Kenneth A Samet

Not at all.

And I was very fortunate in my, my early days at Maryland, um, there were gentlemen, uh, Tom Mullen, who, uh, was the vice president of finance at the time, who later went on to be the CEO of Mercy Hospital here in Baltimore.

Uh, a gentleman by the name of Jerry Bowen, who was the, uh, controller, uh, there at, um, University of Maryland Hospital, really, um, you know, had an open door for me to ask questions.

And, and they said to me constantly, "Brad, it is okay to raise your hand and ask questions." And, you know, one of the things that I use today, Greg, that I tell particularly, uh, young people coming up was, um, you know, "Have you ever seen the movie Big?" And of course, you know, with today's generation, some of them are like, "Big, what, what is that?" I said, "Well, it's a-"

In today's world of mergers and acquisitions of companies, departments, and things of that nature, going through a massive change like this, how did you do that? What did you do to bring everybody under one culture and get them all rowing in the same direction, to use a lack of a better word?

Yeah.

So, um, as you mentioned in the, in the opening, uh, in 2015, um, our CEO, Ken Samet, also asked me to run Good Samaritan Hospital.

Um, for those, uh, on the podcast, uh, Union Memorial and Good Samaritan Hospital are 3.2 miles apart [laughs] uh, in, in northern Baltimore, uh, city, and were two of the original hospitals of the health system.