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Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

For many children, it's seeing a beloved relative ill and in pain that leads them to want to become doctors. But, for me, it was watching my grandma get better.

In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire alleviation, consolation and decisiveness.

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.