I was 15 years old when my mom was diagnosed by breast cancer. Both my parents were doctors, my father a OB/GYN and my mom an internal doctor. As a kid I didn’t like that they never had time for me, I never wanted to become a doctor. I loved anything that had to do with creativity...but with the diagnosis of my mother everything changed. My mother changed. She became so pessimistic.

I then thought:“ If I will make her laugh and be happy, everything will turn out fine!“ Unfortunately it did not and my mom died 4 years later of the consequences of that disease. I understood that my failure of not being able to rescue her was my lack of knowledge of medicine and disease. So I studied medicine with the intention to become a specialist in Cancer. Read More