Hi, I'm Daphne Knicely, and I'm a nephrologist at the University of Virginia. I see patients with kidney disease, all different types; from early-stage kidney disease up until dialysis. My mother was a dialysis patient. She was on peritoneal dialysis. And her nephrologist really influenced me a lot. He just had the best bedside manner and he actually looked at my mom as the whole person, not just her disease. And he really took the time to get to know our family. And that really influenced me that someone could be that compassionate. I'd never got to know patients as closely as I did whenever I first started in outpatient hemodialysis. And I really got to see patients so frequently. I learned about their families. I learned about their kids. I've loved that unique part of medicine, and it just kind of drives me every day to see those patients. I try to get to know them, what they've been going through. Kind of figure out what things have been going on in their life. What medicines are they taking? What led to this problem that's going on with the kidneys? My goal is to make dialysis just one piece of your life, but not your whole life.