INSIDE THE ARTERIES

In the hidden rooms of hospitals, where life and death balance within a heartbeat, a young doctor discovers what it truly means to heal.

Across fifty relentless days in Indore, interventional radiologist Dr Abhishek Kotwal moves through cath-labs, dim corridors, emergency calls, and the fragile edges of human life. What begins as routine clinical work becomes an intimate journey through exhaustion, courage, doubt, quiet victories, unspoken fears, and the emotional cost of caring for others.

From life-saving embolizations to late-night biopsies, from the stillness of a monitor to the shake in a family's voice, each day reveals a story-sometimes uplifting, sometimes devastating, always real.

But behind every procedure is a human being.
Behind every success is a responsibility.
And behind every loss is a wound a doctor must learn to carry.

Through these pages, Dr Kotwal opens a rare window into the emotional and spiritual landscape of modern medicine. Not with sensationalism-but with honesty, humility, and a deep respect for the people whose lives intersect with his.

Inside the Arteries is not a book about medical cases.
It is a book about people.
About resilience.
About the thin line between clinical precision and human compassion.
About what a doctor learns-not from textbooks, but from the quiet moments no one talks about.

If you have ever wondered what a doctor feels, fears, hopes, and endures...
If you have ever waited outside an operating room...
If you have ever trusted someone with the life of someone you love...

This memoir will stay with you long after the final page.