#59 The Impossible Oath with Dr. Frances Mei Hardin

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Master storyteller and fellow disrupter, Dr. Frances Mei Hardin comes on the podcast to discuss the article The Impossible Oath.

We talk about what the Hippocratic Oath is and, perhaps more importantly, is not.

You'll learn how the system grooms us for "betrayal blindness" and why a better-you-than-me, cut throat mentality isn't good for anyone.

Dr. Hardin recounts a residency moment when she was wrongly reprimanded, an experience many of you will recognize.

Finally, we address the disproportionate number of women and minorities placed on remediation plans.

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Frances Mei Hardin, MD, is a reformed gunner. She survived ENT residency, practiced solo in the rural South, and then peaced out of medicine entirely to start the Hippocratic Collective. She decoupled her self-worth from her identity as a surgeon, survived an ego death, and is now entering her mogul era—writing her first book, building a physician-led media empire, and making the kind of stuff she wishes existed back when she was white-knuckling her way through surgical training. She no longer thinks being a doctor is her whole personality. You shouldn't either.