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Now, you have extensive experience across many areas of healthcare in Canada and the US, and over time you have developed a deep insight into the inner workings of the healthcare systems you've worked in.

And I believe you began to see that they weren't serving patients as well as they could be, and that they were very much geared towards treating disease, but not necessarily preventing it.

Could you tell me a little about what, I suppose, about your journey and what you were seeing, and what led you to this realization and, and why it was a problem?

That's a great question.

And, um, it actually, actually started during, uh, medical school when I realized that we're only treating disease and we're not treating really the real biology.

So we're only studying conditions, whe- whether it's cardiovascular, whe- whether it's MSK, whether it's neurological.

Patient comes in, "What's your problem?" We deal with it.

But we don't actually study getting this biology that we studied in the first two years of medical school, um, how to bring the patient back to their normal biology.

So it's really, really puzzled me.

And then when I started practicing in Egypt and then the US, then Canada, then back again to the US, it's all what we're doing.

This is all the healthcare is about, is just, um, the patient comes in if they have a problem.

If they don't have a problem, we really don't wanna see the patient because we don't know what to do with them, right? I realized that over and over and over again.

Realized that when I started doing, uh, breast cancer surgeries, that I see the patient when they're having breast cancer.

So what about before? What led these patients to have breast cancer in the first place? Is it possible to prevent it in the first place? My mom had breast cancer, right? And she was the first in her family to have breast cancer.

Usually, the first thing in breast cancer tell you strong family history of breast cancer.

So it's, it stayed with me for years.

Why would she...

And she's got eight brothers and sisters.

She's the only one.

I looked in through the family history.

None of them had breast cancer.

So did she ever do something in her history or her habits that could have been preventable to prevent this breast cancer? And I didn't know, right, at that time.

So it really boggled my mind.

Why can't we prevent this? Then I start working, when I moved to Canada, in emergency medicine, and it start really becoming so clear that we are treating problems.

You don't go to the emergency department unless you have a problem, right? But what if those problems are preventable? Those patients that come in with heart attacks, strokes, or whatever it is, back injury and, and inflammation and arthritis and pain, could we actually prevent it? Even at a mental health level, could we prevent those, right? What led this patient to end up in the ER with those problems? And we were giving them Band-Aids and, uh, sending them home.