Nine years spent learning the exact shape of the hardest conversation a family can have.

In his own words

Why this work — and why like this?

"I chose surgical oncology because it is where you meet people at their most frightened — and where skill, honesty and time can genuinely change how their story ends."

Training at Tata Memorial Hospital teaches two things at once: the highest technical standard in the country, and humility — you operate beside masters and still see that outcomes depend on listening, on judgement, on doing the right operation for the right patient rather than the impressive one.

After nine years and more than five thousand operations across nine regions of the body, one conviction has only hardened: patients remember whether someone finally explained the disease in their own language — Gujarati, Hindi or English — whether the plan made sense drawn out in front of them, and whether the phone was answered when it mattered.

So the practice runs on a simple instrument panel: treat the person, not just the cancer. Preserve organs wherever safely possible. Prefer minimally invasive techniques when they truly serve recovery. And never let technology outrun judgement.