I Was Diagnosed with Lung Cancer at the Peak of My Career. Here's What It Taught Me About Surgery — and Why I Built This Course.
TitleTitle: Protecting the Nerve: Precision Excision for Rare Inclusion Cysts: The Diagnosis that Redefined Urgency and Purpose
I had just established the first urogynecology centre in Saudi Arabia. The papers were coming in. The referrals were growing. The career I had spent 20 years building was finally at the place I had imagined.Then I got the diagnosis.And everything I thought I knew about urgency, about purpose, about the value of knowledge — changed.
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From Achievement to Legacy: What Cancer Taught Me About Knowledge
I’m not sharing this because it’s a good story. I’m sharing it because it explains why this course exists.When you face the possibility that your time is finite — really face it, not theoretically — you ask yourself a different set of questions. Not “what have I achieved?” but “what have I passed on?”I had 20 years of surgical knowledge, 55 publications, and a set of techniques I had spent a career developing. And I realised — with a clarity that only a cancer diagnosis can give you — that all of it existed only in my hands.The day I couldn’t operate anymore, it would be gone.
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Bridging the Shortage: Scaling Excellence Across the Gulf Region
The Gulf region has a critical shortage of trained urogynecologists and cosmetic gynecology specialists. The patients are here. The demand is real and growing. But the training infrastructure doesn’t exist at the level it needs to.I built this course because I could not find a way to be in every operating theatre in the Kingdom at once.But I could record every procedure. Every case. Every decision. And make it available to every surgeon in the Gulf who needs it — permanently, in HD, for less than the cost of two days of a physical workshop.
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A Legacy of Mastery: Built Out of Necessity, Shared for the Future
This course is not my legacy. My patients are my legacy.But this course is how I make sure the next generation of surgeons in the Gulf can give their patients what mine received.28 real surgical cases. Four modules. One year of access. One price.I’m not building this because I need to. I’m building it because we don’t have time not to.