Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Dr. Michael Gabe Hilligas, and our topic,

The Day in the Life, What's it really like to be a pain, physician, and anesthesiologist?

Welcome, Gabe. How are you, sir? Doing well. Thanks for having me,

Don. Gabe, are you using your talents doing work that you love? I must definitely and.

All righty. Well, we're going to get into that whole story. Dr. Michael Gabe Hilligas is a board

certified interventional pain management physician and anesthesiologist.

He's medical director of the chronic pain clinic and associate professor within the

College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.

He completed his anesthesiology residency at MUSC, where he was a chief resident before moving on

to Harvard Medical Schools, Brigham and Women's Hospital for his pain medicine fellowship

training. He served four years on active duty with the Navy. He also won research and teaching

awards and his published research articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. He's dedicated

to educating his patients and their loved ones, as well as rotating medical students and

residents on safe and effective comprehensive pain management strategies. Well, as I said earlier, Gabe,

we start the Day in the Life interviews with some statistics for listeners around the world so they can

have a sense of the scope and breadth of the patient or the profession. These are from the U.S. Bureau

of Labor Statistics, but also the American Society of Anesthesiology. They're a year old.

There are 31,060 anesthesiologists in the country in the United States. And of those, 12,302 are pain management

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