A Boston surgeon is in hot water after he went to eat dinner in his car and fell asleep and missed a surgery 😬
· Oct 29, 2021 · NottheBee.com

If you've ever done something embarrassing in your life—something that still makes you cringe when you think of it—well, look, at least you're not this guy:

The longtime head of spine surgery at Boston Medical Center has been reprimanded by state regulators and fined $5,000 for leaving an operating room before the start of an emergency ankle surgery to go eat in his parked car, where he fell asleep and missed the procedure.

Dr. Tony Tannoury, 54, admitted that he woke up in his car that November night in 2016, called the teaching hospital, and was told that a chief resident had performed the operation he was supposed to oversee, according to a consent order released Monday by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. Tannoury didn't return to the hospital until the following day.

Yeah, I mean, we've all been there before, in one way or another.

But, uh, falling asleep and missing a spinal surgery we were supposed to perform—not everyone can put that on their resume.

The bottom line: If you're a doctor, coffee is your friend. Also, consider eating dinner in your office instead of your car, maybe?


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