Thanks to Brian Kane for this one....
You just can't make this stuff up, kids....
The patient was on his stomach, anesthetized, with an open incision in his back. Six hours into spinal surgery, according to the state medical board, the surgeon told the operating staff at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge that he needed to ''step out.''
Then, the board said, Dr. David C. Arndt went to Harvard Square to deposit a paycheck.
Arndt hitched a ride with a sales representative from a medical device company, the board alleges, leaving nurses and anesthesiologists wondering where he was and when he would be back. He returned around 35 minutes later and completed the surgery, the board alleges.
The Board of Registration in Medicine yesterday suspended Arndt's medical license pending further investigation, calling him ''an immediate and serious threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the public.''
Duhhhhh.....
