Hello and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Wolpa and I am absolutely thrilled to have

an exciting show for you today. We are going to take a little bit of a detour from talking

about clinical anesthesia and critical care and talk about something else that I think is going

to be really fascinating. So I'm really pleased to have with me today Dr. Tammy Uleano and Dr. Uleano,

I'm realizing I should have asked you before him, but am I pronouncing your last name correctly?

You are. That's perfect. Yes.

Perfect. So I have with me Tammy Uleano who is a professor of anesthesiology and of obstetrics

and gynecology. She's an obstetric anesthesiologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

And we actually are not going to talk about anesthesiology or obstetric anesthesiology today,

though I'm sure she has fascinating things to say on that topic and we might have her back to

discuss that. But we're actually going to talk about something else, which is that Dr. Uleano

is also a published author. She in March published a novel called Fatal Intent and we're going to

talk about that how she got into the process of writing fiction. What it took to get a manuscript

published into an actual published novel. And we're also then going to branch out a little bit and

talk about how anesthesiologists are portrayed in popular fiction in general. So Tammy, welcome to

the show. Thank you very much. I'm excited to be here. So let's start with just a little bit about

you. Tell me about your background. How did you get into anesthesiology in general? How did you

decide on the obstetric anesthesiology? And then we'll go from there to how you got into writing.

So I'm a University of Florida lifer from undergrad all the way through and was going to be an engineer

and then decided I wanted to do medical research and then somebody told me, oh, to do that,

you need to get a doctor. You need to be an MD and I said, okay, that's what I'll do then. So

so sort of a circuitous route. Went to medical school was not particularly

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