Doctor by Training, Mother by Heart: Healing Beyond the Diagnosis | Loreto Twele | TEDxFrutillar

Pediatrician Loreto Twele shares her experience after her teenage son suffered a spinal cord injury, and how it led her to step away from medicine to focus on motherhood. The talk explores the limits of medical evidence and the role of love in healing. Its central idea is that a diagnosis describes a moment, not a destiny. The talk was given at an independently organized TEDxFrutillar event in southern Chile.

• A pediatrician's experience after her son's spinal cord injury
• The limits of medical evidence and the role of love in healing
• A diagnosis describes a moment, not a destiny

What happens when medical evidence collides with the reality of your own child? A talk about stepping away from being a doctor to become a mother again, about how love acts on the body, and about an idea that changes the way we look at adversity: a diagnosis describes a moment, not a destiny. Loreto Twele is a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, a vaccine researcher, and head of the Emergency Department at Clínica Puerto Varas in southern Chile. After her teenage son suffered a spinal cord injury, she began exploring the limits of medical evidence and the role of love in healing. She believes a diagnosis describes a moment, not a destiny. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx