Medicines can cure diseases, but only a Doctor can cure Patients

Posted by Dr. Umanath Nayak on January 29th, 2021

Synchronizing the virtues of such great medical professionals who strive around the clock to serve and save the patient’s life, making sure the community around was safe and healthy, let’s discuss and honour this eminent personality who’s been rendering his services for than 25+ years in the field of oncology: Dr Umanath Nayak.

Author by Passion and A Doctor by Compassion, Dr Umanath Nayak is one of the highly venerated Oncologists currently working at the Apollo Cancer Centre, Hyderabad.  With the University of California, Davis, New York as his Alma mater, Dr Umanath Nayak is the founder of the Department of Head and Neck Oncology at the Apollo Cancer Institute established to magnify the threat for Cancer in 1995. Besides being a full-time doctor and the founder of the active Department, Dr Umanath Nayak serves as the Coordinator of the AHERF - Head & Neck fellowship program. For his explicit services to the Field of Cancer, he has been twice awarded UICC Fellowship for his revealing projects in the Netherlands (1999) and United Kingdom (2008).  In recent years, he has been regarded and praised as the Best oncologist in India.

His specialized departments in the field of cancer have sprawled across various specialities such as Oral Cancer Surgery and Reconstruction using Local & Micro Vascular Free Flops, Surgery for thyroid cancer, Surgery for Cancer for larynx (Voice-Box) & Pharynx (Food-pipe), surgical voice restoration, and Parotidectomy and other Calvary salad tumour surgery. His eminence and virtuosity in the field of Cancer have protruded his reputation above his profession and amassed much love and respect for him around the community.

Being a Solicitous and very considerate person, Dr Umanath Nayak established the Self-Help Group Community to make Cancer diagnosed survivors and converse and share about their experiences to dismantle the trauma of being a patient and relish the prospect of new life.    

Some Superheroes don’t wear capes; they are called Oncologists. Being a person who played a pivotal role in the lives of thousands among them who lost it to vicious cancer and those who prevailed over it, Dr Umanath Nayak, extended his services and empathy to the cancer world post clinic and bestowed the world with 5 masterpieces (Books) to help and accompany the Courageous Cancer Survivors and to help them in cognizing the world after Cancer and How the latter can avoid it.

Assorting his experiences and articulating them triumphantly and encapsulating them into a Book that fits your hand is an art where Dr Umanath Nayak succeeded undisputedly.  His books are often considered as the friends that help is Self-Healing, post-diagnosis of Cancer, and were recognized by the reputed Medical Officials/Institutes all over the World.

Dr Umanath Nayak’ books are as follows:

Enduring Cancer: Stories of Hope.

Enduring cancer resembles that of an Anthology that verbalizes the lives of people/heroes who transcended the shady clouds of cancer and flew to the Sky of Hope. These true stories are narratives of their hopes and fears, their understanding of the disease and how it changed their lives and the lives of their loved ones around them. This book is a tribute to their fortitude and survival skills. These are stories of hope, of enduring a disease with dignity and courage. These are stories of life beyond cancer and post-cancer lives…

Fatal Margin:

An Enthralling battle between Medical Science and the Extremely Volatile Nature of cancer. A Tribute to the Courageous Patients who battled the Complications of Life with Bravery.

Fatal Margin by Umanath Nayak is arguably India's first Medical Science Thriller that takes you on a ride through non-complexes medical terms and nail-biting narration towards an enlightening conclusion and eye-opening information about the nature of Cancer. The Books makes you analyze the essence of What makes Life Worth it followed by the truth that comes forth in a thrilling battle of wits in the final courtroom drama, raising vital ethical questions about the immense power doctors to hold over us while they negotiate the thin line between saving lives and playing god.

A Beautiful Life:

There’s a lot that revolves and tantalizes inside the head of a Cancer diagnosed patient but what happens to those who deal with them in reality. The family, Loved ones, Friends, etc... A Beautiful Life precisely talks about that side and pain of the story in an artistic narrative structure that compels you to turn the pages towards a beautiful Conclusion. In this book, the author talks about the challenge, hurdles, ordeals of the patients and their loved ones unequivocally involving financial issues, challenges incurred, decisions make compulsions, etc… A beautiful Life demystifies the medical jargon and helps even the slightly medical knowledge readers to understand and acknowledge the lives of the people with medical conditions. 

Voice Restoration after Total Laryngectomy:

Voice restoration after total Laryngectomy addresses not only the very essential function of voice rehabilitation but also other equally important aspects such as pulmonary, olfactory, and psycho-social rehabilitation as well as quality-of-life issues after Laryngectomy. Post-Laryngectomy rehabilitation has produced a tremendous interest in recent times owing to the development of innovative prosthetic devices and other appliances aimed at making life more comfortable for the Laryngectomy. With more and more ENT, head, and neck surgeons performing Laryngectomy regularly, this book aims to provide both the trainees and practising surgeons a comprehensive and practical guide to the total rehabilitation of these patients.

Clinical Radiology of Head and Neck Tumors:

This Special book serves as the best handbook for busy clinicians servicing radiology for neck and head tumours. Clinical radiology of Head and Neck Tumors by Umanath Nayak may sound and avert your attention for being too medically inclusive but for real, this book also serves as a good read that nurtures an interest in the field and can be easily comprehensible even for the people who are off the medical sector.  Balancing the benefits of the investigation ordered with the costs incurred and inconvenience/risks as well as the clinician’s familiarity with that particular imaging modality can be a daunting task. To aid in these decisions, this written book includes case studies and focuses on the two most frequently used imaging modalities for head & neck tumours – CT and MR, presenting illustrations of clinical conditions, and where possible showing CT and MR images side-by-side for comparison.

Besides his unfathomable services to the field of oncology and his empathetic service to the post-cancer world through Books, Dr Umanath Nayak is an established avid blogger drafting extremely sensible blogs that speak with your souls directly, and his recent manoeuvres The Silent Crusader pours his utmost admiration and revere for Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan Dr V Shanta, India’s best oncologist as he recalls his association with the Legendary Oncologist India has ever seen. His other highly influential blogs with riveting content such as The Audacity of Characters, the Year of the Pandemic, Hillary, and Tennis a la mode speaks of the world through respective Medical Perspective and flavour simultaneously causing its readers to experience the world through words with utmost soul and emotional potent pre-inscribed.