Cuban American erotic novelist, Anais Nin once said; "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom".
I celebrated my 46th birthday last week and this is often a day I reflect on my life and career. How many risks have I taken in my lifetime? By definition, isn't being a doctor a 'non-risky' profession? If so, will I live to regret not taking risks, as Mark Zuckerberg once warned; "The biggest rick is not taking any risk, in a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks".