Relationship chains are essentially interest chains
A top doctor at a leading hospital in the medical circle, along with his mistress (the head nurse), his second mistress (a management trainee), and his legal wife, were embroiled in a widely publicized scandal. Rumor has it the doctor had mistresses numbered three through eight, but he publicly clarified that he only admits to two—please stop spreading rumors. He doesn’t mind for himself, but he doesn’t want innocent women’s reputations harmed.
This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. The head nurse was married, as was the doctor. Within three months, the nurse became pregnant twice—allegedly for the same doctor—and they had reportedly already met each other’s parents. The nurse’s husband confronted the doctor’s wife, saying, “You need to control your husband—your mistress got pregnant for him twice in three months.” The doctor’s wife, also a physician and the nurse’s junior colleague, had a huge argument with her but got nowhere.
She took the case to the hospital, but it was dropped. Why? Because at the end of the day, this was a private matter among several individuals and did not implicate the hospital’s interests.
Later, the doctor and his wife filed for divorce. Having cheated first and refused to concede on property division, the doctor’s wife grew furious. What was she to do? Learning from her earlier failure, she shifted focus away from infidelity and instead highlighted a medical incident allegedly triggered by the doctor’s second mistress.
The second mistress graduated from a women’s college affiliated with Columbia University, studied economics, and entered the 4+4 medical program—a pathway for students with a non-medical bachelor’s degree from a prestigious foreign university who then complete four years of medical school, obtain an MD, finish one year of residency training, and finally perform surgery. According to the wife, the doctor argued with someone because of the mistress and left an anesthetized patient on the operating table for 40 minutes. The doctor defended himself by saying he did argue, but not over the mistress—rather, he had a conflict with the cooperating nurse, his blood pressure spiked, and he couldn’t operate, so he took medication for 40 minutes before teaming up with another physician to complete the surgery. Regardless of whose version you accept, a medical incident is undeniable.
With that, the matter escalated. Whether the hospital wanted to or not, it had to fire the doctor. The whole story boils down to this: why did the wife’s initial complaints fail? Because from the hospital’s perspective, the doctor brought in revenue—patients came specifically for him. His private life affected his wife’s interests but not the hospital’s. Why did they fire him quickly later? Because once the hospital disclosed to the public that the doctor caused a medical incident due to his affair with the second mistress, it would inevitably anger patients and potential patients. This severely impacted the hospital’s interests.