Melissa Yi is an emergency physician and award-winning author best known for her "Hope Sze" medical mystery series. Drawing from her firsthand experiences working in Canadian hospitals, Yi crafts gripping narratives that explore the complexities of modern healthcare through the eyes of her protagonist, a medical resident navigating the challenges of emergency medicine.
As both a practicing doctor and writer, Yi brings authenticity to her fiction, particularly in depicting the realities of hospital environments across different provinces. Her background working in Ontario and Quebec informs the series' setting and plotlines, with the latter province serving as a particularly rich source of professional challenges that translate compellingly to the page. Yi's dual expertise allows her to blend medical accuracy with suspenseful storytelling.