A surgical oncologist at UVA Cancer Center, Todd Bauer, MD, treats sufferers with pancreatic, bile duct, liver, and gastrointestinal cancers.
Meet a UVA Cancer Center Surgeon
We requested Bauer our 7 fast questions.
1. What most impressed and formed your strategy to affected person care?
My father, who’s a surgeon, was my inspiration to develop into a surgeon. He and plenty of of my nice mentors at Penn and MD Anderson helped to form my guiding ideas of affected person care:
- Try your hardest and do your very best with each affected person.
- Treat each affected person like they had been your member of the family.
- Be sincere and sensible, but additionally hopeful and optimistic.
- Listen to your sufferers and listen to their issues.
- Ask for assist and search enter from colleagues when it’d profit a affected person.
2. What’s your favourite a part of your job?
Being ready to make use of my data and abilities to assist sufferers and establishing long-term relationships with my sufferers.
3. What’s your greatest concern once you’re a affected person?
Are You at Risk for Pancreatic Cancer?
Our genetic counselors may help you perceive your threat. We provide common screenings for sufferers at excessive threat, so we will catch most cancers earlier when it is extra treatable.
That I received’t get again to 100% after restoration. This is why it can be crucial for physicians and sufferers to debate therapy and restoration and long-term expectations to make certain they’ve the identical expectations.
4. What do you do for stress reduction?
I prefer to train day by day with cardio and energy coaching and I like to golf.
5. Dogs or cats?
I truly take pleasure in each. We have one in every of every.
6. What’s the final film you noticed? Thumbs up or down?
James Bond in No Time to Die. A particular thumbs up, as with all James Bond film.
7. What’s the perfect recommendation you have ever heard?
Quote by creator Roy T. Bennett: “Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Bonus query: November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. What do you would like extra folks knew about pancreatic most cancers?
Pancreatic most cancers is a tough and difficult illness, however it’s not all the time terminal. We do obtain long-term treatment in some sufferers, and survival charges have improved over the previous 20 years. Additionally, there’s numerous thrilling analysis presently underway that can hopefully deliver even higher outcomes sooner or later.