Louisville Medicine Volume 62, Issue 6 | Page 36

(continued from page 33) more fun, but it was a lot more scary.” “Getting on a helicopter with two guns strapped to you, landing and going out on a target… It’s the same feeling I get before a big operation. I’m not scared, but certain things concern me,” said Dr. Deveaux, emphasizing an attention to detail and a continued thought process of how to be good at his job as essential to keeping a level head. “If there were hostilities… the phrase is, ‘if the environment turned kinetic,’ I didn’t get scared. I got very focused. Like, ‘Okay, this is very serious. I know what I need to do. I need to do it to the best of my abilities.’ And it always worked out,” he said. Even in the face of immin