Still Reflections: Through the Lens of a Physician

A Pediatric Oncologist’s Stories of Hope, Loss, and Resilience

In Still Reflections, pediatric oncologist Dr. Amulya Rao invites readers into the emotional landscape of pediatric cancer care, where hope and heartbreak often coexist in the same breath.

Through deeply personal narratives from the frontlines of medicine, Dr. Rao shares:

• Stories of children and families navigating life-threatening illness
• The emotional weight carried by physicians who care for them
• Reflections on mortality, faith, resilience, and love
• Original nature photography woven as powerful symbolism alongside human suffering and healing

Blending medicine, humanity, and visual art, this memoir reveals how moments in nature — a single droplet of water, shifting light across a landscape — can mirror the fragility and strength of the human spirit.

Readers describe the book as “artfully weaving together medicine and humanity… I had tears in my eyes reading this entire book.”

This book will resonate with physicians, healthcare professionals, caregivers, families touched by cancer, and anyone seeking meaning in life’s most profound moments.