The primetime event on the National Geographic Channel comes as medical experts warn such programming can be risky and exploitive. Some surgical societies have banned the practice, with one even threatening to discipline surgeons who conduct live operations for television audiences.
"It’s hard to say we are getting serious about patient safety when putting on circus acts like live brain surgery," said Duke Cameron, the cardiac surgeon-in-charge at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. "This kind of behavior is absurd."
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