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In 2018, in Busan, a medical device sales rep performed shoulder surgery under general anesthesia. The clinic's own camera caught it. The footage shows the salesman changing into scrubs and entering the OR before the patient does. The actual doctor appears mid-procedure in street clothes and leaves within twenty minutes. Staff forge the patient's signature and alter the chart. The patient didn't survive. The salesman had been in that room nine other times. Another rep told the press the practice was ordinary. The doctor buys time to see more patients while the rep banks equipment sales. Without it, he said, you can't even compete. A senior surgeon earns far more in the consultation room than spending three hours inside one operation. The consultation is the product. The cutting is the cost. The director got one year. The salesman got ten months. In Seoul, a plastic surgeon stepped out of a facial contouring procedure to run other rooms. His patient, a 25-year-old student named Kwon Dae-hee, never woke up. That director got three years. Nobody lost a licence. The substitute doesn't even have to be a doctor. The system wasn't broken by one bad actor. It was built so the person on the table is the only one in the room who doesn't know what's happening.