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When actor Máximo Gallego signed up to play a stroke patient in a simulation, no-one could have predicted that his stint on the stretcher would end up saving a life.

ESOC 2023 was a golden opportunity for Angels consultants such as Esther Redondo from Spain and Eleni Panoutsopoulou from Greece to swap notes and learn from each other. In this video, the conversation ranges from pride, power and possibility, to wearing down resistance with patience.

When two stroke codes interrupted a meeting at a hospital in Spain, an Angels consultant was allowed to become part of the stroke team. The experience almost made her apply to med school but turned out to be transformative in several other ways.

In a country with almost 250 million people, fewer than 300 CT scanners and just a handful of stroke-treating hospitals, what can one team do? Do not answer this question until you have met the stroke heroes of Services Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan.

Caught on video during ESOC 2023, Angels consultants Maxeen Murugan from South Africa and Inês Carvalho from Portugal talk about the importance of listening, the best advice they ever received, the impact one individual can have, and working from the heart.

Dr Ignacio Girolimini wanted to improve stroke care in his small town in Argentina. Dr Claudio Jiménez, who had transformed stroke care at his own hospital in Colombia, became his mentor. This is their story.