is Dr. Vivian Bakai, who is a dermatologist and was trained at the University of Miami

and the Baylor College of Medicine. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department

of Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Texas Health Science Center. In addition, Dr. Bakai

is a nationally and internationally lecturing member of the medical community, and she is also

in the process of writing book chapters for dermatology textbooks. So without further ado,

welcome to the show. Dr. Bakai, I'm so excited that you are here with us.

Thank you so much. I'm really honored to be here. How much fun. This is all new. You know,

I'm a dinosaur in medicine, and so all these technologies, technologies are sometimes,

you know, they still manage to put a little fear in me, you know. I feel much more comfortable

talking about what I do that getting my message out there. That's what I want to ask you actually.

I want to get started though first by you telling us a little bit about your journey in medicine,

and you know, just the whole, I guess, journey and adventure of becoming a dermatologist.

So I'm one of these people that I've always loved art, and I've always loved detective,

being a detective, very visually oriented. I originally thought I was, I was like the little

girl that had a Barbie doll with her dream house, but I also had a chemistry set. Oh my gosh,

me too. This was like, I was, you know, there was always this duality, and I think I originally

wanted to be an architect, and then once I figured out that there wasn't that much autonomy in it,

and it wasn't just about letting your creative energies flow, you know, unrestricted that I thought,

I read the fountain hand, and I said, oh, no, I'm not going to be an architect. And the chemistry

got the best of me, and I thought I was going to become a chemist, but I love people and science

and biology, and so medicine was like a perfect fit. I originally wanted to be a reconstructive

plastic surgeon, and you know, treat children with cleft lip, cleft palate, that type of thing,

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