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>> Diana Curran: Well, so, you know, when you do your first two years of medical school,
there's a lot of memorizing and books and no people really, and my first rotation
in my third year was obstetrics and gynecology.
I loved it.
I just loved the variety.
I loved the families and the babies and that you could do surgery and well women care
and just all this different things that I could and you can impact
on somebody's life, but I thought no, no.
I must love it because it's my first clinical rotation.
So every rotation I sort of tried it on and what I liked about it, what I didn't like about it,
and I just kept coming back to obstetrics and gynecology, and one of the beautiful things
about it is you get to take care of families.
You take care of mothers and sisters and grandmothers
and aunts, and it's a real privilege.
It's really nice.
And I always try to make my patients my partners in their care.
Somebody may come to me and say I want surgery for something, and after talking to them
and examining them I might find that, you know, that's not the right answer for them.
Maybe physical therapy would be better or some other intervention that would be less invasive.
I actually love surgery, but it doesn't mean
that that's what I suggest to people all the time.
I think there are lots of different solutions, and I try to work with my patients
as to what's best for them in the long term and in the short term.
I take to heart what their problems are and really try to find the best solutions for them,
whether it's, you know, an intervention or not or whether it's just something as simple
as getting, taking some time for yourself since a lot of women don't take enough time
for themselves and take care of themselves.