An inside interview with LocateADoc.com
Describe the most rewarding experience that you have had working with a patient?
After acheiving the look a patient desires, their new smile that reveals their new self confidences and says thank you in way words cannot capture. This is the biggest reward I ever receive. Seeing patients achieve a new level of self confidience through empathetic listening and compassionate care is the most rewarding aspect of being a physician.
What is your charity organization of choice and why?
Physicians for Peace. It is so important to give back to those around us. The Waldorf School and the American River Charity. Our local community needs us all to care for it.
What does living in the Sacramento community mean to you?
A wonderful quality of life with a fantastic community and people. A vibrant city, great outdoors activities, happy healthy people, and sun shine.
What is your favorite quote or saying?
To handle yourself use your head to handle others use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Compassionate Emptiness...
I dream of things that are not and ask why not. Robert F. Kennedy
People who feel good about themselves produce good results -Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
What makes your specialties the right fields of medicine for you?
Being able to enhance the quality of life for someone is a gift that needs to be shared. I am so excited to see how I might be able to be a part of someones transformation.
Finish this sentence: If I weren't a doctor I would be___.
A fly fishing guide
When (your age) did you first realize you wanted to become a surgeon? And did you experience anything in particular to motivate you to achieve this prestigious goal?
I went to medical school to become a doctor like the one that made house calls for our family growing up on a small island. In medical school and residency as I was pulled towards the enhancement of life. My favorite quote for this is "If there were no praise or criticism in the world then who would you be?" I answer a Caring Compassionate Plastic Surgeon.
Can you tell us in your own words what you consider a perfect outcome of a surgical procedure?
A satisfied happy patient whose expectations were exceeded.
What is your favorite procedure to perform and why?
I have no favorite procedure however I enjoy a holistic approach to the body and face and am excited about facial harmony seen with an exceptional rhinoplasty or a complete facelift. I also enjoy combining breast and abdominal enhancement because they offer such a dramatic improvement.
What procedure would you like to do more of and why?
Rhinoplasties as they offer such rewarding changes. A close second is facial rejuvenation and breast enhancment.
In a perfect world, when would you like to retire, where would you go and what would you do?
I would be with family and friends fishing, boating or riding bikes somewhere on the west coast.
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