This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the show he is let me get your exact your

exact title so that we can be,

okay, he is a vascular interventional radiologist

at Houston Fibroids.

Let me welcome to the show Dr. Eric Hardy.

Hi. Hi. Hi Eric Hardy.

Dr Eric Hardy. Did your family start the Hardies franchise? Is that in your family start the Hardee's flant franchise?

Is that in your family?

No, they did not.

It was a, actually one of my great, great grand

relatives was a general in the Civil War and the guy was

I don't remember the guy who started the franchise he actually taught at West Point the

guy who started the franchise was a Civil War historian, and so he named it after him. There was no relation to him whatsoever. So, okay, my did not start it. Try to get free food when I was a kid though, but never was able to.

So show them your ID. This is my family's restaurant. All right. How did you get into the

fibroid area? You know, you have so many different disciplines you could have gone into why why this area?

Well my specialty does minimally invasive procedures like angiograms where we treat disease by inserting catheters into the body, doing angioplasty, things like that.

And I started doing uterine fibromybitalization approximately 20 years ago and just was drawn to it because the procedure itself was

technically very challenging and I saw a need for it because it's a it's a

procedure that we do that treats uteroid symptoms without surgeries.

Because before this procedure was invented basically, women's only option was to have major surgery,

his directomy where you remove the entire uterus and this procedure came in as an alternative

to getting rid of symptoms that are caused by fibroids without having to have surgery.

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