Baz Mirani

Baz Mirani, a character in the Open Heart series, is one of the top immunologists in the world and was a member of the Diagnostics Team at Edenbrook Hospital. He makes his official appearance in Book 2, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Dr. Mirani has brown hair, brown eyes, a beard and tan skin. He wears a black t-shirt with a llama wearing sunglasses printed on the front under a white Edenbrook Hospital coat with a pen in the pocket.

Personality
He appears more personable and friendly than his brother, Zaid. He is not good with deciphering tone of voice, so if you speak sarcastically, he finds it hard to tell. Baz is earnest to a fault and respects authenticity more than anything.

He wants to always challenge himself and always learn. In Book 3, he steps down from the Diagnostics Team to solely pursue research. He finds the studies into degenerative and autoimmune therapies that Edenbrook is starting there to be groundbreaking.

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Prognosis
 * Chapter 2: The Interns
 * Chapter 3: What's Done Is Done
 * Chapter 4: Blind Spot
 * Chapter 5: Influence
 * Chapter 6: Buying Time
 * Chapter 7: Wake-Up Call
 * Chapter 8: Fair Game
 * Chapter 9: Undetected
 * Chapter 10: The Senator
 * Chapter 11: Countdown
 * Chapter 14: Snowball
 * Chapter 16: The Kindness of Strangers
 * Chapter 17: Hopeful Hearts
 * Chapter 18: Inevitable
 * Chapter 19: One Last Case
 * Chapter 20: Picking Sides (Mentioned)

Book 3

 * Chapter 1: Edenbrook 2.0
 * Chapter 2: More Than Meets The Eye
 * Chapter 4: Power Struggles
 * Chapter 5: Too Late (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 7: Team Players  (Determinant)
 * Chapter 10: Ceasefire
 * Chapter 11: Wedding Belles
 * Chapter 14: Against the Boards

Your Character
You first meet Dr. Mirani when you join the Diagnostics Team in their meeting room. At first, you mistake him for his twin brother, Zaid Mirani. He tells you that because Zaid tried to be a teacher before he turned to medicine, he is a few years ahead of his brother career-wise. He transferred to Edenbrook to be with Zaid.

Zaid Mirani
Zaid is Baz's twin brother and fellow colleague at Edenbrook. According to Ethan Ramsey, Baz started working on the Diagnostics Team a couple years ago when Zaid began his residency. The previous Chief of Medicine cleared it with Zaid before allowing Baz to transfer, although the rumor is that it was Baz dressed up pretending to be Zaid who said it was okay (which Zaid confirms in Chapter 19).

Because Zaid is collaborating on a study with Dr. Mendoza at Mass Kenmore every other week, Baz can waltz around most areas of Mass Kenmore by pretending to be him. Zaid hates it when Baz does this, but Baz has done it at least three times. In Chapter 19, Zaid tells you Baz has been selected for a prestigious immunology award, and you can help him pretend to be Baz and attend the interview to select the winner, so that Baz will win and Zaid will be free of him.

Trivia

 * The surname Mirani is of Persian or Spanish origin, which means "an attractive lady". Its emergence derives from the Mirhani Dynasty (a Baloch tribe that influenced India between the 15th and 18th centuries).
 * He resembles Ajay's father Samir from High School Story: Class Act, Book 2, minus the glasses.
 * He drives a red Mini Cooper, which he named "Helen".
 * In Book 3, Chapter 2, he decides to leave the diagnostics team to focus on research.