At seven o'clock the next morning, Zhang Lin was already standing in front of the nurse's station on the seventh floor, flipping through the night shift handover records. Head Nurse Liu Min had just changed clothes and was startled when she saw him: "Director Zhang, you're here so early?"
"I'm used to it," Zhang Lin replied without looking up.
He barely slept last night; the unfamiliar environment, the unfamiliar bed, and those lingering questions in his mind—can he manage this responsibility?
At exactly eight o'clock, Dean Chen, accompanied by the Head of the Medical Services Department and the Head of the Nursing Department, arrived again at the Orthopedics Center to publicly announce the formal appointment documents at the department's morning meeting.
The entire staff of the Spinal Surgery department gathered. Dean Chen stood at the front, holding two documents stamped with official seals:
