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Hospital worker slept in operating room

Scottish Daily Express

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November 27, 2025

A HEALTH worker slept in an operating theatre having had anaesthetic gas when he should have been helping at an emergency procedure, a disciplinary tribunal has heard.

- BY GEORGE LITHGOW

Troy Butler was said to be “desperate for sleep”. The operating section practitioner did not attend a 1am op and was found by a colleague who had to clap to wake him.

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