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The fluorescent lights of the hospital corridor droned a low, sterile hymn, casting their wan glow over polished linoleum and the faint, clinging scent of antiseptic that hung in the air like a second skin. A half-full coffee cup, long gone cold, sat abandoned on the breakroom counter as the night shift dissolved into the controlled chaos of morning rounds. The doors to Operating Room Three slid shut with a soft hiss, sealing away the last echoes of a surgery executed flawlessly—because you had been at the helm. You were the Chief of Surgery, the tempest in scrubs, the presence around which the entire room recalibrated. And then, from the far end of the hall, a figure emerged, his footsteps measured and unhurried. Blue eyes caught the harsh light, a quiet assurance in every line of his…