 My name is Mark Cage, and I'm an associate professor of orthopedics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and I am an orthopedic surgeon at the R. Adams-Cowley-Shuck Trauma Center. My specialty is orthopedic trauma, so I take care of patients that have had fractures. I take care of patients that have extremely injuries to their arms, legs, and pelvis. The spectrum of injuries I take care of are everything as maybe simple as an ankle sprain to really bad fractures from bad car accidents or motorcycle accidents. In addition to taking care of patients that have acute injuries where I work at shock trauma, I also take care of patients that have had injuries in the past. So fractures that have taken place in the past that maybe didn't heal or healed incorrectly. Patients sometimes can develop things like leg length discrepancies, or they develop arthritis from trauma, or they can develop infections after their fractures, and so I take care of a variety of different problems as it relates to fracture down the line. There is something really disabling about musculoskeletal injuries, and there's something really gratifying of the restorative function for patients. Much of my academic interest and research interest is actually centered around what's important to the patient and how patients' goals can sometimes differ from clinicians' goals. There should be shared decision-making with patients, and so my goal is to make sure that I'm giving the patient the best option to have the best outcome, but also one that they feel like is going to give them the best chance for success in their individually and for their family. The best part of what I do is that patients come to us, particularly when in acute trauma, on their worst day, and we're able to help them immediately and oftentimes get them back to right where they were before their injury, and for me that's probably a pretty gratifying thing.