Dr. Frances Mei Hardin is a head and neck surgeon providing high-quality care in rural Tennessee. She is passionate about physician wellness and medical education; as the founder of Rethinking Residency, she has created resources for resident physicians to find solidarity during training as well as a host of tools to be their most effective at work. In the physician-writer tradition, she has written for magazines and online editorials, in addition to the materials on Rethinking Residency.
What Happens When Medicine Stops Being the Most Important Thing in Your Life?
For physicians, allowing medicine to move down the list can feel strangely like failure. Perhaps that says something about the profession we were trained to enter.
