[prasadjoglekar]

100%. True experience with ACL surgery in New York: It's an assembly line with the junior surgeons cutting open and patching up. The main guy goes OT to OT and does the most critical part and then moves on to the next one. They schedule 6-7 surgeries at once; the whole process is quite impressive.

Exactly the same process for my mom's knee replacement in India. By the time the actual knee guy walks in, patient is knocked out, opened up and ready for the heavy hitter.

[MrBuddyCasino]

I'd say thats something different: letting others do the time-consuming routine parts, so the senior surgeon can concentrate on what he does best. This is actually desirable: more patients benefit of his skill that way.

[namdnay]

That’s standard practice in nearly all hospitals worldwide.

In the UK, the most senior doctors are actually called “consultants” - they consult on the work being done by the others