When my new neighbor, a heavily pregnant woman named Tammy, found out I was the Head of Obstetrics at the local hospital, my life turned into a nightmare. "Dr. Lin! Open up! I feel weird down there, you need to check me!" "Are you dead in there? I'm carrying a miracle baby! If anything happens to him, you can't afford the damages!" At 3 AM, my door was being pounded so hard I thought it would break. This was the sixteenth time this month. At first, I thought she was actually in trouble. I did a thorough checkup. Turns out, she just ate too much takeout. She was healthier than I was. But she took my kindness as a lifetime subscription to a free 24/7 private doctor. Every night, she demanded I check the fetal heartbeat. I had to work during the day and wasn't sleeping at night. I almost fainted during surgery twice. I started refusing her. But she wouldn't stop. Every night, like clockwork, the banging started. The other neighbors were furious. Just when I was at my wit's end, I saw a post in a local rental group: "Looking for an apartment. Severe insomnia, chemically imbalanced, just beat up my last neighbor. Need a new place immediately." My eyes lit up. I messaged him instantly. 1 He replied fast. We agreed on the rent, and he said he'd move in next month. I exhaled a long breath. Finally, someone who could handle this neighbor. Seeing no movement from my apartment, Tammy escalated. She screamed at the top of her lungs: "Dr. Lin! Are you trying to murder me and my baby?" "They say doctors are healers, but you're heartless! You don't deserve your license!" "I command you to come out and check me right now, or I'm calling the police and reporting you for malpractice!" Her screeching woke up half the building. The neighborhood group chat started pinging like crazy. "Again? Seriously? It's 3 AM!" "301 and 302, whatever beef you have, take it offline. People are trying to sleep." "Pregnant lady in 302, have some decency. My kid has SATs coming up. Shut up!" Tammy saw the message notification and immediately pivoted her rage to the hallway. "Your kid is stupid anyway! Can't even stay up late to study? He's probably going to community college." "My baby is a one-in-a-million genius! The psychic said he's destined to be a Senator!" "If anything happens to him, all your worthless lives couldn't pay for it!" The parent was furious and tagged the building management. "Are you guys going to do anything? We pay HOA fees to get abused?" The property manager, sounding exhausted, called me. "Ms. Lin, can you please talk to Ms. Tammy? Ask her to stop screaming at night. We've tried, but she just throws a tantrum." I wanted to talk, but does Tammy look like she speaks human? "You guys better come up. I can't communicate with her either." I rubbed my temples, a headache splitting my skull. Two days ago, I opened the door and told Tammy to go to the hospital for a checkup and stop harassing me. She barged into my apartment, yelling righteously: "Easy for you to say! Do you know how much a copay is?" "A checkup costs as much as my grocery budget! I'm not rich like you!" "My husband works construction out of state, every dollar is blood money!" She marched to my medical cabinet, grabbed my fetal doppler, and shoved it into my hand. She forced me to check the heartbeat. Then she raided my pantry and took a bunch of expensive prenatal supplements. 2 I wanted to snatch them back, but she was wielding that belly like a weapon. If we scuffled and she "fell," I'd be sued into oblivion. Thinking about that, and hearing the BANG BANG BANG on my door, I wanted to rush out and slap her. I clenched my fists and breathed. Calm down. End of the month. The insomniac moves in. Let's see how arrogant Tammy is then. Security arrived. I opened the door to find Tammy hands on hips, screaming at the poor guard. "I'm here to see the doctor! None of your business!" "Get lost! If you stress out my genius baby, can you afford it?" The property manager looked at me pleadingly. "Dr. Lin, maybe just... check her one more time? If this keeps up, no one sleeps tonight." Tammy smirked triumphantly. "Dr. Lin, letting you check my son is an honor. I don't let just anyone touch my belly." I took a deep breath and put on my professional face. "I'm sorry, but I am not your private physician. I have no obligation to give you daily checkups." "There is an Urgent Care two blocks away. If you feel unwell, go there." Tammy's eyebrows shot up. She pointed a finger in my face. "You're the Head of OB/GYN! Why should I pay to go to a hospital?" "You doctors are all black-hearted! Won't even lift a finger to help, just want to scam people out of money!" "I know! You get a kickback from the Urgent Care for referring patients, don't you?!" "If you don't check me right now, I'll post about you online! I'll ruin your career!" I had tolerated her for too long. Today, I snapped. "Ms. Tammy, let me be clear: I will never check you again." "I have a Ring camera. Your slander is recorded. Go ahead and post it online. Let's see who goes to jail!" I'm usually gentle, so my outburst stunned her. After a pause, she gritted her teeth. "Fine! Don't check me." "I have three months left. A checkup every two days... that's expensive. Give me $10,000 for medical fees, and I won't bother you." The manager's jaw dropped. I gasped, breathless with rage. "It's not my baby! Why should I pay for it?" Tammy looked me dead in the eye. "You make six figures a month! My husband breaks his back for pennies! What's $10,000 to you?" "Doctors are supposed to be angels! If you won't help, pay up!" I have never met anyone so logically bankrupt in my life. The manager tried to intervene. "Ms. Tammy, Ms. Lin is just a neighbor..." "Shut up!" Tammy screeched. "She's a doctor! It's her job!" "Why are you defending her? Are you two sleeping together?" The manager's face went black. "I'm married! Watch your mouth!" 3 Tammy rolled her eyes. "So what? Look at how slutty she dresses. She's definitely seducing men." "Probably hooked up with half the married men in the building." "Thank god my husband is out of state. I wouldn't feel safe living next to her." I wear scrubs all day. Off the clock, I wear T-shirts and jeans. How is that slutty? I forced myself to stay calm, but my heart was pounding. "Ms. Tammy, slander is actionable. Say one more word, and I'll see you in court!" Tammy snorted. "Whether it's true or not, you know. You never open the door for me. Probably hiding a man inside." "Look decent, act like a whore!" She kept going. I pulled out my phone and dialed 911. Seeing me actually call the police, a flicker of panic crossed her eyes. But then she touched her belly, and the arrogance returned. The cops arrived in twenty minutes. Before I could speak, Tammy started wailing. "Officer! Help me!" "This doctor is bullying a pregnant woman! My stomach hurts so bad, I'm dying, and she refuses to help! It's attempted murder!" The officers frowned and looked at me. "What's going on here?" I didn't argue. I just played the Ring footage. "I am a doctor, but I am not on call 24/7 for my neighbors. She pounds on my door every night and verbally abuses me. I want to press charges." The cops watched the video, faces hardening. The lead officer turned to Tammy sternly. "Ma'am, your behavior constitutes harassment and disturbing the peace. Please come with us to the station." Tammy didn't expect this. She screamed, "Why arrest me?! She's the one letting me die! Arrest her!" An officer reached for handcuffs. Tammy threw herself on the ground, clutching her belly. "Help! Police brutality! They're killing my baby!" She was a rolling roadblock of a human being. The pregnancy made her untouchable. The officer looked at me helplessly. "Ms. Lin, she's pregnant. We can't force her." "How about this: we'll give her a formal warning. If it happens again, we'll escalate." I knew their hands were tied. I nodded. After that, Tammy was quiet for a few days. I finally got some sleep. Just when I thought it was over, I came home from work to find my window open. The security screen had been ripped off. I thought I'd been robbed. I rushed in, only to find Tammy sitting on my sofa, eating a durian. 4 She glanced at me, disgusted. "This durian isn't ripe. Tastes like crap. Buy a better one next time." I was stunned. "What are you doing in my house?" Tammy replied matter-of-factly: "I ran out of vitamins. You weren't home, so I had to come in through the window." I was shaking with rage. "This is breaking and entering!" "And what does your lack of vitamins have to do with me? Why steal mine?" Tammy rolled her eyes. "So stingy. How much does this cost?" "If my son is born with a deficiency because of you, can you afford it?" The vitamins were high-end imports I bought for my sister who was trying to conceive. Hundreds of dollars a box. I didn't care before, but these were hard to get. I couldn't let her have them. I walked over to snatch them back. She clutched them to her chest and screamed. "What are you doing?!" "I didn't charge you for the checkups, and you won't even give me some vitamins? You are so cheap!" She was screaming like a banshee. I couldn't get close without risking a lawsuit. I called the police again. The cops looked exhausted seeing Tammy again. But this time, breaking and entering plus theft was enough to drag her to the station for a statement. It didn't help. She left the station and immediately went online. She wrote a post full of lies. Title: [Elite Hospital Director Lin Refuses to Treat Dying Pregnant Woman, Colludes with Police to Bully Her] The post went viral. The hospital leadership called me, demanding I fix it immediately. I explained everything to the Dean. Then, forcing down my anger, I knocked on Tammy's door. She took forever to open it. Seeing me, she smirked. "What? Ready to give me a checkup?" "Finally learned your lesson, bitch?" I shoved my phone in her face. "Did you write this?" Tammy grinned. "Yeah. That's what you get for calling the cops!" I dug my nails into my palms. "Delete it. Now." She scoffed. "Make me. It's all true. Sue me!" "Even if you sue me, they won't arrest me. Let's see who loses more!" With trash like this, logic doesn't work. I gave her a cold look and went home. I waited three more days. Finally, the day the new tenant was moving in arrived. I called movers and quietly packed up and left. I hired a lawyer to handle the online defamation and focused on work. A week later, my upstairs neighbor added me on WeChat frantically. "Dr. Lin! Huge news! The pregnant lady in 302 hung a banner at the gate accusing you of murder!"
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