Donald Macfarlane, Md, Phd

both my parents were doctors so it was a pretty natural choices. I don't think I was ever interested in anything other than being a physician. My sort of unique specialty is really blood clotting both because theres too much clotting causing thrombosis or breeding causing hemophilia I think the real key to this is people and that my nurses my various medical assistance are super we don't just give the attitude that we care about each individual patient in fact we do care about each individual patient I really feel challenged by patients who are very sick. Those are the patients I want to look after and those are the patients I wanna make while. We can devote much more time much more energy to very difficult cases the other huge advantage of the university is you've got an aggregate of so many competent physicians really good pathologist really good people reading X-rays really good performance of testing I got surgeons working beside me I've got urologists and Gynecologists pulmonary talks liver docs kidney doc skin people neurologists I'm surrounded by experts and I can call on them for the expertise and they'll respond to me very rapidly what a great joy is when patients come in scared we make a definitive diagnosis or something that doesn't matter that they are not gonna die of their disease and they just gonna take make minor adjustments and get back get back to their lives again