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Surgeons with Purpose

Hippocratic Collective

A podcast for surgeons who feel like they are languishing in a career that didn"t turn out to be as fulfilling or as prestigious as they expected. Dr. Mel Thacker, an ENT surgeon and coach, takes you on a journey to help you understand why you are feeling dissatisfied, burnt out, and stuck. With this newfound insight, you"ll be able to reframe how you see your experience, rediscover who you are underneath your surgeon identity, and create a life that aligns with your authentic self. Find more info

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All Episodes

36:57

#37 The Surgeon Essentialist

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/03/17

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here. Essentialism is the disciplined pursuit of less, and the profession of surgery could use a hefty dose. Surgeon Essentialists do less, but better. This means we focus on the results we are trying to create, and then we reverse engineer the actions required to get us there. The primary goal of a surgeon is to help patients sustainably. In order to do that, we must honor two main essentials: 1. Showing up in service to the patient 2. Protecting th...

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57:14

#36 Too Much with Dr. Cindy Lee Neighbors

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/03/10

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here. Mental health struggles, self-sabotage, rock bottom, psychiatric admissions, having the "wrong" facial expressions and tone of voice, an intra-op assault accusation, grief, discrimination, bad teachers, big emotions, and creativity. In this episode, Dr. Cindy Lee Neighbors shares her experience as a creative, passionate, and vocal presence in a system that couldn’t handle her. Her story highlights the immense emotional toll when training progra...

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32:16

#35 Trainee to Attending Self-Concept

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/03/03

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here. Going from trainee to attending requires a death and rebirth. One identity dies and another is born. Stepping into the identity of an authority, an expert, an attending IS the first step. If you are studying for oral boards or about to graduate, elevating your self-concept is the best thing you can do. Here are some self-concept qualities to consider for a trainee vs attending: Trainee: - In service to patient first, then program and self - Sur...

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52:41

#34 Courage to Pivot with Dr. Rashida Vassell

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/02/24

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here. From ambitious and intelligent young woman who fast-tracked through college and medical school to hard-working surgery resident to new mom in her chief year to attending trying to navigate life after training, Dr. Vassell tells us all about how she reinvented herself multiple times to create a career that aligns with her desires and values. Her story is an example of what is possible for all of us. We are NOT stuck. There are paths that allow u...

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61:13

#33 Finding Your Attending Identity with Dr. Amina...

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/02/17

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here. We don't typically end up living the life we imagined we were going to live when we applied to our specialties. Dr. Amina Farooq shares her experience working as an academic interventional radiologist within a dehumanizing system. For many of us, this dehumanization erodes our sense of purpose. Healthcare is the one profession where institutions have normalized dehumanizing doctors and patients. If we want to humanize this profession, we are go...

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54:47

#32 Blake's Story

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/02/10

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here. ****SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING******* ****This episode discusses suicide, which can be distressing for some. If this subject is triggering for you, please consider skipping this one. If you are going to listen, make sure to listen carefully and take good care of yourself. If you are feeling hopeless or suicidal, please find support, call the suicide and crisis lifeline 988 or click here**** In this episode, Dr. Blake Palmer's widow, Dr. Andrea P...

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53:10

#31 Solving for a Broken System with Dr. Wendy Dean...

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/02/03

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here. "I think we need to stay relentlessly curious. And we need to understand what we're working in and recognize there is nobody who comes to work everyday and thinks I'm going to make somebody else miserable." - Dr. Wendy Dean When service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were not responding to PTSD treatments, it became clear that they were not dealing with the anxiety and experiential avoidance caused by PTSD but instead the shame ass...

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64:17

#30 Your Online Presence Doesn’t Have to Suck with...

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/01/27

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here. Nobody in your audience, including your patients, wants your CV shoved down their throat. They don't care. They want to know if and how you can help them. Steph Sheldon is a website designer, former architect, and master at helping people reconnect with their creative side. Creativity is the emotion we generate to solve problems. We tell ourselves we don't need to be creative, or we say "I'm just not creative", and that works fine when we onl...

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31:32

#29 Anxiety isn’t Fear

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/01/20

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here.As a society, we are collectively dealing with an epidemic of anxiety. And no, we can’t just calm down.In today’s episode you will learn 3 important characteristics of anxiety1. Anxiety lives in the left hemisphere, which has been strengthened by cultural messages2. Anxiety is contagious3. Anxiety must be replaced, not erasedWe are all born with a powerful force within us that we can use at any time to melt our anxiety and solve problems: creati...

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54:35

#28 Vulnerability is Strength with Dr. Dan Ward

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/01/13

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here.Facial plastic surgeon, entrepreneur, and life coach, Dr. Dan Ward, comes on the podcast to share his story. He offers his insights on the struggles of parenting, what makes it difficult for surgeons to show up as our best selves, and the power of understanding our human brain and human emotions.In this episode you'll learn:- Thoughts are real but not true- The two rules of CBT- Why it makes sense that surgeons tend to act like toddlers - D...

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53:24

#27 Self-Worth has Nothing to do with your CV with...

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2025/01/06

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here.***SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING***This episode discusses eating disorders and suicidal ideation. If these topics are triggering for you, please listen carefully or skip this episode all together. Take care of yourselves. And if you are struggling, please seek out professional help.A person I consider my soul sister, Dr. Jillian Rigert, comes on the podcast to talk about how a life-threatening illness led her to leave surgery and shaped the person s...

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31:30

#26 Best of 2024

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/12/30

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here.Enjoy salient snippets from 2024. I left out episodes #1 and #2, which are foundational and need to be listened to from start to finish. If you haven't checked them out, go back and listen. Have a great New Year and see you all in 2025! Learn more about Empowered Surgeon Group hereSurgeons affected by the fires in California, I'd love to support you the one way I know how...with free coaching. Email me at mel@melthackercoaching.com to join ...

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53:54

#25 Doctors and Litigation with Dr. Gita Pensa

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/12/23

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here.Good surgeons get sued. That’s the hard truth. Even if you do everything right. Even if you establish “know, like, and trust”. When the stars align, patients sue. And, as surgeons, the cards are stacked against us.Dr. Pensa has experienced malpractice first hand and explains what it’s like to go through the misery of being tried TWICE. She embodies what it means to become a creator when circumstances make us want to fall into victimhood. She is ...

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49:26

#24 Addiction with Dr. Brett Cordes

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/12/16

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here.***SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING. This podcast discusses addiction and may be triggering for some. That said, most of us are addicted to something, be it behaviors like overworking, overeating, overspending, numbing out on socials, or some other substance or behavior that creates feel-good neurotransmitters. There is no shame in the human desire for comfort, which, at its heart, is the source of addiction. Take care of yourself, seek professional he...

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29:34

#23 Surgical Mistakes

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/12/09

Surgeons, text topics you want me to cover here.Surgeons are humans, and all humans err. In this episode you’ll learn how to become the “architect of your experience” in the face of intraoperative mistakes. You'll also learn how fear and anxiety shrink cognitive capacity, and what you can do instead to expand your brain space. Take these immediately actionable and science-based tools with you to the OR, and you’ll be ready when mistakes are inevitably made.Listen to Dr. Feldman Barrett’s talk...

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36:57

#22: Patient Communication Made Easy with Dr. Brad Block

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/12/02

Creating connections with patients can be fun and easy...if you know a few simple hacks. In this episode, otolaryngologist and veteran podcaster, Dr. Brad Block, enlightens us on how to give patients our presence simply and easily. Use these tips and you'll create relationships in which 1. patients feel seen, heard, and cared for, 2. you protect your time, and 3. you get rave reviews and explode your reputation.You'll learn:- how it's not about shaming yourself for not listening deeply enough...

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54:33

#21 Planning your Inevitable Exit with Michael...

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/11/25

Physician contract lawyer, Michael Johnson, comes on the podcast to talk about protecting your freedom and your value, and getting it in writing. First, you must get clear on what you want. You may think it’s a big paycheck, but your desires often evolve, and you do yourself a service to make room for future changes of heart. Then, make sure you understand your employer's motivations. What do they want from you? Approach the negotiation with a mindset that you are actually hiring them. You’re...

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52:22

#20 Surgeons as Performance Athletes with Author Brad...

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/11/18

Author, speaker, and coach, Brad Stulberg comes on the podcast to talk about what surgeons can learn from performance athletes. He researches and writes about mental health, mastery, meaning, and excellence. He is bestselling author of the books The Practice of Groundedness and Master of Change. He regularly contributes to the New York Times and his work has also been featured in the Atlantic and Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He is a co-founder of the Growth Equation, a newsl...

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36:05

#19 The Dreaded Postop Call: Meeting the Moment

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/11/11

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”-Viktor Frankl.This episode is all about the space between stimulus and response, circumstance and action, event and reaction. That space is an opportunity.In this podcast, I discuss what happens internally when you get the dreaded postop call, "Doctor, your patient is bleeding (or insert postop problem here)". I explore what happens in your brain...

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26:11

#18 Two Lessons on Anxiety from the TEDx Stage

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/11/04

If you get the pre-OR jitters or you deal with anxiety on a daily basis, these two lessons on anxiety will be exceptionally useful for you. As someone who has dealt with anxiety my entire life, standing on the TEDx stage was a pinnacle moment for me where my self concept evolved from someone who is terrified of public speaking to someone who can deliver a powerful speech for an audience of humans. I used two concepts to ground me in my purpose before standing on the red dot, and you can use t...

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