Top surgeon employed barely trained nurse to assist in major procedures

One of New York City’s top-earning surgeons, already under investigation for double-booking surgeries, used a barely trained nurse as his surgical assistant in complex procedures, hospital documents show. Four operating-room reports from Lenox Hill Hospital list a licensed practical nurse as the assistant to Dr. David Samadi, a prostate cancer specialist, according to copies of...

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