How many times have you had some sort of challenge at work and said, "relax, it's not brain surgery"?

Well, for the "top doc" you're about to meet, it is.

Dr. Richard Ellenbogen is a neurosurgeon at Children's Hospital in Seattle whose specialty is brain surgery.

But what makes him special to his patients is his heart.

"When a young kid finds out they have a brain tumor, for example," Ellenbogen says, "they think of three things: number one: I'm gonna die. The second thing they think of it's gonna hurt. People are smart enough to figure out how do you take a tumor out of someone's brain or how do you clip an aneurism - they have to go through the skull, so it's gonna hurt. And the third thinig is, for a lot of people, they don't want to look like me afterward - they don't want to lose their hair."

Ellenbogen says as a husband and father that the people part of the job is what drives him most. But the technical side - working with the brain - fascinates him too.

"I can't believe they pay me to do this," he says. "It's unbelievable."