The Affair That Started an Outbreak

The attending just coded in front of his own patient because his mistress gave him the same

infection. I'm standing in the ER watching Doctor Matthews collapse,

laughing hysterically, the same uncontrollable laughter his gunshot victim had an hour ago.

His pupils are blown. His hands are twitching. And I know exactly why. He went to her apartment

last night. The patient's wife. The one he's been sleeping with for months while treating

her husband. Now they're both in isolation, both dying from some mystery pathogen

nobody can identify. I'm the only one who knows they were together. Do I tell the team

and save his career from imploding, or do I let him suffer the consequences while his patient