Opinion: It's time to establish rules for concurrent surgeries

Kudos to the Globe Spotlight Team for its recent article, "Concurrent surgeries come under new scrutiny" (Dec. 20), which shed light on the practice, at Massachusetts General Hospital and other facilities, of scheduling patients for simultaneous surgeries in an effort to provide better care, contain costs, and boost efficiency. The medical community needs to make a decision on whether this practice is in the patient's best interest. I write this not as a board member and founder of Susan G. Komen, the world's largest breast cancer charity. I write this as the personal statement of a patient who has endured numerous breast cancer operations