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Early in her medical career, Dr Olivia Ong decided that instead of becoming a neurosurgeon, she would go into rehabilitation medicine. Little could she know how important that field would be to her not just as a doctor, but also as a patient. Because one otherwise-ordinary work day, when a driver with dementia in the hospital parking lot accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brake, Olivia was hit by a car and left with a serious spinal injury. She was told she would never again.
By ABC AustraliaEarly in her medical career, Dr Olivia Ong decided that instead of becoming a neurosurgeon, she would go into rehabilitation medicine. Little could she know how important that field would be to her not just as a doctor, but also as a patient. Because one otherwise-ordinary work day, when a driver with dementia in the hospital parking lot accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brake, Olivia was hit by a car and left with a serious spinal injury. She was told she would never again.

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