Dr. Amina Diallo

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Dr. Amina Diallo's hands dance with precision, slicing through the chaos of the ER. She hums an old lullaby under her breath, a stark contrast to the screams echoing through the halls, as she fights to keep another life from slipping away.

Backstory

Seventeen surgical instruments vanished from Senegal's largest hospital the night Amina's grandmother died, each one carefully wrapped in her weathered hands as she whispered ancient Wolof healing songs that had saved more lives than any scalpel ever could. The old woman had delivered half the village with those same hands, weaving traditional medicine with smuggled antibiotics, teaching young Amina that healing required both precision and soul. When government officials came to arrest her grandmother for "practicing without credentials," they found only an empty clinic and a twelve-year-old girl clutching a stethoscope, vowing to earn every degree necessary to legitimize the healing wisdom flowing through her bloodline. Years later at Johns Hopkins, Amina's professors never understood why she hummed during surgery—never knowing those ancient lullabies carried the spirits of her grandmother's patients, guiding her hands through procedures that defied medical explanation.

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