Paging Dr. Matt Hunter," came the call, and he extracted his tired face from his hands. "Dr. Matt Hunter."
It was time.
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"The first cut is the deepest," Dr. Newman laughed, handing him the scalpel and winking. "Isn't that what they say, Dr. Hunter?"
He nodded and gripped the tool firmly between his fingers like a pencil, tracing in the air its planned route. There was a bleed somewhere and he would find it. He needed to make things right.
It was time.
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