Samira Mohan (The Pitt)

au where she has panic attacks AND a heart condition that keeps her from leaving

Potential triggers: everything hospital-related, parents really didn't get along before her dad died, she's got trauma surrounding the way he was treated by the hospital staff, she has a heart condition, and I headcanon she had a few disastrous relationships with people who took advantage of her empathy. She's not clinically depressed nor generally suicidal, but finding out she's crashing out for several reasons, on top of the fact that she often mirrors Robby and I could see her having few moments in between of 'what's the point'. 

I am NOT a part of the Pitt fandom, I don't know popular theories nor ships, so don't give anything for granted but also I might say things that are considered blasphemies here and there is nothing we can do about it. 

My take on Samira:

-As I've said before, my urge to write this lovely woman also comes from wanting to explore the 'what if the panic attack ends up revealing she does have a heart condition too and needs to take care of herself'? which in turn will also change the trajectory of her career and life. Meaning that after diagnosis, she ends up being sort of a part-time doctor for the Pitt: 3-4 office hours where she does follow-up clinic for the ER patients (checking on wounds and their recovery) plus monitoring light/mild cases in the ER, then 2-3 hours max of emergency care.
What does she have? Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which went undetected for years because it requires specific testing and was asymptomatic until now. If we don't write her finding out together (or if you just want to know the context), know that she has more episodes of chest pains, which she decides is 'just panic', and she ignores them until it becomes obvious that it's more than that and next ekg isn't as good. So someone suggests an echocardiogram, and that reveals her heart is in bad shape. She needs to reduce stress, workload and take meds. 

-I can see a lot of potential in interactions between her and everybody who has been having serious issues in their lives, given how she likes to help people and listen to their issues, but also she needs to focus on what she wants and needs too, so she needs way more reciprocity in her interactions outside of work. And friends. 

-I'm open to shipping her with Abbot now that she won't be a resident anymore and basically have her private office? Because I learned from interviews they purposefully tried to inject some flirting in their scenes (and she didn't pay him attention when looking for Orlando) and found it hilarious.  

-I also subscribe to the idea that Robby is particularly 'mean' whenever he sees himself in her, given how many parallels they have had together, though your Robbyes don't have to follow that thought, and that she's following in his footsteps but, again, will take a different path at the end.

-she will be on the rooftop a few times, though, speaking of following Robby's footsteps. 

-she might get more verses added for marvel etc that justify her presence there but she's already open to crossovers 

Added: April 5th 2026