Most sixteen year-olds cause at least some damage on their path to adulthood. But Saira Sehgal has vowed to first do no harm. A girl genius, she’s the youngest MD in America - and she hasn’t picked an easy specialty: She’s working in the cancer ward.
Saira’s always been good at getting what she wants, but she’s new to adult challenges - like getting out from under the thumb of her doting mother, who works at the same hospital; like proving herself to coworkers who don’t take her seriously; and crushing on a cute boy who happens to have stage-two leukemia.
Turns out “heartbreak” is one ailment Saira still doesn’t know how to treat.
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Sona Charaipotra is not a doctor--much to her pediatrician parents' chagrin. She has worked as a celebrity reporter at People and TeenPeople and has contributed to publications from the New York Times to TeenVogue . She uses her Masters in screenwriting from NYU and her MFA in creative writing from the Ne
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