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>> I didn't really have much exposure to medicine as a child.
I don't really have any family members who are physicians other
than another urologist who's my uncle.
But I always thought of urology as this field that my uncle did
that was gross and dealt with pee.
It wasn't really appealing.
So I never thought that I would want to go into that.
But then once I attended medical school, I rotated on urology and found
that it was really a great field, very interesting.
And the passion has been lit ever since.
I choose not to wear my white coat in clinic that often because I find that, in the past,
kids have been a little intimidated by the presence of the white coat.
I noticed that many of my general pediatrics colleagues don't wear a white coat.
And, in the medical field, we have this condition called white coat hypertension,
which means your blood pressure goes up when you see a white coat.
So there is a reaction to it.
And I want to be able to relate to my patients better.
I don't want them to be intimidated by me.
I don't want them to think that I'm here to hurt them.
I'm here to help them.
So that's the reason that I choose not to wear my white coat in clinic.