I wanted to be a pediatrician,
basically my whole life. So if
you go back and read my second
grade who I'm going to be, you
would read "I'm going to be a
pediatrician." I like the idea
of having continuity with
patients. It wasn't until
medical school, actually,
that I started to realize that
obstetrics also had a lot of
that personal touch. So although
in my field you don't get a
long-term continuity, you really
make a lasting connection that
can happen over the course of
the pregnancy. I like to look
at it as being an expert in this
field, but more importantly, an
educator for these families and
really try to-- again--set them
up for as much success as we can
get them and hopefully in
the long-run get as good of an
outcome as we can. As a surgeon,
I think the most important thing
you can do is be humble. Not
only do you have a mom, but you
have a fetus, so you're really
taking care of two patients.
Understanding the complexity of
the situation, respecting this
is what I'm doing, this is what
I need to do, I think you can
get confidence within that.
I think it's important as a
surgeon to be confident but not
to be over confident. You want
to really be focused on
every procedure that you do and
everybody that you work with. 
