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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.

Name Not for publication. A reporter may contact you with additional questions.

Email(required)

Phone number

Are you a medical professional?

No
Yes, surgeon
Yes, anesthesiologist
Yes, nurse
Yes, other

Are you a medical professional? (other)

How do you know about double-booked surgery?

I am a surgeon who runs two rooms or have in the past
I witnessed double booking on a surgical team
I am familiar with the practice at my hospital
It was discussed at a medical conference
Other

How do you know about double-booked surgery? (other)

Do you know about specific cases of concurrent surgery?

If so, when did these cases occur?

What were the procedures?

Name of hospital or medical center where the concurrent cases took place?

City

State

Name of surgeon

Please describe problems or benefits you have observed with surgeons running two rooms at the same time.

Were patients informed about the practice?

Did patient(s) suffer complications?

If so, please describe.

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?

If so, please describe.

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.

Name Not for publication. A reporter may contact you with additional questions.

Email(required)

Phone number

Relationship to the patient

I am the patient
I am a family member
Other

Relationship to the patient (other)

Procedure date

Reason for admission

How did you find out the surgeon had two overlapping operations?

Name of hospital or medical center where the concurrent cases took place?

City

State

Name of surgeon

Were you told before the surgery that your doctor planned to perform two simultaneous cases?

Was there any complication during your surgery?

If so, please describe

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.

None
Medical board
Nursing board
State licensing agency
Medicare/Medicaid
The Joint Commission
Other

Anything else you want to add?

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Clash in the name of care

It was a battle pitting a star surgeon against a great hospital, MGH. The question: Is it right or safe for surgeons to run two operations at once? Is it right that their patients may have no idea? The conflict went on for years. And it isn't over yet.
The e-mails

Extensive e-mail correspondence, obtained from Mass. General staffers, offers a behind the scenes look at the heated battle inside one of the nation’s top-rated hospitals, involving some of the most prominent names in Boston medicine.
The documentary

Watch the full documentary and learn more about concurrent surgeries at the homepage for Globe coverage of the issue.

Share your double-booking story

Provider survey

Patient survey

Contact the Spotlight Team

E-mail the Spotlight team securely

Send by USPS mail

Clash in the name of care

The e-mails

The documentary