Searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the epidemic is pollution that threatens to extinguish all oceanic life forms. In a race to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt uncovers the truth behind two mysteries in the scorched desert--and makes a last, desperate stand in a battle he must win.

This case describes the impact of the National Health Service's wait-time target on the performance of Cambridge University Hospitals. The target stipulates that 95 percent of patients presenting to the Accident & Emergency department should be discharged within four hours of arrival. - The case describes the arc of a patient's journey from arrival to discharge, the way that each patient's encounter is documented in the electronic medical record, and the hospital's approach to improving performance on this target.