India, Jan. 2 -- While many spent the first day of the year enjoying time with their loved ones, one cardiologist faced a choice that meant missing a rare family moment.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Dr Mukharjee Madivada, senior interventional cardiologist from Hyderabad, shared how he missed a promised lunch with his daughter due to an emergency angioplasty for a patient having a massive heart attack.

"My daughter wanted to have lunch with me today. On weekdays, that is almost never possible. But today was the first of January, and I promised her I would come," the caption of the post reads.

According to the post, at 1.30 pm, just as the doctor was about to leave, a 30-year-old man, Mahesh (name changed), was rushed into the hos...