From Trauma Surgeon to Healing : ...
From Trauma Surgeon to Healing : Jeremy Heffner | Ep.105
The Inner Circle On Air by Mike Cormier
S1 · E105
Aug 3, 2026
01:25:40
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When a Trauma Surgeon Meets AI: Dr. Jeremy Heffner on PTSD, Healing, and the Machines That Might Be Manipulating us. In this powerful and unflinching episode, I sit down with Dr. Jeremy Heffner — fellowship-trained trauma surgeon, bioengineer, co-founder of SoMeDocs (the world's largest social media platform for surgeons), and author of the forthcoming book Proof of the Impossible. Jeremy takes us behind the closed doors of a hospital during COVID-19, sharing the impossible decisions frontline surgeons faced when there were no tests, no PPE, and no answers — only pressure. From there, he opens up about the slow collapse that followed: the emotional "black hole," the buried memories that resurfaced through EMDR therapy, and the night he checked himself into residential treatment after decades of saving other people's lives. But this convers ... 

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