Prof. dr. Cornelia Nițipir: Când aveam nouă ani, le-am spus părinților că eu mă fac doctor de cancer

"At Dinner", our guest is Cornelia Nițipir — an oncologist, university professor and a man who spends his professional life close to some difficult questions: about illness, hope, fragility and the strength to move forward. We start, as usual, from the table and from childhood memories in Pitești, we talk about parents, family, about the mathematics she studied before choosing medicine and about the moment when she understood that oncology would become her path. "At one point, when I was nine years old, one of my very dear aunts got breast cancer. I told my parents that I was becoming a cancer doctor and my parents thought I would get over it."  We talk about patients who changed her life, about how you communicate a painful diagnosis, about empathy, emotional pressure and the responsibility of remaining lucid when the people in front of you are looking for hope. "It's like getting on a plane and there's an angry, disheveled, unkempt, nervous stewardess and she says - this plane is going to crash. How is that man going to get on the plane when he knows that plane is going to crash? You have to tell the patient what to do, be calm, help him get through this ordeal. " We also talk about the backstage of the medical system, leadership, personal sacrifices, family, vacations, yoga, skiing, what you never see in an impressive 60-page CV. "I try to do pilates twice a week, yoga, go skiing and skating." And, perhaps most importantly, about what oncology teaches you about life and death. A profound, sincere and extremely human edition. Saturday night, "At Dinner".