My name is Leslie Blackhall, and I'm the section head for palliative care here at UVA. I work with people's oncologists and radiation oncologists, surgical oncologists to help people who either are having symptoms from a cancer itself like pain or nausea or symptoms from the treatment of the cancer. People can get nerve damage in their feet or pain from surgery. We have a big multidisciplinary team we work with on the in-patient and out-patient side including their primary docs. When I was a medical student, there was no such thing as palliative care. I think for me probably because my dad had cancer, I just felt like people were not getting the help they needed. What I love is when somebody comes back into the office and says "I was able to go golfing last week," whatever it is that they wanted to do. I mean that may seem like nothing to most people when they're healthy, but if you've been too nauseated or too tired to go out with your friends and just go to a restaurant, it can seem like a miracle. For me when somebody comes back and they actually sort of were able to do something normal, I mean go to work for a little bit or whatever, then to me that's a great day.