1/2 Dear Friends, I never wanted to become a doctor. I always wanted to write and tell stories. And yet, over the years, medicine gave me the most extraordinary stories I could never have imagined - stories that lived in hospital corridors, outpatient rooms and inside terrifying ICUs; in the trembling hands of a father carrying his jaundiced daughter, in the silence between a prognosis spoken and a family's world shattered. Today, I am proud and deeply moved to announce my first book, The Liver Doctor: Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration, published by @HarperCollinsIN . This book is where my two worlds finally collide. My childhood love for writing and telling stories. And my adultdhood, as a medical doctor. Through the lives of real patients and their families - their courage, their grief, their impossible choices - I tell the story of the most misunderstood, most indispensable, and only self-regenerating organ in the human body: the liver. But this is not just a medical book. It is a journey through ancient myth and modern science, through Prometheus and Wilson's disease, through Mesopotamian clay tablets and liver transplant waiting lists, through the history of healing itself. I wrote it for doctors, so they may remember why they chose this life. I wrote it for patients and families, so they may know when to fight and when to find peace. I wrote it for myself, to make peace with what I have lost and what I will lose. This book shoulders that one truth I have learned in all my years at the clinical bedside: I did not become a doctor to help people cheat death, but to help them understand it. This book is my offering - to medicine, to storytelling, and to you. Lose yourself in these pages, as I have. Pre-orders are open now The Liver Doctor : Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration - amzn.in/d/0duTenmW

This is Dr. Vishal Savani from Surat, Gujarat. facebook.com/docvishalsavani… He was supposed to become a fisherman, but fate had other plans and he became an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. But he still keeps his dream of becoming a fisherman alive, by handling newborns he delivers like large fish from hooks. Is this what the medical curriculum teaches its doctors in India?

A long rant ahead..... I completed my MBBS from a government medical college attached to a 1500-bedded government general hospital in Andhra Pradesh. Facilities provided by my tertiary care teaching hospital 👇 (1/n)

A lot of people have been voicing concerns about the homeopathy practitioner treating ICU patients. Please note, a homeopathy practitioner inside the ICU or anywhere inside a real hospital is not a doctor. It's Homeopathywale or Homeopathywali. Ms. Kalapana Savani the Homeopath who has been performing procedures inside an ICU, assisting high risk pregancies, giving new born care to high risk neonates has not been investigated, nor an official statement given from the Maate Hospital. Not only is this hospital is in violation of multiple patient safety terms and conditions, including allowing a Homepath to enter a high risk procedures OT, treat critically ill ICU patients, the so-called OBGyn Dr. Vishal Savani is also allowing a bystander to pour liquids into a woman's mouth while she is in labour without foreseeing severe lung aspiration dangers and also posing with new borns upside down and endangering their lives. Why is this hospital allowed to function? The great National Medical Comission was salivating and coming at me rabidly for "professional misconduct" when Ayurveda and Homeopathy Councils made frivolous complaints against me for calling them pseudoscientific. thehindu.com/news/national/k… Are you sleeping on this now your Highnesses? Are the new @NMC_BHARAT rules only for ethical conduct only for competent doctors who do their duties properly and not for doctor-quacks like these can do anything they want? Do your job wastrels! Maate Hospital: Dr. Vishal Savani 092271 55277 (publicly available contact) instagram.com/dr.kalpana_sav…

Good morning to the hepatology academic community! Happy to share two of my invited chapters (took a while to get these done) in two large referral (clinical and pre-clinical) textbooks on hepatology finally published. The first one I wrote between OPD hours on alcohol liver disease is in the book: Handbook of Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Disorders - From Biology to Public Health edited by Prof(s) Vinood B. Patel, Victor R. Preedy, published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG. link.springer.com/referencew… The second one, I wrote with my basic scientist colleagues at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, in the book: Additive Manufacturing of Biomaterials and Their Behavior - From Fundamentals to Applications, edited by Prof(s) S. Renold Elsen, Arunkumar Palaniappan, Geetha Manivasagam, published by Elsevier Woodhead Cambridge, United Kingdom. shop.elsevier.com/books/addi… #MedTwitter #book #MedEd #Medical #Education

Damn. I still got 5 stars. Even haters love it.

Congratulations to our authors shortlisted for the Godrej Literature Live! Literary Awards 2026! We’re delighted to see their work recognised across fiction, non-fiction and business. Here’s to the stories and ideas that stay with us long after we turn the last page. @arvindsubraman @theliverdoc @albinder

Dear friends, please listen to my interview on Ayush Ministry and Indian Systems of Medicine with BBC Inside Science's Tom Whipple for the their science podcast! Hope you will like it (not Ayush though). Link: bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct9789 [FYI - my segment starts from 16:48 to 21:38] This is available on BBC Inside Science podcast on Apple, Spotify and other services too. Thanks for tuning in!

The only reason I have gotten any such recognition is because of single-celled organisms like you existing inside dirty puddles within deep forgotten caves believing that their "display picture" gives them the right and power to gaslight, demoralize and denigrate fellow Indian citizens who act in good faith.

Hello everyone, you can listen to my 20 minutes info and dread packed talk on Facts, Not Fear here at this link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4PKtXx… Please watch, share. I speak on my work and ways to fight health misinformation from own experiences of taking on the state supported business driven Ayush industry in India. Hope you will like it.

Meet our shortlist for the 2026 Maddox Prize for standing up for science, supported by the @royalsociety. The award recognises individuals who stand up for science and evidence, despite facing challenges or hostility. Read their stories 👇️ senseaboutscience.org/activi…

My dear friends, something important. I am deeply honored to share that I am one of the eight finalists globally shortlisted for the 2026 John Maddox Prize. Established in 2012 in memory of Sir John Maddox (the legendary former editor of Nature and Fellow of the Royal Society), this global prize, spearheaded by Sense about Science and supported by the Royal Society. It was previously co-awarded by Nature. And honors individuals who stand up for sound science and evidence in the public interest, advancing critical discussions despite facing hostility, powerful vested interests, and severe obstacles. For me, an India-based science communicator and clinician, this recognition carries immense weight. This is the very first time a resident from the Indian Subcontinent has been shortlisted for the Maddox Prize. Speaking truth to power against pseudoscience, predatory health misinformation, and unscientific traditional remedies in a cultural and political ecosystem that heavily endorse them, comes at a steep personal, legal, and professional cost. To stand alongside seven extraordinary global finalists—from public health researchers working under fire in Gaza, to scientists defending rigorous evidence in the UK, France, Bolivia, Mexico, New Zealand, and the US—is deeply humbling for me. I may or may not win. But with this shortlist, India’s advocacy for evidence-based medicine has a place on this global stage. Our patients, our public conversations and our struggles to defend scientific integrity matter beyond our borders. I hope this encourages more doctors and researchers across India, the wider subcontinent and West Asia to speak openly, engage the public and stand by sound evidence. Whatever the result, the work continues. Jai Hind. Please read the official announcement and details of other candidates here: senseaboutscience.org/activi…

Ok I'm tired of this bullshit*t. But in any case, I'll indulge your sealioning nonsense. Yes, people were "treated" in ancient times with herbs and roots and rituals. They also routinely died at age 30 from diarrhea, a scratched knee, or a tooth infection. The argument that modern medicine is "overrated" because ancient people used "jadi buti" (herbs) relies on a spectacular cocktail of logical fallacies and errors in critical thinking. Saying "people managed back then" completely ignores the astronomical infant death rates and the millions who died in agony from infections that a basic antibiotic cures today in 48 hours or a simple drug prevents complications of in this era. You are looking only at the lucky survivors, not the overflowing ancient graveyards. This is your Survivorship Bias. The assumption that because something is old, it must be wise, effective, or true is common human stupidity. Bloodletting, drilling holes in skulls to release demons, and drinking mercury were also ancient medical traditions. Age is a measure of endurance, not of scientific validity. This is your Appeal to Antiquity Fallacy. The romanticized notion that "natural herbs" are inherently safer than "chemical tablets" is an idiocy that never dies in the minds of alternative medicine sympathizers like yourself. Nature is not your friend; it is actively trying to kill you just like "all natural" Ayurveda is too. When an ancient remedy passes rigorous scientific tests, it stops being "alternative medicine" and simply becomes medicine. But when a traditional treatment fails these tests, a rational, scientific system discards it. A dogmatic business promoting system keeps selling it anyway, pointing to 2,000-year-old texts as "proof." Also there is no modern Ayurveda. Ayurveda is, was, and always will be primitive medeival dmbfckery. Hope this was sensible enough. Please don't waste my time anymore.

These are the kind of people who end up as case reports in medical journals.

Sir, I think you need to study the situation a bit better instead of copying what your media is narrating into your teleprompter.

Hi! If you are at The Mumbai Literature Festival, lets meet for the session! This is happening next weekend. Details about the session here: litlive.in/fest26/schedule/t…

This is what happens when Indian government legalizes "Doctor" title for every tom, dick and harry in the country.