Joining Paul on the podcast is Doctor Michael Amendola, who is the Chief of Vascular Surgery at the Central Virginia VA Healthcare System in Richmond, Virginia. Michael is from the Richmond area and went to William and Mary for his undergraduate degree as well as a masters in Chemistry. He spent some time after college up working in pharmaceuticals in New Jersey and then in 1998, he came back to Richmond and started medical school. He completed medical school and seven additional years of study here in Richmond and then moved to Georgia. In 2011, he moved back to Richmond and took a position and started practicing medicine in the federal system at the Veterans Administration Hospital. Paul and Michael talked about viruses such as AIDS and Covid-19. They spent some time discussing AI and 3-D printing and the effect that both have, are and will have on general medicine and surgery, vascular surgery and the work Dr. Amendola and his team are doing at the Veterans Administration. They also discussed his upbringing and how things he learned from his parents started him on this path of working with his hands and in being an educator. They finished by talking about what he is looking forward to in the next 3-5 years as well as some job advice for Paul’s son Zach.