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My name is Dmitri Gelfand.
I am one of vascular surgeons with the Sutter Medical Group,
working with the Sutter Medical Foundation at the
Roseville Medical Center.
I was born in Russia.
And I grew up in a small town in the
southern part of Russia.
My family, almost everybody was working in medicine.
My father was a urologist.
My mother was a neurologist.
And my sister and my cousins, everybody was in medicine.
So I had exposure to medical field very early on in life.
And I was always interested in all the
different aspects of medicine.
I used to read the medical textbooks when I was--
I don't know--
8, 9, 10.
Later on when the time came to decide where to go after the
high school, I decided to apply to medical school.
There is limited opportunities in Russia.
And no matter how good a doctor you are--
you know.
In a big part, your success is not related to not your
ability but who do you know and things like that.
The United States is different in that way.
And I do believe in the American dream.
And this is still a land of opportunity.
And if you work hard and go to school, you can accomplish
pretty much anything you want.
Things I like about vascular surgery have to do with the
complete care for the patient.
Unlike some other specialties that concentrate on perhaps
the procedural aspects or the other ones that concentrate
only on the medical aspect of the disease, vascular surgery
looks at the patient has a whole.
There are parts of it that deal with a medical
management, and sometimes even lifestyle modification,
exercise, smoking cessation.
And then, the big part of surgery
also is surgery itself.
And there are options of both open and endovascular
procedures that I can use to treat the disease.
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