Do you all know about the recent scandal involving Dr. Xiao and Ms. Dong from the Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital?

The cause was a report submitted by Dr. Xiao Fei’s wife from the Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital, which detailed Dr. Xiao’s extramarital affairs with multiple women after marriage, including his affair with Dr. Dong Xiying, a resident physician, helping Dong violate hospital regulations, and pulling Dong out of the operating room, leaving patients on the operating table for 40 minutes, and other malicious incidents.

Dr. Xiao was indeed furious in the operating room for the sake of his lover, but if I were the nurses and patients on the anesthesia table, I would be truly numb… Can this kind of person be called a doctor?? Is this something a human would do??

Subsequently, everyone followed the trail of this mistress, Dong Xiying, and discovered even more shocking inside stories!

Online public opinion has shifted from ordinary discussions of affairs to questioning the fairness of education and even the safety of patients’ lives by doctors. The matter is very complex, and I have deeply investigated Dr. Dong’s academic path, and I will sort it out for everyone!

1. Dr. Dong’s Rapid Medical School Path

In the official announcement from Peking Union Medical College, Ms. Dong is presented as an outstanding example. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Columbia University, a 4+4 medical pilot program, and graduated with a Ph.D. in medicine from Peking Union Medical College, with the prestigious overseas returnee + Peking Union Medical College Ph.D. halo fully loaded! But a deep dive reveals that it can’t withstand deep scrutiny at all!

Dong Xiying’s undergraduate degree was in economics from Barnard College, Columbia University. Columbia University is indeed a world-class university, and Barnard College is also a college under Columbia University. Some online sources say it’s a third-tier, unaccredited college, but I checked and it’s ranked 14th among the 211 liberal arts colleges in the United States, which is actually not bad. But the admission threshold is indeed lower than that of Columbia University’s main campus, so it cannot be generalized.

Secondly, it’s the 4+4 medical pilot program that turned Ms. Dong, who studied economics, into a Doctor of Medicine.

This is a reform pilot program launched by Peking Union Medical College, aimed at students who did not major in medicine as undergraduates. After being admitted, you study medicine for 4 years, and you will graduate with a Doctor of Medicine from Peking Union Medical College. This system is designed to integrate multidisciplinary genes into the medical field. However, according to the introduction, universities also need to have a foundation in biology and chemistry. I don’t know if Ms. Dong learned them when she studied economics.

I have screenshots of the admission requirements from the official website, and you can compare them yourself to see if you can get in.

There is also a question here: Ms. Dong entered the Peking Union Medical College 4+4 program in 2019. I looked up the 2019 U.S. News liberal arts college rankings, and Barnard College was only ranked 25th? Perhaps the admission requirements vary each year.

The key is how Dr. Dong studied? She spent 4 years of medical doctoral training at Peking Union Medical College from 2019 to 2023. Ordinary medical students often take 8 years or 5+3+4, a total of 12 years to study medicine, but she finished it in 4 years, including the period of the pandemic. I don’t know if she took online courses in medicine.

And the amazing thing is that the beginning of her doctoral dissertation is related to gynecological imaging 

The doctoral dissertation advisor is a leading expert in orthopedics

The degree is a Doctor of Internal Medicine

She is also the first author of the clinical practice guidelines for bladder cancer

In addition, according to previous reports, she is currently a resident physician in urology. She is truly a composite talent in interdisciplinary fields! And for all these achievements, she only spent 4 years. This is the real heaven-sent prodigy, not even Hua Tuo and Bian Que combined can compare to her.

2. A Glance at Dr. Dong’s Academic Achievements

A deep dive into Dr. Dong’s academic achievements is also astonishing. I found Dr. Dong’s doctoral dissertation and almost collapsed after reading it carefully.

The entire doctoral dissertation has only three chapters? My undergraduate thesis is longer than this! Generally, the first chapter of a doctoral dissertation is the introduction, the second, third, fourth, and fifth chapters are the specific work, and the sixth chapter is the conclusion and outlook. Dr. Dong only used three chapters, plus the opening acknowledgment, originality statement, and authorization letter, a total of 61 pages to complete it?!

Looking closer, she first spent 12 pages discussing the results of cervical cancer detection, then spent 17 pages discussing the results of bone metastasis in breast cancer. In fact, her doctoral dissertation part ended at 29 pages! The rest is the bibliography!

The third chapter, which is 16 pages long, is an English review, not her research results. I don’t know much about the medical field. Is it a fixed part of a doctoral dissertation, or is it that if you don’t add this review, the thickness of the printed dissertation is not enough to write the title on the spine?

I was so angry looking at my 139-page doctoral dissertation.

And this article, in which she published as the first author, “Clinical practice guideline on bladder cancer”, is also very interesting. Dong Xiying, as a student who graduated in May 2023, in May of the same year, surprisingly became the first author of this bladder cancer clinical practice guideline. For Ms. Dong, it was a fruitful May!

Anyone who has written a thesis knows the weight of the first author among many authors! So what exactly did Dong do? The author’s contribution section writes that Dong undertook the translation work, and even her translation was not done independently, and there were two people following her…

This is already the first author? Good heavens, all translation software and AI tools are qualified to be the first author, right? I only dared to imagine this way of getting the first author when I was dreaming of being a research dog…

Seeing this, the image of a genius medical student who returned from studying economics in the United States for four years and completed a top medical doctoral degree in four years, with research results covering gynecology, orthopedics, internal medicine, and bladder cancer, has already been established.

3. Dr. Dong’s Super Hospital Privileges

After graduation, Dr. Dong enjoyed super privileges at the hospital. According to the report, she should have transferred from thoracic surgery to spinal surgery, but she didn’t want to. So Dr. Xiao Fei and the secretary of the orthopedic department greeted them, but were rejected. She then contacted two directors through personal connections to achieve her goal. This background and strength are amazing!

It is worth mentioning that this Dr. Ma, who had a big argument with Xiao Fei, is still a member of the Penicillin band. She practices medicine during the day to fight against the inside story of the industry, and can also play in a band at night, how strong!

On the operating table, because Dong had a dispute with a nurse, Xiao Fei directly took Dong away from the operating table for 40 minutes. Fortunately, there was a nurse who was not humble or arrogant, and argued with reason! Very tough and top!

Is this Dr. Xiao Fei putting himself into some kind of medical overlord? Overall, leaving patients on the operating table, having multiple affairs, helping Dong to violate regulations, and also wanting to take the original wife’s house and custody… This person is really a collection of all the scum, and his medical ethics and personal morals are extremely low.

Dr. Dong’s “watered-down” path to medical studies is shocking. If those with insufficient professional skills can go all the way through, entering the operating table of top hospitals in China, this is not only a humiliation to medical students who have studied hard for decades, but also a trampling on the resident physicians who work overtime and can’t even eat a hot meal, and even more unfair to the group of doctoral students who are struggling to survive in research and clinical practice.

And what is most intolerable is—this is an extreme disregard for the lives of patients.

I hope there can be a clearer investigation result on the whole matter, and don’t let the discussion stop at discussion.

Don’t let the discussion stop at discussion