Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

Pediatric heart surgery is in the scheme of medical treatments relatively young. We've only been practicing modern pediatric cardiac surgery probably for the last 30 years and over the last probably 15 years, we've really refined our outcomes.

I'm doing massive weight loss surgery. It's a long day. Those surgeries can take six, eight hours, but the transformation for me, I just feel, you know, I guess so much gratitude that I get to complete their journey. They do all the hard work, the weight loss, going through the surgery, keeping the weight off, doing the exercise, putting in all that effort. And then I get to give them the final result, which is very rewarding.

I relate to the art because of the connection to the artist. I'm not such a purist that I just look at it and piece by itself and think, oh, that's great. I think, I'll think I want that on my wall, but I have a human connection with most of the artists.