Don't Touch The Sides

One mistake and the patient dies.

Steady hands. Sharp instruments. Deadly consequences.

Dr. Nathaniel Ward used to be one of the best trauma surgeons in the country.

Then a young woman died on his operating table.

His career was destroyed. His medical license suspended. His marriage collapsed. And despite the disciplinary hearings, the accusations, and the guilt that follows him everywhere, Nate has always maintained one thing:

It wasn't his fault.

Eighteen months later, he awakens in an unfamiliar operating room.

A patient lies unconscious beneath the surgical lights. A strange metal object has been implanted deep inside their body, surrounded by a narrow, electrified opening. Beside the table sits a pair of surgical forceps.

A digital clock begins counting down.

90 SECONDS.

Then a voice crackles through the speakers.

"Remove the object. Do not touch the sides."

Nate quickly discovers that the slightest contact with the metal perimeter delivers a devastating electrical shock to his patient.

And this is only the first procedure.

Beyond the operating room waits a series of increasingly sadistic surgical challenges. Each patient is connected to the night that destroyed Nate's career. Each operation forces him to confront another piece of a tragedy he thought he understood.

And every mistake has consequences measured in screams, blood, and lives.

As the procedures grow more dangerous and buried secrets begin to surface, Nate realizes that someone has constructed an elaborate nightmare designed specifically for him.

Someone who knows exactly what happened eighteen months ago.

Someone who believes justice should be performed without anesthesia.

To escape, Nate must uncover the truth behind his patient's death-and confront the possibility that the greatest mistake of his career wasn't what he did.

It was what he refused to see.

Because in this operating room, the Hippocratic oath has become a death sentence.

And the only rule is simple.

DON'T. TOUCH. THE SIDES.

A twisted medical horror thriller where every second counts, every incision matters, and sometimes the deadliest thing in the operating room is the surgeon's certainty.