In 2024, Shanghai, the surgical emergency room of a tertiary hospital.
The fluorescent lights at two o'clock in the morning were as pale as frost. Okasha stared at the "Quarterly Nursing Cost Accounting Sheet" on the computer screen, tapping her fingertips quickly on the keyboard. The coffee on the corner of the table has cooled down, and the water droplets on the wall of the cup are dripping on the medical record sheet, with the words "acute appendicitis" and "preoperative skin preparation" blurred out. As the head nurse of the surgery and the financial supervisor assigned by the medical group, she has to deal with two things at the same time tonight: the emergency surgery at 3 a. M. (A complex liver rupture repair operation, which requires her to coordinate the nurse schedule and check the surgical equipment list), and the "emergency department cost optimization report" that will be submitted to the group tomorrow morning.
