We often say that for the patient, the doctor who cares for and cures him, is God incarnate. Indeed, this is true for the doctors who agonize over the agonies of the patients and their relatives, spend sleepless, tireless days and nights in their service. In fact, the doctor and the patient become soulmates in this process. But very often, the doctors feel that they can only treat and the actual healer is the Supreme Power. These twenty-one real life stories capture the anguish that a caring physician feels over the loss of a patient, despite every effort taken. Sometimes these tragedies are quite avoidable, brought on by ignorance and irrational beliefs. There also profiles of brave men and women who face death with equanimity. Like the silver ray that lightens up the cloud of despair, there is also the ecstasy when a patient is brought back to life from the very jaws of death. These moments are the ones that make up for all the heartbreaks that the doctor suffers over the loss of patients…