Brody School of Medicine alumnus, Dr. Joshua Sonett, talks about how the BSOM and his mentors there helped shaped him and his career.
I think I was blessed actually to come to ECU because it was a young med school at the time, very young. And it's just a great learning environment and there's no limits to what you can do here, graduating from here, and the accessibility of all the faculty and staff and everybody. It's a great place to work hard, but have nice people around you, you know? Dr. Pories is the best mentor of a human you can possibly meet, just the nicest, holistic man who from the beginning where medical students made sure that we didn't think of ourselves as surgeons, we thought of ourselves as doctors first and surgeons, surgery is what we happen to do, taking care of the patients is what we really needed to do. It was a privilege to get to know and treat President Clinton but in the end it was just like every other patient believe it or not. I mean, I like going by my patient's bedside and chatting about things and stuff and the same thing with President Clinton. Particularly surgery at East Carolina, with Dr. Pories, it was really i mportant that you understood and took care of the patient. Dr. Chitwood, the, the example of, you know, nationally, world, who's known for leading the world in surgical procedures and cardiac and building these programs here, but still being with a team of humanistic surgeons and people. So, it's an amazing place, privileged to have been here.