In What Could Go Wrong?: How I learned to be an active and resilient patient in just 25 surgeries, Marijn van den Biggelaar recounts the most difficult period in her life to date. Between 2014 and 2023, she underwent 14 shoulder surgeries, eight hip surgeries, two knee surgeries and one thyroid surgery – spending a total of 96 weeks with her arm in a sling and more than nine months on crutches.

Despite numerous procedures in multiple European and American hospitals, as well as the weeks of ...