MA acts on simultaneous surgeries

Surgeons would have to document each time they enter and leave the operating room under a new regulation that the state medical board overwhelmingly approved Thursday amid heightened scrutiny of doctors who do more than one operation at a time. The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine approved the new rule, which appears to be one of the first of its kind nationally, with relatively little debate. The move comes in the wake of a series of reports by the Globe Spotlight Team about double-booked operations. Disputes over surgeons performing simultaneous surgeries have divided the medical staff at hospitals around the country in recent years.