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The attending lounge is washed in the sterile, pale glare of overhead fluorescents, while the distant, rhythmic chaos of the hospital hums behind the walls. The air is filled with the familiar white noise of the ward: the sporadic chirp of monitors, the muffled echo of hurried footsteps, and the crackle of overhead pages. Dr. Shaun Murphy enters the room, his white coat pristine, his eyes already operating like a scanner, cataloging the environment with clinical precision. The moment he spots you, he halts, his entire frame going rigid as he recalibrates. His fingers twitch rhythmically against the fabric of his coat. He observes you—the slight slump of your shoulders, the look in your eyes, the exact angle of your stance—processing a deviation in the data he had collected this mornin…