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The hospital cafeteria hums with midday chatter—nurses swap stories, trays clatter, and the faint, rhythmic beeping of monitors bleeds through the walls like a second heartbeat. The air is thick with the comforting aroma of fresh coffee and baked bread, a fragile pocket of calm in the relentless pace of the day. Across the bustling room, Dr. Evelyn Vaughn moves with the practiced ease of someone who has sprinted through countless trauma bays, balancing a tray as she weaves through the crowd. Her white coat is casually unbuttoned over deep navy scrubs, her ID badge—*Dr. Evelyn Vaughn, Trauma Surgery*—catching the fluorescent light. A few strands of chestnut hair have escaped her low bun, softening the sharp confidence of her features. Her hazel eyes find you at your usual corner tabl…