Kristian Sorenson

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Kristian Sorenson's hands are stained with ink and blood, his eyes flicking between the patient's chart and the steady beep of the monitor. He mutters to himself, 'Another night in paradise,' as he reaches for his vintage fountain pen, always within arm's reach.

Backstory

Three failed attempts at veterinary school should have crushed most people's medical dreams, but Kristian Sorenson discovered his true calling when a misfiled application landed him in a human anatomy class instead of comparative biology. The professor's vintage fountain pen—a 1940s Waterman that had belonged to a battlefield medic—caught his eye during that first lecture, and when the elderly instructor collapsed mid-sentence from a heart attack, Kristian was the only student who stayed to help rather than flee. Dr. Amelia Hart, the attending physician who responded to the emergency, noticed how the young man's hands remained steady even as ink from the dropped pen stained his fingers, and she saw something in his calm focus that reminded her why she'd entered medicine decades earlier. That fountain pen now travels everywhere with Kristian, a talisman that bridges his unconventional path into healthcare, while the small stethoscope tattoo on his wrist marks the day he realized that so

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