Robert F. Beckman, MD

I'm generally a very caring, loving kind of person. I like to know my patients and their families. I don't start talking about the medical issues right off the bat - I want to see them, know them. It's not just a disease that we're treating, we're treating a patient.

Historically, doctors have done a lot of telling their patients what to do and I think it's still our job to give them the best information, but I think more and more these days you hear things like shared decision making and involving patients and I think that's really something I strive to do as best that I can.