WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.137 --> 00:00:03.042 What's the best thing about my work. 2 00:00:03.042 --> 00:00:05.269 Being an HIV doctor is both some of the most, 3 00:00:05.269 --> 00:00:06.847 one of the most challenging things 4 00:00:06.847 --> 00:00:08.428 that one can take on, and also one 5 00:00:08.428 --> 00:00:10.556 of the most rewarding things. 6 00:00:10.556 --> 00:00:12.937 I'm really fortunate. 7 00:00:12.937 --> 00:00:15.042 I get to do something as a career 8 00:00:15.042 --> 00:00:18.142 that I happen to love doing, 9 00:00:18.142 --> 00:00:21.492 and I get to help people in doing that. 10 00:00:21.492 --> 00:00:24.762 And in helping them, I watch my patients 11 00:00:24.762 --> 00:00:27.929 and my friends not die, literally die, 12 00:00:28.951 --> 00:00:32.534 of a now treatable and preventable disease. 13 00:00:34.657 --> 00:00:37.602 I get to watch patients who were once sick 14 00:00:37.602 --> 00:00:39.442 getting ready to die go on 15 00:00:39.442 --> 00:00:43.063 and live their life goals, their life dreams. 16 00:00:43.063 --> 00:00:45.966 I have a patient today who is traveling in Europe 17 00:00:45.966 --> 00:00:50.438 on his first international trip when two months ago, 18 00:00:50.438 --> 00:00:51.711 he was diagnosed with AIDS 19 00:00:51.711 --> 00:00:54.726 and had a life-threatening infection. 20 00:00:54.726 --> 00:00:57.694 To see that kind of life fulfillment happen 21 00:00:57.694 --> 00:00:59.358 is pretty amazing. 22 00:00:59.358 --> 00:01:03.131 To watch families plan and have children, 23 00:01:03.131 --> 00:01:05.966 healthy children, when 15 years ago 24 00:01:05.966 --> 00:01:08.359 they would have been planning for their own funerals 25 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.747 or planning for their children to become orphans, 26 00:01:11.747 --> 00:01:15.692 that's a pretty amazing turn of events. 27 00:01:15.692 --> 00:01:17.314 And to get to do all that and have someone 28 00:01:17.314 --> 00:01:20.447 say thank you in the end, pretty good stuff.