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......
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