Harbhajan Singh Rissam Harbhajan Singh Rissam Harbhajan Singh Rissam (1951-2013) was an Indian interventional cardiologist, philanthropist and writer, known for his medical service and his novel based on medical profession. He was the director of cardiac clinical services at Max Healthcare, Delhi and his maiden novel, "The Scalpel - Game Beneath", the first book of a proposed trilogy published in 2010, is a medical thriller on the medicine mafia. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2006, for his contributions to medical science. Harbhajan Singh Rissam, born in 1951 in Jammu in a Kashmiri
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