Surgeon on the Edge
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.02.2026
Verlag
Hippocratic PressSeitenzahl
270
Maße (L/B/H)
20,3/13,3/1,7 cm
Gewicht
344 g
Farbe
Schwarz / Terracotta
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798992233964
Surgeon on the Edge is a literary memoir about the cost of becoming a surgeon and the even greater cost of leaving. Frances Mei Hardin, MD-a former ENT surgeon turned writer and entrepreneur-invites readers into the interior life of modern medical training: the devotion, the brutality, the prestige, and the quiet unraveling that happens when a person learns to outrun their own limits for too long. Rather than follow a traditional hero's journey, the memoir unfolds as a katabasis-a descent into the underworld of residency and the long, uneven climb back to herself. Structured through the hypnosis sessions she pursued as an attending, the book returns to the moments she could not fully inhabit at the time: the operating rooms and call nights that demanded more than she had, the subtle dissociation that became a survival strategy, and the exquisite competence that masked a life growing increasingly narrow and airless. Hardin writes with the precision of a surgeon and the emotional clarity of a novelist, dissecting the hidden curriculum of medical culture: the shame around vulnerability, the cult of endurance, the performance of invincibility, and the way ambition can silently harden into identity. As she traces her journey toward stepping away from the profession she fought a decade to enter, she asks the question that sits at the center of so many high-achieving lives: Who am I when the work that once defined me no longer fits? Surgeon on the Edge is not simply a story about medicine. It is a story about embodiment, reinvention, and the courage to stop living a life out of alignment with oneself. It speaks to anyone wrestling with burnout, trapped in a role they have outgrown, or navigating the quiet grief of realizing that success does not always feel like freedom. Unflinching, elegant, and deeply human, Surgeon on the Edge is an autopsy and a reclamation: a story of breaking, returning, and choosing a life that finally feels like your own.
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