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EXCLUSIVE: A shocking accident paralysed Dr Olivia Ong and left her a patient in her own ward – but a bigger struggle awaited

I was 27 and had been working exhaustingly long hours as a doctor in training after graduating in Medicine from the University of Melbourne.

I’d see patients who were paralysed or paraplegic. They had this crestfallen look; this unwillingness to communicate. They were obviously grieving. It sounds awful, but I never thought much about it. I just got on with my job, seeing patient after patient. Not only was I overworked, tired and stressed, but being around that much trauma daily, I’d numbed myself emotionally and mentally to keep myself sane.

In 2008 my life transformed in a way I could never have imagined. I was walking across the hospital car park to start my shift as a rehabilitation registrar. Suddenly, from nowhere, a car reversing at high speed catapulted me backwards and flung me five or six metres into the sky.

As I ricocheted with force onto the ground, a single tree absorbed my impact and stopped me tumbling down a steep s

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Dr Olivia Ong - The Heart Centred Doctor

If you're looking for inspiration and empowerment, Dr Olivia Ong is the woman for you. She is incredibly strong in every way and is the founder and CEO of The Heart-Centred Doctor, as well as being a physician in Melbourne. In her business, The Heart-Centred Doctor, Olivia is a medical leadership coach who helps busy high achieving doctors avoid burnout and exhaustion. She also helps them achieve balance, energy and time flexibility through her life transformation for doctors programme, which essentially is a one on one and group coaching programme. Olivia is also a speaker and runs workshops and attends speaking engagements on self-compassion and burnout recovery for doctors, so they can stay in the game longer as compassionate leaders and leave a positive legacy for upcoming generational young doctors. It took a traumatic spinal cord injury in 2008 to transform Olivia's life.

The experience was a radical awakening to her soul. Olivia was walking to work one morning and was hit by a car at 60

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