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Lauren Berger, eager to uphold her "helpful and kind" image, kicked open the operating room door when the film crew came to the hospital for a shoot. With all her enthusiasm, she declared, "Go ahead, film in the operating room. It's the most real thing you'll get!" I was in the middle of surgery when her sudden intrusion startled me, causing me to shake and resulting in a botched operation. The patient bled out and died right there. Afterward, Lauren threw herself into my senior's arms, sobbing and whining, "I was just trying to help! It's not my fault, right?" I was left to bear the brunt of the medical malpractice, while my colleagues gathered around her to comfort her. "You were just trying to help. It's not your fault she couldn't handle the surgery." I was seething with rage. "This is a hospital, not a movie set! You kicked down the door during my surgery! What were you thinking?" She, overcome with shame, threatened to kill herself as an apology. To protect her, Chad Craig, our senior, deleted the footage of her kicking the door and, in an interview, claimed that my lack of skill was the real problem. I was fired from the hospital, ostracized by the entire medical community, and eventually killed by a patient's family seeking revenge. But then I traveled through time, back on the day Lauren kicked down that door.