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I'm Lawrence Shulman.

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I am a pulmonologist and sleep specialist.

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I practice in Lake Success in New York on Long Island.

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Pulmonology is the study of the lungs.

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So most patients that I see as a pulmonologist are patients with asthma

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or COPD and emphysema, or even patients with coughing or shortness of breath.

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Sometimes we have to deal with patients who have lung cancer or other significant

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or we call interstitial lung diseases, diseases that affect

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kind of the inside of the lungs.

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The community that I practice in really

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is the doctors and staff that I work with.

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I've been here at Optum since 2006.

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It's the only job I've ever had.

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I came here right out of fellowship.

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So the best part of practicing here are really my colleagues.

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There are doctors that are friends.

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They are geniuses in their field.

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If there are things that I don't know or help that I need, I can easily rely

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on any of my colleagues to lend a hand.

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It feels like a family working here.

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So when we're taking care of our patients, you're really getting

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a full,

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comprehensive view of your health, not just a little slice of it,

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but we're mostly interested in taking care of you as an entire person.