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S1E59 A Plastic Surgeon’s Warning: Why Healthcare Rewards Treatment, Not Health
Why does the United States spend more on healthcare than ever before while chronic disease continues to rise?In this episode of Surgeon Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with reconstructive plastic…
S1E58 From InStyle to Intima: Curating the Stories of Healthcare with Donna Bulseco
What happens when a longtime magazine editor leaves the world of celebrity journalism and finds herself at the forefront of narrative medicine?This week on Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down…
S1E57 “Why Are All the Doctors Leaving?” | Residency, Hyper-Productivity & the Inability to Rest
In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down again with her husband Colin for an unfiltered conversation about residency culture, hyper-productivity, and the psychological habits…
S1E56 You Can Have It All, Just Not All at Once with Dr. Joan Chan
This week on Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with family physician and educator Dr. Joan Chan for a conversation about ambition, burnout, identity, and the myth of “having it…
S1E55 The Year After Leaving Medicine | What Travel Taught Me About "Wellness"
One year after leaving the hospital, Frances Mei reflects on what actually changes when you step away from medicine, and what doesn’t.After a month-long Europe trip spanning Cambridge, London,…
S1E54 [TW: Miscarriage] Fertility, Miscarriage & Residency: A Surgeon’s Story
What happens when life doesn’t wait for training to end?In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with ENT surgeon Dr. Kelly Schmidt to talk about a reality rarely discussed in…
S1E53 USMLE Step 1 Failure to U.S. Doctor: IMG Journey No One Talks About | Imane Tarib, MD
What if the moment that almost broke you… was the one that made everything possible?In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances sits down with cornea specialist Dr. Imane Tarib to unpack a…
S1E52 The Line Between Self-Advocacy and Survival in Medicine
This week on Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with Dr. Kate Buhrke following their trip to the LMSA West conference—where one theme came up again and again:How do you protect yourself in a…
S1E51 Why So Many Doctors Feel Like Outsiders | Neurodivergence in Medicine
What if the traits that made you successful in medicine are also what made it so hard?In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Dr. Frances Mei sits down with ENT physician Dr. Colleen Plein for a…
S1E50 Janitor to Doctor: Shay Taylor’s Journey to Yale Anesthesia
In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with Dr. Shay Taylor—newly matched at Yale Anesthesiology, and a story that has gone viral around the world.But this is not just a…
S1E49 The Match Is a Monopoly (And Everyone Knows It Now)
The Match is a monopoly. And now, it’s official.In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei is joined by Colin Royal for an emergency breakdown of a newly released congressional report from…
S1E48 Freedom, Fear, and the First Year Out: A.YoungDoctors.Journey on Locums Medicine
In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances sits down with Helena (A.YoungDoctors.Journey), an emergency medicine physician redefining what early attending life can look like.Fresh out of…
S1E47 From ICU Doctor to Filmmaker: Jessica Zitter on Extremis, Storytelling, and the Future of Medicine
In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei speaks with physician, writer, and documentary filmmaker Jessica Zitter, MD, whose work explores some of the most difficult, and most human,…
S1E46 Medicine in the Cheese: Advocacy, Social Media, and the Hidden Curriculum of Training
n this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with urology resident and social media creator Maheetha Bharadwaj, MD—often known online as the internet’s favorite “dancing…
S1E45 Medicine, McKinsey & Making the Leap: Sarah Rav’s Reinvention Story
What happens when the dream you chased your whole life stops feeling like yours?This week on Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with Sarah Rav — former doctor, former McKinsey consultant,…
S1E44 From Angry Resident to Published Author: Surgeon On The Edge
Today is February 24th — release day.Frances Mei and Colin sit down on the eve of launch to talk about what it feels like to finally let Surgeon on the Edge go. After three years of drafting,…
S1E43 The Bear vs. Residency: Are Kitchens and Hospitals the Same?
This week on Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances sits down with her oldest friend—Executive Pastry Chef Rebecca Freeman—to talk about what happens when your childhood dream actually comes true… and it’s…
S1E42 You Can’t Be Sassy and Wrong: Lessons from The ICU Doctor
What if the most radical thing you could do in medicine wasn’t being tougher, but being more human?In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with The ICU Doctor to talk about…
S1E41 You Can Pivot as Many Times as You Need To
In this episode of Surgeon, Interrupted, Frances Mei sits down with bestselling author and former television producer Audrey Bellezza to talk about reinvention—professionally, creatively, and…
S1E40 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…
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