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My last ambulance shift, the call came in for me.

I was 22. I had been a member of Magen David Adom, Israel's national ambulance service, for nine years. The doctors who met me at the door were friends. Twenty minutes later I was a patient.

Seven years in bed followed. I collected diagnoses. Twenty-something by now. POTS is one of them.

I used to tell this as a triumph. It never fit. So I'm telling it the way I'd tell it to a friend, with the jokes left in.

Since then: more than 200 keynotes, eight books, and one I'm finally writing properly, I Did Get a Pizza, Though. The pizza was the consolation prize for the bone marrow biopsy.

I live in Vienna. Booking goes through A-Speakers, or write to talks@roishternin.com.

I am faculty at IMC Krems and a member of the HIMSS advisory board.

Please excuse Roi from being motivational.