 Anna Bågenholm was born in 1970 in <unk> , Sweden . At the time of the incident , she was 29 years old and studying to become an orthopedic surgeon . Bågenholm decided to do her residency in Narvik , Norway , and , in May 1998 , she became a surgeon assistant at the Narvik Hospital . Bågenholm 's mentor during this period was Yngve Jones , a doctor at the Narvik Hospital who was about to celebrate his retirement with a party on 20 May 1999 . 
