Dr. Benjamin N. Breyer

Even yesterday, I did a case where I was a little bit deceived by the rug and it turned out to basically be a membranous, a short membranous stricture and a heavy guy.

You know, BMI probably like 38 or something along, maybe that's for you guys.

But yeah, so like all of a sudden we're in there and he's youngish and so his good vasculature, it's not, you know, dry.

And all of a sudden you're like, okay, this is, we're doing a case here.

And it wasn't exactly the case that I had envisioned.

And so if you don't have exposure to that, if you don't have the experience, I think sometimes that kind of thing could be hard for someone in practice to manage that or even want to manage that.

Yeah, I think I was really fortunate to be a resident at UCSF where Jack McAnich had his practice.

He's one of the seminal figures in the field.

And it wasn't clear to me that I actually was gonna do female urology.

And it's a love story.

It turned out that the person who's now my wife,

and I were dating and I didn't want to do a long distance relationship.

So it kind of removed female urology from the table.

But I've always kind of been interested in quality of life and quality of life surgeries.

And I think that and then the creativity that's associated with

Reconstructive Urology.

Those were the things I think that drew me to the field.

And then having Dr. Mackenich have a willingness to take me on as a fellow was great.

And I had an interesting thing because he had already matched.

So I had to take a year and be a junior attending.