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When a Salesman Took the Scalpel: Inside Ghost Surgery's Secrets

When a Salesman Took the Scalpel: Inside Ghost Surgery's Secrets

The idea that someone you trusted to operate could be replaced mid-procedure is terrifying: security footage shows an operating-room floor mopped more than a dozen times while Kwon Dae-hee bled, and a sales manager with no medical training performed a ten-hour hip operation that left Franklin Mirando permanently crippled. What happens when consent is rewritten and the people who invited an unqualified stranger into the room escape prosecution?

In this episode, we tell the documented stories behind the term "ghost surgery,"…

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