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The Surgeon Wasn't There: When Ghost Surgery Became Standard Practice
The Surgeon Wasn't There: When Ghost Surgery Became Standard Practice
Fear that the person on the consent form might not be the one cutting is closer to reality than you think: a prosthetics salesman spent 3.5 hours operating on a patient in 1975, and a 1978 government report found 50-95% of surgeries at some teaching hospitals were done by residents. How did hospitals and clinics normalize phantom hands in the OR, and what happens when records are erased or advertisements lie?
In this episode, we tell how ghost surgery unfolded from a Long Island hip operation to booming cosmetic clinics in…
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