When Nothing Is Impossible: Spanish surgeon Diego González Rivas' global crusade against cancer and pain

Impossible is nothing. With that as his motto, Spanish surgeon  Diego González Rivas takes up his fight against cancer and pain. Using  his revolutionary technique, Uniportal VATS, he can remove the most  complicated tumors from the lungs through a single incision, sometimes  with only local anesthetic, sending his patients home a mere 48 hours  after surgery.

Doctor González Rivas (A Coruña, 1974) dislikes  calling himself brave, preferring instead to point to his experience.  Every year alone, he performs more than 800 major surgeries around the  globe, half of them at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital. In his quest to  teach his technique to as many surgeons as possible, he travels the  world at such an intense pace, that on many mornings he awakes not  knowing where he is. The first to open a surgery channel on You Tube, he  is also one of the most active doctors in disseminating surgical  advances on social media.