Bheja Fry

NeurosurgeonDr Mazda Turel has spent decades encountering the strange, moving and often unexpectedly funny edges of human life through his work.

In these pages you will find a wheelchair-bound woman whose devoted caregiver husband suddenly became a patient himself, a woman whose dog discovered her breast cancer before she did and a brilliant teen with a brain tumour who got his doctor to teach him to read MRI scans.

Through these unusual cases, Dr Turel comes to understand illness not just as a medical condition, but as a test of resilience,identity and the human spirit. Told with warmth, insight and quiet humour, these stories are as colourful and intriguing a they are deeply humane.

Dr Mazda Turel is an internationally trained neurosurgeon who completed his MBBS at Grant Medical College, Mumbai, and an MCh in Neurosurgery at Christian Medical College, Vellore, where he was awarded the rare Jacob Chandy Gold Medal. He has lectured and taught globally and written numerous scientific papers, and is a popular columnist for various publications.