Summary: Dr. Rajiv Parti is a renowned anesthesiologist and author of Dying to Wake up: A Doctor's Voyage Into the Afterlife and the Wisdom He Brought Back. As the chief anesthesiologist at Bakersfield Heart Hospital in Bakersfield, California, Dr. Parti underwent an emergency surgery for a life-threatening infection. While under the knife, he had a near-death experience (NDE) that changed his life completely. Dr. Parti was so profoundly affected by his NDE he underwent a near complete personality transformation in the weeks and months following his operation. He sloughed off the materialistic trappings he and his family had accumulated over time, selling his mansion and all his expensive cars. He began to reconnect with his wife and children, especially his eldest son, to whom he had often been abusive. He gave up his anesthesiology practice to help people overcome "diseases of the soul" like addiction, depression, and chronic pain through a more holistic, "consciousness-based" healing system that the angels had revealed to him during his NDE.
