As a little girl, Maria Rodríguez-Oroz was captivated by the apparent magical abilities of the paediatrician she was taken to whenever she was ill. "He always knew how to make me feel better", Rodríguez-Oroz tells The Lancet Neurology. "Ever since then, I wanted to be a doctor too." Luckily, she fulfilled that aspiration, and is now head of neurology and neurosciences at the University Clinic of Navarra and professor of neurology at CIMA Universidad de Navarra, in Pamplona, Spain.Raised in a little village close to Pamplona, she studied medicine at the Universidad de Navarra. However, she soon realised that she should not become a paediatrician. "I could not bear to constantly be around sick children because I found it too upsetting", she recalls. Instead, she found herself drawn to neurology because of the clear and logical correlation between lesions, symptoms, and diagnosis.
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