 My name is John Kerner, an orthopedic spine surgeon here at Orthopedic Specialists of New Jersey, and I work at Hacketech Meridian Health. Orthopedic surgery is very rewarding. Most of the time you see patients that have specific injuries, and you're able to help them in a relatively quick manner. There's a lot of things that can cause neck and back pain and finding out what's causing it is a challenge sometimes. And I enjoy that challenge. I enjoy finding what is causing pain and difficulty and being able to fix that. And it's very rewarding getting people back to their lifestyle without pain and they're usually very happy. Personal care philosophy is treating every patient individually. Every patient is different as far as what their experience is, what they're dealing with in their personal lives, how the injury or pathology is affecting them. And it's really important to me to try to understand that. Not every patient is looking for the same thing. So trying to understand that really helps develop that relationship, not just importing on what you necessarily think is always best for them, but really listening to their ideas too. When you kind of understand where the patient's coming from, you really can make them better a lot faster.