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Summer 2025

Excerpt from "NO PERMISSION NEEDED"
by Malak Ghaddar

After thirty-two years of a life marked by the sudden loss of my parents at a young age, and having survived two major wars and persistent challenges of life in Lebanon, a country marked by instability, I came to Canada with a clear purpose: to pursue additional training in nephrology and prepare for a career as a nephrologist back home.

In 2023, midway through my training and on my way home after a long work day, I was informed that the opacity found in my lungs is, in fact, a lung adenocarcinoma. I couldn’t believe the news and I needed to see the spot lighting up on the PET scan with my own eyes.

Read the full article in the Summer 2025 newsletter.