A surgeon at a Boston hospital is facing a hefty fine after he left the operating room to eat food in his vehicle before falling asleep and missing a procedure.
A surgeon in Boston was slapped with a $5,000 fine while being allowed to continue working after having left a patient on an operating table receiving emergency ankle surgery so that he could take a nap in his car.
State regulators fined Dr. Tony Tannoury $5,000 for leaving a patient on the operating room table before the start of an ankle surgery to go to his parked car to eat before he passed out.
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