Over twenty years ago a general surgeon at one of our community hospitals left the OR to operate at a competing hospital and told a nurse to close the incision. He claimed OR nurses could train and be certified as “closers”. Problem was the nurse hadn’t been certified and we did not have hospital privileges … Continue reading PART 2. “Massachusetts Surgeons will have to document each time they enter and leave the operating room, and who took over in their absence… amid controversies over doctors who perform more than one surgery at a time…