Double-booked Surgeries Roil Medicine (article including comments)

Medscape
 
A recent Boston Globe investigation into overlapping or double-booked elective surgeries at the venerable Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston has provoked debate and soul-searching in the medical profession.
The newspaper reported in October that MGH patients routinely were not told that their attending surgeon would be in charge of two operations at the same time, which is an informed consent issue. Surgical residents and fellows sometimes performed entire operations while a double-booked attending surgeon was elsewhere, according to the Boston Globe......