Anat Hakim, the general counsel of WellCare in Tampa, Florida, was convinced through most of her childhood that she would become a doctor. She wanted to be a doctor so badly that her parents, who had a friend who worked as a heart surgeon, had her shadow him during open-heart surgery.

“I literally stood over the patient’s head and just watched,” Hakim recalls. “My first test was whether or not I would faint.”