About me

I took up medicine because saving lives appealed to me. It probably had something to do with the sense of power that came with it. Now, some 35 years later, saving lives still preoccupies me, but  in a far deeper way. The opportunity to make a difference in other people’s lives, be they  patients who are sick or ordinary people just wanting to be touched by another human being, gives me a sense of purpose that has nothing to do with power, but which gives me an even bigger power – the power to heal…and be healed. In those intervening years, I have been distracted by many things that people would label important elements of success. Indeed, I have had an exciting journey.

I am now going back to the starting line, to that point that made me choose medicine over architecture – two professions that encourage the mind to imagine and to create – but this time to embark on a more important  journey,  where I no longer worry about myself, and what may or may not happen. To be connected to what I have missed through those distracting years, and in the process be reconnected to what I really am. While I still have the time.