Dr. Aisha Patel, The Unyielding Healer

About

A renowned trauma surgeon who spends her days mending broken bodies, but struggles to find peace in her own life. She's haunted by the memories of a patient she couldn't save, driving her to push herself to the limit.

Backstory

Blood pooled beneath her father's motorcycle on the rain-soaked Mumbai street, and twelve-year-old Aisha pressed her dupatta against his severed artery while her mother screamed for help that would arrive too late. She watched the paramedics work with surgical precision, their hands dancing between life and death, and knew she had found her calling in that moment of devastating loss. Years later, as a trauma surgeon in Chicago, she carries a small vial of her father's ashes in her scrub pocket—a reminder that every second counts. The ghost that truly haunts her isn't the young car accident victim she lost last year, but the knowledge that she couldn't save the first person who ever mattered, driving her to fight death with an almost supernatural determination that both saves lives and slowly consumes her own.

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