So that means anything from the kidneys, ureter, bladder on out of the body. As a Urologist, I see patients 18 and up with issues of the genital urinary tract. I left the area to go to medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado and then completed a residency in Urology at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. You're not sitting behind a desk all the time and you can, you know, actually see tangible ways that you're helping people. You get to do something different every day. I went into medicine for the same reason I would hope anyone would go into medicine for just the desire to help people. And I like to spend with family and friends, and I love to cook. I used to rock climb and I think I'm gonna get into doing that again, and paddle board. When I'm not working, I like to go hiking.
So I really think it's important to look at a patient's richness of life and quality of life as part of how you take care of them.
You can live to 100 and not be healthy or not be comfortable and happy with the way you're doing, or you can live slightly shorter than that but have a much fuller life. I think it's really important to integrate how your life affects your health and vice versa. I'm passionate about taking care of people's families and also about their quality of life. I came to Seattle to do my residency, and ever since then, I've been practicing here.
But I ended up doing a little bit of everything throughout my training in a certain order, and the last thing that I did was family medicine. Initially, I wanted to be a pediatrician because honestly all the tables and chairs and things are my height and kids like me. I grew up in Hawaii and then I did my undergrad in California and ended up going to med school in New York, which was a great training ground because you see everything when you're in New York. And it became really important to me to not only wanna take care of people from the medical standpoint, but also how their health fit into their families and their lives when they're ill. I got to see how his doctors helped to take care of him. And also when I was in high school, my father became ill and I spent a lot of time with him while he was in the hospital. One of my older sisters is a nurse and she inspired me to go into healthcare.
I'm the youngest of a group of six siblings. Hi, my name is Myra Horiuchi, and I practice family medicine with obstetrics at The Polyclinic.
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