"The most satisfying thing about my life right now in my profession, is that I have patients. Patients are different than friends; many are also friends, but your patients take you into their life, they trust you, they let you know things about themselves they wouldn't tell anyone else and you become a critical part of who they are, and in turn, they become a part of who you are and boy, that's the most satisfying thing about my life, I'd never give that up."

—Dr. Wayne Samuelson, Interim Dean of University of Utah School of Medicine