A surgeon is fined $5,000 after ditching a patient in the operating room for a nap

The very first sentence on Boston Medical Center's website says, We are here for you. But, ironically, that wasn't the case for an emergency patient about to receive ankle surgery in 2016. The surgeon assigned to oversee the procedure was there when he escorted the patient into the operating room, but then he left to eat and snooze in his parked car, missing the entire rest of the day and night. — Read the rest