5 cataract surgeries, 5 people blinded: What went wrong?

Documents reveal confusion about whether Chiu, who had been sent by an agency and was working his first day at the center, was properly screened. He was placed there by an anesthesiologist "broker" that had a contract with the center, a common practice. Unlike many hospitals, the country's more than 5,400 independent outpatient surgery centers often contract with outside companies to provide anesthesiologists, rather than employ them.