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How to make rehabilitation care more human? Lessons from failure

I arrived in Singapore expecting to work on rehabilitation robots. Instead, my biggest lesson came from a mistake: losing the contact data of 3,000 patients in my second week. Here is what failure taught me about trust, honesty and the kind of leader I want to become.
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Bruno Siniciali
Life Sciences Engineering Student, EPFL

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This summer in Singapore, my goal became to make rehabilitation care more human. Part of that meant building better devices. The other part was something I never expected: learning to fail well. My report covers the technical side. This video is about the other one.

In my second week, I made a mistake that put the follow-up of 3,000 patients at risk. I had a choice: hide it and hope I could fix it quietly, or walk to the CEO and tell her everything.

What happened afterwards shaped how I think about failure, trust and the kind of leader I want to become.

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Bruno Siniciali (He/Him)
Life Sciences Engineering Student, EPFL

Hi! I’m Bruno, an undergraduate in Life Sciences Engineering at EPFL, and I am from Hungary, France, and Italy. I’m interested in many things, from Classical Rome and Greece to mountain bike, psychology, neuroscience, medicine, and engineering. I’m still exploring whether my path will lead more toward medicine or engineering, so if you have any thoughts or advice, I’d be very happy to hear from you!



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