In this episode, I speak to Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an emergency physician and traumatologist with a deep passion for innovation, discovery, and humanitarian work who recently returned from his second courageous 5-week volunteer medical mission to Rafah in southern Gaza.

In our conversation, he shares the emotional journey of leaving his family behind, the harrowing scenes he encountered, and the resilient people he met on the ground.

“I train in trauma centers in the South Side of Chicago," he told me. "I’ve worked and seen devastating trauma but this is to a level unprecedented in our lifetime for the mere fact that these people are trapped in a small piece of land and deliberately bombed.”

He also showed me a bullet he took out of another child while we were on Instagram live having the conversation a few days after he returned.

“This is a bullet I pulled out of a 13 year old who was shot while he was asleep in his tent into his arm going to his chest. These are shrapnel I pulled out of kids arms, legs, and backs.”

As a Palestinian refugee who came to the U.S. at age 7 and now a Stanford-educated doctor, Dr. Subeh discusses his decision to step into one of the world's most dangerous conflict zones, driven by the belief that if he doesn't act, who will? This episode is a powerful exploration of what it means to serve, sacrifice, and find hope in the midst of unimaginable hardship.

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