-: What I love about cardiology is
it's a nice nexus of a lot of different things in medicine.
So we are able to incorporate the old techniques
of taking a history and physical of a patient
with new technology like different kinds of imaging
and also hands on procedures.
I think the biggest challenge in medicine in general
is that it's a really long road.
So it's not like you're right out of college
and get your first job.
You have to put in a lot of of time,
invest a lot of effort.
Residency is a lot of long hours
and a lot of hard work so you have to have
the patience and ability to see long into your future
to get that long term reward.
So it definitely is hard
because you have a relatively limited time
to speak with patients and get good ideas out.
What's really nice about the clinic
is they're very flexible in that.
So they do allot a little bit more time
so you can go into more in depth detailed interviews
with these people but as a practitioner of medicine
you have to get very good at kind of
keying in on things that people are saying
so that you can hone in on,
maybe they said something that just caught your attention
and they may not have mentioned directly
but oh, that's a hint of something that's bothering them
with their heart and I'll pick up on that
and be able to have that drive the interview
a little bit more.