I interviewed a friend’s uncle who works at Riverside Methodist Hospital as he is a head of the Neuroscience Center in Intervention Radiology. I asked him mostly about what his physician assistants and nurse practitioners contributed to his work and how he feels with his life dedicated to medicine as a physician. He spoke of how involved his life is with the procedures he does to alleviate stroke damage, and how he has missed a variety of family holidays while being on call in case an emergency did occur. He also detailed how his job would be impossible if it weren’t for the staff that supports him, and how is PA’s run everything that is behind the scenes and help him carry out his procedures smoothly. He explained how they all leave right around 5 PM and many have young families. He indicated they really have a balance between medicine and life, which is genuinely what I am looking for. Overall, it was great to here from someone who has been in the field for so long, as well as someone who has seen the rise of PA’s and their function. He knows how the field has changed because of them and he had great insight into the differences between a physician and the assistant. This all reaffirmed my decision to switch from pre-med to pre-PA, and gave me effective insight into the inner workings of it all.