In the fall of 2015, Dr. Herbert Dardik, chief of vascular surgery at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey, nodded off in the operating room.
Note that Dr. Dardik, then 80, was not performing the operation. He’d undergone a minor medical procedure himself a few days earlier, so he’d told his patient that another surgeon would handle her carotid endarterectomy, in which plaque is removed from the carotid artery to improve blood flow.
Image: Dr. Herbert Dardik at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey. "The clock ticks," he said, "and I’ve become an advocate for evaluation.”CreditCreditStephen Speranza for The New York Times
