I don't even think I've ever asked you, like, what brought you into medicine and then especially into esophageal disorders.

Sure.

So, uh, well, I, I've always just really enjoyed helping people.

Of course, that's a very cliched term, but it's more about educating them because I feel when patients know more, they feel empowered to be able to, you know, follow medical directions or, or recommendations and, um, they just feel like they have more control over what they're doing to help themselves get better.

So when I can educate patients in the clinic visit, uh, it, you know...

I, I, I like to think that they walk away, you know, feeling like they, they can be part of that solution.

Uh, in terms of why did I choose GI, that's a, you know...

Yes