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Share your double-booking story

Welcome to Spotlight’s feedback section, where you can share information with our reporters confidentially. Before we begin: are you a patient, or a medical provider?

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Provider survey

We are interested in learning more about your experience with concurrent surgery, a practice that allows doctors to overlap two operations. The information you provide here is confidential, but we may contact you to find out more for follow-up stories.

Not for publication. A reporter may contact you with additional questions.
Are you a medical professional?
How do you know about double-booked surgery?
Do you know about specific cases of concurrent surgery?
Were patients informed about the practice?
Did patient(s) suffer complications?
Have any regulatory agencies investigated concurrent surgery at your hospital?
Have you seen efforts to change or end the practice of concurrent surgery at your hospital?

Patient survey

Teaching hospitals across the country allow doctors to perform concurrent surgeries and many patients are unaware that they may be sharing their surgeon with another patient. Some patients and family members found out moments before the operation — and others discovered after the surgery when there was a complication. The information you provide here is confidential but we may contact you to find out more for follow-up stories.

Not for publication. A reporter may contact you with additional questions.
Relationship to the patient
Were you told before the surgery that your doctor planned to perform two simultaneous cases?
Was there any complication during your surgery?
Do you have the patient's medical records?
Did anyone file a complaint with an oversight agency? If so, please select the agency or organization that received complaints.

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