SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Medical Board of California says it will investigate a plastic surgeon who appeared in a videoconference for his traffic violation trial while operating. The Sacramento Bee reports Dr. Scott Green appeared Thursday for his Sacramento Superior Court trial, held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, from an operating room. He was dressed in surgical scrubs with a patient undergoing the procedure just out of view; the beeps of medical machinery can be heard in the background. A startled judge refused to conduct the trial, saying he was concerned for the patient's welfare, and rescheduled it for another time.
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Nurses wearing scrubs stand in a small medical center that specializes in respiratory illnesses as they wait to attend patients amid the spread of the new coronavirus in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Posted at 2:17 PM, Feb 27, 2021
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