In my eighth episode, I spoke with Dr. Timothy Pawlik, surgeon-in-chief of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, chair of the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine, and the Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Pawlik is a surgical oncologist and has both clinical and administrative roles in medicine. We spoke about how COVID-19 has impacted patient care as it relates to surgery, his thoughts on trends in medicine moving forward, why he got into medicine, and the importance of patient-physician communication in clinical encounters.