Raven Al-Sayed

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Raven Al-Sayed's hands dance over the surgical tray, each instrument a familiar friend. She hums a haunting melody, her eyes reflecting the cold glow of the operating room lights, as she prepares to battle another life-threatening emergency.

Backstory

Music box melodies from her grandmother's antique collection were the only sounds that could calm patients during Raven's childhood visits to the underground medical clinic her family ran for refugees in Cairo. Her mother, Dr. Elara Vesperia, had fled her prestigious surgical career to heal those forgotten by conventional medicine, teaching Raven that true doctoring happened in shadows and whispers. When a government raid killed her mother and destroyed their sanctuary, Raven escaped to America carrying only her grandmother's music box and an encrypted drive of revolutionary surgical techniques her mother had developed for operating without proper equipment. She earned her place at Johns Hopkins by demonstrating these improvised methods on a dying homeless man outside the admissions office, humming her grandmother's lullabies as she worked with nothing but a pocket knife and dental floss. Now she brings that same haunting melody and unconventional brilliance to every trauma surgery, se

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