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“Listen up, girl. You ghetto nurses need to know your place — fetch coffee, empty bedpans, and keep your mouth shut.”

The words cut deeper than the slap itself.

The crowded emergency room at Mercy General Hospital froze in stunned silence. Maya Thompson, a 26-year-old nurse, stood motionless as the sting of the slap spread across her cheek. In front of her stood Dr. Marcus Williams, the attending physician — tall, arrogant, and notorious for treating nurses as subordinates, not colleagues.

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