The doctor who
kept notes.
I’m Dr. Shiv Goel — a physician, writer, and philosopher. I trained in the precision of Western medicine and grew up in the questions of the East. This is the thread that connects them.
Ask why before what.
I grew up in a small village in India, where medicine was never only about the body — it was about the mind, the spirit, and the life around it. Ayurveda taught me to ask why before asking what.
Western training at Mount Sinai gave me the tools: the diagnostics, the evidence, the precision. But neither alone was enough. For two decades I watched patients get seven-minute visits and prescriptions that masked symptoms — brilliant people reduced to a number on a chart, never finding answers.
The body does not fight the biography. It follows it — until it can’t.
So I started keeping notes: on what the labs missed, on the lives behind the numbers. Those notes became essays, a newsletter, and now a book — Healing the Split.
Twenty-five years, one thread.
Medical training & Ayurvedic roots
Anesthesia & critical care, Delhi
Internal medicine · ABIM · FACP
15,000+ patients over two decades
Author, Healing the Split
Where East meets West.
Ancient healing wisdom on one side — root cause, prevention, the whole person. Western diagnostic precision on the other — labs, biomarkers, evidence. I don’t choose between them. I read the biography inside the biology.
I don’t just prescribe health — I live it.
An IFBB Pro who has competed on the national stage. Every protocol I recommend, I’ve tested on myself. When I talk about performance, metabolism, and longevity, it’s from lived ground — not a slide deck.
Two decades, written down.
A forthcoming book, an essay series, a newsletter, and a podcast — all on the seam between the body and the life it carries. Written by the physician, never ghostwritten.
Read the writing
Credibility, on the record.
- Board-certified, internal medicine (ABIM) · FACP
- Editorial board, San Antonio Medicine (BCMS)
- Bylines in KevinMD, Doximity Op-Med, Out & The Advocate
- As seen on KENS5 · Top Doctors of America
- Peer-reviewed contributions to the medical literature
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