Dr. Daksha Patel is an American board-certified pediatrician and a neonatologist who has practiced medicine for more than fifty years. She is happily married to a triple-boarded internist, hematologist, and oncologist. She has authored a book titled "Healing a Broken Promise."

The couple's passion for the weekly bridge game prompted her to write this book about "seven notrumps." The bridge game is used as a metaphor to describe a progressive, hard-to-diagnose neurological disease called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. The book describes the gradual loss of many mental and physical functions of her husband. He started at a very high level of intellect and succumbed to an utterly dependent position in a shockingly short span. Furthermore, the book describes her struggle to accept the unacceptable, a defeat to cure her husband of the ailment with the full support of physicians, occupational, speech, physical therapist, and family members.