 Hi I'm George Batsides. I'm the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center. I'd always had an interest in medicine as a child and in growing up that coupled with heart disease in the family it seemed like a natural progression. I was someone that always liked to work with my hands. To me the two things medicine and surgery matched perfectly and cardiac surgery was just the ultimate goal for me. My personal care philosophy as a physician is to be extremely open and honest and transparent with the patient. So I also like to educate my patients as well and that's part of the transparency. You know I'll sit with my patients and literally draw them a picture of the heart and the aorta almost in a cartoon fashion so they can understand what I'm doing with the bypasses. What does a bypass graft mean? What does an aneurysm look like? What does it mean to take out the aneurysm? I think that takes the fear out from them and you know it's a fearful time for a patient to come in and hear he or she has to have heart surgery. But once you just kind of give them the basics that this is what we do, this is what the problem is and this is what we can do to fix it, I think it makes it easier for the patient. So for my philosophy is be open, explain to them what they need done, giving them time then to sit there and ask any question they want. I've been in the situation with my own family members where you know it's hard to process it so you have to take a step back and just allow the patient to process it and then come back with questions and listen to their questions.