Khurram Nazir, MD, trained at one of New York's busiest stroke centers before bringing his neurology practice to the Emerald Coast. In this conversation with Dr. Don Davis, he explains why the brain has no pain fibers, what a headache is trying to tell you, and how his own path from Pakistan to Panama City shaped the physician he became.

Before medicine, he was making bomber fuel for the Air Force. Then Dr. David Phillips became a pulmonologist who helped solve one of COVID's strangest bedside mysteries in real time, with no textbook to guide him. He also has a nicotine demonstration that takes exactly ten seconds and one thumbnail.

He grew up the son of an engineering professor, worked a clean room job at IBM, and never planned on medicine. Nineteen years later, Dr. Eric Sandwith runs one of the region's only three-star cardiac surgery programs, and still explains hearts to patients the way an engineer explains a house.

You will never meet him. But if you have ever had a biopsy, his eyes or his colleagues' eyes were on it. Scott Taylor, DO, is the pathologist who puts a name to cancer every single day. A supervisor once wrote that he was a waste of a personality on pathology. This conversation proves how wrong that was.

He sold voicemail when no one knew what voicemail was. He ran FDA omega-3 trials in a vet school lab in the mid-nineties. He was a cardiology-bound resident until a dying patient's family mailed him a letter. Dr. Christopher Haberman took the long road to oncology. And Panama City is better for it.