Leland Bloom

Leland Bloom, a character in the Open Heart series, is one of the biggest tech investors in history and the third richest person in America. He makes his official appearance in Book 2, Chapter 6.

Appearance
Leland has blue-gray eyes, silver-gray hair, and tan skin. He wears a white dress shirt, light blue sweater, and dark blue floral ascot.

Personality
Leland is a shrewd and competitive businessman. He believes that competition brings out the best talent in people and is not above spending money to get what he needs.

Book 2

 * Chapter 6: Buying Time
 * Chapter 18: Inevitable
 * Chapter 19: One Last Case

Caroline Bloom
Caroline Bloom is Leland's wife. She tells you about his symptoms when your team arrives at their home, but does nothing to dissuade him about his choices. In Chapter 18, Leland asks you and the diagnostics team for help since she is dying.

Your Character
You, Ethan, Baz, and June first meet Leland at his estate. After your team's success with Gwyneth Monroe, he wants your team to compete against the Mass Kenmore team to figure out what's wrong with him. When you discover and tell him that he has Berger's disease and Ethan tells him that a double kidney transplant would theoretically be the best option in his case, he makes phone calls to secure himself the kidneys he needs. You surmise he bought them from willing donors, and feel it is unfair that he can spend the money to "buy time" while others have to wait for suitable organ donors. His disease would eventually recur with his transplanted organs but he thinks he'll die of old age before he destroys them.

In Chapter 18, at your last day at Edenbrook, he comes to the old diagnostics team's office. He asks you and Ethan for help. He states that his wife is about to die and when Ethan suggests going to Mount Mercy, he tells you two that they cannot find the cause. You and Ethan agree to do one last case to help them.

Ethan Ramsey
When you and the team drive to Leland's house, Ethan protests pandering to rich men to help Edenbrook's financial problems. You can either blow up at him or apologize for trying to save the hospital. When he finds out that Leland wants his team to compete against Dr. Tobias Carrick's team, he is not happy. After running through his symptoms and ruling out diseases such as Hodgkin lymphoma and lupus, you suggest a kidney ultrasound to locate the source of the bleeding, but Leland refuses to cancel his yachting meeting. If you choose to join them on their yacht, you and Ethan bring a portable ultrasound machine to use. Upon your results, you tell him he needs to come back to the hospital. There, Ethan tells him he has high levels of immunoglobulin A, which has been building up in his kidneys for decades and is now damaging them. His best bet is a double kidney transplant but he would probably die waiting on the transplant list. Leland secures himself donors willing to give him a kidney each, bypassing the need to wait on the transplant list.

Trivia

 * He shares the same first name as Leland St. James.