# @drwaheedarian on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DT3FetiiNPs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61858742-drwaheedarian-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-23T16:57:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dr Waheed Arian (@drwaheedarian) — https://gondola.cc/drwaheedarian

## Caption

7 things changed my life in 2016.

I’m posting this because the “2016” photo trend made me pause. I forgot how much that year reshaped me.

2016 was the year I was a qualified doctor in the NHS. That moment meant everything.

It was also the year I founded Arian Teleheal. I kept thinking, care shouldn’t depend on where you were born or what resources your hospital has. Telemedicine became a bridge and it honestly changed my whole view of what’s possible.

Learning the lessons from our community work, we've recently launched Arian Wellbeing, which is a digital mental health service that combines technology/ AI and human expertise to provide culturally sensitive and trauma informed mental health services to people from all backgrounds. 

I said yes to speaking publicly, including my first TEDxNHS, even though I had social anxiety and a real fear of being seen.

And I was able to see my parents more regularly again after decades shaped by displacement.

2016 didn’t make life perfect.
But it made it feel possible.

#ArianTeleheal #Telemedicine #HealthEquity #2016 #HealingJourney

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2016, telemedicine, healingjourney, healthequity, arianteleheal

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