The Doctor Author

At first he looked too serious, somewhat shielded yet completely attentive.

I got introduced to him during this past seminar in NYC.  He is a Major, deployed twice to Afghanistan, is Italian, is a robotic surgeon, and is writing a book.

His stories were facinating!  Storied about his father who advised him to always date his wife and to always take care of people who mattered in his life.  Stories of his first days at the Base and his first surgery after his first combat.  Stories of them losing another surgeon.  Storied of growing up poor and dignified.  How his father taught them scienctific intelligence and his mother emotional intelligence.

He said he was writing a book and as facinating as his stories were I believe he should.  He said he was transcribing his stories and would recruit one to write it for him.  Reminded me of Molana; in a totally different time and land and writing about a vastly different subject in a somewhat similar fashion!

We talked about books like Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns and Homefront. We talked about the difference between Iranians and Persians.  We talked about our kids. And surely we talked about robotic surgery.

I didn't dare telling him I wrote too in a blog.  That my dream was to write a book too.

Talking to him was fascinating too because he exuded this too serious too shielded demeanor at first and oh very seriously he talked about many different things when we started chatting actually.  Indeed a uniquely intriguing experience.  Looking forward to his published book!