>> I've been at the university since I began my training, and I thought I'd be here
for a few years and go back to the East Coast where I'm from.
I never left because it is a wonderful place to practice and to --
the colleagues that are here in Michigan are outstanding.
I think that is one thing that attracts me here.
My colleagues are national or international experts in their fields.
We have a very collegial atmosphere here.
We work not just within the GI division, but within other departments, with surgery,
with pathology, with all kinds of other physicians.
We have that kind of camaraderie, and it allows us to give patients sort of global care.
We can take of the GI issues, and if they need something else,
if they need any other kind of expert here, it's available.
I think that's one of the most impressive things about Michigan is that we have such a wide range
of experts, both in GI and throughout the university system.
I see a lot of patients who have what we call obscure GI bleeding.
That is they are losing blood.
They're anemic, and they've had a lot of tests, sometimes 15, 20 procedures.
And a lot of times, it's very difficult to find the source of that.
And patients sometimes come here as a last resort.
There are many times when we are able to help them, and there are some patients
that I can remember who were transfusion dependent, for example,
and had to be in the hospital every couple weeks and constantly getting blood products.
And some of those patients, we've been able to help through looking in their small bowel
and doing some of our newer technologies here.
And to be able to find something, to treat it, to give these patients through lives back
so they're not so dependent upon the hospitals has been --
that's a great source of satisfaction to me and others in my field.