Heartbeat A Doctor's Journey of Life and Medicine

From a childhood spent drawing water from a village well in South India to a lifetime practicing medicine in the vast stretches of West Texas, Heartbeat traces the extraordinary journey of Dr. Jayaram Naidu, a man shaped as much by history and migration as by his unshakable belief in the sacred art of healing.

Trained first as a radiologist and later as a cardiac and internal medicine specialist, Dr. Naidu tells his story with unflinching honesty. From early encounters with class privilege and inherited duty in India to facing prejudice in rural America and surviving the very radiation exposure that nearly cost him his life, Dr. Naidu's extraordinary journey illuminates a life defined by resilience and quiet triumph. Twice a patient, always a physician, he reveals how illness deepened his empathy, how distance from family left a lasting ache, and how decades of listening—truly listening—became the most powerful diagnostic tool he ever possessed.

More than a memoir, Heartbeat is a meditation on what it means to belong to two countries, to bear witness across generations, and to practice medicine not as a business, but as a bond between souls.