When I went to medical school and when I did my residency in internal medicine and pediatrics called Med-Peds, I knew I wanted to have sustained relationships with my patients.
I didn't quite know what it would be in, in this capacity but I'm very happy that, that I'm able to focus on this area of medicine because it does cause such morbidity in so many families.
So growing that relationship and first just helping the family understand what the diagnosis is.
So I see adult patients and I see pediatric, so little babies up to our very senior folks, I see.
And we really try to tease out with these patients, are they having a food allergy or are they having some sort of intolerance?
The ultimate reward is having your patient feel better.
And that can be as simple, not so much in food allergy, but in classic allergy, allergic rhinitis, teaching a patient how to use their nose spray better.
And then they come back to see you and they're so grateful that you've changed their life with a nose spray.
Incredibly rewarding.
But also, when it comes to these patients who have food allergies and their families who have that fear of sending their child to school and their child not coming home because they accidentally ate a peanut.
Being able to work with those families and, you can't completely alleviate that anxiety, but you can give them tools to combat it.
And you through medical approaches, can combat back that by working with that child's immune system to tolerate the food.
