 My name is Nicholas Jarman. I'm an orthopedic surgeon at Jersey Shore University Medical Center and my specialty is shoulder reconstruction. One of the reasons I chose orthopedic surgeons because I always enjoyed working with my hands and building things and it was nice to see that you in kind of short order see really tangible results in your patients. As a physician my personal care philosophy is really getting the patient to understand what their problem is and what their options are. I think the way to best help a patient navigate through their care journey is really explaining all the options to them and giving them realistic expectations about what they can get from each option and also giving them a realistic expectation of what the post-operative care will look like to get to their final outcome. One of the nice things about my specialty and practice is that although it seems narrow in scope and that it's just shoulder, it's actually a pretty broad spectrum of patients. We can take care of anyone from children to young athletes to the middle-aged population as they go through rotator cuff tears and then the more elderly population as they go on to develop arthritis. The professional treatment I'm most proud of is coming back to the community that I grew up in and being able to grow a shoulder reconstruction practice and really offer a level of care in the community that otherwise wouldn't have been there.