Two 50-something senior doctors got into a lover’s brawl over a nurse at a hospital in China which ended with one of them in the intensive care unit (ICU) which he runs. The fight between the pair erupted on July 18 over a 27-year-old nurse who works at the same hospital. It involved the director of the department of stomatology at Wuxi People’s Hospital, Jiangsu province in eastern China and his colleague, the director of the same hospital’s emergency department They came to blows out of jealousy after discovering that they were both dating the nurse simultaneously, according to the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported.
The emergency department’s director, surnamed Xu, suffered serious injured to his head, neck and right hand. Xu was knocked unconscious and told fellow doctors it was the result of “an accidental fall”. Xu, who is a 50-year-old divorcee, was first sent to his hospital’s orthopaedics department for surgery on an injured finger before being transferred to the ICU he heads up.
It is not clear if the other doctor involved in the fight suffered any injuries. According to online chat records of colleagues, the nurse was dating them both at the same time without letting them know about the existence of the other. One of the doctors had bought her a villa while the other gifted her a luxury car.
The row erupted when the buyer of the villa, came to the house to pick her up and found the other man. It is understood that the nurse, whose identity was not rele.