I chose to be a doctor when I realized that my dream of being a second baseman for the New York Yankees wasn't going to work out. My Dad was a rheumatologist and I was an EMT in college as well as a mental health worker. When you grow up in a "doctor's house", you just know you're going to be a doctor. I love having the opportunity to help people. I enjoy the interaction with patients and their families. We have a good practice and a good patient population. It's easy to go to work every day when the people you work with are also there for the right reasons. I have a very informal practice. My goal is the same as my patients - to get them back to doing what they need and like to do while spending as little time in the doctor's office as possible.