In the silence between surgeries, in the breath held before a difficult diagnosis, and in the soft, unwritten moments of care-Salt in the Suture takes root.
Blending lyrical prose, micro-poems, and lived experience, Dr. Akshay Hanamshetti offers a deeply personal anatomy of what it means to be a Surgeon in a world that often forgets doctors are human too.
Here, a surgeon questions success.
Here, grief shows up in the locker room.
Here, love makes tea at 2 a.m.
And healing-slow, defiant, imperfect-finds its way through the sutures.
Salt in the Suture is not a manual.
It's a mirror.
For anyone who has ever cared too deeply, stayed too long, or quietly broken while holding someone else together.