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Hello, my name is Robert Buchanan.

I'm both a psychiatrist and I'm also the Chief Neurosurgeon here.

Coming to see me they will get my time, and my energy, and my effort.

Aside from being a neurosurgeon and a physiatrist, I also was privileged to be asked by Pope

Benedict to serve on the Vatican's bioethics academy which is called the Pontifical Academy

for Life.

So Pope Benedict named me to this academy, I'm only one of 10 Americans and 120 members

worldwide, and luckily Pope Francis has renewed my appointment in the Academy.

The Academy is the worldwide bioethics academy for the Vatican.

So that's the kind of doctor you'd come and see.

I'm worried about their health, both mind and body, and I'm also worried about their

spiritual well-being.

So I think that's the difference of coming to see a psychiatrist, neurosurgeon, pontifical

academician, is that I try to see the person in 360 degrees.

The most rewarding part of the job is making people feel better, helping people get well.

That doesn't always mean physically, in neurosurgery especially, we deal with some very terrible

diseases that we can't cure, yet.

But if you have one of these diseases, we try to make you as well as we can, we try

to shepherd you along the way and that's part of being a physician as well.

So whether we can cure you of your disease, which is always the goal.

If we can't, then we can at least accompany you along the pathway of this illness.

For more infomation >> Meet Robert Buchanan, MD, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:14.

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Meet Ramsey Ashour, MD, Neurosurgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:19.

My name is Ramsey Ashour.

I'm a neurosurgeon specializing in cerebral vascular and skull-based tumor surgery.

I went into health care because I really want to help people.

I became really interested in the brain and neuroscience, and I found that the patients

who were affected with neurological disorders stood to lose a lot if they didn't get excellent

care.

And I really felt that it was a challenging field that gave you the sense to make a real

impact in people's lives.

So it was sort of the combination of interested in the brain and neuroscience, and seeing

an opportunity to help people who had very serious problems.

For potential patients who are, who I'm seeing, I'd like them to know that I'm very patient,

and I will take my time with them and explain everything we're planning.

A lot of times in neurosurgery, people get focused about the operation and I tell the

patients that the talking about it before and afterwards is just as important.

So patients can be sure that I'm gonna sit down, I'm gonna take my time, and I'm gonna

make sure that they understand everything that we're getting into before we embark upon

an operation.

And sometimes I'm talking them out of an operation, so we don't need to operate on everybody.

But just being able to give the information across is very important to me, so patients

can be assured that I will sit down and take time with them to go over all of these things.

In terms of hobbies, I'm a father of three, and so I'm a dedicated husband and very much

enjoy spending time with the children and we go biking, we go hiking, we go swimming,

we go out to eat.

We like to go to the beach.

So we're very physically active with the kids, going hiking.

And I think that's very important.

Our work is very demanding in terms of its time, so very much when I'm in the office

and when I'm operating, I'm 100% there.

And when I'm at home, I really have to make that quality time.

'Cause it's very precious to me, and I appreciate that given my line of work.

For more infomation >> Meet Ramsey Ashour, MD, Neurosurgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:19.

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Meet Christina Daigrepont, DO, Orthopedic Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:08.

My name is Christina Daigrepont, and I perform orthopedic surgery.

I chose to go into healthcare as a child, actually.

I wanted to be a doctor ever since second grade.

I chose to go into orthopedic surgery, because I injured my knee in high school.

I thought he had a really cool job.

That's how I ended up here.

I form a relationship with my patients by just sitting down and talking with them.

I sit down next to them.

Talk to them.

Find out what they do for a living, what they enjoy, and end up seeing my patients over

and over.

I have several patients I've seen for years, and know things about their family.

I really enjoy what I do.

I love my job.

I love everything about it, other than the late nights, sometimes.

I love doing surgery.

I love helping people.

I love that surgery is usually instant gratification in my field, and that we just make people's

lives better.

I really enjoy that part.

People should choose to come to our practice, because I think you'll find it's a friendly

feel.

It's a very nurturing practice.

I listen very well to my patients, and try to cater to their needs, not necessarily just

cookbook, "This is what you need because you have this problem."

I think they would find that our office staff is very friendly.

We're all a big family there.

I have five children.

Four of them are boys.

That's my weekend, pretty much.

I like to exercise when I have time.

I like to be active with my kids.

That's pretty much what I do all, every evening and every weekend.

For more infomation >> Meet Christina Daigrepont, DO, Orthopedic Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:08.

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Meet Akbar Hussaini, MD, MS, FAAOS, Orthopedic Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:01.

Hi, My name is Akbar Hussaini.

I'm an orthopedic surgeon.

I chose medicine because it allowed me to take care of people and do things that I love.

I initially started in high school, wanting to be an architect, and then broke my ankle

and ended up in orthopedic surgeon's office, and then I realized there's human architecture,

human ensuring that I kinda of enjoy better.

So that led me into orthopedics.

I think caring for patients involves earning their trust.

I think it also involves having expertise in your matter.

So bringing the expertise that I have, the knowledge, the surgical skills that I bring

is important, but also giving the patient the opportunity to describe their symptoms

and listening to them really is an important part of their care.

There's many a time patients come to my office seeking surgical care, and when we sit down

and spend time, they realize that non-operative care may be the best treatment for them.

And I am a proponent of seeking non-operative care first, and if those things fail, then

we seek surgical care.

I'm in Austin with my wife who's a physician, and our two little girls.

I can't call them little because they seem to be aging leaps and bounds every time I

look around.

So every free time I get, or we get, we try to spend with them.

So being a father is a big responsibility.

So in the office, I feel like I'm educator.

When I get home, I'm definitely an educator, whether it's math homework or going over science.

So those are times we spent together as family and vacationing.

For more infomation >> Meet Akbar Hussaini, MD, MS, FAAOS, Orthopedic Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:01.

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Meet Nilda Garcia, MD, Pediatric Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 1:57.

Hello, my name is Nilda Garcia.

I'm a pediatric surgeon.

I grew up in South Texas, and one of the people I most admired in our small community was

the doctor, in the city, in the small city.

I remember growing up telling my parents I want to do that, and my parents were immigrants,

and they very much encouraged me and said, "Absolutely, you can do that.

You can be a doctor."

That's sort of how I ended up in medicine, in my opinion, it was something that I admired

somebody in my city, I like to take care of people, and it was sort of a tie between what

I liked, science, and taking care of people.

It was perfect, so that's how I ended up in medicine.

The way I build a relationship with a parent, in my opinion the way you do that is I put

myself in that parent's situation.

What I do is, I talk to the parents like I would like someone to speak to me and tell

me exactly what they're thinking, what the potential problems are, what are the benefits,

and what is my child about to go through, and actually sometimes even what is the family

about to go through.

The most rewarding thing I think is when I make a family feel comfortable with sometimes

very intense news.

I like when the family feels that I'm a part of their team and that we can do this together.

I have a son who actually just became an Eagle Scout, and I'm very proud of that.

Besides my family, my other hobby is I am into gardening, and I have bonsai trees.

That's sort of my little thing, I'm part of the Austin Bonsai Society.

For more infomation >> Meet Nilda Garcia, MD, Pediatric Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 1:57.

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Meet James Stuart Wolf Jr., MD, FACS, Urology | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:07.

Hello.

My name is James Stuart Wolf.

I'm a urologist.

I went into healthcare initially, because I was attracted to the science of medical

care.

And that's certainly very important still, but I quickly learned that, that's not the

most important part.

The most important part of medical care is partnering with the patient.

What I would like a patient to know when they come into my practice and hopefully is affirmed

when they are in my practice and by the time they've left, is that I really care about

making the best decision possible for them and that I'm all-in for doing what's right

for them.

I don't always agree with the decisions my patients make.

They wouldn't necessarily be the same ones that I would make, but my job is to present

the best information possible to the patient, help them understand what is important in

their particular situation, and make the best decision for them.

Frankly, that's half the battle in trying to get a good outcome, is to make the right

decision from the get-go.

I'm in my mid-50s.

I moved to Austin in mid-2016 and set up practice then.

I came here to join the new medical school at Dell Medical School of the University of

Texas at Austin.

So, I spend a lot of my time there, outside of my clinical practice.

My wife and I live downtown.

We have six children.

We are now empty nesters and that's one of the reasons that we're here, is to enjoy this

wonderful city of Austin.

For more infomation >> Meet James Stuart Wolf Jr., MD, FACS, Urology | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:07.

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Meet Kayla Sellers, FNP-C, Family Medicine | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:19.

Hi.

I'm Kayla Sellers, and I am a family nurse practitioner, and I practice in a family medicine

and integrative medicine clinic.

I've always been really fascinated by the way that the body works, and just science,

and I really enjoy caring for people and so nursing was a really natural fit for me.

And my first job as a nurse was in an intensive care unit with critically ill patients, and

I just saw a lot of people who were really sick with conditions that could be prevented

in primary care.

And so, that was where I really first developed a desire to go into family practice and help

patients prevent these conditions, and ultimately stay healthy for longer, and be able to do

the things that they want to do that are important to them.

I think what I would want my patients to know about me is, that I think of the patient-provider

relationship as more of a partnership, and so I like to partner with my patients to find

what works for them.

It doesn't make any sense for me to prescribe something if they can't take it, or they don't

want to take a medication, and I also really like to do teaching.

And so I like for my patients to know why I'm making the recommendations that I'm making

and the reasoning behind that, so that does bring them into their own care.

And they get to have a say-so and be part of the decision-making process.

I love primary care.

You get to see patients of all ages.

I get to see kids, young adults, geriatrics.

You get to see people in all walks of life who have different ways of thinking, and so

you just never know what you're going to run into in a day at work, and I love that.

I just think it's really fun.

I like to travel.

I've traveled internationally before.

I'm traveling more in the states now, and I like to try the different places to eat

around Austin.

So, you can usually find me out at a restaurant.

For more infomation >> Meet Kayla Sellers, FNP-C, Family Medicine | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:19.

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Texas Mother To Force Healthy 6-Yr-Old Son To Undergo Chemical Castration - Duration: 4:39.

For more infomation >> Texas Mother To Force Healthy 6-Yr-Old Son To Undergo Chemical Castration - Duration: 4:39.

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Meet Patrick Kelley, MD, Plastic Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:20.

Hello, my name is Patrick Kelley.

I'm a craniofacial surgeon.

I went into healthcare, essentially to help people out that were ailing from different

disease entities.

My brother had leukemia when he was a kid.

We spent a lot of time around hospitals and doctors and things like that.

It was a familiar environment to me.

Interesting though, I didn't really go to college thinking that I wanted to go to medical

school, but somehow I kinda find biology and end up taking one of the classes.

I had the serendipitous event of meeting one of my brother's doctors at a charity event.

He recruited me to come do some research and I did that, one thing led to another and I

got into medical school.

Plastic surgery, I've always been someone that likes to fix things, from my mom's toaster

to lawn mowers and stuff like that.

I think surgery kinda jogged really well with the knack for the inclination to fix things.

We have four children, one of them plays football for UCLA.

One of them plays football and basketball for West Lake as a junior.

Then, I have a thirteen year old that's a tumbler and an eleven year old that's in elementary.

So I have one in college, high school, junior high and elementary.

So it's a busy time.

I like to work really hard and I like to play pretty hard, so I do a lot of wakeboarding,

a lot of crazy jumping on the trampoline with my tumbler, heli-ski and do a lot of things

like that.

I like to hunt and fish.

We like to play pretty hard, keep pretty busy.

For more infomation >> Meet Patrick Kelley, MD, Plastic Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:20.

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Meet Jessica Naiditch, MD, Pediatric Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:21.

Hi, my name is Jessica Naiditch and I'm a pediatric surgeon.

I went into healthcare because I had primarily an interest in biology.

And then, when I was trying to figure out what to do with that, I did some shadowing

as an undergraduate in the hospital.

And I saw what doctors did and how they interacted with patients, and that's what really pulled

me in to medicine.

I chose pediatrics because I love kids, I've always really enjoyed working them.

There's something about taking care of children that just make you want to go the extra mile.

What I'd like the potential patient or parent to know about me that I, myself, am a mother,

I have children of my own and I can see things from their perspective.

I empathize, I think, with parents better because I've gone through all of that.

In trying to build relationships with the parents, I often do reference the fact that

I'm also a parent.

I bring that up often, especially when they're struggling with a decision, they're trying

to figure out, do I do this or that.

I tell them I'm a parent too, I know where you're coming from and I think that helps

them know that I'm understanding their perspective and going through the same decision with them.

Parents should choose Dell Children's because Dell Children's has been invested in this

community for years.

It hasn't always had the name Dell Children's but we've been around, this organization has

been around and been here for the community for years.

And we have top specialist here in everything that I can think of that I might need for

a child.

On the weekends, I spend most of my time with my kids.

They love doing crafts and baking, they love baking.

And then, other than that, I'm a big yoga fan.

For more infomation >> Meet Jessica Naiditch, MD, Pediatric Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:21.

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Meet Anuradha Rangarajan, MD, Family Medicine | Ascension Texas - Duration: 1:52.

Hello, my name is Dr. Anuradha Rangarajan and I'm a family practice physician with Seton.

I decided to go into healthcare because I was looking for a career that included some

amount of science along with the ability to give back to the community.

And I was looking for a people oriented field where I could interact with people.

I choose family practice because I was looking to treat patients of different ages.

I love taking care of kids and young families, but at the same time I also really enjoy my

older patients.

They bring a wealth of knowledge and wisdom, and in all of my interactions with them I've

really enjoyed and learned a lot.

My approach to medicine, whether it's family practice or any other field of medicine, is

that the patient should be an active participant in their care.

I feel as though I should bring my training and expertise so that I can help navigate

them to make the correct decisions, but it still has to be a combined decision.

It's between the patient and the provider, and they get better care when both people

are involved.

Besides practicing medicine, I spend a lot of time with my family.

I have two high school aged daughters and we travel a lot.

We cook, I love to read and my husband and I walk a lot of trails in the North Austin

area.

For more infomation >> Meet Anuradha Rangarajan, MD, Family Medicine | Ascension Texas - Duration: 1:52.

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Meet Marisol Fernandez, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:17.

Hello.

My name is Marisol Fernandez.

I'm a Pediatric Infectious Disease Physician.

I went into healthcare after being brought up in a middle class family in an underdeveloping

country.

Being there have to be there to help out with the family to helping the housing outside

the house.

Then growing up with the idea, "education is what is gonna be left to you."

I had that passion for service and to help others as much as possible.

To build a relationship with the parents of our patients that is a big portion of our

job is patience.

I think dedicating time.

We all like to be heard and to have for physician to sit down and listen to what we have to

say as a parent.

Try to be on the other side as a physician and offer that opportunity to the parents

and form that bond.

'Cause parents actively contribute to the health of the child.

We see it all the time how much better it is when parents are actively participating.

When they bring ideas into the visit.

When they have read about what they think is wrong with their child and to have that

open conversation with them is absolutely wonderful.

Hobbies and what I like to do when I'm not at work is family time.

I mean family, it's the core of who we are.

I have now two 18 year olds are home ready to move onto college so it's even more important

for me to get home, and to bond, and to have time, and to spend time, and to travel with

them, and to go places with them and inform that sharing and hopefully will be ongoing

as we move on.

For more infomation >> Meet Marisol Fernandez, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:17.

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Meet Dianna Yip, DO, Pediatric Palliative Medicine | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:21.

I'm Dianna Yip and I'm a pediatric palliative care physician.

I chose to go into healthcare because I really enjoy medicine and science and art, and I

thought medicine was a good way to really bring those together.

So it's always been something that's interested me.

But I knew I wasn't really built of the lab, so after I finished schooling and stuff, it

just made sense to go into medicine.

The reason I really went into palliative care was, there's a lot of extremely sick children

who have a lot of chronic illnesses, and for me what's most important, beyond prescribing

medications, is really listening to a story.

And a lot of these patients have so much to give you.

And that's how you actually learn so much from them is to be able to sit down and listen

to them.

And so palliative care is, yeah there's a lot of medications to help the symptom and

pain and other issues, but it's really about sitting down with that family and understanding

where they came from, where are they going, what are their goals and their hopes for their

child, and how can we as a medical community get them there.

I originally chose pediatrics because I really enjoy working with children.

They are delightful.

Any time I've had a really bad day, just working with a child really brings a smile to your

face.

I really enjoy yoga.

That's one of my biggest things that I've done for seven years now, which it's still

... It just brings me a lot of peace and calmness.

And sometimes they're challenging and I enjoy the physical challenges.

But another thing that I actually really enjoy doing is ballroom dancing with my significant

other.

And so we've been doing that together for several years now.

And so that's kind of something you can find me doing as well.

For more infomation >> Meet Dianna Yip, DO, Pediatric Palliative Medicine | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:21.

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Meet E. Charles Osterberg III, MD, Reconstructive Urology | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:12.

Hello, my name is Charles Osterberg, I'm a reconstructive urologist as well as the assistant

professor of surgery at Dell Medical School.

So for me, healthcare was really about helping people at the end of the day.

Unfortunately, my father actually had both prostate cancer and bladder cancer.

Seeing him go through this at a very early age, I quickly realized that urology was the

specialty for me.

Seeing kind of the impact that a cancer diagnosis makes on a close family member, a parent for

that matter, could very easily influence one's decision, as it did in my case.

Day in and day out I have the opportunity to help patients with their cancer diagnosis

and/or other reconstruction problems and this is very rewarding for me.

Well, my treatment philosophy is obviously putting patients first.

And what that means is a patient and I will come to a mutual decision about what their

best care treatment plan will be.

In order to arrive at that decision, I have to listen to them and take into account what

is unique about their particular goals.

So communication and putting the patient first is at the foremost center of my surgical experience

and care.

Most rewarding about my job is the day to day interactions with patients.

Seeing patients get better from whatever condition that they are coming in with is extremely

rewarding.

Specifically in the field that I focus on, within male reconstruction, we treat patients

for a whole host of quality of life issues.

And what I tend to focus on is how can we get that individual back to where they were

prior to their injury, prior to their cancer diagnosis.

And in doing so, if the patient ultimately does achieve that sense of normalcy again,

that I find is extremely rewarding.

For more infomation >> Meet E. Charles Osterberg III, MD, Reconstructive Urology | Ascension Texas - Duration: 2:12.

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Meet Patrick Combs, MD, Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery | Ascension Texas - Duration: 1:57.

My name is Patrick Combs.

I am a pediatric plastic and craniofacial surgeon here.

Every hospital has its own feeling.

Dell Children's is a collaborative community where everybody works together, everybody

likes each other which is very important, everybody gets along and works together towards

a common goal.

It's a very, very comfortable and healthy place to work, which I think translates to

physicians and other providers being able to easily and freely converse with each other.

I have the cellphone number of almost everybody on staff and we talk to each other very frequently

about patients.

So, it's that kind of environment.

Listening and making sure that you address all the questions that a parent or a family

has is really critical and really important.

Often times during the first consultation you say what the diagnosis is and it can get

a little bit confusing and overwhelming.

So, we encourage families to write things down and then either give us a call or come

back and ask any questions that they have.

I think the most important thing is that it is a team event.

The family needs to understand everything and they need to come together and collaborate

and have a course of action that makes sense for them, guided by me of course, but with

them knowing as much as they can.

I encourage them to look things up outside of the office and ask me as many questions

as they can and I want everybody to be very clear on what all of the options are for us

to kind of make a decision together.