My name is Bob Thiele, and IÕm a critical care anesthesiologist. I take care of people in the operating room who are having cardiac and thoracic surgery. And then I also, as an intensivist, take care of the same patient population in the intensive care unit after surgery. My family had an experience in an intensive care unit. One of our family members, actually, was in one of the intensive care units at UVA, spent a great deal of time there. And I was in medical school at the time, making my career decisions and that was pretty impactful for me. At the time, I did not know that I would end up being an intensivist, but I learned a lot about what itÕs like to be a patient, wanting information, not fully understanding whatÕs happening to somebody that you care about. YouÕll meet the anesthesiologist before you actually go to the operating room. You have to meet us before you go back. You cannot have surgery without us. What weÕre really trying to do is make sure we fully understand your medical history, why youÕre having the surgical procedure, anything about you that would impact what we would do or what the surgeon would do so we can optimize your surgical outcome. UVA I think of as a really sweet spot medical center where itÕs large enough that there isnÕt anything that canÕt be done at UVA, but itÕs small enough. And I think people in smaller centers treat each other a little bit differently. It has more of a community feel. IÕve been, in my training, at larger places where everybody is kind of faceless, and it doesnÕt feel like that at all here. It feels more like a family.