Concurrent Surgeries. Your surgeon is in two places at onetime.

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A recent report says concurrent surgeries are more common than many think yet is not really talked about by hospitals and doctors. Multi tasking surgeons run two operations at one time which means they are going to be delegating for starters. It could be a resident or experienced doctor but the doctor one is paying for is not there. Also if a problem occurs in one operation the second operation gets neglected. I always assumed someone else might do the physical work but multi tasking surgeons are a different thing. Disclosure is not always there.

http://www.propublica.org/podcast/i...ittle-known-practice-of-concurrent-surgeries/

Some note that this helps patients get access to care or doctor they would have to wait to see individually. But if one isn't getting the services of that particular doctor why take the chance.
 

I know that surgeons regularly let their assistants or associates do the "grunt" work of an operation.. Opening up.. clamping off things.. closing.. but the main focus of the surgery is done by the lead surgeon. Some surgeries are too long or too complex to have only one surgeon present and surgeons regularly work in pairs.. or more.. I would think two very complex or involved surgeries wouldn't be done in tandum.

Brings me to another thought... Some surgeries are done by surgeons not even in the same State as the patient.. as they are done by robotic assistance.. The surgeon sits at a console to preform the actual surgery.. Assistants set up the robotic arms..
 

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