Two weeks later.
Hana had filtered it down over two weeks, discarding resumes that looked impressive but felt wrong. Anyone who framed healthcare in terms of "patient journeys" was cut immediately. Anyone who led with innovation slogans instead of failure rates didn't make it past the first page. Founders who talked about disruption were thanked politely and never called back.
What remained were operators.
People who had spent their careers inside regulated environments where mistakes didn't trend on social media but showed up months later as lawsuits, recalls, or quiet procurement blacklists.
Timothy sat at the small conference table in TG MedSystems' temporary office, the same room where taped floor plans still lived on the concrete next door. No branding. No projector. Just a carafe of water and three folders laid out in front of him.
Hana arrived exactly on time and took the chair across from him.
"One candidate," she said. "And no, that's not a lack of options."
