Elixir Vitae a Story of Her Love: A Doctor’s Saga

By Pallavi Aneja MD

Love. Medicine.

Can they both go together?

Can a doctor too compassionate about medicine be in love, just with as much passion?

Leyah Yale.

The youngest in her family of physicians, born and brought up in Boston, falls in love at a tender age with Nihl Ahmrell, an engineer from a family of lawyers.

Elixir Vitae is a story of Leyah’s love for the man of her life and her patients.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Mar 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543704532

Pallavi Aneja MD

Pallavi Aneja was born and brought up in India. She did her medical school in Ukraine, after which she came to the US in 2006, to pursue her Internal Medicine residency and practice Hospital Medicine. A multilingual, speaking five languages, Pallavi also is also trained in Indian Classical dance, Bhrathanatyam and has performed since age 3, throughout her school years. She won the 'Miss University Pageant' - contest of beauty and talent while she was in Ukraine. Pallavi currently lives in Fort Lauderdale. A busy mother of two and working as a hospitalist, she thoroughly still enjoys cooking and writing, which she has had a passion about since childhood. Elixir Vitae is her first work of fiction, inspired by her compassion in Medicine.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

About the Author

Introduction

Driven by compassion in Medicine personally, touched by the numerous patients encountered on a daily basis in the hospital setting, it was hard to keep my emotions just to myself.

It felt selfish to not share the intensity of joy, stress, of bittersweet moments, of patient’s recovering and being discharged home, to helplessly seeing them go, too far for us to intervene anymore.

To be able to empathize with the ones who’re suffering, just by being by their bedside, is not something that comes with our profession as physicians. It does not come with age or experience either. Nor is it taught at school.

Rather, if we’re able to commiserate with someone hurting, feel their pain, live through their ailment, with an urge, a humane intention to help them get better, probably that’s when one could consider becoming a physician, so as to dedicate their inner self wholly to their profession, to their patients in need.

Anyone born today will eventually die.

Anyone who’ll live before they die, will love.

A story of life, of love, of medicine.

Of a girl, of a doctor.

Elixir Vitae - A Healer’s Saga of Love.

Born as a result of immense exultance, is a person who gets the right essence to live

So is born a person seeing sadness, who knows we’re not here entitled to take it all, but also our share give

Unenlightened I am, if we’re driven by just our nature, being human

To empathize, to commiserate seeing pain around, or rejoice and celebrate with others jubilation

Are we what we become because of how we are or who we are determines what we become

And how much of what we are is the result of compassion, luck seldom..

Written is hence a saga of the heart of a healer..

Elixir Vitae… the story of love of a doctor.

Pallavi Aneja MD

Preface

Special Thanks to the most respected doctors in my life..

My sister, Dr.Parul Aneja, my husband Dr. Ritesh Kaushal, my brother in law, Dr. Anil Chopra.

Dedicating this book to my family, especially my parents,

Mrs. Kamla Aneja and

Mr. Anil Kumar Aneja,

who I am grateful to, from the bottom of my heart, for making me who I am today!

To Ma and Papa… With love!

Chapter 1

1994. Boston

She did not aspire to be a doctor. She was 14.

Leyah.

The burgeoning teenage in her was all about being popular, well known to her peers, yet pining to be distinct from her folks and her two older siblings, physicians, with no exceptions.

In the abyssal of her heart was to wear that white coat though, but the teenage heart wouldn’t let go of the yen for being incommensurable, that is, when she would grow up.

She prepensely chose to ‘not’ choose biology, in order to ascertain her unique aimless target that she herself was still unsure about, to her doctor family.

She was a rebel at heart, her wise parents caught on early. So concealing astutely their wish, their dream, their desire of wanting their youngest child to be a physician as well, agreed with her ideas to be anything but a doctor, hoping to convince the adamant ‘Miss Teenager’, that it was her own idea to choose what she wanted to be.

Sure enough, the game was brief and well played, without any intentions to hurt or harm their precious child’s heart. Simultaneously, precariously molding her career and future to be associated with what they felt was the noblest of all professions.

And in no time, undoubtedly, the youngest doctor in the family was soon in line to be.. seeming to her that it was her very own decision.

She was