A Doctor's Story of Family and Faith traces the extraordinary life of Dr. Shahnaz Qureshi Shaikh, born in 1945 into a proud and accomplished Muslim family in northern India. From her earliest years as the youngest of seven children, shaped by a father of quiet integrity and a mother of steadfast devotion, Shahnaz carried with her a fierce determination to become a doctor. That determination took her across borders — to medical school in Pakistan at just thirteen years old, to specialist training and the Royal College in England, to the hardships of building a life and a career in America, and finally to her own thriving OB-GYN practice in Orange County, California, where she was recognised as one of the best in her field. Woven through decades of professional achievement are the deeper threads of her story: a whirlwind marriage to Mohammed, raising three children while navigating unemployment, medical emergencies, and the grief of losing parents and siblings far from home. In retirement, she turned her singular focus to Islamic studies, completing the Quran in two years and beginning a four-year diploma — finding, at last, credentials not for this world but for the next.