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Surgeon defends taking Zoom virtual court call from operating room
Surgeon defends operating room Zoom call By KCRA staff | March 8, 2021 at 11:25 AM MST - Updated March 9 at 11:45 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) - A surgeon is speaking out after a viral video showed him attending virtual traffic court from the operating room.
Dr. Scott Green, a plastic surgeon, said critics misunderstand what happened and what’s normal during such procedures.
He was doing a facelift when the traffic court called upon him on Zoom to address a speeding ticket.
“This was our last case. We were about halfway through it, through all the critical parts,” Green said.
Sacramento plastic surgeon Dr. Scott Green made international headlines recently after a viral video showed the doctor participating in a virtual traffic court while in the operating room.Dr. Green is a partner at the Sacramento Plastic Surgery Center where he, and another surgeon, were in the middle of a facelift when his name was called at the Sacramento Superior Court’s virtual hearing.Green was on the schedule to contest a speeding ticket received in October along Highway 50. Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Gary Link noted the unusual setting saying, “I do not feel comfortable for the welfare of the patient if you are in the process of operating that I would put on a trial.”Green responded that he was ready to proceed, but Link decided to set a new date.Since then there has been a public backlash against the veteran surgeon, with social media users, websites and news outlets reposting and publishing the video. I wish the people that had reported on it had spent