My Grandmother Told Me I Would Be a Doctor

I never became one. But something to do with care, healing and people kept finding its way through me.

When I was little, my grandmother told me I would be a doctor. I looked at her and said: “Not on your life!” It burst out of me all at once, from somewhere deep inside, without my really being in control of it.

That day, my grandmother sealed a kind of debt inside me, one I would never repay. So I went on to study pharmacy instead, to make the medicines …