- I'm Nathan Fountain, and I'm a neurologist in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the University of Virginia. I've always had an interest in neuroscience. So being a neurologist who is always in the stars for me. I'd always considered that. The reason I chose epilepsy or went into epilepsy is because it provides a lot of different opportunities to help people. I've been doing it for 20-some years, and in the period of that time, we've gone from having very, very few treatments available to having many. 

A lot of people think that they're the only one in the world with seizures or epilepsy, and it's such an unusual experience that it really makes them afraid to even talk about with anyone including doctors. So I think to help make people feel better, they should understand that epilepsy specialists in our clinic in particular are going to understand a lot of their problems. Of course, we don't necessarily have epilepsy ourselves, but we have such a big investment in our professional and personal lives and epilepsy that we really can try to help them address those problems as best they can. 

But I think the most satisfying things that I do is to help people sort of iron out those other aspects of their lives. So not only fix their seizures but help address their other problems as well.