“The hospital is the best example of coexistence. At Sheba Hospital in Tel-Hashomer (near Tel-Aviv), there are representatives from all the communities and we get along very well because we have only one and sole purpose: to treat people, to do research and to promote medicine to help humanity,” said Dr. Abdulla Watad, who will become Israel’s youngest professor at just 35 years old.
“The objective is not the title of Professor, but the process that I went through to become a doctor and a researcher. It is a very great honor and it is always very pleasant to pick the fruits of it” , he said, adding that there are several doctors in his family. “I was influenced by the family atmosphere and from a very young age, yes I knew that I was going to be a doctor”, underlined the professor of rheumatology.
Asked whether he sometimes raised political issues with his colleagues, he replied: “We always end up talking about politics after such and such an event, but we know that we are here with a specific objective of offering high-level medicine. level as our hospital knows how to do”.
Dr. Watad plans to continue medical research and continue to treat people. “I like being in front of a patient, listening to him and providing care that can change his life”. Very often in England, a country with which he cooperates to do research, Abdulla Watad affirmed that his future is in Israel and that he wishes to continue to live there. “This is where I live,” he concluded.
