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A Boston surgeon was fined just $5,000 and has been allowed to continue working after leaving a patient on an operating table waiting on emergency ankle surgery while he napped in his car.    

Massachusetts state regulators fined 54-year-old Dr. Tony Tannoury, the head of spine surgery at Boston Medical Center, $5,000 for leaving a patient on the operating room table before the start of an ankle surgery to go to his parked car to eat before he passed out and missed the procedure, the Boston Globe reported. 

Tannoury must also complete five further training sessions, but won't be suspended from his job, and can continue to operate.  

The surgeon has worked as the head of spinal surgery at the prestigious Boston University School of Medicine, which works with the the medical center, since 2006, according to his LinkedIn profile.