After quitting the attending doctor's team, the wife was taken to court

The hospital director's mom was seriously ill, and my wife, Sarah, kept the surgery time from me, all to give her crush, Ethan, a chance to shine. When I finally showed up, the director ripped into me outside the OR, accusing me of being unprofessional. Seeing right through Sarah's scheme, I just handed over the lead surgeon role to Ethan. "If you're so eager, knock yourself out," I said.

The nurses urged me not to be impulsive. This was a huge opportunity to impress the director. But they didn’t know something: I was the only surgeon in the country who could perform the rare valve surgery the director's mom needed. Even if Ethan's quick fix made her seem better temporarily, without my diagnosis and procedure, his surgery would ultimately fail, and he'd be held responsible. And Sarah's blind support for him? She'd regret it big time.

It all started when the director’s mom needed emergency heart surgery. Thirty minutes before the procedure, Sarah, my wife and surgical assistant, called me to the director’s office, claiming there was a mistake in the patient's chart and her condition had worsened.