How Avi Yaron Invented a Cure for His Own Brain Tumour | WIRED 2015 | WIRED

In 1993 Avi Yaron, at that point an Israeli startup founder and student, had perhaps the luckiest accident of his life; a motorcycle crash saw him rushed to hospital, only for doctors to tell him that they had also discovered a brain tumour close to the area related to movement and conscious thought. Even if operated upon -- the doctors said -- the tumour would change his life, leaving him potentially paralysed down one side of his body. The best case scenario, doctors said, was that Yaron would live -- but his life would be changed forever, both mentally and physically.

That's when he decided to invent his way out of the problem.

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How Avi Yaron invented a cure for his own brain tumour | WIRED 2015 | WIRED

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I am so proud of Avi’ courage to fight and not give up and believe in his own instinct to invent something that help and will help the medical field and patients will reward him with immense gratitude.