Heart surgeons accused of running multiple operations at once, leaving trainees in charge: US
Hospitals have agreed to pay $22 million over the allegations senior doctors left juniors to do heart surgery.
Three surgeons have been accused of delegating “extremely complicated” heart surgeries to unqualified medical residents so they could run up to three surgeries at once.
Over seven years, the surgeons allegedly oversaw two — and sometimes three — surgeries concurrently, according to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office which investigated the claims with the FBI.