Revised and Expanded Edition. New for 2024.

Dr. Timothy McCall's career has included three phases: first he was a board-certified specialist in internal medicine, then a consumer health care advocate, and finally a scholar, teacher and practitioner of yoga therapy. To survive the next phase of his life — Stage 4 throat cancer — he would need all he'd learned in each of these worlds. All he'd learned before turned out to be just the beginning of his education on cancer. Set in both the US and India, Saving My Neck: A Doctor's East/West Journey through Cancer is the story of that journey of discovery and healing.

"This kind of integrative approach is the future of health care, and as this book deftly illustrates, it can be the present, too." – Mark Hyman, MD, Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and #1 New York Times bestselling author, Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?

"There is so much wisdom in this heartfelt, moving, and deeply personal book. Dr. Timothy McCall takes us on a colorful journey from South India through the halls of American hospitals. He deftly describes how he wove together the best of conventional and complementary medicine into a treatment plan that was both safe and effective." – Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, Professor and Director, Integrative Medicine Program, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Co-Author, Anticancer Living

“Dr. Timothy McCall’s new book documents his life-changing journey using Ayurvedic and Western medicine to cure his cancer. It is a guide that will change your life.” – Dr. John Douillard, DC CAP, bestselling author of Eat Wheat and Body, Mind and Sport; Founder of LifeSpa.com

"Authoritative, compelling, and down-to-earth, Saving My Neck is also surprisingly relatable ,,, I love this book." – Dr. Claudia Welch, DOM, author of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness Through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Western Science

Timothy McCall, MD is the author of two other critically acclaimed books, Examining Your Doctor and the Amazon #1 bestseller Yoga as Medicine. He co-edited and contributed to the medical textbook,The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care. He has spent time with many of the world's leading yoga teachers and yoga therapists including BKS Iyengar and TKV Desikachar. In 2005, he began his studies with a traditional Ayurvedic doctor, Chandukutty Vaidyar, and spent more than a year at his clinic in Kerala, India. Yoga Journal's medical editor for 18 years, Timothy is possibly the only person whose work has appeared in both The New England Journal of Medicine and Andrei Codrescu’s poetry journal, Exquisite Corpse. DrMcCall.com