Tobias Carrick

Tobias, a character in the Open Heart series, is a doctor at Mass Kenmore Hospital and Ethan Ramsey's rival. He is first seen in Book 2, Chapter 3.

Appearance
Tobias has short brown cropped hair, tanned skin, hazel eyes and a small beard. He wears a blue shirt underneath a white lab coat.

Personality
Tobias can be described as competitive, since his friendship with Ethan got destroyed over a man/woman along with everything else. His competitiveness can also be seen when your team is forced to compete against his team when diagnosing Leland Bloom.

Book 2

 * Chapter 3: What's Done is Done
 * Chapter 4: Blind Spot (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 5: Influence (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 6: Buying Time
 * Chapter 7: Wake-Up Call (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 8: Fair Game
 * Chapter 9: Undetected
 * Chapter 11: Countdown
 * Chapter 12: Control (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 16: The Kindness of Strangers
 * Chapter 17: Hopeful Hearts (Mentioned)

Book 3

 * Chapter 4: Power Struggles
 * Chapter 5: Too Late
 * Chapter 6: Checks and Balances

Aurora Emery
When you and Aurora are at a diner, another guest collapses. You are about to start chest compressions, but Aurora's quick-thinking stops you when she diagnoses a pulmonary embolism instead of a heart attack. You ask this man to call 911 and he later reveals he works at Mass Kenmore. He hands Aurora his business card, asking her to contact him if she wants a change of pace and says that their trauma needs more cool and motivated doctors. Because he appeared not to recognize her and label her as "Dr. Harper Emery's niece", Aurora takes him up on his offer and transfers to Mass Kenmore.

When Mass Kenmore persuades Stephanie Hill to transfer from Edenbrook to them, you find out that Aurora had mentioned the studies your team wanted to perform and the grants you wanted to apply for. She did not believe telling Tobias would cause him to poach Stephanie from Edenbrook, even though she knows he is a jerk sometimes. Because of this, she decides not to mention seeing you when you decide to poach Ed Farrugia from Mass Kenmore.

In Chapter 16, you and Aurora overhear him and Harper talking about Aurora. It is revealed that he recruited Aurora not to punish Harper, but to entice her to join Mass Kenmore (now Solomon Kenmore). This upsets Aurora, as she realizes he only recruited her because he knew she is Harper's niece, and that he is using her just like how other people used her: to get to her aunt.

Ethan Ramsey
In Book 2, Chapter 6, Ethan reveals they used to be best friends. They attended Hopkins together, where they met at orientation and bonded over their mutual distaste over the faculty's saccharine attempt at having their new students develop camaraderie with each other. They were both troublemakers but where Ethan would take the direct approach, Tobias was the prankster. For example, while Ethan would rather call their professor with outdated theories an "idiot" to his face, Tobias preferred to switch out the professor's projector slides with rude drawings.

They were like brothers and moved in together the following year. However, they wanted too many of the same things: highest G.P.A. (grade point average), the best residency, and the same man/woman (this is determined by your character's gender). Their competitiveness destroyed their friendship.

Years ago, Ethan tried to bury the hatchet but Tobias wasn't interested. Ethan thinks all Tobias wants is to beat him at something, even if it's "who can hold a grudge for longer".

Despite their rivalry, Tobias is willing to help find a cure when you, Rafael, Danny, and Bobby are poisoned. If you did not ask Ethan to stay with you in quarantine, Aurora says watching them work together was like watching them do expert ballet of the minds. If you asked Ethan to stay with you, Ethan does not work with Tobias to find the antidote. Instead Tobias works with the other physicians to help you.

Trivia

 * He is an attending physician at Mass Kenmore.
 * He bears a resemblance to actor Jesse Williams.
 * In Book 3, Chapter 4, he quits Mass Kenmore and goes to work at Edenbrook.