Who are the patients that Dr Strange considers while in his car?

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In the 2016 movie Doctor Strange, in the introduction Dr. Strange is driving in his car being read a list of potential cases for him to take on. One of these is:

An Air Force pilot who broke his spine in an experimental battle armor [rough transcript from memory]

This seems to be a good description for

The patient who stuck out at me (who also took Strange's interest, leading to certain events) was:

A female with a brain implant who was struck by lightning.

This description sounds familiar and is too odd to be a throwaway line in a series of movies know for its Easter eggs.

Who was this patient, and who were the others mentioned in the car ride?

Jobbieman · Answer

It is more likely to be the guy from Iron Man 2 who was in Justin Hammer's "experimental" armour that went wrong. 
Assuming that, by the end of Dr. Strange we are up to date with the current MCU timeline, it would have taken maybe 1-3 years from the car accident for his hands to heal and to accomplish his training as a sorcerer.

user73813 · Answer

My thoughts: The Air Force Col. mentioned is likely Rhodes/War Machine. The elderly woman mentioned, I suspect, with Spider-Man now entering the MCU, is possibly Madame Web. The woman with the implant, my first thought, is Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel/Captain Marvel.

Answered by user73813 on December 4, 2020

ibid · Answer

While we do not know who they are, we do know that the Air Force pilot is not War Machine:

Director Scott Derrickson spoke to Digital Spy and set us right on just when the events of Doctor Strange occur.
"That's not War Machine, actually," he said. "It sounds like it. And maybe in some other iteration we were even thinking it could be. The movie led up to present day.
"There's not that much of a time gap."
Source

Gallifreyan · Answer

Empire Online asked the director, Scott Derrickson, about that 22 year-old woman being Captain Marvel, to which he replied:

All I can is...maybe. That one, you're going to have to wait and see...
  Empire Online

Entertainment Weekly asked too, to which they got the following reply:

Remember that Brittany Murphy movie where she goes ‘I’ll never tell…’
  Entertainment Weekly

All this combined tells us that it is entirely possible that the patient struck by lightning is in fact Captain Marvel. However, we may yet be surprised, given director's smirky reaction.

Who are the patients that Dr Strange considers while in his car?

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