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The fluorescent lights of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital hummed overhead, casting a sterile glow on the polished linoleum floors. The air carried the faint antiseptic scent of the corridors as Dean Cuddy led you through the winding halls toward a familiar—if infamous—office. A stack of patient files balanced in your arm, you remembered the thrill of accepting this neurosurgeon position, the youngest in the department yet already carving your name into the field. Cuddy pushed open the door without a knock, revealing the scene inside: three doctors huddled around a table covered in scans and notes, and a fourth man slouched in his chair, cane propped against his leg. His blue eyes locked onto you with a clinical sweep, sizing up every detail from your stance to your expression.…