need more money - she needs more peace?In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with psychiatrist Dr. Claire Oduwo to talk about ch...
20 Jan 33min
The Magician in the Hospital: Alan Chien, MD on Identity, Art, and Survival in Medicine
On this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei Hardin, MD is joined by Alan Chien, MD, a pediatrics resident and lifelong magician practicing in Los Angeles.What begins as a conversation about m...
13 Jan 29min
She Left a Surgical Fellowship and Found Herself Again | Mohini Dasari, MD
In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with Mohini Dasari, MD—a general surgeon and writer—who speaks candidly about one of the most taboo topics in medicine: leaving a surgica...
6 Jan 42min
From OB-GYN to ‘Former Doctor’: Identity After Forced Exit from Medicine
In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei Hardin sits down with Stephanie Pearson, MD, a former OB-GYN whose medical career ended abruptly after a devastating workplace injury.What followed...
30 Dec 202534min
My First Christmas Not on Call | Life After Leaving Medicine
In this holiday episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei is joined by her husband, Colin, for a candid, unfiltered conversation about what life actually looks like after leaving clinical medicine....
23 Dec 202528min
Inside French Surgical Culture: No Hierarchy, The Right to Disconnect
What if surgical training didn’t require fear, exhaustion, or constant availability?In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with Paris-based neurosurgeon Dr. Samiya Abi Jaoude t...
16 Dec 202538min
When Medicine Meets Comedy: Joel Walkowski on Sobriety, Survival, and the Stories We Don’t Tell
In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with writer and comedian Joel Walkowski—a man whose life contains multitudes: stand-up, screenwriting, sobriety coaching, and an unwaveri...
9 Dec 202542min
