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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#17 Emotional Adulthood in Surgery

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/10/28

Becoming an emotional adult as a surgeon is essential, but it's not easy. You are working in a high-stress, high-stakes industry, and it's so much easier to act out and throw tantrums like a toddler. Perhaps that's been modeled for you in training. Perhaps you think you have to throw a fit to take good care of your patients. Well, you don't. You'll learn why a lot of adults—including surgeons—live their lives as emotional children, what it means to be an emotional adult, and how to take owner...

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#16 Reputation and Malpractice Insurance: Cultivating...

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/10/21

The best way to insulate ourselves against patient retaliation is to cultivate "know, like, and trust". But how do we do that? In this episode, I'll tell you how I used to do it right, then, in a state of burnout, I did it very wrong (2 patients complained about me to the board of medicine during that time), and now I'm creating "know, like, and trust" with everyone, "difficult" patients included. I'll teach you a simple 5 step process that will allow you to connect with anyone and every...

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#15: Sexual Assault in Training

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/10/14

**This episode discusses sensitive topics including sexual assault**Today's episode features Dr. Francis Mei Hardin, an otolaryngologist, host of "Promising Young Surgeon", and a pioneer of culture change. She interviewed me about being sexually assaulted when I was a 4th year resident. We talk about power dynamics in training, the importance of compassion and support for trainees, and how my program cared for me in my wounded state after the assault. If you have ever experienced assault or v...

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#14 Surgeon Self Concept

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/10/07

Short and sweet, I will give you ONE thought that can become the foundation of your surgeon self concept. Adopt this belief and you’ll remember why you became a surgeon in the first place. With a solid self concept, you can grow confidence, curiosity, creativity, and connection.I want to hear from you! Email me your story at mel@melthackercoaching.com or text me 262-893-0303 ❤️ www.melthackercoaching.com

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#12 Emotional Wealth Part 2: Rediscovering your Home

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/09/30

You don’t have to hunker down in a basement bunker (your "surgeon room"). You actually have the freedom to explore the rest of your beautiful home. Consider your identity a multi-room house, and you’ve merely ignored the other parts/rooms of yourself for so long that you’ve forgotten they exist. Consider detaching from your surgeon identity and reconnecting with other parts of your multifaceted self.Get your Purposeful Pre-Or Checklist here: melthackercoaching.com/orchecklistI want to hear fr...

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#11 Emotional Wealth Part 1: Training your Animal

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/09/23

The key to creating wealth is learning how to engage with and manage your emotions. Emotions are vibrational frequencies in your body. As a surgeon, you have been taught to ignore your body. That's BS. It's time to reconnect with your body and realize the power of your intuition. In this episode, I discuss how emotions are the key to unlocking your potential, how to engage with emotions as though you were engaging with a child or training an animal, and the boundless places you can go when yo...

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#11 Duality

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/09/16

Life is not all or none. Black or white. This or that. There is overlap between two contradictory sides of ourselves. When we see the world this way, we are able to accept ourselves in whatever realm we tend toward and consciously shift ourselves to the realm that best serves our goals. From the system's perspective, we should be unemotional, selfless martyrs. The truth is: we are complex, feeling, thinking, imperfect creatures. In this episode, you'll learn about the energy-sucking disadvant...

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#10 Drama to Empowerment

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/09/09

Humans love drama. But when we indulge in drama, we keep ourselves stuck in our current lived experience. In this episode, you will learn a language you can use to recognize drama in your life and a new lens through which to see the world that will help you exit the drama triangle and become empowered. You can create whatever you want in your life, and in order to do that, you have to redefine the roles of victim, villain and hero.I want to hear from you! Email me all about the drama in your ...

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Three Businesses

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/09/02

According to Byron Katie, there are three businesses: your business, other people's business, and the universe's business.Surgical complications are none of your business. They are the universe's business.What do I mean by this? NOT that you shouldn't take action to help your patients when they have a complication. You absolutely should. I say this to mean that you do not own a complication as something you intentionally caused or have full control over.We own our own business. That's where w...

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Swan Theory

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/08/26

Our training has taught us to rely on white swans and fear red swans. In this episode you'll learn why approaching your patients this way creates roadblocks, can lead to misdiagnosis and mistreatment of the patient, causes you distress, and distracts you from reality. The way to reduce medical errors, build rapport with patients, and increase efficiency is to identify the black swans--the unknown unknowns--and turn them into white swans--known knowns.White swans exist both in the real world a...

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Creating safety for YOU in the OR

Surgeons with Purpose ·

2024/08/19

We know how to create safety for patients. The processes and procedures have been shoved down our throats. Sure they are useful to keep patients safe in specific situations. But what about keeping us safe? Little does JHACO know that a surgeon who feels safe creates safety for everyone. So, surgeon, let's make your safety a priority.Viral video "I was an MIT trained neurosurgeon": https://youtu.be/25LUF8GmbFU?feature=shared"Never Split the Difference" by Chris Voss: https://www.blackswanltd.c...

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